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Joe: But the thing is, was he really me? I don’t think I’ve ever realized quite so much how I can’t tell if people feel like I do! How they think! Certainly looked and talked like me, but experientially? Totally different! Just as opaque to me as a stranger, or a friend, or a lover! What really is a lover then? Can I really connect to anyone if not myself?

Cleo: Yeah, but did you fuck your clone?

Joe: Oh yeah I mean obviously. Who wouldn’t?

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❗❗ANDROID USERS❗❗

Heads up to all android users, google is about to implement AI through A LOT of your google messaging apps, you can't just turn off Gemini, you HAVE TO TURN THIS OFF IN THE APPS SETTINGS THEMSELVES

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tw: blood, beheading (its rendog)

you can see i have nothing to do at work shift

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do you have a clip of pointcrow talking about it? or what video is it from if it's on youtube. i'm very intrigued

i don’t think he’s talked about it in a video? he’s been going off about it on twitter tho

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we need a bechdel test but for life series stuff. you need to include at least two characters who aren't grian talking about something unrelated to grian to pass

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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My entry for Ren´s fanart gallery competition! titled "The New Schematics Arrived"

Took about 12h total

Closeup after cut

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Yeah yeah yeah it's generic and amateurish and frankly trite, but is it earnest? Is it sincere? Is there a heart underneath it all

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Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

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Don't forget to warn people who aren't as active online about how much of a scam BetterHelp is.

They are a subscription service masquerading as therapy who have sold their clients information and got fined $7.8 million.

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if youvespent enough time online lately the past 5 or so years you will gain the ability to identify when something is minecraft youtuber fanart even if you dont recognize who is being depicted basically instantaneously

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gem is great again

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social media relativity within the average 10k+ note post on this site: a new theory i’ve been working on

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grian doing watcher lore in 2025 is a recession indicator

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this is your regular, cranky reminder that you are never going to get people to give up something that humans inherently do by guilting and shaming them.

no matter how strongly you feel that people ought to feel bad about doing something, and no matter how correct you are about whether or not they should feel bad.

shaming someone is an emotional attack. and the more vitriolic your attempt at shame is, the more vicious the attack is. most people, by the time they're adults, recognize this, and have built up various defenses against emotional attacks.

the only people that shame 'works' on the way you want it to work are not mentally well. they have moral OCD, or scrupulosity issues, or have been abused so badly that they do not feel like they have the right to have boundaries, or some combination of the three.

most people with healthy boundaries and healthy emotional responses will see your weaponized shame as an attack on them, and will react accordingly. and they are correct to do so. because part of having healthy boundaries is not letting random people emotionally attack you, regardless of how correct they are.

you can convince people that you are right and they are wrong. but the harder you try to make them feel ashamed, the less effective you're going to be. you're just gonna trigger a bunch of people who are mentally ill and make everyone else pissed at you.