Tumblr is the most eco-friendly social media site because we will see an old post and be like is anyone else gonna recontextualize this and not wait for an answer
What part of social media ban for under 16 year olds that has to be confirmed VIA ID or face scan or both don’t you understand? This isn’t an age issue it’s a privacy issue.
If I didn’t care what I linked my real name to then I would be fine. I am over 16.
newbie asked if we’re supposed to look out for ‘red flags’ in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this……..girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police
I’m fascinated to know what kind of world this girl lives in. For what reason are those books in the library at all if not to be checked out and read? Are they there as honeypots for Problematic People™? If you check out a Red Flag Book™, you’ve fallen into the Evil Person Trap™ and need to be taken in for reeducation, I suppose.
On the other side of this, I love the mental image of a guy who’d really like to get into cannibalism but doesn’t know where to start, so he heads down to his local library for some pointers.
Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that’s why they don’t experience mental illness. A phone problem is like “out of storage :(” or “charging port broke”. Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it’s like “I can’t feel my legs”. And you tell it girl you never had any
they sacked my fucking fiefdom. it’s so over. i’ll never be able to afford the king’s taxes. i don’t have a single fucking asset to my name except *winks shyly* my special sex ability🫣
It’s frustrating that you can come up with the plot of an entire fic in just a few seconds, but writing it all down can take anywhere from never to forever.
I just read the plot of this and somehow it gets worse???
the dwarfs are princes under a curse. In order to break the spell, they need a pair of magic red shoes. But currently the red shoes are owned by Snow White, who, get this, has “let herself go” but when she wears the shoes, they show how beautiful she is on the inside—aka thin.
So basically in order for the princes to break the curse, they have to doom Snow White to a life of fatness. why do they hate us so much.
Yikes…
Saw the movie recently and that’s literally not the plot at all
The advertisement group was disgusting af and when the movie came out it was actually nothing like those ads
The princes need to be loved by a “beautiful” woman but what’s beautiful is an opinion.
Snow white loves her size and strength (yeah she lifts!) but her dad goes missing and no man was willing to help her until she ended up in those red shoes. She doesn’t like what the shoes make her into. She just likes finally being helped.
It’s a love story between her and one of the dwarves where He needs to learn to not judge himself or other’s based off appearances
Spoilers but they get together at the end
He’s a prince again and she stays her cute fat self
SPOILERS BUT
Not only do they end up loving each other as they are but the prince also learns to love himself which he really… didn’t for most of the movie because he was so focused on how he looked, obsessively so (granted, I do believe the dialogue this was delivered through was a lil bit clunky but it IS a Korean written movie and sometimes translations from korean to english can sound odd)
But to go back to the matter of fat snow white, as a matter of fact, it is implied throughout the movie that she is under her own curse which is actually the shoes that make her thin and that’s because she likes how she truly looks like, and in the end, when the red shoes are no more and shes fat, that’s when the prince tells her he believes her to be the most beautiful woman in the world and finally means it, having overcome his superficiality
AND that lil shit is smitten with snow white, who remains very much fat and beautiful, by the end of it, just look at him, that heart literally came from his blush I think
Not to mention that the official instagram of the animation studio behind this, I believe Sidus they’re called? I’m on mobile I can’t look it up rn. Anyway, on their official instagram, they rarely ever post art of snow white as red shoes (her thin version) aside from promotional posters and stuff which is intentional. Heres a couple more images of them being cute and in love as themselves
Please support this film if it gets to your country!
Like, as a fat girl, I would have killed to watch a movie like this when I was younger and now that I did watch it, it feels so odd that a fat female protagonist is the subject of affection, exactly because theres a lack of movies that feature that and this is an amazing step in the right direction. This movie has such an important message and it explores superficiality, discrimination of fat people and self love brilliantly for a kids movie and its gonna get buried,,, because the Cannes did the worst possible job at marketing and because of a very black and white tumblr mindset,,,
Also idk if that’s important to anyone else but all the princes have different implied nationalities, theres a british one, a Scottish one, an Irish one, a french one and three italian ones and some portrayals can be a bit stereotypical ngl but it’s just pretty rad to hear accents that arent british or American in a market oversaturated by these countries
The advertising campaign seems AWFUL but I love the film premise!!! Snow White’s so pretty as her real self :D
small musicians who don’t post their lyrics online anywhere. Why do you hate me
They don’t hate you. It’s just hard for them to use keyboards cause they gotta jump from one button to the next and they aren’t heavy enough to actually press them
When will someone gently take all the internet food bloggers by the shoulders, look into their eyes, and explain that coconut milk is not a neutral-flavored dairy substitute
I feel like the fucking joker whenever I read a post saying [group of queer people] is The Most Oppressed bc I’m sitting there as if I’m not part of the only group in which systematic sterilization and mutilation at birth is a standard medical practice nearly worldwide. (Which is actually an improvement considering we used to just be murdered upon being born, and we still are in some places)
I’m not making this post to tell you that intersex people are The Most Oppressed.
I AM telling you that giving ANY group that label will minimize the issues of other horrifically targeted groups of people.
GIVING ANY GROUP THE LABEL OF MOST OPPRESSED WILL MINIMIZE THE ISSUES OF OTHER HORRIFICALLY TARGETED GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
Unfortunately I have given up on the extension, as the creator and people who run it now loudly proclaim that talking about Transandrophobia or intersex identities (such as afab transfems, mspec lesbians, or mspec identities in general) is a Good Reason To Be Marked Red.
[ID: A screenshot of the above poll, showing that Status-quo-hater has had its url marked Red in shinigami eyes, which is meant to signify with the extension that it is Transphobic. End ID]
Unfortunately, if you are currently marked red in Shinigami Eyes, that is probably not an accident and in fact part of the design which now embraces exclusionism, because you talk about intersectionality and (sarcastically: ) such evil, evil talking points as…. *checks notes*… ‘trans men are discriminated against, and experience oppression because they are trans’
I can try re-installing it to mark you green, but I also do really wanna spread the word that it is *not* inclusive anymore and talking about intersectionality and the need for solidarity can and will get you marked red 🫠
[ID: A new screenshot of the above poll, showing that Status-quo-hater’s url has now been marked Green with Shinigami eyes, signifying that its blog is Trans Positive / Trans Safe. End ID]
EDIT: just got it and marked you green, but this only applies to individual sessions of Shinigami Eyes, and since they apparently have to manually approve marking people Red Generally to begin with….
We just need a new extension at this point that has different colors for different bigotries…
oh, one last reblog:
you can leave a review for Shinigami Eyes here, to express your displeasure in the moderation team marking inclusive trans and intersex blogs red, as well as having their “official guidlines” saying that using transphobic slurs like “theyfab” isn’t enough to be marked red.
I encourage everyone to leave an honest review about the way this extension has the capacity to be misused to silence intersex people and its TOS considers bigotry against nonbinary & transmasc people to be permissible and not enough evidence to mark a person as anti-trans
A developer is now (november 25th 2024) leaving some canned responses to a few of the 1 star reviews, not limited to:
“if someone identifies as an AFAB transfem, that forces trans women to identify as AMAB transfems, which makes *you* a TERF!!”
“the term "binary trans woman” is a derogatory phrase in my book, so its fine for people to use"theyfab" and “tenderqueer” as slurs while perpetuating violent hatred against trans men, trans mascs, intersex folk, and nonbinary folk"
And take note, this one is verbatim:
“Discussion of transandrophobia doesn’t turn you red. It’s using trans language to promote anti-trans values.”
[ID 1-3: A few reviews of the Shinigami eyes with responses from the current developer. The first review reads: “by Dante, an hour ago: I love shinigami eyes, but the abuse of it to mislabel transmasculine people and intersex activists as anti trans is disgusting.”, with the developer response reading: “Developer response posted an hour ago: Transmasculine, intersex and xenogender people are welcome. Just don’t use “AFAB trans woman”, as it forces trans women to use “AMAB” or “male”, aligning your goal with that of TERFs.” The second review reads: “by Firefox user 18701921, 7 hours ago: The guidelines for this extension literally say that a slur targeted at trans people is “not enough” to mark as anti-trans. The developers have as of recently been exploiting this extension’s purpose to mark subsets of the trans community they personally don’t like by flagging them as anti-trans while a lot (Read more)” with the developer response reading: “Developer response posted an hour ago: “Binary trans woman” has long been used in a disparaging way against trans women who transition, but was never a reason to mark someone red. I will not apply different standards to other controversial terms.” The third review reads: “by Firefox user 18700770, a day ago: Used to be a great way to filter and block transphobes but now the moderators are flagging trans men and intersex people red for speaking on their own experiences with transphobia” with the developer response reading: Developer response posted an hour ago: Discussion of transandrophobia doesn’t turn you red. It’s using trans language to promote anti-trans values.”End: ID 1-3]
Wait I thought Shinigami Eyes was completely community voted
It is but updates to the database that you get when you install and update the extension have to be approved by the creators
Unfortunately I have given up on the extension, as the creator and people who run it now loudly proclaim that talking about Transandrophobia or intersex identities (such as afab transfems, mspec lesbians, or mspec identities in general) is a Good Reason To Be Marked Red.
[ID: A screenshot of the above poll, showing that Status-quo-hater has had its url marked Red in shinigami eyes, which is meant to signify with the extension that it is Transphobic. End ID]
Unfortunately, if you are currently marked red in Shinigami Eyes, that is probably not an accident and in fact part of the design which now embraces exclusionism, because you talk about intersectionality and (sarcastically: ) such evil, evil talking points as…. *checks notes*… ‘trans men are discriminated against, and experience oppression because they are trans’
I can try re-installing it to mark you green, but I also do really wanna spread the word that it is *not* inclusive anymore and talking about intersectionality and the need for solidarity can and will get you marked red 🫠
[ID: A new screenshot of the above poll, showing that Status-quo-hater’s url has now been marked Green with Shinigami eyes, signifying that its blog is Trans Positive / Trans Safe. End ID]
EDIT: just got it and marked you green, but this only applies to individual sessions of Shinigami Eyes, and since they apparently have to manually approve marking people Red Generally to begin with….
We just need a new extension at this point that has different colors for different bigotries…
oh, one last reblog:
you can leave a review for Shinigami Eyes here, to express your displeasure in the moderation team marking inclusive trans and intersex blogs red, as well as having their “official guidlines” saying that using transphobic slurs like “theyfab” isn’t enough to be marked red.
I encourage everyone to leave an honest review about the way this extension has the capacity to be misused to silence intersex people and its TOS considers bigotry against nonbinary & transmasc people to be permissible and not enough evidence to mark a person as anti-trans
A developer is now (november 25th 2024) leaving some canned responses to a few of the 1 star reviews, not limited to:
“if someone identifies as an AFAB transfem, that forces trans women to identify as AMAB transfems, which makes *you* a TERF!!”
“the term "binary trans woman” is a derogatory phrase in my book, so its fine for people to use"theyfab" and “tenderqueer” as slurs while perpetuating violent hatred against trans men, trans mascs, intersex folk, and nonbinary folk"
And take note, this one is verbatim:
“Discussion of transandrophobia doesn’t turn you red. It’s using trans language to promote anti-trans values.”
Gee whiz if only someone had foreseen that Building A List Of Good And Bad People was not gonna work out well in the end. Well I saw it but i didn’t say anything because I thought it was fucking obvious
I don’t know I’m not done talking about it. It’s insane that I can’t just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.
I wouldn’t use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.
Every app shouldn’t be like every other app. Instagram didn’t need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn’t need a store. Instagram doesn’t need to be connected to Facebook. I don’t want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I’ll go to that place accordingly.
I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don’t want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it’s not the same. I don’t want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I’m concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.
I shouldn’t have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.
Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don’t get physical releases. I can’t stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.
I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don’t pay their artists. iTunes isn’t even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.
My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.
I have to click “not now” and can’t click “no”. I don’t just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?
No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don’t want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn’t need a smartphone for work I’d get a “dumb” phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won’t forget how it was!
making fun of americans is pretty much always ok if youre not doing it in an edgelord “you guys have so many school shootings” way or acting like we’re the only country that has racism. but like posts about americans and hamburger get me every time
Okay you know what? Schizophrenia is way too demonized and, as someone who has had it for ten freaking years, I want to dispel some myths about hallucinations.
Aka talking about hallucinations using my own personal examples because I had an actual fucking THERAPIST tell me I was the ONLY person in the world who experienced hallucinations that were not solely visual or auditory. Warning for…hallucinations obviously.
Visual hallucinations - These are hallucinations you see. I usually experience these by way of inanimate objects moving (like dolls or mannequins moving on their own, before you ask yes I do hate clothing stores). Sometimes these can be scary and sometimes they’re mundane! I’ve hallucinated monsters and I’ve hallucinated pretty birds. Hallucinations don’t always have to be scary.
Auditory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you hear. I commonly hear crying, talking, music, and video game noises. If I play a video game for too long and it has a repetitive sound in it, I WILL be hearing that sound for minimum three hours. You think the sound that plays in LoZ when you’re low on hearts is annoying? Try having to listen to it on loop when you’re not even playing the game. Like with visual hallucinations, they’re not always scary! Contrary to popular belief, they can be totally mundane. Hearing voices is not always scary either. Sometimes they just say random stuff, sometimes they give me little pep talks, most of the time they just all talk over each other at once and I’m like GUYS ONE AT A TIME PLEASE jeezy cheez-it’s.
Tactile hallucinations - These are hallucinations you feel. I hear common tactile hallucinations are feelings of bugs on you and fur but I don’t usually have these, I mostly have tactile hallucinations of being choked which is…not fun.
Olfactory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you smell. Yeah I thought of farts first too. So far I haven’t heard of that being a common hallucination though. I hear a common olfactory hallucination is burning? But I just smell wet metal. I…don’t know why.
Gustatory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you taste. I don’t know how to pronounce gustatory either. I often taste blood or metal. I hear those are pretty common gustatory hallucinations.
None of these hallucinations are inherently scary! As a child, I thought hallucinations were a super power. After living with them for over ten years, they just don’t phase me that much. Remember: you don’t have to be schizophrenic to experience hallucinations! There are many things that cause hallucinations including and not limited to trauma, PTSD, psychotic depression, etc. (sometimes even stress!)
But please please please be kind to people who hallucinate. I’ve lived with it for over ten years and (rarely) it can still be terrifying to me sometimes. People say “But there’s nothing there and you know that-“ yes I know that! But it’s still very very real to me and very terrifying! Minimizing what people experience with their hallucinations is not helpful and will only make them feel worse.
The Daily Dot used to be cool because it would cover platforms like Tumblr and Twitter when they were first starting out and it took it seriously and didn’t patronize it like a lot of other media did. They even did a few interviews with me about Imgur and Reddit stealing content.
But these last few years it is has just turned to absolute shite and it’s like watching a dumpster fire set another dumpster on fire. Just an unending dumpster fire cascade.
I mean, you read this headline and it makes you think some random TikToker discovered some huge flaw in an Apple update.
In reality… it is just a remote access feature. Like, if you have an elderly parent who fucks up their phone, they can grant you access and you can help them fix it. This is a pretty standard feature that has been in operating systems for decades. There are some security concerns and it can be a double edged sword because a lot of scammers have taken advantage of remote access, but it is not a “lethal” bug.
Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
it’s kinda fucked up that you’re only an age for a year. I didn’t know how to be 23 yet, let me try again
I’m going to think about this forever…
[image description: a tag that says, “yes but you carry your 23 year old inside you and when you do something your 23 year old self would have liked she smiles”. /end id]
I know this is the Anti Small Talk Website but small talk is one of the most effective social glues out there for getting to know people and forming friendships with them.
When I was just starting out at a job right after college I had a coworker who I thought was the nicest person alive and after a few weeks I realized this was just because she consistently asked other people things like, “How ya doing? Whatcha having for lunch? Got any weekend plans? Seen any good movies lately?” instead of politely ignoring everyone around her.
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Wow! It turns out that being interested in people’s day to day lives makes them like you more!
Yeah so the Big Think is literally owned by big oil. They’re making shit up so people feel too exhausted to fight for any change. Ignore this kind of environmental nihilism, all it does it help the rich avoid change.
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