my new thing whenever an embarrassing memory jumps up out of some backwater neuron to t-bone my present-day thought process is to declare a statute of limitations. like i can burn down an entire building in the state where i live and the law deems it both unfair and illegal to prosecute me after six years have passed, i think that thing i said in high school can be expunged from my record.
glad this is resonating with so many of you! friendly reminder that statutes of limitations vary by state, province, and country, so check your local listings before committing arson.
What is writing but realizing that one of the plot elements of your book is a poorly disguised metaphor for one of the things you know you need to be in therapy about
what the fuck my best friend is currently playing through the mobile game cut the rope, which came out in 2010 and was originally a one time purchase of $1 for iphone and $2 for ipad. it’s now free with constant ads. it costs $10 a month to remove the ads. if you want to play fucking cut the rope without ads you have to fork over 120 usd per year. to play your toilet game without ads. i think we should start enacting greek myth style punishments on these app developers. they have to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity and the boulder is covered with ads and every time it slips out of their grasp and rolls down the hill there’s an unskippable minute of ads beamed directly into their brain as they jog after the fucking boulder
dinosaurs are like the coolest thing possible for a child to learn about. it’s like hey i know you were just borned but giant monsters are real and they fought each other in wars for 100000000000 years and then blew up when the sky exploded.
i am often broadly pretty negative / cynical about the impact of the internet on society but i do have to say that there is something very good to be said about how deeply it undermines the ability of the bourgeoisie to control media narratives in the way they could since basically the beginning of mass communications
like you can see in real time all the pro-israel lines that broadly worked on a population who only had access to corporate TV news completely crumple up and fail against actual footage of what is happening in gaza and what israeli officials are saying on live TV
“israel is just defending itself” doesn’t cut it anymore when you can go on twitter or tiktok or telegram and see palestinian children being pulled from under rubble and netanyahu and ben-gvir going on television to say “this is totally a genocide and we love genocide and bombing civilians”
about to drop literally the sickest insider knowledge you will ever receive pls use it responsibly:
are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that’s an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?
okay, then bring it up to a librarian
seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we’ll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say “hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?” most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there’s an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen
do you want a cosplay contest? a video game tournament? a free escape room? bring it up to the library. it’s not a burden or an annoyance at all. it’ll be like christmas came early for us
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