Thanks to certain personalities in the fediverse, I can now appreciate this joke. I feel like I’ve been let into a club.

Meanwhile, ticks:

You know what? I’m just gonna go ahead and take this at face value. Thank you, chicken-of-the-veil!

You see a mango shake, I see one of those tumeric-ginger concoctions that folks assign all sorts of health benefits to that I ignore in favour of its burny, astringent deliciousness.

Forget her, you did good and now know all the important stuff if someone else has a similar ask.

But fr sex tape is much easier, shibari’s a skill that takes practice and knowledge to avoid injury, particularly if you want to start getting fancy.

I repeat, and will continue to repeat until it is no longer necessary: where. is. my. god damned. HOVERBOARD!?

I still think it’s funny that while there was indeed a real study (NASA tech brief if I recall correctly), this is the video that gets shared. Plus the Hinterland Who’s Who trappings warm my lil’ millennial Canadian heart.

Love this!

Oof :( Sorry to hear about that. Best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery!

Real talk they’re probably toothpaste. My god do I hope they are toothpaste.

Since someone went ahead and posted the image source (I was wondering how long that was going to take, lol), ‘Are you sexually aroused’ is a different question than ‘Are you being sexually aroused’ - as in, is someone/something trying to arouse you. This speaks to the original context of the image (the idea that images like this may contain subliminal cues to induce arousal). Might not have been as helpful a clue as I thought it would. A better one would probably have been ‘ignore the word ‘sexually’, then read the sentence with and without the word ‘being’’ or something.

I’m thinking I went waay too weird/unnerving here. Honestly, I just liked the picture and the weird feeling it has - obviously folks can dig deeper on it (both re: its original context and what kind of things it might point to when recontextualized as a shitpost, particularly here), but that’s truly not what I was going for. For my purposes it’s just a glass with a spooky vibe.

Will say I’m super open to anyone on the spectrum narrating their experience looking at this, as it does look like it frustrated/pissed off some people a bit and I’d be curious to hear exactly why.

So I like the OP as just a standalone, kinda surreal combination of image and question, removed from its original context. But to try and add a little back, without just giving it away: think about what the word ‘being’ does to the sentence, and the difference taking it out would make. Then think about which question you said ‘I am not’ to.

Idk, seems pretty straight forward - is you is or is you ain’t?

Some. Some folks are naturally kind of ascetic, others aren’t really but have difficulty justifying letting themselves have things. But most of the time the OP picture is a function of circumstances.

Keep it - you can either gift it to someone who needs it more down the road, or have an option if someone needs to crash who isn’t ‘company’. Also nice for camping if you’re into that and have room to bring it.

Haven’t used it a lot but my cot has come in clutch a couple of times.

It’s actually very cool with a very long history to dig through. How I got introduced to parkour in the very nascent days (at least in North America). Prior to that I was just a 12-13 year old who liked rock climbing, and it served as encouragement to trespass in the most fun ways possible.

Some stuff hasn’t aged all that well (made by a dude on the early 2000s internet, is what it is), but 100% worth checking out.

SWEET! WHAT’S MINE SAY!?

Sweet!

Be nꙮt afraid