Aushina - AA's Analysis Page

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not

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tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

was listening to this podcast episode where they discuss their thoughts on empathy and one of them argues that empathy is at its core selfish. he argued that since empathy is by definition being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes / imagining yourself in the other person’s position, empathy centers the empathizer and their perception of the other person’s struggle/feelings. he went on to say that instead of empathy in itself we should instead ask questions and above all LISTEN to what the other person is factually saying about their feelings and the situation instead of simply focusing on this emotion (empathy) that tends to center the listener. and it had me thinking about the whole ’I’m an empath’ phenomenon on the internet in the past few years and yeah. it all makes sense. empathy is nothing if you don’t actually want to hear why the other person is struggling. and this is probably also why a lot of well off people think they’re good people for simply feeling bad for a disadvantaged person when the key would be to actually understand the societal structures that cause that disadvantage

There's something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.

On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.

But on the other I'm seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, "yeah, sure, the adults know what's safe."

I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn't want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.

Be safe, be smart, be a fucking ghost.