somehow we moved from "NFTs are cringe" to "NFTs are irredeemably evil" and i don't know how we got there

making fun of people for being cringe is bullying; criticising people for being evil is justice. so people have a strong incentive to reframe the former as the latter

And also NFTs are evil so you know.

"NFTs are evil” seems an isolated demand for virtue

the usual argument is that the blockchain consumes a lot of energy, and it does.

(perhaps you think NFTs are evil for reasons unrelated to carbon emissions. if so, ignore the rest of this post and do share your reasons)

according to this source, an ethereum blockchain transaction has a CO2  cost of about 110kg. that’s a lot!  plane trips routinely emit way more than that, though. would you call someone evil for taking a plane instead of a train, or instead of not travelling at all if that’s an option?

what about carbon offsetting? climeworks asks for about 125 usd to offset that much carbon (climeworks is unusually expensive as carbon offsets go, but also their numbers are a less suspect). would you call someone evil for not giving away 125 usd to carbon offsets if they can afford to do so?

what about having an unusually carbon-expensive lifestyle? is someone evil for turning the AC on more often than they need to? for driving to work instead of biking? for not being vegan?

NFTs are wasteful, yeah. so are a billion other things people do that go unremarked. those don’t get called evil. why?

There is a massive, massive difference in scale here. 

Etherium is one of the less bad cryptocurrencies when it comes to carbon emissions, and it’s still dumping over a weeks worth of an average US household’s electricity consumption on a single transaction. That’s any purchase or sale at all. 

Sending your friend some cash? Week of electricity. Want to buy yourself a meal? Week of electricity. It lays out very plainly on the site that it’s the same as 244,773 VISA transactions for a single etherium transaction. It is not 244,773 times more CO2 heavy to take a plane instead of a train, or eating meat instead of vegan, or running the AC more.

Bitcoin is close to 10x higher than that. That is the per person equivalent of taking a flight from New York to London every single time that currency is used to buy or sell anything. That is hideously wasteful in search of profit, and it is absolutely evil. There’s no other word for that kind of waste. 

This is all just the crypto side of it, which is also particularly rife with scams, instability, market manipulation, and flagrant pump and dump schemes. It’s unregulated--if someone steals everything from you you have no legal recourse at all. Coins have failed, exchanges have failed, massive hacks, you name it. People who have literally created cryptocoins are decrying it.

NFTs themselves hit all the hallmarks of a multi level marketing scam or, more charitably, the beanie baby craze where people are pouring their savings into something they are convinced is going to make them rich in the future, so long as new buyers keep showing up forever! And if that doesn’t happen then suddenly a lot of people have a lot of beanie babies or tulips or bored apes that are worthless because no one wants to buy them now and the price tanks. 

As shareholders would put it, they’re all left holding the bag, and we’re all stuck dealing with the obscene amounts of CO2 emissions spent on something that is now utterly worthless. 

That, in my opinion, qualifies NFTs (and crypto as a whole) as absolutely fucking evil.

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

there's art now

world heritage post

every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called “maybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)”. now, it’s important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second he’s in the living room, the next he’s back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again

and so it begins..

i was not fucking ready for this photograph

I’m NEVER ready for the fucking photograph, holy shit.

This is so cool! But what country are they from? “Africa” is really vague.

Their names are Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola and they’re from Lagos, Nigeria. There’s a neat video about them here.

#when will people start giving names to young non-white scientists??#bc that shit is getting old

boost the fuck out of this, and make sure you include their goddamn names and country of origin.

Again: that’s not disrespect, that’s journalism. That’s how headlines work. The goal of a headline is NOT to be a substitute for the entire article. It’s to tease the article itself, and generate enough interest and intrigue to get clicks. You only have so much time to capture attention in a headline. If you only have a few seconds and a handful of words to snag someone’s news-scrolling gaze and get across pertinent facts, then you try to make those facts as simple and accessible as possible.

If you started a headline with 4 names no one has ever heard before, most people won’t even read all the way to the pertinent information in the headline, let alone be intrigued enough to click on the article itself. And more people know where Africa is than where Nigeria is. I’m not making a value judgment there, it’s just the truth. It’s a funnel approach: you start by appealing to the broadest or most culturally relevant possible demographic in the headline so people will click on it for more information, and then you start going into detail:

In less than 2 sentences we have names and a location. 

I checked another article about the same thing, with a similarly catchy and vague title: 

And again: names (and this time even ages and pictures) and a location within the first 2-3 sentences of the article, immediately following an eye-and-attention grabbing, snappy and easy-to-digest headline.

This is a basic journalism thing. They ARE named, and in fact their praises being sung–you just have to be willing to read more than a headline before you start judging the content. 

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!

IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

now we enter the testing phase

yup. looks good.

Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

*roar sound effect*

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

There’s more!

I love.

I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!

(just fine)

Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures

OP and Wexter can break all my toes and I would still send a thank you card

Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)

so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.

it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!

ajdhf.

well that’s just,,,

REXCELLENT

two hundred THOUSAND notes???!?!

HELL

YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES.

Nearing on 375K Notes!!! What in the Paleolithic are y'all gonna do when they top 400K?!

cry, probably

Reblogging to get you one note closer to crossing the 400k mark!

IT’S TIME

YOU MANIACS. okay, here we go!

HAIL TO THE QUEEN

LONG MAY SHE REIGN!

(she was a skater Rex, she said see you later Rex, she’s finally hit 400k!)

Wexter: *Exists.*

Tumblr:

I decided to make that one picture into a silly little meme template/reaction image have fun guys

ok full disclosure here if you guys make my toy dinosaur into a meme I am going to have an existential crisis

possessed by a racecar(tragic)

"ARNGHERRANHGERGNAHGHGERNAGH"

Baby

Guys I found the only good thing on Facebook.

Update:

Oh fuck they’re inclusive ants, too?!?

Image Descriptions

[Image 1: A Screenshot of an invitation to a Facebook group named: “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony.” Under that is a post in the group that reads: “We reached the center of the Earth. Now what?” Four people commented saying one word each in this order: scurry, dig, work, melt. These words are in capital letters and have spaces between each letter.]

[Image 2: Another Screenshot of a post in the group that reads: “It has come to my attention that when we put the spaces in-between letters it makes it difficult for visually impaired ants to know what we’re saying and so I was wondering if we could try to make this group more accessible for them. (The text to voice can’t figure out what we are saying with the spaces) (Picture of an ant for attention)” This text is then followed by a close up picture of an ant.]

[Image 3: A screenshot of some comments on the post in Image 2. Five people commented: adapt, adapt, inclusion, love adapt, adapt. These words are in capital letters and have no spaces between the letters.]

End of IDs.

Please do not reblog this post without image descriptions! The irony of sharing undescribed images that talk about inclusivity for the visually impaired is… Painful.

I’m in this group!! It’s great!

Scooby gang polyamory is like my fav headcannon, but i dont think its a headcannon anymore 💙🖤❤️✨

To everyone pointing out Scooby, consider:

LEGEND

SCP Recommendations that are NOT (too) scary

I did a list of recs for horror SCPs, now here’s my list of recs for those of you who don’t necessarily like being scared! Some of these are funny, some heartwarming, and some just good storytelling.

There are a lot I remember but cannot find. I might add to this list if I track some down.

SCP-1557: Giraffe Hell This is the FUNNIEST SCP I have read in a LONG time and I don’t know why I have never heard of it

SCP-5270: Press X to Bear This is the one that made me actually cry a while back and I have not forgotten it

SCP-3289: Smile Not scary, but extremely sad. Makes my heart hurt.

SCP-4711: Inconvenience Store Exactly what it sounds like, and it’s hilarious

SCP-4254: Elvis? Okay, I really like this one for some reason, it is a Little creepy, but I don’t really consider it “horror” predominantly. Some SCPs have a narrative to them that resolves itself into some sort of realization that brings sense to previous things, and some of them are just “Wouldn’t it be fucked up if…” This, I think, is one of the latter.

SCP-4009: Big Brozart Is Watching You THIS IS SO WEIRD I DON’T UNDERSTAND AT ALL how would you even come up with the idea of writing this just WHAT

SCP-1171: HUMANS GO HOME This is a pretty popular one that is commonly recommended, but in case you haven’t read it: it’s an anomalous entity that is just racist toward humans. Incredibly funny.

SCP-2006: Too Spooky This one is also pretty popular. It is a little bit chilling when you think of the implications, but mostly just kinda hilarious.

SCP-3181: Lemme Get it Boneless An anomalous KFC where things are designated “boneless” or “not boneless” by seemingly arbitrary criteria, having little to do with bones.

SCP-3556: Durbal, the Rude Sticky Note Just a sticky note that is a complete asshole. Content warning for…a guy being emotionally abused by a sticky note? I don’t know, it’s kinda messed up. But still a funny read

SCP-4478: STAIRSCASE Short, kinda turned my brain inside out a little.

SCP-4048: We need to talk about your forklift certification If you choose to read one of the SCPs on this list, please let it be this one. One of the most hilarious articles on the site without a doubt.

SCP-586: Inscribable Object Some SCPs’ anomalous qualities affect the way that they can be described or that information can be shared about them—including the SCP articles themselves. Which means there are a lot of fun SCP articles that are “format screws” written and formatted in a way that implies that the SCP is influencing the article. This is a short and funny example.

SCP-1699: Inferior Volcano A funny and sort of cute SCP about a sentient volcano with self esteem issues.

SCP-2295: The Bear with a Heart of Patchwork BROKE my HEART

Some of the site’s best storytelling. I lied this one does have horror elements but it didn’t really fit in the other rec list, so here ya go.

SCP-3939: This is, like, Choose-Your-Own-SCP. It’s recommended to go through it a few times.

we’ve literally just looped back around to 90’s psa interstitials

Transcript:

Brad: Hi, I’m brad!

Chad: And I’m Chad!

Thad: And I’m Thad.

Brad: And welcome to—

All three: Lessons with KOK!

Brad: Today, on lessons with KOK, we’re gonna learn about—

All three: Consent.

Thad: Hey Chad!

Chad: Hey Thad!

Thad: Can I slap your ass?

Chad: Absolutely!

Thad: *slaps Chad’s ass*

Thad and Chad: *high five* Nice!

Chad: Hey Thad!

Thad: Hey Chad!

Chad: Can I slap your ass?

Thad: Absolutely Not!

Chad: I respect your decision!

Thad and Chad: *high five* Nice!

Brad: Always remember: F.R.I.E.S.

Thad: Consent is: freely given,

Chad: Reversible,

Brad: Informed,

Thad: Enthusiastic,

Chad: And specific!

Brad: Thanks for tuning into—

All three: Lessons with KOK!

Chad: Nice cock!

Brad: Nice cock!

Thad: Nice cock!

All three: Nice cock!

THERES A TRANSCRIPT NOW

Scuba Cat from Katamari Damacy

look at this AI background building site!!! you doodle a very basic arrangement of landscape items, click a color reference, and then presto-change-o, it makes a nice photographic bg!!

this could help so much when i need a reference for a bg but can't find the right image :OOO

Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.

Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

date of origin: 4th of april, 2015.

happy anniversary down with cis bus

Cat stimboard for anon

dare i say that stuffed animals are one of the single greatest inventions of all time and im thankful every day for the fact that someone thought to make animals but in huggable plush form…..saved me from a lot of bad nights and nightmares as a kid, i love you stuffed animals

 You may offer your thanks to Magarete Steiff

She lived in Germany and could be considered as the first person to sew stuffed animals merly for children to play with and to counter the common “hard” toys out of wood or metal wich were popular back then.

There is even so much more to the story, because she was as you can see paraliezed from polio, she couldnt walk or use her right arm, she had to fight all her life just to be accpeted as a human being, she wasnt even allowed to sit in the front row of church in her home village and had a pretty abusive mother. One time she and her brother almost drowned but the townpeople only attempted to save her brother because he was healty. Her father saved her from drowning in last minute.

 Only her father and brother stood behind her, still she learned to accept her faith and make the best out of it. After a failed operation she said she had gone around living this way anyways. She started to sew, more importantly she started to sew with a sewing machine wich was realy new at this time. People would not buy from her at first but then she made a realy beautyfull dress for her best friend and suddenly everyone was crazy for her work.

Then she started to sew little elephants as pincushions, but when she attempted to sell them around christmas she quickly realized that for one children were crazy for them and wanted them as toys and also. this was what she wanted to do, bringing happiness to kids.

She expanded futher and gave work to over 20 women as sewers in her factory, her brother helped her to do so, and she started producing stuffed animals of all kinds (almost) their trademark was a button sewed into every anmals ear. It still is to this day.

Whit the economy crisis her factory, and she almost lost it, she already couldnt pay her workers, he factory was about to be forceclosed and the last hope was a toy fair they would attend,

and then she had an idea, she sewed a bear, the very first stuffed toy bear there was, with moveable head and limbs and realy soft fur and glass eyes, it was beautyfull, but at the toyfair most people thoght it was to expensive

most people because one american buyer fell in love with the bears, he bought them all and he ordered 3000 more, it saved the factory

you may ask why would anyone need 3000 stuffed toy bears easy, to support and advertise the candidacy of  Theodore Roosevelt as the U.S. president, trough that the toy bear invented by Magarete Steiff became well known as the

Teddy Bear

<3 

Disability history matters!

The fact that she faced so much ableism and discrimination in her life was indeed sad (and infuriating!) – and that may be the reaction of many abled people when they hear her story (the poor disabled little girl).

But the fact that she survived, and innovated, and brought modern machines to her hometown, and advocated for herself, and brought joy to so many people, in spite of that discrimination (and I do mean “spite”) is not sad at all.

It’s downright victorious!

#disabilityhistory

make yourself or your oc with this and tag your friends!

Creator: bumblie_ on twitter

Oh ok I understand now!!!