#and the cognitive dissonance...

[beeranting]

People complaining about AI destroying the environment while they consume meat and dairy:

[impluvia]

Harmony Cobel worked 10 hr shifts at the ether factory as an 8 yr old and then went on to design a procedure that would allow people the 'luxury' of not having to remember their work life. Raised in the Lumon cult (but well aware of how it ravaged her hometown) I imagine she thought severance a kindness.

[ricecakesarentcakes]

it’s actually so fucking insane to me that leftists can hold the belief that white people, due to their socialization in a racist society, are all inherently racist to some degree and need to constantly be checking themselves and doing work to be actively anti-racist.

but those same people would be sending rape and death threats if I said that male people, due to their socialization in a misogynistic society, are all inherently misogynistic to some degree and need to constantly be checking themselves and doing work to be actively feminist, even if they identify as women.

[aingeal98]

Young Cass adjusting to life with a warm bed and food whenever she wants it after years of uncertainty on the street. Bruce catches her hiding peanut butter and crackers behind a cupboard in the cave and he has to take ten minutes to stare into space because he once caught Jason trying to hide food in that exact same space.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I genuinely think that any change in behavior starts w telling yourself that your worst days, worst performances, just worst moments in general aren’t who you “truly are.” It’s all about unlearning any thought process that essentially chalks up traits you aren’t proud of to “this is who I really am” “in reality I’m lazy” “in reality I’m just a bad person” bc not only is that never true, but it impedes your efforts to try to do better as well. Anything we struggle with has roots in things like childhood trauma, thoughts you’ve been fed before, your upbringing…. but never that you’re inherently a bad person. What I’m learning this year is that a lot of us doing better & being better & improving really comes down to self-talk—to disavowing the very notion that deep down we’re simply bad.

[diphowell]

So are you saying that the audience gave us a more comfy place to come out?

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

The Day of the Jackal (2024) Eddie Redmayne as The Jackal

Me, the entire time watching:

"Wait... is Eddie Redmayne HOT??"

[doughnutwolf]

🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢

[sillycatenthusiast]

Some of my favorite songs from gaming

[wasteofstardust]

Neil Josten is a really fucking phenomenal protagonist. Unreliable narrator or not, I really enjoyed his internal monologue. The reason I like his perspective so much is because we can we constantly see his internal conflict. He KNEW his father would find him, he KNEW about the Moriyamas and was terrified and he STILL CHOSE the Foxes and Andrew and Exy over it all. Even when he knew he was about to DIE, he told himself to that it was enough, because it was more than he ever thought he'd have.

I just- god, I love him so much. He's should be considered a national treasure. Anyway, happy birthday to Neil Abram Josten and thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[jeyneofpoole]

jon snow aka the fraudulent president of an arctic penal colony where everyone hates him also will 100% be assassinated tomorrow: my worst enemy is this fucking bird

[bitchthefuck1]

I love how the conversation between Harmony and Helena shows the tension that Helena becoming severed creates in the power dynamics, because even as a temporary PR stunt under a different name to clearly delineate them, Helly's existence is still a huge crack in the Eagan mythology. Cobell, Milchick, and Graner could be drinking the kool-aid by the bucketful, but watching a descendant of Kier allow themselves to be severed and then being placed in a position of authority over them would still have a massive subconscious impact on the way they view Helena, and by extension their perception of the Eagan's as a whole. It's a direct threat to their illusion of divinity, and you can really feel how that colors their interactions.

[amygdalae]

Harboring irrational body insecurites and feeling like you're disgusting is simpler when you hide and keep to yourself but gets really confusing once you're around someone who's like, sick with lust for you. It has me all bemused like. You like this? I'm what you're into? You sick fuck? Well that's kinda gross but this all feels quite lovely so who am I to question your taste

[palatinewolfsblog]

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain

[pillarsalt]

Currently trying to crawl my way through Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. It sucks because I've enjoyed a lot of it, the actual evolutionary and developmental biology discussion is super interesting and informative, and the illustrations are so gorgeous. But then every twenty pages she'll follow up a brilliant paragraph with the dumbest trans-pandering shit you've ever read, with zero of the evidence normally provided to justify every other subject in the book. It's like she's constantly grovelling on hands and knees not to get cancelled for the mortal sin of daring to write about the female sex. Severely irritating and really brought down the experience of reading it.

[insomniamamma]

Hey kids, remember that people in their 40s are allowed to be horny.

People in their 40s are allowed to want to see themselves represented in fics.

Life doesn't stop at 25. The government is not coming to cut up your horny card.

Also, if you are shaming women for thirsting after/writing fics for characters in their age group, you are a piece of shit.