#AND the internet

[femmefeedist]

when the first feedist tumblr blog you ever followed @sapphicfeedist invites you over and buys you boba and feeds you and marks you up and promises to make you fatter

I am living a feedist fic istg

🍀my links🍀

[johannestevans]

Its my fault for listening to medical mystery and true crime stories but i stg every story from a white american perspective is like

"i was living alone, so i obviously lived in fear for my life from 4pm until morning. I kept a baseball bat and a frying pan and my own ak-47 at intervals down my hallway, and i have three locks on each of my doors and metal safety shutters on my windows. I call the police whenever i see someone who looks like they might own a hooded sweatshirt in the street.

My car's cab is six feet off the ground and i paid extra for an autopilot that will mow down up to 12 children to prioritise my life during a car crash. There are no sidewalks within 5 miles of my house.

My mother broke her hip and i drove her to the hospital in my childmower 2000 range rover because an ambulance ride costs $26000 and my medical insurance provider spits in my face personally for every dollar they provide toward medical care.

My dog does not wear a collar or have a microchip but i keep him in a small crate whenever i leave the house.

My HOA measures the height of my grass and demanded money from me at gun point because my lemon tree's fruit didn't match the aesthetic of our neighbourhood.

I receive a military discount at walmart calculated by adding up every brown child i helped murder during my time in the military, and also i was forced to join the military because there was no other way for me to seek employment or go to university or get health insurance."

[anthony-crowleys-left-nut]

for that one person on my twitter fyp ages ago who posted "who up deviling they minion right now" i want you to know that it's never left my mind. thank you

[judeisunsure]

how❓️❓️❓️ did singing🎶 kill💀 your grandma👵?? 😦

she got hit by the choir bus 😁❤️

bro im crin 😭

[discoveryinthedark]

rip Jonathan Larson you would have hated tik tok with a burning passion

[butch-chastity]

people just don't get stranded in isolated antarctic stations anymore. because of woke

[heyclickadee]

You know, it’d be really funny if the bad batch trailer was supposed to get released last weekend, but the person who was supposed to upload it and make it go live couldn’t come in because of the cold and snow.

[articskele]

Ok it's getting late, goodnight everybodyyyy -u-

[andhumanslovedstories]

look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

[headspace-hotel]

Y'all

Im not on tiktok and never have been, but I downloaded RedNote just to see what is up, and I am witnessing something truly amazing

The Chinese user community is giving the American tiktok refugees an overwhelmingly warm welcome, meanwhile the American users seem to have collectively agreed that not only will they not let the app be taken over with English and they will provide Mandarin subtitles for everything, they are LEARNING MANDARIN. Ive scrolled through so many videos of Americans offering greetings in Mandarin to try to acclimate to the new environment and be respectful, and speakers of both languages are posting lots of tutorials on language basics and internet slang in Mandarin

My God, there is an AMAZING outpouring of curiosity and delight among everyone to learn about each others cultures and daily lives. People are posting videos of landscapes, cities, towns, and natural areas in USA and China, posting recipes and traditional foods, vlogs of everyday life, and reaching out to find people with similar hobbies.

And it's not just young people! There are loads of videos from middle-aged American guys who have come to post about fishing or motorcycles and are now happily chatting with Chinese users sharing the same interests using Google translate

One American guy who was like. in his 60's had a comment on one of his videos that was like "Red Neck?" and he replied "Yes!" and I just about fucking lost it

Also the Chinese users love, and I mean LOVE, Luigi Mangione. He is apparently broadly adored in China. There is SO much fanart and SO many edits.

There are many threads initiating Chinese users to ask questions of American users about the USA, and vice versa, and everyone on both sides is clearing up a lot of misconceptions. Some of the questions I saw a lot from Chinese users were: "Is it true that American parents kick you out of the house as soon as you turn 18" (not often, but sometimes) "Do you all really wear shoes in bed" (NO!!! Apparently a lot of characters in American sitcoms are shown lying in bed with shoes on which I never noticed before!) and "are there really guns everywhere" (yes).

For the most part Chinese content creators seem just overwhelmed by the sudden influx of hundreds of followers that are super enthusiastic about what they're doing. A lot of them have made posts about how initially they thought the uptick in follower count was some kind of error, or that there was some kind of joke or prank, but then they realized the interest and enthusiasm was genuine and now they're welcoming all the newcomers.

I found several posts by Chinese users saying that this felt like a really profound historical moment, where these previously separated worlds are suddenly smashing together and suddenly there is freedom to learn about each other's cultures and connect. One of them said something along the lines of "This is a 21st century Tower of Babel and even though I'm an atheist I hope God lets this tower stand." OUGH MY HEART.

The app itself works a little bit like a video-based version of Pinterest. It's not really my thing so I probably won't be on there long term but it's been amazing to see what's happening.

[technofeudalism]

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[charrfie]

Chimera

Acrylic on canvas, August 2024

[ayeforscotland]

This is absolutely catastrophic.

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[silverslipstream]

worst part about the Internet is knowing that there are finally people who both match and complement your freak. the nearest one is 2,318.4 miles away and your time zones are awkward