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An interesting observation I need to report to you all from when I was out touching grass last month (hiking/camping): People in the real world seem to consistently react to me saying that tumblr is my primary social media by going "Isn't that a dating app????"
#i'm convinced they're confusing it with grindr but i can't say for sure#this happened like a dozen times with people in an age range of 30-60#they'd be like oh you have an online shop? do you have to use instagram and facebook a lot? has twitter/x stuff made your life harder??#and i'm like nah i'm mostly immune to all that because for whatever reason the only social media i have a significant following on is tumbl#i think i'm too weird for the other ones so tumblr is the only place that gets me#and then they would all go “isn't that a dating app??” or “i thought that's a dating site that shut down???”#this is what regular people out in the world think of us#which isn't what i expected#lol
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It shouldn't be amusing when cops don't know the law; it should terrify you.
#politics#acab#'cops enforce the law though!' then why don't they know the law. how the fuck do you enforce things you don't know.#so that tells me that policing isn't about 'knowing the law' if it isn't rquired#the fact that a cop can be TOLD THEY ARE WRONG and still fuck up should terrify you#it terrified me watching bodycam footage of this cop threatening to TASER a woman because she knew her rights...#...she knew the LAW and she made that clear but she was STILL arrested and threatened with greater bodily harm...#...and the department that cop works at is STILL doing NOTHING to address it (the cop in question was 'on leave' last i heard)...#...fuck they had to turn the comments off their department's facebook page because they wanted to bury the comments DEMANDING answers#the people didn't fucking forget until they were shut up. and the department is still doing nothing. that tells me everything
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#this may surprise you but the market button will make me less likely to buy things.#take the market away and make the tiktokification stop#tumblr updates#people are on this platform because it ISN'T like facebook/insta/tiktok#mine
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#not that it matters but i don't think silver springs guy actually got married?????#we have five million mutual friends and none of them posted ANYTHING about the wedding and like. these people post whenever they go anywher#every other wedding they've gone to they've posted about#and maybe this is very chronically online of me but none of them even posted congratulations on facebook???? the number one place people#post about weddings??????#and this is not in an 'ohmygosh maybe i still have a CHANCE' stupid way#i wouldn't get together with this guy if he BEGGED me-not that he would lololol#but i *was* looking forward to the closure of seeing him happily married#and now maybe he isn't#i hope for his sake it worked out and they're happy and that when we see each other again some day that there's no pain for either of us#but yeah it's weird#i was sorta expecting to see all these pictures roll in over social media#and then...nada#lilac's silver springs chronicles
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hands down the worst thing about being an artist is other people constantly going 'I'm not gonna bother doing this fun rewarding thing-- least of all with you-- because you are so much better at it that it ruins it for me'
#I get feeling this way and it's hard not to feel this way#but it's also hard feeling like doing the thing you love makes everyone else feel really bad about themselves#in a perfect world me doing art would encourage everyone to do more art because it's fun and feels good#but no one wants to hear 'everyone can do it! it doesn't matter what your skill level is it's still good for you and fun and rewarding!'#from someone who's like... already (relatively) good at the thing#EVEN THOUGH IT'S TRUE. EVEN THOUGH I REALLY BELIEVE THAT!!#anyway this isn't even ABOUT 'making good art' it's a cute couple's activity that sounds fun#but if one person IS a professional painter then of course it can't help but also be about Making Good Art when one person can#and it sucks. cause like. man. that does sound cute. that does sound fun! but john won't get to do it#and I also wouldn't get to do something like this because I'm Too Good which ruins things for everyone else#just bums me out. people just can't help looking at creative hobbies and going 'oh I could never do that [clearly feels bad about it]'#.... oh. well... that's not really true and I hate that you feel that way. I'm sorry for putting a little damper on your day. I guess#posts from facebook#irl frens#(and family)#about me
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Do you hate seeing people happy?
Does letting people harmlessly Enjoy Things™
💥 fill you with rage? 💥
Do you feel itchy inside when other people lead happy lives, differently from yours?
Ask your Doctor, if
✨Staying Mad✨
is right for you!
#shitpost#shitposting#die mad about it#stay mad#trans rights are human rights#this isn't just a trans sentiment but it was inspired by recent transphobia and misogyny incident on Facebook#Armpitmageddon for any of you who are following me over there and saw that whole thing lol#because 90% of the posts that troll group raids are literally just cute pictures of GNC people looking happy
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Human pet guy showed up on my dash again (via puppy play sick skateboard tricks post) and I decided to look at what he was up to these days, and
what do you mean he was born in 1995?
#kai rambles#human pet guy#on one hand it kinda makes sense in that he was like 22 or something when he made the original human pet post#like if he was a 22 year old inexperienced with pet play i can somewhat see how you could end up making that post#maybe you could get your wires that tangled up about it if you've never actually done it#and then like you finally get to try it and suddenly all of that bullshit is dispelled#also you can be a pretentious little dumb dumb about it when you're 22 you know? let me write as if im always talking down to someone#on the other hand#the guy still believes it#he's still salty about people not getting where he was coming from#he still thinks he's right#and like maybe that's because he's still never got to do pet play in real life but that feels like a mean assumption#and a little lazy and bad faith you know?#especially considering he believes even weirder things now like that gen z boys who voted for harris should now be concubines for the#''victors of the election'' and that this is how it's always been until CHRISTIANITY TAUGHT PEOPLE BETTER#absolutely insane thing to say and honestly i could break down that entire post because boy howdy is it a ride#also he believes something to do with trump experimenting with ways to trap people in crystals?#like that's a facebook ass conspiracy#which hence would imply he's older#the way he talks also just reminds me of jordan peterson#but jordan peterson isn't only 5 years older than me#id assumed he was older because of his cadence and vernacular#but no#he's not even 30#im just rambling in the tags here because i just. like i oft talk in a kinda pretentious manner so i know that's not a thing unique to older#folk and that this shouldn't be tripping me up so much but it's just like.#he was younger than me when he made the original human pet guy post#that's wild#you know who he reminds me of?#whatifalthist on youtube
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#dollblr#I get it and I'm glad people like my taste in shoes for my dolls#but also it just kinda feels like a punch to the gut like “Your hard work isn't worth mentioning”#“I just want to know about the part of the outfit you bought”#Just to be clear this pretty much only happens on Facebook not on here!
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Let's play the "Are we really friends, or am I just their special interest at the moment?" game.
*spins wheel*
#feykrorovaan#Tumblr friendships are weird.#People will ask if I want to be friends and then they never talk to me again they just like/reblog my posts but leave me on read.#Last time I checked that's a follower not a friend.#This isn't about anyone specific but it's happened a few times now.#It's like they want the title of friend but to not actually be my friend...like facebook. This isn't Facebook y'all.
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#popcorn.gif!#look i'm glad i have something to point to that isn't a music auctioneer's facebook page (but he's quoted in the article)#because these problems have been obvious to people who care for a long time and i'm glad someone with authority is speaking out about it#elvis presley
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Demon trying to feed on my insecurities: "You're a bad driver"
Me: "Of course I am. I hate driving. Going 80 mph surrounded by tons of metal is nerve-wrecking. I try to do it as little as possible. Of course I'm bad at it"
Demon: "You're a bad writer"
Me: "Well that part's simply not true. I never claimed I was the greatest author of my generation, but when I put pen to paper I know what I want to communicate and I usually do it well. If someone isn't impressed with my work, that's unfortunate but they're entitled to their opinion"
Demon: "You're a bad leader"
Me: "Well I don't know about that! I mean there was that one time when... Ok look just because people don't see me as an authority figure doesn't mean... 😠 You know you can be a real asshole, demon!"
#joking aside the reason I suck at helping people is probably not dissimilar from why I'm bad at driving#the joke is “having good ideas which would work if people let you boss them around” and#“having enough charisma to persuade people to let you boss them around” are two different skills and I don't have nearly enough patience#for the latter#but no really it makes me deeply insecure seeing sycophants rally around the most transparently incompetent and self-interested POS people#and meanwhile I'm getting called shrill and presumptuous for pointing out that the left-wing is poorly organized and I could do it better#can we agree it's at least a little bit because I have aspergers and no penis?#like I realize what I'm doing is the political equivalent of “but I'm such a nice guy!” and I'm literally complaining that no one#respects ma authoritah#but just saying: maybe I wouldn't come off as such a petulant misanthrope#if I wasn't constantly being asked to fix problems that could have been avoided if everyone listened to me in the first place#“nobody likes an i-told-you-so” yeah that's why democracies keep falling to fascism cus you want someone pleasant over someone correct#at the same time sooner or later you have to look in the mirror#and I can count the group projects I've successfully headed on one hand; maybe it's me#if it was just that people don't listen to me than yeah this would just mean I have an ego#but there are plenty of women the left could be rallying around and it doesn't because of minor scandals and anarchist ideals#it's stupid and I'm becoming a tankie just because i'm sick of the idea#that political goals can be accomplished without a clear chain of commmand#i don't need to be the leader but WE NEED A LEADER#the hatian revolution succeeded because Toussaint Louverture organized random slave rioting into an actual army#and I just wish I had that kind of magic myself but I might already be too bitter#ftr this isn't in response to anything that happened recently I'm just still mad thinking about an anarchist group I tried to join#on facebook five years ago where I asked point blank what the marching orders were and got blocked for being “obviously a cop”#and the mod comes at me with “anarchists don't have leaders IDIOT”#yeah well you're the guys always saying you only oppose UNJUST hierarchies idiot!#excuse me for thinking you guys had a plan beyond perpetual infighting#not everyone asking blunt questions about the anarchist platform are feds you guys are just paranoid and ableist#and when you block people for asking what game plan is it really sounds like you just plain don't have one (which is depressing)#I don't care how many books there are about how anarchism is more than just “wanting a free-for-all”#if you attack anyone who tries to impose a hierarchy just to get shit done it really seems like that first impression of
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man it's really fucked up that "specific target of threatened physical violence by a coworker" is a two nickels kind of situation for me. not counting the people at that job who were imprecise with their implied violence it's just a part of who they presented themselves as as people.
#1) trans person who wanted to gay bash all of the gay people at work but especially me and art and said so on the facebook we'd all been#told multiple times to friend. for whatever fucking reason. still perplexed. 2) ex friend who abused me#the imprecise ones didn't bother me as much.#being vague abt identity od trans ex coworker bc the violence isn't bc that person's trans . it's just what makes that really bizzare for m#den posts
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the anti-tiktok takes are so boring like oh my god y'all sound like boomers i thought we weren't going to do the "social media is evil but this time it really is, you stupid teenagers don't know what you're doing" thing to the next generations bc we agreed that it's dumb
#win rambles#one of my most Controversial Tumblr User Opinions right here: tiktok isn't evil actually#it's right up there with me liking taylor swift#and just. idk liking things in general#'tiktok is poisoning your brain' oh just like video games? just like facebook? just like tumblr?#and yes i know evil algorithm surveillance anti capitalism etc etc but cloaking it in your progressive language doesnt change#the fact that it's still a really ignorant take that's just people trying to be superior and pretentious#like we're all online we're all being tracked and fed algorithms you're not better and smarter than teens who use tiktok you're just older#and i'm saying this as someone who doesn't use tiktok bc short video format is bad for my ND brain#and the way people say this with their entire chest on TUMBLR of all places#like congratulations you don't use tiktok? what do you want a fucking medal?
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does anyone know if introducing AI into middle school classrooms as a teacher in Canada is a fireable offence or is my cousin extra super lying
#family drama time! cousin chris got fired & i'm the only one who can see his facebook posts which hint as to why!#theory: he introduced AI & NFT's to his students & also claimed that ADHD isn't a disability or genetic & is caused by home life#he got into a fight with a principal about. All That. & got fired & escorted off campus for being a shithead#& then lied for a year up until it came out recently that he was fired & no longer has a job#btw the ADHD thing is extra funny because my entire family has ADHD. both sides. yeah#my sister is going through his tiktok to find hints & apparently people keep calling him a bad parent & teacher on there xD#it's so weird how i can be related to people like that. like what even is this
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Tens of thousands of people have been fired in the tech sector in the last six months alone. With the economy the way it is, and with people who are already unable to get a job, I wonder how an extra 20,000+ jobseekers are going to have any luck finding work.
#i just want to point out that this isn't just automation. it's different for every company but a lot of it comes down to profiteering imo#the video game industry made disgusting amounts of money during the pandemic. best three years of sales in history#but that momentum was never going to keep up forever. even when the momentum was at full swing people were getting laid off#Activision-Blizzard laid off over a hundred people just before christmas while bobby kotick got a $250 million bonus#thst might have even been before the pandemic#but you're seeing it with microsoft and ubisoft. wouldn't surprise me if sony and nintendo were following suit in a less public manner#microsoft - arguably the biggest tech conglomerate in the world (next to tencent) - laid off 10 thousand workers alone#i live in a town with just over 10 thousand people. in my entire fucking town. in my perspective that's more or less the world around me#all of those people - jobless#facebook - didn't like 7k people just get fired? that's hot on the heels of john carmack leaving too#john carmack is probably one of the top 100 people in the tech industry. his tech improvements helped aging PC hardware keep up for years#DOOM might be a meme but it ran that well because id software under john carmack revolutionised rendering techniques and scrolling#and stuff like that. john carmack has been at the forefront of graphical technology and game development for 30+ years#that's resulted in a couple duds like RAGE. he was also all-in on voxel technology before he moved into VR#all of that was context for this: john carmack left meta (who bought oculus) and lambasted the company for poor management on the way out#saying that he'd never seen such unnecessary and wanton expenditure in his career. meta were throwing their money at things thay don't work#here's john carmack trying to lay the groundwork of a successful game for meta's metaverse. here's meta chasing superfluous buzzwords#meta spent almost $14 BILLION on buzzwords and marketing at the behest of the actual tech. and then they FIRED 7000 PEOPLE!!!!!!#they had a HAIL MARY working on their game - because metaverse IS A GAME - and they prioritised SELLING THE PRODUCT BEFORE BUILDING IT#IT COST THEM $14 BILLION + THEIR HAIL MARY - AND THEN THEY FIRED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE!!!!!!#Ubisoft and Activision-Blizzard have been facing mass resignations after years of abusive and toxic workplaces#and on top of that they're firing people too. google stadia just went under. it wouldn't surprise me if 2k and rockstar were firing people#I don't know how many other unemployed people there are in america - hundreds of thousands? but 20k more is even worse for everyone#keep in mind that even with a $14 billion loss - meta still makes billions. Microsoft is in no financial danger#tech is more lucrative now than ever. i genuinely believe that these cuts are to keep record profits at record heights#because the pandemic boom is ending and their ALREADY OBSCENELY LUCRATIVE revenue flows are going back to normal#so 20k+ tech workers are losing their jobs to keep $80 billion instead of $79 billion. all of those people - jobless#that's 20 thousand people with individual lives and families and expenses. lost their jobs in the last six months#that example i gave - $80 billion instead of $79 billion. that's not revenue. that's profit.#all of those people out of work due to incompetence at best and rank orofiteering at worst. their salaries and benefits come under revenue
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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.
I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.
Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.
I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.
I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.
Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.
I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.
My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.
I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?
No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!
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