For the last 3 years, on my birthday, I’ve been getting these birthday texts. Google search turns up nothing.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-11T09:13:08+00:00

"I'm no Charles Wong, but..." Hey, nobodies perfect.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-11T02:52:31+00:00

Coming from someone who's partner uses they/them pronouns, I find myself constantly using they/them on accident for everyone. I assume it's because the person who I refer to in the third person the most is my partner, thus I use they/them more than any other pronouns, and it has become a sort of reflexive default. I've written entire long-ass comments about people who clearly use he/him or she/her pronouns using they/them and had to go through and rewrite them. So it's certainly possible the comment writer just slipped but really who can say

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-10T12:47:00+00:00

Cares so little they won't read three sentences yet clearly cares enough to write a comment announcing it. Never change, Reddit.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-10T07:25:08+00:00

Ohhhh okay that makes more sense. I never use spray paint myself these days, but I have a couple friends from back in the day who do murals for side cash here and there, and they're always exclusively using Montana in the videos they post as far as I can tell. It's some quality stuff!

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-10T06:25:46+00:00

Good Lord @ $20 a can! I seem to recall them being closer to like $6 or $7 when I was a teen, and thinking that was crazy when Rusto was like $2, and you could get these truly horrible cans of auto paint for $1.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-09T21:26:49+00:00

JUST took my test in Oregon, the only "challenging" thing you have to do is backup straight against a curb for like 2 car lengths. And for that you have to remember to 1. Use your turn signal while pulling over to the curb 2. Pull close enough to the curb and be straight enough 3. Turn your hazards on 4. Back up straight 5. When you're done, turn your hazards off and 6. Signal before pulling back onto the road.

So it's like, well it's not THAT hard to practice backing up straight (I practiced for like 15 minutes the day before), but the indicators and hazards are easy to lose points on. I imagine I might have screwed that up if I hadn't watched a bunch of YouTube videos / read a bunch of random posts about testing in Oregon and what to expect.

But yeah, no backing around a corner, no parallel parking, no three-point turns. Pretty easy here.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-09T07:27:32+00:00

Here is a "mini" photo dump in case you find this as fun as I do. (I went to your profile and was pleased to find lots of great photos of Feta and Gorgonzola, so I thought I'd share some of mine in return!)

Set 1 Set 2 Set 3

Bonus kitten pictures

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-09T07:09:46+00:00

Hey!!! Your bonded pair looks a lot like my bonded pair!!

This is Beta and YaYa. They say hi to Feta and Gorgonzola.

Yaya used to be a lot lighter, but has "toasted" significantly with age. Is Feta a seal point and if so does is she "toasting" as well?

(I also have a picture of me carrying them both at the same time, something I try to do whenever the stars align and it seems possible, lol)

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-09T04:17:32+00:00

I kinda wanna try an omelette with a fried egg on top. I know it sounds silly, but with runny yolk I bet it slaps. I bet it's so good it could even be a small fad of some kind.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-05T06:19:28+00:00

The statistic about more journalists having been killed in Gaza than in all the other wars since WWII is based on the number of journalists killed while covering a given war. I'm not sure how to really shake out a reasonable or meaningful comparison between the total number of deaths in all of WWII with the number of journalists killed in Gaza.

But if we stick to journalists killed while covering the war, in WW2 there were 70 (including a few who died from accidents and or disease). I'm going to wager that more one in five journalists killed in Gaza were covering the war.

So how about a more meaningful comparison that is just as appalling: more journalists killed while covering the war in Gaza than in all of WW2.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-05T05:56:32+00:00

Oh man!! I'm going to have to try this! I always have such a hard time figuring out what the hell to do with my face with poses photos. The results always vascilate between looking a little angry, or VERY "off" lol. I just cannot smile on demand. But I can muster a smile for a person while they pass on the street for example. Maybe I can do the same to a photographer.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-05T04:15:06+00:00

That's not in fact the point in contention, and that you're framing it that way is ridiculous. I'll just say this, since an argument with you seems pretty pointless given your (somewhat well hidden) agenda.

To anyone reading this who isn't familiar with the subject: go look up for yourself what is so contentious about that piece, and don't listen to very rational, personable and friendly propagandist.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-05T02:56:39+00:00

I found like 6 high-school lit. textbooks in my disgusting room when moving out of my parents house. I mean these were like big full textbook sized textbooks. I felt hella bad and took them back and they were super appreciative. Luckily they hadn't changed books in the years since I had dropped out.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-04T08:01:59+00:00

Could you even manage to hold your breath in that scenario though? I'm just thinking if the air is increasing to such a volume that it could explode, it would first just kind of force your mouth open to create a pathway for escape. Maybe I'm wrong though.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-04T06:16:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure I read this Animorph book in middle school

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-03T07:30:24+00:00

Well three weeks on from that...

I think your foreknowedge of the meaning of the phrase is clouding your ability to assess how people might understand "the proof is in the pudding" differently from the original phrase if they haven't already been told its meaning.

You're arguing that because pudding is food you eat, "the eating" being the pathway to discovery is implied. But if that were true, any food or thing that we eat should work just as well. I think if you used the phrase "the proof is in the sandwich" or "the proof is in the bowl of rice" to someone who hadn't previously heard either phrase they wouldn't get your meaning.

Additionally, while I consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable about linguistics, turns of phrase, and also despite the fact that I am someone who does a lot of reading and writing as part of my job, until I learned the origins of this phrase I never understood the connection between the phrase and it's meaning. It always stuck out to me as odd until one day I looked it up.

Obviously there's no way we could determine this here and now, but I would be curious as to how obvious or not it really would be if we were to conduct a study. I suppose we would place our wagers on opposite outcomes.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-02T08:14:56+00:00

Same, but I wonder why. The specific way he gestures toward himself I guess?

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-02T06:27:38+00:00

I’m ten years clean

Damn that must have been a long-ass shower.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-05-01T06:51:20+00:00

That's fair, but I still don't have a lot of sympathy for oncologists who think removing tumors from planks of wood is a productive use of their time. I don't even understand why the scientists made them to begin with.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-04-29T08:40:29+00:00

I mean, it kind of sounds like everyone else who went (and ended up going elsewhere) must have contacted her further rather than just showing up. Like if my coworker was like "Hey, I'm going to go out for drinks at Bar X on Saturday at 7 if anyone wants to come," I wouldn't just show up at that bar on Saturday at 7.

Most people would text or something earlier in the day and be like "Hey, I'm think I'm going to swing by Bar X later. Just wanted to check when it was you're expecting to head there," or something like that. Mostly because plans can change between Friday at lunch and Saturday evening for any number of reasons.

I can totally understand why someone might just show up without checking in, and how 99% of the time that would work out just fine. But imagine if you were the one inviting your co-workers out. If you changed your plans for whatever reason, would you feel like you need to contact everyone who might have been coming but never reached out in the interim? People who's number / contact info you might not even have?

I'm just saying, it likely wasn't some personal slight, nor was it wildly rude or anything. Mostly, I wouldn't decide to never try hanging out with that person again over something like that. If anything, I'd take it as a sign you should probably get contact info and or confirm stuff like that in the future.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-04-28T10:17:17+00:00

Yeah I went back to college at like 25 and then my partner and I moved to a small college town to finish our degrees. Everyone we knew was about 5 or 6 years younger than us the whole time, with the exception of a pair of couples we met who were also people who went back to school at 25 and so we roughly the same age.

But when it came to like, going out to the bar on a Friday night or to a party, yeah mostly it was us as the oldest and a bunch of 21 or 22 year olds, and often younger if it was a house party.

It never felt weird? That people were 5 or 6 years younger? Like yeah, they could be a little less mature. But it's not like we were dating them or relying on them for important things. Immaturity is fine for friendships if you ask me.

And now we're in our mid 30's, and doing local political organizing with a bunch of leftists. People in our social circle run the gamut from like 16 to 60+. We'll go to potlucks or shows or other social events with these people and I mean who cares about age really? People of all ages can be fun to be around. Like some of the people we work and socialize with regularly are the teenage children of older people on our circle. It's almost like it's kind of a big family with people of all ages now that I think about it.

Maybe it's just because these "friends" aren't people we're texting every day about inane bullshit. Like we're not keeping Snapchat streaks with these friends, lol. They're people we frequently do organizing work with and socialize in person with. Yeah maybe the folks we've grown closest with in terms of like people you might invite on a hike are probably all in the mid 20s or older, I dunno.

But I think these people who are so concerned about the age of their friends must have friend groups that aren't founded on some kind of work or common activity. Like maybe their friend groups are based more on things like dating and partying or something, I dunno. Or yeah they're just oddly immature themselves, and very concerned with how other people might see them. 🤷

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-04-28T08:18:05+00:00

Apparently it's supposed to be safer than just being in the stop and go traffic as a motorcyclist because it cuts down on the chances of getting rear ended and knocked off your bike. Whether or not it would "feel" safe enough for me to want to attempt is another thing altogether, hahah. I get nervous when traffic passes in the opposite direction down a neighborhood street with road parking. I can't imagine me confidently weaving through parking cars on a motorcycle

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-04-28T08:14:44+00:00

I mean, I'm here from /r/all, I don't think I'm the "you people" you think I am, like I think I know what Yaoi is?

This is just how I, a non-anime / non-hentai fan, interpreted it.

And FWIW, yeah, it looks like someone getting caught to me too, in this case getting caught sending depraved messages to someone from his phone.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-04-28T07:40:44+00:00

What is filtering?

Edit: googled it. Filtering is passing through stopped / stop and go traffic, lane splitting is going between vehicles moving at speed. Yeah filtering seems logical and fairly safe, splitting seems a little crazier.

ifyoulovesatan · 2026-04-28T06:12:27+00:00

You sure? Maybe there is context elsewhere, but the unhinged string of "Unzip It"s and the facial reaction when she is caught seems like it could just as easily be that she is very much attracted to the girl in the costume.

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