#but that is not me

[nvrthlessthsun]

The thing is, I want to do my best! I want to have a job that I succeed at, that I help people with, that fulfills me. I want to work minimum wage jobs like fast food or call center work!

But the stress of not being able to pay my bills unless I'm working an ungodly number of hours is debilitating. Our current economic system has made it impossible for me to not burn the fuck out at the things I want to do.

So I'm forced to take a job that is not fulfilling and/or directly harmful. I'm forced to take out ridiculous loans and go back to school. I'm forced to work three times the number of hours I would prefer, just to make ends meet. I can't do my best, because I'm exhausted all the time.

It's so frustrating, because if you made "undesirable" work financially sound, you'd have people who would want to do it! But the current system isn't built to fill needs, it's built to make money for those at the top.

[coffeexxcigarettes]

Screaming but in silence,

Ripping from myself.

There is me,

And then there is you.

A stranger,

A worm wiggling it's way inside my chest,

Cutting off my oxygen and with haste

You order me,

Breathe.

I know not where I go when I claw myself free,

Invisibly, of course.

Only that that is not me,

And that I,

Well.

I cannot breathe.

x

[ohcorny]

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[vee-lociraptor]

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[archivegeo]

got a major pest problem this year actually

[redstonedust]

phenomenom thats been bothering me that i could only express via an mspaint reverse boomer comic

[mallalada]

the voice of the devil

[xxscrabiesxx]

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

[morganbritton132]

Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[fangsforfags]

fake idgafer. i saw tht haunted look in ur eyes

[westiec]

You've gotta love Jews more than you hate Nazis.

You've gotta love trans folks more than you hate TERFs.

You've gotta love your unhoused neighbors more than you hate the billionaires.

You've gotta love immigrants more than you hate ICE.

You've gotta love queer kids more than you hate christian fundamentalists.

You've gotta love fat people more than you hate the diet industry.

You've gotta love disabled people more than you hate the insurance companies.

You've gotta love your fellow humans more than you hate the worst that humanity has to offer. You don't have to like every person you're fighting for, and you sure as hell don't have to give up your righteous anger, but hate is ultimately corrosive.

You've gotta love.

[trickstertime]