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Erika, 25, PhD student, cosplayer on occasion, Ave Omnissiah

oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???

Some notes: 1. the electrical system was designed by engineering undergrads who were working as interns. 2. because it is illegal to take passengers on an unclassed experimental submersible, they called the passengers "mission specialists" & instead of buying tickets they made donations. 3. the satellite beacon was held onto the outside of the sub with zip ties. 4. when Lochridge (the whistleblower) quit, Stockton Rush asked HIS FINANCE DIRECTOR if she wanted to be the pilot and she was like "sir I am an accountant" and the experience of having her biss ask his accountant to be the pilot made her so freaked out that she ALSO quit the company 5. the carbon fiber used to make the hull was bought from a deep discount from Boeing because it was past its expiry date for use in airplanes

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

 “hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”

“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”

“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’

“uuuuuh hold on”

*fishes something out of my pocket*

“mikey what do i do?”

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“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”

*stuffs it back in my pocket*

“uhh yes please  the meal would be great”

Now that it’s back it’s hard to remember a time where they sued to get the post taken down

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Man I hope today’s twitter thing is just temporary because otherwise that site is fucking cooked.

Y’all see the shit he pulled today? You can only load like 300-600 tweets a day before Twitter completely locks you out of reading any new posts or making searches for a whole ass like 24hours I guess

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Yeah these numbers he’s giving are bogus, I logged into my main acc and maybe scrolled my tl for 3 minutes + clicked on a few different tweets and I was already locked out. I think this is a cap on how many tweets just load for you at a given time in general so if you open a thread with a boatload of comments you just get fucking vaporized instantly

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lmfao everyone’s skeddadling onto bluesky so fast their servers are exploding and they had to disable signups. amazing

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bluesky also allows hate groups on their platform, sadly...

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oh my fucking god they have a racism level switch

in my heart, leman russ started collecting brother punches to make fun of lion. he ranked them.

lion and angron got points for willingness to punch him. lorgar did very poorly on that end but at least did it after leman directly told him, “punch me in the face. for brotherhood.” khan got points for nonchalance (heard this is what leman does, asked him directly, and then broke his nose). mortarion, sanguinius, and lion got points for knocking him out and mortarion got additional underdog points for doing it while built like a stick. dorn’s punch sucked and guilliman obviously pulled his

What about Magnus? He punched out one of his hearts, why does everyone forget? (reply by @thats-not-a-fish)

leman, wheezing on the ground, blood everywhere: aw fuck, bastard took the #1 spot

it’s why he went to 1v1 horus, he can’t have feckin MAGNUS dominating the leaderboard

Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is... drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren't joining this site anyway, you're not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.

Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can't keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You'd kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.

“Listen - I’m a lesbian who looks like a man, and that’s on purpose. So it’s not like I’m trying to look some other way and I’m messing up. This is it. This is actually the way I want to look…and the whole “OH MY GOD you look like a dude! I know how you could be pretty!” - guess what? I don’t want to.”

— Rachel Maddow on “Watch what happens: live!” [May 1, 2013]

Rachel Maddow photographed by lesbian photographer Annie Leibowitz for Vanity Fair

Twitter is bad but I'm realizing that if it dies then there will be zero mainstream social media platforms where NSFW content can be posted without restrictions (reddit doesn't really count, it's a combination forum host/link aggregator), and that really, really scares me with regards to where we are at as a society.

I am reminded of the famous burrito test, which states that "if you cannot get up at 3am and microwave a burrito, you live in an institution". I propose an analogous maxim for community and social spaces, both online and offline; if you cannot post hole for your friends to see, despite your mutual consent, you aren't in an "open social platform", you are being farmed as somebody's product.