truth bombs

lmao

My poor thread

superseded by schaduwkabinet

You guys really are better off if you banned me.

― larry appleton, Sunday, December 25, 2016 10:26 AM (one hour ago)

in my experience calling a girl annoying is guy for "im gonna try and fuck that chick". its an instant break up in my book.
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― and what, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 12:27 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

female equivalent of this is calling a guy "mean"

an authoritarian populist leading a radical-capitalist party to victory by promising violent national regeneration to a coalition of the market-ravaged white lower middle class, affluent racists, and (eventually) the owners of the economy's commanding heights is an affirmation of a well-functioning democracy in exactly the same way a tingle in the arm followed by numbness and facefirst collapse into your food is an affirmation of a well-functioning heart

no argument about the dnc

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, January 5, 2017 11:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Underworld music sounds like youtube highlights video of a footballer

― saer, Monday, January 23, 2017 5:59 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if it was made by the BBC

― saer, Monday, January 23, 2017 5:59 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people posting about fresh tuna steaks on a thread about tuna fish sandwiches is like going on a thread about eating shit and being like "I love shit, but I eat it in the form of food that hasn't yet been digested and converted into waste"

― na (NA), Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:32 AM (one hour ago)

none of these people seem at all cool -- I feel legitimately cooler having been ignorant of their existence
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:59 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also <3

solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ILX

Approved

social media apps make the people you should be closest to be less close to you, and the people you forgot existed from twenty years ago closer than they should be.

― nomar, Friday, May 12, 2017 7:43 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nice!

otm

More like antisocial media, amirite

this is imo trenchant social commentary

im sorry thats just how i feel

otm

http://positivetruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/facebook-junkie.jpg

well that's just plain impractical

My gf is Costa Rican, and without social media apps our relationship wouldn't have worked at all, so I don't agree with that.

social media apps make the people you should be closest to be less close to you, and the people you forgot existed from twenty years ago closer than they should be.

― nomar, Friday, May 12, 2017 7:43 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heard this exact same thing more or less in a Douglas Rushkoff interview the other day

i haven't heard from that guy in a while. where was the interview?

Also, for many people whose "closest" may judge them for one reason or other (such as gay or trans teens in oppressive environments), social media can be essential in establishing relations with people who don't.

xpost

sometimes a truth can be an island, tuomas.

well, i guess the interview itself wasn't recent. episode 404 of Maron's WTF podcast, July 2013.

xxp

tuomas island

https://pilotyourlife.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/muttonbird-island-victoria-fran-west.jpg

ppl who are addicted to facebook are such amateurs smh

lol as soon as i posted it i thought "that's too trenchant"

generally it seems like ppl use social platforms to keep up w their not close friends and messaging platforms to keep u w their close friends, so surveying the landscape just based on what u see publicly can be misleading imho

now i just want some coke.

my facebook friends suck. NONE of them do coke. or at least they won't give me any.

gotta hit them up in messenger bro

barber in my neighbourhood got busted for weed last week been going to him seven years cant believe hes a barber etc etc

We are living in a lost Baudrillard paragraph

― Karl Malone, Thursday, June 29, 2017 3:17 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I laughed but this seems more than an excelsior:

internet has been terrible this week bc of this fucking book

― flopson, Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:43 AM (yesterday)

tweets and books are natural enemies

― President Keyes, Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:52 AM (yesterday)

trump broke ilx :(

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:46 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i for one welcome our new left wing podcast overlords

use of the phrase "a modest proposal" in any other context than the actual Jonathan Swift essay is always a guarantee that something will be terrible, there are no exceptions

― soref, Sunday, February 18, 2018 7:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

Seconded

Or maybe I mean thirded

u cant hate someone just cuz theyr pritty and succesfull it can b hard sumtimes but u just hav 2 b happy wiv urself and concentrate on urself and feel happy for people who have done well 4 themselves and try not 2 b jelouse of others coz its not going 2 make u any better by puting other people down its just a waste of ur time and effort bsides i dont think she is all that but i can understand y sum people do but if u want 2 hate her for something then a good 1 wud b bcuz the cruel cow wears fur!lol :)
― lowrimai, Saturday, March 31, 2007 1:11 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolute nuke

i wish everything was a mission of burma song

― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

^^^

Charter schools are basically a scheme to allow speculators to harvest wealth from state and local taxes with education of children as an incidental side effect.

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)

^^^^^

oh? i wonder what you all think of textbook companies, private universities and the college board then

Charter schools grocery stores are basically a scheme to allow speculators to harvest wealth from state and local taxes with education of children feeding the poor as an incidental side effect.

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)