Buxtry - Bingo Jones

Can I say how much it bothers me to see inspirational messages like these show up in my feed? Great, I’m all for trying to encourage your friends to improve their lives and be positive about the future. However, I take particular issue with the line here, and found elsewhere, that “Happiness is a choice.” No it isn’t. Happiness, like other emotions, is not a verb. It’s a noun that describes a reaction, often fleeting, derived from extraneous circumstances.

To suggest it is as simple as a choice to be happy also suggests that I and millions of people like me are choosing the depression and anxiety that we carry. At best it holds the same weight as the empty and false platitude that “Frowning takes more muscles than smiling!” At worst it can be interpreted as victim blaming those for not trying hard enough to choose their way out of their mental health struggles.

Perhaps choose your inspirational quotes more wisely.

Deadline on Twitter had a landscape version of this yesterday: I'm not sure how to embed it. (Here's a link to their page that has the slightly longer version of the video, and links to the tweet here.)

Deadline

Martin Sheen Goes Full President Bartlet In Rousing Speech At National Day Of Solidarity Rally In LA As Kerry Washington & Ron Perlman Blast

This is Day 113 of the WGA strike and Day 40 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.  Martin Sheen led a reunion of the cast and crew of The West Wing and

We’ve got the official Season 2 poster. How do the kids say it these days? ‘Merica? ‘MERICA.

someone in my target language: hi :)! how are you?

me and Duolingo in haunting unison: the boys have the pears

PREHISTORIC PROTO-MONKEY: I don't need ascorbic acid. From my cells. I eat fruit all the time dude. I'm better than that OTHER PREHISTORIC PROTO-MONKEY: I agree with your lifestyle and will fuck you raw to prove it GUY LOOKING FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 36,530,125 YEARS LATER: ow oof my shitty british teeth

Reblog if you think Carrie Fisher is still beautiful!

I want to see how many there are of us.

This is peak comedy