much a dude about nothing

Age-In-Bio™️: likely older than you. (Gen X but like, not proud. Just meh. I could've waited a generation or two and been just fine.) I am the Null Hypothesis

[notreallybutsorta]

I long for the world the Nintendo Wii showed us was possible

[twofeetonthedashboard]

Absolutely

[bobgalloway55]

😎👍

[fredastaire55]

😍👌👍

[sleepinsidemysoul]

In a heartbeat 😋

[notreallybutsorta]

Hell yes, got some current events to prevent

[menelaiad]

just cried so hard at this that i actually nearly threw up

[notreallybutsorta]

lolcats pre-date the internet

[still-trying-to-be-horny]

Girls with pretty eyes deserve boys who can make them roll back.

[notreallybutsorta]

does it count if the eye rolling is from dad jokes

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

[notreallybutsorta]

and less fulfilling

[mynorthernattitude]

Does anyone remember how to fall asleep?

[notreallybutsorta]

dude if anyone says yes they are LYING

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[queer-crows-nightmare]

[notreallybutsorta]

In other news: Mormons are exactly both of these things

[depsidase]

[andhumanslovedstories]

There's something about lazily studying Mandarin Chinese that's made language learning seem far more approachable. It would be cool to be fluent one day, but I've always been clear with myself that I don't have an actual goal with this besides maintaining a streak in my language app for a certain amount of days. I can quit whenever I want, which is remarkably good at making me not quit. Sometimes I study Chinese for hours because I'm having a good time, but mostly I'm lazily plucking at this language for sometimes literally a minute. After a year of doing this, even though Chinese is so difficult and different from English, it turns out I can still get from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing slightly more than nothing in a pretty short period. An incredible jump in knowledge with not that much work. In fact, the gap between English and Chinese is so vast that microscopic progress feels incredible. When I have to write out literally any pinyin by memory, and I get 75% of the letters and none of the tones correct, I feel like a genius. Today I almost spelled 音乐会/yīnyuèhuì correctly on my first try, and I wanted to call everyone over to see how I effortlessly nailed two-thirds of it.

It's much more encouraging than any of the "easier" languages I've studied. My primary emotion when studying Spanish was embarrassment that I was still so bad at Spanish. Meanwhile, now I'm like, "If I can suck at Chinese, I can suck at anything," which is very inspirational because doing something really, really badly means that you are in fact doing it. I saw an ad for Hebrew language learning course and had the realization that I could probably get really, really, really, really bad at Hebrew in what, a couple months? The thought made me very excited. I could get horrendous at any language in a couple months. I could get horrendous at anything. With a little time and not that much effort, I could nail two-thirds of shooting a basketball. The sky's the limit, but if you don't care about getting all the way up there, one inch off the ground can still be pretty impressive.

[notreallybutsorta]

"I can suck at anything!"

I low-key love this so much.

Ok, it's high-key. I high-key love this.

[cryptid-corpse]

Pure of heart

Dumb of ass

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[sgrstk]

[aromantic-diaries]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[notreallybutsorta]

Damn, this is good

[free-my-mindd]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[berrytart]

quitting my job to be a full time upstairs neighbor. bowling balls are in the mail as we speak

[thesunn1estangel]

“i asked chat gbt” “i asked grok” well i asked philomena cunk n she said its the 36 year anniversary of the release of belgian techno anthem pump up the jam

[notreallybutsorta]

🖕🅰️👁️

fuck a i

all hail philomena

Cunk Up The Jam