#people person

[pratchettquotes]

"Er...you don't like me very much, do you," said Oats.

"I've hardly met you." [...]

"A lot of people don't like me as soon as they've met me," said Oats.

"I suppose that saves time," said Agnes, and cursed. Perdita had got through on that one, but Oats didn't seem to have noticed.

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

[apleiphone2]

im sick of being a ppl pleaser im gonna spit on everyone i see

[notagoodplacetobe]

Small city big Willow trees 🦇

[morchilluv]

sky pics are my fav. i have a whole album hehehe 😋

[toruandmidori]

A geese goose.

[briannaisadorable]

Vulnerable

Such a fvkn beautiful word

[postsecretsalone]

[greenapplebling]

The absolute dread of simultaneously being a people pleaser and not a people person

[stuckinherdreamss]

when i say im a people person i don’t mean im extroverted and love being around people all the time . in fact i quite hate it and people as individuals make me quite angry. however there are certain things i find about humanity that i find quite beautiful and comforting. like how we are all vastly different in every way and no one experiences anything the same way. the amount of diversity that exists in every person is enough to make you sit around and think about it for a while. two people who couldn’t seem more alike are still so incredibly different - even down the their dna that there is no way to say that two people are the same.

i came to articulate this to my mother today bc of a mug we found at target :)

[funbearer]

[etakeh]

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[secondbeatsongs]

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

[trans-cuchulainn]

i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"

[wildbasil]

things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷