#No they don't

[sparklingjay]

[toiletpudding]

Adam's 1st day in the garden (before Lilith and Eve exists)?

They were both created at the same time 👍

[adelacreations]

The Mindflayer behaves like the cordyceps fungus that takes over the minds of ants and there's literally proof of that in season 2 and season 3

So why the Duffers are hell bent on the "virus" allegory idk

Also I feel vindicated cause it means the underlining plot of my ivy Steve fic is CORRECT

Also just adding this, they claim to be taking inspo from Stephen King but like guys...it seems like you're taking ideas from the Last of Us

[luvtonique]

Completely reasonable human being asking a completely reasonable question: "Hey in Australia, do they have globes where Australia's on the upper half and America's on the lower half?"

People who don't know the answer or how to use Google: "That's a stupid question you idiot, you're a moron, you're a stupid idiot, shut up idiot, you're so stupid, what a stupid question, you're so stupid"

[justagothamfrog]

Anybody willing to replace a door for say... $20?

My previous worker has become...

Indisposed. After an incident.

(hasn't happened yet. But it's about to)

[do-not-go-gently-42]

mandalorians canonically start fights over uno rules

[coyotefang1987]

A doodle a day keeps the worms at bay.

[seeyouinthespring]

[ellies-little-gun]

Starting on a "what if Riley and Ellie never got bit" Ellie/Riley fic (series?) guys, and I'm pretty excited about it

[t0t411y-n0t-hum4n]

bitches love my haunted and anxious mannerisms

[scaryscarecrows]

What are everyone's hobbies? Do the squad members compete to see who can influence Jason to take up their hobby?

Antoine: I draw a bit.

Jimmy: Yeah. I asked him to draw me like one of his French girls and he drew a literal dick stealing chips while wearing a maid outfit.

Antoine: You shouldn't have stolen my chips.

Riley: I thought it looked just like you. It was ginger and everything.

Jimmy: Fuck you both. I play video games. Or trawl through the government's files for funsies. You wouldn't believe the Secret Service drama.

Riley: I'll try anything once. Woodworking was fun until I about took out my eye.

Frank: I told you to wear goggles...anyways, I have my guitar. I'm not too bad.

Trent: Surf. Snorkel. Fuck off into the wilderness for five hours with no cell phone.

Mark: Crossword puzzles.

[k1w1fru1t]

Spoilers for the Acrane Academy series finale!!!

I think August absolutely has the gall to turn on the puppy eyes and the "I'm ur best friend" act the second Mage passes and becomes a ghost. Not ten minutes ago, he was all "Umbra, Slice!" (A bit like a Pokémon trainer tbh). But then he gets salty about being the only one eternally bound to Honeywood on account of dying within its borders. Like I can imagine he and Mage both on either side of the Honeywood borders and August being like "I know I caused ur death but we're still friends right? Will u accept an apology hug? (And come within Honeywood's borders, therefore becoming forever trapped)" (Idk if that's how it works tho, might only be if you die proper in there but roll with me here.) In like, *that* voice, you know?

[former-leftist-jew]

"On May 14, 2022, Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old white man, traveled 200 miles to a supermarket in a black neighborhood, where he shot and killed ten people, yelling racial slurs the whole time.

Gendron was a lone wolf killer. He had no formal ties to any organization. Nor did he know his victims. All he had were his illusions, including the illusion of race. Many of his illusions came from abstract concepts he learned online, which Gendron later admitted.

Other lone wolf killers have also spent an inordinate amount of time online. They gain insight into the world not by learning about life and people first-hand, but through an online study of images and symbols—through language. In the U.S., over half of the deadliest mass shootings in the last 100 years have occurred since 2014, when social media took off.

Gendron sprinkled his pre-murder manifesto with abstract words such as “fascism,” “capitalism,” “nihilism,” “hedonism,” and ��individualism,” in an effort to explain his thinking. As a teenager, he said he was committed to “communism,” then to “authoritarianism,” and later to “populism.” Connor Sturgeon, another lone wolf killer (and knowledge worker) who shot and killed five people in 2023, filled his manifesto with vague and ill-defined words from popular psychology, including “self-esteem,” “negative self-image,” and “self-improvement.”

All these words can exist without being connected to anything that does exist. They have no well-defined cognitive content. They lend themselves to illusion because a person can project his or her own desires, hate, and fears onto them. They can mean whatever the person says they mean.

...

Urooj Rahman was a radicalized knowledge worker in her thirties. She threw a flaming gasoline-filled beer bottle into a New York City police car during the 2020 George Floyd riots. Tending toward the anarchic despite being a lawyer, she shouted, “I hope they burn everything down. Need to burn all police stations down and probably the courts too.”

Rahman spent much of her life amid abstract concepts. She spoke “the language of abolitionist Twitter,” one writer observed. She was “steeped in the language of social justice and racial politics.” Ill-defined terms such as “race,” “gender,” “LGBTQI,” and “environmentalism” seem to have shaped her crude perception of reality. Life for her became a theater in which her own little plot, built upon abstract words, was always being played.

The old American students who celebrated the purposeful killing of innocent Israeli civilians revealed a similar obsession with abstract words, constantly referring to phrases such as “colonialism,” “apartheid,” “humanitarian,” and “identity.” The words reflect the same creepy simplicity of mind that chills the blood."

The reason the establishment is so terrified of Aaron Bushnell's protest, is because they understand a point many of you seem to have missed

Aaron wasn't sending a message to the government (we know they don't care)

No, I think Aaron's message was meant for other service people like him. Because if the military refuses to participate in the genocide, it's over

And if you thought YOU were moved by Aaron's actions...

imagine how Aaron's unit is feeling right now

Mutinies have started for less

The exact moment every protest turns into a revolution, is when the army refuses to defend the establishment any longer.

And THAT was the message Aaron was sending out. How many units now are ready to reject orders? How low does their morale have to sink before they say 'enough!' How long until they stop pointing guns at the protestors outside, and run over and join them instead?

This is dangerous territory for a government that is hellbent on ignoring every crisis it creates

[andisupreme]

At the company retreat, one extremely drunk girl asked what my pronouns were. (Eventually, it took her a while to word the question.) After the whole conversation was done, she goes- "YEAHHH GURL, Get on with--with THY bad self! See what I did?? They/them/thy."

I was almost holding back tears from trying not to laugh as I told her yes that's great you nailed it honey. Thank you very much I am feeling the love.

Anyway I've been assigned Thee/Thine at Supportive Drunk Girl

[evilgoodguys]

he’d forgotten how much he missed that smile.