Unfortunately alive. USAmerican, gay
how's your week going, Beehaw
Oh yeah I know, I wasn't thinking about dating. I'm hideous. I just want to meet someone who doesn't loathe me. I think it would be nice
ETA I do think being straight is easier even if dating is hard. None of the straight people I know have families trying to cast demons out of them, none of them make friends only to later hear them talking about how their demographic are secretly trying to corrupt America and kill the Jewish people, et cetera.
how's your week going, Beehaw
New job on the way, I should be happy, but I feel insanely depressed.
I wish I didn't live over an hour away from the gay nightlife. I wake up at 5 and everything starts after I've been awake for 16 hours. I'm too sleepy and anemic to make the drive.
I had to see my family and listen to them talk about how jealous they are that I'm forced to live in such a "quaint" backwater shithole even though I've told them I hate it. It must be soooooo easy to be straight. I have to jump through hoops to meet someone who doesn't loathe me, and they're all jealous.
There is no wake up call for Harry Potter fans, because they wanted this. Why the fuck else would they fund it?
Stop acting like they're anything less than transphobic wastes of oxygen, for the love of god.
Been going to the gym whenever possible, not the solid routine I'd like, but I'm still enjoying it. Pruned some houseplants that went crazy after a VERY long depression. A few of them might bounce back, we'll see.
Also got a few works in progress going. They gave us flowers at work so I have one pressing under a book right now, and I'm trying to propagate the stem. Not confident, but I hate to waste a flower, so I'm trying. Also picked a bunch of succulent leaves up off the floor at work. Hopefully something grows 🤞
Nah. I'm not 100% against it, some are fun or useful in concept, but I'm here to talk to people, and threads littered with grammar corrections and Sokka haikus get old.
If there was an effective vetting process for useful bots, eg the repost sleuth bot, that'd be nice. But the "good bot"/"bad bot" voting system just became its own form of spam.
I mean, I assume?
I found the bot promoted in a different Telegram channel dedicated to making and sharing AI-generated nonconsensual pornography which has about 50,000 members.
This isn't thought policing... First off, these are actions, but second, no one's policing it.
People still don't know what Mastodon is. I mentioned it recently and someone asked, "isn't it mostly white supremacists?"
Tell him they're ghosts, and the whole joke is that Mystery Inc. keeps finding random guys dressed as ghosts and somehow don't notice all the ghosts yelling right there
Kind of, and it was a good way to keep trolls and spammers out of sensitive communities, but unfortunately with bots and astroturfing existing nowadays, karma incentives terrible behavior.
I usually feel this way, but I was at a pizza place a, while back, and the cheese on the cheese pizza just looked so much gooier than on the others... I still wonder how much better my life would be if I'd had the gooey cheese instead of the goo-less supreme...
I was a beta reader once and the guy rejected all my alterations where I fixed the quote punctuation. So maybe?
I'm with your girlfriend. I don't find pineapple on pizza disgusting, but for some reason it just doesn't gel for me. Same with sausage and jam on a biscuit... One or the other, please!
But anchovies on pizza..... yessssss. Get them salty, grimy fuckers in there.
Been planning on it, but shit just got complicated as I'm switching jobs, and I'll probably have to provide a vehicle if I want a healthy amount of hours. But I'm also NOT going to buy and modify a car before I'm through probation, that's madness.
So basically I may or may not get screwed by the vehicle tariffs, we'll see.
Other than that, I'm kind of playing it by ear. I'm already not a huge spender, but I eat well. I decided a long time ago that that's the last expense I'll cut, I love food too much. I'll get rid of everything else before I go back to living on ramen.
That philosophy is about to become unsustainable. I already know I'm going to have a give up lifting weights soon, so I don't get as hungry, I just don't know when.
Mostly just cleaning my house. I never really finished moving last summer and shits just thrown everywhere 😅 I finally got everything off the floor, threw it in a basket, and vacuumed a couple times. Now begins the process of finding homes for everything in the basket.
My cat sheds like crazy even with daily brushing, so the situation was dire
Stolen Netflix on my TV, 123anime.info on my phone browser. Totally legit. With a good adblocker, of course.
Oh same. I've been trying to cut back on sweets but with Easter having the passed, someone's always got bringing a bowl of clearance chocolates to work or D&D night. Heaven help me if someone brings in cupcakes.
Never found the right balance. 🤷 I said "fuck it" anyway, because there's a few reasons being less feminine is more comfortable for me. I like lifting weights but hate a sweaty scalp, so bye bye hair. I like the fit of men's shirts more. And I realized that there's a lot clothes and accessories that I find pretty to look at, but I don't really get anything from wearing them.
It sucks because customers and family both make rude comments, but at least my clothes are comfy.
None at the moment. Hammer away at job application til I realize it's an hour after bedtime and I need to eat dinner.
Too feminine: weak, controllable
Not feminine at all: ugly troll, clearly failed at being feminine and this is just cope
Have you ever been speed dating? What was it like?
Title. I signed up for a queer speed dating event recently and I have no idea what to expect. Not really looking for a how-to guide, just curious about others' experiences. Was it fun, would you do it again, did you meet anyone cool... That sort of thing!
Our brains are filling with more and more microplastics, study shows | The Washington Post
A paper published Monday in Nature Medicine found that the tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears to be increasing over time. The concentration of microplastics in analyzed brains rose by about 50 percent from 2016 to 2024.
Are there support groups for depression that aren't toxic?
I tried /r/suicidewatch on that other site, but even though I made it clear that I was looking for advice and encouragement, the only two replies I got were in agreement that it doesn't get better. 😐 /r/depression is even worse by the look of it.
Does anyone know of any good websites, or is it the nature of all of them that they just turn into a crabs-in-the-bucket nightmare? I'm trying to get better but it also gets isolating pretending I'm not depressed all the time.
Carved pumpkins, mine is the middle
Never done this before, turned out to be a lot of fun :)
‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union.
‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union.
Kesaria Abramidze, a trans model, was murdered the day after the bill passed. Even if the president vetos it, this law already has a body count.
What books do you consider must reads?
So basically I was unschooled, and the amount of books I've read in my life is embarrassingly low. It was never emforced like in a school, and with my family's religious hangups, I never tried getting into new things because I never knew what would be deemed "offensive".
But I'm always interested when I hear people talk about both storycraft and also literary criticism, so I want to take an earnest stab at getting into books.
No real criteria, I don't know what I like so I can't tell you what I'm looking for, other than it needs to be in English or have an English translation. Just wanna know what y'all think would make good or important reading.
ETA holy shit thanks for all the suggestions! Definitely gonna make a list
ETA if I reply extremely late it's because it took me this long to get a library card in my new locale.
Who even watches channels like 8 Passengers and DaddyOFive?
It seems like I'm always hearing about family vloggers getting put away for child abuse. I'm not into family vlogging, so maybe I'm wrong, but people always make it sound like these two channels were popular.
But then they go on to describe their videos, and it's always parents doing insane shit to make the kids cry on purpose, or announcing on camera that they're withholding necessities from the kids or something. I've never heard anyone say they like these videos, and I can't imagine why they would, so then how were they supposedly popular?
Torrenting this show isn't an option. Every torrent I've tried has this specific episode missing, with a duplicate episode in its place. Most of the streaming sites do, too. The only stream I've found is on vidsrc.me, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to download it.
I've searched around and found multiple recommendations for video downloader sites, and several people suggested the Firefox extension DownThemAll!, but I've had no luck. It's a generic "can't find video" message every time.
I'm guessing these apps and sites worked at some point but they updated their API. Hoping against hope that someone who's done it recently can tell me how they did it.