Twinker Belle and Twerker Belle walk into a bar...
my two favorite types of punctuation are ellipses and exclamation marks brcause of my pensive yet excitable nature
i am lost inside reality where mirrors made of me show a world warped by wobbled perception, and i am frightened by the face i see
We deserve to live in a society where companies like Intuit cease to exist
If the government is involved this will just be another disaster! 😂😂😂
Government inefficiency is due to private influences (corporations and the rich). Anyone who seriously thinks the private sector is more capable of handling public services simply has to read the article directly above for an example of how they are failing you. This move to make tax returns a public service is the exact opportunity to prevent private influences from muddying an otherwise efficient process
pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it
Everything's gonna be fine and it's not negotiable.
This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.
Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.
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“The couple is given a choice: flee or go to jail. After they were arrested, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison. Then, a judge offered them a choice: banishment from the state or prison. They chose to leave Virginia at the time, but after several years, the Lovings asked the American Civil Liberties Union to take their case.Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, two young ACLU lawyers at the time, did.”
and “On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled in the Lovings' favor. The unanimous decision upheld that distinctions drawn based on race were not constitutional. The court's decision made it clear that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.” /end ID]
Don't. Take. The. Bait.
I mean, it goes without saying don't take the bait and if you absolutely positively HAVE to respond to someone's hot take, use a screenshot rather than QTing to deny them the engagement...
...but what's going on here is actually funnier and far dumber than that and is classic Musk bullshit.
See, Elon Musk figured the way to attract people to his $8/mo subscription service was to promise a share of ad revenue similar to YouTube and Twitch models. The idea was to drive up subscribers among content creators who would then get a boost in the algorithm for their work and the ability to make a portion of the ad revenue as well.
Of course, that requires Musk paying people what they're owed and actually doing what he said he'd do. Which fucking LOL.
So what he's done is created a pool of $5 million (note that Twitter's ad revenue in 2021 before the buyout was something like $4.5 billion a year and even if the highest estimates are accurate that's only dropped by 90% so that's about $450 million in annual ad revenue) that is being paid to verified users for each time their tweet is viewed by verified users.
Notice that last little bit. Verified users.
AKA Twitter Blue subscribers.
So what has now happened is the promise "revenue sharing" is dipshits paying $8/mo to Musk making content for other dipshits paying $8/mo to Musk and in exchange for their subscriptions, Musk is paying them back pennies.
Still, the above is best practice anyway because engagement feeds tha algorithm which increases the reach for accounts. If someone posts a shitty take, it's more than likely intentional to get you to rage-QT or reply, which increases their ranking in the algorithm which gets them in front of more people. So don't engage. Deny them the attention they want.
How did he make a monetisation model worse than tiktok's. This is so funny. This is tiktok's model except that both the content creators and the users have to pay an unreasonable price for it.
They are literally waving flags with swastikas on them in front of the entrance to Disney all while holding banners saying desantis 2024…like nazis. NAZIS. UNAFRAID NAZIS IN FRONT OF DISNEYWORLD?!?! What the actual FUCK is going on in this country?!?
this is absolutely fucking pathetic now every single fucking streaming service is gonna start doing this shit. all y'all had to do was not watch Netflix and let it flop for a few months and they would have given up
Y'all still actually watch netflix?
i know it's easier to see a headline and get angry about it online than it is to look into the source, but if we all did a little digging, it's evident that this is misinformation. the source is a blog post from a tech startup that is advertising their data analysis services to other streaming companies. the spike in subscribers (which lasted for two days) occurred over a four day period, of which, only the 26th and 27th of may had above average signups, the previous two days were under 50k signups per day.
what their data (purposely) fails to show is the sharp decline in signups between the 27th of may and the first of june, the day that these features rolled out, because their chart cuts off before the password sharing crackdown even went into effect. their data also does not count the number of cancelled subscriptions, and does not distinguish between free trial sign ups and paid subscription sign ups.
they are trying to make netflix look good to advertise their services. this is marketing, not actual data analysis.
This is why you vote & vote Blue
They ran on doing this; not on how this was impossible.
This is why we want candidates to campaign on these issues: Because people want these jobs done.
Voting matters. #VoteBlue 💙
I think it's really important to take a good look at who you're voting for in primaries, too. It's not being talked about that a lot of the people who got this done are a) younger and b) marginalized in one or more ways and c) aren't entrenched in establishment politics.
One of the reasons that things got done is because the people pushing those agendas aren't following the old "well we have to appeal to the right to our own detriment" Democrat defeatist stuff, and because they're young and because nobody had yet told them it couldn't be done, they just did it.
If you haven't yet seen the video of the young man responsible for the gig work reform bill being literally carried around on the shoulders of Uber drivers after the bill passed, go look it up. It's good stuff.
Yes, vote blue, because the Republican party is... *waves hands* but pay attention to who you're voting for. Show up at primaries. Don't just vote in the incumbent if they're not getting shit done.
Hell, run for shit, and if you do? Don't let 'em tell you that it can't be done.
Yes, Omar Fateh (the guy behind the gig workers bill) is really respected in his district, and he specifically ran in both the primary and the actual election as a person committed to Getting Shit Done. And then he did!
It is so important to keep an eye out for folks like this in your primaries and give them your vote. Even if they don’t win, many candidates use primary results to help them choose which issues to address during the main campaign and in session.
And if your preferred political party has caucuses, or meetings, or whatever in preparation for the primary, try to go! That’s a great place to share your concerns with potential candidates or get a feel for what plans everyone is likely to focus on.
Thank you so much! I couldn't remember his name.
I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead
The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability
tumblr may have censored porn but check this out
i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL
If you want to add context, reblog with where you've mostly lived and/or why you've had to move in the past.
i've moved at least 18 times because my life is a chaos and i am an adventure
Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.
In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.
The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.
The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.
Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.
The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.
4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won't adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.
New tin foil hat theory: the rise and propagation of minimalist home decor is meant to manage expectations for a desired culture of renters.
“The home is no longer seen as a space of personal expression or comfort, or as the backdrop of everyday life, but primarily as an investment and as an asset—meaning that enforcing one’s aesthetics is a financially detrimental decision. Those with the capital to become homeowners (already a diminishing segment of the public) conceive of their houses as being for selling before they even live a day in them.”
Hate hate rage bite kill
Can't wait to decorate the shit out of my house
i work in a town where common two to four bedroom houses can go for almost a million dollars per bedroom
i’m never going to own a house. like. NEVER.