The Ghost of Twentysomethings Past

35, they/them/elle/loro. Credit to @straycattrash for the pfp! '#tilting at windmills' is my tag for posts I think are useful for community-building and maintaining in various adverse conditions. The odds seem hopeless, but we try anyway. (And we stay silly :3) [Profile ID: A bespectacled cartoon possum smiling and holding a copyright-distinct Arizona iced tea can. End ID.] [Header ID: a photo of a public transit bus. Where the route number and name would be, instead the display says "NO? ?? ???????" End ID.] I do my best to add descriptions to images without an alt ID. I do this both to increase post accessibility and to preserve information in case of image takedowns (or site issues that affect images loading.) Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/quijotescx

[thegetoufather]

psa: continue creating even if you think its corny or unworthy. i promise you its not. we all start from somewhere, and you can only grow if you keep trying

[mayra-quijotescx]

me: welp, time to go to sleep! ceiling: [starts leaking] me:

[natalieironside]

Next week people are going to start angrily asking me "Are you a squeedus or a colmfnart" and I'm gonna ask "What the fuck does that mean" and they're gonna say "Oh, one means AFAB and one means AMAB but we wanted to say it with different words" and I'll say "That does not seem like a nice question to ask strangers" and then they'll get very mad and say something about how of course a fucking squeedus would say that

[natalieironside]

Star Bellied Sneetch ass discourse

[natalieironside]

"Are u a FNAF or a FMAB" I am a taxpayer

[ashfdhfgdsfk]

which movies have you watched the most amount of times? they dont have to be your actual favorite movies, just the ones youve rewatched most. for example: mine are the final destination movies and scream

[ashfdhfgdsfk]

all im learning is that none of my mutuals watch movies

[ivy-michaels]

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Corset of Visibility

[obscurelocalstranger]

[fittingoutjane]

Pair this with a black skirt and boots, and you, too can be a Visigoth.

[the-haiku-bot]

Pair this with a black

skirt and boots, and you, too can

be a Visigoth.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[hasufin]

@gothiccharmschool

[mayra-quijotescx]

[ID 1: Wyte Phantom says, "I always love it when people ask me for slightly mad things, this hi vis vest corset is being delivered to its new owner tomorrow!" Photo of a bright yellow and silver corset with matching choker and garter straps on a mannequin torso. End ID 1.]

[ID 2: lesbianscoundrel says, "there are three questions you must ask yourself every day: 1. is it cute? 2. is it sexy? and 3. is it OSHA compliant?" End ID 2.]

[calellon]

unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire

[crayyola-deactivated20220827]

You've heard of "humans being severely injured to reveal mechanical insides" now get ready for a far more horrifying alternative: machines and technology being damaged to reveal meaty, bloody insides

[bogleech]

When you're a space alien and the first human you ever encounter is an aggressive medieval knight

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[ralfmaximus]

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy

Even as an advertiser (especially as an advertiser), I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. More than lowering the price of eggs. Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality. By outlawing advertising, the machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel.

I started out reading this smugly saying to myself yeah, right.

But by the end I'm sold. Let's ban advertising.

We can start small, maybe with city ordinances. Then roll it out county wide, then at the state level. Once other states see how quiet and sane things can be, they'll adopt the ban too. The ones that don't will remain snarling islands of rage & delusion until the people move away.

Let's ban advertising.

[e-the-village-cryptid]

the entire state of vermont already banned roadside billboards years and years ago. change is possible!!

[mayra-quijotescx]

Thanks for tagging me @cosmogyros!

Hair color: dark brown

Favorite color: several, but I love purple, especially the purple that matches DMC embroidery thread 550.

Favorite drink: If you put a peach oolong tea with boba and the little fruit pieces with 0% sugar and light ice in one of those box and a string traps, you would catch me. I also love Thai tea, Vietnamese iced coffee, and matcha lattes to a degree that defies self preservation.

One thing you love about yourself: That I've helped some of my loved ones be a little braver or more generous, by being a little brave or generous myself. (eg: carrying a spare water bottle or electrolít to share in case someone needs it, along with a couple spare $1s.)

If you could be any animal, what would you be: my fursona is an opossum, but I'd want to be one of those spoiled ones that lives in a zoo somewhere. :P

Dream place to visit: South Italy—specifically Palermo and the surrounding area, but I'd also want to go see Etna and make a pilgrimage to Montevergine. Ideally, it'd be a long enough visit so I could have the time to study the history and art there.

What's one thing you're looking forward to right now: Inshallah I will get to see my family and Houston people in a couple of months!

Your biggest dream: stable homeownership lmao ;A; But specifically a home where we're able to not only live comfortably, but also have guests over and even host a visitor or two.

A song that's permanently on repeat: I don't keep stuff permanently on repeat, so here, have the song one of my friends and I heard while walking through a casino on our way to the Assumption yesterday and started singing along to:

Tagging the mutuals I've talked to on here recently besides the one who tagged me, so that's @big-golyat, @monstrousgourmandizingcats, and @all-truths-wait-in-all-things! This is purely optional, of course, no pressure.

[sin-djarin]

“I’m too old to—“

WRONG.

You are above ground and breathing.

Do the thing.

[hemipenal-system]

“good girl” said (in a shaky terrified voice) by someone who is CLEARLY not the dominant one in the situation

[clonerightsagenda]

Usually when the electrician goes 'hey.... there's something you should see' it's because someone set up shoddy wiring. This time it was because he pulled two snakes out of my wall

[clonerightsagenda]

me: rewatching Station 11 to stay out of the way

the electrician downstairs:

[quixoticanarchy]

damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

[quixoticanarchy]

i (type 1 diabetic) was explaining autoimmune diseases to someone and she was like ohh right so yours is the good kind of diabetes where you didn't do it to yourself. to which i objected that's not how type 2 works either. and she said well that's the fat old people disease. and i was like you can't say that, a) not how it works and b) extremely rude. and her defense was her grandparents have type 2 and "did it to themselves" and since they're fat old people she reserves the right to hate on them. i understand hating shitty grandparents but YOU are the shitty one here to hate on them for their medical conditions and weight rather than literally anything else. hello?!

anyway type 2 diabetics i'm sorry about the world. everyone* be kind to type 2s or else

*note to type 1 diabetics especially we need to be better at solidarity and not cling to being the "good ones" at type 2s' expense. what the fuck is a good kind of diabetes anyway

[quixoticanarchy]

also worth saying diabetes is a complex reaction to a not-yet-fully-understood set of factors and environmental pressures and genetics and it's reductive and fatphobic to say fat=diabetes BUT EVEN SO no matter if someone did incontrovertibly "give themself diabetes" that's not a free pass for dehumanization. shut upppp

[hagiomoto]

Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing. Environmental groups said the fires in recent weeks were part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon’s natural environment. On Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped flares in a wooded area outside Khiam, in south Lebanon, sparking blazes. When firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, a drone struck close by, forcing them to withdraw, said the head of the civil defence in the Nabatieh region, Hussein Fakih. “Most of our missions are now related to fires,” Fakih said. “There are enormous areas of woodland that have burned, I don’t have the exact figures, but in the areas close to the [frontline], around 30-40% of the land has been affected by fires.”

[woodenrosary]

"i know you so well" you don't even know my favourite Marian apparition

[mckitterick]

Deadly egg recall

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

source: X

[prof-grace-aspen]

Recalled eggs were shipped to foodservice and retail customers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.  Recalled eggs were available to consumers at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana; Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and other smaller retail and foodservice outlets in these states plus Mississippi and New Mexico.

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico are the currently affected states.