«PRAISE BE UNTO THOSE HANDS WHICH TURN THE BREAKING WHEEL. A SINNER'S WORD IS HER BOND, AND SHOULD I BE A SINNER, LET THIS BE MY BINDING.»
...actually now that i think about it. did you have religion class in school? also was it mandatory??
extra points reblog and tell me where youre from in the tags because for us religion* is a non-mandatory class where in high school you don't get grades but extra points that might help you in other classes**
*and with that i mean Christianity Class because wow i love being in the same region where the pope is /s ** which is the only reason i kept attending
stampede saturday again? no problem (sobbing)
i'm making another post about it since the other one is getting very long.
hi, i'm stevie and american airlines broke my laptop. they are refusing to do anything about this.
i don't want to get into the whole story, you can find that elsewhere on my blog. i do, however, need a new laptop, one good for art in particular. after a paycheck, some donations and some help from my boyfriend, i have:
$600/$900
part of my next paycheck will go toward this, but since i was out of town, i only have 27 hours on that check.
dm me for my paypal as it has my deadname on it
also check out kandibydisco for my kandi sales + some tie dyes, or dm me for commissions!
luv u bye
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do you guys want to know one of the coolest things ever btw. i'm going to tell you either way i just like to give you the illusion of choice
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when anteaters find an anthill they don't just stick their face in and slurp with reckless abandon. they leave behind enough ants to rebuild the ant society and also don't eat queens. they're not just hunting the ants they are essentially farming them. isn't that the coolest
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if you reblog this post without my anteater fact i hate you. it's the most important part.
Anonymous asked:
As a fellow trans person, do you by chance have an up to date map of "safe states" in the US? bc as someone who lives in florida and is getting Very Concerned about my health and safety, i can't seem to find any that are more recent, and i don't trust trying to google that shit rn.
As of May 19 2023
In recent years, Google users have developed one very specific complaint about the ubiquitous search engine: They can’t find any answers. A simple search for “best pc for gaming” leads to a page dominated by sponsored links rather than helpful advice on which computer to buy. Meanwhile, the actual results are chock-full of low-quality, search-engine-optimized affiliate content designed to generate money for the publisher rather than provide high-quality answers. As a result, users have resorted to work-arounds and hacks to try and find useful information among the ads and low-quality chum. In short, Google’s flagship service now sucks.
And Google isn’t the only tech giant with a slowly deteriorating core product. Facebook, a website ostensibly for finding and connecting with your friends, constantly floods users’ feeds with sponsored (or “recommended”) content, and seems to bury the things people want to see under what Facebook decides is relevant. And as journalist John Herrman wrote earlier this year, the “junkification of Amazon” has made it nearly impossible for users to find a high-quality product they want — instead diverting people to ad-riddled result pages filled with low-quality products from sellers who know how to game the system.
All of these miserable online experiences are symptoms of an insidious underlying disease: In Silicon Valley, the user’s experience has become subordinate to the company’s stock price. Google, Amazon, Meta, and other tech companies have monetized confusion, constantly testing how much they can interfere with and manipulate users. And instead of trying to meaningfully innovate and improve the useful services they provide, these companies have instead chased short-term fads or attempted to totally overhaul their businesses in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors. As a result, our collective online experience is getting worse — it’s harder to buy the things you want to buy, more convoluted to search for info
Cory Doctorow has a similar concept of enshitification:
Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
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This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they’re locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they’re locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
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Enshittification truly is how platforms die. That’s fine, actually. We don’t need eternal rulers of the internet. It’s okay for new ideas and new ways of working to emerge. The emphasis of lawmakers and policymakers shouldn’t be preserving the crepuscular senescence of dying platforms. Rather, our policy focus should be on minimizing the cost to users when these firms reach their expiry date: Enshrining rights like end-to-end would mean that no matter how autocannibalistic a zombie platform became, willing speakers and willing listeners would still connect with each other.
-Cory Doctorow. The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (archive link)
To add to this, I believe Tumblr has evaded some of this because of it having always had a niche audience and an abundance of porn. But the first steps of enshitification on Tumblr are the 2018 porn ban and the release of Tumblr live. Let’s be loyal to the community and not to the platform.
it does feel a little bit like being gaslit that the internet is slowly getting worse in barely perceptible ways- it’s validating to see an article that says, “yes, it’s not that you’re getting old and somehow losing your google proficiency, GOOGLE IS WORSE THAN IT USED TO BE.”
Amazon literally shows you fewer search results if you sort by user reviews instead of “Amazon recommended”, and I remember that it didn’t used to do that
Source: Business Insider
I will be honest I have never understood the phrase of "have your cake and eat it too". Like yeah. Yeah what else was I going to do with the cake? Why would someone have a cake that they don't eat. I guess I'm like a baker for the sake of this metaphor? I feel like I wouldn't consider it "my cake" if I was making it for someone else though. I don't understand how I'm meant to think of cakes in this world.
Ok I looked it up and apparently it's meant to be interpreted as "If you eat the cake, you will no longer have the cake anymore, thus you cannot have the cake (like as a possession) and eat it". Who thinks about food this way to such an extent that there's an entire idiom around it? This is the least clear phrase that has ever had such ubiquity. Why was this allowed to happen?
opening of Serial Experiments Lain for the episode that aired after 9/11
Wa-Matoran. Watoran? Whatever it's called, I apologise profusely for unleashing it onto the world.
devil may happy :)
Wouldn’t it’ve made more sense to to say devil may smile?
critique my post ever again and devil may angry
the nervous system of a generic bilaterian animal, from Wikipedia
You are merely a specific instance of this guy.
via @123i321 you can't just leave that in the tags
[Image descriptions in order: two tweets by Joseph Mullins @josephmulli... The first says "Today, nobody showed up to my 8.15am class.
0 students of about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to disguise my hurt feelings.
2 mins later, I get a reply: "Professor, we think you might be in the wrong room." So anyway off I go to live in a hole forever.
The second says "My wife really wants me to mention that I was sleep deprived because I got up at 4am to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends in Australia."]
[Tags that say #Sad professor in a room alone #Students no love me? Why students no love me 😭 #All 40 in the other room #Where our beloved professor? Why he not here? He ok?!]
All I can think about is the ENERGY in the room with the students when the first one looked at their email... absolutely incredible.
