Theodora, empress of sarcasm

I’m traumatized but I’m funny.

The people saying “if you don’t like public executions, don’t watch them” are the same ones who can’t just skip the books and movies they hate without losing their shit and trying to ban them. Somehow a live execution is optional, but everything else needs a content warning or a removal.

solid 7’s all round 😅

Mitt hjärta är fortfarande fullt efter gårdagen! Tack för all kärlek och tack för att ni startar december tillsammans med mig varje år. Ni är bäst ❤️ My heart is still full from yesterday! Thank you for all the love, and thank you for starting December with me every year ❤️

A dynamic I have noticed: A woman puts "Dr" in her profile name. The incel says oh, that doesn't mean you know more than me. A woman celebrates her PhD. The incel writes a big, long think piece about how it's not really that impressive. A woman tweets out a well-composed, erudite thought. The incel says oh, you aren't some innovative genius, lady. You're a midwit at best. But in almost every case, nearly without exception, the woman has not said she is impressive, or smarter than anybody else, or an innovative genius. She has simply existed in public. It is not her but OTHER people who've said some version of these things about her. To the incel, this praise from others, which he deems to be richly undeserved, is counted as a moral flaw in the woman herself. In being considered praiseworthy by others, she has transgressed It does not occur to the incel that one can't control that others find ones actions praiseworthy. It does not occur to the incel that the only way for the woman to stop others from praising her is to completely remove herself from the public sphere. On second thought, maybe it does occur to the incel, which is why he says what he says. Because he wants her to shrink away and disappear.

Methodology

You’re not “doing your own research.” You have never learned how to do actual research. You’re just farting around on the internet until you find someone who tells you what you want to hear.

Kids from wealthy families have less stress, longer lives, study finds trib.al/Vl9WHof

me: I grew up in the 80s. my 10yo: ooh we learned about 1880 in school. Did you have a horse?!

Being a Nazi is actually so fucking embarrassing. You lack so much personal accountability that you think the reason your life sucks is because of the Jews or Mexicans or black people? Lol Your life sucks because YOU suck, and your daddy sucked before you.

The issue with people “letting AI do the reading for them” is that a society that does not read is a society that can’t think critically. It can be easily manipulated by authoritarians. When we don’t read we are less informed, more dependent on tech tools, and more compliant.