I’m an expert in this field. i went from atheist YouTube in 2008 to what the trillbillies call “spooky pussy” in 2009 and i have remained in the spooky pussy camp since then, I don’t regret it.
well, i regret it a little
So what does any of this mean to those out of the loop?
it means that the transition from evangelical child to edgy teen atheist to normal functional adult puts you at a crossroads much like the dichotomy presented in this meme. when i was 19 years old i did indeed have to choose whether to mock spiritual people, or “wrong” people in general. it was in fact a pretty witch who convinced me not to do this, and as a result i spent the next 10 years learning how to be normal to people who do not share one iota of my relationship with truth. Nearly 20 years later i do still enjoy talking to witches, in fact i can’t resist it. i maintain a staunch secular humanism, which serves as a narrative anchor for anyone who wants to manipulate me with their magic spells.
Did you spill soda on your shift key?
I’m a mobile user with a FOSS keyboard system. When I was using android it did it all for me.
I’m a chaos wizard and I think consensus reality is a mechanism of bourgeois control of the workers
what’s a chaos wizard?
A practitioner of magic without doctrine. Chaotes draw techniques and schemas from many different sources including paganism, psychology, and pop culture. We use whatever works to get the results we want, it doesn’t have to form a unified belief system.
Many of us don’t believe there’s any such thing as an objective reality. Everything is subjective, which means we can use every subjectivity for its benefits and move between them freely.
it was in fact a pretty witch who convinced me not to do this, and as a result i spent the next 10 years learning how to be normal to people
Oh man story of my life. Woah. It often makes me think of the saying…
“As he received his trophy, the plucky quarterback unfolded the story of how he ‘came back’. He said ‘They say behind every great man there’s a woman. While I’m not a great man, there’s a great woman behind me.’”
From my perspective, the Witch in my story doesn’t want to talk to me anymore. None the less words cannot express my gratitude for her setting me on the path I am on now. I still feel like I owe her an apology letter. 🤔
tl:dr Males 13-25 stop “teasing” or “joking” rudely with girls and women. You will most likely regret it. Dearly.
You’re so right. Being right is so much less important then tact if you want to keep touch with kind people.
The things we’ll do for the promise of sex.
what is a trillbilly and what is a spooky pussy?
It’s a podcast. Chapo has them on as guests occasionally
isnt chapo behind bars?
context-OP referring to another podcast called Chapo traphouse
I kinda find this post moderately offensive to women.
Actually it’s offensive to men too, isn’t it?
nah, not really. ive been there more times than i can count. it happens.
people believe in all kinds of crazy shit. its up to you if you can look past someones beliefs for a casual fling or something more serious.
i tend to not openly judge others for something that makes their life more bearable. life sucks, its confusing, and shitty, more often than it is rewarding or enjoyable. people never know what to expect, so they search for patterns to predict a better outcome for themselves, or at least a way to soften the blow of a potentially shitty outcome. some people like astrology, some people like drugs, god, the universal conciousness, whatever. pick your passion.
cant judge someone for being human, when you’re a human yourself. we all believe in something absolutely insane, and we all want to fuck each other.
plus, it can be fun to imagine that the stars aligned just for us, on this night…isnt it? even if it isnt true. its a beautiful illusion, and it can be appreciated when you suspend your disbelief until the morning light washes away the night, and all its constellations. and replaces it with bad breath, bed head, and a hangover in a strangers apartment.
life is easier when you dont take it seriously.
you can judge people for holding belief systems that are constructed for them to avoid personal accountability for themselves.
which is what astrology and other alt beliefs are for most of these folks. a way to explain away their problems rather than take responsibility for them.
Thank you for this perspective. I was lacking it and you brought it to me.
I read most comments above this
some people like astrology, some people like drugs, god, the universal conciousness, whatever. pick your passion.
Now hold on… One of these things is actually real though, and has very direct effects on your consciousness. It’s insane to include drugs in there.
Only if you believe it applies to all men and all women. Or maybe, just maybe, it might be a shitpost.
It does say every straight man in the picture
The key is to be just a little gay, as a treat!
So, my gayness is what’s protecting me from superstitious women?
I think it’s a case of correlation as opposed to causation but yes, absolutely.
I will choose to make fun of it at every chance. Fortunately my girlfriend doesn’t mind, so I can also still get laid.
Shut up Wesley
In a college classroom with only women, we did a student survey that asked how many believe in astrology. It was 50%.
I’m curious how that boils down in a coed institution, or a research 1 school or something.
Of all the non-scientific things to believe in, astrology is one of the weirdest. Especially if you’re talking about ancient astrology, come on now… the sky has changed significantly in eg 2000 years, how could you make any conclusions based on that? Or the figures drawn from groups of stars, constellations, that are not even remotely close to each other if you look from another viewpoint?
But I guess it’s even worse… I guess most people talk about their magazine horoscopes, that aren’t even written by actual astrologers :(As has been pointed out many times the configuration of the solar system today is completely different to the configuration of the solar system on this date precisely 365 days ago, because the orbit of the Earth has very little to do with all the other planets. So even if the locations of random astronomical objects, but not others because they don’t count obviously, have an impact on my personality why are all libras the same, how does that work?
This was foretold! “Today, you might run into a kind stranger asking you a question that you maybe answer with a touch of silliness.”
Cold reading. That’s how it works.
Oh, a technical explanation
They’re also just inert balls of gas that are way too far away to have any effect on our planet
Well… their photons do reach our planet after sometimes thousands of lightyears’ travel… I will call that impressive.
I just can’t imagine how they can fit twins with completely different personalities in their world view.
I was going to say that astrology is actually cool, but then I realized what they meant by astrology.
While I can’t call it scientific, there is a lot of interesting symbolism in traditional astrology, especially in its relations to real scientific discovers. Western/modern astrology doesn’t even include the 13th sign.
Sure, sweetie. Tell me more about it while we make our way to bed?
Or he could find a woman who’s not superstitious, or go gay.
How do you “go” gay?
Sheer willpower.
Conversion therapy
Surely not
Fake it 'til you make it ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
I’ve heard that a huge percentage of people have latent homosexual/ bisexual/pansexual leanings. So just lean into it I guess.
Hmm?
What does that even mean in this context, “latent”?
You mean “unexplored”? If I’m a “latent” homosexual, it just means I’m homosexual, no? So if by “go” you mean “be true to myself”, then fine, I guess?
But if I’m bi, or straight, I can’t just turn off my attraction to the opposite sex to “go gay”.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, non-straight, non-gay people! Is it possible to just flip your attractions off? Sincerely, cis straight male who’s earnestly trying to be as woke as possible and educate myself to be accurate and inclusive.
You just decide. Everybody knows it’s a choice
I upvoted, hoping you were sarcastic.
Top or bottom, depends how you are feeling.
I believe that is called a switch
It’s a vers. Switches are between dominant and submissive
the gays seem even more into astrology…
Easy choice
presses “gay” button
Now I’m surrounded by superstitious lesbians
And I’m surrounded by Linux users.
Edit: sorry, but that’s the gayest thing I could think of.
sneaks up Oh hi there!
- a gay Linux user
Associating operating systems/kernels with sexuality, hmmmmm… What would you assign to these?
- Windows from Microsoft (modern)
- [Mac/i/watch]OS (are they different?)
- Android (kernel changed enough that I consider it it’s own semi-compatible thing rather than Linux)
- [Open/Net/Free/Dragonfly/Ghost/Hardened/Midnight/MirOS /Fuguita ]BSD (are they different?)
- ArcaOS
- Haiku
- 9front
- Inferno64
- GNU Hurd
- MINIX
- RiscOS
- SerenityOS
- Redox
- PureDarwin
GreenteaOS too!
At a glance: is this another ReactOS but with .js files in the repo? Why the fuck?
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Straight
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Femboys
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Straight dude who thinks acting gay would get him invited to girl sleepovers.
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A pansexual who’s also Aromatic.
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The straight guy who’s into grannies.
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The guy who thinks they have a type, but their type would never date them.
8.Aeroace but would set you up with their friend
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The gay who only wants to top
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Old grandad gay. Someone who wasn’t shy boning dudes back when they would’ve been executed for it.
12 The kinda gay who would only hangout with people over 40.
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The bisexual who didn’t care exploring further cause they live in conservative environment(relatable)
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The guy who thinks applying nailpolish makes him gay.
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I’m sorry. You’re a Debian and I’m a Fedora. We’re just not compatible.
I use Arch btw.
I’m a woman, I have no patience for pseudoscience.
Typical Sagittarius! /s
I’m a Gemini actually
Just what a Gemini would say!
have you ever had anyone argue with you about your star sign?
I have, it was wild. They insisted my DOB was wrong and I was totally a Capricorn. They also argued with me that my job was awful and unfulfilling, despite me saying I enjoyed it. That was also bizarre.
That was also bizarre.
No! It was one of the most normal experiences of your life!
Sadly, yeah it is getting more like that year after year. Too many tiktok crackhead crazies out there, and they didn’t exist 5 year ago.
That’s how anyone should be!
I like to think of astrology as a fine grained personality shorthand like Meyers Briggs.
That argument falls flat to me simply because there are 13 zodiac signs, not 12, and ancient (and modern) astrologers simply ignore the 13th one (Ophiuchus) for convenience.
If you are going to claim the stars have influence over our personalities, at least be consistent with how you “read” said stars.
Not to mention, there is zero evidence that astrology works.
Also, at the time most of the zodiac and star chart arrangements were plotted out, the Earth had an entirely different north star than it does now. So your modern star sign would not even be consistent with the ancient charts and star signs, yet somehow all the same definitions and assumptions are supposed to apply.
updated my comment lol
I can appreciate that view point as long as we are in agreement that there is no real science behind it. I can totally see how people use “I’m such a Pisces” to describe themselves as sensitive and emotional. I just wish they would say “I’m sensitive and emotional” instead, lol.
I tried to express that as clearly as I could, it’s just like a more ethical version of Slytherin/gryffindor/etc, I tend to be friends with excessively referential people I guess.
You forgot the part about how it’s determined by giant balls of gas millions of light years away that aren’t actually arranged in neat patterns, but are actually incredibly far from one another and only look like patterns from our specific position in the universe
A trait can apply to anyone in any category. The whole premise is an exercise in the celebration of ignorance. I won’t stand for it.
total Capricorn move
I like to think of personality tests like Meyers Briggs as pseudoscientific nonsense like astrology
Early in our dating, my wife had me take the enneagram test. I got a 2, she’s a 9. I told her I found a page detailing relationships between 2’s and 9’s and some of the strengths and weaknesses we’d navigate as a couple.
As I was reading it she kept saying, at first, “That makes sense!” Or “Yeah I can see that.” There were a few that were kind of out there. But she kept listening.
Eventually I revealed to her that I was ACTUALLY reading a page detailing relationships between a dragon and a sheep, our respective Chinese Zodiac signs. And that I was using this to support my argument that personality tests are astrology for educated people.
Still ended up getting laid, though not that day. 😅
It’s clearly pseudoscientific nonsense. But it’s easier to say “I’m a pisces” instead of “I’m feeling hesitant about the future of our relationship, Sarah” if she is into that. The value is in being able to reference loose personality archetypes without having to spend a paragraph describing someone.
But being a Pisces doesn’t mean anything, does it? It could both mean being someone who is afraid of risks and someone who is bold and takes chances.
How is it easier?
it means what people want it to mean.
And that’s why Astrology is so powerful. it’s 100% projection and bias confirmation.
‘take chances’ is entirely relative. what is a bold risk for one person, is an afterthought for another person, but in astrology there is no specific context, just vague nonsense worded such that anyone can project onto it.
It’s all contextual, honestly, but here are my impressions of the uh, categories:
Pisces: wishy washy, both sides, indecisive, peacemaker, likes blue stuff
Capricorn: hustle culture, hates fun
Taurus: confident, aggressive, clumsy, bro-ish
I don’t have any others on deck without looking them up lol
And you can’t see how stupid this is?
I addressed this in a tasteful edit.
How is that helpful if the categories are based on birthdays?
That part is dumb. I edited my comment now that I understand the confusion
Here’s what I got from the dating pool: Gemini: bipolar two-faced Scorpio: will stab you and eat your soul
because they are
nobody takes them seriously other than teenagers and other emotionally immature folks.
Personally I do find it interesting, when people do tell their Myers-Briggs -test results, since it can tell about, what sort of a person they want to be. But it is not scientific in the slightest.
Hey there, how you doing?
I’m okay
It’s tough having no patience for pseudoscience in 2026
A friend set me up on a date with a coworker of him. then she spent about 20 minutes drawing my astral chart. She had notes, books and even an iPad app.
Eventually she concluded we were not compatible, while I concluded the same about 20 seconds after in.
Would you smash though?
Yeah, I ain’t putting up with that either. People can have their beliefs, but getting my head screwed on straight was a hard fought, lifelong journey. I cannot go back.
Well yoooouu, don’t get to keep your place mat from the Chinese restaurant then.
So lads, I’ve been single for the last 6 years. Which Gunpla model shall I put together next?
Why not learn embroidery/crossstitching. Calming and fun.
Heh something I would try. I mean I’ve thought about making clothes (recycling old stuff) since I know how to use a sewing machine, home-ec class. I have serious damage on my hands from chemicals, fingers getting pinched, -_- skateboarding, power tools, etc. My left hand shakes all the time and the thumb clicks moving it. So putting together Gundam models works out since I mostly only use my right hand, which at least doesn’t shake but I don’t have the mobility like I used to.
Chicken and egg sitch going on here I feel.
I mean for me, I got tired of being in relationships. I was making a jokey joke out of it.
Gotcha, I was tagging along on top of your jokey joke.
I got my full horoscope done in a lounge chair in a club. She brought tables and everything. But my god was she cute.
If they are into getting nerdy with charts and tables, there might be a chance to hook them up with Dungeons and Dragons… 🤔
I chose making fun of astrology. Dodged a bullet there.
Lol no, I make fun of astrology with my girlfriend
I’ll choose making fun of astrology.
even if i were male and straight, I don’t think i could ever respect astrology…
but moreover, it’s creepy as fuck for someone to pretend a change in their beliefs just for sex. that’s kinda literally false pretense for sex. i know I’d never convince a jury of it, but as far as I’m concerned in my personal life, imagining doing such a thing fills me with revulsion and it crosses the line into sexual assault territory.
The difference is most of them don’t believe in any of it. It’s just entertaining to them. Find ten people who say like astrology and ask them to make base a life deciding event on it all 10 of them will make the decision on factors outside of astrology.
An easy way to tell, if they ask what month you were born in, they don’t believe in astrology… As the months don’t line up with the stars.
And then you have people like my own mom who judges, and forms whole opinions about, people based on their astrology signs.
Even if some sort of behaviour completely contradicts their supposed astral sign, she’ll make it fit.
you realize it’s incredibly common for folks to do this? of any gender?
i broke up with most of my exes because they false presented themselves to me. they saw absolutely nothing wrong with it, and to them I was the one who was awful and terrible for not ‘loving and accepting them for who they really are’. i had one ex who specific said ‘you’d have never dated me if i had told you the truth’.
was I sexually assaulted by those women? who deliberately lied to me to have sex and engage in a relationship with me?
I don’t think very many people would consider what they did as sexual assault.
yes, i do in fact realize that it’s incredibly common for folks to be shitty human beings. i have elected to not be like them. because they are shitty. “everyone’s doing it” does not make it right.
furthermore, literally all the rest of my post after the first sentence, set aside purposefully with two line breaks, intentionally did not specify or even mention gender. so I’m not sure why you brought it up as it were relevant.
above and beyond standard social contract expectations,
i shall additionally, PERSONALLY decline to perform acts that feel wrong to me,
irrespective of others’ opinions.Well, IME people who talk like you, who boast about how truthful and honest they are, are the same ones who lied.
Weird how that works out, isn’t it?
Almost as if folks who boast about how honest and great they are, typically aren’t either of those things. And their need to boast is projection/overcompensation for their true behaviors.
Come to think of it, it is weird that the way you think things are just so happen to work out in your favor. It’s almost as if you never had anything relevant to say in the first place.
