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About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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twitter didn’t appreciate this so im bringing it to tumblr

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and then the sequel to the tweet:

if I had a nickel for every musical I saw about a queer person who wants to go to their prom but can’t because people are homophobic (but things end up turning out fine) i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

twitter didn’t appreciate this so im bringing it to tumblr

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is it really sunday evening again didnt this happen like a week ago

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MEAN GIRLS (2004) dir. Mark Waters

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I guess this at least explains why i’m still on tumblr in the year 2024

guess who just got their adhd and autism diagnosissss

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guess who just got their adhd and autism diagnosissss

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remember in School of Rock where the black girl was afraid to say she wanted to be a singer because she was fat and didn’t want to get laughed at but Dewey was all “who gives a shit, I’m fat too and so is aretha franklin but we’re still valuable and we rock” and then the girl felt better without having to be told that beauty comes in all sizes or some other bullshit. thats the kind of body positivity I’m looking for. tell these babies that they’re worth a damn without tying it to any other arbitrary ideals

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why he ate that

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yeah in my personal experience I had a bad crisis in october of last year so I took one month off and came back only to have another even worse crisis this march so now i’ve been just… well unemployed really 😅 as I work on myself and my mental health and my general well being since around april and yeah it’s only now that i’m starting to feel better but even still I don’t feel like i’m ready to go back just yet (and i’ve been seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist who put me on a bunch of meds)

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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tumblr is so weird because like it FEELS small but then your favorite character loses a fandom poll bracket to a character you’ve never heard of in ur life and suddenly it’s like oh this hellsite is CROWDED crowded

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"Oh but parents do have a right to control what their children eat. What if they just want to eat candy for every meal?"

Most parents can't even distinguish between random whims and autism dietary limitations and end up saying shit like this and starving their disabled children.