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Feel free to call me Dust, Dusty, The Dust, any variation of... Dust. Hobbies: mainly writing and arting. First language English, basic studies in Spanish, and beginning studies in Norwegian. Think that covers anything you absolutely need to know about me.

[jethroq]

[holleywoodsigns]

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

[Tweet 1 from user T.L. Pavlich @DJ_theoretical: Every time I see ‘family-friendly’ in the Discourse, I remember how I was evicted for being trans and the landlord’s exact words were ‘I want a family-friendly household, and you [trans people] aren’t that’

Tweet 2 from user Hay McGough @hayxsmith: The purpose of Pride is to find safety in numbers and put pressure on social/political barriers with visibility and protest. The reason it isn’t ‘family-friendly’ is because you believed we did not belong in your families. ‘Family-friendly’ has become an anti-gay dog whistle.

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And this is why I get SO angry at the young queers telling me that leather and kink and sexuality do not belong at pride because ‘people bring their kids here now’ MAYBE THEY SHOULDN’T, AIDEN. IT’S NOT SOME KIND OF FESTIVAL OR BLOCK PARTY.

[iguanamouth]

pov: you are a guest at my wedding

[iguanamouth]

would you cover the mona lisas smile

[buzzlightyearhugecock]

if you’re not vaccinated i will NOT look at your pussy

[buzzlightyearhugecock]

[throwbackblr]

[singledarktwin]

This is how men act when a joke gets bounced back lol

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[kingcounty-thotpatrol]

hey go fuck yourself

[drarry]

Oh so now the Columbine fanblog with an Annoying Orange icon is gonna preach to me, huh

[paler-than-thou]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[cerastes]

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

[systlin]

Sometimes you see a post and just realize there’s some Wild Shit going on in a community you never knew existed

[unicorncryptid]

[carebear-onion-lizard]

Attached for original context

[joshpeck]

now THIS is a sponsored post

[srsfunny]

What have I done

[kaumnyakte]

[amishsicario]

[h-isforhome-deactivated20261708]

he’s gay

[elektragirlfriend]

and he’s still at it

[deadmallgoth]

I’m sure someone else added this somewhere but

[surprisebitch]

king

[deadly-fruit-punch]

I swear to-

[lydiabrbpooping]

[7wise]

[semifinaldestination-deactivate]

Women be treating themselves to Special Coffee Drinks to motivate themselves to accomplish tedious errands

[mjalti]

[the-archives-of-memery]

[dear-ao3]

hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

[dear-ao3]

THATS TUPPERWARE

[sobutmermaids]

i thought delaware was a place in ohio? why are there so many things named delaware?

[dear-ao3]

delaware is too powerful

[uncertaininnit]

what the fuck

[dear-ao3]

[skaktusposts]

Wait what? I thought Delaware was a store with building supplies. Like paint, wood, nails and stuff?

[dear-ao3]

THATS HOME DEPOT ???

[skaktusposts]

I know home depot, but dude I don't know anything about America mad have never been there. Are you sure there is not a some sort of store called something close to Delaware!?!

[dear-ao3]

.....ace hardware....?

[uncertaininnit]

this post has only been around for a few hours but could very well be a world heritage post

[dear-ao3]

but at what cost

[publiusmaximum]

This post launched at 8am PST on 12 Feb 2021. The above conversation has happened in 3 hours.

[earlgreytea-for-me]

maybe this is just me Being Old but i really, really hate that the “pay a subscription fee to access content” model is replacing the “pay once for content you’ll actually use” model and it makes me not want to support these companies out of Spite

[procedurally-generated-meme]

The shift from exchange to extraction.

[hedgehog-moss]

A 2016 article by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils predicted that by 2030, “all products will have become services.” One way [to do this] is by framing a lack of ownership as a new kind of freedom. This obviously benefits the companies selling those services. No longer expected to offer novelty in exchange for subscriptions, just access, they can effectively sell the same product over and over again […].

As the largest tech platforms consolidate their dominance of more and more areas of our lives, we don’t just use them, we actually inhabit them […]. Platforms are the new public space, and subscriptions are the tax we pay to occupy it.

This is almost enough to make one nostalgic for transactionality. As the economic relationships that govern our lives are less bounded in time and space, it becomes more appealing to slip through the cracks, to make purchases with no strings attached, to buy a pair of shoes or a desk lamp from someone who doesn’t know who we are and move along without leaving a data trail or entering into a permanent brand relationship. […]

Rather than doing something — making purchases and moving on — customers “become somebody” specific, like loyal Amazon Prime customers. […] By conferring preferred status, the Prime subscription reframes an otherwise transactional relationship as an identity […]. By marketing this attitude, Amazon implies that being its customer, not just buying its products, is how we must engage with the company, [… replacing] discrete retail purchases with a recurring merchandise stream.

Excerpts from the article “Loyalty Tests: Subscription services aren’t an escape from shopping, they’re a surrender to brands”

[whitepeopletwitter]