Too (spirit) gay 2 function

27. ($)he/him) Navajo Nation | from 2 Pueblos (not shared for privacy) bisexual. ndn. Chum.

[ottermatopoeia]

I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding

[ottermatopoeia]

Very much in line with the attitude of "this choice will marginally improve the way I move through the world and make everyone else's experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse, but I don't really care, based simply on the fact that I am allowed to do it and there's nothing they can or will do to stop me" ya feel me?

[thetetra]

I used to live in an apartment complex and this guy had those super bright headlights, a custom job that was WAY brighter than the norm. He would use his brights in the apartment complex and when his headlights were on your window you could read fine print with the curtains closed.

We yelled at him and told him to at least turn off his brights and he told us to go fuck ourselves. So one night after he came rolling back in at 2 or 3 in the morning someone smashed his headlights in with a hammer and sprayed black spray paint inside the holes. The reverse lights too as they were also obnoxiously bright.

Police came by the next day after he woke up and screamed blood and vengeance for an hour. I think we were all questioned and not 1 person knew anything.

Property management had to admit that the fake security cameras were actually fake.

Guy got his system fixed exactly the same and went around loudly bragging about it. Guy went back out to set up his camera to watch the car and went to bed. The camera was smashed from behind spray painted and again the headlights and reverse lights, with the added bonus of a side view mirror smashed and spray painted.

This time the only person who said anything to the cops was a guy who could confirm it wasn't at 5 am because he went out with a gas can and a box of matches but the job had already been done. And funnily enough saying "well I was going to do it but someone beat me to it" isn't actually illegal.

He put in much more sensible headlights and didn't turn his brights on in the parking lot anymore.

[angryraptor13]

Sometimes you just gotta break out the percussive maintenance.

[depsidase]

[otterobsession]

CRITICAL FUCKING REMINDER

Keep a close eye on biases in yourself and others that might differentiate between folks with low and high support needs or over emphasize contributions by low support needs disabled folks to academia and/or production.

People with high support needs are just as deserving of life and respect. And no one should have their right to life determined by their "productivity" or "contributions to society" (both in quotes because of the emphasis by society on capitalism-serving contributions only)

[milf--adjacent]

If you're worried about this and care about combatting eugenics, you should be wearing a high-quality mask in public. A recent statistical analysis found that covid and long covid affect all the aforementioned groups at 2-6 times the average. Don't just reblog this post and move on: find a KN95 or better and wear it. Keep yourself and others safe from viral eugenics.

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[islandmusic]

whatever. go my scarab

[redstonedust]

nothing more disappointing than a shower with low water pressure. i don't want to feel like a wet sad beast left out in the rain i want to be power washed.

[awed-frog]

Met an old teacher today and we got talking about ‘the good old times’ and ten minutes into the conversation I jokingly said the one regret I have from middle school is that I never won anything at her magnificent tombolas? Because, like, she used to hold this game about once a month so we’d learn the numbers in French and it was never big prizes, but as a 12-yo I desperately craved them - a cactus-shaped eraser, a bright blue notebook with slightly larger-than-usual squares, a set of coloured pens - and never ever got a single one of them. 

(Actually spent a good few months thinking I was genetically unlucky and researching ancient family curses with my grandma.) 

So today I don’t know what I was hoping for - nothing, really?

(I mean, that part of me that’s still twelve was probably expecting this sweet old woman to have a set of glitter stickers in her purse and just go ‘You know what, you’re right - I’ve been saving this one for you all these years, here you go’ but I’m a solidly rational person and I know that’s stupid.)

No, I thought we’d just laugh and it would be a good shared memory and that would be it. Instead, my teacher got flustered and a bit embarrassed and explained the game was rigged. It was never about learning French at all. She’d just noticed some kids couldn’t afford even basic stationery, so she’d buy a few half-fancy items every month with her own money just for them. She didn’t want them to feel different or left out. And obviously the way she used to walk around in the classroom, looking over our shoulders - it wasn’t to prevent cheating. It was because she was cheating herself, wanting to see which number a particular child needed to get a Minnie Mouse pencil case.

Guys - the world is fucked up, but so many people out there are just good and kind and humbly heroic it honestly gives me hope. 

It’ll be alright, you’ll see.

[kashthecancer-deactivated202109]

I be in my own lil world all the time

[deanwinchesterapologist]

you should be allowed to leave work as soon as someone pisses you off. the duration of my shift should depend on how stupid people are acting

[princessnijireiki]

oh also it's a HORRIFYING flu season right now do not skip meals for no reason, your immune system doesn't run on thin air, you need enough calories to hit your basal metabolic rate so you aren't robbing peter (operating at caloric deficit, forcing other body systems to operate less effectively or efficiently + at greater cost) to pay paul (not have to make food idk)

also the family of diseases that do weird upper respiratory stuff are often somewhat appetite suppressing because your body is too busy being sick and tired and raising alarms over those things for your stomach to be priority number one, so "not feeling hungry" is not a good reason to skip meals, either, because that may be an early sign of you already being sick, and you for damn sure need to get in the calories then for as long as you can still hold them down

[tchaikovskaya]

Still think about “first day of standing lessons” regularly

[tchaikovskaya]

[vintagewildlife]

American bison By: S. Wilson From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Wild Herds 1977

[junglejim4322]

They need a pride flag for this

[depsidase]

[dostoyevsky-official]

not now, kitten. daddy's regime is collapsing

[manjaro-official]

"oh boy I sure wish there were a fast, free and private alternative to google chrome"

the humble mozilla firefox:

[mayothompson]

i think my ideal companion is like a big bubble that floats up and down for 50000 years or the stuff inside a lava lamp

[balaclava-trismegistus]

?

[mayothompson]

I always thought he was kinda bad

[balaclava-trismegistus]

hes evil.

[c3rvida3]

Setting the They Might Be Giants Dial-A-Song number as my emergency contact so the paramedics can listen to "She's an Angel" while I bleed out on the concrete.