I think what really makes this is how he looks like a completely different guy before he throws the switch

A Growing List of Banned Tags

A Growing List of Banned Tags

This is my second go at making this blog. The first time, I got shadowbanned immediately for writing a post with these words on it, so I’m going to have to link to a google doc instead.

You can find my current list HERE

If you’d like to contribute tags you’ve found, please send it via an ask or submission so I can double check and add it to the list.

EDIT: Right now many of these are only banned on IOS, but that really doesn’t make it better

The fuck is this are we on fucking club penguin

some of my favorites

Just finished this commission for @snortrax , pretty fun one to do. So full of spunk and personality.

Every cat I have known would immediately climb up through the hole and start stealing everybody’s food.

Crime porthole

this was designed by cats

Just get one of these and put them over the whole, you can have cat and food protection.

You imprison miette. You put her under the glass like the cheese. Jail for mother for hundreds of years.

Made a Zero fig. The light in my room is terrible hahaha

While undoubtedly designed as a research and conservation tool, and probably even valuable as a way for the inland ultra-rich to dine on extra-fresh red snapper, I choose to believe this is just one guy who likes to take his fish for walks.

portable supramarine exploration device

go girl give us nothing

If you’re buying Apple shit in the 2020s you totally deserve the ripoff that you get

The fucking option that includes an Ethernet port just puts it on the external power supply, like it’s a fucking MacBook.

People keep saying that this is how computer adaptability works and comparing it to the decrease in the lack of CD-ROM drives and Floppy Disk readers.

But this is completely different! And do you want to know why? Because, previous changes were consumer led. They came AFTER the technology had run its course, had viable alternatives, and didn’t force a majority of customers to adapt for profit. Also, Apple is lying. This isn’t innovation, it’s a purposeful manipulation of the market that makes physical ownership of content more difficult.

The Floppy Disk wasn’t just abandoned. It was replaced by CD-ROM in the 90s as a more portable & less expensive alternative. And even then, CDs had existed for more than a decade before computer manufacturers made the permanent switch in 2003. And despite the switch, the production of the floppy disks themselves continued until 2011. By the time floppy disks truly faded from production, most ppl didn’t even own one. And when CD-ROM became “obsolete,” they weren’t ripped from the market and even today it’s fairly easy to find readers that are cheap and/or included with desktops or laptops.

But here’s the thing? CD’s aren’t obsolete. Neither are DVDs, USB, and Ethernet and SDs. Not really. What is there to replace them? You could say cloud, streaming, etc. But those aren’t actually replacements, they are just different forms of consuming materials. And a majority of consumers will be inconvenienced without those things. Like how would you even connect a wired mechanical keyboard? That’s not adaptation, it’s inconveniencing consumers until they get used to it.

But it’s more than inconvenience. What all of these exclusions do is get rid of physical data. It slowly ostracizes consumers from the very concept of physical data and that is incredibly dangerous. All softwares, ad-ons, recordings, and medias being relegated to downloadable accessibility makes these things harder to pirate or share. It also encourages monopolies as it makes smaller, independent production and sharing much more difficult. It also makes the distribution of softwares tied to research & employment more easily controlled by corporations rather than people. And most of all, it takes away consumer control of the things that they use.

Like even PlayStation did this with the PS5? Do you really think not having a physical drive is an innovation? With physical games you can reuse, share, and save. I can play Spider-Man, give to my cousin, and then let any friend borrow it. And unless I bought the physical game online, neither google or Amazon can add that to their algorithmic perception of me. But without that…you have content strictly defined on individual basis and algorithms.

It’s just that all of the growing exclusions aren’t adapting. They are willful manipulations for the sake of changing how large scale consumers ingage with technology and the internet.

The headphone jack was not obsolete. It was purposefully left out to sway the market towards $100 Bluetooth. Physical gaming disk drives aren’t growing obsolete. They are being purposefully phased out so that the consumer begins to rely on individual downloads and algorithm rather than sharing and saving. And USB/Ethernet/SD/HDMI are not obsolete either. They are just being ignored so as to get consumers to change their perception of tech and accessibility. As if having a computer that’s only compatible with apple tech that’s less than 5 years old is reasonable. As if any use of physical content is a paid luxury rather than the standard

The headphone jack one definitely pissed me off. Until my promotion, I was a webcast producer. My phone allowed me to test encoders and videoconferencing equipment as an alternative to setting up a room full of equipment–in minutes instead of hours. That’s gone.

A dongle doesn’t really replace it. It’s an extra cost for something that’s going to be lost. Something extra to carry around that was already integrated in the device before. And it’s impossible to do that kind of testing wirelessly. My phone became a lot less useful as a tool when they forced that downgrade.

And embedded batteries? All the arguments for it are just propaganda. Battery problems are still one of the most likely issues to affect your phone. It was as easy to address as changing a light bulb, and nearly as cheap.

They wanted to change it to make repair more expensive. It’s now a specialized part that costs more, and you need to pay for a technician (either up front, or long term through a service contract) to do it. A fix that would take you seconds now takes hours without access to your device. That’s not better–they only made the change because there’s more money to be made by inconveniencing you.

Subscription model software is meant to ensure you never own it. They’ve rebranded it, but you’re just leasing products now. Even the phone you own; you buy it, and they treat you like you’re leasing it.

Google updated their phones to remove your ability to control ringer volume with the volume keys. (Some manufacturers didn’t allow it. Thanks, Samsung) This is literally a bait and switch: you buy a product with one set of features, and get a product with a lesser feature set. You can’t even roll back to fix it because that can break the device.

Our legislators and consumer protection agencies are just plain incompetent. They’re allowing tech companies to get away with practices that were already illegal; they’re too lazy to understand the tech, so companies get away with it. Largely because their refusal to levy fines and prosecute means you have to sue–and that’s more expensive than replacing the product with another subpar product.

And look at wireless service. Consumers were so stupid when they welcomed the end of contracts. “Phones are cheaper now!” Except the price to consumers blew up. New flagship phone every 2 years was $1, plus $20 for activation. Now it’s $12 less per month–you can’t even lease a flagship phone at that price, let alone own it.

And don’t forget tiered data. The most successful scam AT&T and Verizon ever pulled. Unlimited data doesn’t cost them anything more than the lower tiers; data costs less than a penny per GB. The actual costs to the carriers between the lowest tier and unlimited data is negligible. Tiered data should be illegal.

And data caps. WTF even is the deal with that? There are no real capacity issues. It’s just an excuse to charge more for less service.

Shout out to “smart” appliances which only exist to create expensive to repair proprietary parts.

Apple has been a leader in the realm of shady business practices, but it really is the status quo in the tech industry.

I also need to add, as a musician that uses Mac BECAUSE of Logic Pro X I cant use my fucking instruments and music equipment with this. Bluetooth does not work for music recording because of latency and my interface has no way to ingrate bluetooth. Fuck this

I dont think the joker chemicals really did all that when he fell in. I think he just wanted an excuse to be like that

Joker: the joker chemicals made me crazy

Arkham doctor: that was a mild detergent

Joker: heehee hoo ha ho hee hoo

Why did nobody in Fullmetal Alchemist carry around some fucking backup transmutation circles. Like Riza is there with a box full of fresh gloves for Roy when he gets soaked but you’d think after the first time he got rendered useless in a fight by some dude with a water bottle he’d start carrying around a spare set in a waxed bag or something but NOOOOO. And Ed’s even fucking worse like his arm gets destroyed how many times???? AND HE ACTS SURPRISED EVERY TIME. OH NO MY ARM. NOW I CAN’T ALCHEMY. Shit, boy, draw some transmutation circles ahead of time and keep em in your coat, this isn’t hard. “Oh no, you’ve destroyed my arm again, whatever shall I SIKE” Ed says, before throwing a rock with ‘explode’ written on it at his attacker and making good his escape. Everyone’s always carving shit into their skin or drawing it in their own blood, HOW BOUT INSTEAD YOU CARRY A PIECE OF FUCKING CHALK. Alchemists are useless

Alphonse wrote this post

hmmm

yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out

but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53

but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone

there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow

im glad this post is making the rounds again bc the older i get the more i pursue happiness over success and i think thats. really how it should be done, in my opinion

anything that makes u happy is worthwhile

I don’t know why this photo of my Grimoire Weiss looks so threatening.

COW NAP COW NAP COW NAPS COW NAP

@smol–jelly I can’t-

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Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.