avery

nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men

(trying to find the dialectic middle ground but have only been half paying attention) we should lay off on torturing AI until it’s smart enough to feel pain

AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"

you have my number right? drop me a text and we can arrange a hangout/I will catch you up xx

Damn I thought girls loved living under constant threat of the most alcoholic parent in the district demanding they prove they have a vagina

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

i know there are real things going on but we also gotta do something about putting avocado on BLTs and club sandwiches.

this is a 100% correct take. new media news is a value-add for marketing. its prime directive is to glue you to the screen. the endpoint of doomscrolling is staring passively at a glowing box, watching someone put one behind your ear through a camera as if it's not happening to you

this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit

what happens next dog names 0

i implore you all, transgenders in my phone, to get into what happens next webcomic in a big way whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/comics/1#con...

we're so BACK

on comicfury i put a selection of little quotes at the beginning of the chapter. i think they'd feel out of place in the socmed thread version of the comic but here they are for posterity

Spedubopy on threads: "I once had a german bouncer look at my pre transition-ID and then back at me and just go "ja das ist an improvement" [crying_emoji]"

Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a cheesecake boat
upon a cheesecake ocean

yeah 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 it is kind of coming and going in waves and is more manageable than it was a couple months ago but seems to be a chronic situation lmao

it is a quarter past midnight and i can barely walk at the minute due to the great eczema incident of 2025 but i need to go for a WALK. i need to go run around shoreditch for three hours.

phantom THREAD💜

president xi my country yearns for direct messages

Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!

i really do need to sort a vpn for my phone lol

Girl

turns out i can't see or respond to DMs until i verify my age so this will elude me forever.....i love to live in thee united kingdom

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”

Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

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Bad Luck Brian / My Buddy Eric as site-specific phenomenon of displaced torment and torture-- perhaps the Omelas child is a Jungian artefact we fear to face head on?