i feel like the AI syntax is creeping into the way people write on social media even if they arenât actually using AI to write their posts and it really hurts my brain to read
i get itâs additional work but it would really be SO helpful if indie dyers put pictures of swatches in their product listings for variegated yarn!!!! i just want to have an idea how it will knit up before i drop $25-33 on a skein!
people arguing about what ur thermostat should be set to in a heatwave like can we at least agree people who have it set lower than 70 are wild ! (unless they have a specific reason like medical equipment that needs to be cooler idk) but generally 70 is the lowest i would ever set my thermostat in the summer âŠ. personally anywhere from 72-78 sounds reasonable to me depending on various factors. like ours is at 73 bc the upstairs doesnât get as cool so when its set to 73 and it actually makes it 73 downstairs, upstairs is still at least 75 if not warmer esp in my room which is small. & i might be okay keeping it warmer if i was less sensitive to heat but between ssris & migraines & potential POTS/dysautonomia im pretty heat sensitive
everyone tells me that ADHD isn't an excuse for being lazy and that there are people with ADHD who have overcome their symptoms and are successful but every day I drag around an invisible dopplegÀnger of myself who is horrible and listless and always complains. and he is so heavy. I'm ambitious and I'm passionate but he isn't and the problem is that to get anywhere in life I have to grab him by the leg and pull him along the whole way, kicking and screaming, and sometimes it gets exhausting. sometimes he pulls me down with him. and it gets a bit difficult to explain to people why I'm lying down on the floor in pain when they can't see him.
So I was scrolling and saw this image in an article about the European heat wave,
And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.
And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?
But nope, that's not the case:
Africa is struggling with heat waves and many countries on the continent lack the resources rich economies have to deal with rising temperat
Some selections from the article:
"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases theyâve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africansâ ability to withstand them.
âAfrica is seen as a sunny and hot continent,â said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. âPeople think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.â
"The Sahel, for instance, has been heating at a faster pace than the global average despite being hot already. Burkina Faso and Mali, both in West Africaâs Sahel, are among countries that are set to become almost uninhabitable by 2080, if the world continues on its current trajectory, a UK university study found. Its people are especially vulnerable due to shrinking resources, such as water, and poor amenities, and a dearth of trees and parks means there are few options for places to cool off."
re hot chef saga AGAIN : apparently just mentioning someoneâs threads handle on threads is doxxing now ??? these people think theyâre sooooo smart meanwhile theyâre just doing harassment. but bc theyâre *smol baby accounts* that means they can just do or say whatever they want apparently ? also saying her âdragging her exâ is the same as what theyâre doing like i donât think talking about your own personal experience in a relationship and being cheated on is necessarily âdraggingâ like a) the man knew she was an ~influencer and very public abt their relationship and still cheated i donât see why he wouldnât expect that to become public information like if you didnât want that you shouldnât have cheated and b) itâs very different to talk about ur personal experiences which may happen to implicate others in ur personal life vs harassing people youâve never met or perhaps knew vaguely 10 yrs ago or whatever but donât speak to now. like i just think youâre entitled to speak about your experiences of being treated badly *in person in a personal relationship that you had in person for real* however you want even if it might make that person look bad which is very different from like my parasocial relationship with this person is negative so iâm going to harass them on social media??? it all just feels a bit *using social justice concepts to make whatever i feel like doing righteous actually* like the power imbalance of account size (which iâm not saying is NEVER relevant in social media disputes but i donât think the way theyâre framing it is correct bc like the account is still harassing her even if it has a relatively small number of followers) and the idea that sheâs this big powerful rich influencer picking on some smol baby boy who canât fend for himself when heâs literally a full grow man and executive chef like obviously there can be power imbalances in relationships between adults but they both seem fairly well off/well resourced/ and well respected among family /friends/work community like itâs not like heâs a poor 25 year old line cook making no money with no family or friends that she took advantage of â heâs 31 at a high level in a respected career and clearly has family and friends. i really donât see any obvious power imbalance between the two of them so it feels like people are just creating the idea that âpublic figuresâ arenât allowed to speak abt âprivate citizensâ when he knew she was a âpublic figureâ in this way and could well have run away if he was uncomfortable with it! it does also give the vibe of people who think in very black & white terms about good & bad like that if you did any thing that to them is âbadâ thereâs no levels to it it just automatically means youâre entirely bad and deserve some kind of punishment. like what if she has tons of flaws and still doesnât deserve to be harassed on social media bc i actually think the vast majority of people donât deserve that. and also these people are very critical of her supposedly not being able to listen to any criticism but to be fair it can be hard to sort out genuine good faith criticism from bullying and harassment when thatâs so much of the âcriticismâ being leveled at you. like it is very different from being able to take criticism from real people in your real life whose opinions you respect bc personally thatâs who i would be taking criticism from, not just like, any rando on threads!
love how ur GP refers you to cardiology for tachycardia that could be POTS/dysautonomia and the cardiologist is like. well thatâs not really a heart problem but maybe it could be POTS and refers you to electrophysiology since they are the gatekeepers of the tilt table test and the electrophysiologist is like well itâs not a heart rhythm problem so i donât care and also i donât believe in the tilt table test. probably try exercise ? and then some people are like talk to a neurologist bc itâs technically a nervous system problem but when you ask your neurologist sheâs like idk. have you talked to a cardiologist? like i love running in circles guys thank you for the running in circles but could you maybe like actually be fucking helpful for once. iâm not a dog! and then the electrophysiologist you try to go to for a second opinion doesnât actually take your insurance even tho they claim to take NJ medicaid. just not yours lol
iâm in this weird space of never having dated a woman but also having only been with other queer people (or single) since i was 15 until now so iâve been like very much in queer spaces/culture but iâve also never been in like a âsapphicâ relationship/ only been in outwardly straight perceived relationships and now my current boyfriend is straight & cis but also treats me a lot better than my exes bc one was sexually coercive and one was like kinda emotionally abusive a bit in the end and also harassed me for like 3 months and threatened to post revenge porn & stuffâŠâŠ.. but itâs really weird not to be able to relate to a partner on being queer and i kinda did say may years ago i never wanted to date another straight cis man & yet!!!! weâre so similar in so many other ways and heâs genuinely so good to me and also ultimately this is like Not a Real Problem itâs just like. things iâm thinking abt & having feelings abt
itâs crazy how you could probably take any pop song and find another song that it sounds like or reminds you of or uses the chords of or whatever but for some reason people only go out of their way to do that when itâs olivia rodrigo
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so basically itâs craaaazy how little boomers understand what itâs like to be a young adult rn like đ im sorry i donât own a duplex at 28 i literally donât feel like i have a future !!!!!! im sorry i graduated college into a fascist pandemic hell world where even my coworker with a masters degree in chemistry canât get a better job than working part time at a farm market !!!! like im sorry i EXIST but thats actually YOUR damn fault so take some accountability maybe and itâs your generations damn fault that the world is this way lol like waaah you wonât give me grandkids okay maybe you shouldnât have POLLUTED THE EARTH to the fucking breaking point !!!! like waah politics used to be boring and i didnât care bc i was so privileged but now some orange guy is here ruining everything like baby girl maybe if you PAID ATTENTION when you were younger and did something all of this could have been avoided but itâs partly privileged white bitches not caring about politics that got us here and you have the GALL to ask for grandkids??? and to expect me to be on some sort of preset life trajectory that only existed for like 100 years at MOST
IM SO ANGRY IM SO ANGRY
when i was younger the future was supposed to be bright and now i literally feel like the future is just prelude to apocalypse. like i just want to do what i can before whatever climate crisis fueled natural disaster or fascism fueled world war or pandemic fueled chronic illness takes me out!
i love all the like 40 something men on threads who love olivia rodrigo like. THANK you!! youâre right and you should say it!!!! i just love when adult men can genuinely appreciate the talent of a young woman
okay preliminary olivia rodrigo new album thoughts!!!
drop dead- 7/10 didnât blow me away or anything at first but grew on me after multiple listens
stupid song - 9/10 love the music video love the concept love the sound
honeybee - 9/10 love the concept love the instrumentation
maggots for brains - 7/10 love a more upbeat song and i get that the whole album is abt a relationship but do kinda wish the song was not about feeling bad bc âmy babyâs awayâ but even so itâs a fun song and i like the sound
u + me = <3 - 6/10 fun but does feel a little childish in a certain way but like an overall fun way im just not sure the lyrics are her strongeeest
my way - 7/10 i like the vibes but smth abt the lyrics is not 100% clicking for me but maybe iâll feel differently after more listens!
purple - 6.5/10 this is a cute song i think it will grow on me with more listens
the cure - 8/10 i really like the sound and the message but it feels like itâs sliiiightly missing something to me like maybe an additional verse ??
begged - 8/10 super sad and relatable and beautiful vocals !!
whatâs wrong with me - 7.5/10 i think something about the melody of part of the chorus was not clicking on my first listen but i think it will grow on me with more listens
less - 6.5/10 classic ORod pretty and sad ballad
expectations- 6.5/10 i like the upbeat and i like the overall meaning but im not 100% sold on the sound after the first listen but weâll see how i feel after listening again
cigarette smoke -7/10 this one is definitely relatable after first listen but i almost always need more time when it comes to ballads for them to grow on me
overall iâm a little sad she did less of the pop rock sort of sound of a lot of GUTS & songs like brutal/good 4 u buuuut i think it makes sense for the concept of the album & i still really like it overall
people criticizing phoebe bridgers for the fact her tickets are more expensive now than 6 yrs ago like babe thatâs how it works sheâs way more popular now than when punisher came out like it is basic supply and demand plus stadium tickets tend to be more expensive in my (admittedly limited) experience but maybe thatâs the same phenomenon, like if youâre popular enough to fill a stadium youâre popular enough for the venues to charge more. and even if sheâs wealthy enough to not necessarily need to make money off the tour she needs to pay people who work on the tour and so does the venue ? like i get wanting her to do more to challenge the capitalist nature of the whole affair but like. thereâs only so much she can do as an individual artist!
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