smols/rachel

@smolsdarklighter.bsky.social

🔞. she/hymns. an og reylo™️. i ♡ pulp genre love stories. sometime poet. mysteriously ill, variously queer. houstonian chicagoan. terfs & swerfs gtfo. most holy birthgiver of god save us.

Got incredibly bored and read up on the Falkland Islands and their entire history of settlement and like... What do you mean? We are? Actually in the right? On this one??? This is an unfamiliar feeling as an Englishman. I don't know what to do about it.

lol listen. I frequently observe old media and have appropriately managed my expectations around the kind and the amount of racism I’m about to see. I talk about it with a bit of levity sometimes. That’s not an invitation to share other racist things with me because you think we’re having a giggle.

a 19 year old woman just got killed here because an angry white man with a gun got mad some youths were causing a ruckus in his neighborhood so he shot one. functionally, this is the same thing these three are celebrating. every other person is travis bickle, and the rest of us celebrate him.

I also don’t think it’s bad when people want to spend some of their income on fun things, and the burger flipper should be paid enough that he can do whatever he wants with some spare cash after bills. Thinking leisure is for the wealthy alone is an elitist viewpoint.

Dilek Sayedahmed@dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19h ago

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

genuinely baffles me when a writer tries to show how boring a person is by going 'ohh he just wants to drone on and ON about typefaces/types of glass/some niche facts we are meant to find dull' would you not be thrilled to go to a dinner party and find someone who wants to tell you about niche facts

yk that one story "Human Is" by Philip K. Dick about a woman who's abusive husband comes back from space travel but now he is so nice and we find out its bc an alien took over his body. this is the plot to svsss. this happened to my close pal binghe

Yup. I know exactly how tankies recruit on China, because there is a lack of tolerance for nuanced opinions on modern China in many circles, and reasonable opinions/inconvenient facts are often shouted down. So of course some people see this and become negatively polarized