Oh deer.

26, She/her. Tired of guessing if people are bots or not; so if you're real and want to send me a message? Include this phrase at the start: "I wish crickets were real"

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[adeerinmotion]

I tried applying all that to this post and got a really bad headache. The only thing I am left with is that cha cha slide is the elephant and I need to look up a tutorial on how to dance it now.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[the-frightening-ghoul]

ㅤ

[adeerinmotion]

Tumblr is inevitably gonna get hit with a MASSIVE class action lawsuit; mark my words.

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[nudityandnerdery]

"[Y]our Harry Potter games are Cybertrucks" is such a good way to put it.

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[beesmygod]

every time i read the "tumblr loses 30 mil a year" statistic, all i can think is "have they tried doing literally anything that might endear them to the userbase so they have a reason to want to give them money" lol. a show of good faith by actually polling the community and working on things they specifically want would do wonders. as would more transparent rollouts and advanced warning on changes. idiots

i like tumblr's community enough that i might have been willing to pay for it if i werent of the belief that staff would dump the money into building a machine to destroy everything i like about it

[the-frightening-ghoul]

‎ 🔪‎

[ruinedchildhood]

[helloitsbees]

[b-salamander-deactivated2023021]

The boy makes you a heart locket... and you kill him.

[b-salamander-deactivated2023021]

[nixcraft]

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

[caroline-vibecheck]

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

[alluringapex]

There's a way to remove it~

Go into the power shell

then paste in:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1

like this

Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

How to Disable Windows Web Search and Speed Up Your PC

Stop the OS from pulling up web results when you just want files and apps.

[venonomnomicon]

incase anyone didnt know there's some great free software to handle disabling windows bloatware without needing to mess with the command line

With the freeware O&O ShutUp10++, unwanted Windows 10 and 11 features can be disabled and the transfer of sensitive personal data onto Micro

O&O AppBuster gives you the control back over your Windows again! Now you decide which apps you want on your computer.

these are a mandatory part of every windows install for me. been using them for years and it's such a lifesaver

[foxofninetales]

Because this has mostly been talked about with Windows 11, heads-up that this installed itself on every Windows 10 computer in our house with this week's update.

[thehmn]

Should it be illegal to not give blood or a kidney to someone who’s dying, even if it was a child? Like, if a child in your family is dying but you won’t/feel like you can’t save them by giving up your kidney, should you be arrested and either forced to give it to the child or go to prison?

If your answer is no because that goes against bodily autonomy which is a human right, then you understand why abortion should be legal. You are not required to give up your bodily autonomy for anyone no matter their age or their familial relation to you. Bodily autonomy comes first.

You think it’s murder? Well, even murder has exceptions. Self defense is legal if someone is trying to hurt you or even other people. If all abortion is illegal no matter how dangerous it is to the mother then self defense should be illegal too. Murder is murder, yes? No exceptions.

That is, of course, unless you think women are below the law and human rights.

[abandoned-quiche]

in chapter 5 ralsei will do something that will make all of the people who love ralsei as a marketable plushie rather than as a character suddenly turn on him and only the strong ralsei fans will survive

[kacieblogsstuff]

I mean this with the utmost respect; but I truly believe that Mob Psycho 100 could only have been written by someone that “can’t draw” but truly loves to draw.

And as someone who is the opposite of that I truly appreciate it.

It’s about doing the things you love to do even if you aren’t good at them and not doing the things you’re great at “gifted” even simply because they don’t make you happy or fufill you.

Reigen really looked Mob, the quintessential gifted child, in the face and told him “you don’t have to do something just because you’re good at it, your powers aren’t who you are” and the body improvement club tells him “why give up just because your bad at it? You’re having fun aren’t you?”

Mob Psycho looked the world in the eyes and said you are more than your talents. Being something isn’t who you are it’s a choice you make and you’re allowed to make a different one everyday.

[artsekey]

reblog to microwave them faster

[artsekey]

the speed of 20 reblogs... what could 100 do...

[artsekey]

THE POWER OF 100 REBLOGS…!

[artsekey]

GUYS STOP THEY'RE GETTING DIZZY

[it might be a while before the power increases because the microwaver (me) didn't expect y'all to want to rotate them so badly lolol]

[artsekey]

THIS IS TOO MUCH

[artsekey]

OH GOD

[artsekey]

The people demand more rotation!

[artsekey]

help

[artsekey]

if shit sucks, hit da bricks! (If you can't see the gif, that means they already left. But you could refresh the page to try and spot them before they go!)

[artsekey]

someone said to stop rotating them and give them a blanket and some cocoa.

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[vikingfunerals]

the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.