Perpetually Anxious @kids-from-yesterday - Tumblr Blog

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

softness-and-shattering

Friend of mine calls it active listening. Ah yes we are speaking of tooths. I understand and respond. Here it a tooth image. I have heard you.

erdenmaedchen

STAR TREK Shore Leave | S01 E15

amygdalae

sometimes thinking abt all the gaming youre gonna do later is what gets you through the workday and then you get home and do no gaming. not even a little bit of gaming

t4tstarvingdog

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

anarchomikeism

ancaporado

wageronvoluntaryism

Never forget what they took from us.

wageronvoluntaryism

For those asking how it compares today

cheese-sample-official

and also

bmxpotato

Mid-year 2026 update (this is without tax):

slightlyirritable

Remember this the next time someone argues that raising the minimum wage will raise prices

bethanyactually

to be clear, the U.S. federal minimum wage in 1999 was $5.15/hour, so a worker who made the minimum wage could buy the items on that receipt with 41 minutes of work.

in 2026, the federal minumum wage is $7.25, so a worker who makes minimum wage would have to work 95 minutes--more than twice as long--to buy those same items.

neilnevins-deactivated20240617

Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply

neilnevins-deactivated20240617

“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”

(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)

vampiricyoshi

I felt compelled

lahiah

beam me up scotty (beam me up inside) can’t beam up (beam me up inside)

dogpuppy

heatherwitch

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

unamccormack

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.