[liquidconnoisseur]

nervous dogs love me

[manila-automat]

Interior Spaces of the USA Volume 2, 1994

[sirswagsalot1]

Me and the bad bitch I pulled by having childhood trauma and a fuckass haircut

[bark-barkley]

The Passenger (2023)

[lornasallydane]

Computer. Iris by the goo goo dolls. Loud enough to kill.

[antoniabishop]

Tempus Fugit

[targetedknowledge]

[jca-archive]

Akiyoshi Terashima, from Photographers Index 1 (1985)

[makingimages]

[nebsfunworld]

FOODWORLD by BEN BOLEY

[folklorespring]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge photographed by Acacia Johnson

[ceruleanheaven]

honestly given my parents whole [gestures vaguely] i am actually incredibly well adjusted

[lisbonmetro]

Lumiar metro station, Lisbon.

[hardwrench]

pregnant with a bag of peas

[hardwrench]

congratulations + absolutely anytime

[heedra]

we all talk a big game on here but the honest truth at the end of the day is that if i saw slenderman i would be really scared

[creekfiend]

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

[creekfiend]

in general I find that "why did someone behave this way" is almost always answered by "behaving otherwise was too difficult and frightening for them at the time," and then you have to dig into why that is. people behave in ways that feel 1. easy for them (do not require much thought or effort) 2. accessible to them (patterns that have worked many times before) and 3. safe for them (apparently predictable outcome)

this is true even for behavior that is absolutely horrific and totally unacceptable. which can be a tough thing to accept, I think.