I will never get tired of how funny it is when people respond to the posts they don’t like by turning it into blackout poetry. What sheer fucking splendour, grabbing something you loathe and then turning it into art as an expression of your utter disrespect and disregard of this person’s stupid-ass opinions. It’s not simply contempt, but an elaborate display of how little it matters to you.
What a way to show that you find this person so beneath your respect that you won’t argue their stupid opinions, you won’t even gracefully ignore them like you would politely and tactfully turn a blind eye to the embarrassing mishaps of some fool who doesn’t know better. No, you choose to turn it into a plaything, making it your arts and crafts material.
The hilarious indignity of having someone pick up something you thought were bold and fine statements, the pinnacle of truth, and saying “this block of stupid text is as worthless as a rock, but allow me to carve it into art, so that it could perhaps be turned into something that possesses worth and beauty.”
I’m sorry op, but how could I pass on this one
Me casting out a big block of solid text about blackout poetry, in order to catch blackout poetry in the wild:
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it’s wild how when we’re younger and less experienced we kinda can’t envision what it would be like to simply stop using a web site that we form a habit of checking every day almost like that site is a part of our computers or phones or whatever
and then we walk away from it and realise how much of a sink it was, and not even the good kind of sink with dogs.
it’s just… all turning into this grey goo, eh? the only time i was landing on reddit in the past year was for obscure tech troubleshooting posts, and now it’s all being fed into the plagiarism contraption and i don’t know if five years from now i’ll be able to find anything of use on the web, like this grand arc of evolution where search started out pretty hit and miss and shitty then got better, and now it’s descending into senility with SEO cholesterol clogging the internet’s arteries, and there’s fuckin autocomplete web articles and mushroom guides on amazon that will get you killed
im being extremely serious, something needs to be done about the brightness of car headlights, its an active public safety hazard. and as far as regulatory measures go, this seems like something with a (comparatively) very easy fix….? yeah conservatives will be all “come and take it” about it but they do that with literally fucking everything bc petulant commitment to making a culture war out of any regulation or mandated changes.
its insane that we’ve all just collectively accepted that its normal and fine that someone driving a standard sized 4 door sedan will be momentarily blinded by the EYE-LEVEL blue-white LED headlights on the latest model of the suburbitank Pedestrian Pulverizer 3000 or whatever the fuck
there’s an app called “No Thanks” that scans barcodes and tells you whether a company supports israel or not if anyone is interested! it should be available on most app stores!
To other people, you’re the special, unlockable character that they worked and worked to finally get- and when they do they’re so happy because they got the game just so they could find you.
The fact y'all are still passing around this post, eight years after I made it. Exquisite. I hope it’s still resonating with people outside of mid-2010’s tumblr.
there’s an app called “No Thanks” that scans barcodes and tells you whether a company supports israel or not if anyone is interested! it should be available on most app stores!
AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I’M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.
WE’RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN’T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON’T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.
I’M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I’M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.
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Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn’t be anyone’s problem – including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because “think of the American Children!”.
Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.
Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don’t want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.
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Its about time to move on from this Minecraft town so it’s time to say goodbye to
What’s under the train station / zombie driving school
But not just under the train station / zombie driving school. But in the basement.
But not just in the basement
But in the sub-basement
But below the sub-basement
Is the sub-sub-basement.
And under the sub-sub-basement
Is the underwater tunnel. A dangerous dark underwater tunnel that requires most of your health to get through. After the underwater tunnel you have to go through
The sub-sub-sub-basement. Which leads to
The second underwater tunnel. Which leads to
The door
But behind The Door…
Is Jeff
I’m glad people are appreciating the work it took to seal away Jeff
I hate when people try to be some kinda funnyman in response to powerful art. Maybe you should just earnestly feel things once in a while, babe.
Oh, and adding to this…I also hate when people try to be some kinda funnyman in response to art that was earnestly done but maybe fell short of what it was trying to do or had a certain naivety to it…maybe you should just earnestly try to make things once in a while, babe.
Hi sorry, but an anon ask said matt was sexually harassing Avery on twitter like a day or 2 ago and from the screenshots ive seen it was nasty harassment but I didnt see anything sexual, did I miss some form of context or something or was it an exaggeration? I keep seeing that ask on my dash so I figured I would ask. I hope this finds you well and that you have a good day
i’ll elaborate a little here, though: just like all sexual violence, sexual harassment is not always (and honestly not often) done by someone looking to get their rocks off. it is a weapon used by people who want to make someone feel violated and strip them of agency. it says “remember: you’re not in control of this situation. i can hurt you whenever i want.”
which is what’s happening here. matt posted those sideblog urls because he expected them to be sexually humiliating. he expected them to speak for themselves and allow people to judge avery as deviant and worthy of him stalking her over to twitter. he might not think that’s why he did it — men rarely do — but it’s pretty clear to those of us who’ve dealt with men like that.
Black Panther Party member Kathleen Cleaver on non-violence. [source]
Non-violence is a very non-functional approach in a society that’s based entirely on organized force and violence. A country that was created in violence, land was taken in violence, a society that’s perpetuating itself through violence in the ghettos, in Vietnam, in Africa. Wherever you look, there is organized force and violence at work to maintain this society. There is a world of difference between 20 million unarmed people, and 20 milion people organized and armed to the gills. That’s Power.
I just finished The Rehabilitation of Death(@bamsara cotl fanfic) and… OMG THIS IS SO COOL AAAAAH CHAPTER 15 MY FAVORITE THESE TWO IDIOTS ARE SO CUTE… You should read this if you haven’t yet
Ignoring situations involving doxxing (which are more serious but also less common and easier to protect yourself from), the main goal of sustained harassment on here is to get you to delete your blog. You can probably keep most of your friends by adding them on discord or whatever, but the underlying logic in these cases is “you are a person who exists on the same part of the internet I use, and I want that to stop.”
I reject the idea that moderation will ever be a solution to this problem, at least not without creating new, worse problems. But tumblr can and should provide users better tools for defending themselves.
Let’s talk about tumblr’s private blog feature. You can password-protect a blog, so that users have to enter the password before being able to see and interact with your posts. This is barely a step above deleting your blog.
You need to manually share this password with everyone you want to have access to the blog, which does not scale to a following in the thousands. You need to hope that no one ever leaks the password to your harassers, in which case your only recourse is to change the password and manually reshare it, again. This is a Bad System.
What does a good system look like? Consider twitter’s private account feature. All your followers are preserved, but future followers have to ask to follow your blog. If you block a follower, they can’t just create a new account and dodge the block - they’re locked out. You keep your blog, you keep your following, you keep your friends, and no one outside your bubble can touch you.
There are still downsides here compared to not being harassed at all - people who don’t already follow you can’t see your posts - but it gives you a way to turn off the harassment spigot that can be easily reversed if/when your harassers get bored.
Combine this with a feature ideally for both private and public blogs (allowing only people you follow to reblog or reply) and I think the situation on this site improves a lot.
I could really use some help right now as my bank account is in the negative and I have no way of paying it back soon and it’s a $6 a day overdraft fee
but saying “autism is an invisible disability” is widely inaccurate & borderline aspie supremacist.
for many of us, our autism is highly visible and i don’t mean the “dress a little quirky a lil absent minded cover our ears when loud noises” just a lil weird kind of visible
this post is for those of us who can’t mask, who high support needs, who nonverbal, who stims all. the. time. who just want to be told “you don’t look autistic” for once in their life, those who will e never appear “normal,” those of us who cannot hide those of us who appear disabled to untrained eye.
yes technically if you know what to look for, anyone’s autism can be visible. yes visible depends on context. no this post not about you.
this post is not about high masking people. you all have so many posts already give us one space to talk about us. make your own post
reblog this version goddamn it
by highly visible autism i mean “able tell first few glance” not “well if look close and know where look and depend on when and how feel if am chose stimming and—”
not to be rude but some of y'all need to look on the bright side sometimes. like, yeah sure the world is fucked and people suck and we all die whatever, sure, but like. go outside.
ok i phrased this poorly, hang on.
i’m not saying the cure for depression is touching grass. however, if you surround yourself with sad things and talk about how terrible life is and how much you’re suffering and never take a breath and remember it’s not all bad, you’ll end up making yourself worse.
like, i’ve been diagnosed with clinical depression, and anxiety, and insomnia, and chronic pain, and a million other things that get in the way of me having a simple fucking good day, but you know what?
i watch videos that make me happy and wear pretty clothes and cut my hair in fun styles and do my makeup and drink strawberry tea and take two showers a day and i look on the bright side because goddamnit if god is trying to break me down, he’ll have to try harder.
i see so many people talk about how sad they are, who make their depression their first priority, and i get it, i really do, but you know that is actively harming your mental state, right? please, just do something nice for yourself, think positively for one day. i promise things get better when you step back and breathe.
