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Love this so much

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Being instructed to "select all squares with traffic lights" and spending too long trying to decide if a tiny edge of the traffic light box being in its own square makes it technically also a square with a traffic light in it is the true human experience

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

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Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

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Missed

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acting strange on tumblr.com with the mutuals <3 | SEARCHING (2018)

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AUBREY PLAZA and KRISTEN STEWART HAPPIEST SEASON (2020) dir. Clea DuVall

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glasses 👓

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This year has been quite trying, but I'm happy that I discovered a love of making these horse animations in 2023.

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Victorian 18ct Gold & Shell Brooch with a Rose Diamond Set Snake & Natural Pearl Within

“An extraordinary novelty brooch that was made circa 1880-1900. It is composed of a real sea shell with a snake inside set with rose diamonds and a real natural pearl and has 18ct gold fittings.”

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my dad just exploded into laughter out of nowhere and told me ‘imagine the lion king but with sea lions’ he has been chuckling about it for 5 straight minutes now

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Reading thread after thread about the Wpengine, wordpress and Matt mess like it's the infotech version of the juiciest celebrity gossip. And honestly, it's more interesting than most celeb gossip and absolutely stakes free for me, especially since I didn't have to do any manual plugin updates myself. Rich people really can be crazy fun.

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Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

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Iris van Herpen | Spring/Summer 2019 Couture

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“i asked chatgpt-” ohhh ok so nothing you are about to say matters at all

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Blue Hour - Nerrida Parfitt

Australian , b. 1971 -

Oil on stretched canvas , 52.5 x 52.5 cm.