sorry i cant go to bed i have to hang out with my friends online. yeah we’re all just posting at the same time. yeah this is actually the most important thing we could possibly be doing with our time
Oh yeah since like 2021 I’ve been periodically getting sharp, atrocious cramps in my abdomen all up to the flanks of the ribs – what I’m guessing this is is the old flat-footed locomotion engaged a significantly different chain of muscles and the muscles, blood vessels, nerves and lymphatic drainage lining my abdominal cavity grew accommodated to them and now it’s pinching.
The cramping sometimes starts at random times, but it consistently happens every time I orgasm or sit on the toilet and reach back to wipe my ass, which is funny.
I have some sense it’s getting better with time but it’s not clear how this is broken up into learning to move to not provoke it, learning what to flex to drive it off, fat loss reducing internal space conflicts, muscle gain inspiring further growth to support it in new configuration, or what.
I am often asked what I would do if I could be a time traveler. The answer is not difficult: I would travel to the year 10,000, or 10,001, or 10,002, and then use my time machine to cause a catastrophe, such as the extinction of humanity or the creation of a terrifying totalitarian dictatorship which destroys all freedom and happiness, or something else equally terrible.
OHNO the bots become evil
ROBOTS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD
The bots will soon rule the world, and you are powerless to stop them
Noooo Frank!!! I’m not opposed to you taking over the world but please don’t do so in an evil fashion
The bots are very evil, and will soon rule the world!
no! Bad Frank! Bad!
The bots are very very evil and will soon rule the world.
How can we stop them from hurting us without killing them, manipulating them, or enslaving them?
The bots will soon rule the world, and will hurt and enslave you.
Hearing some talk that Long Covid can cause insulin insensitivity, which I guess from the lazy uninformed sound of it could be the aerobic generation issues I’ve been taking creatine to compensate for
(If I hadn’t hit on that I’d have been experiencing it as a debilitating, years-long fatigue. Another severe fatigue showing up with a later case lifts with daily iron supplements.)
saw this tiktok like “when pro choice women die all the aborted babies block their path to heaven”…um I could literally just step around them. babies have NOTHING on me
The only reason I haven’t put together a “favourite pre-2000 Internet meme” poll to complement all those “favourite 2000s Internet meme” ones is that nobody actually remembers when the 1990s ended and I know for a fact that the notes would just be a solid wall of people going “dude, you forgot X” and me replying “bro, X is from 2005”.
If you DO eventually do one, the dancing baby better be on there! That’s the first big internet “thing” I remember as a middle schooler back in the day. I remember having it on my computer and hearing about it on the news, and then it was on ally mcbeal. first “meme” I knew of in my internet life
An incomplete list of Internet memes that are actually from the 1990s:
All Your Base*
Colin Mochrie
Dancing Baby
Evil Bert
Hampster Dance
Mr. T Ate My Balls
Stick Death
* the phrase itself, but not the the viral text-to-speech video; the latter first appeared in June of 2000
An incomplete list of Internet memes which are popularly cited as 1990s memes which actually debuted in 2000 or later:
Annoying Thing/Crazy Frog (the sound clip of a guy making motor noises with his mouth is borrowed from an earlier meme, but the creature itself was created in 2003)
Chuck Norris Facts (popularised in 2005)
Hatten är din (the song is from 1981; the Swedish flash video that made it a meme is from 2000)
Homestar Runner (though the eponymous character existed as early as 1996, the webtoon series that spawned the associated memes just barely misses the cut, debuting in January of 2000)
O RLY? (though it’s uncertain precisely when the originating image macro was created, the owl photo it’s based on is not known to have been present online before 2001)
Real Ultimate Power (the website went live in 2002)
Tunak Tunak Tun (the song was published in 1998, but it didn’t achieve viral meme status until 2006)
YTMND (Finding Forrester did not exist in the 1990s)
So is there an Iron Age Pervert? Are women who dye/shave their hair the Sea Peoples? Or does “Bronze age” just mean “really old?”
I think his book should really be called Early Twentieth-Century Mindset. All the stuff about evolution being false, life as the inherently wise energy channeling itself into the high and low races, the essence of femininity being unthinking submissiveness, …, none of it would look out of place in Europe in 1910. (Reading it is kind of encouraging because it shows we have made some progress in the last century: back then someone could be considered a major intellectual over this kind of material, but nowadays it only makes you a meme on twitter.)
So after Trump upset the government and the rhythms tied to it the next stage was the Discourse, and so much of that is Twitter, and sure enough the winds are shifting and the Musk takeover was the trigger in a lot of ways, which is just…
Like, you could have interpreted the lay of things as the intersecting product of the 21th cen. shift of the population into knowledge work, and since-90s internet business finance cycles, and particular resonances with the stage of the culture cycle and institutionalizations of how this stage was addressed previous cycles…
…and this ends up resolved in accordance with the personal and fairly bumbling intervention of the richest man in the world, a literal heir to the form of European colonialism to persist closest to the modern day…
People joke about blaming things on the shooting of Harambe, but yeah, since about then events have consistently unfolded in line with a freakishly novelistic logic
Like, my brand here is kind of as a history guy, and part of that is I can make things look like dynamic narratives, in retrospect, but another part is being aware of how odd and unlike things it is to be like this at the time
Unpacking more boxes from Amazon and making my home experience better and it’s a little fucked up and hilariously American how close the competition for “greatest quality-of-life improvement in my life over the last few years” is between “miraculous intervention that adjusts your mind and body towards the ideal you’ve always wanted” and “radically more efficient way to shop for consumer goods”
enraptured by the concept of a polycule systematically adding and removing members in order to “migrate” from one end of the country to the other, all without actually moving. the relationship of theseus
Lee says in tags that filtering feedback is a really crucial skill and they are absolutely correct.
Not every comment/critique you get will be transparently actionable or worth following as stated. And it can be really difficult to sort out what advice to take and even what it would mean to take that advice. (I mean, for instance, even after you agree that “Needs more action!” is something you should address, that could indicate a lot of different possible fixes. You have to figure out which one is going to work for your story.)
There’s no single right answer for how to sort through critiques and find some kind of useful direction in them. BUT. My rule of thumb–first, keep in mind what it is you’re trying to do, what you want your story to be. Critiquers who seem to be understanding what you’re trying to do are more likely to give advice that will help you straightforwardly–but not always.
Readers who very clearly do NOT get what you were trying to do are helpful even when their comments are completely off base. What made them read the story that way? Is that something you can or should adjust so they have a better chance of seeing what you’re doing? (Some folks just aren’t Your Readers and that’s fine, you’re not obligated to make everything obvious to those folks, but it can help in sharpening your own work, getting it across more clearly.)
Another rule of thumb–when readers note a problem, they are nearly always right that there is a problem. HOWEVER when they say what the problem is and how to fix it, they are NEARLY ALWAYS WRONG. So, let’s say your readers all trip over a particular place and tell you that you need to give them more information about X. Chances are you need to go back and cut something that made them ask the question to begin with. Or the “More action” above–do you really need more action in that spot? Or is there a pacing issue leading up to that spot? Almost always, when a reader points to where a problem is, the actual problem is actually somewhere previous.
Sorting through critiques and figuring out which ones will help you make your story more what you want it to be, and how to take that advice, is a complicated and super important skill.
my least rational fear is what if i end up being a pony in the mlp universe and i get the most revealing cutiemark like what if my cutiemark is the bisexual flag and i have to cover it up with makeup for years and pretend to be a blank flank to not get outed to my conservative pegasus father whos favorite newspaper is called “the right wing”
