('i take it from the mouth of an animal')

"these jokes aren't ok just because the gender is swapped" and then the implication of the joke when it targets women is "i hate women and see them as less than sex objects" and targeting men is "sometimes men suck"

mom: who took all my coping juice

14 year old daughter:

I get peoples' points broadly but. "social murder" is a marxist term referring specifically to a socialised form of murder wherein a person dies as a result of social systems, not, like 'murdering' someone's social life; and "unperson" is from jorjor wel

YES thank you this is very important as i've seen a lot of people using "social murder" in the context of dogpiling/harassing trans people. that's not social murder that's just regular store brand bigotry and discrimination. social murder is when a combination of systemic factors predictably increase debility and death among large swathes of the population. it describes a relationship in which those at the head of these systems launder their guilt onto ever more atomized subsidiaries, until there is no one to blame but the individual. "social murder" as a term is an essential and often overlooked intervention on discussions of criminality, where there's always much to say about individuals murdering individuals but far less to say about the murder that occurs slowly as a natural part of our daily lives, whether that's air/water pollution from living downstream of a coal plant that SHOULD be regulated out of existence, higher levels of microplastics if you live next to a highway where there SHOULD be public transit instead, or being given bad health advice by a politically biased government organization that CHOOSES to ignore real science to appease wealthy interests. i firmly believe that there is no such thing as "dying of natural causes" in the modern world, and a correct understanding of social murder is ESSENTIAL to that perspective

Making the club DJ man play ‘antwave’ and no matter what he does I stop him and say, “it’s smaller than that.”

People on the internet get weirdly defensive of jokes they like is the thing. if they've been enjoying a particular repeated joke for a while then they get this weird investment in that joke being good or true

so when someone says "actually that joke's core assumption is wrong", people start grasping at all these ways that it might still be true, even if in the process that negates the joke anyway. we're all used to seeing this when it comes to the jokes in question being racist or otherwise shitty, but what's weird is that it really does happen when it's just a factual error too.

Like you have to admit that it's a little funny to see people get this upset and defensive over the fact that cyanide just does not smell like almonds, right?

a poisoned drink might actually smell like almonds if you're allergic to almonds

or if it also has almond extract

everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

The old minister of toys was found dead this morning. what a shame.

Fun overdose. couldn't have happened to a more whimsical woman.

I mean it literally could not have. if she'd had more whimsy she would have survived.

alcoholic princess and her shitty little helper fairy named vyvanse who gives her heart palpitations but crucially never actually helps

is this anything

we don’t have to fight anymore

hope is all we have

directly inspired by @winged-void's post here

This is so lovely, I can't believe I didn't see it earlier.

Yeah I could Google it but I could also ask a friend who most likely doesn't know the answer either but I'm just happy to be included in conversation

Yeah I could Google it but I could also ask a friend who most likely doesn't know the answer either but I'm just happy to be included in conversation

okay but when you invert everything in the post you often end up with the same meaning through double negatives

okay but when you keep nothing out of the post you occasionally end up without a different meaning through single positives

confession: when i was in high school my best friend used to steal a ton of clothes from the busted-ass target in town and then walk across the street and sell them at plato’s closet and she called it her job. i’d be like “where are you?” and she’d be like “at work” and i’d know she was just robbing a target blind lmao