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I enabled replies from everyone for a few days, because I'd solicited fiction recs in one post and wanted to give it some time. since I was on a posting jag, I got replies on multiple other posts that I thought showed poor reading comprehension. when I got particularly pissy at one, I shut my laptop and mentally reviewed an anecdote of Schopenhauer being a huge bitch in the way the internet makes me want to be a huge bitch. when I was done vividly imagining it I felt like a soft physical glow & the anger was gone

it's worth reading some biographies of neurotic bad tempered philosophers just for this purpose imo. very soothing to transport yourself to a scene they made, so you don't have to

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i keep mentally autocorrecting "ffmpeg" into "ffmpreg" haieglahl;gi

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// annoying post! where I decide not to wade into discourse but waffle about how I almost did so. without telling you what it is

there's a position X held by a lot of people around me / on tumblr, which I disagree with (but not strongly), and i just ran across a version of X in the wild where the person stated it in a very reasonable-to-me way that is nonetheless seems kinda unpopular / saying the quiet part Y out loud. and now part of me wants to make a poll saying "assuming you agree with X, do you also agree with this related belief Y", but since Y is Unpopular Coded, this would make my notifications hell for a while if I wanted to get more than ~300 responses... oh well

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man, I'm missing whatever part of the brain recognizes family as a Thing. it's always perplexing to end up being colocated in a house with someone because they're related to me or my spouse. it's especially bad when I dislike them but even when I mildly like them (generally the max liking I am capable of achieving with people I did not deliberately choose to bring into my life), the inner vibe is "okay... but... why is this happening? I do this on purpose every year?..."

maybe indoor cats feel like this but all the time. "don't get me wrong. i'm reasonably content with life. the food is good. but why am I in this house with you & unable to leave."

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

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been trending this way myself. even when I manage to intentionally have sex dreams, the dream seems to "want to" be about something else anyway (e.g. the cool amulet that's plot-relevant to the sex)

Giving up on trying to have sex dreams... from now on it's all about exploring the ruins of ancient underground civilizations

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two weeks ago, after a (twitter) poll respondent pissed me off, I ran a bitchy response including the following image by some friends. one of them opined that the bitchy to funny ratio was too high, so I refrained from posting. however, here it is, for your therapeutic use:

if you're here about the poll I just want you to know that y'all are just saying "nuance" because you don't want to admit you are movie talkers. pull your panties up and choose a percentage 🔫

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#making art well does make you a genius and doing it poorly is embarrassing

this is literally true

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I feel like nobody talks about how Sam Altman is gay. Isn't that nuts.

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I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn't really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be

a). I needed to watch that car and

b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.

It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn't really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It'd been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I'd basically written it off as nonsense.

Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should've just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.

So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn't empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I'd probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.

She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn't warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn't know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?

And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:

"Because it was foretold."

And I can't tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there's not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.

I'm still kind of digesting this myself, actually.

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on the plane back from an emotionally grueling week with my family filled with renewed determination not to be an Asian parent. I'm going to yeet my child when they're 18 like I'm white

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Love you science fiction best genre of all time that also sucks so bad

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here's one of the images from the gallery of woman, which I enjoyed

about once or twice a year I treat myself. I go to an AI generated image website and click the 'woman' category. and then I look at the woman there

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Say that you can find out N days before your death that you will die. You cannot use this knowledge to prevent your death. What is closest to your preferred N?

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love reading asoiaf threads about translation fails

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only when I block 90% of tumblr will I be truly free to post

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Headley Beowulf translation is just. a treasure.