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[loveridden1999]

[ihavemissedone]

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[ihavemissedone]

Word. My time and attention is the #1 currency I have to give. I refuse to be manipulated into giving it to the unworthy.

You can enjoy a product and be aware of its flaws. You can appreciate a creator and also detest an aspect of their actions. The key point being that these examples are dead… so giving them our attention or money is not as problematic. It’s not propping up Edgar Allen Poe’s empire to read The Raven.

[alexanderwales]

It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.

I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.

[adhdedrn]

#it's fucked and it's bad design #i should be able to write and edit for 20 hours a day #i'm just sitting there how are we even using energy #feels made up (via @softest-punk, emphasis mine)

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.

Feed your brain.

[ihavemissedone]

I was always told as a kid not to complain about schoolwork etc bc I “wasn’t doing anything”. This led to shame and guilt for being tired from homework etc. “How can you be hungry at 3pm you’ve done nothing today” used to deny me food. Ofc I wasn’t allowed to complain about exhaustion from physical labor or chores either… the illogic is striking now but as a kid I just accepted it. Such toxic bullshit.

Learning and making art and writing and so on is very, very fun and rewarding. It’s also genuine effort which deserves recognition. Also cake.

[enki2]

[ihavemissedone]

UBI? No.

Pay more of the thugs that have the highest rate of domestic violence? Yes.

(America hates science.)

[strange-aeons]

[patricia-taxxon]

"bread wetness" scale with a baguette on one side, a mug of beer on the other, and spaghetti right in the middle

[mintefox]