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[ilikeyoshi]

hello! i wanted to share with everyone the conclusion (thus far) of my oxygen concentrator adventure this month—thanks to everyone's help, it's arrived safely and i've just started trying it out this week! :') it's already helping a ton on the lowest settings and i'm SO excited to keep using it!

i'm slowly raising the levels at the recommendation of my doctors, just out of an abundance of caution, but i'm already seeing positive effects and results and i genuinely am still kinda in shock about it. happy shock! but holy shit this really is working. ;; this really really is going to work.

[checksasforeplay]

SOOOONNN MY BEST FRIEND (BFFFFF) SINCE I WAS 14 WILL BE !!! IN MYYY CITY IN MY TOWWWNNN !!! EVERYTHING WEVE BEEN TALKING ABT AND DREAMING OF WILL BE HERE IN AN HOUR °°!!!! IM GONNA SCREAM AND CRY AND PICK THEM UP AND SPIN THEM !!!!!!!

#gifs @ilikeyoshi @nightmareonpeachstreet

[ilikeyoshi]

IM HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE

[xalatath]

I have never, and will never, use "ofc" to mean "of fucking course". It literally stands for OF Course...

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[saetiate]

please eat enough and drink enough water and get enough sleep. this is so that you have enough energy. because we need you to be writing and drawing porn on the internet

[apolladay]

Before you are two magic buttons. Button A: you will never have to clean your kitchen again (dishes are automatically done; floor swept and mopped; etc). Button B: you will never have to clean your bathroom again (toilet & sink & tub/shower cleaned and sanitized; etc) Which button do you push?

A

B

Voting ended onJun 3

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[spiribia]

it doesn't matter to cats what kind of bad week you're going through, they'll come into your room and start doing repeated bulldozer attacks on you

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[chancellor-ake]

I could never wear any of those dumb “I hope both teams have fun” shirts because no I hope my team wins by 30 and the other team explodes on the field

[ilikeyoshi]

years ago i had someone genuinely argue with me re. why hating/killing bugs obsessively was ok bc "cats do it" and i was too stunned to argue at the time but i can now. im sorry u wanna lump urself in with house cats???? the thing KNOWN for sport killing urban wildlife like birds and bugs until hundreds of species of both are literally REMOVED from those local ecosystems???? EXACTLY the kinda thing that post is explaining re. "bugs are important and humans being resentful little twats about them has a Literal Environmental Impact"???? u wanna argue its Natural Actually by giving me the literal BEST EXAMPLE of what unchecked killing of a species (let alone multiple species) does to an ecosystem???? cats???? are u STUPID

[bugbraiin]

One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.

I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.

Get woke. Love bugs.

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

[puppygirllaika]

a frustrating number of people believe that “New York and London” constitutes “everywhere”

[druidshollow]

HAVE THAT CHARACTER GAIN WEIGHT AS A SIGN OF HEALING: NOW

[dogpuppy]

[ilikeyoshi]

it's still a work in progress but i'm actively trying to stop doing a lot of antagonistic humor bc i've always known i don't like it but it's felt really normalized in so many of my circles that i always feel compelled to try and acclimate to it, and the conclusion i keep coming back to is a) i still really really don't like it and b) it confuses people if i keep trying to BE okay with it when i'm not 😭 which. obviously! so i'm trying to unlearn the entire impulse to do it at all in the hopes i can then find the words to start explaining this as needed too and just make communication easier for me. i'm just not very good at pretending to be mad at my friends or at my friends pretending to be mad at me, which probably makes sense given my whole issue around reactivity as a response to feeling threatened, but, y'know. i didn't Want that to stop me from being able to do a thing so i just beat my head against the wall instead lol. but this year's been a lot of "maybe i can just stop doing things i don't like doing" and figuring out how to actually do that so i've thrown this one on the pile too because it's. rough!!!