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homoquartz Follow i've warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises. as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it's just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we're small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, "i'm not here to hurt you. here's something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we're on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i'm being light-hearted and non-threatening right now." small talk isn't to get to know a person. it's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it. the owl shit When I was a kid and would go hiking with my dad and sibling on vacation, every time we would pass another group, my dad would do the smile and nod and "hey". And then after we'd turned a corner, he would say more quietly, "I must make friendly social noises so they do not eat my young" and my sib and I would crack up laughing. Gotta remember that we're mammals under it all.

leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals?

never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.

Oh, you thought your little tradwife homestead in the countryside would let you escape the cyberpunk dystopia? Say hello to Dr. Grok who's going to treat your heart palpitations with an Amazon ad for brake fluid

$5000 TO GET HOUSED + LIVING EXPENSES URGENT!

Gay & kicked out by abusive homophobic family. Stuck in the "can't get a job w/o an address/can't get an address w/o a job" catch-22. Any combo ppl x $$ = $5000 gets them safe.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

All but the most radical leftist Western positions on Israel remain "an apartheid state committing genocide, extermination camps, infanticide, genocide, group rape, war crimes, having illegal nukes, terrorism, extrajudicial assassination and kidnapping are tolerable as long as Israel does it".

That would require them to be more than controlled opposition, which in general... they're not.

Jesus is mentioned ~1000 times in the Bible

Harry is mentioned ~19,000 times in all 7 Harry Potter books

Trump is mentioned ~38,000 in the half released heavily redacted Epstein files—actual number is easily 2X or 3X that

In Conclusion:
•Jesus is the Messiah
•Harry is the Wizard
•Trump is the PDF

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Livestreams Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Capitol Hill Disaster

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is supporting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda, boosting a proposed law by Lindsey Graham that would mass deplatform LGBTQ people and censor abortion content from the internet. And he's trying to frame it as progressive!

Esq. Lionel Hutz's business card meme, but it's Hulk Hogan: Card: "Hell Yeah Brother" HH: "D'oh, they got this all screwed up. [adds punctuation to his business card]" Card: "Hell? Yeah, Brother!"

Historian here: “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody."

— Thomas Paine

#ポケモンイラスト

Fluffy Himalayan kitten leaping onto a bedspread, front paws tucked

How to get away with anything: Trump’s sordid year of pardons No president has ever forgiven this much fraud—or stiffed this many victims.

Trump has erased more than a billion dollars in restitution and nearly 2,000 convictions. You need data to understand a break this extreme—so we crunched the numbers.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"

Fact or Fiction?: Lead Can Be Turned into Gold Particle accelerators make possible the ancient alchemist’s dream—but at a steep cost

Dear Independent:

Why does your article insinuate that the experiment produced unexpected results? The theory has been well documented in physics, and the result was quite expected. Here is an article from 2014 (Scientific American) which speaks to it.

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

lot of traction from my respectable anti-ai mutuals. heads up that this was made with an ai app builder.

Wait ‘til he hears about the guy who reposted it.

Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman" May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.

A link to @msjpauly.bsky.social's feature below:

You might know May Mailman as the woman who took on Harvard on behalf of the Trump administration.

But Mailman, a Stephen Miller ally, is also the mastermind of Trump’s most sweeping anti-trans orders— an extraordinary effort to reshape our ideas about who and what men and women are.

7 key questions that Ro Khanna wants to ask Ghislaine Maxwell when she appears before Oversight tomorrow that Todd Blanche did not ask. But unlike with Blanche, Maxwell will refuse to answer them. Why is she getting special treatment from DOJ? bsky.app/profile/meid...

I don't care if you're a big painting studio or not, if you paint very well or not.

If you use AI to animate or paint your miniature, your art is worthless.

Respect all the other artists, respect the planet and respect yourself.

Cartoon showing two neighboring houses. One house shows people watching a movie and listening to music. A thermostat on the wall indicates it's 21 degrees Celsius inside. A person is holding a smartphone in his hands with a low battery symbol visible on the display. He is looking a a socket to charge it; the socket is currently taken by a plug that connect to a cord that goes outside and to the roof of the house, where it is powering a large LED sign mounted on the roof. The sign reads: 'Europe stands with Ukraine'. The neighboring house, with a tattered Ukrainian flag in the garden, is a smoking ruin. Through the shattered window we can see a mother and child shivering in the dark of the stone-cold interior.

European solidarity.

#Ukraine #Europe #winter #solidarity #StandWithUkraine

For those keeping score at home:

you can’t be the tough-talking get-it-done guy if there’s submissive pee running down your leg.

lizard is doing so much better today. just got off the phone with the doctor. the blockage has been cleared, he's producing less urine, his heart is beating stronger and his body temperature is going back up

we are trying to raise money for his hospital care so please venmo magdalene-visaggio