#lives in my head

[johnnycoopersas]

desperately need a gifset of greville-bell after the parachute jump

[percinabirkin]

[cherryblossomshadow]

Shaun (@/shaun_vids)

15 minute cities disgust US conservatives because they need cars. they’re too important as a status symbol & they serve to keep society segregated. being stuck in traffic for an hour is the price they happily pay to not have to walk near groups of people they fear and hate

Shaun (@/shaun_vids)

"you won’t need to drive everywhere!" sounds like a bonus to reasonable people but to a conservative you may as well be trying to sell them on being thrown to a pack of ravenous wolves

union labor with American characteristics (@/ntsfwrk)

Anyone who thinks that driving is correlated to freedom has never had to drive anywhere near a major city. Freedom is having the choice to take the train instead of needing an expensive vehicle that’s more dangerous, inefficient, and stressful to operate.

[hellverse]

in my top 3 favourite cas girlboss moments

[slaygentford]

my beautiful wife. and the poppy trader

[cherryblossomshadow]

No it’s just that the mobile forms of every website are objectively worse. And it’s much easier to price compare when you can have multiple tabs open at once and then quickly flip back-and-forth. (comment courtesy of @arceus-out-of-the-waves)

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Listen, as someone who once booked a train to Penn Station (NY) instead of Penn Station (Baltimore), I'm not ashamed of this. I need to see ALL the details. (comment courtesy of @kateeorg)

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PSA that some companies will raise their prices IF you access the site from a phone (and especially low battery one) while buying a ride, Uber, flight, taxi, etc. (comment courtesy of @likorys-shimenawa)

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Because phones fuck up and mobile websites are almost always dumbed down, either hiding or missing regular site features entirely. It's also easier to type and deal with page issues on a laptop. Everything loads faster and you can control popups and avoid misclicks. (comment courtesy of @ere-the-sun-rises)

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Thinking about this more, for me it's a security thing. On my laptop I've got Firefox running with scripts scrutinized as a default, and other security add ons. On e commerce sites I'm conscious about letting the bare minimum of scripts run to make search function and allow credit card processing. I just can't be arsed to do all that on a phone even if I'm running FF for Android (comment courtesy of @gorevidalchukander)

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[Image ID and source: Tweet from x (@/soulohlove) reading:

booking flights on a phone is crazy. that is a laptop activity

II HANDS II HEAVEN II FURIOUS (@/JCov1) quote-retweeted with:

My most millennial trait is big purchases must happen in big laptop screen

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[cherryblossomshadow]

Rebecca Makkai ☑ (@/rebeccamakkai)

I'm trying to get to the bottom of why we associate rising early with moral goodness. If I get up at 10 am and work till 2 in the morning, I'm lazy. If I get up at 5 am and work till 6 pm and go to bed at 8, I'm a Good Person. Is this some kind of agrarian holdover, or what?

Sleeping in to get enough rest = self-indulgent Going to bed early to get enough rest = gold medal wtf

[teaboot]

Sometimes I think a lot about my mom's cat

My mom's cat is a common domestic shorthair we found on the side of the road as a kitten

Regular cat, not a maine coon or one of those massive breeds. His mom was smaller than a loaf of bread

But in a sort of a Clifford The Big Red Dog situation, he grew super fast, and really really big, and took a super long time to stop growing

Worried that she was overfeeding him, she eased back his portions, but he stayed a massive round baby

When he started having kidney problems, she took him to the vet.

The vet took a look at him and said, "holy fuck, what are you feeding him", checked the nutritional listings on his chow, and told her "Yeah, maybe he's reacting badly to the amount of grain in this, try a meatier diet"

So my mom wound up special-ordering this specific high-protein prescription cat food made of like. Kangaroo meat or some shit that cost like sixty bucks a bag

And, as typical act two in an episode of House, he somehow got worse on the fancy specialized stuff that was supposed to be Primo Athlete Olympic Feline Blend

Like. WAY worse. His guts were inflamed and his kidneys were shutting down and he was all sore and HE WAS STILL HUGE, just miserable and sad

So shetook him back to the vet, where they had to help him pee (he was apparently close to bursting and had some kind of blockage too) and went "Yeah no this is NOT normal and we don't know what's going on, we're gonna do some tests but in the meantime you should go back to what he was eating before, at least that wasn't actively killing him" so she did

And he still wasn't great, but he also improved

And so they take his blood and do an ultrasound and a couple g's later she gets a call back like "this is gonna sound crazy, but we want you to put him on a low-meat diet. Just the least amount of protein and iron and shit. We need you to find the grainiest, filler-iest dollar tree kibble available and give him some of that bad bad shit"

And my mother is a woman of science. So she did

And he GOT BETTER

His energy picked back up, inflammation went down, he started drinking normally again, got back to pissing like a fuckin champion

And so it turns out that out of all the random ass freeway bonus cats we possibly could have scooped out of a ditch, WE got the one-in-a-million freak of nature with a SPECIFIC genetic defect that means a paleo protein free range diet is essentially poison and he THRIVES on cheap ass garbage

Like. He medically NEEDS junk food

I dont really understand how that works, but i cant argue with results.

If we had four of him, they'd outweigh my mom. And he's FINE

Also blind, but that's unrelated

Im not using him as a symbol or a metaphor or anything. I just keep catching myself thinking about my mom's Big Fucking Cat

[sticksandsharks]

I made sticker sheets for base camp and the windward plains featuring my favorite big and little guys.

[cherryblossomshadow]

#and there isn't just 'one other person' out there waiting for you #you're not missing your 'other half' you are a whole person (tags courtesy of OP)

no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice

[cherryblossomshadow]

Jack Saint (is at lackingsaint.bsky.social) (@/lackingsaint)

seeing other english people like "ugh typical americans sneering at our long held traditions" tells you the indoctrination is still working well

it's ok to make fun of the old man and his big gold hat it is all quite silly

people go at furries for overpaying on fursuits but don't bat an eye at the geriatric still larping the middle ages

[the-chelseahotel]

If you pail to plan you plan to fail

[cherryblossomshadow]

Never ever heard it explained so clearly and I earned a bachelor’s degree in this field of study #taking my diploma out of its frame and replacing it with a print out of this post (comment and tags courtesy of @ticktockthyme)

The problem with forcibly seizing the assets of, say, Jeff Bezos is that his net worth of $161 billion does not mean he has that in cash. That’s the worth of everything he owns, including stock in his own company.

And the problem with seizing THAT is that it isn’t real. It’s based on confidence and what people might conceivably pay for it. And if you just seize it, that confidence tanks. And then that wealth evaporates.

The problem with capitalism isn’t that there’s a bunch of old dudes sitting on hoards of cash. It’s that they’ve collectively created a system by which they have ludicrous social and economic power based on the PROMISE of hoards of cash. That don’t exist. They have created a social stratum in which debt is money.

That’s why the exhortation is to SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, not GO GRAB ALL THE MONEY. Because the money isn’t real, and the need to go out and get it is blinding people to the fact that it doesn’t need to exist.

[yellow-sword]

My sword is even colder.

[lambment]

Dont know if you were joking about needing catboy references a couple of weeks back but here ya go

Theres one for sheep too if you need that

the sacred texts.... thank you for bestowing it upon me

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead