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Silver/Elli

@preciousmetaltimeofnight

Just a random person trying to get through life.  She/Her
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i cannot reiterate enough how cool the qsmp is the appreciation for the community is next level the admins have dedicated an entire museum where they frequently rotate and showcase new pieces of fanart including credit completely unprompted from the community itself and it’s phenomenal all the players visit it each time and get to applaud and see all the art and now doing a whole movie night event to present fan animations and clips is so heartwarming its such a unique form of saying thank you to the community like how can there be so much love and care in a single minecraft server

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sorry Tumblr but you lost your right to be cheeky coy about twitter when you're literally trying to copy their homework. yea the two checkmarks for $8 was funny when elon dropped blue but at the time this weren't lookin like a store brand version of tweetzone

Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who's minds aren't already made up.

I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.

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even if you care deeply about some specific kind of suffering you do not have to fill your life with as many upsetting stories of that type of suffering as possible. that is just signing up to have a bad time.

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does you absorbing this information help you benefit a cause? and even if you are benefitting a cause, are you doing something productive with more of these stories or are they just making you feel bad? are you taking more effective action or just getting overwhelmed with sadness? is surrounding yourself with stuff that upsets you helping you more than it hurts you?

So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.

Let me be completely clear - I’m not being a sarcastic ass. I’m just realizing all over again, in real time, for myself, that reading a real life published book makes your neurons feel like they’re getting a spa day. Like I can feel my brain getting juicer and wrinklier with every page I turn. This shit is no joke, this is like hard drugs if hard drugs were good for you and made your brain feel revived and alive.

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The fun thing about this poll is that the ones getting the least votes could be for multiple reasons:

  • You didn't think it was good in the first place
  • You think the fandom, even if it had a bad reputation, didn't ruin it
  • You think the fanbase was terrible but the show was independently also terrible

sighing tiredly at people seeing that horror story and thinking that it’s a uniquely bethesda problem and not structural bigotry throughout the entire gaming/media industry

Netflix Canada is done with being basic.
The streaming giant says it's phasing out the $9.99 "basic" option from its price plans, taking away the cheapest subscription without ads.
That means new Netflix subscribers will have to decide whether they're ready to sit through commercial breaks or fork out a bit more money for an ad-free experience.
Netflix's ad tier costs $5.99 and allows viewing on up to two screens at once with commercial interruptions.
The next level up is $16.49 per month to watch without ads, with simultaneous viewing on two devices. There's also the premium plan for $20.99 with 4K high-definition video and the option to add up to two members who don't live in their household.

Note from poster @el-shab-hussein: Remember what happened last time? When they cracked down on password sharing on Canada first because they use Canadians as a testing grounds for what they want to implement on bigger populations? This is going to happen to the Netflix services in other countries if they think this measure is successful. We're just consumer guinea pigs in this story.

Literally just fucking pirate, they’re gonna cancel everything anyway

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fyi tumblr is fucking over people with custom domains

if you have a custom domain set, DO NOT UNTICK THE BUTTON on blog settings. you’re not allowed to add it back. (nope, that’s not mentioned anywhere on blog settings itself.) if you switch hosts and need to update nameservers, congrats! you’re fucked

custom domains were a feature that’s been available over a decade, but they’ve been unceremoniously removed. the idea of “legacy” domains is a joke

this is doubly egregious because they absolutely could be selling domains for people that don’t have one, while still allowing those of us that already had a domain to keep using ours. they also don’t even allow you to pay to use your own. so if someone bought a domain specifically to use on tumblr, if they accidentally untick the button then poof! they’re fucked because they can’t re-buy their own domain from tumblr 

it’s honestly pathetic how much of a transparent cash grab this is at worst, and how badly implemented this was at best. this is what happens when you accept incompetency as a modus operandi bc “lol quirky hellsite”

i highly, HIGHLY recommend not investing in this feature due to that incompetency and lack of transparency

tumblr in 2020:

  • posts on your dashboard are ranked by how much the ceo personally likes them
  • a widget on everyone’s blogs that publically displays their top five search terms
  • images disabled altogether
  • they ban you if you have a custom theme
  • app crashes at a speed imperceptible to the human eye
  • you can buy little outfits for the “t” logo with real money

in a world where i had infinite space, time, money and assistance i think it would be super cool to breed temperamentally stable, versatile chihuahuas as well, but. you know

Why does this feel like something that would go in a speech bubble above a mad scientist's head.

i actually think many chihuahuas are fantastic little dogs. they suffer primarily from 1) being bred more for size and appearance than for confidence and emotional resilience, and moreover 2) being treated as little stuffed toys or accessories rather than real dogs, and then eventually learning to engage in undesirable behaviors to protect themselves in those situations

i know it's trendy to dunk on them, i think there are a lot more homes today that are appropriate fit for a chihuahua than for popular dog breeds no one bats an eye at (german shepherds, huskies, etc...)

and i think a lot of the common chihuahua behaviors that people have deemed to be the result of some kind of hilarious ontological evil are really just the manifestations of tiny dogs being pervasively mistreated by human beings. which is, you know. deeply unfunny actually

one of my absolute favorite conversations i have with random gentiles goes like this:

me: i face a lot of harassment and weirdness when i wear a kippah and star of david in public.

gentile: ok but u could just not wear them.

me: i mean yeah but i do.

gentile: but u could just not wear them and then ppl wouldn’t harass u and be weird to u.

me: yeah maybe but i do wear them.

gentile: but u have the option not to.

me: correct. but i choose the option to wear them.

gentile: but if u didn’t wear them then no one would know.

me: sure. but i do wear them.

and it goes round and round and round in a circle for like 20 minutes bc goyim cannot comprehend why i would not want to just shut up and assimilate.

anyway here’s ur reminder that telling ppl who are being oppressed or discriminated against to just hide whatever it is that people are targeting them for is contributing to said oppression and discrimination. forced assimilation is violence, and telling people “just don’t do/wear/say x thing that’s a core part of your identity” makes you complicit in that violence, if not actively a part of it.

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reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck

her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability...

i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.

they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN

fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving

Literally every trans person, especially trans women because misogyny is at the heart of the entertainment industry, inside the gaming or entertainment space is dealing or has dealt with this shit.

Myself included.

Companies will absolutely say "WE LOVE DIVERSITY! WE LOVE THE GAYS! HERE'S OUR BIPOC AND LGBTQ MERCH FOR CHARITY! CHECK OUT OUR ICONS THAT WE PUT UP IN SOLIDARITY!"

And then treat their BIPOC and Queer employees like this or even worse.

And then we end up jobless and untouchable because we are labeled as "difficult" by the industry because we hold them accountable for the things they promise.

We're all tired. We all want to work. But now we're all broke and jobless.

pro-tip for your mental health but also in general. get involved with your environment. learn the plants that are native. plant them. learn what species are invasive. learn the insects. learn the reptiles. get involved with societies or conservatories (vet them first). eat something you’ve grown. get involved locally. get more nature around you.

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“the term mpreg is inherently transphobic because pregnancy is gender neutral” I hate to tell you this but in the pregnancy fetish fanfiction community they also use the term fpreg

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there are -pregs you wouldn’t even dream of

Using my powers of disease and plague to wreak havoc on the kingdom. The knights keep sending doctors to defeat me but I've been eating way too many apples so my forcefield repels them

What's your strategy against undergraduate medical professionals? Like those coming to the kingdom to use the disease and plague outbreak to complete their residency program requirement to become a doctor? Or undergraduate students doing a following for part of their study period? They wouldn't be repelled by the apple forcefield.

I have a gun also

unity amongst disabled people would look like neurodivergent people advocating for elevator access. not neurodivergents changing “accessibility” in venues to mean “accessible for people with adhd” or “accessibility for sensory issues” when most places literally can’t even accommodate the most basic ass fucking wheelchairs. we literally just want to go to the same places as y’all and it’s still too much for ablebodieds. it fucking sucks

do you have any idea how disappointing it is to see the word “accessible” next to “for neurodivergent people” for something/somewhere that you’ve literally never have been able to do because of your physical disabilities and mobility aids. lmao