the onus lies with you: better luck next time

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

adding it to my list ty

are you reading about the McMartin trial 👀

you gotta take the edge off of the Adderall and DXM of course

shame does nothing but keep you from the people who will love and understand you the most

The modern age is the last gasp and juvenile scream of Manhood asserting that it would rather reduce the world to rubble than imagine one where it does not hold primacy.

Average GITS cyborg: aghhh my eyes have been hacked!! my brain got a virus!! reality is nothing but suggestions fed to me by a sinister mastermind!!

Motoko, expending 1.7% of Japan's defense budget: F cup. No wait, G. They must be big enough to put the fear of God in them before I pull the trigger

this ahegao hoodie has been in my family for six seven generations

a poem i wrote called "i try to sing along but i get it all wrong", 2019? 2020? idk

The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already

Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults. For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves

Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.

When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.

This is my trans agenda

ok so the box labeled 'improv' has improv in it, that makes sense. the box labeled 'ttrpg' has... improv in it. ok. sure. why not. but the box labeled 'kink' must have..! also improv. fuck. one of these must have something else in it. hand me the box labeled 'polyamory.'

need a beautiful transsexual to intoxicate me, tie me up, blindfold me, gag me, and beat the shit out of me

that would need to be done to change the world that is being created.

I think he's saying this is how things can end up in a not too distant future. A world is being built that crushes the hopes and dreams of anyone with sapience. The people building that world are selling us escapes from it. We take to those escapes much more readily than we are taking to the work

One of the arguments that the guy who literally wrote the book about the Medea Hypothesis is that, as creatures with the ability to understand the effect we have on our habitat, it doesnt have to be this way.

I think Blindsight is Watts way of saying "well, its looking kinda grim, buddy".

I suspect this likely draws from the Medea Hypothesis (the belief that life is often suicidal because it can have effects so profound it changes its habitat to be less suitable). The first such period was the great oxygenation event, which Watts would be familiar with as a marine biologist.

sapience (CEOs and vampires) to flourish.

I dont disagree with your observation that ASPD / low empathy people struggle to do well in this society. I think the key to this though is in *this* society. If the context changes, thats no longer necessarily true. I think this is what Watts is arguing.

The character is obviously distressed that his objectivity is gone, but the narrative doesnt paint this development as bad -- it paints it as necessary.

I think it relates to the narratives portrayal of team sapience as in a state of ennui, and that its this ennui which allowed the threats to

I dont think its so straightforward. I think the horror is that it *could* be a disadvantage.

I could see how you come away with that take. That's the take I almost came away with until the scene where the captain maims the main character. After that point I couldnt square that take.

yeah, if you read Hail Mary you can see it first hand. individual problems the character faces are overcome in like 2 pages max. humanity is facing an existential crisis and the stakes have never felt lower. man didnt write a book he wrote a movie outline that he is charging people to read.

A common trans feminine fantasy is to imagine yourself as someone with a much higher social standing and support network, such as a dog.

ah, yes. the two types of relationships: drowning. and watching someone drown

we can't find Bigfoot because his location data is encryptid

you're familiar with desire paths, even if you've never heard the term. they are the paths that develop, when enough people step off the sidewalk, and into earth. have you ever thought about how it must feel, for the path. to be, desired. to know that each bootprint makes you more real. more, wanted

normalize doggirls taking other doggirls for walkies. you can hold each other's leashes!

#Astarion #BG3

I see a lot of people who talk about Astarion being a walking "Red Flag" and "Toxic", and yet they're drawn to him, and still romance him. Well, to me, and a lot of others, he is not. And I would like to explain why that is. WARNING: Abuse, Trauma, & Sexual Abuse, etc., Triggers.

I have a new game for you:

YOUR PAST SELF IS AN EX WHO DOES NOT RESPECT YOUR BOUNDARIES AND TODAY IS THE DAY YOU GET RID OF EVERYTHING THEY LEFT IN YOUR APARTMENT

they keep using the stuff they left as an excuse to come over. they do that because they want to fuck. you're stronger than that, now

I was in elementary school. All of the adults suddenly became very nervous but none of them were saying anything. my mom picked me up early. she kept saying they think it's an accident but we're under attack. when we got home fox was on the TV & the tower was smoking. I watched the second plane hit.

paraquat and the blood of innocents mostly