No knitting involved in the making of this blog.

I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!

Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.

If you use Firefox this extension is god send :D

the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter

twitter gets run over by a bus and the next day tumblr comes 2 school wearing her clothes like. oh my god come on

Confused my boss today because he asked what I'd done over the weekend, and I said "Tried to make shoe soles out of twine, but ran out of twine on the last step."

"That sounds...wait. What?"

I had to explain that I was working on a pair of crochet shoes, which led to, "Crochet SHOES?!"

Which led my co-worker, who also crochets, to absolutely lose it laughing.

I forget sometimes how weird my hobby can sound if you don't do it.

I forget sometimes

how weird my hobby can sound

if you don’t do it.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

doxxing your crush's hairdresser for cutting your crushes hair short is an interesting flirting technique but okay

Like as an alcoholic I HATE the fatphobia related to any form of treatment. The idea that I should stop drinking cause it'll make me lose weight, the way doctors will point out my "beer belly" before they talk about my liver or my kidneys or the social aspect of my drinking problem, the way people only care about my drinking problem cause it makes me fat. You don't care about me as someone who's struggling with addiction.

I encourage non alcoholics to like and or reblog this because it's a unique experience of fatphobia you don't understand if you've never tried to get help for a drinking problem.

I'm back with another crack meme, let's see how well this one does

If it does as well as my New Yorker Post then I'll make a navigation list for the memes :D

Bonus:

girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.

wait fr

oh my god

men when they die in svalbard

and waste fresh meat???

'can i copy your homework?'

'yeah just don't make it obvious'

you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here's how!

i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea

by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel

here it is again because uh. seems relevant.

"I fucked your mom" has lost effect, it's time for "I got your dad mpreg" for long lasting damage

i hate the “on average a user only sees 25 posts per session so they have to be good and varied” bullshit on that staff post. if i open tumblr and the 25 posts i see are nothing but a single mutual mass reblogging their favourite thing that i couldn’t care less about. well. that’s what i enjoy

If my beloved mutual needed to reblog a thing 25 times then by all things sacred I am going to read it once and then scroll past it 24 times as they intended me to!

An odd mug and game found at a thrift store in the PNW

Okay buckle up

for anyone else like me, unrelentingly curious about what a ❄️🔥CoolCooker is and how that mug is one, I did a tiny big of digging and have now found answers. 

first, the mug is not the ❄️🔥CoolCooker

currently (2023) the website listed is down, and I couldn’t find the youtube page. BUT there’s hope, the wayback machine has archives from 2015 when the website domain was live

and I have PICTURES

So this makes more sense, its a refrigerated & timed slow cooker. "A slow cooker with a built in refrigerator and a timer. Put food in the CoolCooker the night before. Set it and forget it! Dinner’s ready when you are."

Some aditional information on the ❄️🔥CoolCooker.com homepage:

The CoolCooker refrigerates keeping the food safe, starts cooking at the ideal time the next day.  A perfectly cooked dinner is ready when you want it to be. A meal can be prepared the night before, safely refrigerated in the CoolCooker and timed to complete cooking when needed.

• The CoolCooker™ meets an obvious need, no one at home to start the slow cooker • The CoolCooker™ combines a slow cooker with a miniature refrigerator and a timer • This allows food preparation ahead of time • Provides better results for many recipes

The CoolCooker™ provides a safe, fresh, home cooked meal without the need to have someone at home to start the cooking process Preparation is easily done ahead of time A fresh, home cooked meal will be ready when you arrive home Food can easily be held warm or safely refrigerated later

But the last thing that really got me was this, on the ❄️🔥CoolCooker tab of the website

What a CoolCooker is and isn’t?

It is not a slow cooker? excuse me? but it says it is on the front page! very confusing. I think it is a slow cooker personally. Finally, here's a picture of the ❄️🔥CoolCooker itself, in all its glory.

Thanks for joining me on this stupid kind of shallow rabbit hole. BONUS FUN FACTS: The inventors wife has arthritis The inventor worked for nasa The ❄️🔥CoolCooker was created alongside a family friend named Mike

oh seems very suspicious to see the barbie movie tumblr pop up on my dash after the strike. maybe it was made before, but I’m actually seeing it now

remember:

there’s no boycott on going to see new media

but there is a promotional blackout

don’t do the studio’s marketing work for them

I just checked their archive. They created it Today, July 17th.

prior to the strike they did not have an official tumblr lmaoooo

don’t reblog their shit

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

Touchscreens do not belong in cars

And gauges and dials should be gauges and dials, not screens

Door releases should have a direct mechanical link to a latch, not send an electronic signal to a servo

You should not have to have your phone alive to unlock your car

Most touchscreens have a temperature resistance of less than 40°C (104°F). They do not belong on cars, toasters, ovens and stoves, any kind of safety equipment, or any equipment that requires precision of operation to maintain safety. They do not belong anywhere near a working engine.

also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck

"ough watching a show uses so much electricity" on road sides there are giant electrified billboards that do nothing but show you ads

both statements can be true and bad things, they dont cancel each other out. plus i feel like using a carcinogenic material in medical equipment is a little worse than truck nuts

...pretty sure the reason plastic is used in medical equipment is *because* it's the safest cheaply-available material

kinda of drama that I didn't consider could exist are in the tags

Wow. Karmic