i think we as a society need to use cell phones/laptops/cars/backpacks to flesh out characters
like. a character has a cracked phone screen and a dozen stickers and a glittery case and a photo of their dog as a background. that says so much
or a character has a completely plain phone with no decorations and a default home screen and all the contacts are people’s first names with no profile photos. except for one contact which is a stupid nickname and a shot of someone taken at a very unflattering angle. you know?
or cars!!! someone who has a disgusting car, with trash everywhere and mud caking the seats, but the passenger seat is always clean, because someone else always cleans it for them.
this has potential to become a blorbo post so now i want everyone to describe what they think their blorbo’s phone/laptop/car/backpack looks like in the tags because i like reading these things
me: cereal box mascots tend to be especially fuckable because they are a subset of mainstream cartoon characters designed specifically to market pleasurable physical sensory experiences
the mantis shrimp that i have cybernetically enhanced to perceive human colors: okay i think im starting to “get” rothko
With how difficult it's become for some people to use Google to find information for research, papers, and just general learning over the past year or so due to AI generated content and fluff posts being pushed to the top of searches what are some ways you're able to avoid this while researching online? (I.E. browser extensions, keywords, alternative search engines)
set the google search terms to “before 2020” and you’ll filter out basically 100% of the AI-generated misinformation fluff. you’ll still have to sift through the organic home-grown misinformation though
I fully understand why “character A is astounded at the sight of character B’s penis” is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as “penis awe” is unintentionally very funny. Now I’m picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.
It’s like the idea that the phrase “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” now means ‘socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to achieve by themselves’, when originally the point of the phrase was that it is a physically impossible task and was intended sarcastically.
It’s like the idea that the phrase “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” now means ‘socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to achieve by themselves’, when originally the point of the phrase was that it is a physically impossible task and was intended sarcastically.
blackboards are so superior to whiteboards i hate modern america
you cant clean your whiteboard with water so you have to buy special goop but if you use it too well itll stop being a whiteboard so you just have to make peace with it being fucking gross and then the markers run out after 2 uses. blackboards have none of these issues
Blackboards are horrible if you’re trying to read from them when the writers aren’t experienced
me: cereal box mascots tend to be especially fuckable because they are a subset of mainstream cartoon characters designed specifically to market pleasurable physical sensory experiences
the mantis shrimp that i have cybernetically enhanced to perceive human colors: okay i think im starting to “get” rothko
me: cereal box mascots tend to be especially fuckable because they are a subset of mainstream cartoon characters designed specifically to market pleasurable physical sensory experiences
the mantis shrimp that i have cybernetically enhanced to perceive human colors: okay i think im starting to “get” rothko
People do understand that the privilege from male privilege doesn’t come from identifying as a man, right?
That’s not the thing that confers the privilege. Patriarchy grants that privilege to men based on how nearly they conform to what patriarchy says a man is and should be. That’s where the privilege comes from, not just identifying as a man.
Which is why it doesn’t imply trans men aren’t men to say they aren’t given male privilege.
All it implies (or really just says) is that trans men are not men that the patriarchy recognizes and rewards in the vast majority of cases; in other words we aren’t systemically granted male privilege. Where there are certain places you can find conditional benefit as a trans man if you are entirely stealth and try to conform to patriarchal standards, that is a precarious position to be in and one that can end in death if (or when) they’re outed as trans.
But like. The way people talk about men on here it really feels like people think that male privilege is a thing which is tied 1:1 with having the identity of man. Which only works if you dismiss the real lived experiences of trans men.
its so fucked up that they don’t let you jack yourself off in new jersey. you start cranking it and a guy runs over HEY HEY BUDDY LET ME TAKE CARE OF THAT FOR YOU!! when every other state you can just jack yourself off
Went out w some1 but they kept quicksaving, like, every 30 seconds. I can’t stand ppl who savescum on dates like come on man you don’t need to max out my approval every single dialogue option, live in the moment
this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and “tells” one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for “fake classical paintings” to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you’re all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣
so what are some signs to look for? let’s use this very good example.
this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and “tells” one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for “fake classical paintings” to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you’re all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣
so what are some signs to look for? let’s use this very good example.
want a shirt that says YOU SHOULD FEEL VISCERALLY VIOLATED BY THE UNSTOPPABLE CORPORATE ENCROACHMENTS ON YOUR ATTENTION SPAN, BY THE FACT THAT YOU STARTLE LIKE A TRAINED ANIMAL AT EVERY NOTIFICATION, BOTH OVERSTIMULATED AND BORED, LETHARGIC AND JUMPY, WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIT OF VALIDATION WITH THE SAME SICKLY EXCITEMENT AND FEAR AS A GAMBLER AT THE TABLE
I want a shirt that says Phone Notifications are amazing and apps are lifee
I have plenty of shirts already so I don’t want any more
The American Dream is kinda bullshit, I really don’t want a wife and 3 kids and a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence and 2 cars in the driveway.
I want like an apartment or condo in a midrise building on a street with street trees and a small cafe on the corner across from the grocery store where I can walk to a train station that has a train system that goes across the entire city. And a gay boyfriend
Like which of these would you prefer to live in, for the majority of your life
The only reason I adapted poorly to apartment life was the lack of a common area to meet my neighbors.
If apartment buildings had a social space intended for tenants, I would not have been afraid all the time moving from a farm to a city.
People don’t look at each other. They don’t say hello. People guard their laundry for fear someone will steal their clothes.
If there was a communal dining area or something, I could have met my neighbors on neutral ground without fear. But that did not exist.
Apartment complexes should include common social spaces, it would make apartment living so much less scary to folks who aren’t used to having people around all the time.
Yeah, that’s part of the reason that I would advocate for more smaller apartments instead of fewer large ones, so people can get to know their neighbors
There are probably 3 to 6 units in this building, that gives you enough to know your neighbors and form community without having to many people you would feel isolated
I just grabbed the first image of Levittown I could find, here is a color photo
