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Becoming a frequent patron of my library's ebook services is legitimately changing my life.

Fuck yeah, books.

@Felthry Best estimation: "this is a point the author is clearly invested in making, and it reveals a lot about his personal life in a way that's probably semi-deliberate, and tbh it's a statement that I find pretty resonant, feel slightly called out by, and will have to think more about."

If you asked me to write out in words the meaning I was trying to convey with :thaenkin:​ in that last post it would take me several minutes and a whole lot of consideration. Yet, it was clear that the emoji expressed precisely the thing I was trying to convey.

Evolving language is weird.

I nearly had an existential crisis until I saw it was just a reflection

Twice now in Bullshit Jobs, Graeber has used "gossiping about friends' complex polyamorous relationships" as a possible thing people could be doing instead of having to be at work, and I'm like, :thaenkin:

Sociological question: why is so much 80s media (movies and music in particular) interested in the experiences of highschoolers?

simmering take: is Care Ethics inherently anarchist?

Every once in a while I'm reminded that Dinotopia is a book that exists, and I get a little happier.

I've been reading Bullshit Jobs by david graeber and: it's good.

The term "bullshit jobs" 100% continues to be used throughout the book.

""An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." - William Shakespeare"

if capitalism is such a good system why did the mx518 get discontinued

With the deliberate implication that it's only a small part of a person's life.

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Thing I lowkey appreciate about my social group: the question isn't "What do you do?", it's "oh btw, what's your day job?"

"Squidward" = "in the direction of the squid"

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