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you may have noticed that my blog is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my tag game is weaker by the day. this is commentary on the chaos of modern existence

wannabetonthat

Idk if this is a controversial headcanon or not, but I can't imagine Small Shane Hollander being shy and anxious.

He strikes me as the type of kid who really didn't give a single fuck. Not a one. He was doing his own thing and having fun and being good at it, and whether he had friends or not really wasn't a concern for him because it's not like he wanted to hang out with other gross stupid kids. He was a haughty nonchalant child who didn't even register any kind of bullying attempt from fucking Jimmy, bc who cares about Jimmy?

Any kind of feeling of inadequacy came after puberty when other kids started being slightly more interesting and complex and he became the younger kid on his teams instead of just one more of the lot. When hockey practice actually started to need some team synergy and the dynamics changed on him.

But before that, that kid wasn't shy, and he was having a wonderful time

Ilya Rozanov on the other hand...

#heated rivalry

midnightstorries

connor storrie in behind the scenes photos from Heated Rivalry S01 🏒

One of my favorite behind-the-scenes moments was Ilya wearing Rick Owens pants in the tuna melt scene, complete with the signature long strings. There’s a photo of our director, Jacob, looking at the pants in clear confusion, and eventually the strings were tucked in because they made him uncomfortable. I found it frustrating since those elements are such an important marker of what the pants communicate, but it became a funny reminder of how small yet meaningful costume details can get lost on set.

— Hanna Puley via upnextdesigner

#heated rivalry

homunculus-argument

If any part of your plan involves the words “nobody could be that stupid”, please be prepared to be proven wrong at any minute at a moment’s notice. Pay in mind that the person determined to prove you wrong may already be aware of this assumption, and is already approaching your current location at an alarming speed.

the-real-seebs

“it will be fine if people just”

people will not just

alarajrogers

In 2011 I attended an event called Bmore Fail, in which entrepreneurs in Baltimore talked about their failures and what they learned from them.

What I learned is that there is an inflexible rule about how people interact with systems. If your system would work perfectly if people Just Would, and yet they Don’t, then your system is bad and you should feel bad. Systems must be built with an eye toward “will people actually do this”?

Recycling was a thing when I was a child. (The 70’s.) In my home in New York State, you could carry recyclables to a recycling center. Nobody did. Now in 2024 Baltimore there is a trash truck that comes every week to pick up my recyclables, and I and my neighbors fill our cans with objects that can be recycled, because a system was developed that was easy for busy people to do, and there’s a lot of social pressure to do it – but the social pressure wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t easy to do. Only the most crunchy granola people bitched at you if you didn’t recycle in 1979, when it required a lot of effort. Now it is considered kind of on par with spitting in the street or leaving a dirty diaper on the diaper changing table in the bathroom instead of throwing it out, if you don’t recycle.

Your job as the system creator is to make it as easy as possible for people to do the right thing, and as hard as possible to do the wrong thing. This is why web forms have data validation (but too much data validation actually makes the forms harder, so hit the spot in the middle.) And if you want people to adopt social change, whether it’s environmentalism, accepting gay people, or whatever, make it as easy as possible. And don’t guilt people about not doing it until it’s as easy as possible; instead phrase things more like “wouldn’t it be cool if”. It’s not the fault of the individual that they can’t get things done in a bad system. Fix the system.

the-real-seebs

if users regularly fuck up using a tool you made, and your answer is “you’re holding it wrong”, the next question you should ask is “why did i make this tool so it’s easy to hold it wrong?”

thesplendidsnout

moshi-tehkitty

That’s the problem with making animal proof trash cans for parks. The animals tend to be far more motivated to open the difficult mechanism than the tourists do.

amanitaphalloides

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

amanitaphalloides

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

muddypolitics

[OC] SOMEDAY A MORTICIAN GETS TO SUPERGLUE HIS LIPS SHUT, Seen in Cleveland

caught-in-the-infinite

Luca lets slip that he's going on a date later. "They are meeting him after practice and he's taking them to dinner". Harris hastily gets everyone on board with how to treat a non-binary person only for a defence man from the Buffalo Sabres and a forward from the Detroit Red Wings to show up.

#heated rivalry

oneheadtoanother

tachyon-log

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

fishmech

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

bunniope

can we focus on the gnome for a second

bunniope

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

ladyofspoons

these are the people i have to share a highway with

fyterx

lookatthe-stars13

hollanov household shopping addiction (see post) reminds me that the couple (both together and as individuals) would be the most chronic, thoughtful, and funny gift givers.

literally it’s not even your birthday or a holiday and they give you that thing you needed and were supposed to buy anyways

so here’s a list of some of the things they’ve bought for others or each other:

yuna: a cashmere scarf for the ski trip they were going on, a fancy personalized planner fit for her needs with her name in gold foil on the cover

david: a whole la z boy recliner for his newspaper reading, automatic card shuffler for him and yuna

hayden & jackie: a sweepstakes vacation they had won but didn’t align with their schedules, tickets to disney on ice, a talking wall fish (it was a pike…)

luca: a new sketchbook just as his old one was running out of space, cat bowls and toys they saw while shopping for anya, a coffee scented candle

bood: a whole new grill (???!!!) and tongs after ilya accidentally warped his last tongs, baby toys for milo, a “grill daddy” apron

holmberg, young, lapointe (living together): an air fryer, an iron and ironing board for their game day suits, a shoe rack (they got the shane and ilya housewarming special which was useful considering they really did forget to buy all that)

hayes: a limited edition signed copy of a comic (???!!) shane somehow got through networking,

troy & harris: matching knight castle themed bed for chiron (anya has the pink princess version), customized centaurs jersey for chiron, apple-themed kitchen set including salt & pepper shakers

scott & kip: world’s best grandpa mug, a photo of the skip kiss inside a new york themed snow globe

ilya: a formula 1 lego set that shane planted tickets to the montreal grand prix in, pre cens!shane always brought ilya montreal bagels, that ninja slushie and ice cream maker ilya had been yapping about, a “hollander family photo” in a custom frame

shane: an annotated russian-english dictionary full of actual useful tips and hollanov inside jokes, ilya buys ingredients for new macro recipes shane hasn’t tried yet, a hockey trading card he’d wanted since childhood but never got (it quadrupled in value but ilya is rich to spoil his loved ones)

#heated rivalry

shanehollandersautismswag

#myshane was a late talker. Like really late, like almost 5 years old and never spoke once late. Yuna and David were a bit worried about it but it’s not like he didn’t communicate at all, just not with spoken words. He could clearly understand what was going on around him, he nodded or shook his head when he needed to, he pointed at things he wanted or needed, he could already read pretty reliably, he just. Didn’t talk. They made a concerted effort to speak to him like a person, not just baby talk, and in both English and French, in the hopes that he’d understand both languages better, even if he wouldn’t or couldn’t speak them.

They were starting to get concerned about how he’d do when he started kindergarten in the fall, there had been a few late night conversations about if they should find a speech therapist if he was still non-speaking by the time he started school, but one day after they’re driving home from a Centaurs game, Shane suddenly pipes up from his carseat in the back,

“Mama, I wanna be a hockey player when I grow up.”

It’s so unexpected that David slams on the brakes and Yuna spills the remains of her ginger ale on her lap. They both whip their heads around to look at the small boy happily kicking his feet in the backseat wearing the jersey that looks more like a tent on him (he’ll go through a growth spurt in a month or two and it’ll fit just fine) who has no idea he just did anything special.

Turns out, he was just waiting until he was sure of his language abilities and found the right thing to say. After that, he happily chatted away in perfect English and perfect French, pointing out cool rocks or asking about interesting things he sees when he runs errands with his parents, or (to Yuna and David’s both horror and delight) chirping players when they watch hockey together, pointing out their weaknesses and mistakes and just generally talking shit, even at 5 years old.

#heated rivalry

nebraskashouse-deactivated20251

no matter how fucking sad I am, any AO3 email never fails to makes my day a little brighter

yesterdaysprint

The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, April 30, 1896

t3acupz

before neil banging out the tunes there was czar scraping the strings

alltoowille

Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute

#heated rivalry