#⦿ ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA || TWITTER ⦿

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[kingofthering]

Maybe I do need Le Mans to be over because if I have to see one more person being like "we need more F1 drivers in the 24h" and "imagine a team with [name 3 F1 drivers]" and "more F1 drivers in this race is how you grow motorsports", I will actually pass away.

F1 drivers are not the most important drivers out there! They would not immediately excel just because they know how to drive an F1 car! Endurance has its own specificities and difficulties! F1 drivers are not worth more than the endurance stars, some of them who have won the 24h of Le Mans more than once!

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Since the wildfire smoke has been hitting the east coast, I've been thinking about doing a flowchart-style infographic on where to find US hazard information - so many of the comments on the info I posted were like "huh. I was wondering why the sky looked so funny." With the state of the Internet, search engines, and social media today, it really isn't intuitive where you can go to find reliable information on something so vague as "I noticed something a lil funky today," and so many of the platforms and accounts that emergency managers have spent years building up trust and visibility for have disappeared or become unverifiable because of Twitter's meltdown. Best to go to straight to the source when you can, as long as you know where to start.

This would just focus on the federal government, and mainly on immediate warnings and alert information...I'd rather just focus on natural hazards as well since those are the resources I'm familiar with, but that might be too narrow. Any ideas for questions and flowpaths besides what I've sketched out so far are welcome!

[seaweedstarshine]

Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.

There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:

“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”

And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).

I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)

To quote RTD:

“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”

This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)

—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?

How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?

And this just keeps happening.

And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.

The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.

[dorothywonderland]

*arrives carrying a bindle pretending I didn’t abandon my tumblr for the past 4 years or so* so guys, have y’all heard what happened to twitter in Brasil?

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[batwynn]

I really love having no more social media options, as a disabled/chronically ill artist who can’t get a public facing job for health/covid-will-super-hell-kill-me reasons. Thrilled that my options for advertising, sharing, and being in a creative community are being taken away piece by piece by the world’s most galaxy brained, billionaire dipshits and or lame companies that can’t keep up with basic maintenance of their website to keep it functioning, but can add a New Feature that no one wants and actively kills the application half the time. 10/10 internet experience all around.

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[ladydisofdurin]

Gotham citizens would crowdfund an assassination to kill the joker i just know it

[fluffypotatey]

Hopefully the Twister fandom grows for the sake of more people able to understand the fics you're writing because I love your stuff but I'm missing all the subjective love a fan of the series would have

same! both the 1996 and 2024 movies are so much fun and deserve all the love and fics and fanart and gifs

like it was only until last week I think since Twisters got an official tag on ao3 (which is just a combo between toy and a twister 1996 but still!!! huge props to all the fic writers contributing to the fandom) and i have found that the Jake “Hangman” Seresin & Tyler Owens (Twisters) tag is common enough to be included when typing for the relationship tag so 👀 we are definitely getting there!

[nonokoko13]

If I see someone else trying to defend Kalim/Jamil by attacking the other or their enjoyers and misreading and boiling down their characters by saying Kalim is stupid or how Jamil is the only one at fault in their situation I'll be the one overblotting. Why you pit two victims of an awful hierarchy system they weren't asked to be stuck with. Why you have to treat people who respectfully disagrees with you in something like a series or a character interpretation like they're criminals who must be shamed or punished with death. How do you play a game that relies on narrative without actually reading. Why can't you use the block/mute button instead of engaging in a conversation you know it will be unpleasant for all parts to make it a fight you want to win. And why I see so many mysoginy/misandry in a game that it's about a lot of male characters with a main character who can be the gender you imagine them to be

[lesbuoyant]

everybodys all lets condemn people with Morally Impure Interests until all of a sudden you have an interest that is suddenly considered Impure and wanes in and out of Public Opinion for many years because nobody actually knows how to think for themselves online. personally i think we'd all be very lonely if we chose and broke friendships based on.... What Video Games They Like and like absolutely nothing else regarding the person's character

[kuromi-hoemie]

so like..

is the idea that as a compromise to only having to toggle off tumblr live once a month, you now have this permanent tumblr live icon regardless of ur setting choice stuck to the bottom in the middle of everything in the hopes that i click on it accidentally anyways even though it's clear i don't want it or? where is the NO 100% STOP GIVING ME THIS SHIT I DON'T ACCEPT YOUR POLICIES AND LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT TUMBLR LIVE AND WILL NEVER BE INTERESTED IN THIS TYPE OF FEATURE OR FORMAT.

@zingring @photomatt @humans idk how many feedback requests people have to cut tumblr for "no" to just be a valid response here. ppl aren't dumb and see u inching over the line trying to force this on them despite the snooze choice.

what, are there so many ppl snoozing and such a low adoption rate that you know you need to trick users into using it so you can "make number go up" or? 🙄

[liquorisce]

social media addiction and my thoughts on self-recovery:

it's been a few days that I've deleted twitter and discord from my phone. i'm trying to build sustainable habits nowadays, and i didn't want the drama of deleting accounts and fics anymore.

i did so with the intention of giving back more time to myself. i think i have been somewhat successful with that, but it is also slowly rewiring the way i have been consuming media. now when I go onto twitter, it feels intentional. i go there to see what my friends are upto. i go there to check if they're doing okay, to feed off of their creativity and make myself happy. if i go looking for fanart, it's not because an algorithm is feeding it to me, it's because i am intentionally looking for art and therefore am better poised to soak it in and appreciate it.

it's also making me realise that what i don't go looking for, i don't have to see anymore, bc i am no longer at the mercy of an algorithm to keep me entertained with things that actually just piss me off. i don't have to subject myself to the opinions of people i would have never got along with irl, and probably even people i would have never met or interacted with that often. in advocating strongly for what i feel is right, i think i've forgotten that other people are free to behave in ways that i think are shitty, but i have no control over it. it's amazing how anger can be addictive and that a dumb social media corporation is now able to monetise that. it will take myself longer to rid myself of the compulsion that is twitter and it's aggressively capitalist algorithm and the ease with which it used to serve me brain fodder, but i am amazed with the results of the first few days.

a friend told me that social media is so much better when it's used as a little treat, and she was so right.

[snekdood]

i mean i should probably stop saying shit just to be mean

[mymp3]

okay I got feelings out of my system. I'm a changed man now.

[cyberne0n]

bluesky is so stupid to me bc twitter's whole concept sucked shit as a platform for anything that wasn't yelling at each other and fear/hatemongering. why do we want to recreate that. why is everyone so hellbent on recreating twitter.