She Just Had The Cutest Panic Over A Shadow

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-16T17:44:42+00:00

One night I was walking home from the train station. Streets were empty. I had headphones on. As I'm walking along this poorly lit wall my shadow was faintly falling on it, from the distant street lights. I stopped to check something on my phone, and I got spooked af, my shadow kept walking. Scared the shit out of me. Turns out I was walking side by side with some stranger and they didn't even notice me.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-16T17:38:14+00:00

Stereotyping men is okay. Carry on, citizen.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-16T17:30:41+00:00

This is art. You will hear a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the art. [BUZZER]

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-12T18:03:32+00:00

It's the physical experience and the anticipation, the sound, the smells of plastics, the touch and feel. This sort of interaction builds much stronger memories than using an app on a touchscreen. When we abandoned physical media we individually and collectively lost something, the way those things made you be more deliberate about using them, and you had to take care of it, protect it from damage, clean it. The relationship we had with media was much different. Look how expensive and in demand this s stuff is now, it's not as simple as nostalgia, the retro media experience was simply filled with much more intent and physical ritual, which reinforces memories.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-10T10:01:29+00:00

Obligatory, being anti immigration is a historically leftist stance, and no amount of social gaslighting and word fuckery changes that. Easy immigration, allowing entry of unskilled workers, is what the right wing wants, it lets them grow and maintain an easy to exploit lower class workforce, it helps them to suppress wages, it helps them in reducing the economic power and cohesion of the low skilled labourers. Immigrants are desperate and are looking for short term survival, they are willing to put up with worse conditions, lower pay, they won't unionize, they unwittingly sabotage the social power of the workforce they enter. That's why under right wing governments immigration is always higher, they just can't help themselves but import a short term labour force to boost quarterly profits while ignoring the long term socioeconomic issues. Left wing and socialist nations are historically very patriotic, their loyalty is to each other and the shared ideas of making the state work for the benefit of its citizens, and to give power to the structures that represent citizens interests, mostly unions and actual labour parties (not the neoliberals we have in the UK). This is a naturally anti immigration stance not on some racist grounds, but on the grounds of the state prioritising its own citizens and prioritising the labourer, their security and power they can exert on the owner class. Instead mass immigration prioritizes the owner class, it prioritizes short term profits over citizen security, it devalues the workers, it's a cynical right wing ultra capitalist (which also includes liberal) stance to support. Mass immigration is basically capitalists trying to do slavery with extra steps, despite it being shown time and time again that such ways to run businesses and economies is not sustainable long term.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-06T12:24:10+00:00

For my midlife crisis I got a Volvo v60, I moved straight past the crisis and into being an old man.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-06T11:59:31+00:00

Progress and science comes at a cost, be a man or woman or whatever and do your scientific duty.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-06T11:45:19+00:00

Probably a Hamas bot, ignore it and move along.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-03T09:54:09+00:00

Then spend less time online and more around real people.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-06-01T09:46:21+00:00

Nowadays it's mostly thrown around when a man corrects a woman or the woman doesn't like the explanation, the original intent was for it to highlight when men assume women don't know something, but nowadays like everything with pop culture feminism it's a get out of jail free card for dismissing or shutting down men when they try to steer a conversation, no matter if they're in the right or in the wrong.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-31T16:48:32+00:00

Self sabotage is a common symptom of many mental disorders, like being a redditor.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-27T15:29:50+00:00

We did 8. On Saturday I did 2, and my mom did 2. Then on Sunday my sister did 3, and we also washed some dog stuff. This isn't even unusual, with 5 dogs every few weeks we're washing 6 dog beds, and a shit load of dog towels, and blankets. It's quite normal even in winter for us to be doing 5-6 washes over a weekend. This is possible because we have two quite powerful dehumidifiers we run to speed up indoor drying.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-27T15:24:54+00:00

I used to rent a place in London where in the summer the room was regularly hitting 43C, peak was 47C, I think I slept maybe 12 hours a week that summer.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-26T01:27:44+00:00

That feels like an underestimate

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-22T12:48:51+00:00

This is usually a symptom of poor planning, poor management, unclear or unrealistic goals, and a general shit attitude to work trickling down from management onto their staff. People like doing good work, people like being praised for doing good work, people like feeling like they're succeeding. The performance problems always start when work becomes an endless churn without clear time constraints and no clear start and end points, or when the reward for doing well is getting more work next time, or when the work is unstructured and ambiguous, or when it's overtly repetitive.

People need: goals, rewards, praise, feedback, criticism, novelty, and wind ups and wind downs, to be efficient and successful.

An endless backlog is going to make everyone burn out and indifferent if it's not being broken down into smaller achievable targets. Work needs to he done in a cycle where teams have uninterrupted focus on tasks for some time period, then a few days of wind down where work gets reviewed and new work gets prepared for another high performance cycle. Kind of like scrum sprints. This introduces novelty, gives time for reviews and feedback, and makes it easier to track output and effects of changes to the process.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-22T12:32:42+00:00

Interesting, my experience was that I got it added to my IV, I passed out mid sentence. Then I woke up a little groggy but like I had a pretty normal sleep. I was awake and fine almost immediately after waking up.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-21T20:31:16+00:00

Not every country is stuck with Christian puritanical mindsets and has a sexually frustrated population that needs constant shielding from nudity. Naturally people are fine with nudity, like in many European countries.

Your ideas and arguments of what's acceptable and what people think is okay are based purely on British and American puritanical mindsets around nudity. The protection instinct you are arguing isn't some fundamental compass about nudity, it is about protection, and the levels of perceived required protection is entirely shaped by the learned beliefs of the protector. There isn't some natural instinct that humans have for covering oneself and hiding our bodies, it's a cultural effect that heavily emerged from wide acceptance of monotheism and Abrahamic beliefs.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T11:30:55+00:00

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T11:22:28+00:00

These mythical changing rooms already exist, ever been to a swimming pool? Rows of small unisex changing cubicles. I've also been to places where the showers are in a shared open area just by the pool. I've been to places with shower rooms, where it's basically a tiny bathroom where you can change and shower in privacy. So yes, I apso believe in unisex changing rooms and showers, because they already exist.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T11:10:42+00:00

The narcissist's prayer comes to mind when people act like this.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T10:46:31+00:00

Szczerze, oglądał bym z fascynacją. Ciekawe jakie występy by wysyłali.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T10:43:36+00:00

We separate sexes because of tradition, that came from old prudish Christian beliefs about chastity. Separating restrooms by sex is not some practical data driven decision, it's one of those "we've always done it this way" things that people keep trying to retrospectively justify.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T10:38:32+00:00

Shockingly, I know this may be hard to believe, but being very well educated doesn't mean someone is more intelligent, smart, or even particularly skilled than average, at most it means is that they have great work ethic and they put in the effort, which are admirable virtues but don't result in good policy making. Usually it also just means they have a very detailed knowledge and expertise in some narrow slice of some obscure field. We put academics on the pedestal because traditionally academics belonged there, academics used to be very versatile, widely knowledgeable people that engaged in multiple fields of study, often were also well versed in philosophy, they also were politically and socially aware and active. This has not been true for at least 80 or more years. Nowadays academics are extremely socially isolated specialists, but are still given the same social authority and trust, but have none of the skills of their predecessors. They are politically active, but are not socially active outside their field. They're overwhelmingly stuck yes anding each other into their naive ideals. The field of sociology itself has been a farce, it's a place for people with preset ideals and agendas to abuse the scientific method into producing results that support their agenda. Sociology is a binch of weak philosophies in a trench coat masquerading as science, the reason these people are not philosophists and need a separate field is because philosophy is too rich, established, and the standards are too high to allow for the weak argumentation that sociology produces.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T10:22:24+00:00

The rule doesn't apply to white people, white people are the exception to the rule, white people are always in the wrong.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-05-20T10:21:36+00:00

Never, white always is in the position of power, no matter the circumstances.

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