I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.
He stops and looks both ways?!?
You wanna know what makes this better?
Crows normally walk. This one seems to have both legs working, so he’s not hopping out of necessity, he’s doing it for fun. Corvids can sometimes be seen doing things like this for no evident reason other than enjoyment.
i was so good at this water sort mobile game and i’m stuck on level like 348 and i’m convinced this one is impossible. i was stuck on it for weeks like a year ago and then quit and came back to it recently with a new hunger and vengeance and it’s kicking my ass i swear
it’s just not possible.
i take back every bad thing i ever said about this website
my nephew, who is like 11 or 12, is playing “5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel”, which is exactly what it says on the tin, and I have never been more terrified of the youth of today
here’s a sample picture from the Steam page:
what the hell is this
Always reblog the 5D chess with multiverse time travel horror
Buckkkkkkk oh my celestia this hurts!!!! does anypony have a bandaid?
When this PARTICULAR brony stubs their toe (which is every FIVE MINUTES!!!)
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH manure manure manure manure manure manure MANURE MANURE MANU}RE BUCKBUCKBUCKBUCK BUCK YOU BUCK HIM BUCK HER BUCK EVERYPONY CELESTIA LUNA CADANCE THORAX TWILIGHT MOTHERBUCKING SPARKLE SWEEEEEEEEEEET BABY FLURRY HEART *incessant hoof slamming on any nearby object* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
this hive of pain will be my sweet sweet end
sweet release from the torture of cyberbullies and trolls
sweet release
YOU PONY HATING FUCKS CAN UNFOLLOW AND BLOCK ME NOW. GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE. YOU GOT YOUR FUCKING CONFESSION OUT OF ME. NOW GO.
you know at least once a week i’ll think that i’ve seen the worst post on this entire website but then, just like that, i’ll be BLESSED with a post that tops every other post i’ve seen, ever
The British should put a time limit on the Monarchy.
Not like declaring a republic tomorrow, but deciding on a date in the future that ends the British Monarchy.
And there’s a perfect date for it coming up!
October 14th, 2066.
A thousand years since the Battle of Hastings. A thousand years of this one specific bloodline ruling England.
Call time on the Monarchy after exactly one thousand years. Nice, and neat.
Even better: Charles isn’t living 44 years. He’ll be gone in about twenty. Now William? He’s what, 40? Yeah, he can live another 44 years. His great grandmother was over a hundred, his granny was 96, William can make it to 84 barring accident or assassination.
So on October 14th 2066, William the Last steps down a thousand years after William the First won the crown.
Nice, neat, and fair. William gets the crown he’s been waiting forty years for already, but ten-year-old George grows up without expectation of it.
Have a nice big abdication ceremony, even.
Plus, what an absolute baller move to announce your regnal name as William the Last.
I think more people need to learn the phrase “I don’t know enough about that to have a strong opinion” its literally a cheat code for awkward conversations
It’s funny how clearly uninformed a lot of criticism of Mozilla and its browser Firefox is. Like people say “it’s just another corporation, out to make profit, just like Google.” And that ordinary users promoting Firefox are just giving them free advertising.
It’s in basically any post criticizing Mozilla, including on this site. Like using tumblr search I quickly found a post that was largely positive, but argued that Mozilla operates “under capitalist incentives” And outside tumblr I found a blog post out on the interwebs that criticized Mozilla and outright wondered “I don’t know if Mozilla’s business model ever made sense, it makes a lot more sense if it’s something closer to a nonprofit rather than a commercial entity.”
Well, let’s research the Mozilla Corporation, see what that business model actually is. Let’s begin that research by going to the wikipedia article, and read the two introductory paragraphs. And it turns out that it’s “a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation”, which is a non-profit.
“The Mozilla Foundation will ultimately control the activities of the Mozilla Corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary. Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary.”
Turns out that it is not just “closer to a non-profit”, it is literally a non-profit. Turns out you only needed two paragraphs on wikipedia to learn that, the most basic online research possible, which basically every post I found criticizing Mozilla failed to do.
This is entirely different from any other entity calling itself corporation, which is all about creating profit or money for its shareholders, the “capitalist incentives” spoken about earlier.
If you read further into that article, you will learn that the Mozilla corporation literally only exists separate from the foundation for tax and legal purposes, but it’s still a non-profit operation.
This makes it reasonably immune from the enshittification process I’ve written about before. there is no incentive to fuck over the experience for end users for the sake of shareholder profits, like what tumblr is doing right now.
It means that Firefox is an exemption to the rule that “if something is free, you are the product”, because there is no product to produce profits for shareholders, it’s a charitable endeavour for a free and open internet, as laid out in the Mozilla manifesto.
This doesn’t mean non-profits make corruption impossible, there is plenty of corruption in non-profit foundations. But unlike actual capitalist corporations, it doesn’t have the greed and corruption built in. And if you are going to criticize Mozilla and Firefox, which it does sometimes deserve, you should have your basic facts straight before doing so, if you expect me to take you seriously.
They really don’t. They grew up on tablets and phones and other closed systems that are completely different and much more simplified then a personal computer. They don’t have the knowledge because it wasn’t taught to them and they never used it in day to day life.
I work in tech support and I can back this up with personal experience; they’re as bad as boomers are only instead of not understanding tech at all, they refuse to learn or dig into the tech. They can use it but they don’t have the curiosity to understand it. And when tech breaks, they don’t have the know-how to fix it on their own or to even look for how to fix it (a task made all the harder by the enshitification of the internet and AI articles that litter search results)
They consistently act surprised when ‘turn it off and back on again’ actually works because that’s become a meme and not understood to be a valid first troubleshooting step.
The blame lies with the big tech companies, and how strongly they’ve pushed hardware and software that has been designed to be obtuse at best.
That last part is important, because killing tech literacy has been an explicit goal for electronics manufacturers for 20 years now.
Apple found that if you create a walled and impervious garden where the company can control all aspects of how the technology works, you can nickel-and-dime the customer for unspeakable billions of dollars, and if you make your devices literally impossible to repair for the layman and charge an obscene premium at your own vertically integrated specialized repair stores, then you can either make bank off people insisting on repairing their broken devices, or you can incentivize them to replace and replace and replace, to get used to buying an entirely new phone every 12-14 months. They started doing that long before the iPhone, but the proliferation of smart devices kickstarted the avalanche.
And there’s MONEY in that, baby, so the entire electronics industry immediately rushed to follow. That’s WHY your fridge and your lightbulb and your washing machine and your car comes with a smart app and an integrated processing unit with proprietary firmware now. It allows the companies to absolutely butcher to death the concept of independent repair, and allows them to shepherd the customer away from ever engaging with their own devices, away from understanding their inner workings, away from modifying or adapting them, and towards paying a premium for every single function they would like to have access to.
You know how some car manufacturers have started trying to sell subscriptions to unlock the heating in their car seats?
Yeah.
Zoomers and Alphas aren’t stupid, they’ve just grown up in a technological environment where there very often quite literally isn’t a point to engaging with tech beyond the surface level, because the companies have built walled gardens, and set up bear traps for anyone who tries to venture beyond them.
And it’s not like our educations systems have done jack shit to try and keep up or teach tech literacy, so literally how are these kids supposed to have learned?
Had a dream that Taylor Swift announced she was doing a “pronoun reveal” and all the annoying swifties were losing their shit for weeks and saying “I told you so” and then Taylor just tweeted “she/her”
It’s literally impossible for you to make yourself known to everyone you meet. Some people will just get the wrong impression about you and you have to let it go.
I was walking down the street with my brother on a hot day on our way into a bookstore and I said “I hate the sun. It’s too hot. Name ONE reason we need the sun. Literally I can’t think of a single reason why we can’t just figure out a way to block it”
And a guy turned and looked at me with the most dumbfounded and horrified expression Id seen since the last time someone looked at me like that (about a week before) and then turned to the girl with him and they both looked mistified in the worst way.
They really thought I don’t know what the sun’s for.
I could’ve told them I work in environmental science but I was having a conversation with my brother.
Those two people think that’s the day they overheard probably the stupidest thing any human being has ever loudly said in a bookstore.
fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them
artistic rendition
All capital letters should have a leveled-up form
So far I’ve got
ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T
humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need
circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point
tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y
spider Q’s, so many legs
Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!
New alphabet dropped!
oh my god, it’s beautiful
(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )
well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)
But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it!
recursive
So i may have done a thing in an insomnia fueled jaunt into insanity.
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