hello.

i want to pin stars to the walls of your heart.

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[blurrymango]

I feel the same about breakup songs written by straight women.

[woman-respecter]

extremely incorrect. straight girl singers will be like “he-“ and i will think say no more girl i’ll beat his ass for you.

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[fairycosmos]

honestly what the hell are you supposed to do. is my question

[felixfeliccis]

Preach I guess

[felixfeliccis]

OH I HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD

[fatsexybitch]

[nick-nonya]

[lukasadss]

'hey so what's the plot of Count of Monte Cristo?'

The plot:

[viralfrog]

[the-quasar-hero]

It’s extremely fucked up that some ppl try to make you feel stupid and immature for hoping for a better world. You say you want world peace and mfs think you need a pacifier; dawg, I just don’t want ppl dying from violence. This idea that ppl simply must die as casualties of war is misanthropic to say the least.

[gaudebo]

tip: if you wake up on time and then lie in bed unmoving for 20 minutes you will no longer be on time

[baba-fett]

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

[paranormal-taters]

specifically this kind of bonk.

[pmamtraveller]

"Fat Tiger" by "Uncle Bum" (不二馬大叔).

[ex-riddlecats]

i'll be honest it gets kind of annoying when ppls immediate canned response to an m/f ship is "she deserves better" because over half the people who say that then proceed to hyperfocus on some yaoi with the man involved and never give the woman a second glance. forgive me but i think she deserves better than being girlbossed off screen and never mentioned again

[kiwimintlime]

*feministly*: women should never be centered in stories because Bad Stuff™ might happen to them

[blingblingtual]

lets all jump klay thompson

[bladehorror]

The bestiary, where you keep all your besties

[fangorn-forest]

masculine energy this feminine energy that. well i’m out of energy

[batbetbitbotbut]

need me some of this "renewable energy" I keep hearing about

[livinginpantropiko]

Mass. House passes bill to ban kids under 14 from social media

The legislation would also prohibit cellphone use during the school day.

[jabibi-posting]

genuine question but can i ask why restricting minors from social media is such a bad thing? im obviously not as educated so im viewing this surface level, but wouldnt this theoretically lead to better overall outcomes? i feel like social media has done a decent amount more harm than good, no?

[livinginpantropiko]

the reason why it's bad because it will make everyone have to verify their age to use social media which can create bad privacy risks such as having their ids exposed on the internet, putting people at risk for identity theft.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

no, the reason it's bad is that social media is a huge part of how people communicate with friends and family, express their ideas and beliefs, form and sustain community, develop individual and group identities, and participate in democratic society, and children have the right to do all of those things because they are human beings.

these laws are not bad (just) because of their side effects, they are bad because their stated goals are immoral.

[vaspider]

It would be one thing to try to regulate what the companies do that's harmful: infinite scroll, surveillance-driven algorithms, media autoplay, lack of meaningful moderation, etc. That would put the onus on the companies to actually change the things about their product which are harmful to users of any age and which intrude upon the privacy of all users.

This just gates communication to an age bracket, doesn't actually change the things about social media which are harmful, and puts the weight of this change on the most marginalized segments of the social media population.

And, if you can believe it, the governor's "counter proposal" is worse. Evan Greer's BlueSky thread covers it pretty well, but a couple of, uh, highlights:

Requires establishing an exact age for every social media user, not just minors, which means uploading IDs (and watch how fast the feds come after THOSE records, suppressing speech & using it to look for more people for ICE to haul off)

Requires a company to shut down a user's account within one hour of request by someone claiming to be a parent (a bonanza for Tumblr-style bully-brigadiers, never mind "what happens when there's a custody dispute? Are we uploading birth certificates now?")

This will be nearly impossible for big companies to deal with, but flat out unworkable for any company that doesn't have basically unlimited money. Goodbye, Tumblr! Goodbye, Pillowfort! Farewell, BlueSky! There will never be another small or startup social media company (unless it's coming from the same 5 people who already own everything) bc this alone will be such a money sink that it'll be impossible

You shouldn't have to give up your basic rights to privacy to access what is now a default mode of human communication. This is functionally like requiring ID to go to a public park or to walk down a public street, especially bc so many governmental bodies communicate through social media and don't update their web presence "because you can just go to our Facebook/X/BlueSky/etc."

[lesbianrey]

idk what young person on the internet needs to hear this but you are not obligated to share any personal details about yourself online. in fact im gonna straight-up circle back to 00s era advice and say being anonymous is good actually