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Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

Pathologizing abuse, whether it’s in the home or the workplace, whether it’s physical or emotional or sexual, stops us from being able to recognize the hegemonic structures that make abuse so universal. It is not aberrant, it is completely normal, and that should spur you to action

Saw a post about the sesamarot and wanted to share my favorite reading

The guy asked, the cards gave the most direct answer possible.

i step out onto stage clad in full corpse paint and death metal regalia and start playing the most middle-of-the-road soft rock you've heard since 1974

I kind of wish that the polarities of violence and sex in popular culture were reversed. Like, I wish that writers and filmmakers needed to justify up the wazoo their decisions to show a murder on screen when "they could have just done it tastefully in shadow or something," but no one even batted an eye at a sex scene. I kind of wish that erotic video games were the norm but FPSs were a considered a weird and loser-ish thing to play.

I mean, I really wish that you didn't have to justify either, but it bugs me that, of the two, killing is the one that you can use in wholesome family friendly entertainment but fucking is the one that you forever need to shield your children from even knowing about.

I don't think that this difference is innocent, either. Like, I think that sexual repression is a good means of control whereas the state always needs an army of young men who are willing to kill people.

rats smoked all your weed I watched it happen, encouraged them, and also partook

Have you ever been to earth?

On earth, we use the word “burrito” to describe a tortilla filled with things you eat. Pretty simple stuff, and I’m surprised you at least got that part right. My burrito was, in fact, filled with food. In this, you and I agree and are friends. But this is also where my lifelong hatred begins for you and anyone else whose brain has been repeatedly scrubbed with the same mixture of bleach and Pop Rocks as yours has. Because that should have killed you, but left you around long enough to do what you did to me today. Let me explain:

You’re an idiot.

Let me further explain:

Burritos are eaten from one end to the other. So that means when you assemble a burrito with motherfucking ZONES of ingredients going that direction, you create a disgusting experience for the burrito’s end user. When you make a burrito, you should put the ingredients in layerslengthwise. That way, every bite has AT LEAST A FUCKING CHANCE of getting at least two types of ingredients, and there is little chance of becoming almost hopelessly trapped in a goddamned cilantro cavern.

Have you ever eaten one of the things you make all fucking day? You should try one. They are pretty good WHEN YOU ARE NOT WILLING YOURSELF THROUGH THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM ONLY TO END UP IN LETTUCE COUNTRY.

When you eat a burrito, you don’t stand it up and bite down on it lengthwise like a fucking Rancor. Humans can’t usually dislocate their jaws, and I’m not a fucking pelican. But you must think that’s how it’s done, since that would be THE ONLY FUCKING WAY to take a bite of your crapstrosity and have it taste like a burrito.

And guess what else, player? You probably can’t guess anything, because I’m pretty sure you’re just a mop with a hat on it that fell over and spilled some shit into a tortilla, but just in case, here’s what:

Humans also don’t eat burritos like fucking corn on the cob. Like a fucking typewriter from one end to the other a little at a time and then DING next line. But today I wish I had tried that. Because at least THEN I would be able to eat some rice, then beans, then be all like HEY BEANS I’LL BE RIGHT BACK JUST GOING OVER HERE TO THE GUACAMOLE FOR A SECOND.

Nope.

My experience was more like HEY BEANS IT’S JUST GOING TO BE YOU AND I FOR A MINUTE UNTIL I CAN FUCKING EXCAVATE THE RICE FROM BENEATH YOU BUT BY THEN YOU WILL BE A FADING MEMORY OH HEY I WAS WRONG I’M IN THE FUCKING CHEESEOSPHERE NOW RICE MUST BE NEXT I HOPE IT’S NOT ANOTHER FUCKING SALSA POCKET.

You built this thing like a fucking pack of LifeSavers.

And don’t even fucking think I’m about to open this shit up and re-engineer your nonsense 90 degrees. I ALREADY PUT A HOLE IN IT WITH MY FUCKING MOUTH. YEAH. THAT’S HOW I DISCOVERED YOU FUCKING SUCK AT LOOKING AT THINGS. I AM NOT GOING TO DO FUCKING TORTILLA ORIGAMI TO GET THIS SHIT BACK TOGETHER, ONLY TO END UP WITH A BURRITO THAT’S BEEN SHOT IN THE GUT AND IS BLEEDING YOUR INEPTITUDE.

What’s that? I should ask you to mix it up first next time? IS THIS JAMBA JUICE? I DON’T WANT TO DRINK MY FUCKING BURRITO THROUGH A BENDY STRAW, AND I DON’T WANT A PILE OF BURRITO SOUP IN A FLOUR CAN.

I just want a burrito.

In conclusion:

You’re the worst thing that has ever happened to the universe, you owe everyone everywhere an apology for this burritobomination, and I hope your babies look like monkeys.

UPDATE FOR EVERYONE WHO SAID “JUST EAT IT WITH A FORK”:

A fucking fork?

I DIDN’T ORDER THE FUCKING COBBURRITO SALAD.

If anyone ever handed me a burrito with a fork, THEY WOULD BE WEARING A BRAND NEW BURRITO HAT FROM MY FALL COLLECTION TEN SECONDS LATER.

That’s like buying a car and having them hand you a fucking wrench with the keys. Like YEAH WE KNOW THIS MOTHERFUCKER’S GOING TO EXPLODE AND BE SPREAD ACROSS EIGHT LANES AS SOON AS YOU HIT THE GAS, BUT SHIT, WE GAVE YOU A WRENCH, SO BE COOL.

Jesus already gave me two burrito forks. One at the end of each arm. They’re called fucking HANDS.

A fork. My god. I haven’t cried since I was six, but I’m fucking sobbing now.

People eat burritos with forks?

God is sorry he made us.

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"Autistic characters in popular media are always robots or aliens" I mean, that's just not true. Autistic characters in popular media in fact span a wide range of backgrounds, including (but not limited to):

I’ve met most of these people and they are autistic. By the way

You know, when I saw this poll had been made I fully expected "morbid little girl" to win by a landslide, but evidently I'd badly underestimated the number of Tumblr user who have been harmed by the Wizard.

I love that, since this video came out, we now have the added context that this was during his Year Of Halo

UNRWA, ANERA and WCK have all been forced to pause or halt their humanitarian operations in Gaza because Israel has deliberately targeted any means of lifesaving aid to a starved, maimed, and tortured population of over 2 million Palestinians, almost half of which are children.

This has been broadcasted by Israel so that it sets the precedent of what is deemed permissible in the face of "international law". I said it before, it does not get any more obviously genocidal than this.

Made ricotta and it's...like it's a bit more squeaky and milky than I'd hoped - our stove sucks and I got a bit impatient and I think had too little heat at the start and too much at the end, plus a bit too much cream. Still, added some salt and fluffed it and it's ok? It's definitely in the range of ricotta it's just more I will probably turn it into ravioli rather than use it on toast like I planned

I might make gnocchi actually? I dunno. Gnocchi would probably be quicker and easier so depends how I feel tomorrow/over the weekend

The interactive cat.

Black cats are the best at graphic design, it's a well-established fact.

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well-established fact.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

kill one group of aid workers with explicit intent so that all other potential or currently operating aid organizations pull out of the region to ensure gaza starves with no one willing to risk helping her people. deep sickness

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

In 2020 I was rear ended by someone going 40 mph when I was at a dead stop (person in front of us stopped on a blind hill and I had to slam the breaks).

My (then) 3 year old car was barely dented. Me and my spouse walked off without even a HINT of injury. Not even sore muscles.

The person who hit us and had a 2004ish model? Their car was TOTALED (like it had gone from a borzoi to a pug) but everyone inside was also completely safe and okay.

The lack of safety features on the Cybertruck and in Teslas in general is so scary.

what worries me is people saying stuff like 'let the market decide' because this is late stage capitalism, where production is totally decoupled from demand. consumers do not have choices anymore, we can't make decisions.

instead of responding to this as consumers who have made smarter choices than the victims of the CEO of a company that's simply decided not to comply with health and safety regulations, we need to look at this as citizens who expect their society to protect us. it should not be legal for a car company to make cars that are deadly to drive in, or around. if it is legal, we should change that. if it's illegal, we should enforce that. like, if one company can flout safety and accountability practices to make an absolute fuckton of money, they're all going to try.

so like yeah haha look at the jackasses who wanted to noodle around in a ridiculous status symbol. what a bunch of arrogant twerps! but the con men who sold them a death trap have blood on their hands and need to be stopped immediately.

If people can't understand that this isn't just about individual choices:

You don't get to choose what kind of car your parents drive, you fucking cabbages. You don't get to choose what kind of car crashes into you. You don't get to choose what kind of car hits you while you're crossing the road.

This is about everybody being safe on the roads, not just the people driving the fucking Teslas.

^This. All of it. Modern cars, even in the last 20 years that were safety built and safety tested are NOT tanks, they're highly specialized roll cages in a handful of excellent forms, like shock absorbing, and crumple zoned types. They fold in strategic places while protecting the passengers.

Back in like 2005, twenty years ago, my VW got T-boned by a Hyundai doing 45 MPH.

That VW, a Golf, was a roll cage with shock absorbing abilities beyond belief. The actual front axle got bent a little taking the brunt of the impact and distributing it into the rest of the chassis, and the passenger door's outside was destroyed, but the person sitting right behind that door? Not even whiplash. The car took all the force and absorbed it. Had to get a new one via insurance, yes, but no human lives were lost.

In an older car or a Tesla this impact would have been lethal to my friend sitting next to me and maybe snapped both our necks.

as for the Hyundai? Crumple Zone style. It disintegrated everything on front of the hood of the car- again, the passengers were not even lightly injured. All that force got absorbed.

No one got even scratched is my point. Human lives were mostly the main priority of the designers and engineers who lovingly refined every point of these vehicles and put them through rigorous safety tests. Safety was their selling point!

Tesla is run by a gormless manchild who is out to make money and does not any longer adhere to the hopes and dreams of its engineers. I will NEVER get into a Tesla. There's a reason we gave up on cars like giant steel boxes and started driving cars made to be armor for human bodies.

Personality test, is 80f/26c too hot for you?

one of my potential controversial mental health opinions is that harm reduction should be applied to restrictive eating disorders. obviously someone isn't 'recovered' for going from anorexic to over-exercising and rigid eating routines but it's better than like...literally dying. and the way recovery is currently pushed is a recipe for disaster. I don't know one person who actually recovered from an eating disorder after being forced into treatment.