when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

to all the men out there not getting laid: try less hard to get laid and try more hard to be an enjoyable and relaxing presence

The original meaning of the male loneliness epidemic when it was first talked about maybe 10+ years ago was the former. It has mutated since in the same way that academic concepts like ‘the male gaze’ and ‘death of the author’ have mutated online, until it's become something in support of the structures of toxic masculinity, instead of a critique, as it was originally intended.

The original discussions:

Manosphere grifters in 2025:

Don't make me tap the sign

every time.

what was going on here last night

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

Many of you I fear

Today I called a girl homophobic as a joke and she almost started crying

She said “my neighbors are a lesbian couple! I’m the least homophobic person you’ll ever meet”

I said “Kelsea I’m really sorry I hurt your feelings but I need you to know that homophobic people can have lesbian neighbors” and she just got even more distraught and said “I’ve been inside their house and I wasn’t even afraid or anything”

AFRAID OF WHAT??

She entered the Home of Phobia and wasn’t even scared

Oh that is beyond beautiful, need more shenanigans like this in the world

A selection of the finest crocheted geodes! Pattern is from Crafty Intentions (a genuine genius of these modern times) and if you try it, I would recommend beads in the 8-12ish mm range. I tried larger (the blue one) and smaller and that seems to be the sweet spot, at least for me!

is this orange or yellow.

its yellow you are all wrong i have decided just now

hey op, what does this say?

nice try but i’m not colorblind it says 71

Am I tripping?

Is that not 71?

You’re slightly colorblind, that is 74 and the color of the car is orange.

world heritage post

It’s orange

it’s literally 71

Bestie it’s 74

Y’all it clearly fucking says 21

where are you getting that from?

Babes it’s 81 what r yall seeing

its 74 bestie you might be colorblind

That 81 person can see shrimp colors

I took exactly the same image, increased the saturation, and shifted it to a part of the spectrum most people can see better.

For all your no-YOU-have-the-weird-color-vision argument-solving needs.

Also, the car is orange.

Posting this in case anyone is color blind and doesn’t know it lmao

@cartoondog

So, I wanted to identify the car, and I was dead set on Subaru because those looked like a Subaru door handle and the Sunshine Orange Subaru painted the XV, known in the US as the XV Crosstrek because I don’t write the jokes about yankees needing shit spelled out, the world writes them and I just read them aloud.

So surely this is the car in picture, one would think, especially once assured by Google Lens that that’s what the picture depicts. But there’s one conclusion I kept coming back to:

Yes, people. Someone out there not only cares what car we think that is but is actively working to deceive us into thinking that is the last generation of the car I keep having to remind myself is not spelled Crosstek. But I will not fall for it, and with my help neither will you!

From such a closeup, in fact, one would surely, if not notice the upper feature line being a nick further out than the upper edge of the handle hole, at least notice the presence of a lower feature line below it, or at the VERY least the doorline curve to its right being concave and not convex.

So perhaps the previous generation had the simpler lines we’re looking for?

Yes, but also a handle recess that does not reach all the way to the back of the handle, so, having gotten back to square one, I resorted to a cunning strategy: waiting ‘til I got home and finding the picture source on my computer.

(Which I could still do on my phone too if Google wasn’t hellbent on pretending Lens could ever be a serviceable replacement for the OG reverse image search when you can’t even sort matches by fucking size and its idea of exact matches is as accurate as my idea of staying on topic speaking of which what were we talking about I swear this never happens.)

And I found it’s a 2009-2014 Subaru Liberty (name by which Aussies got the Legacy ‘till 2020).

But, oh the irony, the orange that clued me onto the Subaru brand altogether? It never adorned this generation. And this, as you can see in this more accurate lighting, is not even that orange. Because as it turns out…

Indeed, in the ultimate act of deceit, what you were looking at wasn’t yellow paint nor orange paint for, being a wrap, it wasn’t paint altogether!

This explains what would otherwise be a bafflingly uninteresting picture: in any normal car, that’s just a door handle. In a car basically coated with sticker, that is a flex.

And yes, fortunately, the filename can chime in in the debate.

Not saying that a color necessarily is anything someone making it is willing to say it is, but if you mean to insist that this is yellow…

…well, go tell 3M that. Or go get told that by 3M! They do offer samples.

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

EDIT: This is, by some order of magnitude, this blog’s most popular post, and I’m happy to have entertained so many. If you’re one of them, like @uxbridgeenglishdictionary here…

…I have great news for you: there’s now a spinoff blog called @what-is-this-car, dedicated to identifying make, model, generation and year of vehicles seen around or sent its way, and explaining what gave them away! I work on it with the very appreciated help of many talented friends, and I’d love of you to check it out. (And, well, to check this blog out too, if you have the time.) Thanks! :)

Also, @furreteatingicecream posted a render of what the picture looks like to those suffering from protanomaly (or red-weak colorblindness), courtesy of color-blindness.com’s color blindness simulator.

If you think this doesn’t look any different, well, we may have worked out why you don’t think it’s orange.

This might genuinely be the most endearingly self-indulgent episode of television in history.

People think that indigenous knowledge is from some magical and pure connection to the land when it's really just. Knowledge passed down through generations detailing thousands of years of mistakes and observation and experimentation. It's not some inherent part of being indigenous, it's just that indigenous people are often the ones maintaining those lines of tradition.

And a lot of that knowledge has been lost! And a lot of it was lost and then rediscovered through mistakes and observation and experimentation! And a lot of that knowledge has since been learned to be wrong or dangerous and has been discarded by the communities who followed it!

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

great work everyone!!!!

Give a man a leaf and he will eat it. Teach a man to leaf and he will go away

Druze 🤝 Jewish solidarity