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LAST WORD

May 22, 2025

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what a cool idea :)

Quatrarius  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 7, 2025

i think "the next 5-10 years" is exactly what i need right now, and then i worry about the pivot when i get there

i've been doing some searching and there are programs where a company pays for the course if you work for them for a year after you get certified, and to be honest even if the job they lock you into sucks, I'm fine with a year of a shitty job because it actually means getting a job, and at least they give you hours

i'm already moving so i might as well go in headfirst, right?

Quatrarius  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 7, 2025

i have been tweaking about the future lately and I'm strongly considering becoming an emt. i can't remember if we have anybody that has done that on here, but i wanted some insight on that and also from people who have made drastic career changes

Quatrarius  ·  14 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 7, 2025

any chicagoan hubskiers? we have our apartment for july

Quatrarius  ·  39 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Obituary for Millennial Culture

10 joints to spliffindor 😎

Quatrarius  ·  40 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Obituary for Millennial Culture

millennials will be hailed as the new boomers in like 20-30 years and not just because they'll age into that demographic slot

Quatrarius  ·  40 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Obituary for Millennial Culture

americans do not know how to age gracefully

there's latent violence and pedophilia in the relation between men and women, and sometimes it's not quite as latent as one might like, and somebody more well-read than me could probably talk a lot about it - but my opinion is that turning child rapists into the ultimate boogeymen has the side effect of making it into the ultimate perversion. that's where the grain of truth lies in the article.

when people talk about this i am constantly reminded of this album by whitehouse where they collaborated with an open pedophile. it has a "song" on it that is just recordings of victims discussing their abuses that he got off of normal-ass news broadcasts in the 80s and 90s. the difference between that voyeurism and the voyeurism of true crime is that he's literally masturbating to it instead of just obsessing over it. you don't need to delve into the depths of the Internet to indulge in this stuff cause if you have eyes to see it, it's everywhere

bouncing to something else: there is a lot of fiction written by and targetted at women that is truly heinous, and i understand the impulse behind writing and reading it. if i write a porny story about being assaulted by a doctor or being thrown in men's prison, i am defusing that fear in myself of being repeatedly screwed over by the people that keep my people down. people are drawn to the stuff that is over the line for the exact reason that there's a line to cross.

i just worry that anti-sex measures will fuel the fires of fetishization. the purest creeps are the ones who can veil it. it disturbs me that we can draw a line and say that an 18 year old is an acceptable target for your average Leo Dicaprio and a 17 year old isn't, or that buying a girl drinks to make it easier to fuck her is normal but paying her directly isn't, or on and on - and the more i stare into it, the more i start feeling like one of those second wave ladies who say that all sex is rape, which is concerning when my takeaway is still in the end a sex-positive one

i have no point in this other than i don't know where we socially go from here, and sometimes it scares me

i read this earlier and it's cope, you might accidentally see something gross but you're not gonna get brainwashed into cranking it to child pornography unless you have a desire to do so. there is a very large sector of people out there who manage to watch a lot of porn and yet never become pedophiles and this is another british trick to repress and control what they consider socially deviant

Quatrarius  ·  52 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The average college student today

we are all weeping and wailing and feeling so bad about this out here in the parking lot to civil society

does anyone know what elite overproduction means? i can't read because of DEI

Quatrarius  ·  60 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage

    But also maybe people feel more impetus to do it because we're getting stuck.

this is insightful. the pandemic was the "egg cracker" for a lot of trans people - lots of time alone with yourself, having to deal with being in your own skin without distractions, not having the daily pressure to keep up appearances - i think in our "atomized world" or whatever people call it, this is common. it goes for more gays in general too: if you're a prospective lesbian and you don't get instalocked by Some Guy because you got teen pregnant and you can't open a bank account by yourself, you actually have the chance to develop your own identity instead of just repressing all your life

Quatrarius  ·  66 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why can't we be friends?

apropos of "nothing" i've been using the phrase "fire so-and-so out of a cannon into the sun" a lot lately

Quatrarius  ·  72 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

if hell is the absence of god

then god is the absence of hell

from an egg to a fish to a frog

to a bridge to a branch to a bell

if hell is the absence of god

and god is the absence of hell

then a hand reaching out through the fog

is a hand sent from heaven as well