We live in a hostel and a day ago my VERY GOOD friend found a newly hatched river turtle and started keeping in a bucket with half inch water and a leaf . The room get pretty cold due to the AC and the turle was tinyy with no plans on how to feed it , clean it , filtration, any proper place ORR ANYTHING IN GENERAL , the guy is also extremely lazy and careless so i knew sooner or later the turtle would did in the cold or starvation or living in its noxious shit water.

I was literally worried it wont survive the night but he wont let me release it back into the lake where e found it. He played with the turlte like a hot wheel car and a fidget spinner the whole night pretty much. It did survive the night and when he went to class i released it back .

I then texted him that i released it and he yelled at me on call saying he'll break my ass etc and i yelled back-----then these texts occurred.

Mind ya'lls this is not some random roomate but my veryy good friend and hence i could not tolerate the callous attitude whatsoever. If it were some rando i wouldnt have intervened. This guy also tried to use against me my vulnerability which i told him cos i thought it was a safe space .

I swear i did the right thing.

Tl'dr -- stopped best friend from abusing turtle hence releasing it and he threatened physical violence and disrespected me

The whole thing left me perplexed. The last 5 screenshots will be in comments.

I know jokes can often not land via text so I wasn’t so bothered by this one, just made me laugh he took it so serious. Didn’t care to correct him that it was in fact a way of “trying to be cute” lol

being a woman on discord core

Now, I know of course one of the obvious responses would be thank you, I love you too and I have said that part already. I’m only having trouble with the latter half of the message. I just don’t know what to say. I don’t want to keep it short and come across as disinterested if I say “yeah we should go out to eat sometime”, but I’m also not sure if being too willing to hang out is the best approach.

I’m an extreme recluse and don’t have very good social skills in general so I’m not sure what’s the best thing to say here. If you all were me, how would you respond to this?

A little context: I broke up with my ex last week, and I feel nothing for her. I have never hated anyone more in my life. When I left her, all the feelings I had disappeared. She was emotionally, physically, and psychologically abusive.

I was going through my camera roll from last year and found these. I don't know why I put up with this for so long.

Photo one is when she wanted me to delete my PlayStation account due to me speaking to my friends on it. I ended up asking for it to be deleted, but fortunately Sony's system glitched and my account was saved.

The second photo is about my late brother's watch. She wanted me to break it due to it making her uncomfortable. She used his death repeatedly to hurt me over and over again. I ended up faking breaking it and then hid it.

The third photo is an example of her mocking my brother.

I am very ashamed that I put up with this and let her say these things. When I look back, I feel pathetic, and now I am just left feeling so disappointed and angry at myself.

Her excuse for this, you are probably wondering? Well, for her it was anxiety, and her not liking that I spoke to a girl two years before her. Good riddance

name has been changed for privacy reasons- her real name is not Mandy.

I have been very depressed lately and I have been sort of self isolating, though I always make time to hang out with Mandy once a week, although it’s usually for a fairly short period of time

i finally returned to uni after a month of being in a partial hospitalization program for depression and dark thoughts- I don’t really talk to her in depth about them that much though. she knows I struggle with self isolating.

Mandy and I have been dating for almost a year.

Edit: thank you. I’m sorry for being harsh on my girlfriend and I think the comments are really what I needed to hear. I’m not in a space where I should be dating right now. when she comes I’m going to try to have an honest conversation with her.

Edit 2: thank you. This is definitely the wake up call I needed. What do I do about concert tickets I have with her for tonight? I don’t want to drag her along for another day just to see a concert with her :(

So sick of the political spam!

I realize the furries are far from the first, but I didn't feel like figuring out where they fell "in line."

Also, I know replying only encourages the spammers, but I just couldn't resist! I did block and report right afterward, though.

Neither of us are native english speakers!!

We've been dating 4 months. We've been having a tough week leading up to a rave and I sent him a video of me doing a jumpstyle choreography and he responded with this. I feel a bit like shit since he responded so harsh but I guess it could be considered a compliment sandwich?

He is usually harsh and I've been doing a lot to be up to his standards but still it feels like it's never enough.
My friends said he's toxic but I think he's trying to guide me. How would you decode this?

can someone explain what borderline latina means

We (33m and 29f) had dated a little over 3 years prior to this exchange.

She did make the first year of the relationship a struggle. Every milestone we hit, every progress we made, she would get cold feet and express wanting to break up. I stuck through it until she eventually trusted me enough. And we dated for the next 2 years without much drama.

Middle of last year, she started to have some health issues. Mostly to do with anemia. Her lack of energy made her avoidant tendencies come back out. She would get pissed for no reason, and say things that hurt me a lot. We were out for dinner one night, celebrating her work promotion. She didn’t like the food much and the restaurant was loud, and she was pissed all through the dinner. Made us leave early, and just threw a fit in the car. I figured she’d be okay the next day, but two days later she told me she wanted to break up. And that was that. This was Nov of 2025.

I went no contact, but she called me a month later crying that she started to feel dizzy while on the metro, and if I could pick her up. I went and got her, dropped her off to an appointment and then drove her home after.

That incident gave us as excuse to re-connect. We started hanging out as if we were dating but without having the talk. She seemed more calm, more comfortable.

But it all came crashing down during another dinner a few months later. We were out at a restaurant, where the service ended up being very slow. She also expressed to me that she was contemplating moving to a city 5 hour flight away because of her perceived lack of work opportunities in our city. And I didn’t have a good reaction to it. So she accused me of limiting her world or doubting her abilities. I apologised and let her know that I’m her biggest supporter, and that I love her and it’s my hurt reacting to learning that she might move far away.

The date night was ruined, and I drove her home. And that was that. She messaged me the next day telling me she was sorry about overreacting. I told her I just needed some time to myself, and would be good for us to take a small break from each other.

The above was the last message she sent me, before she blocked me off everywhere. It’s been 9 months since that, and I still miss her. Have put myself out on dating apps, but I sadly keep trying to find her in the people I meet. And it’s killing me.

This is truly funny. A great aunt passed away and this exchange is how a family member approaches me about it, clearly extremely normal and socially aware behavior lol

edited to add- there is nobody else in the family who would have communicated to me that this person passed away, so yes, the assumption that i somehow magically knew makes no sense

I honestly don't get the logic of speaking like this to a woman you just met? This sure is a panty dropper 🫩. Anyways decided to creep him out as punishment 😂

Transcripts are poor. Left him two years ago and he has been like this the entire time

i miss my dad🩶. fuck brain cancer. he was really amazing. every single person who knew him was charmed by his genuine, down-to-earth, witty-as-all-hell personality. he was totally hilarious and the way he and i would riff off each other was the most fun thing i've ever experienced. nothing - and i mean nothing - was better than getting a phone call from my dad. we were giddy every time we were around each other in person. i am sooooooo fortunate to have known him and even more so to have had him as my "old man."