#lives in my head

[lycanthropicture]

if castiel were a vegetable 🤗🤗🤗

[romance-incubomp3]

ありがとうにゃ〜

[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

[unification]

the sheer truth of his words

[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

/end ID]

[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

[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

[yellow-sword]

My sword is even colder.

[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

[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

[krembruleed]

beach episode?

[cherryblossomshadow]

[Image ID and source: Tweet from Velodus✨ (@/velodus) reading

The single worst thing about Trump to me will always be how much he's changed people. I've watched friends and relatives become entirely new, worse people in the wake of his political rise. Like it's not merely that he's a terrible guy, it's that he's ruined people.

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Further tweets from the thread:

qiwave (@/qiwave1)

Another chance for me to quote Pete Buttigieg. “My faith teaches me that the world isn’t made of good and bad people, but rather that each of us is capable of good and bad things,” he said. “And I believe leaders matter because of what they bring out in each of us: the good or the bad.”

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Mat Douglas (@/MatPDouglas)

I think he just gave them license to be the awful people they always were, but were hiding before

Velodus✨ (@/velodus) replied:

The seeds were obviously there the whole time for them all, which sucks because it'd be easier to process if he had 100% brainwashed them instead of them choosing to like him. But I also will never ever forgive him for giving ppl that permission structure.

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You can obviously disagree with me. But I ascribe to the notion of "No such thing as monsters," which acknowledges that every human has the capability to be "good" or "bad." "Monstrosity" is not an inherent quality of a person, but an action. This action can be varying degrees of "their choice," depending on the context of the situation.

But if we say that we judge people on actions, then yes, Trump made them worse. Maybe they would have wanted to say that slur before, but Trump emboldened them to actually do it. Trump gave people permission to care for themselves more than others, and I think that made them worse people than they would be otherwise.

My utopia isn't a society filled with Good Humans, bc I don't believe they exist. My utopia would be a flexible, supportive society that is able to react and adjust to the needs of the humans that comprise it (not the humans living "under it" or "in it," but the humans making up the fabric of the society) and encourages the humans to be their best selves.

Is this feasible? Experience tells me no. But it's a much better goal than "get rid of all the Bad Evil Humans."

[kaogens]

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