tae glas [siad/iad]

for double reference points, you can go by temba wide-arm 😎

they’ll spend money on anything except fixing the housing crisis or cost of living crisis, it seems.

which is something that in turn would cut down on “keyboard warriors” as they put it, because when people aren’t priced out of living their lives, they have other things to do!

i really worry about what spaces kids online are going to be pushed into, with all these bans. so many people my age were groomed on internet forums when we were kids; i imagine social media bans are going to push kids into spaces like that, where it’s not technically considered a social media site, and there’ll be little to no adult supervision from anyone who’s not in the inner circle of the forum.

The social battery is at -69%

-nice 😭

more cute li’l black cats for the rest of us! 🥳

the two i’ve had are both the sweetest softest babies. 🤩

i’d definitely recommend having these conversations in person (or over video- or voice-chat if they’re long-distance friends), so you both can have a better idea of each other’s tone & how you’re each feeling in the moment

if you have the capacity for it, let your friend know that they can vent to you about things along these lines, if they start to feel like that again. and/or that you’ll be on hand for distractions.

you seem to be placing a lot of blame on yourself, but ultimately, you can’t force someone to want to stick around. what you do have control over, is whether you made sure your friends know they can reach out to you for support, then actually show them examples of that over time.

are they willing to talk about it / can you talk to them about what you’ve been going through?

it might feel like something you’re burdening/guilting them with, or “making it about you” or something, but speaking as someone who’s lost others to suicide & made some attempts myself, it’s all too easy when in that SI headspace to forget or dismiss the knock-on effects that happen to everyone else after someone kills themselves.

it might be useful for them to know that they would be missed, that people care deeply about them, that the world’s not better off without them, and to hear about the ways that that near miss is affecting you.

idk, i think we tend to be very afraid to talk about mental health & we want to leave it up to the mental health professionals etc, but healing happens in community first & foremost, imo

use photo editing software to copy & paste the character onto whatever backgrounds you want.

shitposts made with ai are generally downvoted into oblivion, btw. meanwhile, people appreciate the effort of diy shitposts. with human-made artisanal shitposts, the time & effort taken to make them is visible! 😚👌

that’s the film logo from this year, saying “he mr gay”

the stars on the title of the 2007 game “super mario galaxy” are what spell out “u r mr gay” / “you are mr gay”

then the stars on the title of the sequel game in 2010, “super mario galaxy 2” spell out “u r m i a y”, which spelled backwards supposedly says “ya i m, r u?” / “yeah i am, are you?”

so idk, i think he might in fact be mr gay. we might need a film sequel to be sure, though.

https://gaming-urban-legends.fandom.com/wiki/U_R_MR_GAY

the average person wouldn’t buy a new bed/mattress/wardrobe for a hostel (or even a hotel) they were staying in for a few weeks, no. buying larger furniture items like that would generally indicate to a family that OP might intend to stay longer than a few weeks.

it’s not really about the cost, but about making sure that everyone’s communicating their plans/return dates/expectations, so no one’s in for an unpleasant surprise when OP heads home.

overcommunication will at worst result in a “we know, you’ve told us all before”, while undercommunication could result in “i assumed you’d changed your mind about leaving, after you bought so many things for the house”

ahh. that’s a good bit more than someone would buy for a hostel stay, and probably more than someone would buy for a friend, too.

just be sure that you’re clearly communicating your intentions & letting everyone know that while you didn’t mind spending that money, you also don’t intend to move in & stay longer, despite your new purchases maybe indicating otherwise.

are any of these purchases wildly beyond what you might have bought to make a hostel stay more comfortable, like food/bedding/clothes/entertainment?

without more information/any red flags, it sounds like your parents are just being overly protective/suspicious.

assuming i somehow aquired Too Much Money (the centi-billionaire sorta Too Much Money), i’d give the money to land back projects, reforestation/rewilding projects, and native food forest projects, globally.

that probably still wouldn’t use up much of a centi-billionaire’s money, but i genuinely cannot grasp how much money that is… maybe get involved in politics & make it an international crime to charge money for anything that’s a human right, like housing/food/water 🤔

Oh it could be! I’ve no idea about the origin of his name.

His name just coincidentally happens to be spelled the same way as two different Irish words like beach or fear, etc., so I jokingly pronounce his name as though they’re the Irish words :P

Shan ban.

His name’s made up of the words “old” (sean) and “woman” (bean) in Irish.

(Seán with the fada is what elongates the vowel, so it becomes a person’s name & gets pronounced more like “Shawn” for English speakers.)

the vowels are different etc, but the tweet sets it up like it’s supposed to sound a li’l bit like “tossed salad and scrambled eggs”, which is part of the frasier theme tune.

it’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞

it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”

the article feels like whataboutery in itself, imo. gchq’s main thing is mass surveillance of uk citizens. if they didn’t steal & store people’s data, then that stolen data wouldn’t be stored in one convenient central location from which to steal it 🤷

edit: i do get that it’s not great that this has happened, of course. i just don’t think surveillance should be seen as inevitable in the first place.

until they have a problem with bringing in digital IDs, and the amount of data being stored by google/meta/amazon/apple/etc, this just feels like sinophobia & xenophobia. stealing & storing our data’s bad in general, not just when china or russia want to do it 🤷

it’s from parks and recreation, the characters donna & tom have an annual day where they treat themselves to various pampering and nice things.

the date wasn’t mentioned “in world”, but that episode aired on the 13th of october 2011, hence that day being picked as the official treat yourself day!

quetzalcoatlus northropi!

or sky giraffes, either/or.