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A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives

[dankmemeuniversity]

[mr-crocodile]

[xxtc-96xx]

[gaygraybles]

if we lived in a world where u had to do the career u were first interested in as a child what would u be doing, id be a firefighter

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

“ur overthinking this” bro I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gaysie]

i don’t think people should have to work in their 20s i think they should just be government designated Adventure Years where you’re paid to wander the country and go on journeys of self discovery and have gay sex and try different foods and sing badly in cars and create enemies and find fleeting father figures and sometimes commit crimes

[spider-woman]

[lesbianreginageorge]

#everyone at catco: there she go again bein weird outside

[water-stray-deactivated20231027]

free the tiddy, protecc the city

[glockpaperscissors]

Huffpost article about the fight for Oak Flat

apache-stronghold.com

[wilwheaton]

“To suggest pro-Trump Capitol riots don’t “represent who we are” ignores the long history of white supremacy, racial violence and retaliation in this country.”

— For Black Americans, The White Terror In D.C. Looks Familiar

[politijohn]

Read the full article

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

But corporations will regulate themselves right?

[fairweathermyth]

Words of Wisdom with Alexis Rose

[emmablowguns]

Y’all talk weird on here. Sometimes I see a post and i agree but y’all talk weird so I’m like fuckYou.

[theproblematicblogger]

[gaysubplot]

That and “adulting” . You’re 32 .

[luckyladylily]

Because when we meet someone who has such a visceral reaction to harmless slang we know to stay away from them because they are going to be one of those annoyingly immature people who still hasn’t figured out that growing up and abandoning child like simplicity and joy is an artificial concept created to shame the masses into conformity.

[roach-works]

no one is going to respect you anyway, you know, so you might as well sound stupid on purpose and have a little fun with it. 

[son-of-drogo]

I carry a bb8 backpack and I dress like I’m from the 70’s. No one has ever taken me seriously in my life.

[hollowedskin]

also a lot of them are references to memes that existed before a lot of these kids were born. We don’t stop having fun and joking around just because you think we’re too old for that. If your only experience with older people is with your unfun parents and uncles who only work and drink and make bigoted jokes then like, that sucks babe but thats also not my problem.

[kintatsujo]

Also we’re tired and words is hard when you’re tired

[perspicaciousembroiderist]

You have to make your fun where you can.

[leeshajoy]

“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

— C.S. Lewis

[randomslasher]

Not to mention?? The lexicon and grammatical particulars of online communication are freaking fascinating. There are different dialects and referential imagery that is so steeped in layers of meme evolution that you can literally see a picture of Obama’s eyes kind of half-hooded and know exactly what you’re supposed to feel and it’s so freaking cool because these forms of communication, they aren’t just “zomg random,” they actually do follow rules and have structural foundations that we’ve all somehow internalized, and we use them as a way of relating to one another in a text-based medium that could be, SHOULD be, incredibly stifling but it’s not, because we made it our own. We created new ways of speaking, of communicating with one another clearly even when we can’t see faces or read tone or body language, so that I can say to someone “I did a cool thing!!” online and be talking about the exact same thing I’m also referencing in that corporate email where I say “the objective was successfully completed” but those do not sound the same at all because they aren’t the same at all. One conveys my excitement, my pride, my happiness at achieving whatever goal I achieved, while the other is a polite, professional-sounding report to a superior, and the fact that they were both conveying the same idea in 5 words but in such different ways is freaking awesome, so frankly fuck you if you think I’m somehow ‘childish’ for enjoying that. 

Online communication grew organically with my generation and it’s still growing today and it is a freaking playground, so hell yes I’m gonna use the swings and the slide and the monkey bars because it’s fun, and if you want to stand by the fence and scowl at me that’s all right, but it’s your problem, not mine. 

[doctorstarlock]

Imagine being a literal child and getting mad at adults younger than your parents just cuz they use their generational slang. Do you also get mad at your 40 y/o mom if she says something is rad? Would you start foaming at the mouth if an old hippy grandpa started using the word “groovy” in front of you? Grow up. I hope kids ten years from now throw hissy fits about the word “cringe”. Maybe by then you’ll understand that language changes quickly and getting mad at adults for using older words is literally the most pointless thing ever.

[raeraesmentality]

Wait… Do other gen z kids really do this? Mock millennials for… what, being the kind of adults I want to be, for gripping onto simple happiness with both hands?

[captaindibbzy]

It’ll happen to you too, kids! Lol.

But seriously. You’ll reach the second half of your 20’s and you’ll be referencing memes and TV shows and things you grew up and made in to your language and the generation beneath you will look at you and go “oh my god they’re so embarrassing!”

And if you’re not doing that you’ll realise you’ve become one of those adults who is, or is on their way to being, a wine mom/beer dad, complaining about people having fun in their free time.

Listen to your elders. Life is too short to worry about being down with the kids.

[repost-this-image]

Rebageling to point out a Thing.

When people in their 30s don’t start using the next generation’s slang, we’re called out of touch old folks.

When we do, we’re treated like the “How do you do, fellow kids?” meme or accused of being p*dos.

When I say, “Please keep the syllabus. It has a lot of helpful information that you’ll miss out on if you pretend to he Jared, age 19,” I’m not trying to be a Cool Kid or prey on my students (ew!). I’m trying to get my students engaged and help them remember important information by relating it to something silly that they already know.

When I talk about radicals in a pair of sunglasses and a backwards baseball cap, oozing 90s slang to a degree I never do ordinarily, I’m creating an image that helps people remember how radicals work. (And yes, “No Squares Allowed” is part of the act. Of course it is. Why would it not be?)

And yet, it seems that in the eyes of teenagers, we just can’t win.

[absentlyabbie]

also, just to circle back slightly, “adulting” is such an extremely useful word.

you use “adulting” to mean “performing societally approved maturity” or “functioning as expected of an independent adult per the expectations of the culture”, but you don’t have to say that shit and your meaning comes across entirely clearly. especially in context.

if i make a post here on tumblr dot com bemoaning “utterly failing at adulting today. laundry has piled up and i think there might be some breadcrumbs left in the kitchen, but bed, and video games, and tired”, you understand exactly what i mean. if i make a rueful post about how “adulted successfully by taking out the trash and making the dreaded Doctor Appointment Phone Call, this calls for a celebration reese’s cup”, you know exactly what i mean.

you know so exactly what i mean when i use the term (or variant of) “adulting” in those contexts that it would in fact be difficult and cumbersome to try and convey my meaning in (suck it) “adultier” language.

this sort of sneering bullshit feels rancidly akin to that old “profanity is the language of the unintelligent” snobbery. even a cousin to the same “why do you talk in slang, just use real words” bullshit teens hear from parents and grandparents, or distantly related to the “why does x demographic talk like that, it sounds so uneducated/it’s so embarrassing that that person uses ‘broken’ english, they sound so dumb.”

language is for communicating. if you understood the meaning, the phrasing is mere window dressing, and it’s appallingly poor behavior to insult someone else’s choice of drapes in their own home.

[kitsnicket]

this fuckin movie

[manliest-lil-weenie]

jesus christ this is spy kids I thought this was some shakespearian story

[kitsnicket]

Shakespeare wishes he had what spy kids has

[intersectionalism]

[pelontriques]

transcript / Video Desc:

A white girl with blonde hair and a blue shirt.

The sign language reads as follows:

[Hey, I want to cover something important.

As some of ya’ll know, I am deeply engrained with the Deaf culture because I want to be an interpreter and have Deaf family.

The world is slowly becoming more accessible, and I am proud of our progress. However…

I want to discuss this school.

This is the Memphis Oral School for the Deaf.

The school will be opening soon, but they do not let their students sign, they discourage it.

And now they are requiring masks, which means lipreading is out of the window.

This article points out that even without masks, the teachers would often cover their mouths when they spoke so that they couldn’t lipread.

Their reasoning? To ensure that the students were “listening with their EARS”.

Read that again…

You are taking away their (Deaf children’s) language, they are not being given Dynamic Equivalence. They have nothing.

When are y’all gonna learn that Deaf kids don’t need to be fixed?

Please spread for awareness.]

The video is by @elysian_cosplay on tiktok.

[micdotcom]

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

[darringtonshorthalt]

x

[science-jumps]

King

[ohgodshesloose]

Worth noting that he protested loudly against the WWE doing a show in Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the company retaliated by making sure he hasn’t been on TV or PPV since. Not fired, of course, so they can keep selling merchandise with his face on it (and keep him from joining the competition), just out of the public eye so he and his protests gets forgotten by the fans.

Picture that: an ubiquitous celeb and household name like John Cena basically got black bagged and vanished for speaking up for human rights. That’s the power of capitalism, kids

[allthingseurope]

Utrecht, Netherlands (by Ralph Rozema)

[glumshoe]

raccoons make no sense because they will leave your birdseed and garbage and garden and compost pile alone but they WILL open a barrel and pull out an empty 5 gallon gas canister and unscrew the lid and leave it in your yard and also untie the dog tether from your porch beam for no reason

[glumshoe]

one time I watched a raccoon pull up plastic tent stakes at a campground and just walk away, content with causing mischief

another time at camp I woke up to find a raccoon had grabbed the yarn that connected the string telephones my neighbor and I had strung up between our cabin windows and was just yanking on it… I grabbed one end and ended up in a tug-of-war over the string phone while this beefy raccoon pulled and pulled, hand over hand, making direct eye contact with me

and sometimes they’d sneak into cabins and just…. touch people while they slept

why!!! who said you could act like this!!!

[mrbiglong3000]

god gave them hands but not shame