A Blogger Who Stirs His Coffee With His Thumb

I don't even drink coffee.

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Love how everyone is just fine with Murderbot spying on them even when it’s not obligated to by the company. They’re all just like “yeah, this is probably just what SecUnits are like. Like how humans hug and cats purr, SecUnits will obsessively invade your privacy without a second thought. Just roll with it.” Pretty sure if I started spying on all of my friends’ casual conversations as a primary method of interaction, they’d have something to say about it.

[grammarpedant]

#that’s love! That’s acceptance of your sentient security system friend! #Murderbot #one of my favorite fandom discussions was the one where someone said that the humans are ok with MB’s surveillance BECAUSE it’s not human #and therefore can be trusted to legitimately be looking out for their safety and nothing else #murderbot doesn’t give a fuck about your hobbies but it will clock a threat from the next station over (tags via uovoc)

Shouting out these tags because that’s exactly what not holding Murderbot to human expectations looks like! It’s not a person that is basically human but oh we won’t call it human because it doesn’t like that, it’s a person who’s a sentient security system/component. You wouldn’t go around holding a living planet or your house or a deep-space research vessel or the dragon who protects the local airways to human expectations, you’d have to respect that they’d be people whose priorities, needs, and relations to human individuals would be fundamentally different from your own. 

The fact that we can communicate with someone on a level we’re comfortable with, on our terms, doesn’t mean that we oughta also frame them by our terms as well. It means we oughta use that ability to communicate to also approach their level and terms respectfully! Your rogue SecUnit friend is not obsessively invading your privacy any more than a hug is supposed to be an invasion of personal space, it’s checking that you’re safe :)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love the clear divide between the book 1 PresAux team, treating MB like it’s just a human who’s confused about it and needs their gentle compassion to Teach It How To Be, to realising they fucked up when they read its letter to Mensah and backing off to engage with MB on its own terms. It’s such a clear example of privileged people coming in to help with the best of intentions, and trying to do their best, but just… failing to understand that their way of thinking isn’t automatically universal, and fucking up. And then actually stepping back and realising they’ve handled something poorly, and adapting.

[thumbcoffee]

I wonder how that changed once Three joined the PresAux / Perihelion team. We don't see much of Three obsessively surveilling the humans. I don't know if it's a case of Three not doing so or if Murderbot just doesn't mention it.

[foone]

My middle name is the Nth line from the US census's 1990 file of female names sorted by popularity (dist.female.first from 1994), where N is the number of days it's been since March 4th, 2026.

Today I'm Alice Kim Averlong. Tomorrow? Alice Sherry Averlong

[luarien]

So does it automatically cycle or will you eventually be Alice NULL Averlong?

[foone]

That won't happen until I'm like, 57? And based on my previous record, I'll have changed my name at least once before then, so that's no worry.

[thumbcoffee]

That's the kind of thinking that led to the Y2K bug. Do you really want to spend a year when you're 56 scrambling to update the world's computer systems* to avoid a crash when you run out of middle names?

* Yes, I assume that @foone Alice <fetch.middlename> Averlong is/will be important enough to the digital ecosystem that it will be a worldwide update that is needed.

[enki2]

[transcyberism]

ok but this unironically works. talk about how the working class is exploited and you can basically sell full-on marxism to your average republican if you do it right. all you have to do is avoid the words "Marx," "capitalism," "socialism," "communism," "means of production," etc - just use synonyms. say "big business" or "corporate shareholder interests" instead of "capitalists." say "a government that prioritizes the needs of the working people" instead of "socialism." it WORKS. I've DONE it. the hardest sell are usually things like social and racial equity, welfare, things like that, because people have been primed with the racist/classist idea that those things are somehow unfair - but you can get your foot in the door to getting them to buy into those too if you start with class issues. read up on your theory, make sure you REALLY understand your own ideology, because that will enable you to reword it and successfully sell it.

[a-ginger-in-black]

In my experience, you can often help sell 'welfare' stuff by appealing to self-interest with a touch of Aren't We Great.

Disability benefits: "I mean, sure, there are probably some sad sacks who are gaming the system, there always are, but hell, with the amount of taxes we pay, the government can afford a few freeloaders, right? I'd rather pay for a couple people who don't really need it than not have the system at all for if I need it, or my kids do, or whatever. I mean shit happens. What if some asshole drunk driver puts me in the hospital and it takes me a year to get back on my feet? Or Heaven forbid something permanent happens. I'll sure be glad that I can get disability then, won't I?"

UBI: "I dunno, the kind of guy who'll just sit on the couch playing Call of Duty all day if he doesn't have to work, I kinda don't want him on my job site anyway. That type is just taking up a place that you could fill with someone who'll actually get the job done, you know? You end up short-handed even though you technically have enough people because everyone else has to pick up his slack. And it'd mean that if your boss is a dick you can tell him to shove it and not worry your kids are gonna go hungry while you find a better place. We can sure as hell afford it."

Racial equity: "I've got a lot more in common with a Black guy who's just trying to get the job done than I do with some rich white asshole who thinks the sun shines out of his ass because of how much money mommy and daddy have."

[rhube]

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.

[pipistrellus]

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

[rhube]

20 years. I am not happy about this.

[demonicsymphony]

I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time

[the-semicolonoscopy]

I love the lolrus but my god I am so old.

[hellyeahrihannafenty]

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

[dr0wnedperfectionist]

I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..

[kiera-jpg]

if this comes up on my dash and i don’t reblog it - just assume im dead

[claudiagray]

The burning question: When she has her hands on either side of her face, right at the start, is this the moment she realized, “I’m gonna have to marry this guy” ?

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[xiaohongshu-for-you]

[koi-jyu]

HOW IS MY SISTER STRAIGHT UP CARRYING A GUZHENG?????

[piracypiranha]

SIS IS FUCKING BUFF

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[resetium]

someone please hit me over the head with this post every day for like the next week thanks. a mention, a reblog with text, a message, something.

[blackwoolncrown]

You must understand that perfectionism isn’t striving for excellence, it’s a crippling fear of being flawed and therefore worth abandonment or punishment. It’s a kind of psychological avoidance. You’re avoiding fear and failure , not embracing the thing you want to do bc if it was about the thing you want to do you’d be fine with partial victory.

[thumbcoffee]

Hey @resetium, I know it's been over a week, just checking in to see how it's going. Life treating you alright?

[kaijuyuri]

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

[kaijuyuri]

my proof

[pankendev]

my human vaporizing machine continues to mistify people

[thumbcoffee]

Seems like something @evilwizard would say.

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[therobotmonster]

[oberonsson]

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

[anarcho-wormism-deactivated2019]

😮

[garrettauthor]

Oh NO.

[treacleaergia]

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight? Dame Archer:*turns around* me: gasp! *instantly in love*

[dirtyriver]

Alicia Archer

[ex-sang-uination]

my bi heart………

[ohmightysmiter]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

[nyx-belial]

*dies*

[garrettauthor]

Oh shit.

[notlostonanadventure]

GAY KNIGHTS

[unicornofdarknessstuff-deactiva]

Fellas I’m real gay

[thecarrott]

@0hheytherebigbadwolf HELP!!

[0hheytherebigbadwolf]

Every June this inevitably winds up back on my dash. And I appreciate that. And I will reblog it. Every time.

[rockitcat]

Hey, it’s @archerinventive, and the Pride Knights!

[cleric-chono-is-my-everything]

[novella-november]

Do you have the Libby library app?

Libby, the Library App - Apps on Google Play

Meet Libby. Discover and enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from your local library.

If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...

Login — Queer Liberation Library

Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️‍🌈

[novella-november]

Self reblog, especially important for USA friends today !

[poikaboo]

{ID - screenshot of the Queer Liberation Library Libby main page, showing 6 titles (one of which is an audio book). The titles displayed are the Trans Teen Survival Guide; Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next); We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival; Tomboy Survival Guide; A Burst of Light and Other Essays; and Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction

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[gameraboy]

“He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here”

– Kermit the Frog discussing Jim Henson

[gameraboy]

“He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here”

– Kermit the Frog discussing Jim Henson

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[tethered-heartstrings]