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“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”

Can someone explain this to me?

Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.

And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.

So an old person could type something like:

and what they mean is

But a young person would interpret that sentence as

The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you

In other words, Old people who primarily speak English are stupid and can’t comprehend the basic grammar of their own native language. Like. That’s not what those symbols literally MEAN grammatically. Which is why those of us who know what those symbols actually mean get confused by their digital chicken scratch

buddy that's essentially slang. you can't be wrong or right with slang because all of it is grammatically incorrect. older people who use slang are not stupid.

Whenever I encounter a different political opinion than my, I always try to understand that perceptive and why someone would have it. Everyone should, in my opinion, it's how we grow as a society. You should read their documents, their propaganda, their studies, anything and everything. Much less so with an open mind, but more so with an inquisitive one. And one opinion that I have tried time and time again to understand is radical feminism. I get old radical feminism, to fully defeat patriarchy we have to change the entire system. But it's the modern interpretations that I struggle to empathize with. That I, as a women, am oppressed, for simply being a women, and every man is that oppressor. That there are no good men, that they all have some supposed gene that makes them want to hurt women. I always think about my father when I hear the phrase 'kill all men' or something similar. My father who worked in the ER for over five years. My father who married my mother despite having two young boys. My father who has never abandoned his moral code. Who has never once shamed me for being who I am. Has never once told me that my interests weren't girlish enough. My father who loves me unconditionally. A good man, not good despite being a man, but simply a good man.

I also think about my brother. Who introduced me to Halo and Magic: The Gathering. Who gave me this computer that I am currently writing on. Who supports me through thick and thin. And has never once demeaned me for being a girl.

I have never once been demeaned for being a girl. Never in my life. No one has ever told me I can't do something because of my sex. When I got into debates with classmates, they always argued with my ideas, not with me. My parents always complimented my pride and stubbornness. My teachers always favored me for my intelligence and willingness to learn. I have never been shamed for being a women. I keep repeating that statement because it feels wrong in a sense to write. Surely other women have also experienced this, right? If so, why do I never see it be played out or talked about at all?

Why must women-hood be so dictated by oppression? Why does it seem like everyone is suffering but me? It feels wrong to type from the perspective as a women. It feels wrong to say that I am a women. It feels wrong to be a women. Every time I read what radical feminists and terfs think about women, it feels wrong to be a women. To be a women who has never felt threatened by a man. To be a women who has never felt oppressed.

@murderkatze

Excuse me? This isn’t a condescending excuse me, it’s a genuine one. I don’t even have anything to say to the socialization point because I really don’t know what you are getting at. And what on Earth did I type that makes you think I’m a misogynist? Apologies for not replying directly, as this is a side blog, but I’m simply curious as to what you mean.

I don't really believe in intellectual property to begin with, so I find it very hard to take the handwringing about AI art seriously, but it is quite amusing to see just how many people seem to have a problem grasping the concept that if they make their art publicly available on the internet for everyone, then it is publicly available for everyone.

Publicly available is different from publicly able to steal. I don’t believe in copyright either, but it’s the system artists have to work in. AI art bypasses any measly protection we do get from IP laws and the like. I can set out a lemonade stand, but you still have to pay for the lemonade; just because I set it out doesn’t mean it’s automatically free. AI art doesn’t just steal people’s works, its powered off of theft, and we can’t protect ourselves against it. AI isn’t a person pirating art, it’s a whole company stealing it.

i call to my children on christmas morning and they all snap their legs running down our ribcage stairs

the OSHA inspector takes one look at this and starts strangling the architect with his bare hands

Looking at this broke both of my ankles

Old Tumblr post layout with a lot of reblogs

Honkball

… I thought this was a joke. I thought you were doing a bit.

Vintage midcentury Hornsea Pottery mugs by John Clappison

I just read something about some fanfic readers on TikTok, mostly younger ones, are against AO3 because it doesn’t recommend fic to them. As in, it doesn’t track them and auto-feed them content using an algorithm.

I am sure it’s not every younger fanfiction-reading nerd. But….

The generational divide between old internet and new internet users is so stark sometimes. Like. That younger people don’t remember the individual fanfiction websites days… okay. I get that. Some of them weren’t even born and time is time and it moves on. It’s fine.

But to grow up with an internet where you do not get a choice, or not much of a choice, except to be fed content? Oh wow that’s a yikes I’ve never thought about before.

Yeah, there’s some filter capabilities but companies override that all the time with subtle little changes. Youtube recommends stuff constantly (often conservative videos even to me who has no history of watching or liking that shit). Twitter and Facebook got rid of chronological posts and even when you try to get rid of suggested posts, they come back. Instagram is basically all ads now. And then TikTok literally doesn’t even ask you to search (and as I recall, their search function sucks), and you can like videos to change what you see *a little* but ultimately the algorithm will lead you wherever it wants.

That’s so sad to grow up with that. Choice and searching and relying on your judgment and the recommendations of people you like… those are good things.

I am not like “oh those youths!” here. I am “fuck these corporations!” here. Look at this shit. It’s not a rec list from someone you like and trust–it’s what corporate has decided you should like. And a lot of these kids have not known anything else. That’s scary and infuriating.

It’s kind of terrifying to think that a lot of people no longer want to explore—or discover! That they just expect to be given suggestions, that the content should always find them, when one of the biggest pleasures I had was looking through long fic lists to see which one sparked my interest. And then reading fic comments to see if I could find other readers or writers—check their saved/faves/bookmarks or published works.

It was similar to the pleasure of entering a library, roaming through the shelves and finding random books that would become my companion during those long summer days as a kid on vacation. To see that people would trade organic discovery for algorithm based suggestions (which have not shown me anything I actually wanted to see/engage with on other sites) is sad, especially because this generation has never known different and refuse to even try different.

Honestly beyond AO3 there is this -thing- that is being described but not identified in the behaviour. ….the growing attitude of expecting everything to be served to you on a plate without the need to make a choice for yourself, Then slander the stuff that requires you to actively search and think for yourself is a fucking horrendous one.  it’s the same attitudes that have given rise to AI art Generators being made (at the expense of artists), why libraries are struggling. 

Convenience makes us lazy, docile, and easy to manipulate. 

and something that comes up in bloody dystopian literature. 

Convenience makes us

lazy, docile, and easy

to manipulate.

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

I've fucked this sock in ways no sock has ever been fucked before

badly

i think critiquing the beauty industry is slowly growing. although makeup and shaving are still widely accepted, it seems like plastic/cosmetic surgery is starting to gain more criticism.

i feel like (or hope) this could be a gateway (for lack of a better word) to radical feminism for many women.

In my opinion we can criticize aspects of a society while still living under a society. Yes, shaving is an aspect of beauty standards and unrealistic, but it's also true shaving can make a lot of women feel more comfortable. Makeup makes me increasingly uncomfortable, but I'm also allowed to say I enjoy how foundation covers my acne. Being able to distance yourself from societal expectations, and then only afterwards coming back and picking and choosing what to follow and what to do, is better than attempting to be counter culture with everything. I pick and choose what I do with my body, not because I'm pushing an agenda or trying to get someone to fall in love with me, but because I want to. Because I take what society tells me is true, and make my own form of correctness.

“there’s no lgb without the t” “we’ve always been here” meanwhile we apparently needed an entirely new version of the flag because the old one wasn’t t-inclusive

T used to mean transsexuals- aka cross dressing homosexual ppl who were honest about who they were. They were included because their HOMOSEXUALITY was being acknowledged : their birth sex was being acknowledged.

“Transgender” being included in the LGBT makes no sense because according to their logic being trans has nothing to do with being gay and they don’t want people to acknowledge their birth sex. Also they’re a lot of AGP - so they aren’t even homosexual.

it's because the acronym is for anyone queer person that society hates, or was oppressed due to their queer identity. it is true that they weren't originally in the acronym, but so were bisexuals (and I don't see anyone get into a twist about that). the original flag was trans inclusive, so is the new one. it's just a different design. saying that transsexuals were just cross dressing homosexuals is disrespectful and inaccurate.

'A transsexual is a person who identifies his or her gender identity with that of the "opposite" gender. Sex and gender are quite separate issues, but transsexuals commonly blur the distinction by confusing the performative character of gender with the physical "fact" of sex, referring to their perceptions of their situation as being in the "wrong body". Although the term transsexual is of recent origin, the phenomenon is not.' - The Empire Strikes Back: A Post Transsexual Manifesto, Sandy Stone, 1987

In plain English, written in the 80's, a transsexual is someone who identifies as the opposite sex. Not a cross-dresser, not a homosexual, and not a fetishist.