fuck off (unspecific, non-directional)

Millennial inspirational text, but make it Guardian.  Original post: https://twitter.com/catacalypto/status/1299236146883342338

hannibal and will weren’t even toxic. all of that was normal

The lack of song repeats even on the very specific nouns???? The caps for emphasis and long pause????? The shifting between speakers in this format? This is a masterwork.

@meiringal

I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

The Kids are indeed Alright.

We must teach them the Lore of things,

like piracy, and how to find stuff at the Library, and Unions, and what it's not legal for job applications to ask you.

when i hear complaints about the boomers, i say "was it not boomers getting shot by cops while protesting against the war in vietnam? Were not boomers the ones who insisted that banks would no longer require a cosign from a husband or father for a woman to open an account or have a credit card? Did they not literally take us to the moon?"

When i hear complaints about gen x i say " did not gen x bear the brunt of AIDS and the creation of the 'inner city'? wasn't it gen-x marching for queer rights and women's body autonomy and a change in corrupt banking policies in some of the largest protests in the country's history?"

when i hear complaints about millennials, i say "have not millennials fought against and lived through so many 'once in a generation' disasters they should by all rights have given up by now? Are not millennials those who rally against the status quo? the industry killers, the cop protesters, they who live through unending hardship as the economic noose tightens, leading the charge for sustainability and socio-economic reform?"

when i hear complaints about gen-z i say "hasn't gen-z gotten involved younger, and been involved stronger, in the continuance of these noble traditions? Are they not living without even the broken pieces of the promise given to the generations that came before? haven't they had their childhoods derailed by the imminence of consequences for actions they were never even present for?"

when i hear complaints about generation alpha i say "HOW DARE YOU. How dare you malign these souls who will have to fix so much that they did not have a hand in ruining... or else die of these mistakes made before they were born. How dare you do the work of our shared oppressors and alienate our fresh blood. You are not to mistreat and mock the youngest soldiers in this fight, no! you point out to them the best targets, you share your rations, you show them how to stay alive, because anyone in the trenches with us is our brethren, our sistren. Our safety and our strength."

don't let the worst kind of stand up comedian tell you other generations are terrible. Don't let the worst kind of headline convince you each generation is against the other. Don't let the worst kind of oppressive force keep us divided along lines that mean nothing real. Because that is how they win.

This was said so much better than I ever could. Generational Hate is how we all die slow.

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

Obsessed with these two women who saw a Pokémon battle going on and did not give one single fuck

That's just what living in a big city is like.

nothing could prepare you for the opening of the second paragraph (source)

I think that, when you are on hold, the hold music should not stop to tell you that you are on hold. The hold music should only stop when someone actually picks up your call. Vote me for president

"There are 5 callers ahead of you" can stay but it's on thin fucking ice, i.e, it can only stay if it plays when the number of callers ahead of you changes and not every 5 minutes. And CERTAINLY not every 30 seconds

i told one of the preschoolers i was going to take a nap when i got home and she asked me three times if i was joking and then afterwards just flat out refused to believe me

i told her today that i did in fact take a nap yesterday afternoon and she sternly said "you keep messing with me."

"burgundy crepe georgette fabric" none of those words are fibers

Satin, Sateen, Georgette, Crepe, Velvet, Velveteen, Charmeuse, Brocade, Damask, Chiffon, Taffeta, Dupioni, Broadcloth, and Twill are not the names of fiber types. they are weaves. if I want to know what something is made of, and the description just says the weave, that tells me nothing

cotton is a fiber. wool is a fiber. silk, linen, viscose, lyocell, modal, hemp, rayon, and my despised enemies polyester and lycra are fibers. "Vegan" anything is a fiber that's lying to you about not being plastic, but that's a separate conversation

identify. a fabric. with useful terms.

this sucks so bad I need to [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] force my son and my dead situationship’s daughter to get married so I can take over Thrushcross Grange

i haven't forgotten this photoshoot since I first saw it a year or two ago

the phantom of the opera and the hunchback of notre dame? opposite ends of same spectrum 

And beauty and beast falls somewhere in the middle

someone do a graph

you rang?

I couldn’t resist

This is the science I’m here for

the culture writers at rolling stone have invented the concept of doing drugs