the good old “how dare you desire for your life to be better when there’s people who’s lives are worse!”

if i was cis and stayed white i’d vibe in 1950s or something. but as a trans person hell nah, i like having some healthcare, not much but some

this mood is what i call “i need to get shit done” where you give the distraction gremlin in your brain candy in the form of music and caffeine whilst you desperately try to use the remaining resources in your brain to get work done because the deadline has entered “i can actually conceptualise this event happening” zone of the calendar and you’re stressing out

casually throws out birth certificate

i think emotional attachment to objects is a human thing overall. but as adhd folks have object permanence issues, we do get re-attached to those objects that we forgot about pretty fast

reading that hurt me on an emotional level, heck no, never, how could you?

just because the things you want aren’t on sale… doesn’t mean the sale doesn’t exist

lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast

so that person is both wasting people’s time, and possibly making their current team feel unnerved and replacable. galaxy brain move truly

“name your file please”

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“file already exists”

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“file already exists”

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sometimes i go a little wild and call a folder temptemp

i have an addon called session buddy that makes regular backups of all my open tabs. i must protect my precious tabs

fascinating how far we’ve gotten in the science of abusing every aspect of human psychology

there’s so, so many ways to influence others

recently i’ve been binging some true crime, two videos by two different youtubers, same topic. A mother murdered by her adopted teen son

• video 1: the mother is presented as a flawed saint, not perfect but with a big heart. the teen is presented as a sociopathic monster, troubled, ungrateful, heartless. the second to last fight he broke her arm. the last fight he killed her. when he spoke of how his mother abused him the youtube comments sang “what a monster, to try to slander his mother after he killed her”

• video 2: a few more details appear, the focus shifts towards the mother. she once had two adopted sons, the second she adopted so “[her son] can experience having a sibling”, some time later CPS had to intervene as the second kid had bars in his windows and a bucket for a toilet. he was deemed troubled and ultimately ran away from home. she had a tendency to fight with her remaining son, degrade him on the basis of his race “if i hadn’t adopted you, you’d be standing on the border with the rest of those people” (she might’ve said “idiots” but i can’t be bothered to check). she felt like her teenage son owed her money for phone bills. the narrator here goes into detail how antisocial personality disorders can be caused by both genetic and environmental factors, they can be learnt behaviours. the remaining son often left home and lived with others after he fought with his mother, mostly about money. here the fact he broke her arm in a fight is ommited, just mentions how he lived with another person and thought long if he should come back. he’s presented as a troubled teen abused by his mother who taught him heartlessness and who ultimately snapped and killed her. the youtube comments sang “what a terrible woman, how could she treat him like that”

same situation, two videos giving you the “correct” interpretation of the events. if i hadn’t accidentally found the other one i wouldn’t even have known there was more to the story, it seemed very matter of fact, very objective, just reporting on what happened & the context that caused it.

it’s really that simple, all it takes is to pick the facts that suit your narrative and present them, you’re not really lying that way, but who would consider it truth either

and that’s one tactic amongst many

PatricianTV is my go to for games

Quinton Reviews for nickelodeon sitcoms

Hbomberguy and ContraPoints (also philosophytube but her videos are shorter) for breadtube

are the first that come to mind

oop sorry, seems like i’m from the opposite side of the world and my phrasing after waking up could also have used some work

by “there” i meant reddit in that comment

to this i’d like to add that when i browse there sometimes i keep seeing people saying things like “this is reddit libs are everywhere” “this is reddit even slight conservatism will make people call for a death sentence” or “this is reddit you can’t say anything non-progressive” and those are getting many upvotes, whilst anything said that’d paint you as anywhere left of centre will get you downvoted.

it seems like the conservatives have taken over and yet they still feel like they’re surrounded

that’s not a punk then! that’s someone who dresses like a punk

that is some advanced belief if the man himself revealed his secrets and yet you insist that no actually, i know better than you, it was magic!

“no think, do” works, but it’s hard to get into that mode. mindfulness sometimes helps but that’s a habit and habits are hard

unfortunately for the future me those are considered fully optional