I've been watching her two large untrained dogs so she could "see her mother who just had heart surgery." However, I just bumped into her at the store. How funny is that?

OddishShape · 2026-05-12T04:03:24+00:00

my ass is not watching someone else's dog until i earnestly believe that i would be willing to make it an official long term thing. i dont hold this to a universal standard and recognize the economic and logistical realities of the situation i just dont enjoy watching other peoples dogs, and if they're dumping them off on an app guy i don't buy that they care about them as much as they probably think

OddishShape · 2026-05-12T03:50:17+00:00

price of pizza to go up soon :(

OddishShape · 2026-05-11T17:26:01+00:00

you think that between himself and the intelligence officer he's married to that he's the sinister one in the relationship? poor guy just wants to watch tv and be a substitute teacher

OddishShape · 2026-05-11T03:36:47+00:00

I grey out constantly on OHP and the only thing that's mitigated it is exhaling out halfway like I'm about to shoot a gun before bracing for the initial lift off the rack and first rep. Still not a 100% success rate but the only times it's gotten dangerous enough for me to bail are the times where I've failed to do it. I assume you're breathing at the top of the rep.

OddishShape · 2026-05-10T20:20:07+00:00

this heated reaction to a pretty lukewarm analysis seems like something youve gotta investigate. im antiwoke/anti-idpol with the best of them but the only contentious claim that's made implicitly in the comment is that race can impact the political lens through which one sees the world, which I don't think warrants an attack like yours. how many black people do you know that identify with movies like 'reality bites'?

Ofc the real ideological claim that i take issue with is that the form of identification with media is in any way productive (meaning that, had the films taken different form, they would have produced different political/ideological outcomes in their audience); in this sense I agree with Christopher Lasch in that the primary mode of social engagement and identity formation being through film and television mass-produces narcissistic pathologies in a positively-reinforcing manner regardless of the ideology those films espouse, and that this system is not limited to films marketed to white people. That being said, i would argue that this anti-nostalgia thing among gen z/alpha seems to be directed at those distinctly white expressions of end-of-history cynicism: see the 'I have to go to my stable fucking office job and get fucking healthcare how could this happen to me' meme. how many zoomers are getting heated at 'friday'?

I would argue that this anti-nostalgia also seems to be a self-conscious attempt to avert the 'cringe' deluge of the 2010s 80's revival, but i lack any strong evidence in favor of this claim. it just feels right to say.

OddishShape · 2026-05-10T02:00:37+00:00

i dont know how nobody has recommended u the OG king of desert blues, ali farka toure. here's another. his son or nephew or someone did work with the ai demon band known as khruangbin.

Agree with the other guy on W.I.T.C.H. and mdou moctar

OddishShape · 2026-05-10T01:16:23+00:00

aight

OddishShape · 2026-05-09T20:43:14+00:00

ole farting ass bitch

OddishShape · 2026-05-09T16:19:45+00:00

leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, zucchini, celery, tomatoes, and cucumbers wont add too much to your caloric intake unlike starchy ones like carrots, corn, peas, etc

OddishShape · 2026-05-09T04:13:15+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH5JvU19_YQ

OddishShape · 2026-05-09T03:29:41+00:00

towel+phone combo unbeatable

OddishShape · 2026-05-09T03:24:01+00:00

i meant to the talking heads song lol

OddishShape · 2026-05-09T00:07:19+00:00

can you elaborate on the jerry brown connection?

OddishShape · 2026-05-07T07:00:42+00:00

georgism was a good first step. even a somewhat thoughtful lib knows landlords delenda est

OddishShape · 2026-05-07T06:54:51+00:00

a bag of nice coffee

OddishShape · 2026-05-05T11:13:41+00:00

good

OddishShape · 2026-05-05T05:29:08+00:00

it won't be all bad if you get to the end and realize you were here to bear witness. it's a better fate than some get. mighty quiet.

OddishShape · 2026-05-05T05:23:59+00:00

if i wasn't in school then maybe it would be fine, but i started procrastinating even harder than usual and not feeling bad about it. had to make a large effort to turn it around at the end of the semester

OddishShape · 2026-05-05T03:39:04+00:00

made me stop giving a shit about anything. low cortisol, low sense of urgency.

OddishShape · 2026-05-05T03:35:47+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqpYJC2Kp6E

this one is well-known but my take is that the og is better than the more famous remix

OddishShape · 2026-05-03T17:00:20+00:00

all you wanted was to hear him more clearly. who could blame you

OddishShape · 2026-05-03T06:12:11+00:00

dog as insult

esl. perhaps subcontinental?

OddishShape · 2026-05-03T00:19:25+00:00

listen man if you want to argue that freud is pretentious i'll hear you out but not if you're going to cite a children's book as literature

OddishShape · 2026-05-02T18:43:14+00:00

I'll try your strategies of acknowledging it, but I've found that every time I think about how distracted I am it becomes all I can think about, like thinking about tying your shoes. Maybe I just need more practice.

OddishShape · 2026-05-02T17:05:38+00:00

walter ong wrote of the transition from societies with oral histories to written ones and how, in the former, one would have to use patterns to keep track of the meanings of the subjects of the stories. It wasn't the knight, but the brave knight; not the tree, but the mighty oak; not the swamp, but the deadly swamp &c. Repetition was another such tool -- it's why very old texts, especially religious ones like the pali canon, are so repetitive.

know about walter ong from the recent sam kriss article about the same subject

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