as an autistic person names are really weird to me in this way a lot of the time

if I could broadcast one message to every single person in existence it would be this: people don't hate you, you just have an anxiety disorder

it would shut down the AITA sub Reddit but I think it would be worth it

I fully believe in letting people be little weirdos in public but bringing a pint of milk as your train drink???? no I can't cope with this this is too far

is it not a pushback at the companies who, presumably, are trying to pad the marmalade out with ingredients that are cheaper than oranges in a bid to make infinite money while we suffer?

I get blocked for being trans quite a bit. sometimes the trash takes itself out, you know?

your man is weak in the ways of cribbage. He starts pegging with a five. He misses nobs when he counts his hand. He throws a six and a seven into his opponent's crib. He's a liability. You'd better send his ass to the dōjō before we muggins him.

what gets me is to counteract how difficult this makes life, I absolutely minimise all other security like "using a completely different password to last time and elsewhere" because otherwise I wouldn't be able to use it at all

WHAT. did the release date drop for Rivals as well????

neurotypical is when you'd rather be uncomfortable than look stupid, and neurodivergent is when you'd rather look stupid than be uncomfortable

Learn about when pink was one of the most masculine colours you could wear in the 18th century! YouTube video by History with Amy

PUT MEN BACK IN PINK!!!

youtube.com/shorts/VlBhQ...

thiw is the book that I read that changed my life. CBT had never worked for me before but this was something different because it actually applied to the problem I have, and I can't promise you're the same but I reckon it's worth a look

likely. or OCD plausibly

An illustration of an opossum holding a sign that says abolish ICE.

Stand up, fight back.

"we trained a chatbot on everything humans said online ever and it immediately chose to lie about everything and anything with insane confidence" feels like an episode of Black Mirror that got three seconds of consideration before being binned for being too on the nose

I was born very near the Thames but have lived by the Tyne since oh about 19 years ago. did we just do a straight swap???!

genuinely fear that real animals will look weird to people because they're so used to AI

small black long haired dog on a confusingly small chair

happy birthday to this one dog and all the horses in this hemisphere

a bald man in a plaid shirt and vest Alt: a bald man in a plaid shirt and vest with hands on hips

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!

Finally, our days will start getting longer again!

Dracula:

I think as a culture we really struggle with the ideas of loss, death, and impermanence and a lot of the problems we have come from that. this would make things a million times worse

if you have any questions about it that you'd like to ask a polyamorous person who might have real life experience to draw on, feel free to message me 🤭 to get you started, not everyone has to be all active all the time--swapping, watching, grabbing some water, all v normal

I can't get over that being Crowley's throne

delivery driver dropped my can of pop when he brought my food. restaurant wouldn't replace it so he went to the shop and bought me a replacement himself. what a guy, faith in humanity restored. gutted as Just Eat doesn't have an option to give a tip afterwards though

I'll grit my teeth and whisper "it's free exposure therapy"
cos like, I was a teenager on the internet at the height of chain emails and my god. grim. but I can report back that I did ignore some of them and there were no consequences

there is not a single safe for work thing I can say about this image

the one that always gets me is when he's stood on that chair

he's my number one I have no idea how everyone else was so wrong

is it now that the window for Spotify Wrapped closes? can't wait to see which 100 Taylor Swift songs I've listened to most this year (it's Crazier at number one I guarantee it, where my Edinburgh night 2 pals at)

it's just occurred to me that before photography was invented, there was no need for a concept of "in black and white" and like... did it just not exist? or did people paint in monochrome for fun or like. what happened

it could just drop any time without warning