Rainbows on Mars

Ponetium HalfTree is a local wierdo and intarnationali insignificant quirky queer. They Love and reblog various things in their interest. Probably somewhat problematic. Lives with rats. Drawes. Blogs. Works on a medical science doctorate. Somewhat disabled. Works on healing and becoming a better person. Fashion blog: green-frills.tumblr.com

[deepinourengines]

oh sure blame the guy whose fault it is

[nigelgraz]

I think bro might like leather

[cryptotheism]

Sex is cringe. "Hey do you wanna come over and play boners together?" What naked bullshit. They have played us for fools.

[ponetium]

So cringe.

[ponetium]

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Honestly, I miss the blogs from that time period. Blogs are not as common nowadays, and it seems like nobody really likes them apart of millennials like me. I miss the blog culture so much.

Especially since now I can wash dishes and read at the same time, with the embedded text to speech reader on edge.

[celesse]

Happy fall, y'all 🧡🍂🐰🍂🧡

[vaporweb]

We weren't prepared for the World Wide Web to be a world of bots communicating with each other.

[be-pd]

*expresses a reason i’m upset* oh god im being manipulative aren’t I

[ponetium]

“This is why I am afraid to share and ask for things. I am extremely scared of manipulating others” or “Mood”

[ponetium]

I just remembered that when I was very young (highschool), my then boyfriend said I am being manipulative.

I asked him to elaborate.

He told me that it was me looking disappointed when I would invite him over and he will say no was manipulative.

I don't remember if I stopped inviting him over, or started to adding that it's ok if he doesn't want to, or just did my best not to look disappointed, but it hunted me for years. I was so afraid of being manipulative towards him after that. I never wanted to be.

Was I manipulative?

I don't know. Maybe.

I did learn some manipulative behaviours in my lifetime. I did my best to stop doing them.

But with that...I sort of felt like I can't look disappointed with things.

Is it manipulative to have facial expressions?

[ponetium]

While my heart breaks for US-Americans for having Trump as president, I am happy he made Bibi stop the war in Gaza. Because Bibi decided that the war is what nerds to be done to make his country his own private cult. But Bibi is still afraid of Trump.

Trump is a horrible human being and he brought a lot of suffering to his country, but for ending the war (at least for now), I am thankful.

I hope things will start to get better in the middle east.

I really hope Bibi and his pet fascists will fall down soon. They will try to continue to promote making the country into their private cult, and every thing they did or said was for that. Till a bigger cult leader came in and made Bibi pause.

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(link to clean shelter, humanitarian aid)

[be-pd]

*expresses a reason i’m upset* oh god im being manipulative aren’t I

[ponetium]

“This is why I am afraid to share and ask for things. I am extremely scared of manipulating others” or “Mood”

[sacred-portal]

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Women from Ouargla, 1945.

[ponetium]

That doggo!

[paulsebert]

[scarletkaoru]

[gay-irl]

gay_irl

[formlessdemi]

[alaija]

[i-have-too-much-time]

[forestfullofberries]

[roughentumble]

this is probably going to sound really ignorant but i just realized, i have no idea what a programmer who doesnr speak english would do. are there non-english-based programming languages, or do they just have to learn english words as arbitrary "this does xyz in C++" sounds

[ponetium]

My mom told me they learned an English based programming language when she was a uni student in USSR

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Age gap discourse is surreal to me because social circles being limited by age is very much just something for when you're in school. Even in college, you can be in classes with people 20+ years older than you, especially in community colleges with people getting degrees "later" in life.

People in their late teens and early 20s are coworkers with people in their 40s and 50s. If you join community groups or clubs, you'll probably meet people decades older than you. Your neighbors probably won't be the same age you are. Neither will everyone at the bars or cafes you frequent. It's totally normal to meet someone much older or younger than you and hit it off as an adult because real life is not segregated by age.

[ponetium]

People think grooming only happens to kid or to the party that technically looks more vulnerable. Grooming can be even done to by people younger then you. Because grooming is a type of manipulation and a 25 yo can definitely spin around 30 yo into a horrible place, sexually assault them and manipulate them to the point of questioning if they are psychotic.

And vise versa.

Like it was said in the thread here, it's not an age discourse, it's an abuse discourse.

[ponetium]

A thought about communication issues / 20.07.2025

What if some of the people who "don't communicate well" and "don't just ask directly" learned at some point in their life that communion is useless and/or dangerous?

What if their attempts to communicate were met with people constantly misunderstanding, or twisting their words, not listening or mockery?

What if their words were repeated to others that were never meant to hear them, maybe even twisted to carry completely different meaning?

And this happened in their childhood, or adolescence or even adulthood?

What if their communication problems stem from manipulation, gaslighting or indoctrination?

I don't know the answers to those questions.