i will give tiktok one concession and that is that it has spawned a comment that contains a phrase that i think of often at relevant moments: pack it up boys we’ve made a social blunder
(from a video featuring someone’s father/grandfather)
is anyone else reading “pack it up boys we’ve made a social blunder” in the voice of the lead penguin guy from Madagascar
please support this interracial french gay couple and their 20 kids
“le couple homosexuel interracial français milieu a vingt enfants” en fait c’est une erreur statistique. georgs d'enfants, qui habite dans une cave et adopte dix mille enfants chaque jour, est une donnée aberrante et il faudrait pas l’avoir compté
I don’t even speak French and I know what that paragraph says
“georgs d'enfants” how does it feel to be the funniest person here
The creatures are coming out of their holes to call me out on my bad takes
blaming jkr’s popularity or whatever on queer people that happen to like a book series is insane to me. like sure jkr wouldn’t be as popular today if her books didn’t get as popular as they are but acting like it’s impossible to think critically about a work and the person who made it is absurd. you can like whatever you want and as long as you don’t give money to her or give her attention for it you aren’t giving her a platform or whatever. jkr will have the same level of influence whether you like her fiction or not
Found this one that checks all the boxes on r/boomerhumor.
Wow
Weirdest experience I ever had with this is with a customer at work.
It’s not an uncommon occurrence for men in their 40s and 50s to refer to their wives as “old bags”, so whenever I do the whole “Would you like a bag” spiel, there’s a 50/50 chance they will point to their wife and say “No thanks I have one right here” or say “Nah I left her at home” Or something else awful and then wink at me and call me darling or sweetheart and just make me want to be smited by god right in that second.
However there was one customer that came in and did this whole song and dance. Not out of the ordinary. What was, however, was how he then followed it up by going “I’m kidding, I’m divorced ha ha.” Then, his face drops and he turns to his friend with a look of absolute horror and goes “Wait, that’s probably why. Do you think that’s why she left me Andy? Because I said things like that?” And then proceeded to look like he was re-evaluating his whole life as his friend led him out of the store.
TL; DR = Boomers are weird and this one was given a glimpse behind the veil of self awareness in a Tesco Extra
If you’re trans and you’re worried about not passing then don’t worry! We won’t even be able to tell anyone apart when we’re resurrected for the great skeleton war of 2269.
sex identification via bone structure isn’t even accurate most of the time. what SHOULD be accurate is your aim with a bow and arrow, because you’re gonna fucking need it.
The skeleton army needs plenty of sword wielders as well. You can also tear off one of your ribcage bones and just start whacking people with it.
your D cups are an infantile display of petite bourgeoisie revisionism, while my A cups (of Which I am NOT self-critical about!!) show proletarian class consciousness, firm understanding of dialectical materialism and disciplined adherence to the party line
I used to believe liberals were actually just a little misguided and just needed a little push in the right direction. But seeing all the stuff thats going on in my country im now racist towards liberals
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
Compared to a cloud service like Google Drive, Discord also doesn’t have any obligation to keep your data.
They could just say that all messages older than 1 year will be deleted from now on to save money and then just do it. There will be no way to sue them because storing data was never their business or their promise, it’s just a thing they have to do to facilitate the messaging.
glass onion is so funny bc they’re all public figures right? imagine reading the news one day during the pandemic and you see that nancy pelosi, andrew tate, lana del ray, and neil degrasse tyson went to visit elon musk’s private island in greece and they all got exploded because elon musk took them on a joyride in a cybertruck that was basically the hidenburg. and also it blew up bc elon killed grimes during their divorce proceedings and grimes’ twin sister wanted revenge
glass onion is so funny bc they’re all public figures right? imagine reading the news one day during the pandemic and you see that nancy pelosi, andrew tate, lana del ray, and neil degrasse tyson went to visit elon musk’s private island in greece and they all got exploded because elon musk took them on a joyride in a cybertruck that was basically the hidenburg. and also it blew up bc elon killed grimes during their divorce proceedings and grimes’ twin sister wanted revenge
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
you have GOT to be able to admit when you’ve believed something bigoted in order to improve as a human being. like you NEED to be able to handle that if you want to act in line with your values
I just want to add that bigotry is a marble layercake, it’s not a black and white infographic of good versus bad.
Some bigotry is up front, “Oh, why do I assume that particular accent makes that person sound stupid?” and easy to point out to yourself
Some bigotry is more hidden, “I feel unsafe in certain locations, despite no signs of danger” which could very well not be bigotry but you gotta get in the habit of questioning those knee jerk reactions before just blindly assuming you’re having them for valid reasons
A lot of bigotry is just stuff you learned and never unlearned, so when it’s pointed out to you your first response is NO! THAT’S A REAL THING I LEARNED! the best antidote to this is learning that we are all ignorant gits and lifelong learners, and it’s ok to be wrong.
Learn to laugh at yourself and you’ll have less hard of a time unlearning stuff I promise
Yes, but: admit this to yourself, your safe folks to vent to, your journal
Not to those marginalized people specifically
It gets really tiring getting people telling you “I was really intersexist and used intersexist slurs and parroted medicalization language without thought, and now I don’t” on your posts or in the tags of your posts or to your face even. Like yeah, we’ve all been shitty. How am I supposed to respond to that? Sympathy? Praise? I appreciate when people do better, but it’s an awkward and power imbalanced sort of interaction imo
We need to acknowledge our past harm to do better - but without expecting those people we may have harmed to need to see our inner work. Show your growth with current actions to those people, stand in solidarity as an ally, and know the inner work never stops.
Yes, but: admit this
to yourself, your safe folks to
vent to, your journal
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
