your local hivemind

25, bi,she/her gemini, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist- you can call me Kite

[midatlantichivemind]

I cannot stop thinking about this giant pimple on the side of my face

[enki2]

[midatlantichivemind]

Baby Wes is growing fast! I can't describe the happiness that my son has already brought me.... I never thought being pregnant, the prospect of motherhood, and everything that goes along with it would bring as much joe and fulfillment as it has

[midatlantichivemind]

The bump has arrived ✨️ 💖

[midatlantichivemind]

I'm so fucking excited for my baby bump

[cannibalchicken]

[midatlantichivemind]

arson

[midatlantichivemind]

and honestly my biggest worry with this pregnancy is the goddamn cost of prenatal care

[puppygirllaika]

if one more person comments on my "we need to keep payphones/public phones" post with "what we need are free phone charging stations and wifi hotspots, like in new york!" i am going to lose my mind. what do you people not understand about "not everyone has a smartphone" and "phones can break". how are these new concepts.

[puppygirllaika]

Also, some of y'all are way too comfortable plugging random data cables into your phones.

[brendering]

a couple things gen alpha may not know about the differences between cell phones and payphones:

cell phones often don't work during disasters or other unusually high phone traffic. payphones are landlines, so they still work as long as they're not cut from their line.

this is also true for some remote areas: there's a reason people working on remote sites (camp sites, forestry, emergency responders, etc.) have landlines, especially in places with changeable weather that could affect radio/walkie talkies/cell service.

payphones are extra important if someone is being threatened or held against their will: a kidnapper or other nefarious person could take/break a cell phone, but the payphone is bolted to the ground, and it would look suspicious if they dragged a victim away from it. a while ago a lost kid used a payphone to call 911.

in a similar vein, many emergency systems haven't been updated to keep up with modern cell phones (we haven't even had maps on our phones for 10 years yet), so depending on where you live it can be difficult for dispatchers to figure out where you are if you're using a cell phone. since payphones don't move, dispatchers know exactly where they are and can send help faster.

to be clear, i'm not hating on cell phones (you'd have to pry mine from my cold dead hands) BUT i do think physical emergency phones and payphones fill a really important gap! it would be a hit to general safety if we lost them completely, especially for poorer or more remote folks.

[radicalurbanista]

and they should be free!

[midatlantichivemind]

you know being so early in my pregnancy I keep looking at my tummy in the mirror and thinking "huh? is that baby? or do I just need to poop?"

[theadhdgoblin]

[midatlantichivemind]

wow I need to update my age on here I'm 27 now

[aropride]

how it feels to think bmi and iq are bullshit

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

The cultural impact of “boomer” as a pejorative has been disastrous and I’m not even kidding

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Gen z is not exceptional. Large swaths of gen z propagated Facebook-uncle tier misinformation to smear Amber Heard for speaking out about their favorite pirate actor. People are convinced “deadass no cap on god” is “tiktok speak” and not butchered AAVE. Many are already starting to define themselves as a generation of work ethic and meritocracy, unlike those whiny debt-riddled millennials. It’s becoming humiliatingly clear that this generation is not exceptional, it’s not radical just by virtue of being young (and we won’t be young forever), and it’s not going to fix everything “once the boomers die out.” We are speedrunning the stereotypical “hippie to Reagan voter” trajectory of the boomers, whose counterculture at the time frankly puts ours to shame. So are you going to put in the work, or are you going to gloat about being young and special and then shit yourself when you turn thirty?

[midatlantichivemind]

I'm officially 9 weeks today!

[midatlantichivemind]

I wish my little one could meet my mother

[midatlantichivemind]

I'm officially 9 weeks today!

[passion-of-l0vers]

sorry for being a hater i want to be a lover but everything pisses me off

[memewhore]