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in real life you will probably not respond to harassment in a sexy, clever, scripted way where you come out with the upper hand and everyone claps. you will freeze up and your moment will pass, or your voice will shake when you tell them to stop and you’ll realize two minutes later that you’re gross and sweaty and sticky from the adrenaline. maybe you’ll be on the ball and answer in a way you actually think is pretty smart and get ignored, or they’ll get more aggressive when you mouth off to them. you almost never will walk away feeling victorious. you walk away feeling uncomfortable and relieved that it’s over. you’ll think about it later and imagine that maybe you could have said something else. maybe you’ll feel ashamed that you weren’t quicker-witted, weren’t able to cut them down to size, weren’t able to avoid that lingering sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, as though there’s some kind of magical words you could have said that would have left you feeling less powerless. there really aren’t.
Honestly this is such an important lesson to learn. If someone threatens, belittles, or verbally assaults you, you will likely feel bad, no matter how you respond. Please don’t beat yourself up for feeling emotions that are perfectly healthy and justified.
(via amarriageoftrueminds)
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Anyway, fuck the CEOs and other execs. Support the strikers.
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wei wuxian toot-tooting peacefully + lan wangji preparing to commit horny crimes
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I’m gonna admit that I got on Twitter like a big ol’ dramatic dork last night and said, knowing full well that Elon Musk was doing exactly this, “If he changes the name to X, I’m out, I can’t do this anymore.”
Not because “X” is doofy and a terrible branding move, although it is, but because he wants to do THIS shit. Yeah, no, I am not hanging around for your global interactivity “everything app” bullshit. You want me to fucking BANK with you? YOU? You just lost about $30B running a platform into the GROUND by FIRING EVERYONE and doing whatever damn thing popped into your head between shitposts? Are you HIGH? I cannot hang around for this “tech king of the world, 420 blaze it lmao” bullshit. I could not stay at my beloved Livejournal after SUP said all the users would be subject to Russian law in 2017. I know The Moment when I see it. I can’t do this.
I admit, I might go back every few months and say “Hey, I posted XYZ on any platform but this, please leave this godforsaken place,” and I don’t want to delete my accounts. I’ve been on Twitter since 2008, and I have a ton of livetweet threads (on my main and also on an alt for that purpose. Remember that time I livetweeted the Twilight gender-change book? That glorious trainwreck?). I’ve saved some of them via Thread Reader PDF downloads, but there are still more to get. I don’t want to utterly destroy book and TV discussion we did over there.
I haven’t used Twitter regularly since maybe 2016 (about the time the post-Gamergate alt-right really moved in), but the conversation and community, decentralized though it was, before that–we’re going to lose the last vestiges of that, the way everyone on Reddit was upset about losing the collective knowledge over there. And I’m so fucking angry about it. I’m so angry. I immediately came back here the week he took over last year because I knew, I KNEW, somehow that Twitter would be destroyed. I just thought it would burn down in a smoking heap of rubble, not turned into a shambling tech zombie under a different name. I just. I can’t do this anymore.
Also, shut the fuck up, Linda Yaccarino. Just because you can put Elon Musk’s nonsense into coherent verbiage doesn’t mean “a global social media/marketplace/banking system/walled garden that’s basically X-Treme AOL” isn’t a fucking nightmare. I hope the EU bans the fuck out of you both. See you in bankruptcy court.
This whole thing is making me so sad. Besides all of the above, there’s several Chinese accounts I follow, to do with MDZS, erha and others (sometimes one of the actual authors, Meatbun) and I don’t know how long the mutated walking corpse of Twitter is gonna hold out.
I left LJ once the incessant ads and pop ups and their more insidious cousins, the pop unders, became so ubiquitous you couldn’t even browse anymore.
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Have you ever tried forcing your human body to get used to not drinking water for three days
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my brother started calling our cat “doobie brother” which he then lengthened to “dubious brother” and has since morphed into “brother dubious” like he’s some sort of fucked up little monk
brother dubious
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Florida’s Anti Gender Affirming Care law has been partially struck down
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Me every time Trump mentions DeSantis
best tweet on earth. Sublime
I’m sorry but this is literally fucking hilarious
(via cosmicmechanism)
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“Omg I made this prom dress for only $10!”
- already owns $200 sewing machine, $100 dress form, full supply of thread/haberdashery
“You can recreate your favorite fast food menu items at home for less money and more flavor,” says the person with $3k in Le Creuset cookware, six professional kitchen appliances, living in the heart of a large city with ample grocery selection, sponsored by Hello Fresh and Skillshare.
“You can cook this full course meal for less than five dollars!” says the person who acts like you can buy $0.001 worth of salt, $0.05 worth of flour, and $1.27 worth of pork.
I’m sorry @chigrima but this just passed peer review:
(via cosmicmechanism)
