#tautological

[aistobascistod]

Tautology : Tautology :: Tautology : Tautology

[cipheramnesia]

I saw you tagged the post re: X with 'stop joining Bluesky' -- can I ask why that is?

Because Twitter has always been a godawful form of social media, news, and networking. Elon Musk turned it into something unusable but in its usable state it had and continues to have an appalling effect on complex ideas and nuanced information. The nature of its character limit forced everything to a reductive sound-bite which effectively enshittified information propagation online, and its enshrinement as the "official" social media site for any person or entity to issue information or communication through dragged everyone down into the same level of garbage communication and analytical skills.

A website like Bluesky which only has "the same interface as Twitter prior to Elon Musk" as a selling point, isn't better for anyone. A short form character limited blogging site is fine as a gimmick and okay for simple person to person communication, which was more or less the original purpose of Twitter. It's absolutely shit for a central hub site for global information. The idea that Twitter's short form format and layout made it useful and popular needs to die immediately. The idea that information should be shared universally in short bites needs to die immediately.

What happened with Twitter, not with Elon Musk's purchase, but from the instant it gained media dominance, is fucking horrible, possibly one of the worst things to happen to online communication in its entirety. Go anywhere you want to get away from X, but for all that is good and hopeful in the world do not put any version of whatever constitutes your "personal official online presence" onto any site resembling any iteration of Twitter.

There is a window of opportunity to finally, finally be free from what Twitter did, but it is closing fast. I don't think very many people remember what it has been like watching information literacy collapsing in real time around Twitter, and I don't think there is much hope of killing that format, and I don't think it's going to solve every problem. But if somehow we do find a way to drive a stake not just through Twitter itself but the foundational ideals it represents, we will have made forward progress.

Kill the idea of Twitter that lives in your head. Don't reproduce the same mistakes just because it's familiar to use. For all our sakes, tweets must die.

[radsplain]

ironic that yall terfs can never seem to define what a woman is beyond your cliche "adult human female" non-answer

so like, the dictionary definition then

[pishifuzul]

your older sister comes back from a run, ripping away her shoes and peeling off the damp socks underneath before she sprawls across the living room couch to rest her weary heels. you go to join her, shooing away her calves and sinking into the spot where they'd been resting on a cushion. but as you expected, she just lowers her feet right back into your lap. you can pretend to focus on your book, but the smirk she gives you over her shoulder tells you enough: you both know you're here to enjoy the fresh, sweet smell wafting your way. a flush creeps up your cheeks as you share this mutual knowledge, wondering what happens next.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

The way that "pro-democracy protests" is taken as a self-evident and serious category by the fucking globe emoji NED-pilled CIA's strongest Twitter user types is so fucking laughable it makes me want to shit

[mapsontheweb]

Geographic tautologies

[yuripoll]

SEASON 4 LOSERS ROUND 3

NOTE: Qualia the Purple contains frequent bloody but non-graphic violence and depictions of body horror, human experimentation, abuse, bullying, suicide and an inappropriate age gap between two underage characters. Subtraction Tautology contains fairly infrequent sexual reference and depictions of misogyny, abuse, suicide, and grooming.

[doomsayings]

I do think the psychiatric abuse depicted on Hannibal is extremely harrowing and effecting to me personally and I dislike when it’s underplayed in fanon in service of the romance bc I don’t think it actually undermines the romance imo. To me the central romantic fantasy is that even if you are abused and taken advantage of, you can not only survive but turn the tides against your abuser. You can tame the beast/bring him to his knees/cage him with LOVE. because you are so beautiful and special. It is indulgent tale as old as time romantic fantasy which doesn’t work to me without what happens in season 1. This is apropos of nothing I’m just reminiscing on how much I love Hannibal

[kirikomamura]

[whitestopper]

Maybe instead of characters vaguely making fun of Marvel fans and media, Tao should be allowed to explicitly point out how it's imperialist and capitalist propaganda made by overworking underpaid employees which has whitewashed its characters and queerbaited its audience before. And also isn't that good anyway.

In other news, boycott Marvel and Disney as they fund/try to paint over the genocide of civilians in Gaza.

[hemaris]

ok which one of you lost the guy from spy x family on top of gwanaksan mountain

[bnxxshthealien]

not that anyone asked but my linguistics hot take is that tautological redundancy is not a mistake that must be corrected, but is a useful tool in communication. To intentionally flout the maxim of quantity is to intentionally convey a different meaning, so phrases such as “global pandemic” may seem redundant (all pandemics are global), but they are useful because they bring emphasis towards the “global” part; you now know that i’m referring to an international impact rather than the pathogen itself. (It’s over-exaggerated, if you will.) It can also be used for clarification: earlier I said “intentionally flout” despite how “flouting” in the context of Grice’s maxims usually implies intentionality, but specifying this avoids assuming that the reader knows it, so the statement is more clear. I also said “tautological redundancy” in the first sentence because I thought it would be funny

and yes, this all comes from a grudge i still hold against my teacher from when i was eleven years old who marked me down for writing “fatal death” even though i was clearly using it as a comedic hyperbole

[archietransdrews]

cheryl blossom / philip pullman 👍

[mumblelard]

two days in a row or it's almost like the bog monster thinks the narrator needs to get on board with us enthusiastically embracing our frayed internal locus of control, and the difficult choices that entails, but has doubts about the narrator's ability to grasp the message. the drama is real

i wonder how all this is going to turn out? maybe there is couples therapy for personified components of consciousness? family therapy for anthropomorphized abstractions of personality?

[sleepnoises]

day job is moving to a more seo-friendly and less complex writing style. i understand there are people out there with a wide range of literacy levels and they all deserve access to information. i also understand we need to "sell things" to "make money." however. i DO want to throw a little fit about how the sentences will be less beautiful now