Last month I was in the ER, the most vulnerable emotionally that I’ve ever been while putting myself in the hands of a stranger. That the intake doctor had a lanyard heavy with Pride pins mattered. It’s such a tiny gesture, but the amount of safety I felt because of it, during an agonizing moment in my life, was huge.
This person is containing their gender as a private string, which would be a line of plain text contained on their own machine which would be free to edit, and not as a public constant Boolean, which would show on everybody’s machine, would be read only without possibility of edit, and would be a binary true false statement.
So basically, “It’s my gender, it’s not a binary, and I’ll do what I want with it!” 🤍💜💛🖤
also “you are not entitled to know it"—some private variables have "getter” methods that allow others to read the value, but many also won’t, and will only be accessible to their owner!
Also, the owner of the variable defines what information the “getter” gives, so even if the owner decides to disclose *some* information on their gender, they decide which and how
my mom purposely overpaid her credit card bill by 1 cent so every month they send her a letter that says they owe her 1 cent and it costs them a dollar to send the letter plus the paper. she is costing corporations money 👍
Yes, but the added environmental cost of mailing a paper letter…
do you think they cut down a whole tree because my mom overpaid one cent. do you think they make one new piece of paper every time they need one
But trucks have to move that paper!
are you not aware that those trucks would be going either way. they aren’t taking another trip for one envelope
hello my name is billy postman, operator of the world’s smallest and most environmentally harmful mail truck. it is one envelope big and requires thirty seven gallons of fuel to go one mile. (I personally am about one and a half envelopes big) my beloved truck is very slow and very loud and I hate both flora and fauna so so so much. I love corporations though
i really could write an essay on how shit is that we’ve completely abandoned the monster-of-the-week episode format even when rebooting shows that relied on it to replace them with grimdark edgy plotlines where nothing feels good or accomplished at the end of the day
I think you can expand Monster of the Week format, more generally, to Guy Of The Week. Because this format also works for detective stories, medical dramas, lawyer procedurals, what have you. The point is that every week there is a new Guy and the new Guy brings a new Situation
invincible had foe of the week for parts of it. it was fun.
Elon Musk has such raw divorced man energy he’s literally being divorced by a man he wasn’t even married to. Insane how this guy can fuck up any situationship no matter what
A rookie mistake is getting out of things by claiming a grandparent died. You can do that a maximum of four times per person, and that’s assuming maximum social atomization, where nobody you know is likely to talk to each other and compare notes and realize that five of your grandmothers have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the last three months. The winning play? Dead Uncles. You can have any number of dead uncles, because who knows how many siblings your parents have? You don’t even need to keep the stories straight because if you slip up you can claim it was two separate uncle deaths. You can repeat names, even, one on each side of your family. Uncles often die in memorable ways so you can get flamboyant with the specifics. Motorcycle accidents, firework explosions, prostate cancer, rottweiler training mishap. It won’t be that weird that you aren’t particularly torn up about it. Maybe you didn’t like your Uncle
Two kinds of responses in the notes on this one-
Smart alecs using their pesky “lived experiences” of having “more than four grandparents via marriage, divorce, infidelity and polyamory” to bludgeon my poor, defenseless joke into paste
Fellow scions of big sprawling Catholic families or something similar proudly sharing their own stories of exploiting the perpetually-refreshing Dead Uncle Cornucopia
tumblr will never die because we’re all too incoherent and petty to leave. someone will just pirate the source code and start running “tunglr” and we’ll all move over like the chucklefucks we are
every time web developers try to “rebrand” or “repurpose” this website we just sink our heels deeper into the quicksand of our own absurdity
look what im saying is there was a story abt a group of artists whose house was demolished in order to make room for a new shopping mall and, once it was constructed, they fueled their rage and pettiness at being displaced into finding an unused room in the building, renovated it into a condo, outfitted it with a fully stocked kitchen, china hutch, AC, TV and gaming system and then proceeded to live in the mall undetected for years. that creativity? absurdity? sheer stubborn pettiness? thas tumblr babey!!!!
mutual 2: *70 consecutive reblogs of a fandom you’ve never heard of until today. every time you refresh there’s 30 more.*
mutual 3: *image of a guy in a dog collar* why did he do this
mutual 4: *reblogs of beautiful picnic scenes*
mutual 5: everyone get fatter now
mutual 4: just thought about dunking them in blood again 🤍
mutual 3: *image of the same guy but blurry and far away* is this allowed
mutual 6: I love music 🎵🎶🎵🎺🎹✨💖🌈
mutual 7 that we are all beginning to suspect is actually a dog: do you guys ever think about chewing on bones haha
mutual 6: anyone ever heard of this shit called music? *image of stickman covered in blood*
mutual 5: make him a woman NOW!!!
mutual 8: if you ask me about my ocs I will kiss you on the mouth
mutual 9: hey what happened to mutual 10
mutual 10: day 173 of being lost in the mountains. I have begun to recreate my family’s faces out of the river clay. at night I recite my favorite songs so that they may never leave my memory. I am beginning to forget birthdays. I haven’t tasted a grain of sugar in months.
is this real? / i thought pro wrestling was fake? wrestling is ‘fake’ in that the fights are choreographed and the winner is predetermined, but the physicality is very real. there’s no way to 'fake’ getting whipped with a metal chain so hard it leaves welts.
why ARE they chained? this is a specialty fight called a 'dog collar match’ where both participants are, you guessed it, fitted with dog collars which are then chained together.
is this legal? / how can this be allowed? why wouldn’t it be? they’re both consenting adults who planned and agreed to it.
but they could be seriously hurt! they know, and they accept the risk. pro wrestlers are well aware of the injuries possible in their line of work, and they do it anyway because they’re crazy people.
IS there aftercare? of a sort, yeah - there’s a medical team on hand to patch everyone up, and lots of coworkers backstage to give them a 'job well done!’
why are they wearing thigh highs? they’re kneepads/shin guards for protection. looking like sexy thigh highs is just a bonus side effect!
ok, but why’s that guy in a shiny speedo? personal preference. wrestlers can design their own outfits and some prefer full coverage long tights, while others wear less to show off the gams.
Nah mate two half-naked muscular men chained together by their dog collars whipping the shit out of each other with chains in a ritualised power struggle with a predetermined dominator and submitter of the interaction in a public ring is wholesome family entertainment
when i was a camp counselor a billion years ago i once met a tiny 10yo girl in all black clothes with spiky bracelets and teeny combat boots and a tiny slipknot tshirt and shoulder length blonde hair (with the right attitude to make it look like a counterculture shaggyboy cut) who GLARED at me as she shook my hand and when i asked her name she said, in the deadly serious tone of a mortal threat: “…Barbie.” i nodded gravely and said nothing. i only ever addressed her as “boss.”
hi excuse me this is OPs mom, yah my daughter, she wanted you to know you reblogged her post before she had a chance to update a hasty technical wording edit that improves the readability flow and cadence by about 3% could you please delete your reblog and then reblog the new version?
Absolutely amazing how AO3 is a part of the internet that doesn’t sneak in any ads and doesn’t have an algorithm and doesn’t watch you or record how much time you spend looking at each fic or whatever. It’s just right there to use for free. Legend
The internet was like this. This was the normal.
this is because it’s a non-profit! Remember this next time you bitch about ao3 asking for donations.
Re: littlecofiegirl’s comment — actually, the internet was never like this.
“YouTube used to be free.” Youtube used to be funded by venture capitalists. It operated at a loss for many years, until it grew a dedicated enough customer base to start stage 2 of the enshittification process.
It’s the same business model as Amazon or Uber. Venture capitalists pour money into a business, allowing it to operate at a loss and undersell its competition until all the competition dies out and it becomes a monopoly. Once that happens, the business can hike up prices as high as it wants, secure in the knowledge that customers have nowhere else to go.
These websites were never free. They were always accruing debt, with the intention of eventually coercing the public into paying off that debt a hundredfold.
AO3 is not a relic of the old internet. It is a new kind of website created specifically in reaction to the enshittification of the corporate internet, by a community of people who believed that creative works deserved to flourish on the internet, on a platform that was not subject to the whims of corporate oversight, so much so that they were willing to donate money and labor to create such a platform.
If you want to compare AO3 to something, compare it to a website like Bluesky, which was created in reaction to the enshittification of Twitter X.
Do not glorify “the good old days” that never existed. You don’t make the internet or the world better by going back to the way things were. You do it by building something new.
The internet existed before YouTube.
There used to be a lot of websites that were paid for by the individual people who made them. (I had one, back in the day. Cost me $10 a month in hosting, plus the domain registration. Rolled the HTML myself.) There were no algorithms; there were webrings. There were more universities online than there were companies.
AO3 is absolutely a relic of the old internet, which was a muchsmaller place than it is today.
This doesn’t mean that we can’t focus on building new things as a way to move forward, but historical revisionism doesn’t help our current situation either.
Does anyone have recommendations on good social norms for beginners? I’m looking to start conforming more but I’m not sure which norms will provide the most social currency. Thanks
I’m open to arguments about how Fahrenheit isn’t really more arbitrary than Celsius and how base 12 for feet can be convenient for fractions and so on, but how do you fucking justify having different miles for land and sea
I will actually sort of defend nautical miles: they are a rationalized, legible unit created specifically for purpose. They are the arclength of one minute of latitude at the equator, and so are a very useful standardized measurement for naval purposes. By contrast, regular miles are just some random unit whose definition stretches back into the mists of time from something the Romans did. I will always vouch for rationalized systems of measurement.
It is unfortunate that they named them “nautical miles” instead of just giving them a completely new name, but since they’re close to regular miles (basically by sheer coincidence), I can see how the temptation occurred.
somehow I’ve never considered nautical miles but I’m willing to accept them if referred to as naughty miles
thing that is really funny to me is when the same pop cultural symbols (the hunger games, star wars, v for vendetta, the joker movie) that in “the west” get associated with being either a Cringe Liberal or a Reddit Edgelord, are referenced freely by like rioters or even straight up guerilla soldiers in the “global south”
this pride month will be the tenth anniversary of same-sex marriage being legal in all 50 states ;-;
and ironically the United States is collapsing but for other reasons
i dunno, maybe God punished America for gay marriage by sending Trump
hey i think you both should kill yourselves
Real centrism has never been tried,
it’s not real centrism until you get fascists and communists telling you to kill yourself in the same thread, otherwise it’s just sparkling contrarianism 😤
“ohh 00s diet culture isn’t back because of ozempic, you’re overreacting”
idk i keep seeing previously size-inclusive brands remove plus-sized versions of their clothes from their catalogues entirely, even lines specifically aimed at bigger sizes are cutting their size range down and chopping the bigger ones. i keep seeing mean skinny tiktokers get famous because they said something rude about fat people. when i ask my doctor about weight loss (which my country’s gender treatment clinic requires before i can access even preliminary talks about hrt), i’m immediately offered drugs about it - drugs which, according to the doctor, we don’t know the long-term effects of. but surely! surely it can’t be worse than being fat!
like why are people acting surprised? we’ve made being extremely wealthy the aspirational aesthetic to strive for, made ‘being skinny and having a lot of time and money to stay beautiful’ a not only viable but lucrative carreer for people, and then released a drug that is wildly expensive and will make people thin.
of course people are gonna make being thin the ultimate status symbol again - it more than ever before signals wealth and leisure-time.
like, do you think it’s a coincidence that people are back to constantly spouting 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ again? and pretending being fat is a matter of lacking self-control around cake or whatever? as if people haven’t spent decades trying to get these fucks to understand that actually healthy produce and the time to maintain your body are extreme luxuries in our society?
anyway my broke fat ass can’t find pants i like and can afford because the size-inclusive lines i’d have shopped at previously have axed anything over a size xl
and like. i’m not even that fat. what the fuck do people bigger than me do. it’s really heinous right now for fat peeps.
Was chatting to another nurse about the floor I’m on right now, and that nurse said, referring to the charge nurse tonight, “oh yeah, she’s a power hungry monster, she’d be charge nurse every shift if she could.” And then later the nurse said she had only stayed long (a 16 hr shift, can you imagine) because her girlfriend was also working late, and I was like “oh who’s your girlfriend?”
This person is containing their gender as a private string, which would be a line of plain text contained on their own machine which would be free to edit, and not as a public constant Boolean, which would show on everybody’s machine, would be read only without possibility of edit, and would be a binary true false statement.
So basically, “It’s my gender, it’s not a binary, and I’ll do what I want with it!” 🤍💜💛🖤
also “you are not entitled to know it"—some private variables have "getter” methods that allow others to read the value, but many also won’t, and will only be accessible to their owner!
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