#wikipedia deleted

[ratuszarsenal]

so there's this thing which I've dubbed academic fiction, where I write a long, precise academic paper, confirming to your citation model of choice and everything, except every single thing in there is made up. anyway if I made a zine that was a pretend-academic journal full of only that would anyone be interested in reading it

[despairing-disaster]

There's something kind of morbidly amusing to me about the fact that all the neck trauma this chapter started with a character with cat motifs. Cats, of course, being an animal known for killing their prey by snapping their neck.

[bratbarzal]

name a case that doesn’t sit right with you I’ll go first

[macro-microcosm]

Hmmm I wanna draw a picture with Dedede in it but I don't have a lot of experience drawing him. I should look up a reference.

Hm. Ok.

[disbarredgoose0]

The Kiss.

[thesims2comics]

The sims 1 🤝 the sims 2

2 years after the release of the main pc game (that has overwhelming positive reviews,) ea decides it's time for a flop era and releases something(s) that mostly gets negative reviews

[martyrbat]

[ID: a Wikipedia article from under the controversies category on the page for ex CIA member (and comic book writer) Tom King. Text reads:

In July 24 2020, Tom king posted on his Twitter account a complaint about comic book artists Jae Lee doing an alternate cover for his upcoming Rorschach series. He stated that DC comics did not consult with him about it and said that Jae Lee had previously done a cover for an alleged hate group called ComicsGate. King said that he reached out to DC comics to let them know how much disappointed he was with that cover and that for him, the only real cover for issue number one of the series was the one by main artists Fornés Jorge.

The post received several responses, some users that sided with King, demanded DC comics to cancel Lee's cover for his alleged ties to ComicsGate. The same day, King made another post on his twitter account this time stating that he had talked to Lee, he is not on Twitter and he had no idea what ComicsGate is about and does not support any kind of similar groups. He ended the post saying that they were all good, and that it was the best possible outcome to the whole situation.

On July 26, Lee took on his Instagram account to post his side of the story, explaining how he was unaware of all the drama that unfolded on twitter because of King's post. He compared it to "A plague" that came barging into his life at a very sensitive moment as his beloved dog had just passed from health complications. He went on to explain how King's post took away his time for mourning for his dog, as he received several calls and texts by friends and colleagues bringing news of the hatred coming from a stranger's mouth into his life. Lee stated clearly that was not a part of any group and that he was angry, saying: "These irresponsible tweets are not harmless. They do not just go away. They have real world consequences. They can take away your job. Your life. Your memories. June (wife) and i were robbed of a special day. So, no, we are not ALL GOOD."

Following Lee's Instagram post, King tweeted that he was very sorry and wanted to publicly apologize to Lee and that he had done a critically mistake and would delete his post as a sign of closure.]

[homo-house]

re:hbomberguy, on the topic of citing sources, i want to say:

it is insane how many people on here don't even click the sources op links on their own post to learn more and just hit reblog saying "oh my i didn't know about this thank you for teaching me!". like guys CLICK THE LINK!! CHECK THE NOTES!!! CHECK THE SOURCE!.... i swear half the time the link is dead or takes you to a nonsense page (i see this a lot with art specifically???? and excerpts from magazines??) and some times the linked source disproves a claim the very post that linked it made and people just. don't bother to check, no one bothers to even reblog saying "hey that link is dead! here's a new, working link!" or "hey that link doesn't work, can you link the source again?" and when it comes to misinformation people just share without checking or looking at the notes where numerous people will (in the best case scenario) already be pointing out the misinformation

"OH BUT I CAN'T CHECK EVERYTHING I SEE ON THE INTERNET" there is a surefire way to prevent spreading this kind of stuff even if you don't have the time to fact check immediately. just accept it's fine to save a post for later if you can't look deeper into it right now!!!!! literally just reblog it in private or save the post as a draft so you can come back to it later and check. it won't kill you and in fact it will actually make your life a lot better lol

[daughterofhecata]

I'm back on my bullshit (researching barely relevant details for fic)

[byzantine-suggestions]

Theodora's wikipedia page is a good example of when wikipedia is not an exceptionally reliable source

[florshedworf]

oh just 34,000+ killed huh. no division between civilians and militants huh.

[limelocked]

saw a shitty post trying to make a racism about palestine and against better judgment i went to fact check and it was bullshit obviously BUT

it did lead me to un resolution 3379

the resolution was voted on and passed the general assembly 10th november 1975 (72 for, 35 against, 32 abstentions) and determined that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination

this seems like a good thing right?

in 1991 the resolution was revoked, its revocation being a condition set by israel in exchange for palestine being allowed to participate in the madrid peace conference, the peace conference being one hosted by spain and sponsored by both the us and the soviet union... to revive the peace process between israel and palestine

it has been 30 years and the un has never had less credibility in the eyes of the people, entirely due to its inability to stop the zionist war machine

[clonerightsagenda]

To continue filling my quota for other recent liveblogged properties, book!Tyler/The Prophet collects brides but show!Tyler/The Prophet collects cosplaying child soldiers so show!him can be aro ace. Saying a dead girl he met 20 years ago is his wife was the ultimate 'you don't know her, she goes to another school' moment.

[writinginthesecrettrees]

I respect the hell out of this woman.

It's actually depressing how many dudebros just want to glorify Nazis.

[in-sufficientdata]

For those who grew up fearing drowning in quicksand:

The real quicksand was in grain silos all along

[chemicalarospec]

final bottoms review: it was funny, not as funny as I thought from the hype it got. I didn't realize it would be a comedy where reality bends for the purpose of comedy, and i think if I went in expecting absurdism instead of expecting a story I would have liked it better.