I Can Say It Again If You’d Like

25. I have been here too long and have seen too many things, lemme lurk in peace.

[radicalgraff]

"Cops Are the Terrorists Cops Warn You About"

Sticker seen in Vancouver, Cavada

[what-even-is-thiss]

The reason your snacks are unsatisfying is that you need both carb and protein.

Carb starts your engine, protein keeps it going.

No carb, engine don’t start. No protein, engine dies out fast.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Easy carb add on:

Cookie

Fruit (canned or fresh)

Chips

Piece of bread

Popcorn

Crackers

Easy protein add on:

Nuts

Spoonful of nut butter

Cheese

Roasted chickpea snacks

Glass of milk (dairy or non dairy)

Small canned sausages or similar

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sugar in there.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.

[correctopinionhaver]

[probuccalfat]

staying silly is all i got left like i got no money no prospects i’m a burden to my parents and i’m frightened

[daredevil-vagabond]

if eridians could dream, do you think they could have nightmares?

[oddandalarmingsexualfeelings]

they should invent a headache that goes away the second you drink any water at all

[lastoneout]

I know it's more nuanced than this but I think having a hard policy of thinking anyone who genuinely hates one group of queer people for their identity might as well hate all of us and thus I should block any queerphobic queer person I see can do a lot to save you from believing anything exclusionists say.

"bomb that kills all-" "I just don't get bi women bringing their-" "pansexuality isn't a real thing-" "all lesbians-" "trans men really are the men of the-" "theyfabs-" "pfft aroace people are cringe-" "nonbinary people are actually all-" Instant block. Goodbye. Not listening. It's for both solidarity with your fellow queers AND to protect yourself, because once a person is convinced to hate one group for their immutable traits they can be convinced fairly easily to hate another too, and thus I do not trust them.

Just block these people the second they pop up, they aren't your allies and nothing they have to say is worth listening to.

[lastoneout]

These types will often try to guilt you into defaulting to their judgement by citing their own identities but that's bullshit. You can, should, and must completely ignore them. A bigot is a bigot, and if you wouldn't listen to a cishetperisex one then you shouldn't listen to a queer one either.

[lastoneout]

There is no queer identity that gives you the right to blanket hate another queer identity, it's just bigotry, and there'a also no amount of suffering or injustice you can go through that makes it okay for you to be a bigot.

I expect my non-queer allies to have enough of an understanding of queer theory and politics to know a queer person saying "you have to listen to me because I'm x identity, and I say it's perfectly fine for me to hate everyone who is y and use slurs against them, and if you disagree you're the bigot, actually bcs the suffering I've dealt with means it's wrong to hold me responsible for any harm I might do to other queer people" is someone who should be ignored.

Identity means nothing when what they're saying is indistinguishable from the garbage that comes out of the mouths of republicans.

[milfsisyphus]

the weed dispensaries should ask if you would like to round up your purchase to donate to PBS. and if you say yes you get to scan a QR code that gives you 30-day free access to the full run of antiques roadshow. this is how drugs can win the war on drugs again.

[thirdchoiceurl]

IMPORTANT PSA! If you contribute to PBS or any local public broadcasting subsidiary at $5/mo ($60/yr) or above, you gain access to PBS Passport, which has a tremendous library of public broadcast programs available…including the full run of antiques roadshow

[patheticspineless]

the best thing about being alive on earth is that sometimes there is a kitty

[instabilitylili]

I love you unwell elf girl

[instabilitylili]

I love you unwell elf girl (in manga form)

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[markovchaingang]

first they came for me and i was all like "hang on, aren't you guys supposed to come for other people first" but they pointed out that they had to come for someone first and we can't all be the guy from the poem and i couldn't really argue with that logic tbh

[cooltrees]

anyone wanna open a store or something?

[cooltrees]

my idea for this store is we have 3 big fridges for gatorade and i sell them at one cent cheaper than the 7-11 across the street. this is the biggest draw and i have banners outside proclaiming my gatorade is cheaper. i make no other renovations to the interior of the building.

other features include a couple of foldable tables and chairs, a box of jenga that’s missing pieces, and 37 national geographic magazines from the 1990s. all free to use at your leisure.

you can smoke in here, but only with the cigarettes i’ve bummed from strangers elsewhere and only using lighters i’ve found on the ground. inventory is extremely limited.

i do sell coffee for $2 a cup, but it’s just keurig pods. if you bring your own keurig pod, it’s a quarter.

there will be a rack of old t-shirts from my closet that i can’t wear anymore. these will be sold on a “name-your-price” basis, but if i can tell you’re rich, they’re $50 apiece.

i’ll be there in a lawn chair reading the odyssey or otherwise brushing up on my greek mythology narratives, but you can’t ask me about anything in the text because i won’t remember.

there will be a coffee can on the ground next to me with a note that reads “advice $5.” i will provide a disclaimer that i cannot attest to the quality of the advice or the level of my own intelligence but only after you put a fiver in the can. ask your question and follow the advice at your own peril.

on friday nights, there will be a cover charge of $10, and i will affix a disco ball to the ceiling with duct tape and play grouper’s seminal 2008 album dragging a dead deer up a hill from my phone.

posted hours are 2 pm to 12 am, but these are merely ceremonial. the store will be open whenever i feel like it.

bathroom is free to use for customer and non-customer alike.

[ithelpstodream]

[enfranchisement]

[onethousandrbirds]

happy anniversary 

[omni-rhombus]

Oh, hey Charlie, sorry you didn’t make it to the 8 year anniversary

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

the fact that on my way out of seeing the hadestown proshot with my sibling i was walking to the theater exit and without even thinking about it i turned around to see where they were... yeah. yeah.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

like. you can be frustrated at orpheus. you can be heartbroken for orpheus and eurydice. you should be. but when you're walking together and your loved one isn't right next to you that instinct to turn around and check on them is as natural as breathing

[arthatred]

Gustave Caillebotte - "Yerres, Effect of Rain", 1875. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago.

[mechapen]

Reinforcements have arrived!