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it's not a true pet peeve but when certain phrases are divorced from their contexts it does give me a weird little butterfly in my stomach.

like, okay. "hell is other people" is an excellent line from Sartre's play "no exit". it's very short, you could probably read it in an afternoon or two. but the line isn't making a commentary about all people - it's actually specifically about the 3 characters in the play. they're all very bad people who are legitimately being punished in-actual-hell. they are forced into a room together for eternity & have been hand-picked to be as annoying as possible to each other as punishment for the sins they committed while alive.

and that concept is crazy! i don't write fanfiction but imagine what characters would be actual torture for each other! "hell is other people" isn't condemning humanity - it is saying we create hell from other people.

or like - shakespeare's "brevity is the soul of wit"! that is a joke line said by a joke character. polonius constantly talks too much and says fucking nothing of use. while hamlet is having like, the worst year of anyone's life - polonius gives really fucking vague and useless advice, including such popular sayings as: "to thine own self be true" and "neither a borrower or a lender be." when he says brevity is the soul of wit, it is meant ironically for the audience - this is a man who never shuts the fuck up. he himself is not brief, and therefore witless.

stuff like this just makes me wonder like - how many idioms or sayings come from completely different contexts and we just. fogrgot :(

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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For no reason, here is Art Spiegelman's 1991 graphic novel Maus, for free on the Internet Archive.

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Perhaps this will be thought of as being too woke but it's really discouraging that people are constantly inventing new reasons to think of people with slow reaction times or who misunderstand instructions as evil or idiotic or soulless. Like complaining about older people having a blank stare while they try to process what the barista said or whatever. Oh, they have the evil bad people lead poisoning. They're brain damaged. They have Facebook brainrot. They're NPCs, whatever, etc. As someone with bad sensory processing from psychosis and ADHD (you people can't do anything haha I know omg disabled person is disabled) I so often end up lagging there trying to understand what I'm supposed to do. I have trouble reading the instructions on the keypad, I have trouble processing the push or pull on the door, I have trouble processing the words being said to me and following instructions. You can still think I'm a piece of shit customer and that's fine but going online and seeing people act like this behavior makes you subhuman and non-concious is soooo depressing

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God, at least the responses all find this creepy and inappropriate.

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where does five pebbles get off fat-shaming Gourmand. you're a country sized crypto mining warehouse. i'll shit in your ventilation shafts you brutalist fuck

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curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

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One of these days I will go through all my messages on here and reply to everyone. I have been getting so many of the "please donate" posts that now i have hundreds of unread messages.

The "asking for donation" accounts have multiplied and multiplied to the point that any legitimate accounts would be drowned out by an ocean of bots using stolen photos.

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i hope they still sell dippin dots at the zoo otherwise i will fucking lose it. that would be the last fucking straw. i will kill myself if they stopped selling dippin dots at the zoo. that's part of the nostalgia man, they're a necessity.

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can you imagine how beautiful the world would be if heavens vault was a good video game...

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(inspired by @/grooveguyz 's post cause i wanted to make my own w/ other musicians)

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i think what bothers me about a lot of "girl power" narratives is that they function on the implicit idea on the idea that women can become worthy of respect. and i happen to think that really caring about women means believing they already are worthy of respect. that historical seamstresses and soccer moms and forgotten sisters and sweet polite little girls and someone's weird grandma matter just as much as the warriors and politicians, even if they, personally, never accomplish anything "cool."

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the worst thing about evangelicals and protestantism as a whole is definitely how normal they make catholics look

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This person is a genius, everyone should do this all of the time

sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

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I do I do!

who wants to love and accept me unconditionally?

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terfs fuck off i love trans women i love trans men i love non binary people i love faggots n dykes and ill stand up for my trans siblings every day until i die