#7.29.23

[elceeu2morrow]

Ducks on Tour via John Delf IG story [FITFWT 2023 Forest Hills, 7.29.23]

[ryanguzmansource]

🔍🎥 • chrysti_ane: Fight Night at the Guzmans 🤼with JJ Soria and Wes Tarte (Music Producer) (7.29.23)

[avi-arts]

Day 2397:

7.29.23

Seepy

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[purenumbers]

7/29/23

(7 * 2) - 9 = 2 + 3

Also:

[(7 + 2) / 9] + 2 = 3

Also:

7 + 2 - √9 = 2 * 3

[blackerthings]

RYAN DESTINY via Instagram (7.29.23)

[hslwt91]

Louis in New York City

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[tenderanarchist]

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American Bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus)

[deadgodjess]

It's really funny how Twitter is rolling out this rebranding on like, a design level, outside of just Elon's whole man-baby routine.

They didn't have a new logo created, they're just using a Unicode 𝕏, it's for math. It can't be trademarked because it's not a distinct logo so they have 0 control over how, if, or when people use their branding on other sites, which is just an insane situation for a major social media company to create for themselves.

Search engine optimization. You are a major social media company, you want to be THE PLACE people go for social media, news, etc, right? Well, good luck chucklefuck, because while X is the top search result, it's also the ONLY one on the first page (on duckduckgo) that refers to the social media site. Search Twitter and it's the entire front page of search results including news articles and Wiki articles about the social media site.

Association with porn. X-[anything] sounds like a porn site and XVideo IS a porn site. That's what you're contending with, and while I personally don't believe there's anything inherently shameful with close proximity to porn, on a professional level most companies are going to notice that and have to seriously consider if they want refer people to their X Account to see their X Posts on their X Feed and you see what I'm getting at here? Which then gets into...

The sheer brand recognition of the Twitter name. There is NO other social media site with the kind of brand recognition that Twitter has. Zuck would sell his right nut for the kind of brand recognition Twitter has. They have their own word for posts! Facebook doesn't have that! Reddit and Tumblr don't have that! Myspace and LiveJournal and Xanga also never had that! All for the far more generic 𝕏. No one's Booking on FB or Ditting on Reddit or w/e. But on Twitter they be Tweeting. Saying you tweeted someone tells people EXACTLY what site you were on immediately. Now they're what, X-posting? Well that's short for "cross-post". Posting on X? Looks like you're being vague about what site you were using on purpose. "I @'d [so-and-so] on X" doesn't have the same ring it, either.

They didn't make all their rebranding decisions BEFORE announcing and rolling out the rebrand, so now we have a site called 𝕏 with a LOT of the on site references to the site itself and it's features still called Twitter [thing] and you still post using a button that says "Tweet" (as of 7.29.23) and they JUST settled on a word to replace that with. USUALLY when a company is doing a rebranding, especially one with the kinds of resources Twitter has available, they plan it all out well in advance and do the roll out all at once rather than this hodgepodge thing that's going on. This is a big one and I don't think Elon understands how unprofessional this looks. This doesn't look like the work of a team of skilled, experienced web developers, designers and marketers. This looks like a site being ran on a shoe-string budget ran by a disorganized child making decisions on a whim.

Okay so I can't fully divorce the design decisions from Elon's general fuckery, but you get my point. Like, all the behind the scenes and PR shit is bad enough but even if we didn't know he had a tantrum over the name of PayPal and hadn't been all over the site being loud and wrong about everything, just these decisions listed would be enough to show what an entitled, inexperienced, immature walnut he is.

And it's really fucking funny.

[frostbeees]

via sarahsweetnam • 7.29.23

[sunkissedlouis]

7 (cover) ❗❗ | faith in the future world tour in new york 7.29.23

[tayhatesevery1]

Mat Barzal at the Bear wedding 7.29.23

[kindathoughtprovoking]

Louis in New York City, 7.29.23

[papiermachecat]

Harry & his parrot friend 7.29.23

[mantasunrays]

7.29.23

[underground-boss-clay]

Awright, let’s get this over with.

Welp, PR Department’s been tellin’ me this would help boost the public’s opinion of the company, so might as well get this over with.

Name’s Clay, founder and CEO of the Driftveil Mining Company in Unova, as well as Gym Leader a' Driftveil City. Pronouns are he/him, since that’s gotta be put up there. Card is below.

The company’s PR Department has been sayin’ that makin’ an account on this Rotomblr thing would “make the company more open to input” and make me ‘n particular, as the head a’ said company, “more approachable.” No idea what that’s got to do with anythin’, but I ain’t one ta look a Mudsdale in the mouth. Won’t be postin’ a whole lot, maybe just big moments as they come along. I ain’t as big on this social media stuff as, say, Burgh or Elesa (no offense to either of ‘em, they’re just better at this than ‘n old-timer).

((OOC under the cut))

((Overall unreality warning for the blog))

Welp, I asked and you guys answered. So here we are.

Mod's name is Lyra, age 29, She/they, and will be following from @batscrem since this is a side-blog. Anything that is out-of-character/OOC will be tagged as such and either under a cut or be in double parentheses ((like this)). In-character will be tagged “Here’s the Dirt” (get it, cuz Ground types, hahaha what am I doing).

Don't have anything big in particular planned for this guy so far, so I guess this is what some people would call a "low stakes" blog? There will be a lot of canon, but also some headcanons here and there to fill in spaces. The Pokemon lore has a lot of gaps after all, which makes it super flexible.

Pelipper Mail is OPEN!

7.29.23 Update: Just making it super clear in case people don't immediately understand, I have NO INTENTIONS of joining high stakes plots. I'm here to have fun, not get super into the drama.

11.03.23 Update: Realized that some things need explaining.

Clay is the main muse of the blog, but there are two recurring OCs that pop up now and then. They came about organically and weren't planned from the start, hence why I didn't bring them up until now.

Mildred

Mildred is Clay's PR agent and the one who brought up the idea of a blog in the first place. She'll pop up now and then to give her two cents. Her posts will be under "Mildred from PR."

Sigmund

Sigmund is Clay's son, who's been out of Unova for twelve years. Why? It's complicated, but there were issues that spiraled out of control when he was 12 and he ran away. His posts will be under "Sig Erden."

And then there's a special third other who occasionally pops up under the tag "Mister Mayor." Who is he, well that one I think is more fun for people to find out on their own ;)

01.06.24 Update: Made a quick little post regarding what Indigo Disk changes/doesn't change. So for those who want to interact from a Lacey blog, yeah. That's there.

03.08.24 Update: So uh, thought this went without saying, but no God-modding. That is making changes to my muse, or having my muse do things, without my consent.

[frostbeees]

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