“Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse, It Can. And Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Better,

why is privacy so eroded. I get treated like a nutcase if I say no, I don't want strange companies taking pictures of my home and putting them online for maps or whatever. I don't want to be in the background of your tiktok, and I think it's weirder for you to assume I'm okay with it than it is for me to politely ask you to refilm it so my face isn't in the frame. I don't enjoy handing my employer a list of every online account I have and feeling under surveillance when I'm just shit posting or sharing pictures of my cats or garden harvest. I don't want to hear your private calls on speaker on the bus, esp when the person on the line doesn't know you're broadcasting their words to strangers. I don't want an algorithm guessing what will piss me off the most so I spend more time online, engaging with shit I don't want to see or hear out of outrage. I don't want any of this. it's total ass.

guy who's profiting from it: look, i don't like it either

“I am exhausted with trying to be stronger than I feel.”

— Unknown

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

im always like hehe im so smart i will avoid shame by never doing anything ever but then i feel ashamed of not living and it turns out i didn't escape any sort of discomfort i just traded it in for a less rewarding kind

have we tried biting people my liege

Silver and sea shell gunpowder flask, the Caucasus, 18th century

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older