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cleaning along desire paths

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it's funny that nowadays if someone said 'if i had a nickel for every time ____ ...' and didn't say the second part i'd probably parse it as meaning 'this improbable thing happened a small number of times but more than once which is weird' instead of its original meaning of 'this thing happens a great deal'

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re: tiktok ban, george orwell‘s 1984

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last time my mom visited I was talking to her about parenting and how I appreciated a lot of the choices she and my father had made about raising me and my brother and she agreed that just listening to the child and taking them seriously was the One Weird Trick to cutting out like 60% of conflicts between parents and children. and she said one time I was about three or four years old and we were all going to the grocery store, and at the threshold of the store I just had a meltdown. i was overwhelmed, I was crying, I was just at the end of my rope like kids get sometimes. and instead of dragging me through the store my mom and dad stopped what we were doing and just asked me what the problem was. and I was able to say I didn't want to be there, I couldn't do it, I wanted to go home. and she says she and my father just looked at each other and back at me and said "okay" and we all went home that day instead of forcing the grocery store trip. and I had so few public meltdowns as a kid despite being pretty autistic because, I think, I knew that if I ever really needed to leave, my parents would understand and back me up. and that was the case throughout my childhood. which paradoxically (one might think) resulted in me having fewer incidents of being overwhelmed in the first place, which then made me better able to handle increasing amounts of stress and so on. it also taught me that expressing feelings and communicating them to my caretakers wasn't going to be punished or ignored or called weird, so unlike many other autistic kids who get judged or rebuked for expressing sensitivity or opposition, I didn't need to constantly blockade everyone and internalize everything all the time.

it's a pretty simple concept whether your kids are autistic or not, but most parents don't seem to get it. their parents taught them to just force everything and let the child deal with it alone so they just repeat the cycle even though they know how it feels.

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ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

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First ape to go to the watering hole with a container and put some of the water in it so that they could drink more later without returning to the watering hole must have been lauded as a fucking genius.

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I understand that it is not fair to expect everyone to do this. But those of us who can, should strongly consider doing it.

I have enough social privilege that it’s safe for me to interact with conservatives and MAGA folks for the most part. I have a strong emotional support network to decompress and recover after dealing with them. And I have the knowledge of what it’s like to make that transition.

If my liberal friends had uttered even one “I told you so” or disbelieved me when I got up the courage to question what conservative evangelicalism had programmed me to believe and do I never would have made it out. I needed a place to land and people to help me and they took the time and energy to do that. And now I can fight alongside them on the front lines.

Again, I understand that not everyone can do this. Not everyone should do this, your safety is paramount. You can’t resist fascism if you’re dead. Protect yourself and set the boundaries you need to. But if you are able, this could be one of the most crucial parts of the slow quiet revolutionary resistance we need to build.

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Friendships as a teenager: we used to talk 5 hours every night now it’s down to 3… are we still friends 🤔? I wonder if they don’t like me anymore

Friendships as an adult: omg I’ve finally cleared up 20 minutes of my schedule to talk to my friend I haven’t spoken to in 4 months #bffs #we will find eachother in every life

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About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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Came across this a while back. It basically provides a one-sentence summary of the major political news of the day, with each event or topic separated by a semicolon. Then that sentence is broken down and each clause is expanded upon. It also links to several sources for each.

It's a good tool to have in your pocket these days. With so much going on, I wouldn't suggest having only one or two sources for news, but this one I check daily to see what I missed and get an overview of things. It's like Wikipedia that way: a good starting point in terms of getting the broad points, but it shouldn't necessarily be used as a standalone.

One thing I like about it is that there are sources you can click on that corroborate the info there. So you're not just taking the word of some guy on the internet.

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I went to the forest that makes you have multiple pronouns and accidentally touched some poison ivy there

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literally what the fuck do you mean its still january. how is that remotely possible. its been six months minimum

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actually the craziest impact animorphs has had on me is that i never really got an urge to eat cinnamon buns from reading them BUT the phrase "the refreshing beverage known as vinegar" has forced its way into my head every other week for years to try and convince me it would be a good idea to chug a whole glass of it

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The pills meme but it's things i wish i had