#the media sucks

[jasontoddsguns]

Headlines be like: “Blank got destroyed by a opposition” and you check the video and it’s just a normal debate with someone yelling about a completely unrelated topic + a slur

[luminousgalaxyfish]

POLITICAL RANT

Disclosure- I’m a queer, trans, Hispanic liberal but truly believe this is relatable for (most) people on all sides

This may be an unpopular opinion but in politics I think it would be helpful if the media stopped portraying the loudest and most extreme people (politicians, advocates, etc) as a representation of the whole party. We have been told we cannot work across the aisle (admittedly in some cases we cannot) but there are several politicians in Congress willing to work with people of the other party. These people don’t get as much coverage as inflammatory MTG or Matt Gaetz because they are more reasonable (and not weird).

I won’t lie, I’m pretty left and I do agree with things like universal basic income and healthcare for all but I also know even hearing about AOC is a major turn off for lots of people because she is seen as extreme. Do I agree with this? No but I understand why they feel this way if her opposite is MTG or Lauren Bobbert.

Truly I think the average person no matter the party wants something similar for the future (well paying jobs for those who can work, economic security, the ability to see a doctor or receive medical treatment and not immediately go into debt, people to stop being killed by guns) but we are constantly told we are so incompatible that it’s not worth trying to talk to one another. Because of this rhetoric we skip conversations with normal people on the other side and instead depend on the media (with portrayals of extreme views) to tell us what they think.

We’ve dug ourselves so deep into this that it’s going to take a lot of work to get back out but I think if we actually talked politics instead of viewing it as something taboo we could make a lot of progress.

I’m tired of the world constantly being on fire.

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[fanaticalthings]

just another night in gotham

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[artsekey]

Thinking about the time I lost a game of Overwatch and I was so mad about it that I genuinely considered getting into shit with the other team in chat and then realized that it was a colossal waste of my living breathing Human Time and uninstalled Overwatch instead because it was only making me angry.

And then thought about the OTHER time when I was on TikTok and realized I was Not Enjoying Myself and was, in fact, seeing so many sad videos and fake influencer ads that I felt Truly Despondent and then just…Deleted it.

Imo I want my social media /general media experience to be a pleasant break from real world and I get to decide what I get to cull to make that a reality for myself. I highly reccomended it! Life has improved considerably!

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[hiveswap]

[ghoulbats]

well….it finally happened

[tshortik]

Turn on "prevent third-party sharing" in your settings!

Go into your settings, click on your blog name, scroll down and enable "prevent third-party sharing". I'm gonna be honest, I question how much/if this even prevents any AI bullshit, but do it just in case anyway.

Edit: On Mobile it's the Settings Gear, Visibility, Prevent third-party sharing.

You have to turn that on for all your blogs separately.

[genericpuff]

it's cute that spotify thinks i'll let them price gouge me just for the "convenience" of their app

it's gonna take some work to update my old harddrive library of ripped mp3's with all the new songs i've found over the past 5 years of using spotify, but it'll be so worth having a working shuffle button and all the vocaloid and video game songs i want again (•̀ᴗ•́)و

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[miiilowo]

slightly over-engineered red leader tord design because i really really reaaaaallly like military uniforms & i thin k he deserves better than a hoodie under a blue trenchcoat. he doesnt tbh but i maybe deserve to see it. anyway

[godisarepublican]

[coffee-cait]

Cheers Ratio, to our continued collaboration~🥂

[bloodybellycomb]

It really sucks that creative people are now also expected become their own marketing team or become experts in business ventures in order to keep making art. Literally cannot think of a group of people less inclined to tedious number punching work than passionate artists.