(He/Him) I think I tend to talk too much.
I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that’s not important right now.
If you get it done to you, you want to get someone back. That is true for the first few times it happens. Later if it happens to you - espwcially if its in a more serious or dsngerous context - it tends to actually make you empathise more and feel discouraged from engaging in that behaviour.
Spending time on a space like modern twitter or 4chan can make you pick up their habits, and also desensitise you to their way of doing things.
In Minnesota, ICE murdered a white woman who was a citizen and bystander (not protestor) and who was just trying to obey ICE’s instruction to leave. This has caused not only massive protests but also relatively strong condemnation of ICE by the state government, bringing the US even closer to civil war.
I can’t believe i forgot that one. Biggest story IMO, has been on my mind ever since i read about it
Social media news that I know of
Global events
Israel has been using drones that play sounds of women screaming and flying them over refugee camps in Gaza and Palestine. Just to psychologically torture survivors.
This has made me realise how little news I actually pay attention to
You could get banned from mainstream subs (white people twitter, for instance) if you interacted - not just followed, but simply interacted - with a sub they didn’t like.
This is bad because for the admins it counts towards justification for a PermaBan. They don’t take into account what you were ever banned for just how many you accrued.
Irreversible PermaBan with no explanation. And I always disliked the prevailing culture there.
No mate give it a rest and don’t worry about it. People aren’t going to know when you started college unless they’re looking at your CV or you explicitly tell them, and even then they have no idea what you went through. Could have been working in between years or taking time off for health, it’s not really their business.
I myself will be graduating at 24 unless I switch to a quicker program. It feels a bit awkward but only when I look at it through the lens of hateful people who neg all the time.
Far more people graduate outside of the expected range of 21-25 YO than you realise -
…but you might not encounter them all that often.
(If you’re on a prestigious course you’re going to be with a very young cohort who came straight from high school to university, but throughout the countless other courses in the country there will be 25-50 year olds sitting down for their first lectures in the subject. Most of them will elect to study remotely, e.g online or lecture recordings, so you’re doubly less likely to encounter them)
University was not created to be an age-bound thing like school. We lose sight of that now that it’s been clipped on as a near-mandatory last stretch of the educational conveyer belt.
Best of times a phone hast lasted about 4 years
I don’t know but my first assumption would be that thia ia just a symptom of the zoomer ghosting epidemic. Even in a professional context, zoomers a year younger than me have always displayed this incredible inability to respond to important text messages. (Can’t stop grumbling about this to anyone I know LOL)
If you want a really wild explanation consider that, if you’re really not supposed to be there, the police are catfishing for adults who want to date 17 year olds. They see you, check if you’re real, and have no purpoe to caffish you,
Sometimes people act like they’re helping but it means they just bring up your problem again and again and confuse you as to what you really want to do about it. This could absolutely be done on accident, in an eagerness to help, but i also see it done deliberatrly by a few, just to pester people
Men and women lie when they say they want you to express yourself more. Whether they intend to or not, they get angry or sad about you burdening them with knowledge of your own experiences. Many will atore away anything you confide with them, so they can use it against you further down the line.
I think you need to move out, as hard as that might be. Even if you need to put stuff like your educatiom on hold you should get away from them all for good
Which specific people are you thinking of
Yes - dating is ultimately just “do i match with this person, like them, and can we get along together enough.” but the odds of me dating them diminish when increasing the amount of kids they have and increasing how messy their ex’s involvement is.
Edited-To-Add: coupling yourself to a romantic partner is also coupling yourself to their friends and family, but while you can choose not to see your in-laws every christmas or hang out with your wife’s girlfriends, you can’t reduce contact with a S.O’s live-in children or crazy exes (assuming the ex has shared custody)
Nah, it’s not. Because Mastodon is just one segment of the internet rather than “the whole forest” so we can in fact implement nsfw filters or similar.
Wanking, “fapping” and “jerking off” are all specific to penises, yeah. But now people use them for female anatomy too because they’re too lazy to find the specific words and are too used to using the ones for men.
Wanking… just one of many male dominated professions
What you said + the fact that we often end up managed by people who haven’t worked in the area/industry they’re managing.
I think you’re on a good track. Some tips i’ve picked up though: Switch the milk you use with cereal/tea/coffee to soya milk, i found that it helps. Also don’t underestimate the power of a short stroll if you’ve been sitting down for a lot of the day - prompts the body to be in fat burning mode rrathee than fat building mode.
True but still i expect this will be ‘patched’ in 10 years or less and i’m so worried about what will happen to literature by then