A Rat, A Dove, & A Parliament Of Owls

Call me C! I use they/it pronouns. Welcome to my metaphysical bedroom! Enjoy the creatures herein!

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[boybeetles]

A lot of people seem to mix up ‘community’ with ‘friend group’ so when they read ‘no one should be abandoned by the community. No matter what they did’ they think it means ‘you have to be friends with abusers’. When in reality it means ‘no matter what someone does they shouldnt be left to go homeless and be denied financial, housing, medical, etc aid’

You don’t have to be friends with these people, no one is saying that. It’s just saying that you should support rehabilitative justice, support programs that help homeless people, support funding for free medical services, and make sure they don’t turn away anyone who needs help.

[castametric]

[straycatj]

Mr. J! Do you have any advice on life?

I think proper laziness keeps us peaceful

[crabussy]

trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and everyone else being friends and holding each other close and falling in love and thinking of each other. I'm making this my future. let's all be okay together

[cleverreports]

We report around noon, as it is beginning to get hot: contrails and overhead lines are splitting the sky into shards. We stare at the resulting pattern for too long, and it stays printed over our eyes when we board the train. It is still overlaid there while we look for a seat.

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[sunburnt-brian]

[dspud]

[chelledoggo]

let's hear it for the nonbinary folks who:

don't present androgynously

use "binary" pronouns in any capacity

identify partially with a binary gender

have a "gendered" name

don't experience body dysmorphia

don't experience gender dysphoria

DO experience gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia but aren't sure what gender or body would suit them

just experience body/gender apathy instead

can't be open about their gender identity yet

you're all absolutely valid.

don't ever feel like you're "not nonbinary enough" because you absolutely are! 💖

[catgirl-kaiju]

Has anyone else noticed recently that when you press the 🅐 Button while in the air you can hardly find the strength to do a Double Jump anymore? Go ahead and try if you want, but it won't work.

[catgirl-kaiju]

Nothing's been the same since she... fuck... I'm sorry... since she... since she left this world. If only I'd remembered that holding and releasing the 🅑 Button would've allowed me perform a powerful Spin Attack. If I hadn't forgotten, she might still be here today. Shit... fuck... I can't handle this anymore, I'm sorry.

[catgirl-kaiju]

There's a Save Point over there. They say if you stand on it and press 🅧 you can save your game. But can any of us really be saved? I don't think so. Not after everything we've done.

[catgirl-kaiju]

Press the 🅜 Button to undo the damage from this War. Oh? There's no 🅜 Button on your Controller? Funny that.

[redstonedust]

one of my least favorite tropes is when a character has a crush that is explicitely unrequited and hopeless, yet in the timeskip epilogue they inexplicably get married. like bro if you fruitlessly pine after someone and they show no interest for the whole 3 year run of the story and then suddenly change their mind. i think theyre settling for you. quite frankly both of you need to learn some self respect. get divorced immediately.

[superhelldeactivated]

I've realized recently that every time I'm asked for socials my response is sorta "oh i don't have twitter" "I'm not on Instagram much" "i uninstalled TikTok a few months ago" and this has led people into believing I'm just someone who doesn't do social media but in reality you can find me in here lets get it on cunts monday through shawty like a melody sunday, 9am to 12am, posting blorbo.

[televisionenjoyer]

I was going to be like "well that certainly was not true cause you deactivated" and then I looked at the blog and. that's literally my old blog.

[ltwilliammowett]

Sunset, by Frederick Judd Waugh, 19. Jahrhundert

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Nature Documentary: these deep sea creatures can withstand crushing pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch!

Me: they’re not withstanding a goddamn thing. The pressure is a part of them. Their interiors and exteriors are equalized. Just because your respiratory system is built around a pair of fragile poppable bubbles-

[dailymanners]

In case anyone has ever thought I'm uptight about manners, you should meet my co-workers.

Today one of my co-workers went into the bathroom after someone had gone #2 and it was stinky, and this person didn't use the spray. About three of my co-workers spent several minutes literally stomping their feet and shouting in anger about how rude and horrible it is to make a stinky #2 and not use the spray afterwards.

I can't imagine being so angry about a normal human bodily function. Like yeah I'll use the spray and if I walk into a bathroom and it smells I'll go "eugh" but then I get over it and carry on with my life. I can't imagine actually shouting and stomping my feet about it.

Which brings me to my point I wanted to make, which is that watching my co-workers shouting and stomping their feet for several minutes about such a small thing (forgetting to use spray after doing #2) brought forth an insecurity that, I really hope this blog doesn't encourage behaviors and attitudes like what I saw in my co-workers today. I don't want to make people more mean and judgemental, I don't want people to be mean and start policing people over small and generally insignificant things. I want people to be mindful and think of others, but that goes both ways. Both being mindful and thinking "hmm it's kinda smelly in here after doing my business, maybe I should use the spray" but also not shouting and stomping your feet in rage just because someone didn't. You're both humans, just think of each other.

[queenfishiethemagnificent]

That behavior is more rude than stinking up the bathroom!

[dailymanners]

Bingo bango, stomping your feet and shouting in public is about 10x ruder than stinking up the bathroom. One of these things is a byproduct of a perfectly normal bodily function we all do every day, the other is a conscious choice to be aggressive and mean in public.

Maybe now is a good time to bring up my post about why displays of aggression such as raising your voice are rude, and also this post about showing patience and grace to people who do anything you find rude or inconsiderate, especially if you're fairly positive it's not intentional or malicious and it's not anything you've addressed to them before.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

have you ever had a beef with a teacher/prof

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[slimeful]

every forest is enchanted btw. stop being stupid and look with your eyes