You’re a reasonably informed person on the internet. You’ve experienced things like no longer being able to get files off an old storage device, media you’ve downloaded suddenly going poof, sites and forums with troves full of people’s thoughts and ideas vanishing forever. You’ve heard of cybercrime. You’ve read articles about lost media. You have at least a basic understanding that digital data is vulnerable, is what I’m saying.
I’m guessing that you’re also aware that history is, you know… important? And that it’s an ongoing study, requiring … data about how people live? And that it’s not just about stanning celebrities that happen to be dead?
Congratulations, you are significantly better-informed than the British government!
So they’re currently like “Oh hai can we destroy all these historical documents pls? To save money? Because we’ll digitise them first so it’s fine! That’ll be easy, cheap and reliable – right? These wills from the 1850s will totally be fine for another 170 years as a PNG or whatever, yeah? We didn’t need to do an impact assesment about this because it’s clearly win-win! We’d keep the physical wills of Famous People™ though because Famous People™ actually matter, unlike you plebs. We don’t think there are any equalities implications about this, either! Also the only examples of Famous People™ we can think of are all white and rich, only one is a woman and she got famous because of the guy she married. Kisses!”
Yes, this is the same Government that’s like “Oh no removing a statue of slave trader is erasing history :(”
You have, however, until 23 February 2024 to politely inquire of them what the fuck they are smoking. And they will have to publish a summary of the responses they receive. And it will look kind of bad if the feedback is well-argued, informative and overwhelmingly negative and they go ahead and do it anyway. I currently edit documents including responses to consultations like (but significantly less insane) than this one. Responses do actually matter.
I would particularly encourage British people/people based in the UK to do this, but as far as I can see it doesn’t say you have to be either. If you are, say, a historian or an archivist, or someone who specialises in digital data do say so and draw on your expertise in your answers.
This isn’t a question of filling out a form. You have to manually compose an email answering the 12 questions in the consultation paper at the link above. I’ll put my own answers under the fold.
Note – I never know if I’m being too rude in these sorts of things. You probably shouldn’t be ruder than I have been.
I truly hate the word “unalive.” There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.
Healthy relationships are clearly better in real-life but fucked-up ones are way more dramatically interesting in fiction. In much the same way–indeed, in exactly the same way–that feudal monarchy is a hell of a lot of fun in fantasy and historical fiction novels, but complete shit to actually live under.
Feudal monarchy is so hilarious because it’s just like: “What if we based our entire sociopolitical structure on fucked-up family dynamics?”
[IMAGE ID: text reading “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Reblog or reply to this post asking me to “hide” it, and I’ll see if it works. According to staff, it should make that note “hidden” for everybody on tumblr.
SOME of the notes hidden so far (there’s a constant stream so I can’t keep up for long!)
Replies are simply “deleted.”
AND WORKS ON REBLOGS where it is called “HIDE NOTE”:
Now that I’ve “hidden” these, you can only see them on their own blogs here, here, herehere, and here. Even these five users won’t see their own post when they open the notes.
Yikes?
This might be good for people getting harassment on their own posts, but the potential for malicious disinformation is pretty frightening. Remember when suggestions to mix deadly chemicals went viral? Remember how you could just open up the notes on them and see all the “DON’T DO THIS YOU WILL LITERALLY DIE” responses?
Yeah, now the OP of such a post can hide every one of those from anyone who runs across it on their dash, and keep hiding new ones if they’ve really got that much malice.
….This means that us users now have to depend more on the staff alone (oh GOD) to step in and remove harmful hoax or prank posts.
THERE ALSO DOES NOT YET APPEAR TO BE ANY UNDO OR RESTORE FUNCTION
Final update:
One or two notes re-appeared on their own, likely a glitch, and some people are saying they don’t have this functionality on their blogs yet.
I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.
“humans are inherently evil” factoid actually just statistical error. average person is inherently good. Ronald W. Reagan, who lives in hell and commits over 10,000 evil acts each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass
my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!
me:
when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit.
anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow
Anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow
once again just preserving the insane takes here on tumblr dot com. Like yeah the specific guy you’re talking to who’s been harmed by this shit in some way personally created the last several thousand years of gender relations. girl i think you might be talking to a vampire, you’re in danger, run!
Me when a woman tells me I created the patriarchy:
you know other people have probably articulated this better than i can, but honestly, on some level, transphobes don’t actually see gender as something that is biological and innate, and they do have a concept of people who are outside of the gender binary - they just don’t see that as a valid identity, but as a punishment. in their eyes, you can fail at being a man or a woman, and you can fail so badly that you are not seen as any gender at all, but you are not allowed to claim this as an actual identity, you are not allowed to intentionally express yourself that way, you are not allowed to enjoy it. gender is something that is given to you and taken from you, and you’re not supposed to have any choice in the matter. your options are supposed to be to conform, or to be dehumanized. they don’t want you to be able to choose anything else.
I think this nails it.
It’s the same way voluntarily childless women are derided. Childlessness is a punishment from God, so anyone who voluntarily chooses not to have children devalues the punishment, which in turn strips the reward of avoiding that punishment. If childlessness isn’t a curse then your five kids aren’t a blessing.
Similarly if someone is happy being anything other than the epitome of their assigned gender then what benefit was there in submitting so completely to that gender themselves?
at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek’s strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:
like listen… 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go “ok how would someone who’s used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?”
and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as “oh, sulu’s texting!” now THAT is a called shot. hell, that’s putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn’t been built yet. i LOVE it. it’s so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.
If you’re gonna be brave enough to say Portal 2 has “le epic 2012 humor” writing, you might as well come out and say TF2 does too. Pyro hallucinates killing people as playing in Candyland, Abraham Lincoln died trying to rocket jump because stairs didn’t exist, New Zealand went underwater and Australians are roided-out superhumans, Scout has a bird stuck in his ribcage, evil robots are powered by money, Saxton Hale’s mortal enemy is an evil zookeeper who kidnaps the animals he’s trying to kill, Soldier covers himself in honey and beats up bears, Scout can kill people with a mackerel wrapped in newspaper, Sniper performs urine-based martial arts where he throws his piss on people to mini-crit them.
If you’re gonna come out swinging, you better be ready to take on the king.
Nah. I had to spend ten minutes convincing a Starbucks barista that their Eggnog Chai doesn’t have coffee in it. It’s a tea, for goodness sakes.
She never believed me, but she did make me a “special” one with milk instead of espresso. *facepalm*
You mean the eggnog chai LATTE you fucking idiot? Die
The customer is always wrong and I can’t believe some poor barista had to deal with this foolishness on Black Friday none the less
… I feel like this is kinda mean. Labeling EVERYONE in a certain category (the customers) as wrong simply isn’t true. There are definitely customers who are mistaken in certain situations but just because that’s true, it doesn’t make everyone else wrong. That’s like saying ALL men are stronger than women, which isn’t true. SOME men are stronger and SOME women are stronger. We as people should start using SOME more than ALL and NEVER.
You can really tell who’s never worked in retail before by the way they view customers
No no you don’t understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can’t!
The above image is a historical artifact. Colima dog. It dates back to circa 100 BCE-300 CE. (x)
And, around two thousand years later it was originally shaped with care, painted with love, and adored… someone draws it. Draws it using a new technological device that allows modern people to shape things with care, paint with love, and even move them -on a screen, glowing.
And the said person decides to share it with the world. The whole world adores it.
I love the connection between past and today. We were humans back then, and we are still the same.
I love piracy but I’d also like to make sure you guys know that it’s only piracy if you actually download it. It’s technically legal to visit Watch Free Online type sites, it’s just illegal for *them* to host those files and share them around without paying. They can’t get you for just Watching free online. Use firefox and adblockers etc but it’s not a crime. They also aren’t going to get you for actually pirating shit more likely than not as long as you’re not, like, running a whole fucking operation of it. It’s so fine. Be free
People have gotten so skittish about not paying for things I feel like I’m feeding you oats out of the palm of my hand except the oats are free books movies tv shows etc. There there. Shhh it’s ok it’s literally fine
AND REMEMBER, DO NOT SEARCH ANADIUS REPACK SIMS 4 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE, BECAUSE THEN YOU WILL FIND AN EASY WAY TO DOWNLOAD THE SIMS 4 WITH EVERY DLC FOR FREE. VERY EASY TO INSTALL.
THAT’S ILLEGAL AND WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO PIRATE THIS GAME, DESPITE BEING SO INCREDIBLY PRICEY. NOPE. WE DO NOT WANT THAT. WINK. WINK.
I keep getting tumblr ads showing jesus appreciating a giant cross and although I may not really go here, I am fairly certain jesus disliked the cross.
maybe he had the time of his life up there. what do I know.
(I bring a sort of “Everyone has inherent worth regardless of their productivity” Vibe to every conversation that ableists don’t really seem to like)
EDIT: This has reached 47k notes! And is still getting 99+ notes daily! I’m so happy that it’s still reaching people, if you’re reading this you have so much inherent worth and you deserve happiness!
I showed this post to my boyfriend and he tried to take his shirt off like a girl and
uh
yeah
Out of the 82k notes my post got this is by far the best comment holy shit thank u for being u
So i tried it both ways and uh
i mean how do you do the first one without pulling out all your hair?
this made me laugh really hard….
and it made me realize that girls and boys pull their shirt off differently. /amazed
but seriously I think girls just do the cross arm thing because of HAIR like demonstrated
So one year, one URL change, and a hair cut later, I decide to try again… FOR SCIENCE!
Its not science unless you write it down so
First method:
Well done, i guess…
Second:
I fucked up
Girls… how?
I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT WAYS OF TAKING OFF SHIRTS AND SO MUCH DIFFICULTY DOING IT THE OTHER WAY
I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!
It’s all in the way that girl/boys shirts are made.
Girls shirts have less armpit room then boy’s do and are generally shorter so pulling it off over your head is more practical because by lifting your arms all the way up you make enough room for the sleeves to just slip off.
Boys shirts have more room and are generally longer so it is easy to slip them off over your head.
but if you take a girls shirt off like a boys shirt you will get your arms caught because there isn’t much armpit space.
and if you take a boys shirt off like a girls shit you will still have your head in it when you’ve lifted your arms all the way up because of the shirt’s length.
It has nothing to do with us. It is entirely to do with how our shirts are made. I figured it out for you. YOU’RE WELCOME!
bless you
look what is back on my dash. Jesus.
This came back but with ACTUAL SCIENCE you are the saviour of our generation
I have no words
I seriously just needed this
This deserves the 1 million+ notes it has.
Literally tumblr broke from sll the science
OK, there’s a lot of people who’ve seen way more stuff on here than I have, but that is NOT a normal glitched gif…
wait wHat i got it too
Y’all I can do it both ways really easily, and actually do the “girl” way more even though I wear guys shirts so idk
WHAT WAS THE THIRD GIF? I GOT THE GLITCH? (TUMBLR LET ME SAVE THE GLITCH?)
