[porterdavis]

[weevil-mastermind]

What do you mean? This isn’t a parody?

[weevil-mastermind]

Oh my god he actually responded like this. He actually said those words on the debate stage when they did the smallest amount of debunking of the racist lie he’s been running with for weeks now. He actually said this.

How is he so bad at doing this??

[shofarsogood]

I didn't watch the debate so I just assumed this was a meme. Are you fucking kidding me?

[pauperism]

JD Vance’s debate lines were so polished you could forget they made no sense | Moira Donegan

Trump’s running mate had the greasy self-assurance of someone used to lying to people he thinks are stupid

As they corrected his misstatements, he whined to the women: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!”

[squirrelsarecool]

From the Guardian:

[creekfiend]

While I'm talking about social stuff I had to learn as an autistic person

There's a LOT of social interactions between human beings whose purpose really boils down to being like that thing dogs do where they go "omg YOU'RE a dog??? I'M a dog!!!!!" And that's not a bad thing. Highly ritualized "meaningless" displays of human connection like friendly greetings and talking about things like weather actually do serve a purpose which is like idk ritualized displays birds do. YOU'RE a human? Omg I'M a human!!!! Wow!!!

And they don't have to be your favorite flavor of interaction. You can even think they're silly. But they DO serve a purpose or else they wouldn't be a thing.

[creekfiend]

There's lots of good and folksy responses to "how are you doing" that don't involve either lying or undermining the ritualized purpose of the greeting exchange, too. My great grandmother Ethel for example was a big fan of "well, I'm a-doin'"

[eruvadhril]

"Things like 'How are you?' and 'Have a nice day' and 'What do you think of the weather, then?' What these sounds mean is: I am alive and so are you."

- Wings, by Terry Pratchett.

[headspace-hotel]

It sounds so cute when you put it this way

[noahthepigeon]

When I was a teenager I really hated and gamified smalltalk, but... Then I got cockatiels. And cockatiels have a thing called "contact calls". Basically, it's a particular set of noises they make to know where each other are without looking at them directly. There's variations, when the flock member is close it's a very sweet little sound, when they don't know where you are this can progress to a panicked shriek.

I kind of loved mimicking it. It let me interact with my birds in a whole new way that meant a lot to them, and it turned out to be incredibly helpful when my (completely unrecall trained, fully flighted bird) got startled in a bad gust of wind on the way between aviary and house and ended up circling in the bad weather, totally disoriented... And calling for us. It let her figure out how to get back down to come home.

Gradually I realised that lots of animals do this, actually. Cat activation noise is a contact call. Dogs do it in some kinds of whines. Social birds have big repertoires of them. It's just a ritual to keep in contact.

Then... I realised that's what a lot of those small rituals of smalltalk actually are. They are the act of petting an anxious or excited dog to soothe it, or letting each other know you're still in the room together. Humans have a huge variety in the way they use these, but I stopped finding a lot of them so annoying when I realised what the rituals were actually for.

I mean, I still prefer to use the non-word versions among friends and other people amenable to it, but. I find it, given in good faith, kind of endearing now.

[nickiemoot]

my fav metaphor for it is pinging, like computers and servers. i don't even know what data is in a ping packet, it doesn't matter, the real purpose of pinging is to see if the server responds and how fast. there's a lot of little social interactions that are just people pinging each other. just "hey, are you here? im here!" the response is more important than the actual information.

[gaystation4]

[changelingsrule]

This is UNCANNY.

[bamsara]

@vurelly

[plantelo]

This genre of re-enactment of video game logic/bugs/behaviour will never cease to be immensely funny

[jenjensd]

Not to mention everyone who does it is so insanely talented at portraying not only the vibes, but being dead on with the motion. I mean the courier in this alone has amazing core strength and rag dolls the EXACT way that bodies do in game. It’s honestly incredible.

[shinisenko]

COVID antiviral Paxlovid to see price increase following 400% vaccine hike

The new price is not set, but one analyst suggested it could be up to 5x higher.

After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than four-fold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further concern about access and healthcare costs.

[femonologue]

Remember when everyone on earth started shitting on Martin Shkreli for cranking up the price of AIDS medicine? Time to do the same for Albert Bourla. Everyone needs to know his name, and everyone needs to virulently and vocally hate his goddamn guts.

[jesterbots]

i feel like the boeing whistleblower case should radicalize more people. a major airline company is producing planes with less and less regard for safety and it's starting to get noticeable. man takes them to court, which would reduce profit at the cost of public safety. he fucking dies the night that boeings legal team asks him to stay an extra day. if nothing happens about this, i hope it gets through to people that america would literally kill you for a few extra cents

[4gifs]

[theproblematicblogger]

That gazebo is so fucked

[didgeridooyouloveme]

Are you sure gazebo is the correct word?

Are

you 

sure?

[awkwardarbor]

idk why you’re confused, that poor gazebo needs help

[thebobblehat]

This has hit my dash three times… that final reblog made it worthy.

[blackmormon-blog]

I only liked this for the gif

[catmask]

being the most left leaning family member means everyone will always think that youre insane and then in two years they will believe what you were explaining to them two years ago but still think youre insane now. and you do it anywaybecause you love them

[catmask]

[beggars-opera]

I just want to formally acknowledge to the person driving in front of me with bumper stickers reading "I'd Rather Be Slowly Consumed By Moss," "Slime Mold Is My Co-Pilot," and "Honk If You'd Rather Be Watching The Cinematic Masterpiece 'The Mummy' Starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz" that I know you have an account here and I approve of you

[turtletoria]

Palestine will be free in our lifetime 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ Don't look away, and let's keep supporting Palestine in any way we can.

[genderkoolaid]

I know someone who calls herself a feminist, puts her pronouns in her work email signature, donates money to women’s empowerment funds, and thinks we should deport more refugees. I also know someone who calls people ‘pussies’ when he plays video games, who doesn’t know what a pronoun is, and, for his defence of low-wage women workers in a highly-exploited industry, is a better, more strident defender of the rights of working-class women than almost anyone else I know. Of these two people, I know who is on my team, and who I want on my team, yet the standard liberal feminist calculation would have me chose the woman who loves a little deportation over the man who is occasionally uncouth, solely because the woman knows to keep her language civil, and the man doesn’t. Liberal feminists get incredibly caught up in the politics of language, because language is all they have. They don’t have a revolutionary programme for overthrowing patriarchy, so they’re forced to tinker around the edges of it, quibbling over word choice and jargon instead of building the coalitions necessary for destroying patriarchy.

— We Should Not All Be Feminists by Frances Wright

[redmegarex]

yea.

[troublesome-bog-beast]

Thinking about the two (male) coworkers I had a few farm jobs ago, one of whom was a very well spoken and politically knowledgeable self reported socialist who was nevertheless urging me to stay silent about the lower wages I was receiving so I didn't compromise his job. The OTHER one was a foulmouthed nineteen year old who didn't know what trans meant (but listened VERY well when I talked about it) and was absolutely up in arms about the wage inequality, and honestly any injustice in front of him. I'll let you guess which if them I'm still in touch with

[itznarcotic]

[brendering]

Stage Five: Star Trek

[allsadnshit]

I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

[arrows-for-pens]

[noxshade]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[nonegenderleftpain]

[largishcat]

before: GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCK PIECE OF SHIT

after: hello mommy 🥺 could you pretty please help me with this 🥺 it’s me your baby boy

[gay-impressionist]

Obsessed by this statue I saw today in Le Havre (France) from the Italian sculptor Fabio Viale. The design isn't painted on... The ink is injected inside the marble like a real tattoo. And if I remember correctly what the guide said, it took the artist three weeks to do just that.

How stunning is this

[prairie-grass]

So I looked this guy up because I wanted to know if he was contemporary or not because I'd heard that no one was really able to work marble in the ways of the 'old masters', but this guy is incredible! He's only 47, and beyond these incredible pigment tattoo sculptures, he's done some wack stuff with marble!

Yes this is marble.

Yes these are marble.

Hey did you guess, this is marble.

This is just a giant dong (made from marble). Titled, 'souvenir David'. 😁

More info and image sources here :

The deceiving sculptures of Fabio Viale | Yatzer

Fabio Viale // a traditional sculptor who uses marble to create these not so ordinary sculptures which deceive the spectator and tease the e

[woluf]

Just Chronic Fatigue Things

feeling so tired you might pass out

never feeling like you’ve slept - ever

forgetting what you’re going to say 100 times a day

being too tired to sleep

sleeping for 4/8/12 hours and feeling just as tired

needing a nap after being away for 3 hours

muscle aches

waking up feeling like you have the flu

waking up feeling like you’ve been hit by a freight train

your legs not wanting to work after walking up a small hill or the stairs

nausea

sensory overload, e.g. loud cafés, pubs or anywhere making you feel dizzy

anxiety

being too tired to remember the symptoms of your own illness

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner-deactiv]

[the-firefly-herd]

Shout out to those who have to be carried or dragged around their house because their house isn't accessible to their mobility aids

Shout-out to those who have to crawl and scoot around their house because their house isn't accessible for their mobility aids

Shout out to those who have to use a office chair with wheels around their house because their house isn't accessible to their mobility aids

It's fucking tough having a inaccessible house