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And now….for all the memes I made in like ten minutes cause I wanted to ✨

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« When I think back on the year 1915, it seems to me that I still hear my friends tell me despondently: "I can't think of anything else! I can't read, I can't work, or find useful distractions (...), I only ruminate about our times, incessantly, until I'm nauseated (...). I've just had two hours of liberty—there was a time when I would have offered them to Tolstoy or Pascal. Today I read about [the war], or European colonial methods; issues that are entirely beyond my reach, but how to think of anything else?"

And perhaps we shouldn't strive to think of anything else; the point is not to turn our backs on our times, but to consider them calmly and thoughtfully. (...) It may be that the philosophy which absorbs you leaves no room for indulgence. Perhaps you feel yourself full of bitterness and rancour towards your fellow men, perhaps you have made up your mind to see in their activities nothing but greed and selfishness. (...) Do not be too eager to prove yourself right! Above everything, do not rejoice in being right in so dismal a fashion. (...) My only ambition is to beg the world to look for anything which can lighten the present and future distress of mankind, to find what interests the soul in a life burdened with troubles and disillusionments, to honour more than ever the faithful and imperishable resources of our inner life. (...)

The storm rages on, the events escalate, worsen, never cease. Never have they seemed more complex, more severe, more demanding. More dangerous. Wherever we turn, an opinion holds up its head and vehemently solicits our belief. (...) Our convictions, our certainties, are at each other's throats. (...) Yet mankind, even in these terrible hours, is only seeking happiness. Men have set off to conquer happiness, clutching in their hands the tools which will forever destroy it. (...) The wrong direction the world has taken is so obvious, so cruel, so vast (...)

Regardless, I would suggest not to lose hope—so long as a single wallflower still opens, in April, over the ruins of the world. Like algae, like mosses, like these laborious lichens which attach to the very ruins their infinite need for happiness, we will find joy in our present affliction and we will grow it, like a wind-battered plant in the parched soil of a wilted world. »

— Georges Duhamel, La Possession du monde (translation mine) Written in 1917 as he worked as an army surgeon.

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Posting on bluesky(/twitter/etc) is so bizarre. You mean I’m supposed to contain ALL my thoughts into the same post? I can’t have Main Thoughts and then Little Secret Tag Thoughts?? Little Secret Tag Thoughts are the whole it!!

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stupid toothless turning human fic is stupid murdering me

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Oh, me? Just thinking about Spirited Away

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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when asked about the ongoing Torment Nexus project, author of popular sci-fi novel DON'T CREATE THE TORMENT NEXUS was quoted as saying "what they're doing over there is way more fucked up than anything I wrote"

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I thought it was fairly normal to feel empathy for bad people.

I thought it was common, even.

But after my Elon/Grimes post... now I'm wondering if I was mistaken about that.

I wrote a post about Trump being traumatized after his assassination attempt and a post about his poor adaptation to aging. I expressed sympathy for him in both cases. But I still maintain my white hot hatred of him and wish for him to face consequences.

Elon was abused by his father. Some of the stories are incredibly tragic. Hearing those stories triggers an involuntary response in my emotional systems that I can't stop no matter how much I despise present-day Elon. I also wonder if that abuse never occurred maybe we wouldn't be dealing with this current clusterfuck.

I have never held so much anger towards a single person as I do my brother. But I also see him as a victim of abuse. I know he was once a really good person and he was slowly corrupted. I feel sorry for him. I mourn the amazing person he used to be. And I still love him.

But that doesn't make me any less angry.

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brought to you by a white autistic person saying they can't talk to me because my english accent is """sensorily overstimulating"""". i should start charging autistic people for the audacity.

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and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

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Leave me and my weird names in peace

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i hate seeing people drink the openai/chatgpt koolaid 😭😭😭 genuinely feels like watching someone get seduced by scientology or qanon or something. like girl help it's not intelligent it's Big Autocomplete it's crunching numbers it's not understanding things i fuckign promise you. like ohhh my god the marketing hype fuckign GOT you

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hopelessly munirpilled

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emmrich: I won't call Rook hideous.

lucanis: it's slang! It's one of those words that means the opposite of what it means. Like badass. You know what badass means, and that it's good and not-ass?

emmrich: you will not convince me to call Rook hideous, Lucanis

emmrich: [leaves the room]

neve: [overheard from outside] you tried to get Emmrich to call Rook hideous?

lucanis: I tried to convince him it was slang. It didn't work.

neve: Next time, try 'gnarly'. Taash will vouch for it

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That's who's trying to protect you.

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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I cannot wait 😭😭😭

sitting here clocked out of work unable to do much other than stare at a wall and think about A Stranger Named Wound by @local-dragon-haunt