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After the girl killed herself, I had to write something about it, because it was news that she died. But I couldn’t say too much about how she died because you don’t want to cause a whole situation of trains and people jumping in front of them. So it turns into a story about the mental health crisis. It turns into a story about how everyone is heartbroken over the incident, and she will be missed. It turns into a story about how nobody knew that she was hurting on the inside, that she seemed a little subdued, that she was an honor roll student, that she had a tennis scholarship, that she had wanted to be an archaeologist, that she had been a valued member of the community. It turns into a story about look at this beautiful future that is cut short, it is so sad that this happened, this is a tragedy and a surprise. It is a story about a sharp break rather than the slow accumulation of sediment. It is a story about anything other than the fact: this girl walked in front of a train and killed herself, and we can’t know why because she’s dead and can’t tell us anymore. Sorry. I should have told you about that one famous philosophy problem about the trains and people in front of them, instead.
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the ironclad, fingers raised to his head and with a sour expression, psychically projects his cramps onto vakuu, who is doubled over on the floor in pain while grabbing his abdomen
doodle page of a dog-person (NOT a furry. more like a human with dog parts stuck on). on the left: he crouches with his knees up to his chest and looks over his shoulder with a less-than-bemused look. at the top: a human who looks very similar minus the hair and dog ears holds the dog-person back from something making him angry. at the bottom: he stands in an ill-fitting tank top as someone offscreen asks "don't you want something less... revealing?" to which he replies "no."
deadlock screenshot of paige crouching with her face shoved into mina's crotch. apollo stands off to the side, watching.
series of posts from tumblr user opencommunion: people who tell you to stop reading the news to "regulate your nervous system" do not have your best interests at heart. if following current events makes you spiral you probably need a better analytical frame, not less information and the analytical frame you need is probably dialectical materialism i'm totally crazy, i freak out all the time, but you know what helps me most? learning. reading. studying. discussing. sometimes you do need a nap, but sometimes you need a conversation with someone more knowledgeable/experienced, or a day at the (physical or digital) library. and really i think everyone has a different baseline emotional register that's best for them and their circumstances, but i recommend aiming to feel solid and anchored, not necessarily "calm." of course we won't feel "calm" after reading about genocide. but if we approach what we're reading correctly, it can strengthen our resolve; feed our fighting spirit; show us paths to liberation. a lot of people in my life have diagnosed me with "revolutionary optimism" and wonder how i maintain that mindset but i'm not an optimist by nature, it all comes from studying
the ironclad looks up at vakuu with a concerned/worried expression -- vakuu looks down at the ironclad with greed and seduction, whispering "my puppet..." as his many demonic arms caress and hold the ironclad close to him.
tyler the creator tweet which reads "Un-Follow Me Now, This Is Gonna Be the Only Thing I Tweet About For The Next Week. Ive Wanted This For Years Fuck. What The Fuck"
the “prophetic future tense” graph - at the time the prediction is made, it is described as if it were a past event, after the prediction is fulfilled
brightly-coloured sticker with the title “the queer agenda” where the “today” “tomorrow” and “forever” sections have “STAY ALIVE!!!” written over them
screenshot from disco elysium: YOU - "T've taken responsibility for my actions now. I'm a new man. Weighty and normal." DOLORES DEI - She doesn't know what to say. YOU - "I'm so fucking normal right now."
bluesky popup telling the user that saved posts are now a feature
various clownsona faces looking stressed and squashed
incredibly squat and sketchy spamton saying something i won’t type out so bluesky doesnt take it out of context and delete it
screenshot of the one sec app’s block session screen for selecting apps to block. the section where you normally select apps now reads: “This Apple screen has crashed. We've reported this issue to Apple (FB15307407). Workaround: Using the dictation/microphone symbol or pasting the target app's name instead of typing in the search bar works better.”
a circular graph with the categories “upper class”, “upper middle class”, “middle class”, “lower middle class”, and lower class. all of them are at least half-full (lower middle class) and at most almost entirely full (lower class). the graph is captioned “Your food choices resemble those of the lower class (92.86%).”
When I’m happy I say: Bitches love my mustache. When I’m sad I say: This time I’m really gonna do it. the man on the left of the meme has been painted over, replaced with a tired self-portrait
seinfield “it’s like a sauna in here” meme punchline
a black and white Calvin and Hobbes strip: calvin walks up to his dad sitting at his desk and asks “why aren’t we hooked up to an on-line service, so we can connect to other computers?” calvin’s dad replies “because it’s bad enough we have a telephone.” cut to a wide angle of calvin on the lawn outside screaming “HELLLPPP!!” to the sky.
screenshot from twitter user @htmljones: alarmingly younger gf (scrolling tiktok): i don't even fw jjk like that but toji phonk edits go so hard 40-year-old ivy league lesbian academic stroking her hair: they used to call these AMVs in the Bush administration
handwritten text that reads: FUCK YOU, I’M TRANS, WEAR A FUCKING MASK by raleigh [last name redacted]
You've been making miles in my prison cell mind You've been making miles in my prison cell mind These are such small, small spaces to grow distant in I don't take deep breaths like I used to Thank Christ I'm not contagious
a can of Mike's Hard Lemonade edited to read: "real sadness. real HARD mike's HARD NIGHT Cold. Hard. Full of regret"
screenshot of a skeet that didn’t fit the text limit: “it typically costs more to buy Entire Packages of the ingredients meant to make a meal than it costs to buy the meal from a restaurant even including delivery fees which means home cooking tends to have a higher cost of entry, on top of the fact that there is more of a cost of time and energy for cooking at home” is true and so is “especially if you buy groceries in bulk, home cooking tends to stretch your money further, and learning how to cook and budget for cooking is a valuable life skill and its not great that people are incentivized to shirk it more and more for various reasons (aforementioned time/energy cost, “learned helplessness”, etc etc)”
a VERY LONG screenshot of a cohost post by cohost user @dizzy-h-slightly-voided titled "Based on previous feedback from Tumblr": alt text is too long to fit even in multiple images, read the whole post here: http://web.archive.org/web/20241126011119/https://cohost.org/dizzy-h-slightly-voided/post/4084381-based-on-previous the gist: ramona and roxy ask scott what name he ("he")'d pick as a girl, realizes everybody knew she's a trans woman before SHE knew she was a woman when ramona tells her she's a woman, and then a catgirl speedrunner clips into existence and unsucessfully attempts to enforce the Egg Prime Directive on now-rhoda pilgrim. rhoda undergoes a magical girl transformation except nothing happens. the post ends on a hopeful note as everybody accepts rhoda. the end.
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