also it’s kinda weird that some of you are treating the concept of presumption of innocence like a crazy leftist conspiracy instead of like. a fundamental right of the accused
even if you think him being innocent is unlikely, you should at least be able to understand why automatically treating him as if he is guilty just because the cops say so is a bad thing
“the cops can, have, and will lie to implicate someone if it makes them look good” and “don’t immediately jump on the conspiracy train without critical thinking because that rabbit hole gets weird quick” and “Luigi Magione is innocent until proven guilty no matter what the police, media, and politicians say” are all very important statements that can all exist simultaneously
god that adhd struggle where you are so motivated to do something but there is just like. A Blockage In Your Body that stops the motivation from turning into anything. so you just like. vibrate. sitting there like yeah, man, i totally want to do that right now. (doesn’t)
i posted this image on twitter like actual ages ago but it just keeps getting more relevant
every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one
while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!
other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:
learn the names/species of local plants, bugs, and birds where you live (iNaturalist or Merlin the bird app help with this)
learn the rules to 10 new card games
steal the colored paint cards from hardware store paint aisles and use them to make art
try out every different apple variety you can find and rank them
similarly LOTS of people in the notes doing soup quests, and a few cheese quests also
similarly lots of people reading/watching certain amounts of media over the year, and tracking/rating it
track the number of cats/dogs/etc you see over the year
About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It’s sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm… but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.
It gets so bad he’s always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.
So he buys the ad-free tier, and it’s great… for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from ‘premium partners’. So he goes up a level… and the same thing happens.
So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila… he can sleep.
Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he’ notionally have bought if he’d watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y’ calculation.
The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors’ so he RICO’s this guy’s house and possessions and sends him to jail.
… which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money… there’s no ads and now he’s happy because the only place he’s free… is in prison.
Which at the time was a bit much and now it’s like: Called it.
Elon’s suing companies for not advertising because he’s losing revenue. He’s also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts… and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.
And google’s going around freaking out about ad-blockers.
OP did it hurt when Apollo’s dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?
LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand
I don’t wanna see another story abt a teenage boy coming out to his parents and closed mouth kissing his boyfriend at prom where’s my spy thriller action heist movie w a cast made entirely of dykes and femme gay men you know what I’m fucking talkinf about. I’m tired of The Queer Struggle I struggle every stupid day I know what that’s all about and honestly none of the coming out stories are cathartic or whatever to me. I don’t care. I wanna see a nonbinary person fight a dragon
they don’t even know about thai, japanese, taiwanese, chinese and south korean queer love tv industry thriving..
they don’t even know that in 2025 just one thai company will release tv shows on youtube for free where a depressed grocery store owner woman falls in love with her bubbly customer, where 6 women will be in a toxic love hexagon with each other, two gay vampires shows, a show where a cancelled male broadcast host gets back together with his journalist ex, where two men are investigating murders together while fighting sexual tension, where a bunch of high school boys are falling in love at first sight and nothing hurts, an enemies to lovers gay story about fashion majors, a dark horny love triangle between male coworkers, a messy show about a group of men sleeping with each other on a theatre play set, a convicted young man falling love with an amnesiac prince whom he found on a beach, a romantic comedy series about two brothers scamming two rich men into shotgun marrying them to get divorce benefits, horror gay romance where a young man loses memories of his suspicious criminologist ex, a story about two boyfriends who work as primary school teachers, an ensemble show that includes: a group of trans friends looking for love, high school enemies to lovers destined to be together and gang rivals falling for each other. then also cat cafe show where a man who can talk to cats has hots for the new cafe owner, a doctor and a man who can see the future having their love bloom while they are in hiding together, crack story about a guyfailure having a gig of searching for evidence that a flight attendant’s captain boyfriend is cheating on him, show where a dramatic mafia heir raised on soap operas falls for the guy who gives him an earful about consent and manners, a magical fortune teller offering a failed athlete to be his assistant, a noble man romancing a translator commoner in 1920s Thailand, and a show where a pastor’s young protege fights his feelings for the defiant new boy in their seminary. and only two of those 22 shows have the concept of homophobia exist in them
please for the love of god give us names I only recognize a couple of the shows in the pictures and none of us can know the company unless you tell us please
