#I should not of had internet access

[crookedlydecaffeinatedprince]

So I made the mistake of digging up my super duper old Dragon Age rp blog I hadn't touched since I was like 20 years old. Like it had been semi-deactivated and everything cause it had been like 7 years 90% of the posts missing, none of my character profile links worked anymore, but what I did find made me go what in the world was 20 year old me on??? I was so edgy it hurt to read, like looking back on it now I know why people would say they would only rp with people 21+ or even 25+ the rose-tinted nostalgia glasses were ripped off so hard -wheezes-

[concrete-3ater]

if I had a nickel for every time I was in a fandom and a child character had a breakdown and did something that accidentally hurt another character, and then the fandom all turned on the character and vilified them because they [the fandom] can’t understand that sometimes 14 year olds make mistakes when they’re going through something traumatic, I would have 2 nickels

not a lot but it really is weird it happened twice

[art-beyond-the-stars]

Do you ever revisit fan content that you have nostalgia for and wish that it was Better

[runawaymarbles]

at this point i am simply uninterested in any opinion on a hot-button political topic that treats human beings as a mass of meaningless hypotheticals

[unnamed-atlas]

I am about to be such a fucking menace in the anthropology club

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

i'm pretty sure i've cut all content consumption out of my routine now

i don't mean that in the sense of i no longer consume content, i mean i've managed to remove it from routine behaviour

yes i will scroll instagram but it's not the first thing i do on waking until i get through all the posts since yesterday. it's just something i choose to do when i feel like it

yes i will watch youtube but i no longer go through all videos since yesterday from all the channels i'm subscribed to and watch them all or add it to watch later if i can't squeeze it into the day. this was my most recent success so i'm avoiding my subscriptions tab so i don't fall into the hole and am instead looking up individual channel videos to watch for no more than an hour. when i'm convinced my brain will behave i believe i will be able to scroll subscriptions casually and only when i want to.

this used to cause me such trouble because i genuinely saw these things as part of my routine so i'd be over here like man my routine of consuming content is all messed up because i went out for the day with someone i will need to double it tomorrow to fix it so i'm back on track. or i'd be like kinda wanted to do this today but a youtuber i follow uploaded a 2 hour video so I won't be able to fit it in :/

anyway that was trash. now i think i just have routines around food (3 meals a day) and work/study. Everything else is clean and free. I can do whatever I feel like when i have free time. i feel a little lost now but at least i'm no longer spending hours on content consumption when it's not actually making me happy

[kkoct-ik]

talking to a 57yr old in a DID support group im in is really nice actually its cool to hear about approaches to healing from someone almost three times my age and realise we are basically trying to do the same thing

[gumy-shark]

as a sex-repulsed aroace myself, it's perfectly normal to get a little horny/turned on/whatever you wanna call it about fictional stuff/stuff not happening to you.

and. well. i didn't have the same kind of 'pee thing' you did, but i did have *a* 'pee thing' (crossing my legs and squeezing to 'hold it') that i realized a decade later was actually masturbatory in nature. so.

good luck on your journey of self discovery? sorry for tmi?

ok so anon. 1) thank you for the reassurance and clarification. 2) this sheds a hilarious and mortifying light on a conversation i had with my younger siblings once and i think i have to revisit it now

[badolmen]

Has anyone told the Reddit refugees about turning on their blog domain?

[mallach]

(i will soon be executed for being corny) leaving unpleasant twitter circles and realizing being a weirdass fujo pest is not some horrible, unforgivable crime has been super nice. wahoo

[caligulacoded]

my strongest pieces of fic writing, in my own opinion of course, are those where I write the ins and outs of character motivations in a particular pivotal moment of their arc because they come very natural to me. of course this only when I feel I understand(tm) the character really well, and to understand(tm) they have to abide to certain rules. this is to say im very happy with how the “easy” part of this thing is coming together, the difficult part however—

[usedtobemygirl]

a 13 year old just followed me pls do not follow me if u are 13

[mortalityplays]

I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you're unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you've put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I'm not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.

but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.

telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they're safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it's safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you've never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.

many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.

please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.

[corntired]

I cant anymore

At work client received a link to a webpage we've coded for them, on a test domain. Same thing we've done literal tens of times before. Tens of times they've gotten a similar link. Link was something like http://domain.test.com/landingpage

Client got mad because the webpage didnt work for them. Sent a screenshot. Link visible on the screenshot? http://domain.test.com/landingpage/file:/C:/ProgramData...

Somehow, they managed to paste a path to a local file from their system into the link. Which obviously would break the link to a webpage. Because there is nothing on the server under that link/path.

And got mad at us. Because the webpage wasnt working.

I just. I cant.

[elusive-roetato]

My 5th graders were really into sprunki last cohort and i only just found out what it actually is today because I was watching like, a retrospective on how the internet cannibalized it.

I didn't know it had a horror element to it.

But god I love that my kids are exactly the same as I was at their age bfhdjfjs,, reminds me of the way alice of human sacrifice had my brain in a VICE GRIP back then

The children crave discomfort ‼️ the children love to be unsettled ‼️‼️

[bellarichie]

you know what I think? I think we should go back to the 2000s. I think that's when society reached it's technological peak without being self destructive. why do I gotta have a computer on my pocket at all times now? why are companies tracking me down and spying on me through my phone? online election campaigns... with fake news that is almost immediately spread by people who are chronically online? what the heck is the metaverse? let's tone it down for a bit.

society is jumping the gun big time why the fuck are we developing AI and robots and shit brother we don't even have printers or vacuums that aren't dogshit CAN we dial it back