Uncle Rester

@UncleRester

he\him

Slow of thought and life. Autistic and disabled. Called 'Tan' since a portion of True Name.

Stubbornly trying to learn to draw.
Enjoys weird crossover fanfic with interesting worldbuilding\meshing, romance-comedy and slice of life mangas.

Laid fallow and rotting for over a decade, stirring slightly but still very disabled and my life is very small and improvised.
Emphasis on the person not the bad in 'bad person'.

Frankentan \ UncleRester on twitter

Uncle Rester @UncleRester10/13/2023, 1:38 PM

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Nick V @nickavv10/13/2023, 4:09 AM

Just saw this on bluesky

Funny cause not having to constantly have a take about current events is a feature to me, not a bug.

Edit, which I hope shows retroactively on shares: since this got seen by so many more people than I ever thought/hoped it would, I want to add this.
First: It has been pointed out to me that my interpretation of OOP's post was uncharitable at best. I never wanted this to be about dogpiling on them, definitely don't do it.

Second: I think this post came across as me being callous or even gleeful about not having an opinion and being indifferent to tragedy. I regret that, I am not indifferent to it, and I have lots of opinions about it. The part I stand by is that I don't think I should be compelled to post them because they are fundamentally uneducated (although getting better as I read more about it from people on here). And I don't necessarily think people should feel like they are entitled to know everyone else's opinion about everything that's going on in the world.

OK that's all, sorry

#bluesky #cohost meta

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people shirt @hidden10/13/2023, 4:22 AM

i think the funny part about the bluesky post is that there IS people talking about it, it's just that stuff about current events and politics in general aren't huge on cohost unlike a good chunk social media so you won't see it here often .. unless you have tags about it bookmarked [i hope i worded this right ..]

Annie D @ann-arcana10/14/2023, 4:30 PM

One of the few posts I've seen about it was in fact a very long form piece on the history and ideology of the Zionist movement from an actual Jewish person, which I feel like is probably all by itself enough to balance out a million takes from clueless white leftists screaming random buzzwords at each other.

Nick V @nickavv10/14/2023, 4:31 PM

I learned a hell of a lot more from that post about the subject than I had learned about it total in my life up to that point

ebu @ebu10/14/2023, 7:36 PM

assuming y'all are talking about this one?

GFD @GFD10/13/2023, 4:35 AM

in Canada, we’ve already had our fill over thanksgiving of conservative uncles talking about all the awful shit the Hamas are doing without so much as a peep about how the IDF have killed far more civilians in this conflict, so i’m very happy to not see any further discourse flooding my feed on this site.

Nick V @nickavv10/13/2023, 4:36 AM

Why go on sites full of your racist uncle when you can have eggbug

The Web's Dear Freja @VampireExpert10/13/2023, 12:20 PM

This is funny to me because the first mention I saw of this recent thing anywhere was someone posting about it in the cohost global feed with no other tags.

eevee @lexyeevee10/13/2023, 3:13 PM

Sorry i forgot to finish my essay on whether war is good or bad

nora @nora10/13/2023, 5:27 PM

i get feeling like you're going insane seeing people not acknowledge what your people are going through, and i don't think labeling this as brainrot is very kind

Nick V @nickavv10/13/2023, 6:31 PM

That's fair, I don't know if the original OP has any personal stake in the events, nor did I check. I read their post differently

nora @nora10/13/2023, 6:34 PM

they do.

Nick V @nickavv10/13/2023, 6:36 PM

I've deleted that tag off of my post, you are right that it was not kind. Sorry

Coyote @osteophage10/14/2023, 6:15 PM

If you add an edit note to the main post, will it display retroactively in shares? It looks like people are continuing to share it in a mocking way.

Nick V @nickavv10/14/2023, 6:42 PM

I edited the original post with some additional thoughts and it does seem to show on shares. Thanks for the idea

videogames is one word @psilocervine10/13/2023, 8:53 PM

especially wild considering this is where I learned about what happened. really sounds more like an issue of who they're following

Μάρκος @postgarf10/14/2023, 2:59 PM

indigo's comment is exactly it, if i had to make a post about a current event every time it happened i wouldn't make it past a month. i miss when i could care specifically about all the horror of the world but i think after i got off of my adhd meds like very late 2021 i just couldn't take being so constantly overwhelmed with news anymore. i am so tired of everything, and so much of it is so far beyond my means to do anything.
my hottest take is that, actually, this is Pandora's Vox commodifying outrage, commodifying emotion, which serves the bottom line of where you're posting far more than it's helping anyone actually affected. it is, more than anything, a fucked up spectacle to scroll through for entertainment. if i am to post something online, willingly make myself a spectacle, then i don't need to use the suffering of others to further my own intentions of gathering likes and reposts.
tangentially related; twitter and places like twitter are a black hole of emotion, and i don't really know why, or what causes them to be like that. they are the purest expression of self commodification, but nobody seems to care.

Stubble Telescope @arbitraryreign10/14/2023, 4:20 PM

Thank you. It's strange because I usually use Instagram to avoid existence, but everyone feels obligated to post stuff they didn't write in their stories.