[0fficelady]

[a-book-of-creatures]

Made some stickers for when you just gotta express yourself with a failed cake

[thedurvin]

Weird tip for arguing with conservatives: don’t swear. Our language culture right now is in a weird place where swearing means different things to different generations/subcultures: to younger people and people left of center, it shows intensity of feeling and therefore honesty, while to older people and those right of center it communicates a lack of control (since they are by their nature taboo) and therefore makes you seem unreliable and uncertain.

(Conservative bro culture is a bit of an outlier here because they will absolutely swear at you, but they’re doing this on purpose to show their aggression and it still has the same effect when you swear back at them.)

[thedurvin]

Oh another, and I hate that this apparently works on some people: preface your argument points with absolute affirmations like “this is true”, never ever ever conditionals like “I think” or “I read somewhere”. I hate hate hate that anyone is dumb enough that this works on them, but I have heard so many conservatives drop the wrongest “facts” with this and people will just nod and agree and accept it. You’re talking to someone that considers confidence and authority the biggest signs of correctness, so don’t give them a reason to think you doubt yourself. Sources are less important because if you name a college or a book it’s probably part of the big liberal conspiracy to hurt the economy or whatever their idiot worldview is, you’re relying on outside sources instead of knowing things for yourself, but if you just say “this is true” they’re more likely to believe you.

Again, I HATE that this trick works.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Yeah this completely sucks but sometimes if you imply something is a widely accepted social norm and they're actually "weird" for going against it, it'll can also make them hesitate.

Like, obviously this doesn't work if they're the kind of person to think that the Woke Liberal Agenda is the norm and they're brave countercultural warriors for speaking out against it, but for others you'd be surprised how quickly they're willing to modify what they said if it makes them seem more "normal"

[transcyberism]

most irritating addition to the "this is true" thing is that it works better than "studies have shown" or "there's evidence" (which are ways to trick liberals, by the way, so watch out for those phrases if you hear them directed at you). they don't care about the evidence. they are just scrutinizing what your convictions are.

but yeah re: making them feel "weird"/"not normal," another great strategy there is to be like "I've never heard of that, can you explain it?" when they bring up their conspiracy brainrot shit. ask them to lay out the logic of it and where they heard it from, but keep your tone inquisitive and curious. if they try to send you to YouTube or some dusty ass website with zero citations, ask them if they have anything more substantial so you can "look into it later" - make them really show you how deep the rabbithole goes.

once they start grasping at straws and faltering, which they inevitably will after a little bit of this innocent questioning if you know the right questions to ask, only then do you deliver the coup de grace and say "that's all very interesting, but I'm not sure I buy it, it just doesn't make sense to me." frame it as an ordinary disagreement or plain skepticism, not anything deeply ideological - and don't expound much on why you disagree, just tell them their ideas don't make sense.

they take it much more personally when you call their very grasp of reality into question rather than differing on moral grounds or on your view of which authorities are credible. if you let them talk and listen to them, it convinces them that you are willing to entertain and evaluate their position - and they are more likely to take it seriously when you reject it on logical grounds rather than on the basis of their starting axioms, which they often view as unimpeachably correct.

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

male animals vs female animals

male animals vs female animals in children's animated movies

[prehistoricmancunt]

[niuniente]

[thepaisleyelf]

have I talked about how my two cats love each other so much and they literally do everything together and they’re always piled all over each other like

even when they’re not sleeping they’re just hanging out 

[snoop-dork]

shut the fuck up and look at these fucking cats holy fucking hell shitfuck holy fuck

[guooey]

Blessings

[sandersstudies]

Hey kids, not to be a party pooping adult, but if you start noticing signs of having an addictive personality/tendencies at a young age, be really careful when experimenting with alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine (and other illegal drugs, which I would encourage you to avoid entirely; and medicinal drugs like opioids acquired after a surgery).

Like, if you can't tear yourself away from a video game, even to make it to an important event on time? Addictive tendencies.

If you keep spending your allowance money on those funny collectibles or new shoes even when you promise yourself you're going to save it? Addictive tendencies.

If you find yourself unable to resist and manage food cravings, or frequently overeating even when it makes you feel bad? Addictive tendencies.

Be aware of yourself, kids. Be cautious and don't be anybody's fool. I love you, be safe!

[eroscestlavie]

Ah

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

i was supposed to go to bed an hour ago dont tell my mom

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

my mom says i have to go to bed now which one of u meaners told

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

who the fudge changed ‘fudgers’ to ‘meaners’

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

WHO CHANGED IT FROM FUDGERS TO FUDGERS I WILL KISS THE POPSICLE DONT TICKLE ME JAMBOREE

[dragon-in-a-fez]

and here we have an artifact of the days when you could edit posts when you reblogged…now we are all Internet Archeologists

[lgtbear]

You could do what

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]

[burymeinpink-remade-deactivated]

when u are lonely and its summer: *realizes truth about self* *realizes truth about self* *re

[curseworm]

i just dont want to be seen as a woman anymore. if you must look at me at least have the decency to unfocus your eyes

[curseworm]

i wanna look like this

[e-wifey-deactivated20201128]

people understand that Spanish speakers speak different dialects of the Spanish language but don’t understand that black people speak a dialect of the English language

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

saw a variation of this conversation on twitter earlier

[brainstatic]

I just want to state for the record that this is completely uncontroversial among linguists. It’s the first day of sociolinguistics class.

[laineylewxlove]

I majored in Communication Disorders to become an Speech Language Pathologist and am currently and Assisstant. When we were in class we were taught about this as well as other dialect. Under no circumstances do you treat a client for what is considered a dialect. So as a speech therapist when I hear AAVE I move on. It is a real language with real rules.

Thats why it was outrage in the speech community post Katrina when teachers began to recommend students for speech, when it was simply the New Orleans dialect.

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

“It is a real language with real rules.”

[crimesagainsthughsmanatees]

Comic from 4-4-2015

PATREON

[ixoraz]

hooked noses, flat noses, big noses, and nose bumps are cute society just has bland taste and a preference for white features

[muddygoblins]

im not even a full grown goblin…. im just a little …gobling…. trying to eat some garliced bread…..

[strongermonster]

i love student housing. i’m in the common room waiting for a friend and there’s some dude crying on the couch w a bunch of his friends around him and i can only hear bits and pieces but someone asked him “who gets the minecraft server if you guys break up?” and he started crying harder and a 3rd person reached over to smack the guy who asked it on the back of the head