i am the very model of a modern gay millennial i have a tumblr blog and a prescription for estradiol i've problems economic, psychological, and medical and sympathies political which border on heretical

all i want is to get hellsitegeneticsed. i want to know what kind of creature my post is. god i want it to be something cool sooooooooo bad do you think they have the genetic code for werewolves

String identified: aattgttgtcattatcattgattttgcattatgtcc

Closest match: fucking badass werewolf Common name: hell yeahhhh

so this is what it's like to be god's favorite

not sure how much more i can take of this specific book being advertised to me but the hook did grab me this time

i'm not normally one to make jokes about dialect or accent. but the way that British people pronounce "lieutenant" feels like an in-joke i'm not privy to

Aww, you're feeling lieut out?

compilation of my all-time favorite tweets

We're in the fascist tradwife, stay-at-home girlfriend, revoked abortion access apocalypse, and people who otherwise are sensible still refuse to admit that most likely means an exacerbated violent hatred for women who just point blank will not voluntarily partner up with a man.

"I'm quickly realizing that society sees women partnering up with whatever man wants them as their social duty, and they'll be met with violence of one degree or another if they refuse."

"This in no way will affect the lesbian population, let alone violently. They're actually exempt from this pressure. Somehow."

got my first ever official customer complaint because when i was going over the terms of their life insurance they were like "well i don't plan to die" and i was like "well you're going to"

I work at a cemetery and you can make payments on your preneed grave and interment and this one guy had just paid his off and to communicate this to him I said, “yep, you’re paid in full so you’re good to go!😁” and he just went “ you shouldn’t say that” and then I Realized

the she-ra reboot makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline

the kids these days dont know this masterpiece…they will learn

the Masters of the Universe remake makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline

when you’re mean to me this is literally who you’re being mean to *image of me perched atop a throne of human skulls on a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls, and the dream goes on forever, one single static frame*

funniest thing to ever happen was when my boyfriend put on the first episode of columbo (which i'd never seen) but he wouldn't tell me what show it was he would only say "you'll get it when he shows up." but a fun fact about the first episode of columbo is that he doesn't show up for 32 minutes and when he does, he silently walks into the room with a cigar and does a little pose and goes "hi i'm columbo."

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

I wonder what Anon thinks "conservative Christianity" is conserving, exactly, when most of the things that make it distinctive are less than 200 years old.

(Trick question, of course; conservative Christians don't constantly have their sincerity questioned because of their political stances.)

This is a thing you notice when you do folklore research - once something has been going on for longer than anyone can remember, people assume it's always been that way. For example, you see people talking about the pagan origins of kissing under the mistletoe, which we know isn't true because kissing under the mistletoe only began in the 17th century.

More generally, I refuse to use the label because, while I have positions that could be considered theologically progressive, they aren't modern. I didn't decide that non-Christians aren't categorically damned because of modernity, but because of (among others) St. Theophan the Recluse. I didn't decide that failing to help the poor was as grave a sin as sexual immorality because of liberalism, but because of St. John Chrysostom. I didn't decide that religion without charity is an abomination because of secularism, but because of the Prophets.

You also see it especially clearly in university culture where the student body is largely replaced every 3-4 years, and so a tradition established 5 years ago is understood as existing since time immemorial (especially when there are genuinely old traditions as well)

At my university there were frequently "formal" dinners where for a very reasonable price you got a 3 course candlelit sit-down meal whilst you wore academic dress. At these dinners you could bring a bottle of wine, and students being students there were drinking games

The main one was called pennying, and involved trying to put a penny in someone else's glass whilst they weren't touching it, at which point they had to immediately finish the glass (if the glass was empty you had to fill it first, you were also not generally allowed to penny the person who last pennied you, or someone who already had a penny in their glass)

This was presented as an old tradition

I don't remember anyone making specific claims about when it became popular, but I think most people would have guessed that it had at least been a few decades

Nope!

When I arrived there were plenty of PhD students who remembered before it was a Thing

And by the time I left, many places had started banning it to try and reduce the amount of drunkenness (and also broken glasses)

Over about 15 years, it went through the whole cycle of being invented, becoming universal, then understood as a beloved tradition, getting banned, and then fading into obscurity

see now I'm curious, @morkaischosen