Pretty Much Whatever I'm Vibing at the Moment

To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. Please explore with me.

[hopepunk-humanity]

You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

[catchymemes]

[kosmogrl]

[singersnactors]

Avril Lavigne returned to the location where she shot her debut album cover “Let Go”, the year of its 20th anniversary.

[kat-rose-griffith]

Colin: I bribed your maid to give us a moment

Rae in the bushes:

[msfangirlgonewild]

Romance tropes in bridgerton🐝

credits: @artemis_eureka on Twitter/X

[senso1954]

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

[deseretgear]

Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison

[kirbymongerr]

Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck

[beardedmrbean]

[silken-scarves]

Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it

Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.

In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.

To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.

There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.

[headspace-hotel]

This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.

[anarchautistic]

Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock

[lilmaneater]

"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."

[wizardpostsdotorg]

i love wizards bc they fucking lie all the time. gandalf was like “a wizard is never late he arrives precisely when he means to” lying ass. he was late as fuck. wizards will just say whatever. it doesn’t even matter when you have a big ass hat

[disgustinggf]

[party-gilmore]

It's come to my attention that a good portion of the younger generation has not been made aware of one of the greatest and most hated PILLARS of millennial society.

So I apologize, but I must take on this task. A new hand must touch the beacon. The knowledge must be passed on. The chain can not be broken.

So.

The Game.

The following are the rules of The Game:

there is no winning The Game

once you know of The Game, you are always playing the game

the point of The Game is to not think about The Game

if you think about The Game, you have lost The Game, and must announce this to those around you - causing them to also lose The Game

A "reset period" of roughly an hour or two before loss announcements is common in colloquial rules to allow yourself and those around you to properly temporarily "forget" about The Game, however that is not an official rule.

Go forth, you next generation, and I am sorry.

[hartsnkises]

What have you done

[animentality]

[delicious-trash-tree]

This info needs to be out there, it turned the tide against cryptocurrency in the public eye it might fit so too

[mikkeneko]

the rising need for data centers to process all this AI shit is also putting a massive strain on the US electric grid like it’s not even just a question of how much power we can generate from various sources and how clean it is or isn’t it’s literally a question of electric grid infrastructure and our capacity for creating electric hookups in a timely fashion which is also fucking with real estate prices because areas with existing electric grid capability are suddenly massively more valuable to people building data centers - additional costs mentioned by @cerusee

[chirmartir]

Ch🧐

[rpmaniac]

Literally how they did it in the original movies

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[headspace-hotel]

people get specific as they age

:O

[khayriya-deactivated20250830]

Good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you

[catchymemes]

Dr. Inna Kanevsky going to check you

[darkwingatlarge]

i love her we need her she is doing God’s work how can i pay her

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Apparently she is a full professor in California! I hope that pays well and that her department values the incredible work she does in terms of public outreach.

She's also an atheist, Jewish, an ex-Soviet refugee, and a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. The article says she made the medieval costumes she and her daughter are wearing here:

In short, I think she's awesome.

[chilicheesefries-fr]

[beardedmrbean]

Gift cards are tracked too, in case anyone thought they were clever like that.

[autistic-af]

I am always blown away by the mental disconnect between rich people and the rest of us.

I work for a doctor. He pulls in $70,000-$90,000 a month before tax. After tax, he's still $200,000+ a year.

I earn $52,000 a year.

Yet his wife will still talk to me and say "oh, we're not rich." She drives a Porsche. She wears Carla Zampatti. They live in a new townhouse that cost well over a million.

So, when she gives me recommendations on things to buy and I tell her I can barely afford Kmart, she seems genuinely perplexed.

They are NOT bad people. I've worked for them for 12 years now. They are good people with good hearts. But they no longer connect with reality on level and it's absolutely mindboggling.

[autistic-af]

And I think a large part of this is that rich people compare themselves to other rich people, not to the regular people.

He doesn't earn as much as a surgeon. He doesn't own a mansion or a helicopter (both of which I know a couple of surgeons own).

In comparison, they aren't as rich.

They were once poor, 25 years ago when he was starting to become a doctor. But that memory is skewed now. Or perhaps they always aimed for the Porsche and the month long holidays in Scotland so the journey meant something else.

But, holy shit, when she shows me something on sale that's still out of my price range, I feel that gap. And I don't envy her. I don't want a Porsche.

I just want to actually afford Kmart without saving up for it.

[autistic-af]

And since there seems to be some belief that I earn a huge amount, that is AUD.

It's $34,000USD, rounded up.

[feralwizardbun]

And yet, horrifyingly, she's kind of right.

Like yeah, the surgeon is unfathomably wealthy compared to someone who struggles to meet their basic needs... but he's fundamentally still working class. He gets his money from his labor, not by virtue of merely owning something.

Does the surgeon make more than he "deserves"? Maybe. Even if he's a plastic surgeon, I can still squint and kind of see how it makes sense for him to get paid that much. However, I do know that people who get their wealth by merely owning things absolutely don't deserve it.

And like, the important thing is that it's a difference in kind... but the difference in scale is absurd too. If her husband worked since Egyptians first started writing on papyrus, and didn't spend any money, he'd still have less than what Jeff Bezos makes in a week. The pay ratio between Bezos and the surgeon is 60,000x greater than the pay ratio between the surgeon and you... and he literally doesn't do anything besides own companies. Bezos literally does less work than you.

[autistic-af]

I don't like this fact at all.

[i-am-dulaman]

That last point is an important point to make. There is a big difference between those who are paid large amounts of money for their work and those who make 1000x more simply by ownership of capital.

When i think of who in society probably deserve to be paid the most? I'd say neurosurgeons. It requires a huge amount of skill, dedication, and study. 8+ years of medical school. Many more years of training. But the higher end of neurosurgeon salaries is just under $1 million a year.

Yes that is a lot of money and you can debate if its too much or too little for their work, but the point is they are arguably ~the most highly skilled and intelligent workers in the world~ (qualities that neoliberals say are the most important in society) and yet they are still paid pennies on the dollar compared to capital owners.