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memewhore

nevver

Stoic Mike

vortexsophia-deactivated2022110

geekygothgirl

I don’t know what we did to deserve Mr. Rogers but I’m so glad we had him.

studentlifeproblems

politijohn

jp

weltenwellen

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

whitepeopletwitter

enidtheghost

this is no joke. i looked around the reviews of several different candles just in case it could’ve been a single bad batch but nope.

these screenshots are only from like 4 or 5 different candles but i could’ve grabbed plenty more.

y’all, seriously, loss of smell is a possible effect of covid. if things don’t smell/taste as strong as you remember GET TESTED and ISOLATE. if someone you know is complaining about their candles not having a scent, inform them and encourage them to get tested. and wear a fucking mask, y’all.

ninja-o-s

What a fuckin metric to see the disease!

johanirae

This feels like environmental story telling off a zombie video game

cognitiveinequality

How it started:

How it’s going:

Original twitter thread: [x]

Data + code examples: [x]

virtues-for-sale

free-range-tiddies

Antivaxxers: The vaccines have microchips, the government is trying to track us!

The smartphones/smart tech in their house:

guccixcucci

The drivers license/credit & debit cards in their wallets

official-sokka

Their social security number

wakandamama

They License Plate on the back of their van

astrodidact

brunhiddensmusings

and ‘civil rights’ and ‘the value of human life’ and ‘children should not be sacrificed for the economy’

bunnymaccool

And ‘the Earth is round’ and ‘Nazis are bad’

anxietyproblem

eyeofscottie

normalize nonsexual male affection

Anyone still here??

rat-femurs

in grade 6 and every time we had a movie day or class party id ask my mom for a can of doctor pepper but i had to keep it in my backpack and it always got shaken up and would explode when i opened it bcus we all know dr pepper has much more chaos inside the can than any other soda and anyways my whole class instinctively knew every time that my doctor pepper would explode and we'd have to pause the movie and clean it up and id usually be covered in dr pepper for the rest of the day and be super embarrassed and this happened to me about twelve times throughout the year. you might be wondering why i couldnt keep my dr pepper in my locker until we watched the movie and its because i didnt have a locker in grade six after i left a piece of pumpkin pie that my teacher gave me in there for a month and it rotted and molded so bad and there were maggots everywhere so one day i locked the locker and refused to open it ever again so for a whole year i carried all my stuff around because i was afraid to go to admin and tell them about my maggot pie because someone started a rumor that if the principle figured out you did something bad she would lock you down in the basement storage room that was infamous for having a giant rat that lived inside of it and i was afraid of rats after seeing ratatouille because i thought a rat might climb inside my hair and start controlling me and force me to do things i didnt want to do like make soup

numbaoneflaya

luxlightly

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present.

luxlightly

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??”

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist.

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them.