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Transhumanistic Manifest-Panspermialism

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John | 21 | Ambisextrous | Autistic | Agender | They or he pronouns | Maid of Mind | Johns Hopkins '18 | Electrical Engineering | The Writing Seminars | I have unconditional, tough love for the human race.

Jurassic World did the Avatar thing where it made a gajillion dollars and left no cultural footprint whatsoever. Name your favorite Jurassic World character. What was your favorite line. It evaporated despite everyone seeing it.

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themistrustfulmistress

WRONG fav character was the extra that ran away from the pterodactyls with two margheritas in hand

Gotta do everything myself around here

So, I went into this guy’s Wikipedia page, because he looked familiar. And there’s this big “Controversies” section, so I was preparing myself to read that even the margaritas/pterodactyls guy has sexually assaulted someone. But it turns out that he hasn’t. However, he:

- Has been sued for copyright infringement for a ‘blasphemous’ musical rendition of a monologue from the 1950s

- He was on a plane with U2′s Bono and his family, and the plane was shot by the Jamaican police, who believed they were smuggling marijuana. He wrote a song about the incident.

- He’s actually a singer, and his better known song in called MARGARITAVILLE. He also owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain. And has licensed Margaritaville Tequila, Margaritaville Footwear, and a Margaritaville Foods. He owns the Margaritaville Casino, has released a “Margaritaville Online” game, and he wrote and starred in a musical called “Escape to Margaritaville”

- He also wrote a song called “Math Suks”, which was condemned by the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for its alleged negative effect on children’s education. 

- He was thrown out of a basketball game he was watching for using blasphemous language in front of kids.

- And he was detained by French customs for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy. Although he was released after paying a fine, and, according to him, the pills were a B-vitamin supplement.

So, yeah, that was refreshing controversies section-wise, but now I don’t know what to do with all that information.

Maybe its my age, but i’m a little concerned that the fact he is a singer and wrote Margaritaville wasn’t prior knowledge and is considered a controversy

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Beach, booze, Buffett.

Jimmy Buffett plays the margarita guy in Jurassic World because his most famous song is “Margaritaville” and this is therefore hilarious, I thought

absolutely obsessed with jimmy buffett being called “this guy”

Love the suggestion that the song and brand Margarativille are mentioned in passing on the Wikipedia page for uncredited Jurassic World extra Jimmy Buffett

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svvordvviz

reading the first half of the comments like

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i might be about to go hardcore no retouching no filter. im getting like radically alarmed about what real time video filtering and just basic digital retouching is doing to peoples brains. not just kids either but adults who were around before it was a thing

Tiktok has been applying a face shrinking beauty filter even if you turn filters off, it’s fucked

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this is absolutely terrifying. this is an actual cognitohazard. this should literally be illegal

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my “compulsory retouching is causing body dysmorphia on an unprecedented scale and should be treated as a public health crisis” post is raising a lot of questions already answered by the post

Back when I was a teenager, I very quickly decided to not wear makeup every day because the people I knew who did got so used to seeing themselves with makeup, their brain couldn't handle them without it anymore. They hated mirrors because they didn't look like themselves without makeup, they'd apologise for not wearing makeup even if you visited them when they were sick at home, and at one point I even remember my mum being terrified of leaving the house because she'd ran out of eyeliner. And I mean proper "I can't drive my child to school like this, what if someone sees me, also my car has mirrors" terrified. And I'm not saying everyone who wears makeup on a daily basis is like this, but it sure was a noticeable trend.

This was way before every phone was a portable camera because I'm old as balls in Tumblr Time, so if you wanted a selfie, you either used an old school camera and had the pictures developed, or you saved up for one of the first digital models which you probably shared with the entire family and which had the same amount of pixels as a a goddamn potato. So, home-made pictures made you look either bad, or just like yourself.

(And sure, magazines were already edited to hell and back, they have been since their conception in the 18th century, but the average person didn't have access to Photoshop and such yet unless you were a professional photographer venturing into digital photography.)

So yeah, be terrified of this compulsory editing, because it's exactly the same thing except it's digital instead of physical, and no amount of contouring will achieve that face slimming thing TikTok does.

Y'all look normal, trust me. No, I don't care who you are and what features you hate about yourself, this goes for all of you. You've just been conditioned to believe you don't by digital editing the same way my mum was conditioned to believe so by eye liner, foundation, facial razors, and concealer.

my friend created the funniest text to speech voice ever made. his name is joshua. he loves farms and cashews. for whatever reason the group chat has collectively decided that i am his father and he exclusively refers to me as “daddy way way”. also, he is the second most fucked up tts voice spawned

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peanotbotter

listening to this factory resets my brain

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HUH??? COWBOYS?

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story of cowboys

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anomalous-heretic

my brain is melting