(1.) Everything seems to get more toxic. Every minor inconvenience online is now ornamented with death threats.
(2.) Corporations are governments. Besides the usual lobbying, the power that corporations have over our lives goes beyond legal and monetary. Corporations define culture, they adopt it, change it, and then bleed it dry. Wait for the next trend, co-opt it, repeat the cycle. Want to be offline? There’s an app for that.
(3.) If you were ever in doubt, corporations now define (i.e. limit) free speech. Your legal protections of what free speech is and isn’t is close to meaningless if you will not be given a platform.
Political allegiances of social network megacorps will therefore shape what content is available - what is allowed, what is shown/visible (shadowbanned), what is promoted, what is demonetized. Your opinions, more than ever, are up for sale to the highest bidder. Your mood is now a commodity too.
(4.) As Spotify showed, small creators don’t matter at all. For all they care, you can literally die. Literally. They don’t care. Their bottom line doesn’t depend on you in any meaningful way once enshittification is complete. They only needed you to monopolize the market and drive the competition into mergers or bankruptcy. You can starve, you can get an office job, you can give up on your dreams; what really matters is other corporate overlords and celebrities (Sony BMG, Sailor Twift etc).
(5.) Influencers are just temporarily glorified employees. The money well will dry up, the markets will consolidate. See points 3 and 4. They don’t care about you.
when I was a young kid I put on my dog’s collar because I thought it was funny and my dad told me to take it off because it was “a sex thing” and I knew nothing about sex except that it somehow involved dog collars until I was like 11. unsure how this affected my psychosexual development exactly but it definitely did something
Made these in June. I had just graduated from a PK-8 school (that’s ten years!) and I was so thrilled to be out, I made these two artworks to celebrate myself and other graduates
First one is the original, second is the remake. Which one’s better?
Hey, so if you have Windows 11 installed and have been losing your mind over the fact that you can’t find your own files because Windows is now prioritizing internet search results first, you can fix it by following this guide:
As someone with over 900 GB of intentionally and properly named files on her computer (I do a lot of digital art and digital media work that requires high-volume files that function off of dependencies), this feature was making me furious. I followed the above instructions and can confirm that the method outlined solves the problem.
occasionally, we get people in our inbox asking, “how do I become a Satanist?”
and, look, there’s no one “right” way to be a Satanist. some people are big on ritual or even magic; others include nothing of the sort. some have an aesthetic that’s all goat-y & skulls; others don’t even wear black
BUT
if you take a story that’s about rejecting the eternal hierarchies of an omnipotent tyrant, and your takeaway is “smash every enemy weak enough to be smashed, lick every boot more powerful than you"—it could be there are better figures to use for religious inspiration, ya know?
(also, if you really wanna become a Satanist, reading Malatesta would not be the worst place to start)
Throwback to 2016 when I told my sister “they’re making another planet earth” and she just like. raised an eyebrow and said in this absolutely deadpan condescending tone “and where are they getting the dirt for it?” and I had to specify I meant planet earth the nature documentary not the celestial body
having talented friends is so wild!!!!!! like. YOU!!!!!!!!!! YOU made THAT. YOU DID THAT?!?!?!?! YOU created!!!! THAT!!!!!!!!!!! WOAH!!!!!! praise!!!!!!!! praise for one thousand years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
some of yall will be like “i dont care about your dreams, i dont care about your spotify wrapped, i dont want to hear about your interests, dont you dare talk to me about your trauma,” and its like. what do you even have friends for. bc it sounds to me like you dont give a shit about anything that makes them a person. what do you talk about.
you know what? i dedicate this doodle sheet to you, tumblr user heliacal-paladin. you’ve won
still couldn’t resist leaving some claws in
SHUT THE FUCK UP
STOP BULLYING ME
I feel like this post is gonna be a tumblr heritage post one day
oh no
It has; already appeared in 2 YouTube videos and one of my friends who has never used tumblr before knows of this post.
Roxy I’m sorry to say that I first knew you from Reddit and only discovered your Tumblr because amogus euthanasia was on every tumblr and furry subreddit
oh my god.
I have a morbid curiosity about what furries think of this post.
hey, i’m a furry! plenty of my friends are furries! we all think this post is super funny lmao
Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.
My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked
“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”
To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”
I sincerely hope she is recognized more than she currently is.
“yeah gender is infinite and all but you can only have 1 of 4 sexualities and if you label your sexuality in a way i deem wrong you’re a bad person” genuinely how some of you sound sometimes.
someone explain to me why i cant make up a sexuality that best suits myself when i can do exactly that with gender, especially when gender and sexuality are intrinsically linked. it blows my mind that a lot of you still care what cishets will think of this.
obviously people steal things from other people it’s one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others
*says a fact in a conversation and a wikipedia citation appears next to my head*
*clicks the citation*
*text pops up saying “this is not true. He saw this in a youtube video once in 2014 and took it as fact”. the words “youtube video” are underlined and in blue”
Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.
“Yes, in the balance of consideration this person’s behaviour could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.”
Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
“Israel’s Defense Military says its forces have seized about five million Israeli Shekels in cash (approximately $1.33 million) in their operations in the Gaza Strip, adding that the money would be put into Israel’s treasury.
🔴 Live updates: aje.io/ta7tnw”. [attachment: stock photo of a pile of Israeli Sheckle notes captioned “live updates war on gaza]
The Tweet is replied to by @/AShihipar which says "so they looted those houses”. End ID 1]
[ID 2: excerpt from the Geneva Conventions: “xvi. Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;” End ID 2]
[ID: A tweet by Popbase that reads, “Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram as a search engine instead of Google, new data shows.”. Below the tweet is a pic of a poorly drawn Goomba from Super Mario Bros with text below him that reads “are you out of your fucking mind”.]
I love how Gen Z is just slowly turning into boomers due to reverse tech illiteracy
There is a massive tech illiteracy problem among young people that is 100% caused by everyone using walled garden mobile devices instead of actual computers
Remember this viral post? Wanda and Jamal and her husband Lonnie are the most wholesome people, this story brought tears to my eyes originally and I am crying once more learning from Jamal’s social media that Lonnie has sadly passed away.
Rest in Peace, Lonnie :(
Whenever I lose faith in humanity, I remember these four lovely folks and feel a little better 🥺
Only 32% of Americans agree that “the U.S. should support Israel,” down from 41% last month. They are now fewer than those saying “the U.S. should be a neutral mediator,” which rose from 27% to 39%.
Americans oppose sending weapons to Israel, 43%-31%.
68% agree that “Israel should call a ceasefire and try to negotiate,” including ¾ths of Democrats and half of Republicans.
USAmericans: Now is the time to apply pressure to your elected representatives. It’s an open secret that Washington is only allowing this because they think their propaganda can keep us down for another few months/years. Let Genocide Joe know he’s losing votes by the millions.
you know what? i dedicate this doodle sheet to you, tumblr user heliacal-paladin. you’ve won
still couldn’t resist leaving some claws in
SHUT THE FUCK UP
STOP BULLYING ME
I feel like this post is gonna be a tumblr heritage post one day
oh no
It has; already appeared in 2 YouTube videos and one of my friends who has never used tumblr before knows of this post.
Roxy I’m sorry to say that I first knew you from Reddit and only discovered your Tumblr because amogus euthanasia was on every tumblr and furry subreddit
oh my god.
I have a morbid curiosity about what furries think of this post.
hey, i’m a furry! plenty of my friends are furries! we all think this post is super funny lmao
