mydear-youresopretty - Tumblr blog

[mydear-youresopretty]

To The Person In The Newspaper - Jordan Bolton

[mydear-youresopretty]

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

[mydear-youresopretty]

everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

[mydear-youresopretty]

it is indeed quite aphoristic and fun to pull individual quotes. but if you want to read “october” by louise glück in its entirety, which i highly recommend, you can find it here

[mydear-youresopretty]

zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell

[mydear-youresopretty]

growing up with a psychologist for a mother was so funny because my sister and i would be like “mo-om why do we have to go to bed now” and she would respond with a long explanation of the research on the effects of sleep on the brain and body followed by another explanation on permissive vs. authoritarian vs. authoritative parenting styles, with citations

[mydear-youresopretty]

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

[mydear-youresopretty]

This guy is really going to regret sitting down with Jon

[mydear-youresopretty]

The Onion pulling zero fucking punches.

[mydear-youresopretty]

Jenny George

[mydear-youresopretty]

collage of female characters that people have used to “prove” that there are too many masc women in media

[mydear-youresopretty]

I saw an article called “Make Peace With Your Unlived Life” and it really made me stop and think. So much of our lives is mourning for what we didn’t become. It’s a waste. We didn’t waste any opportunities. What came and went was not meant for us.

[mydear-youresopretty]

I wonder if work just.. got harder in the 2000s, comparatively.

[mydear-youresopretty]

[mydear-youresopretty]

at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

[mydear-youresopretty]

Hydrangea close up

[mydear-youresopretty]

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.