Im Not Missing This

Interning in a highschool when your 18/19 is fun because

1. I get mistaken for a student alot and got yelled at by a teacher today until they saw my visitor badge

2. Kids are terrifying, last time I was here I saw a student smack the shit out of another student with a notebook

3. I know where 3 things are on this campus and I'm too afraid to ask where anything else is

4. I'm going to get beaten up by a child

I’ve seen multiple people genuinely asking whats wrong with playing their music on a speaker/their phone in public rather than through headphones. While it baffles me that you can’t reason it out I’m taking it in good faith that you genuinely don’t know - so here’s a list of reasons you shouldn’t:

- It sounds bad. It doesnt matter if people like the song, you might be close enough to your phone speaker for it to sound largely as intended, but everyone else is getting a distorted mess. 

- Unwanted noise is extra stimulation in the already overpowering public space. Yes this is particularly bad for neurodivergent people but I actually want to acknowledge that this effects Everyone. Everyone has a stimulation threshold and unwanted music easily pushes people closer to it.

- Its distracting/disruptive. People want to focus on their own conversations, listen to their own music through their earbuds, or just be alone with their thoughts. Your music is intruding. 

- Differing taste. This one is less significant but people around you just dont always like the same music you do. In extreme cases they might actively hate a song you’re playing. 

- People have the right to as close to silence as they can get. If they’re in a shop playing obnoxious music they can leave, they can change the radio in their car, they can skip the song on their playlist. They have no control over what you are putting on and in bus situations they can’t get away from you. 

- Any other number of reasons; Maybe your music is offensive, maybe its uncensored and there are children about, maybe someone just got horrible news and your perky feelgood song feels like salt in the wound, maybe someone’s sick or hungover or in pain and your music feels like a drill to the skull.  You might think your music is good, it might make you smile after a hard day. Nobody is saying dont listen at all, just put in earphones. To everyone around you its the equivilent of a drunk guy singing loudly and off key at the back of the bus. Maybe it makes some people smile to think he’s having a good time, maybe some people are scared his lack of boundaries will mean he could act out, maybe some people wish he would just shut up. 

wheres seasons greasons

Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.

look at this extremely chaotic video my fiancé took of our cat

REY WHEN THE FUCK DID YOU START RUNNING A SATIRE ACCOUNT OF OUR SHITTY UNI PRESIDENT (the GAs would love that shit lmao)

lol i went to delete a twitter account for reasons (i ran a satire account of my university’s president) and it wouldn’t let me.

the songs you listen to at ages 15-17 will rip holes into your heart when you listen to them again later in life.

"Top 10 Pranks That Went Too Far" compilation where #1 is Liu Bang founding the Han Dynasty