Crouching ethics, Hidden conscience

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[jmfenner91]

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[phantomrose96]

Parking your bike on a rack with a ransacked bike frame still locked there is kinda funny. Like yeah sorry bud you gotta hang out with this mutilated dead guy. Hopefully whatever did this is no longer hungry.

[n3cropants]

[ilikewritingandspeedcore]

EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

[rhyperographer]

I went to find the article. It's fascinating.

[digital-magus]

In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does

[sonpat-rides-again]

[ihavenocluewhatiwanttobecalled]

Can someone who understands psychology explain why this makes someone "rude"?

[alex51324]

Phatic discourse, a subset of affiliative signaling.

When Co-workers do things like ask about weekend plans, chat about non-work topics, eat lunch in the same room, they are--subconsciously--reaffirming that they are part of a cooperative (or, minimally, non-antagonistic) social group.

The other primates cement social bonds by grooming each other; we do it by making small talk.

If they solicit your participation in these rituals, and you repeatedly refuse those bids, you are marking yourself out as, at best, an outsider to the group, and thus potentially antagonistic.

This is all happening on the monkey-brain level; they have no idea what they're doing or how they are interpreting your response, so there's no way to clear up the misunderstanding.

To the ape sleeping in your co-worker's DNA, either you are part of the grooming circle, or you are an outsider who, for all it knows, may be coming to steal all the bananas.

Even if you would prefer not to socialize with your co-workers, it's generally worth it to set aside 5 minutes a couple times a week for phatic communication. You don't have to answer your co-workers' affiliative signals every time, but it's less trouble in the long run if you respond to a few of them.

[punkrorschach]

if you are the type of person who really just wants to be left alone to do their work in quiet: it is actually easier to achieve this as part of the in-group. when you enter a new space, in this case, a job, make it your GOAL to make everyone Know Who You Are. introduce yourself to everyone you meet. literally everyone. "hi I'm Jack I'm New." this helps burst the awkward bubble. you are now one of the monkeys.

at some point, either in response to an invitation, or just in the natural course of conversation, you can add in that you are a "quiet type" who "needs their silence" or what have you. customize to your personal needs. i find it helpful to imagine a well dressed elderly woman describing the sort of peace she needs to manifest.

roughly once a week if you see a group of people chatting, engage with them. keep it pleasant. it can be superficial. word will travel that you are Nice and Quiet and Not The Chatty Type protecting you from group lunches etc. if you have an office with a door that you keep closed a lot, putting up any kind of decor will also send positive signals.

humans are monkeys! for better or worse!

[tlbodine]

Pro tip: try to make a note (write it down if you have to) about some inconsequential thing that your coworker mentions so you can ask about it later. Kids and pets are great for This. As are hobbies. One guy in my office zoom called in from his house and I saw he had an arcade game in his office so I asked him about it later and he lit up like a Christmas tree. Another coworker has a pet pig and I ask every couple months how the pig is doing. This is a great strategy for pivoting conversation away from you and will make them think you are the friendliest monkey in the pod.

[iwilleatyourenglish]

Do you not see why people believe astrology tho??

so i'm a custodian.

whenever someone does something cool like shit on the bathroom floor or get blood all over a toilet, i have to close the bathroom down by blocking the doorway with a CLOSED sign.

this sign is big and bright. it says CLOSED in four languages and has a do not enter symbol. it completely blocks the doorway. the only way to enter is to look directly at the sign and either move it or climb over it.

almost every single time i shut down a bathroom so i can suit up and clean a biohazard, someone will enter the bathroom with a dead-eyed, slack-jawed expression and try to wordlessly walk past me to use a stall.

and every single time, i have to block their path and say, "this bathroom is closed. there is one directly down the hall, marked by signs. please leave," and they either try to argue that THEY specifically should be allowed to use this one, as if they are god's most special little guy, or express shock even though they, again, had to contend with the CLOSED sign to enter.

often, i am standing there in the middle of cleaning up bodily fluids having to firmly repeat myself. they always leave angry or confused.

anyways, you clicked this button to send me an ask about astrology:

[romanceyourdemons]

it absolutely makes sense that people conceive of the afterlife/spirit world in the same terms as the world they live in, but it’s funny to me that the official position of european christianity is “the unseen world is composed of two feuding kingdoms :) and the king of one of them is super nice to his peasants and his peasants love to serve him, but the king of the other one hunts his peasants for sport :( and always remember we’re just war refugees in this world, and we’ll have to flee to one kingdom or another someday, so make sure you flee to the right one.” while the official position of chinese folk religion is “the unseen world is bureaucracy. yeah all of it. it’s actually the exact same bureaucracy we have here, and no, those bureaucrats aren’t having fun either. hey, maybe you could become one someday! you’d be the first in our family to do that, it could mean so much for us”

[nyxfaei]

Labubus have become an endangered species thanks to overhunting by the invasive dangerous crow boy

[mind-me-n0t]

I'm going to release so many dangerous crow boys whose job is to destroy plastic into the wild that it'll have its own devastating effect on the ecosystem that I probably could have foreseen but didn't if it means we can be rid of those little shits.

[shmothman]

heartbreaking: dangerous crow boy found washed up on the coast of japan after learning about the great pacific garbage patch and, quote, “heading off to deal with it”

[shmothman]

@sigh-the-kraken these are my favorite tags on this post so far thank you

[tara-the-star]

"average person has 3 microplastics in them" factoid actually just a statistical error. average person has 0 microplastics. Dangerous crow boy, who lives in a fae world & eats over 10,000 microplastics each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[dangerouscrowboy-official]

yummers

[crochethub]

I made a koi pond themed crochet bag! 🪷 by Rxsimo

[fibrearts]

(via Ravelry: AMerryweather’s Blanket of British birds)

[thelonely-shepherd]

@blackbloodedisabel

[hookedatweiss]

Taking liberties to share images from the maker’s incredible Ravelry project:

and a screenshot of tags identifying the birds:

[ggwweenn1]

So this is done in a technique called “Freeform Crochet” where you just kind figure out what shapes and colors work as you go along. What makes me so amazed about this is how PRECISE it is. Most freeform crochet end up being pretty organic

(Seashore Freeform Crochet Cardigan by crochetdonna1)

(Katarina’s Blanket by uniquedesignsbyk)

even when making something specific

(Chameleon by PsychoCyn)

(The Scream by banatalie)

So to be able to crochet nearly a dozen recognizable birds using this technique, then to smoothly crochet them together is mindblowing. AND she managed to square the edges! I hope she enters this in a show or museum or something.

[herssian]

deepen the shadows bro. it'll be ok

[herssian]

i meant art-wise but if any dark sorcerers see this. you do you

[mythology-void]

girl you are killing it! girl i think it's dead! girl you can stop STABBING

[fredersen]

what happens when you stumble onto a fae beach holding delicious forbidden “fast” food? a dangerous seagull boy whose job it is to destroy french fries becomes obsessed with you.

[tomfoolerytotality]

Looking back on 2020, I think it's hilarious that Wellerman of all shanties is the one that blew up online. It's not a song about life on the high seas or adventuring

It's the "Where the fuck is my delivery" song

[stevishabitat]

[wiliecoyotegenius]

Renfield in pop culture: "Yes Master, insult me, for you are the Messiah, my salvation, and I am but an insect! You can kick me like a dog, and I will roll over, and then say 'thank you,' Master. My devotion is all-consuming!" Renfield in the novel: "You leave me on read for days? And expect me to serve you? DIVORCE FOR MASTER. No more Mr John the Baptist. I will get my own immortality. With blackjack. And spiders. Actually, forget the blackjack."

[knifenymph]

change does not come from a place of comfort

[aquareaper3]

I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about

[homofied]

[opalfairy]