I'm all for non-prescriptive language use, but I have limits.
The things you download to your computer and run to make it do those things? Those are programs. Not "apps"
"App" is Apple branding that they've tricked the larger populace into using. Oh how cute, the company that ruined home computing and doesn't know what a right-click is has shortened their name to apply to their system of backdoor social control predatory software market! Lets just use that term.
"Application" is a type of program, most commonly (and I argue, properly) applied to business/productivity software.
But just the shortened app?
That's Steve Jobs' ghost whispering blasphemies in your ear.
Finished Season 1 of sense8 and will be starting the second as soon as possible.
This show really sells the raw empathy of having a tight knit queer community who can offer understanding and acceptance as well as the raw terror of what would happen if a funded and powerful network of infiltrators got eyes on you and your community.
Nothing will compel me to watch a new Darren Aronofsky film, I still maintain the only decent movie he’s ever made is Black Swan, and the rest are him jerking off onto an after school special and calling it art
I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishistic"
frankly, the people whose kneejerk reaction to bisan asking for a global strike form the 21st-28th is to say that it takes years to organize a general strike are really unhelpful! no one is saying otherwise, but palestine will be a smoking crater if we all wait for years to do anything - bisan is asking us to do something now. Like are we only supposed to do something if we can do it perfectly??? At some point it’s a valid critique about the work that goes into social movement, and at another point I feel like some people are just trying to absolve themselves from not putting any effort into observing a week of economic inaction.
like idk! I get it, okay! People have bills to pay that don’t magically go away for a strike, we don’t have nearly enough social infrastructure in place to support people to fully stop going to work for a week. But fuck, dude! Stop immediately responding in such a defeatist way! Cut out unnecessary purchases! Try to shop local! Put more effort into promoting Palestinian voices online! Attend a protest, call a local rep, do something!
listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.