let's break this down, because this really lays the strategy bare.
1) lumping in "pro-transgender" with terror threats, evoking words like Jihadi and ISIS, very unsubtly equating these things that have nothing to do with one another, to subconsciously affix it to things you fear.
2) once again using their neverending posthumous martyrdom of Charlie Kirk to make whatever the fuck statement they want.
3) insinuating that Charlie's killer's "pro-transgender" beliefs are to blame for what he did, tying it to a string of supposed violent left wing extremist attacks, furthering the agenda that leftism itself is a terrorist group, and to be pro-transgender is to be violent and a threat to society (how many shooters have been right wing btw?)
4) the term "pro-transgender" itself is layered in many ways. saying this makes it appear as though being trans is a belief system rather than an identity, and belief systems are easier to make into threats. and while it implies that being pro-transgender is something violent and scary, it also plants the idea that "wow if people who SUPPORT the trans 'ideology' are bad, imagine how bad actual trans people must be" without actually having to say "trans people are evil."
5) strategically not saying "we want to eradicate trans people" but instead saying "we want to eradicate all scary things that threaten our lives, and btw trans people are that"
it doesn't get much more blatant than this. it really doesn't. and i hope everyone can see this for what it is.
My dear brother got me these photocard holders for my birthday, but did not read the description of the product when he opened the link. He thought they were air fresheners 💀
Sometimes it’s hard it felt stubborn optimism about the climate crisis when it’s 81° in my bedroom in my apartment in March, even with a functional central AC.
Let me get this straight…
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.”
Then he raised billions of dollars.
Then he closed the source code.
Then he converted to for-profit.
Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.
Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models.
Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter.
He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it…
Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…
📚 Archive of Our Own etiquette 101
ao3 has been under a lot of pressure lately. more users, more traffic, more reports, more confusion. which is great in one way because fandom is alive and people want stories, but it also means we all need to breathe and remember how the site actually works.
this is for everyone. old readers, new readers, writers, lurkers, people who just discovered fanfiction last week, and people who have been here since dial up.
let us talk about how to exist peacefully on ao3.
Today, I styled my Animal Crossing: New Horizons character with inspiration from Yeosang’s performance outfit for Lemon Drop, Arriba, and Django at MBC Gayo Daejejeon 2025!
#AnimalCrossingNewHorizons#ATEEZ#에이티즈#Yeosang#여상
More like you’re 26 but you feel 23 inside, and it’s not because you’re immature. It’s because the last few years didn’t develop you - they scrambled you. Time passed, but it didn’t land in your body as growth the way it’s “supposed” to. It landed as noise. Stress. Survival. Weird limbo. Half living.
A lot of people lost a clean stretch of adulthood. Not just because of the pandemic, though that’s a big one. Also because the world has been running on rolling crisis mode for years. Money anxiety, job churn, rent rising, relationships collapsing under pressure, attention shredded by phones, constant comparison, constant doom. When you’re in that state, you’re not learning in a linear way. You’re coping. You’re getting through the week. You’re doing mental triage.
coping doesn’t always build you. Sometimes it freezes you.
You know that feeling when you look at your peers and it seems like they “caught up” to adulthood faster? They have routines, relationships, savings, a calm tone, a sense of direction. And you’re sitting there like… I can barely keep my laundry from becoming a geological formation. I still feel like a teenager in an adult costume. I still get that stomach drop when an email looks serious. I still avoid phone calls like they’re predators. I still don’t feel like I’m driving my life, I feel like I’m being dragged behind it.
That’s the “2-3 years behind” feeling.
usually not a skill gap. It’s a nervous system gap.
People think development is about milestones. Job. Apartment. Partner. Degree. But a lot of “growing up” is internal. It’s your ability to regulate, to plan, to recover, to trust yourself, to handle boring admin without collapsing, to believe that your future is real enough to invest in.
when you’re anxious or depressed or dissociated for long stretches, you don’t get to build those layers smoothly. You might still be functioning. You might still be doing the external stuff. But internally you feel younger because your system is still stuck in earlier modes: avoid, appease, freeze, fantasize, survive.
compare yourself to who exactly? The versions people post?
A lot of people look “ahead” because they’re performing stability. They have the job title and the nice photos and the “adult” aesthetic, and you don’t see the part where they’re also texting their mom in a panic, or crying in their car, or living paycheck to paycheck, or avoiding their own mess. Their life looks organized because they show the clean corner, not the pile behind the door.
Still, the feeling is real. And it usually shows up in specific places.
when you’re with older adults and you feel like a kid listening. When someone talks about mortgages or babies or promotions and your brain goes blank. When you realize you never got the slow practice of being an adult, you got thrown into it. When you notice you still want someone to tell you what to do. When you’re scared you missed the “becoming” part and now you’re just late.
that matters:
Feeling behind is often your mind trying to explain grief.
Grief for time you didn’t get the way you wanted. Time you spent surviving. Time you spent stuck. Time you spent numb. Time you spent in relationships that drained you. Time you spent trying to be okay instead of building.
grief gets translated into a simple story: I’m behind.
Because “I’m behind” feels actionable. You can fix behind. You can catch up. Grief feels heavier. It’s harder to hold.
if you feel 2-3 years behind, you’re not broken. You’re probably just honest. You’re noticing the gap between your age and your internal readiness. That gap is common now.
And it’s not permanent.
It shrinks when your nervous system stabilizes.
It shrinks when you stop living in reaction.
It shrinks when you build boring consistency.
It shrinks when you stop measuring adulthood by someone else’s timeline and start measuring it by your ability to show up for your own life.
If your phone charging connector is a USB Type-C, you need this information before you plug your cord to random charging outlets next time.
If anyone carrying a block that looks like a ‘power bank’ asks you to unlock your phone and help them confirm if their type C charger is working (they’d lie that it’s not charging their phone), please DONT DO IT.
The new scam in town is they use the tech device (that has the look of a power bank) to clone all your files (photos, videos, chats etc). Their aim is to basically clone your phone with the device, with future intent to use it to blackmail you or steal from you. However, the scam won’t work unless you unlock your phone. Unlocking gives the device the access they need to transfer your files.
Why am I sharing this information? We are currently handling a case like that with the police. A guy invited a lady he met online for a movie date, during the movie, he told the lady that his USB Type C cord is not charging his phone and asked if he could try the charger on her phone. The innocent, unsuspecting lady unlocked the phone for the guy, and continued with the movie. About 5min later, the guy passed the Lady’s phone back to her saying he forgot and they moved on. Few days after the date, the guy began blackmailing the lady with private files from her phone that even her couldn’t remember she still had them.
Henceforth, before you connect your USB Type C to a ‘power bank’ or ‘charging outlets’ without your adapter (charging brick) please ensure you set your phone to not charge unless unlocked. Or better still, get your own powerbank.