Well, I'm sold.
So, quality cinema then?
sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium
Wait. As useful as the purple mutual indicator is, I feel like it’s cheating? If you don’t know they’re a mutual like what are you doing?
Just found out my facebook birding group is public because my cousin (a lawyer who is not into birds) casually said to me “saw you couldn’t identify a willet the other day… pretty embarrassing”
does anyone else have those crippling moments where you’re so consumed by how lonely you are that you can’t help but feel like you’re going to spend your entire life alone or is it just me
Going to see Barbie this weekend and my friends are planning to dress up. I have never been one to pass up the opportunity to wear a funny little outfit but this is sooooo far out of my element. I’m GOTH I’m a LESBIAN what the FUCK am I supposed to do here.
The only clothing item I own with any pink on it is the MCR boy zone shirt that’s what we’re working with
tbh something i never hear anyone talk about re: homelessness is the common practice of police charging regular bribes out of tent campers under the threat of small-scale sweeps
in practice, you have to pay rent to fascist militiamen with no legal claim over the land you're squatting on to be homeless in america. every time a small encampment gets swept or a tent gets burned down it's more likely than not because of some dirty cop trying to squeeze more blood from a stone. civil society sanctifies this by making encampment a crime. the law follows & enables the extortion rather than producing it as an externality - technically federal land doesn't have any terribly solid anti-encampment laws but the cops will still harass you for money there
i live in an area with a large homeless population and the number of times my neighborhood, in which there was last a shooting afaik more than a year ago, gets buzzed by helicopters is NUTS. It's 100% an intimidation tactic and it has a specific set of targets
people mostly ignore all this. They ignore the cops circling in the sky, they ignore a tent or broken-down RV being in a vacant lot one day and a burned-out shell being there the next. Society's hands are not clean here, and in any other society we'd consider this corruption on a tremendous scale. But it's America so it doesn't count
When people say that thugs who loot should be killed on sight, why does that never include police officers who rob homeless people?
At first Netflix said, come write for us. We’ll save your cancelled shows and write about whatever niche story you want. Our algorithm says people will watch it!
Then a few years later they said, regardless of our promises or contract obligations we are cancelling shows after two seasons without telling anyone. Turns out no matter how loved a show is, we get less subscriptions after the second season.
How many subscriptions did we bring you? Netflix won’t say.
So writers started writing two season shows. Just give us two seasons, Netflix. Like you promised.
Then Netflix said, oops sorry! Turns out your show didn’t premiere at #1 and the views in the first day weren’t what we wanted so we’re cancelling your second season.
What were the numbers? How many people watched our show? Netflix doesn’t say.
Then, they did something extra special. They started taking shows and splitting their first season into two halves. Inside Job was not two seasons. It was one season split in half.
Oops! Sorry! The second half of your first season didn’t do as well as the first half, so now your show is cancelled!
Why? How many people? How much money? These companies are making cash hand over fist and they refuse to tell people the truth: people loved your show. Loved it. But some corpo exec wanted an infinite money making machine. Do you know how long shows are in production for before you watch them? Years. Like, 5+, even 10+ years. And Netflix gives it less than a week before they decide whether you’re getting cancelled.
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I’m curious as to where you all stand
Reblog for demographics!
Has either union called for a boycott? Because boycotting can disrupt their plans and make negotiations harder unless they’re actively asking for one. I’m boycotting reality TV (which every studio is going to be pushing because it’s the only content they can make cheaply and without writers or professional actors) but nothing else unless we are asked to.
#i always understood that boycotts and strikes were sort of two opposing strategies#if a strike is happening you want demand to continue as normal because the point is to prove what would happen without your labor#a boycott is reducing demand and the point is usually in response to a practice that cant be solved by employees walking out#for instance a boycott might be ideal for protesting AI generated content (via @displacedlabrat)
This is correct. If anything, I want the execs to be terrified because the consumers are demanding more from them and they have nothing in their reserves to sell and no way of making anything else to sell.
Also "new" content is going to keep coming out for a while because it's already been written and acted and edited. (I'd actually expect a lot of bad-but-finished movies that would normally never be released to get released once they start running out of the good stuff) There is less than no point to boycott anything right now.
^^^ boosting because yes do not boycott unless we are told to.
Me, an old woman
Apparently I’m entering my Milf Era…
I know in the US we’re passing legislation to return us back to the 1700’s but like.
googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly
oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?
you fucking dare?
you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???
hey quick question gdocs
what the fuck
querched up white boy
Can we talk about how it must be so interesting for Taylor re recording Innocent, with the line “32 and still growing up now” which was written when she was 19 about Kanye and giving him grace when she was literally like half his age, and now at 33, she’s so much mature and he’s just gotten worse? Like?
All these people on this website are so cool and diverse I love being here but I wish I could meet you all in person
There should be a tumblr convention
What a fun idea! There could even be an indoor playground... Maybe with a ball pit or something.....
Time is a circle we are always doomed to repeat it whether we learn the error of our ways or not
I mean, the world is set on a course to repeat things much worse than dashcon anyway, so we might as well
If dashcon 2024 is the light in the darkness of this harsh world. Then we are surly headed down a grim path
dashcon 2024 is a beacon of hope in our dark, hopeless reality. unfortunately that beacon belongs to an anglerfish
I swear to god if this post breaches containment and inadvertently unleashes the fresh hell that is dashcon 2024 upon us. It will be the end of days
fuck yeah daschon 2024!!!!!!!!!!
Don't call it dashcon 2024, call it dashcon 2015. It's important.
meetcute idea: your packer slides down your pant leg and falls out and you’re mortified as hell but a guy picks it up and puts it in his pants instead and runs away reallyfast so you have to chase after him and get ur oenis back
quick what is everyone doing right now
okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it's so incredible how we're all doing such vastly different things at the same time...ik it's an obvious thing but it's also insane to think about.
i just saw an article by a nonbinary person named charles-elizabeth and i must say. the sheer POWER in that kind of name. to choose a gender-contradictory name instead of a gender-neutral name - a name that, instead of slipping between the boundaries of gender norms and carefully negotiating its place at the tipping point of gendered perceptions, is categorically unable to exist within them! i am in awe
I saw somebody be wrong on the internet and I didn’t respond (don’t want to get involved) and I’m being SO brave about it
I should never have made this post because now every time it gets a new note I’m reminded of how wrong that one person on the internet was.
reblog to remind them how wrong that one person on the internet was
THEY WERE SO WRONG. ON THE INTERNET.
What were they wrong about?
NO I AM BEING SO BRAVE ABOUT IT
I'm reading a book called The Library at Mount Char in an attempt to get back into fiction and I'm starting to think I just have Terminal Hater Disease because instead of being like "wow that's cool/fucked up/weird i wonder what happens next" i'm always like "why is there a red deer, a species known to be native to Europe, in Virginia" or something