Love of god give them a break
Just gonnae post this to piss off any fash who see it.
This post is from 2019 and I consider it a litmus test for whether or not to take you seriously.
Want to see a dumpster fire? Feast your eyes on the notes.
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— Irving Stone (b. 14 July 1903)
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nature really dumped all its weird ass eukaryote points into the SAR clade
this thing looks like a coral but is made of a single cell and is more closely related to malaria. ok. fine. whatever.
Correction! It's made of a single cell surrounded by its own hardened poop!
percabeth: the world doesn't matter as long as we're together 😭💗
—the last olympian
—the mark of athena
That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”
I love the implication that Ford was still writing parts of the journal right as Weirdmageddon was starting up. Like he's writing it as him and Dipper are running through the woods together, trying to keep hidden as Bill's weirdness takes over the town.
GIRL STOP WRITING AND GET HIM
Ford, squatting with his journal on his knee, carefully inking in the body of the monster actively ending the world: "Dipper, stand guard for me while I finish drawing this beautiful landscape of the cliffs around our endangered town. And can I borrow your white-out? I need it to draw Bill's eye really big—"
WAIT YEAH, HE DOES USE WHITE OUT FOR THAT PAGE, DOESN'T HE?
Post uncancelled, FORD WE ARE IN AN APOCALYPSE. STOP DOING ARTS AND CRAFTS.
He keeps his art supplies in his coat for ease of access.
Everyone pack it up, this tag is the only thing on this post that matters
can we please just. all be aware of the marvelous fact that this shop seems to specialize in hyperrealistic food accessories and also sells the following:
crispy bacon cuff bracelet
nigiri plate phone case
salami necklace
flatbread pizza necklace
eggs and bacon chestplate with fork and knife defensive spikes
t-shirt that you spilled a bowl of rice onto and it stuck there for some reason
spaghetti bolognese on head
Tumblr users: i refuse to pay anything to a service that requires money to run. The merch is actually problematic and an ad free subscription option is bad. If they ask for donations theyre actually taking money away from real causes
Tumblr users: why are they considering selling my data now
There's this pervasive idea that things online should be free, only helped by the general lack of education about IT. The internet is presented as this nebulous thing that just exists - and that's what it feels like! especially if you live in a world where it's always existed!
But even in older generations it's a very common sentiment - remeber when google had no ads? when websites had no fees? when forums just existed without any datamining or attempts to sell you stuff?
yes I do! back when those were passion projects run from someone's badement with maybe 200 members! but that's no longer the case. maintaining a large website takes servers and electricity and employees
I'm not saying it's good they're selling our data! I have no doubt that companies manipulating people in order to make money - via ads, via selling data, via creating addictions and selling solutions - were a main driving force behind that image of the "cost free internet". But we still need to get rid of the idea that social media sizes are just free. They're not! They can't be! Paying a few bucks a months to use tumblr is a fair price, whether you do it by buying rainbow checkmarks or merch or by having to look at a few damn adds. Tumblr is no different from netflix - an online platform providing a service, which has to be paid for somehow
I agree with the sentiment that people need to understand the economics behind these sites but don't for a second think that kicking a massive corporation a few bucks once a month will sate the shareholders' hunger for exploitation of every resource they have.
This site will be monetized, it was always a question of when not if.
If you want to avoid that fate you could instead move to a site like cohost, explicitly a passion project and not a business.
yeah two things can be true at once:
a) websites cost money to run
b) investors and shareholders expect the function of ANY company to be milking their userbase dry of money by any means necessary, and funneling that money directly over to them, where they will sit on it.
like. that's just what every company is now. all of them. cars, toys, lunch meat. it's a money extraction scheme. that's why everything fucking sucks now: it's not for us to get a car or a toy or a meal, it's for an investor to trade a little of their money for a lot of our money. if the company can't do that, forever, it dies.
giving tumblr money directly is a stopgap measure: it doesn't actually matter if the website breaks even and the users can pay for their share of use. the investors don't want equity, they want a return on investment, and eventually investors will realize that this site can't actually give them that, because it can't, because so far social media has proved to be really terrible at turning any profit at all. and that'll be that.
if you want a free and fair internet, you gotta build it yourself. this aint it.
