[sidewalk-scrawls]

Petition to bring back Galavant (2015)

[sidewalk-scrawls]

I know everybody hates gen AI on here (fair, it's awful in a zillion different ways), but the quality difference between GPT and Claude is so fucking stark. You can really see that all the good engineers left OpenAI for Anthropic (to be clear, this is literally what happened, I am not making this up lol)

[sidewalk-scrawls]

Thinking about messaging a few mutuals to share my dev blog that is one Google away from my legal name. Is that insane. Do any of you guys want it sldfjsldjf

[sidewalk-scrawls]

Unfortunately I think I am too full of myself for the current job market

[sidewalk-scrawls]

Glanced at a churu and experienced a vivid memory of eating a gogurt

[maimonideznuts]

Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

America is Trump's pump and dump scheme. If he's not getting a third term then he'll break the country for whatever poor soul has to clean up his mess.

[wyf-of-bathe]

New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.

Notably, DOGE cut the funding a few days before the US resumed imports of cattle from Mexico... the imports that had been suspended because of the screwworm outbreak in Mexico. So we've had a year of importing cattle from Mexico during a screwworm outbreak without monitoring the outbreak that we already knew about. Mexico's outbreak is pretty bad btw, and cases have been found not just in cattle and dogs but also humans. I assume the rest of Central America too. Not that many people seem to give a fuck about them ig.

[thatdisasterauthor]

In exactly the same vein, the department meant to deal with things like bedbugs...is now infested with bedbugs.

[korrasamibottles]

Not enough people talking about how well broccoli holds a sauce

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[sidewalk-scrawls]

The thing about trying to start a business is that everything is saturated with so much garbage right now that it really feels like "what's the point?" Because frankly, even I create something cool, I don't have $70 million to market it lol

[sprinkledsalt]

Ah, I see that Terminally Online "it's American imperialism's fault that I don't know about queer history in my own country (New Zealand)" post is making the rounds again this year. That post has tens of thousands of notes. "It's American imperialism's fault that June is considered Pride month!" uhh, or modern Pride parades as we know them started in America, and American Pride Month is in June lol. Other countries don't need to hold their Pride parades in June (and the person said their country's biggest cities already hold parades during different months! Then they complained that July should really be their country's Pride month. Okay? America isn't preventing you from making that happen lol)--but if you're going to adopt another culture's practice, you can't be shocked and appalled when that culture is associated with that practice. People can totally adopt a practice and make it their own, sure, go for it, but there's a reason why people hear about Stonewall outside of "imperialism" lol, it actually has a lot to do with why modern Pride parades are even a thing! Like I'm sorry you're mad something good came out of American culture, but the American LGBT+ community didn't make anyone else around the world start holding Pride parades at all, let alone in June.

Moreover, if you want to see more information about your own country's LGBT+ history, you could look it up and/or follow more of your countrymen instead of American bloggers, and you could make posts to share that information with others. It's true that other cultures don't get as much attention as America due to its cultural hegemony, and the stories from those cultures are worth telling. But that doesn't mean information about your own culture is stifled and hidden from you by those dastardly gay Americans posting about Pride lol, your dashboard is chosen by you. I know people get mad every time someone points this out, but learned helplessness isn't exclusive to America. Rotting in bed while passively scrolling is global. It's not imperialism that you won't use the same phone you scroll on 24/7 to look up anything useful about your own country and instead passively absorb information from the American bloggers you choose to follow. Honestly it's one thing for someone really informed about their country's history of LGBT+ rights to say "I wish more people outside of this country knew about this" (fair, valid!) and another to act like your own lack of knowledge is some evil plot. No one is responsible for your education but you (especially because the OP was from fucking New Zealand like...you're not in an authoritarian regime that suppresses this information lol).

And quite frankly I think this is just another version of the Terminally Online bullshit you see on here and twitter/bluesky from time to time that's like, sneering at Pride and posts about Pride as "privileged white gay bourgeoise bullshit" (because these people associate America with whiteness and see no issue with that at all lol), which is actually the tankie version of the classic homophobic view that gay rights and Pride are just effeminate, frivolous bullshit. It's brain worms all the way down

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[maryoliveoil]

LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pastimperfection]

It drives me nuts when people react to Platner lying about everything with, "Well, yeah, maybe he's flirted with fascism, maybe he won't be as liberal as we would like, but a moderate is still better than a Republican...."

No! The problem with feckless liars is that they don't give a shit, period.

He's not like Manchin or Sinema or even Fetterman. He's our answer to George Santos. He could start a cult tomorrow. He could shoot someone. He could quit. He could disappear.

People who lie constantly cannot be trusted in any capacity. They can't be given responsibility. They are at baseline not good people. They are not accountable to reality. They don't respect anyone or anything.

They believe that they can evade consequences for bad behavior by telling more lies. They become more volatile when they are under stress. They double down when the stakes rise. When it finally becomes clear that lying won't work, they melt down.

They even damage trustworthiness in general! They create a haze of distortion, because once they're part of the group people will rationalize their lies. "Maybe he didn't know he got a Nazi tattoo!" "Maybe he has worked on his marriage!"

Like fuck this guy, okay? I'm sick of nonsense about purity tests. His political career should have been aborted the second he tried to convince people that he innocently got a tattoo of a stormtrooper insignia. That's not implausible. It's sociopathic.

[bisexualhunterbiden]

US Senator would be his very first political office. That's insane. He has no record and we're giving him a national stage?? Maine is just Florida with pine trees.

[pastimperfection]

This too? It also drives me nuts when people (...men) are like "He's an outsider, uncorrupted by the Party Machine!"

Nooooooooooooo because you see in the context of the constant lying about everything this is another red flag!

Sudden pivot into a new career that is connected to fame and influence? A political campaign that will rocket him to the top of the news cycle for months even if he doesn't win? An angle that not only forgives but praises his rough edges and slender credentials?

This isn't a plainspoken straightshooting normal guy suddenly discovering a passion for state politics. He is jumping trains. His current life doesn't satisfy his pathological need for adulation (and maybe some cracks are starting to appear), so he's moving on to something new.

He's a flimflam man! A charlatan! A broad-tosser and a clip! We've been soaking in this shit for a decade, why are we still so bad at seeing it?

[owenthetokencishet]

So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

[letterful]

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[dragon-in-a-fez]

one time I told my therapist "I tend to have issues with people who think of themselves as authority figures" and she burst out laughing and then said "I think we need to pause and reflect on how you phrased that"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I mean, what, was I supposed to refer to them as if they actually are authority figures? those don't exist

[dragon-in-a-fez]

y'all are doing some weird discourse on this post. no that therapist doesn't need to be "investigated" lmao. she didn't say I was wrong, she reacted because the phrasing was specific as fuck and revealed a lot about my worldview which is totally reasonable to want to explore.

[dovvvvv]

this is how charli xcx sounds to straight men