From an unnamed user: I'm bored, tell me about a time when you seriously misread social cues and it made it weird. I'm not talking "you too" when the waiter says enjoy your food. Give me something that keeps you up at night.

From Stephanie D: One time when exiting a completely destroyed public one toilet bathroom, I mixed up "I did not do that" and "it smelled like that before I went in" and said "it didn't smell like that before me" 🤦🏼‍♀️

From Lbmisciagna16: I'm an RN in an outpatient clinic. When finishing with a patient I said "I plan to see u next week," combined with "Let's shoot for next week" when I confidently said "I plan to shoot you next week."

From Kris: I meant to tell a customer "if you have any questions, don't hesitate" and "it's no bother" at the same time and told her "if you have any questions, don't bother" 🙃

From Vegas: one time i accidentally grabbed the sonic worker's finger bc i thought it was a straw she was handing me

From Cassie Vasicak: I once greet a customer "welcome to birth control" instead of "welcome to Burger King" because I was just thinking about my birth control

From Crystal: Tried to say "we're like the black sheep" and "we're like the step children" of the neighborhood and stared directly into my neighbor's eyes and said "we're like black children"

From Amanda Klatt: I meant to ask a woman what gender her baby was and I accidentally said "what flavor is that baby"

From Rach: "I was carpooling with my coworkers and a guy started drifting into my lane nearly clipping me, I screamed out "HES COMING IN ME" instead of "hes coming into my lane" 😔

From audrey may: bumped into an older gentleman by mistake. i meant to say "i'm so sorry" but also "are you okay?" so instead i just shouted "ARE YOU SORRY??" i stared at him to process and just walked away defeated

From Heather_the_Badass: I asked a waiter for a box for my remains (instead of leftovers).

From MilitaryDoc: Principal announced we'd have Monday off of school (my birthday), I jumped up and cheered... before he commented that a teacher passed away overnight and her funeral would be held that day

From appleuser7754496: I had just moved to NYC. Someone tourists stopped me on the sidewalk and asked me for directions to the subway. I gave them directions to a Subway sandwich shop around the corner

From 🪨: After an interview the hiring manager put her arm up to slide past me and I GAVE HER A HUG 😭

From lovereetks: I saw a guy trip and fall on the sidewalk and rushed forward to help them. I was thinking "I hope they're alright" and "did they get hurt." Kneeled down, locked eyes, said "I hope you're hurt".

From Jessica Linn: My husband said "whatever tosses your salad" at a work meeting because he thought it meant the same thing as "whatever floats your boat" 😭

From kirahhArgh: One time when I worked at a gas station, a guy was filling up like 20 gas cans. I meant to ask him, "are you preparing for the apocalypse?" But what I said was "are you preparing for the holocaust?"

From Mae: Got into an elevator with a woman who told me what button to press. Hesitated so bad I said "sorry I'm blind". She looked mortified, pressed the button, and I had to stare off as if I were rlly blind

From JWHigbie: I work in healthcare. Always saw the doctor in scrubs. Saw him in public, regularly dressed, and said "I didn't recognize you with clothes on!" IN FRONT OF HIS WIFE.

From FosterPupz: Guy at Starbucks took my order, and I guess my brain was thinking her was going to say "anything else?" So when he said "Have a nice day" I said "No" and he goes "ok no pressure," and I wanted to dieee

From Rachel: the first and last time I ever spoke in court I called the judge "your majesty" by accident instead of "your honor" 😫

From R Y L Y: guy introduced himself as "Pita" and I called him Pita for a week before I realized he had a Boston accent 😞 🫣

From J: This man with caterpiller eyebrows approached me while I was browsing. He asked if I needed help and I said no I was just eyebrowsing. It was 7 years ago and I think about it at least once a week 🫠 ☠️

From Desiree Taylor: In high school asked this guy in wheelchair how he kept his sneakers white...I still think about it from time to time 😔

From Tracyyy 🌊 🐚 🌸 🥥 ✨: Taking the uber to the airport and the driver asked "American"? Proceeded to say my nationality and my entire backstory around it for him to then say "nice but American Airlines or ?" ☠️

From Roskilly's: Thought the bartender said "you look nice!" So said "aw, thanks" and did a little twirl. She repeated herself and said "would you like ice?" scoop in hand and everything. 🤦🏻‍♀️

From Kimberly Rose: My (male) boss was excitedly explaining something to me and instead of saying "don't get too ahead of yourself" I said "don't get too hard" ?????

From Chelsey: it was summer and i went to say "it's hot out there" and "stay cool" to a very elderly man and i said "stay hot"

From Myranda Pasenelli: I had a phone interview for a job I really wanted and when she said tell me about yourself I panicked and said "I'm a girl" and we sat in silence for like 5 min 😭 my brain froze. I didn't get the job

From BJ: Worked at a dog hotel. Was sleep deprived from finals and saw a woman holding a dog and on autopilot took the dog and said "she's going to make so many new friends!" We were in Trader Joe's.

From i.love.you.iknow: One of my residents was walking his dog and I asked what the dog's name was and he said "Beo," I assumed short for Beowulf. AND I REPEATED IT. The resident had a speech impediment. The name was Bear

From Drum💕Bass💕Bubbles🫧: I told a girl at the bar that I really liked her hobo style... I meant to say boho. She gave me a death stare and didn't talk to me the rest of the night 😫 🥹

From Nat: I work retail. Tarte shape tape was on sale, so I naturally greeted a customer "Hi, SHART".... We locked eyes as she walked away.

From Hailz: Olive Garden waiter asked me if I wanted "soup or salad" 4 times and I just said yes every single time 😞

From almostdrrllylilly: waiter at a fancy seafood restaurant cut up my steak for me and had it on the fork and i leaned over and took the bite like he was feeding me, silence was deafening

From Lauren📚: I worked in a call center and said "bye bye. Love you" to a patient on the phone. We both erupted in laughter and he hung up on me 😂

From saltyinFL: when I was waiting tables I meant to ask them if they were done with their spinach dip but for some reason in a southern accent I said dat dip done tho? 😭 My husband still says that to me 10 years later

From Poop23: Saw a dog while hiking. Shouted down "what's your dog's name?!" They said "tofu" I meant to say "I'm gonna come say hi" but I said "I'm gonna come" emphasis on come.

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"touch starved not in a craving human contact way but in a daydreaming about napping under a dragon's wing way"

(Image of a dragon statue, and a stick person napping under the dragon's wing. The stick figure is circled and labeled "me".)

"when i say i want to be held i'm talking about this"

Screenshot of a Tumblr post by imsobadatnicknames2:

"A couple years later it's still amazing what a perfect distillation the original 'anonymized people of the global south' tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals;

(Screenshot of a Twitter post by @loudpenitent: "An anonymized 'people of the global south' is not worth more than domestic queer citizens or any other member of any other marginalized community - or, bluntly, any fellow citizen at all. Real-ass human beings matter more than rhetorical constructs.") (end of Twitter screenshot, back to imsobadatnicknames2’s commentary);

If I wrote a character saying this into a piece of media about how much americans suck it'd be too on the nose."

It has a reblog by "fuckersupreme" saying: Man, fucking Ellen. Every so often she rings me up or shoots me a text asking if I wanna play dice with her and every so often I start to try to say no, but she fucking picks up on that so fast and her fun quirky demeanor drops. No longer laughing and being bubbly, she starts to remind me of the file she has in her possession that would simply ruin me if it fell into the wrong hands. And so with tears in my eyes is reluctantly agree to play dice with Ellen. It’s always in a back alley behind some strip mall. Gross and rank. Ellen hunched over a damp piece of cardboard she uses to roll her dice on. I always ask Ellen, I say Ellen you’re so rich and famous, can’t we please play dice in like a highrise penthouse or something? Thinking of the nice all you can eat buffet that would surely be there. All highrise penthouses have all you eat buffets. I’m pretty sure it’s like some sort of requirement. If I’m going play fucking dice with Ellen​, let me at least get my fill on some slightly warmer than room temp fries. But she always just grunts a no, and then rolls her dice, not looking at me at all. And holy shit, I’m not a man who believes in luck but… Ellen is turning me into a believer because she has to be the unluckiest person in the world. Every role she does, pure shit. I don’t even really know how to play dice but fuck, I play like some kinda world champ when I play with her. And fuck, her goddamn temper. It doesn’t take much to set her off. Screaming and shouting and huffing and puffing. This fucking back alley we play in has a number of cracks in the walls from her just pounding her fists into them after each of my rolls. Fucking cracks. Brick walls. Fucking cracks. At the end of the game when I inevitably beat her, she pulls out a knife and just slices or stabs me before running off into the shadows to go fucking goofy white lady dance as she interviews Channing Tatum or something, fuck!

And holy shit, speak of the devil, would you look at this…"

It has an attachment of a text message saying: "Hey punk! Punk, where are you?"

"Please Elen..." "Cool pic of me showing famous actor chris pratt your secret. See him laughing like that? He couldn't stop. Wonder how other people would react. hmmm."

It continues, saying: "So I guess I’m playing dice tonight, and then paying the hospital a visit to attend to my future stab wounds. But I guess it bets the alternative of having people find out I sit on the toilet backwards, god how embarrassing."

It is an image made to look like a quote, it says: "Alienate your progressive voters by courting the center-right at all possible opportunities - Sun tzu, the art of war.

It has a reblog with a screenshot of a comment saying: "what policy she has that is center right [sic]? that makes no sense this has to be ragebait."
It has another edited quote saying: "If you do not immediately agree with a post on the internet, it has no intellectual backing and is singularly intended to offend. - Sun Tzu, the art of war.

There is a final reblog. It shows a screenshot of the tumblr messages icon, showing that there is 72 new messages sent to the author of the post. This reblog is equipped with yet another edited quote saying "uh oh - Sun Tzu, the art of war".

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the framing of generative ai as “theft” in popular discourse has really set us back so far like not only should we not consider copyright infringement theft we shouldn’t even consider generative ai copyright infringement

who do you think benefits from redefining “theft” to include “making something indirectly derivative of something created by someone else”? because I can assure you it’s not artists

okay I’m going to mute this post, I’ll just say,

if your gut reaction to this is that you think this is a pro-ai post, that you think “not theft” means “not bad”, I want you to think very carefully about what exactly “theft” is to you and what it is about ai that you consider “stealing”.

do you also consider other derivative works to be “stealing”? (fanfiction, youtube poops, gifsets) if not, why not? what’s the difference? because if the difference is actually just “well it’s fine when a person does it” then you really should try to find a better way to articulate the problems you have with ai than just saying it’s “stealing from artists”.

I dislike ai too, I’m probably on your side. I just want people to stop shooting themselves in the foot by making anti-ai arguments that have broader anti-art implications. I believe in you. you can come up with a better argument than just calling it “theft”.