why did they make picard? for who? can we not just let grandpa rest?

if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”

It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough

Very cold take but the reason I think a lot of settler vegans view meat as murder (and therefore immoral) is because they cannot get past their colonial mindset of viewing all interactions as either consumption or domination instead of the reality of a vast web of mutually beneficial and self sustaining relationships with the ecosystem and eachother

This literally makes no sense. How does buying prepackaged meat from the store count as “beneficial” to the ecosystem. In what way are factory farms good for the environment? Does the continuation of the horrid things of the meat industry help out with that? I don’t understand.

btw you should absolutely read stuff you don’t agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren’t contagious and reading words someone else has told you are “bad” won’t infect you like a virus and make you “evil”. read with your own brain.

there is such a huge difference between “you are not immune to propaganda” talk and acting like words are magical and enough of the wrong ones will automatically override the brain of anyone who reads them and that’s all there is to it and it drives me up the wall bc that difference is the whole key to not falling for propaganda

“i read a lot of right wing nonsense back to back and after a while i could see how it could convince people” yes! exactly! you could recognise the way it was trying to work and presumably it didn’t and that’s why you’re here on tumblrdotcom talking about it and not out there screaming at pride marches or drinking bleach for your case of shingles. your brain kicked in and noticed the mechanisms and instead of stopping to analyse what those were, how you stopped them and how to teach others to do the same you’re acting as if it was some lovecraftian magical mere exposure nonsense and there’s nothing to be done about it. “you are not immune to propaganda” does not mean “there is no way to recognise propaganda, or realise when you are being sold something, or catch it before it goes too far, your only hope is to just never ever look at any of it.” you’re not immune to sunburn either, but you can notice when it’s bright out and wear a hat and some sunscreen.

does anyone else think it's a little weird that they found the former president's ex wife dead at the bottom of a staircase during the capitol riot hearing where they revealed the former president had been engaging in witness tampering

I'm filing this one under "She was 70+ years old and this happens to the elderly all the time but I would be genuinely surprised if this was not foul play."

i want to travel the world but in like a different reality where it’s safe and fun and nothing bad ever happens to anyone ever. hope that’s okay

it is 2002. i am 6 years old. people on tv are complaining about rage against the machine being too political.

it is 2012. i am 16 years old. people on tv are complaining about rage against the machine being too political.

it is 2022. i am 26 years old. people on tv are complaining about rage against the machine being too political.

God I fucking love werewolves

God I hate werewolves

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

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this headline should be “police kill innocent child in reckless firebombing”

The innocent boy’s name is Brett Rosenau. He was 15 years old, not 14 like some news outlets have reported. Here is a link to donate to his funeral expenses. His father, whom Brett is named after, was shot by police on December 31st, 2006. He was 24 years old and his son was months away from being born.

His mother Amanda Lopez has lost both her partner and son at the hands of police.

my issue w the toothpaste flag is how many young lgbt people who don’t know our history at all have told me that when i use the rainbow flag for myself or my community as a gay man i’m using the “wrong one.” Gilbert Baker’s flag means more to me and almost every gay man ik or have ever interacted with irl than that blue/green “actual mlm” flag with no history or recognition by the larger (adult) community y’all cling to and erase our history with

adding @nokomitsu ‘s tags bc they completely highlight my issue w this

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Happy 4th of July

* Cold Stone*

can i have a coochies and cream milfshake? 

this is a BANGER and y’all know it

you are allowed to be angry, it's good to be angry. even if the person you're angry at had the best possible intentions you are allowed to be angry.

you're allowed to express that anger. you're allowed to feel that anger.

what matters is that you don't use that anger as a way of hurting other people or yourself