#Talking again

[sunnwalker]

sorry about the sort of radio silence i have been Busy and quite frankly I have the mental and emotional capacity of like a termite right now so again i ask forgiveness. Theyre Fucking Killing Me.

[ecclecticmx]

Bold enough of anyone to believe I have a single stream of thought that is not immediately Interrupted.

[wishcute]

Dune: *exists as a terrible warning of the ills of colonialism and white savior-hood. How the myth of a singular hero breeds myopic politics and violent hero-worship. Religion as a source of control. Gender established as a weapon of imperialism.*

A disturbing amount of people: Wow Paul is so handsome... he loves Chani soooo much :))) and check out these Bene Gesserit ladies. Girl-bossing amirite 😜😍

[ecclecticmx]

David Graeber's Useless Jobs

It's dishonest work and it's a lot. And nobody needs to do it

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[lylahammar]

idk if this is a boomer take but I think ppl should make more of an effort to go see movies in theaters bc I couldn’t bear it if the movie theater industry went down and the only way to watch movies was through streaming I’m not strong enough

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[ecclecticmx]

Sounds a lot like social engineering.

Article is heavy on cyber security but this phenom is not limited to it. There are so many examples of this down to the Milgram experiment.

Ok now do NYT columnists

[everchased]

THAT one's goin on the list too now!

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[fella-lovin-fella]

"there are only two sexes, it's literally third grade biology!" and pronouns are taught in kindergarten and you dont seem to understand those either

[cerberin]

someone sent me a random package and i ended up crying all day about it

[ecclecticmx]

Only place I can be insane in peace.

[tinysamalander]

You ever consume a piece of media so good it makes you wanna kill yourself. Like this is so incredibly wonderful that real life no longer has any appeal and it's not worth living in anymore? So you just kinda disassociate and lean heavy into escapism?

[inbabylontheywept]

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.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.