Vinegrr

"My sisters defend me, not the police"
Seen in Rome

*generalized reaching into the void because if I try to reach anyone specific my brain will go into "pretending I'm fine" mode, and I don't want that*

Oh GODDAMNIT 😭😭😭

That fucking middle bit.

Manosphere and objectively wrong. As a 41 yo, female-perceived person, the guy friends in my age cohort are muuuuuch more able to get it than I am. And I'm not unattractive or a parent!

German (and Danish, and Spanish, and... whatever else is sitting neglected on my learning list) can wait. The CDT can't. 😁👣

Duolingo screenshot that proudly proclaims "I'm on a 787 day learning streak!"

After 2 years and 57 days, this streak is about to come to an end. It might make it another day or two, but after that I will be off in the mountains and very much unable to continue satisfying the green owl's requirements.

If we share a friend streak on Duolingo, my apologies in advance.

In terms of ego, tech bros *hate* that there's other valid stuff in the world that other people could be better at than them.

In terms of money, how can you control the world if there's not One True Technology, but rather a diverse ecosystem of lots of little different types of technologies?

I can’t understand, after the last 30 years of it happening EVERY TIME, how people think AI is going to stay free

Once everyone’s reliant, it’ll cost a fortune we just “have” to pay

Its energy needs will cost us the only world we have

All so someone doesn’t have to write their own Reddit shitpost

It would have to have ALL the Trek, though. And that one episode of Reading Rainbow, as a treat.

this is very inspirational

Doing something wrong/badly.

I wouldn't say I *love* it now, but I've finally learned that doing a thing poorly is way better than not doing it at all, and the more you let yourself do things imperfectly, the faster you get good at them. And with noticeably less stress/burnout.

Am bisexual. Can confirm.

From your fingertips to God's ears

I ... just thought it was obvious? But also my brain loves languages and pattern recognition more than most so I'm probably an outlier.

"Chanteur," if Randy is he/him. "Chanteuse" is the feminine form.

Not necessarily. If you're almost clear of an intersection and someone comes barreling through on a cross street, you've gotta get your 🍑 outta their way asap, not slow down and get t-boned.

Similarly, if someone starts merging into your side, sometimes moving ahead better avoids the sideswipe.

Every time I take a toll road I find myself wondering why they don't do this.

I think it comes down to the fact that people would avoid toll roads even more if they were also "everyone gets speeding tickets" roads.

For me, it wouldn't be that I count office co-workers as friends. It'd be that commuting to work means I'm already out of the house, which removes a major inertial barrier to other out-of-house activities.

"I could do X thing/see Y person on the way home" > "I have to put on pants to [X, Y]"

A photo of Trent Reznor and David Lynch circa 1996. Trent is wearing a Quake shirt.

Me and my houseboy noticed you from across the rave and we wanted to know… do you like LAN parties?

Here, have a beautiful and whimsical art thread as a palate cleanser.

So somehow I might've handled a relational blip... like an adult? Who is aware of being a flawed being and is able to see and accept "flaws" in another person?

How'd I finally learn to do that?

Hey brain -- I'd really rather be using my energy to get shit done than having to piss it away resisting the urge to curl into a ball on the floor, thankyouverymuch.

Gotta love having "Oh no, not again. This one was safe!" attachment trauma Stuff on the key weekend I need to be efficiently packing and moving.

Esp when doing a fast moveout is also a trauma trigger for me.

I love how the little guy looks like he's a runner shaping up on the blocks to take a big sprint 😅

They did Chicago dirty putting it on the bottom of the page like that.

The only 3 real ways to do hot dog are NY, Germany, and Chicago. The rest are for people who don't actually like hot dogs.

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A screenshot of Duolingo. The text is German on top and English on the bottom. Both say "Sometimes there isn't a good explanation."

Sadly true. Especially when it comes to people.

Does the UK even have casserole-the-food? (I assume casserole-the-pan exists there because France.)

Cottage/shepherd's pie with tots 💯💯

And may I humbly suggest totchoes? ie "What if nachos, but with tater tots instead of corn chips?"

Wait, like, they read audibly to themselves in their head? Instead of going straight from eyeballs to thoughts/emotions/images?

That seems inefficient and distant.