#which is fine. but it's also whatever

[askshivanulegacy]

You know why this works, right?? You know that Tumblr is NOT a safe space, right??? You saw all the pro-Palestine bloggers who wanted you to throw the election, right???????

THAT was political interference. THAT was misinformation.

And it all works because people who use social media to get "information" are dumb.

If you are living on any social media platform so much that you care what kind of "news" you get from it, then you're wrong. You're the problem.

Oh no, they manipulated the algorithm!

You can literally read anything anywhere else at any time.

Oh no, they wrote fake news!

Social media has always been entertainment only. Do you really believe everything you read, if it's something that matters to you? People lie like a rug all the time. You can go fact-check whatever you want in literal seconds.

Oh no, the Russians posted stuff, in a "campaign!"

Posting things is how you use the platform. Your own social media blog might as well be your own campaign. Anyone can use the platform the way it's intended. Plus, propaganda is the game. If you can't research the platforms of the candidates yourself and navigate the propaganda that's been there since time began then that's a personal problem. This is not new or interesting.

Sure, it's an ethics violation for them to intentionally manipulate their own platform. Is it shocking? No. It's theirs, they control it. It's only social media, and it's only Twitter. Twitter has always been a joke.

I'm not even sure you can properly call it "election interference." Social media is not a news source and there's no journalistic integrity there. Never was.

The biggest problem here is the people who use these platforms. Social media makes it phenomenally easy for people to get lies right to your face. For "foreign enemies" to push you their propaganda. But YOU'RE the one letting it happen, and YOU'RE the one at fault if you believe it.

This is the real world. It's not going to hold your hand. You need to learn how to navigate it, and THAT'S the message we should all be taking from this. There is not some shadowy evil force manipulating the information.

There's just you. There's just your responsibility.

And this will happen again and again. Forever.

Learn how to be skeptical. Gain some damn perspective. Palestine was a nothing burger non-issue in this election, yet it was used to throw people enough that they didn't vote or they voted for Trump.

Learn how to go research the issues you do care about and actually want to act on, and take a pass on the rest.

The real criminals in the "social media manipulation" are just the people who use it.

It’s my hope that Tumblr is still a safe space from political interference when it comes to allowing the users to interact without fear that bots we interact with are sharing misinformation.

[sunlit-mess]

D4: Trying something new

[ahhrenata]

Steve tries to stay quiet while he gets ready for work, but Eddie hears him. He keeps his eyes closed and just listens- to Steve grumbling to himself when his hair doesn’t sit quite right, who starts to hum and whisper some catchy song. Eddie turns his sleepy gaze onto Steve as he shuffles around their room- watching quietly as he slips on his clothes, his shoes, a simple chain with Eddie’s ring around his neck. A warm, affectionate smile breaks across his face. Before he leaves, Steve glances at what he expects to be a sleeping Eddie, but instead, he’s met with a rasped, ‘Hey.’ Eddie sits himself up, stretches his arm across Steve’s side of the bed, and reaches, fingers wiggling. Steve crosses the room to cradle his face.

Their foreheads press, noses bump, and Steve brushes his fingers across scars and dimples.

He breathes a quiet,

‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to wake you.’

Eddie huffs a tired laugh,

‘You know I never mind.’

Because, yeah.

Every morning Steve tries to stay quiet while he gets ready for work, but Eddie always hears him.

( another one from the poll | WIP )

[dukeofthomas]

I find the fact that the confrontation at the end of UTRH is often summarized as Jason asking Bruce to kill the Joker for him fascinating.

Because that's not what happened.

Jason holds a gun up to Joker's head, gives Bruce another, and tells him that if Bruce doesn't do something (shoot Jason), he will kill Joker.

Jason doesn't give the gun to Bruce so that he would shoot Joker. He isn't expecting Bruce to pull the trigger on the clown. He's asking Bruce to do nothing. To be inactive. Because that will still be a choice, and despite having done nothing, everybody clearly agrees that Bruce would still, at least in part, be responsible for Joker's death.

...And to me, this moment is a kind of- microcosm, of the rest of Jason's point. Because after being captured and carted off to Arkham, the villain will escape again, and will kill more people. The only way to truly prevent that from happening would be to kill them; Bruce refuses to do so, and I respect his right to choose such a thing for himself, but it is still a choice, and if we agree that Bruce's inaction during the confrontation would leave him at least partly responsible for the Joker's death, then we must also agree that his inaction in permanently preventing the Rogues from killing more people means he is also, partly, responsible for all of those deaths.

[muirmarie]

jim being canonically the shortest one of the triumvirate is genuinely so important to me lmao, like yesssssss, let that beefy babe be shorter than both his boyfriends!!!!

[tomatoart]

coffee cheetos chicken

[favroitecrime]

Palestinian freedom fighters breaking out of Gaza and reclaiming their occupied territories. They’ve taken over israeli tanks and have chased out the settlers that were on that land. They’ve launched rockets everywhere and the iron dome has failed to intercept. This is about to mark a momentous event in history.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[deoidesign]

Time and Time Again comes back tonight!

Thank you all for being so patient with me, I know it was a long hiatus.

My health was struggling, my arm was (is) hurting, and I decided it wasn't worth it. I'd rather be slow!

So thank you for giving me that grace, and I hope you'll be there with me for the rest of the series.

[beatcroc]

there's no way the bathroom at peppino's pizza is actually that big but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . hey ummm anyway.... i care them...... anyway there's a lil ramble on my take on fake pep's like psyche or whatever in tags on the og post if ur into that kinda thing :y

hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino]<- u are here [gustavo] [gerome] [noisette again]

[anthonycrowley]

i think this will get me tarred and feathered if i don’t word this properly but i do genuinely think that fandoms with canon relationships - gay or straight - as the most popular pairing kind of suck a little. like as a rule. not the media itself, that usually is very good. and especially in the case of actual lgbt rep i would rather that over well written fanfic every day of the week. but. man. something really is lost when you no longer have to have a downward spiral of madness with your friends for 2-4 weeks before you go ‘fuck it they’re in love i’ll do it myself’ and instead you’re all shaking hands going good game good game. a kinder world, truly. but none of you are going to write a 150k word fanfic set in an alternate apocalypse universe that showed up in a single episode out of 200 just to prove your blorbos truly Are in love.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This is the start of something new

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[themetalvirus]

shoutout to everyone with chronic hand pain who plays video games anyway. fuck it we ouch 🫡

[ganondoodle]

sometimes i wish i was one of those artist that make people go "this is a PAINTING???" or "with WHAT programm/medium???" but its just not what i can do or find fun :/

[dizzybizz]

hawthorne sprite HAWTHORNE SPRITE!!!!!!!! yippee

[aroaceleovaldez]

we're all in agreement Jason just totally bit Krios, right? "unarmed, 1v1 combat" Jason bit that guy. chomp chomp.

[icewindandboringhorror]

A little costume with eyebrow whiskers again.. making their return lol..