dandelion
@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 4 days ago:
I was clowning with you 😉
“you can’t be serious” being a literal (joking) instruction on how to become a clown, while also making it look like I was questioning your dedication 😄
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 4 days ago:
you can’t be serious
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 4 days ago:
literally came to comments to say Sirona Ryan, lol
- Comment on Enough is enough 6 days ago:
In the film there is a villain character named Buffalo Bill who murders young women and harvests their skin to make a woman suit they can wear to become a woman after being rejected by gender-affirming clinics for being mentally unstable.
There is a famous scene where Buffalo Bill has abducted a woman and keeps her in a well, and a basket with lotion is sent down and Buffalo Bill says a now famous line: “It rubs lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.” This is a threat if she doesn’t moisturize and take care of her skin, since that’s what is intended to be harvested from her.
There’s another iconic scene when Buffalo Bill is putting on makeup and jewelry and in the mirror saying “Would you fuck me? … I would fuck me. I would fuck me. I would fuck me so hard.”
This is perhaps one of the biggest and most impactful instances of transphobia in film, and served as an anchor in the 1990s for how people thought about trans women, as deranged psychopathic perverts (similar to how at the time all gay men were believed to be pedophile rapists).
There were even protests held against the film at the time.
Since OP’s post is about lotion and criminality, my assumption is that some Silence of the Lambs joke is inevitable, so I thought I’d get ahead of it.
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 6 days ago:
I’m sure a cock champion can be found on Tinder with minimal effort.
- Comment on Enough is enough 6 days ago:
oof
- Comment on Enough is enough 6 days ago:
something something transphobic Silence of the Lambs joke
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
^ketamine^
- Comment on I don't get this trend, but there's a moth on my ceiling. Enjoy ! 2 weeks ago:
Möth craves your lööps
- Comment on Peak male form 3 weeks ago:
thank you
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 3 weeks ago:
correct, see for example the reactions to the US’s decision to invade and seize territory from Mexico, which was largely seen as a betrayal of liberal values that the country was supposedly founded on. Don’t worry, the US isn’t the only country to justify their revolution with promises of liberal ideals like freedom and equality only to expose their true priorities later (namely giving local colonial elites more power than those ruling monarchs in Europe). I recommend reading the chapter on Bolivarian revolutions from the history book Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America for more about the disappointments and failures of liberal revolutions to live up to their promises.
- Comment on ...📉 3 weeks ago:
🤢🤢🤢
- Comment on respect dandelions! 5 weeks ago:
🥰
- Comment on i broke 1 month ago:
a therapist I had helped me rethink problems in terms of pragmatically adjusting my environment or conditions to nudge my behaviors rather than relying on willpower or behavioral changes that were slow or simply not happening
a small example was moving my computer out of my bedroom and developing a night-time routine that included reading a book before bed to help reduce compulsive computer use
realizing I am somewhat deterministic in my behavior, and my behavior is caused by conditions I have some influence over, was a helpful insight and got me past just constantly failing to live up to my expectations for myself and never moving past that - I can treat my psychological problems like puzzles to solve
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 month ago:
we have ads because services paid for with attention are more accessible and get more traffic than services paid for with a monthly subscription … we could probably subsidize a lot of websites or make them community efforts, but because people want to profit from websites we have this aggressive push for ads and monetization in every corner of the web.
Commercialization, though, is the problem more than advertising itself is. Monetization through “native ads” or affiliate link marketing is just as insidious and toxic, and pervasive. Just like people hate loot boxes and games that have mechanics where skill is less important than paying cash for in-game content for winning, the root cause of these is commercialization.
This is just capitalism, and cyberpunk as a genre is meant to be critical of capitalism and its rotten fruits.
I think it misses the mark to interpret the war as a war between humanity and advertisers when it’s a war between the powerful and wealthy and the 99%.
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 2 months ago:
hm, if it’s not too much to ask, maybe a visual would help? Like, an example where Excel or some other program shows correct layout, and LibreOffice has incorrect?
I haven’t had much discomfort with LibreOffice and I tend to be pretty OCD and I do UI work, so … maybe I’ve just ignored it - would like to learn, though!
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 2 months ago:
this is the way
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 2 months ago:
I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 2 months ago:
it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
💀💀💀
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
they did surgery on a grape!
- Comment on What is this specific kind of sheet called? 2 months ago:
oof
- Comment on What is this specific kind of sheet called? 2 months ago:
I mean, it might have just been a liner for a comforter - there are essentially sheets that are sewn together that you can fit a comforter in, so you can take the comforter out and wash the sheets occasionally and keep the comforter clean.
So maybe google “duvet cover” or “quilt cover” and see if that matches?
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 2 months ago:
and they let straight people adopt children, yikes
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 2 months ago:
America breeds people like this
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 2 months ago:
Richard Stallman’s Free Software, Free Society
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 2 months ago:
I still can’t tell what’s real or not, lol
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 2 months ago:
In the States we encourage our conservatives to write in Jesus Christ for President.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 2 months ago:
omg
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 2 months ago:
yes, yes I would imagine 🥵