#and also the last year before the pandemic

[viktortittiforov]

the 2010s sure were a time in my life

[rimouskis]

one of my best friends is about to have a baby today........... so weird to be on the periphery of something so life changing. I want to go "life is going to change forever" as if it hasn't already

[villainessbian]

I am on twitter, though I'm planning to leave that cesspit for good because the muskrat's gone and turned it into a shitshow of a mirror for the loosest minds of parler, truth social, and mumsnet.

Yes, crystals can store a lot of information using a femtosecond laser. But it's just an improved microfilm that is even harder to make and read. It's not a revolution, it's an expensive toy.

By the way, the trump administration doesn't exist yet, so it can't look into anything. It's not doing anything because there is no such thing. The current administration is biden's, and it's the only one.

To be clear, you cannot digitise people's consciousness. That has never happened and no one knows how to do it. The main issue with this is absolutely not lack of storage space. If you had a digitised consciousness on your hands you could also not put it back inside a human body.

It bears noting that the trump clique's definition of "wrongdoers" includes queer people (defined as porn which is to be made illegal inside project 2025), non-white people (defined as borderline animalistic illegal immigrants in many many speeches of trump's, regardless of legality or immigration status) and does not include those who actually do wrong, such as causing harm (as with trump's rapes) or endorsing genocide (as with trump's global positions) or putting the security of his own country in danger (as with trump's sales of intelligence in classified documents to foreign nations conducting genocide). Side with their views, side with genocide and rape.

Relatedly, all of trump's projects for all of society are very obviously murderous or very obviously stupid. His victory has already negatively impacted USAmericans' pay cheques this year as all companies had to spend a lot on foreign orders before he can apply tariffs that will gut them long-term, and his previous presidency had the very moronic goal of stopping a pandemic by pretending hard enough it was already over: "no testing means no new cases" was his actual belief. You think that kind of stupidity is able to manage plans that last millennia? Even if the cyberpunk dystopia of putting you in thousands of years of sharingan illusions to manipulate you into his perfect drone worker were possible, it would be the most hellish thing ever to be designed.

Also, elon musk is not one of the top minds of the 21st century, nowhere near the 4 billion top minds at least, he's a loser who spent inherited blood emeralds to buy companies and rename them after his fixations. He bought other people's ideas and only succeeded at running them into the ground more times than anyone could do on purpose. He's been fired as CEO from Paypal for incompetence. He's destroyed twitter's market value, userbase, ad revenue, use frequency, standing, credibility, public image (in the exact way he tried to do to Paypal before being fired), and future.

Furthermore, no "top mind" aligns with trump at all. Trump is a nepo baby who can't organise a meeting properly, let alone the politics of a global power. Anyone with half a mind recognises that the only thing he's good for is making a profit by betting against all the moves he does. He says the pandemic will be over soon? Invest in Zoom. He says his tariffs will save the US economy? Bet against the dollar.

Where the fuck did you get the idea that Trump is putting people in crystals??? Did the voices tell you that???

It's been very extensively discussed on X.

That's where the real conversation is happening... and you leftoids are missing it.

[narutomaki]

puppy daddy's gonna be honest you have got to wear a fucking mask on public transit

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

i love things that happen because of a specific thing

[milfygerard]

did she specifically make 34 versions of TTPD because shes 34 years old

[stardustedknuckles]

It's been so long since I've had to exist within a group of people consistently over many days and damn, I nearly forgot I was autistic. I found out yesterday that though I get along with almost everyone at work, most of my coworkers thought I was a huge bitch who hated everyone for a little bit (and one still does, which is how this whole thing came up at all). I was bewildered like. No I'm very often dizzy or in a bit of pain and I'm very focused on taking care of the dogs but I'm not - I don't dislike any of you? I've never been mad at you, you guys thought I was mad?? Just an alarming disconnect between the way I see myself and the way I come off to others. I have never once gotten the hang of behaving like a regular person, but it appears that time has taken me from "generally silly person with an offbeat sense of humor who doesn't take things seriously" to "stoic hardass who doesn't like you and thinks you're stupid also." I did not authorize this change. It's throwing me for a loop. I feel like I'm 6 again being told to stop talking over people's heads because I just learned a new big word and I wanted to use and share it. I like assholes with a heart of gold in media. I don't want to be one??

[apopcornkernel]

one day later and now i wonder if i even like him That much or if it only hurt me bc he's the only safe choice i can ever have and if i can never have him i can never have the life i want

[lattebiscotti]

anyway i need james mcavoy back in the theatre so he can change my life once again

[dykehayleywilliams]

i don't know what it is about october that consistently makes it the busiest month of my year 🥴

[medieval-canadian]

welp, i tested positive for covid this morning, lmao. i had to cancel class tomorrow.

hopefully i can gather the energy to record a little lecture or something so that students get some of the background they're hoping for (basically this week was the "how to read middle english" primer/refresher course). overall it's fairly mild, so as long as i don't have a fever on friday, i'm going to go to class (masked, of course) and we can talk about the poems i'm having them read. i'm gonna struggle to be heard through the mask, but alas. we'll have to make do.

other than that, i have two students from my summer course who didn't submit their work by the extended deadline (last friday), which was the very last day i'm technically allowed to accept late work. one of them might?? maybe???? be submitting something by tonight?? she emailed at like 3 in the morning on saturday asking for a couple of extra days. i answered yesterday telling her that if she got something to me by 10pm tonight, then i would make it work (grades are due tomorrow lol), but if not, then she would have to file a petition for a term work extension with the registrar. the other one is... i think?? in the process of submitting such a petition.

i'm just here sitting on my couch surrounded by tissues and trying to get some of my shit together, lol.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

went to my first con in 4 years on Friday to meet Kaiji Tang and got a Dazai autograph + video recording of him reading to me. He was the sweetest person (as I knew he would be) and interacting with him was lovely, but also at the same time oh boy it sure was an extremely stressful, ugly wake-up call of what it feels like to live in a world now where everyone around you has blissfully moved on from covid and can enjoy things normally and happily, while you'll forever be trapped in a hellscape of perpetual fear 🫠🫠🫠

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

okay I LIED (sorta)

[arctic-hands]

Re: the being immunocompromised and nearly dying of agony from shingles all over me at sixteen thing. I used to say that was the worst pain I've ever felt in my chronically ill life, worsened by the fact that weenie me refused morphine because I was fully indoctrinated by D.A.R.E. and terrified that I would become an addict as I lay in the hospital bed writhing in agony as I was damn-near actively dying. Even breaking my toes a few years later just warranted a mild "Fuck." in comparison.

Anyway I recently experienced three infected teeth (two wisdoms that apparently just grew in already rotted? and one cavity that got out of hand because I kept forgetting to call my dentist and couldn't afford it anyway) within a two year span and let me say that that knocked the nearly dying in agony thing right out of the park

[vampyroteuthid]

i think semi frequently about how my siblings are all between 16-32 years older than me and i only really talk to one of them and eventually if nothing takes me out first due to the passage of time and mortality it will just be me and my nieces and nephews some of whom are older than me . 🧍🏻

[galariangengar]

💭