“I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle,
people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone
else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the
person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when
she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pickup truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these
brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy,
these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,”
“Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”
You’re not a bad person for wasting food because you forgot to eat it or left it out or didn’t have the time/energy/executive function to prepare it or didn’t have an appetite or whatever. Unlearn the guilt your parents taught you.
Yes if it’s an option offer your unused food to someone else who can benefit from it, but you’re not responsible for the whole world and forcing yourself to eat something won’t save someone else from hunger.
for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?
for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?
if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason
They are doing surveys that are really hard to find because their survey blog has reblogs disabled for some reason.
No no no it’s worse because it’s a hard t at the end. Chat as in cat has a silent t. Chat with a hard t at the end is slang for pussy. It’s “pussy, I farted”. Or in other words ChatGPT is a queef.
PRAYING that barbie sweeps the oscars not because i have anything against oppenheimer but because one of the few joys in life is seeing film bros melt down when movies primarily made for women are lauded as serious and important works
This is just my 2¢ as a nonbinary person but I genuinely think that cis people’s gender is just as constructed as trans people’s. Cis people love to accuse us of having making up genders or artificially modifying our appearance but….the entire makeup, fashion, diet, workout, and haircare industry exists so that cis people can maintain the illusion of two entirely distinct genders with no overlap.
