meh

, 26, veteran of the hobbit days. im just vibing here

[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

[tagfer]

cell phone doesn't like water because it is a combination of the other three elements. it is a rock (earth) that we fill with lightning (fire) that can control radio waves (air). if it contained water too, it would be too perfect; it would be like a god. to prevent this, the universe kills the would be uniter-of-the-elements. it's basic science.

[heronbrew]

Hey op google what LCD stands for

[tagfer]

i took an oath in third grade to never do drugs

[tagfer]

cell phone doesn't like water because it is a combination of the other three elements. it is a rock (earth) that we fill with lightning (fire) that can control radio waves (air). if it contained water too, it would be too perfect; it would be like a god. to prevent this, the universe kills the would be uniter-of-the-elements. it's basic science.

[heronbrew]

Hey op google what LCD stands for

[tagfer]

i took an oath in third grade to never do drugs

[airplaner]

[starship--phoenix]

It's his year

[my-flying-sister]

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

[the-dandy-liar]

[lleyksie]

brown bear, black bear

[jururenu]

Frodo

[subaru-copilot]

looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

[teaboot]

Surely these circumstances will improve with additional shame

[untitledcatgame]

my email finding you

[cute-catts]

Inner peace 🕊️🐱😌

[aurora1040]

i wanna be that cat

[audpaints]

Rendition in marker

[hopeless-eccentric]

humiliating to be attracted to a conventionally attractive person. I thought I was a more sensitive and refined pervert than this

[yenthecat]

Sitting, sharing, sweet

[libraford]

Dad was telling me about his feelings about the superbowl halftime.

"I did feel a little alienated that it wasnt in English. But then I thought it over for a second and realized... that was the point. And that was what made it art."

My dad is a good dude.

[brideofdilbert]

it’s really funny to make up stories about your dad saying the lamest shit in the world

[libraford]

Not really responding to this reply, more like responding around it.

I get a lot of 'and everyone clapped' reblogs to my posts. And its mainly on posts that are about very normal, positive things that happened to me. I think its normal for a dude in his 70s to decide its okay if something is in a different language.

I think being cynical and responding to everything with sarcasm feels smart. Theres a guy I work with that is like this- every response to everything is very sarcastic because its easy humor. But he's done it so much that ive noticed part of the secret:

He uses a series of canned sarcastic phrases ('no, really? Who could have predicted this?' Etc) when he has no idea how to respond to something but feels the need to fill the silence. Because he's set himself up as this guy that knows everything, doesnt need an explanation, and in his mind he's got a wicked sense of humor.

But some days im partnered with him, and when youre in a truck for 7 hours it becomes hard to keep up that facade. Its very clear he doesnt know much. He has a lot of surface knowledge for the bit. But he's desperately seeking validation, and gets upset if there's a perceived sense of rejection.

I think theres a fine art to cynical humor and sarcasm. If you use it on everything, people will assume youre just an insincere person. And it gets old kind of fast.

Which, once again- less responding to this person and more like... using this as a jumping board for a different topic.

[finnglas]

I also have a coworker who cannot conceive of responding to literally any topic with anything except negative sarcasm. "We ate at X restaurant for lunch yesterday and enjoyed it." "Oh, wow, sorry you wasted your money there. I hate X type of food." "Have you ever been to that restaurant?" "No because I'm not an idiot." Etc.

Nobody likes being around that person.

There's a post that floats around here somewhere that talks about someone telling a MAGA coworker, "Your life is defined by everything you hate, and I think that's sad."

Compulsive sarcasm, I think, is defining your life by everything you're afraid of. Rejection, being "tricked," being vulnerable. You lose nothing if you believe a stranger's story on the internet about their dad saying something cool and it turns out not to be true, or to have been "massaged" to sound nicer and more coherent than it was. It doesn't materially harm your life to hear a story like that and believe it could be true. It's not being done as a grift to trick people out of money or loyalty or anything like that. It's harmless.

But to be afraid to think it's possible that someone, somewhere, might be that willing to understand things? To be afraid to believe in a stranger's harmless story of kindness and understanding? To live your life walled in by cynicism? I think that does do material harm to your soul. That kind of spiked armor pierces the wearer too.

Anyway. Be safe out there, friends.

[libraford]

Thats a really good observation.

I can handle being around Sarcasm Dude because I spent a lot of my college years hanging around Sarcasm Dudes and I know the game a little.

He's not MAGA, but his parents are and he grew up in a high control church, so I think a lot of this attitude comes from that background. But like... "I like the KIA that I drive." "KIAs are poorly made and the reason theyre stolen so often is because the keyless entry means it can be hacked with an iphone." "Ok, well- mine isnt keyless and I got the software update that prevents it just to make sure." "Well you shouldnt have gotten a KIA anyways because they rush through production leading to these kinds of problems." "... dude, it was a gift from my mom. Chill out."

I want to tell him to touch grass but... we work in a park.

So like I see this kind of like... combatative way of having a conversation, and its on par with the way I see other people from that high-control church react to things, even from ex-cultists who swung all the way left. And I also see it in the petri dish- so much of the content there is just gawking at things they dislike about the left.

I also see it in leftist spaces in different degrees (you are not immune to propaganda, etc). Negative, pessimistic, reactionary content gets more interaction, often. (I'm guilty of this, actually.)

I think theres lots to be cynical about. There's some bullshit happening out there. But I do also think that pessimism, sarcasm gets more stage time. And it think this is especially true of people whose primary contact with other people is through online spaces.

And i think its good to be skeptical of things like... anything that the government says these days to be honest (yes, even politicians that I align with politically). But like... random little anecdotes about a stranger's life?

High control groups want the world to be scary. The world is full of thieves and liars and grifters. And its safe here, with us, who are pure and reasonable and accepting- unlike those unrelenting people of the world.

I can see how that might create a kind of mindset that believes people are incapable of change, and a low-hanging fruit kind of humor that matches it. But what would I gain from posting stories about my dad on tumblr? Its not like I make any money here. I dont even tag my posts. This is just like... a journal. A journal with aggro.

Anyways. Stuff thats on my mind.

[cognitohazardous]

no one says big mood anymore. no one even says mood. no one says anything. all thats left is a dry wind, that scours my face until i bleed

[oliverr-gardenn]

fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun

[oliverr-gardenn]

i meant road. road to success

[jellycreature]

Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun

[allsadnshit]

Most people's twenties are spent being upset at how other people around them think and feel and it takes like the whole decade to realize you can't control it, shouldn't want to, wouldn't get what you wanted if you could, and that actually maybe get over yourself and then life starts to get really good around there

Very precious kind knowledge to live through

[razielim]

that's it that's the nutshell genai is in