Where All Sanity Comes To Die

A poor fool that used to have a normal life. And then I decided to join this website. 24 years old, taken, and dead inside. Both Hadestown and Sandman have a death grip on my mind.

[ivandra-winters]

Live picture of me reacting to the newest episode of TADC-

[depsidase]

[sheislucifer]

let me make myself very clear, on this blog its:

fuck donald trump

fuck ICE

immigrants are not illegal

free palestine

black lives have and will always matter

trans rights forever and always

pro choice

healthcare should be free

house the homeless

keep religion out of schools

LGBTQ+ rights

fuck the tories

if you dont agree, fuck off.

[conquerthenight]

I think the Wicked fandom needs to realize that the solution to the Gelphie vs. Fiyeraba ship wars is polyamory. Elphaba has two hands after all

[ivandra-winters]

THANK YOU MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR OVER A YEAR NOW!!!!! THEY ALL HAVE TWO HANDS, AND YOU’RE TELLING ME THEY WOULDN’T MAKE THE GREATEST POLYCULE EVER?!?!?!

[great-and-small]

The breed standard for modern Persian cats calls for the nose and mouth to be in “vertical alignment” with the eyes 😭

[depsidase]

[lilliephoenix]

autumntides

10h

"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

[kamikaze-kumquat]

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.  It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

[sunriseseance]

Right now my thoughts are with the family of Melissa Hortman, a democrat from Minnesota who was assassinated along with her husband and her dog in the dead of night. Senator Mike Lee (from Utah) made a joke about it. There was no moment of silence, no national response. MAGA extremism kills people.

[yamino]

Here’s a picture of her and her dog. Sometimes it’s hard to really conceptualize these things without faces to go with the names. I wonder why no major news outlets have focused on this story, or posted this photo of her with her golden retriever. Her dog looks just like mine. My heart is shattered every time I look at this.

[yamelcakes]

Gilbert was a service dog dropout, who flunked out because he was “too friendly.” The Hortmans, of course, were thrilled to officially adopt him. He was the second retriever the Hortmans fostered and trained through Helping Paws. Their other foster dog, Minnie, was successfully placed as a veteran’s service dog. Helping Paws is always accepting donations in Melissa and Gilbert’s memory:

https://www.helpingpaws.org/donation

Calling All Paws! Every Gift Of Any Amount Makes A Difference!  ONE-TIME DONATIONMONTHLY DONATION Choose the amount that works best for you

Melissa did so much for Minnesota, and I’m so angry that her murder was mocked by Republican legislators while the assassination of a hateful podcaster who rubbed shoulders with white nationalists and Nazis somehow receives more outrage. Trump never even reached out to Walz to express condolences for Melissa. He refused to attend her funeral. Now he wants to give Charlie Kirk The Presidential Medal of Freedom. I’m so fucking angry about it.

[spotlightstory]

Melissa and Mark Hortman

Minn. Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman were also shot but survived the attacks.

Vance Luther Boelter was arrested following a 43-hour-long manhunt in connection with the killings.

Boelter allegedly showed up to his victims' homes pretending to be a police officer before carrying out the shootings, investigators said.

The investigation has revealed the shootings were part of a larger plan targeting several other politicians, including abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates and lawmakers in multiple states, CNN previously reported. Prior to his arrest, police said they had recovered a "manifesto" from his vehicle that had a "list" of about 70 names.

source

[sicklesium-moved-deactivated201]

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

[damncommunists-deactivated20180]

my white friends that have reblogged this give me life

[zelda-tempest]

4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP

[lallamariamhabibi]

If ur white and like this post I fux with u

[birdpapi-deactivated20171121]

^absolutely

[verdant-witch]

5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.

[blackpoeticinjustice]

i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this

[ivandra-winters]

They just dropped the actors who’ll be portraying The Trio™️ for the Harry Potter reboot, and I know we’re all boycotting the series on HBO, and I know none of us asked for it to even be made.

But if I see any of y’all harassing or talking shit about these literal children, it’s on fucking sight.

[sarcastic-sunshine]

Who is this "we" you're speaking of? Last I checked, while "we didn't ask for it", so many of us are excited for the show, and shocker not all of those who are excited like JKR, crazy I know.

Anyhow, nice to know that you've got some morals left and are encouraging your side to leave these kids alone, though it'd be lovely if you extended that towards the adults as well.

[ivandra-winters]

…I’ll be honest, this is such a weird energy to bring to a post about not harassing children-

[ivandra-winters]

They just dropped the actors who’ll be portraying The Trio™️ for the Harry Potter reboot, and I know we’re all boycotting the series on HBO, and I know none of us asked for it to even be made.

But if I see any of y’all harassing or talking shit about these literal children, it’s on fucking sight.

[miss-holloways]

Here are a bunch of B. Dylan Hollis's recipes typed up in google docs for those who want to make these recipes.

I've only got a few so far, but I'll continue to type up the ones he likes and add them here. Shoot me an ask if you have any requests for recipes to type up, but please check the original version of the post first. When I add new recipes, I edit the original post and then srb it for others to see.

DISCLAIMER: A lot of his videos he goes pretty fast or does not include exact measurements, so they may not be 100% accurate, but I'm typing them up to the best of my abilities.

Boiled Cookies

Almond Milk

Pinto Bean Cake

Pumpkin Quickies

Ice Cream Bread

Magic Cookie Bars

Velveeta Fudge

Scotcheroos

Chow Mein Cookies

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Deep Fried Oreos

Corn Starch Cookies

Copycat Almond Joys

Magic Peanut Butter Cookies

Cowboy Cookies

Leftover Bread Pancakes

Avocado Ice Cream

Avocado Bread

Magic Cinnamon Sticks

Peanut Butter Bread

Peppermint Patties

Christmas Crack

Eggnog

Apple Cider Cookies

Baked Apples

Deep Fried Cookie Dough

Potato Chip Cookies

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

[eurodynamic]

[kanagenwrites]

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

[eldritchamy]

For my senior year of AP English, I was assigned reading over Easter break. We were instructed to read The Old Man And The Sea, and save the rest of the short stories in the book for the first week back.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

The power and utility of knowing how bullshit works CANNOT be overstated. It is one of the most important skills you can ever have.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

This is also a good string on this topic.

[myth-myth-yeth]

@sleepytreewanderings

This reminded me of this philosophy paper about how generative AI doesn’t really have the knowledge to answer questions, all it ever does is bullshitting, we means it sometimes stumbles into the truth and sometimes not.

AI's Bullshitting Obscures Who's to Blame for Its Mistakes

It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

AI doesn’t lie, that’s immoral. It’s amoral. It speaks without regard to the truth.

Back to the thread above.

Students who farm out their work to generative AI are replacing their own work (and occasionally their own bullshit) with machine generated bullshit.

Bullshitting isn’t just an important skill academically though (or just in white-collar jobs), but in life writ large. It’s the tactical equivalent of “fake it til you make it.” It’s observing patterns around you and replicating them, even without understanding the underlying reason.

[ivandra-winters]

Agree with literally all of this. When I was in college, I wrote a paper on the fact that Freud’s theories were still presented as being prevalent in psychotherapy- despite modern psychotherapy having nothing to do with those theories anymore- and I wrote it in a stream of consciousness the night before it was due that I did not bother with proofreading because I was too tired. I got a B+ on it, which told me that even with the least amount of effort, my work and abilities are well above being merely acceptable; and that if this was true about the least of my efforts, then it meant my greater efforts would produce even higher quality work.

[grillmasterdad]

I actually need Robert Eggers to make a proper adaptation of Phantom of The Opera because he would absolutely hit it out of the park and I'd actually pass away/levitate up to heaven-

[bitterbareface]

People not comprehending Nosferatu correctly might kill me. Yes it's erotic and about pleasure but yes it's devastating and about child sexual abuse. It's a movie about victimhood, about being already dead, about longing for the great beyond, about never feeling safe from your abuser, about always expecting one more rape must be endured. It is about being an ugly victim, a neurotic victim. About your supposed allies tying you down for fear you will rip their world to ribbons. It is about facing the abuser, facing the pleasure the abuser brought. It is about men seeking to silence a plague in the quiet of the night when grooming and abuse can only be destroyed by pulling it into the light of morning.

[ivandra-winters]

So, no one is talking about how Jorge understood the Fucking Assignment™️ and wrote the song ‘Odysseus’ to be a direct foil to ‘Polyphemus’ in every way. It is the third song title to only be a name, and the other two are directly influencing his actions. Odysseus returns home to see these fucking strangers whom he’s never met trashing his place and threatening to kill ‘his favorite sheep’, if you will. A suitor tries to appeal to him with open arms, and he cuts them off with a swing. Now, he IS Polyphemus, killing these men who would dare to take what he loves most from him. And by the end of it, all he can hear are screams.

[fairycosmos]

i’m just a bitch with bad posture and an irregular sleeping schedule 

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