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pikachu is drowning
This ain't about him
Imagine making a small talk with your barista and they slide their social battery badge down a level
OMG I bought that pin last week and it arrived today!
imagine sliding this down mid conversation lmao
In a good day I'm in yellow ngl...
You're at a lunch with friends when they all stop talking.
They were distracted by the low health sound of your social health bar
Do-do do-do do-do
I need this for... reasons.
you know what? this sort of thing should be normalized. if im talking to someone, and they feel like they need a social break, let them use this! plus it might help people who have trouble telling where they're at on that scale
BRB BOUGHT TO GO ORDER ASAP
Me too man, me too
I need this so bad
All I can picture is my wife making eye contact with me at a party and sliding it aaaassaaaaall the way down as a way of telling me she'd like to leave now.
the OceansGate coverage is fascinating in part because it lets you see the bullshit world of billionaires so clearly. like, take this forbes article about the submarine. they include this photo of the British billionaire tourist Hamish Harding who's on the sub. look at the caption!
a reasonable person reading this without additional context might see "astronaut" and "mission specialist" and think: oh, this guy is a dedicated researcher. someone who goes to space and the ocean floor out of curiosity and wonder, to contribute to human knowledge, to gather information and bring it back for the collective good
and like..,..... yeah he's been to space. technically. but the important context is that this photo is from when the billionaire went on jeff bezos's weird space tourism thing
this photo! is him getting a participation trophy! after spending 200,000-300,000 USD on an 11 minute plane ride that technically reaches space (as in, they go above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, 62 miles above earth. for like a couple minutes.)
is "astronaut" really the best term for someone who's done that?? when "space tourist" is right there???? "leech who exploits workers to amass a fortune and then spends it on elaborate astronaut cosplay"???
I love that this post doesn't include the actual text of his tweet, just his impending presence. This is the visual equivalent of a scare chord.
sad news today. Beeftongue, slug beloved, is no more. it lived just over a year, a good long time for a Florida leatherleaf, and tasted dozens of lettuces and other delicious vegetation beyond any slug’s dreams. found under a fallen stop sign in Miami, I was honored to share some time with this awesome beast.
farewell, Beef.
Ok I'm gonna explain this in Green Text, just for Elon's fanboys:
> Be Elon
> Refuse to Pay your bills
> Twitter gets kicked off Google Cloud's servers
> Suddenly limit post views in a frantic attempt to compensate
> Users keep trying to see posts
> Can't see the posts because of post limits
> Twitter keeps sending requests, multiple times per second, that can't go through
> Every failed request IMMEDIATELY triggers a new request that also fails
> Resources get bogged down and Twitter starts crashing
> Tfw you launched a DDOS attack against your own website
Hi Elon: please add a decreasing counter bar in the corner of the screen so I know how many posts left I can view. Because having a health bar on twitter would be the only funny thing you can do right now
Binghe wants Ken-ergy
Mobei has Ken-ergy
Correct!
Also to expand
Shen Qingqiu: a classic Barbie. Mostly well cared for except when it isn't
Shang Qinghua: one of those very beat up Barbies. The one with crayon and legs that barely stick on and a home haircut and a hundred other issues
Liu Qingge: Ken-ergy but one that's sometimes used as a weapon
Yue Qingyuan: Ken-ergy but one whose legs fall off all the time
Sha-Hualing and Liu Mingyan - lesbian Barbies. We all had them. The Barbies you'd smash together because they "fought" and then you'd leave them lying on top of each other
Ning YingYing: Skipper
I cannot stress enough to Tumblr staff that they do not need to change the site. Do not try to be like Twitter. Do not try to be like Reddit. Do not alter how this site works.
Tumblr will be the most popular social media site if they continue letting all these other sites implode
Me trying to remember whether one with a house is a slug or a snail
In Dutch we use the same word for both, with slugs being called "naked snails", so making the distinction in English is difficult for me
My twitch chat finds it hilarious
You don't call it a house in English???
no! we call it a SHELL
BUT THAT'S WHERE HE LIVES
July 10, 2023 - (18:00 UTC)
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