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thefrogman:

sirfrogsworth:

This article is bonkers. I don’t know if I have said “holy shit” so many times in a row.

Here are some highlights, but you should definitely read the entire thing.

Like, this could be the worst version of 12 Days of Christmas ever.

He is still in the coma and his family has not heard anything from SpaceX.

It’s like a real-life Squid Game with a much shittier payout.

Wait, it gets worse!

Into the cancer tent, we’re going to Mars.

“I can excuse racism, but shoving is going too far.”

Yeah, that tracks.

Coming soon from Rust-Oleum…

New low visibility safety paint guaranteed to prevent 0 accidents.

For every 10 gallons, you get this free complimentary vest!

So easy on the eyes you barely even notice it!

Well, if nothing else, I’m sure Elon has at least faced some consequences for his poor safety policies.

Oh.

People are asking why OSHA hasn’t done more. Right now, SpaceX makes not only the best rockets, but the cheapest (by a lot). So I’m going to say it is money. SpaceX sends NASA stuff into space, but who knows how much military shit they are sending up as well. I’m really hoping these people get together and sue, but it would take a large settlement for Elon to actually feel consequences of hating bright colors.

butchscientist:

emptyportrait:

The fuel blockade on Gaza also prevents sewage treatment facilities from running, leading to massive amounts of untreated sewage contaminating the Mediterranean.

lil-kozy-kollector:

What species/kind of stuffed animal do you MOST OFTEN sleep with? If you sleep with one?

Feline

Canine

Hooved or big mammal that’s not hooved (elephant/hippo/rhino-)

Winged

Reptilian

Aquatic

Insectoid

Rodent/rodent-esque (possums/raccoons/ferrets/etc)

Monkey/ape

Something I missed/humanoid/put in tags!

mach622:

yandere this and tsundere that how about doing your laundere

irohsteaa:

Richard Braun appreciation post

skellydoll:

Funni things I drew last year that I’m reposting here

I don’t think they’re getting invited back

8o–o8-deactivated20220523:

kbishop:

#I hope they feel like Italian today

You know the best thing about the internet is when you do time jokes like this, in any medium, there will be at least one person on the internet somewhere who will just remember that joke until they can make it go full circle no matter how long it takes

the-haiku-bot:

blood-orange-juice:

bemusedlybespectacled:

elfwreck:

redshiftsinger:

curlicuecal:

rabbitindisguise:

honestlyvan:

3liza:

i cannot emphasize enough how important it is to have gossipy bitchy littl pirvate group chats or discord servers with like 4 people in them whose stated purpose is posting “new kind of guy” or “this reddit post is so fuckin dumb” or “i got into a fight on twitter today look at this idiot’s reply” so your homies can still see it and laugh and back you up but more importantly, so you are not tempted to post these kind of things on main

# you can also practice just having self control in private in general # for example i do my best to never shit talk actual people ever # i can guarantee you that if you never form the habit of talking about anyone behind their back you will not do that.                                                                                                                                                

seriously, there really is no reason to gossip, the whole “everyone does it” rings hard like all those “everyone spanks their kids” bullshit. Yeah they do, and you still shouldn’t do that. Pick up a weird hobby like organizing bricks by color in minecraft like the rest of us. 

Mmmm, gonna back op on this one.

I kind of wonder what you’re picturing when you hear this, because what I’m picturing is stuff like critiquing the fanfic we read way more frankly than we ever would to an author’s face.

“Gossip” has a number of important social functions, and like any other social interaction it is a tool that can be used in good or bad ways.

We discuss positive and negative interactions we’ve had later and in private with our friend groups because this helps us process them. It can be a vibe check (“does it seem like this person was acting out of line towards me?”) or an analysis (“why do you think they did that? what do you think I should have done?”) or data compilation (“is this a pattern? has this happened to anyone else?”) or data sharing (“hey this alarming interaction happened, watch out”) or just venting to channel emotions into a place where they’re safe to have (“friend is processing bad thing and I’m upset on their behalf, so I need do my own processing somewhere else”).

If you can’t complain about your boss to your friends, how do you even figure out what bad boss behavior looks like?

And when some stranger’s being a dick on social media it is usually infinitely healthier and more constructive to go chat that argument out with your friends than to let yourself get sucked into fighting with someone very likely more interested in hurting people than listening.

Figuring out which social circles are the most beneficial places to have which discussions is a huge part of figuring out how to navigate the world and building yourself the support network you need.

“I never talk badly about anyone even in private!” cool high horse you’ve got there. I think you’re a liar though.

If you aren’t a liar now, time will make you one. You’ll eventually repress enough stupid little bullshits that you didn’t properly process for the back pressure to turn you into an asshole who thinks you’re justified. Worst kind of asshole, in my opinion.

Way better to be a bit of a dick in private with some friends about something annoying that you’re still able to remember is objectively Not That Serious than to be a chronic dick in general because you’ve repressed enough irritation that every new inconvenience feels like it’s a huge offense that’s pushing you over the edge.

This is a big part of it:

If you can’t complain about your boss to your friends, how do you even figure out what bad boss behavior looks like?

If you don’t gripe about “that bitch” with your friends, so they can gripe back about their own “that bitch” and you all agree that your complaints are mostly petty but they were annoying to you at the time… then you have no scale for noticing the difference between someone being a petty nuisance and someone being abusive.

Because a big part of the private friend group sharing complaints, is that sometimes one of them will say, “uh, that there? No. That is not normal and not okay. You should do something about that, not just complain to us that you don’t like her.”

Part of how you learn to recognize the difference between “unpleasant behavior” and “abuse” is by listening and sharing stories about behavior you don’t like. There is no nice sharp objective list of “XYZ behaviors are abusive and everything else is a matter of personal preference and you should just remove yourself from the situation if you don’t like it.”

Having a group of friends you can complain with is like having your own private AITA server. They can be supportive with “okay, you were sick and kinda overwhelmed by deadlines, but um, I think you’re a little overreacting here” or they can point out, “no, you’re right; that other person is totally unreasonable and it sucks that you have to put up with it” – or sometimes they can say “errr… do you know a good lawyer? Because this is a call-a-lawyer situation you’re in.”

You don’t have to be deliberately cruel and overtly vicious to find value in having a place to vent.

Also, like, you will have negative opinions about completely innocuous things for completely arbitrary reasons. Not everyone has the same tastes or tolerances, and that’s normal.

I have a very low tolerance for nasally-sounding voices and OOC moments in fanfic. There is nothing morally wrong with either of those things, nor is my opinion about them universal: I just don’t like them. And that means I can and will complain when I come across a nasally-sounding actor on one of my Broadway soundtracks, or when I come across a line in a fic that makes me immediately be like “He Would Not Fucking Say That”… with my husband, or one of my best friends, or a Discord chat of people I know, instead of, I don’t know, sending hate mail to Frances Ruffelle or bookmarking the fic with “extremely OOC and I didn’t like it.”

It is okay to not like things. It is okay to then talk about how you didn’t like it. It is better to do that privately with people who are not emotionally connected to the situation than it is to say it anywhere where it might get back to that person.

This. Apart from the benefits of venting, some gossip is *useful*.

I ended up in some quite toxic relationships in my youth for the sole reason that I was too idealistic to gossip.

When I was uncomfortable about someone’s behaviour I didn’t talk about it and assumed that if no one else told me it was wrong (surely they’d notice) then is was probably normal. I am the overly sensitive type after all.

And when months or years after I casually mentioned to friends “I don’t talk to N. anymore” it was usually met with an approving “great, good for you, they were walking all over you and I kept wondering why you allowed that”. Most of my friends are very tactful people and they didn’t want to impose their opinions if I didn’t ask.

And I didn’t ask. Because I was so damn idealistic.

So, yeah, it’s much better to vent and gossip.

This. Apart from the

benefits of venting, some

gossip is *useful*.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

broadacre:

Naoki Urasawa & Mai Yoneyama on the Passion of Drawing