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Me when I smush my face into the wall

source: The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald, September 18, 1811.

put those big brown eyes away dude now is NOT the time

Don’t care. Die.

emojis are dead eyed and soulless yet their only purpose is to convey emotion. how did people fuck this up so badly??

the humble apostrophe

Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny by @catfatigue on Twitter!

This shot of a giant excavator in Germany slowly making its way to a coal site 25km away. [March, 1999]

do people not understand the concept of consent anymore? when the whole debate on AI voices started up and voice actors were saying it was bad, everyone started going "ummm but what about Hatsune Miku??" like it was some gotcha, when no, actually, Hatsune Miku is not bad because she was made with consent. the issue is not "people's voices are being used to make art and that's bad", the issue is "people's voices are being used to make art WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION, AGAINST THEIR WILL. WHICH IS BAD."

if somebody at work steals your food, the issue is not that somebody ate your food, the issue is that somebody ate your food WITHOUT ASKING YOU AND OBTAINING YOUR PERMISSION FOR IT. if they ASKED you, and you said sure you can have some, then there is no issue. and JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, it ALSO means that it is an INSANE leap to assume that this means from now on everyone should be able to take everyone's food whenever they want because there's nothing inherently wrong with it and "well this person said yes so I'm going to assume everybody else will also say yes". my god. do we all collectively need to sit down and watch a dvd on how to learn to share and gracefully accept when people say they don't want you to do something