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inkskinned · 1 year ago

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i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

#spilled ink #warm up #“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol #btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can #run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her #but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like.#ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone!#like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate''#we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!

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callmeurrbunny · 4 months ago

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i'm just a kid

i never use my brain

i only use my heart

and my imagination

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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sergle · 5 months ago

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ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE, people dropping mad mad sums of money on gfms and charities and stuff are extremely impressive but that DOES NOT MEAN that putting like $5 towards someone's fund or any good cause is any less valuable, a lot of crowdfunding is about momentum and those single digits add up super fast, you do not need to be Rolling In The Dough to make someone's day!! moving the dial at all is extremely positive!!

#what is ACTUAL POISON to crowdfunding is The Full Stop. when it just runs cold. at that point a single dollar coming in feels like #pushing the wheels out of the mud. all you need is movement. as long as it keeps moving.#this applies to gofundmes this applies to large organizations this applies to people asking for grocery money #moving the needle even just the slightest bit!! is huge!!#take it from someone who gets excited about $1 patrons #sergle.txt #people used to attach Apology messages to their $5 when I was raising money for my breast reduction #as if they should be doing more. but they were already doing so much and I was elated to just see a new donation Of Any Amount #ANY donation is extremely exciting to the person or people actually receiving it!!!!

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skellydun · 1 year ago

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I don't think I'm meant to be employed. It really cuts into my goofy silly haha time. and it makes it nearly impossible to have any wow life is beautiful let me take it in time.

#guess what our employee appreciation gift was. a chair. 100+ dollars on a camping chair for each HQ employee? why not just...#i was just like gee. glad u appreciate me. u ever heard of how companies can shower u with free swag but it doesnt distract from the #horrible culture???#like yes dont give us that 100 dollars but give me an ugly chair with our company logo that i had to lug up a hill.#im just tired of this aspect of HR i think. need me some new scenery

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fanaticalthings · 2 months ago

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important family group chat discussions

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pseudospectre · 1 year ago

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So it turns out you can just buy old x-rays off ebay

#i had wire and a 3 dollar lamp from goodwill that had no shade #what else was i supposed to do?#handmade #arts and crafts #spooky #creepy #xray lampshade #bones #Halloween #once i figured out how to accurately cut the panels to the right size and shape #it went together pretty easy #and now my work office is that much cooler :)

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kenchann · 3 months ago

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s-ccaam-era-crepe · 1 year ago

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i think everyone who's ever had migraines should be financially compensated forever btw

#camera talks #disability stuff #this is for my chronic migraine girlies (gn) <3 #i think we should all get 1 million million dollars everyday actually #this is the worst fucking night of my life (everytime i have migraines) (specifically rn tho)#chronic pain #chronic migraine #migraines #chronically ill #disabled #disclaimer because idk I’ve got a lot of notes on this #I have diagnosed chronic migraines. I used to have them 5-6 times a week #now with medication on a good week I’ll only be affected 2-3 days #on bad weeks it’s much worse #anyways don’t doubt my condition I know what I’m talking about thx

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homeofwyrm · 3 months ago

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Work's been busy (good thing) so I haven't been able to draw much. Here's Anastasia

#art #the locked tomb #tlt #anastasia the first #anastasia #this is a wip of a larger thing im doing based off a famous classic painting #if you can guess what it is i'll give you 5 dollars (i wont)

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theshitpostcalligrapher · 7 months ago

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due to the nature of toronto being at least 5% film set at any given time, there's companies that take the shitloads of leftover prop nonsense and garage sale it out to us normal folks

but i gotta say.

this sure is fuckin SOMETHING.

HUH OK

im ngl these'd make the backyard beer coolers of all time

shoutout to @unfortunatebedhead for sending me these screenshots and therefor being the VERY FIRST things i saw once i got home from work

#WH #sure #also their leftover clothes are the price of what value village used to price at #like the tank top i'm sleeping in is from the set of the boys and it cost me four dollars iirc

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carry-on-my-wayward-butt · 10 months ago

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imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this fucking site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao

#op #you know what makes people hesitant to fork money over to tumblr?#the fact that the leadership is so incredibly out of touch with the reality of this place #that his paper thin skin chafes at the mere thought of transparency and accountability.#you're a grown man worth hundreds of millions of dollars #stop pissing and shitting in your diaper about your feelings being hurt and do your fucking job

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callmeurrbunny · 4 months ago

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 4 months ago

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we need more hero/arch-nemesis duos whose backstory is being bitterly, bitterly divorced

#divorced WITH CHILDREN #villain who keeps kidnapping the sidekick bc screw the custody agreement that's MY kid #'what the hell we agreed no kidnappings on a school night' 'fuck that i'm a supervillain not an absentee parent'#meanwhile the kid's calmly dangling upside down over a vat of acid scribbling out their math homework while the parents showdown #*city-leveling superbattle over weekend custody ensues*#millions of dollars of property damage later the kid reminds them both that this weekend is soccer camp actually?

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inkskinned · 12 days ago

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i wrote an interactive poem for my girlfriend in 3 parts. she said you need to read it.

go here: take only the final quiz or take all 3. i don't mind. it's sad, though. this is a poem about choice. about fate and mental illness and how love fits inside of all of it. this is a poem about a long dark hallway. mostly this is a poem about mango sushi rolls.

good luck. i love you. despite it all, i'm hopeful.

#uqiz #she said i need to put it up here lmafo #something something feel free to send me 5 dollars towards my next sushi roll run #poetry #experimental poetry #there's no specific like warning on this except that im not doing well n therefore it LEAKS into my writing lol #the realllll shit as an author is like ohhhh fuck i write so much better when im mentally unwell lol #:( why cant i be sane AND rational. why does my creativity gotta stem from suffering.#(bc when im not suffering im outside saying YIPPEE and kicking my heels lol)#IF YOU SAW THIS BEFORE I CLICKED THE RIGHT LINK NO YOU DIDNT #hey btw if you're experiencing an error idk what's up with that bc it still loads on my end.#i'll look into solutions but sorry :(#hi friends: i have no idea why sometimes the links break for random people.#it might be a chrome/firefox/etc thing but i will say that the links still work on my end AND i still have people taking each quiz.#so i know it works .... i have no idea what the exact solution is - maybe reload it if urs isn't working?#sorry im not good at coding :(

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badolmen · 6 months ago

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Five Dollar Fridays!

Can you spare $5 this week? If not, please reblog this post so it reaches someone who can!

Otherwise, please donate $5 to one of the following verified fundraisers for families in Palestine and then reblog this post:

(verification) Moamen's Family ($190/$30.000) [0.63%] *new campaign and goal, see here.

(verification) Musab's Family (£136/£10.000) [1.06%] *new goal and campaign, see here.

(verification) Sohaip's Family (£1.116/£10.000) [11.2%]

(verification) Basel's Family (CHF 8.865/CHF 60.000) [14.8%]

(verification) Muhammad's Family (€23.785/€82.000) [29.0%]

(verification) Malak's Family (€7.876/€25.000) [31.5%]

(verification) Samer��s Family (kr 149.538/kr 450.000) [33.2%] *alternate campaign, see here.

(verification) Nadaa's Family (£9.925/£25.000) [39.7%]

(verification) Nabila's Family ($16.944/$30.000) [56.5%]

(verification) Mohammed's Family (€43.594/€80.000) [54.5%]

(verification) Youssef's Family (€16.864/€30.000) [56.2%]

(verification) Laila's Family (€33.382/€55.000) [60.7%]

(verification) Abdelrahman's Family (€20.105/€30.000) [67.0%]

(verification) Asmaa's Family (€32.275/€45.000) [71.7%]

(verification) Yousef's Family (€39.104/€50.000) [78.2%] *new goal and campaign, see here.

(verification) Mohammad's Family (€31.090/€37.000) [84.0%]

(verification) Amira's Family (€32.673/€39.000) [83.8%]

(verification) Fadi's Family ($44.264/$50.000) [88.5%] *new goal, see here.

Time stamp: Dec. 20, 2024

More information and campaigns under the read more.

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Daily Campaigns @writing-prompts-for-palestine

Match Me Monday

Ten Dollar Tuesdays

Do Something Saturdays

Completed Campaigns:

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*** the follow campaigns have been terminated by GFM/are no longer accepting donations. I am looking for an update from the vetters or organizers.

(verification) Tala’s Family (€13.967/€40.000) [34.9%]

#check the original post for updated goals and campaigns!#ra speaks #palestine #fundraising #mutual aid #free palestine #palestine gfm #palestine fundraiser #five dollar fridays #<- this post will be reblogged every Friday until the goals are met and Palestine is free. i will reblog it in the evening with updates.#i have personally donated at least $5 to each of these. please spare what you can if you can this week.#every dollar helps!#but please reblog so this reaches as many people as possible...i feel weird tagging the big blogs but i might

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