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we don’t have to fight anymore

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

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In all seriousness Jv, how much is Tumblrcom worth now? IIs it too big for us users to band together to buy it? Or would the running of the website be too difficult.

No web experience here, just a Tumblrina wishing we could pull rescue here.

I've talked about this in the past... the problem is not how much would it take for Automattic to sell the site, the problem is the operating costs. Even if you get it for free, you need several millions per month just to pay the infrastructure of the site. Running tumblr for month, without even paying salaries, costs more than what AO3 makes in donations in an entire year. It's not "let's get the money together and buy it!" it's "let's get the money together... every single month, forever", which I don't think can't really work.

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what is jojos bizarre adventure because what i do know about it is that theres a guy who punches things, indiana jones, and some guy named DIO whos name is never said quietly.

jojos bizarre adventure is about a manga artist who wants to trick people into listening to his playlist

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what is jojos bizarre adventure because what i do know about it is that theres a guy who punches things, indiana jones, and some guy named DIO whos name is never said quietly.

jojos bizarre adventure is about a manga artist who wants to trick people into listening to his playlist

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weird to think basically nobody cares about having a blog theme anymore. every other blog is basically dashboard only

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made by mochimonki on tiktok but i can’t stop thinking about it

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I looooove the shit that's like

"You have the power to possess me and take over my body but you don't because you respect me"

because it can lead to

"I'll let you possess me and take over my body when necessary because I trust you"

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I can't believe build a bear has an ~after dark line

I can't believe build a bear AD made a cougar for Valentine's Day

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dick makes people mentally ill. dick havers, dick wannabes and dick lovers are all insane. it's like toxoplasmosis, you have compulsive need to defend and push and worship dicks all the time and spead your dick mania to everywhere you go.

this seems rational and grounded in empirical evidence

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with musk and trump gunning for social security, now seems like a good time to remind everyone that social security isn’t like government charity or something. it’s fully paid for. always has been. corporate media loves to parrot the conservative lie that social security is running out of money without ever mentioning why: congress stole the money. they literally robbed from peter to pay paul.

the whole idea of social security was always that you pay into it your whole life, and then when you retire the government gives you that money back. it’s your money. always has been. like sure technically the money being paid by working age people now is going to the people who are retired now. but social security was started in the 30’s, the people who are collecting benefits now paid into it their whole lives. the idea was to be a retirement savings account that the government keeps safe for you because it’s almost impossible for working class people to save for retirement under capitalism.

the problem is that congress looked at all that money just sitting there and decided to use it as a slush fund. and never paid it back. because it’s easier to steal that money than it is to raise taxes for new spending. so yeah, it’s a problem now that there are more old people retiring than there are young people working, but only because congress stole the money it was supposed to be saving for the people now retiring. all those savings could have actually earned money for the people who can’t pay in due to disability etc by being used as a massive investment fund. instead it’s the classic austerity misdirection: sabotage a useful functional government program, then claim that it doesn’t work and is too expensive. and the media never talks about it.