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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

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@anarchowizardist
maia arson crimew
Gender: Non binary (it/she)
Sexuality: Bisexual / lesbian / queer
DOB: 7 August 1999
Ethnicity: White - Swiss
Occupation: Computer developer, computer hacker, entrepreneur, activist
Note 1: Known for leaking source code and other data from companies such as Intel and Nissan, and for discovering a 2019 copy of the United States government's No Fly List on an unsecured CommuteAir server.
Note 2: Is autistic
me choosing my mutuals
closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator,
Since I was 13 I knew I wanted to listen to music that was bad
really fascinating website
people keep diagnosing their fathers with autism but never their mothers and it's just because their fathers are like emotionally distant and have old man interests or something like well yeah he's your dad
picture of a cute innocent baby animal "um this is who youre being mean to btw" thats not even true man youre a straight up vampire and you destroyed my village with your dark powers
Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.
And it is a trap.
An ask like this has several purposes.
First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.
The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.
Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)
The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.
Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:
Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.
The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.
Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG
If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*
They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.
It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.
This is what bullying on social media can look like especially in left-leaning/social justice minded circles. This is how otherwise caring people get roped into participating in harassment campaigns.
The wonderful Glass Octopus. Living at depths of around 3000 ft and only being about a foot long, these strange little creatures are rarely seen by scientists.
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An Actual Real Person my Dad knew. Pretty sure he worked as a bush guide. When someone asked the time he’d pull off his hat - some kind of broad brim - and use to take a few measurements of the sun’s position relative to the horizon. Then he’d declare the time.
He was accurate to the minute.
Fvvdvddsfdssdhnvfh you get back here and say this to the rest of the crew
? clifford erasure for no reason
Some of you are dumb
👍 things are going so awesome
why is this picture of garlic from wikipedia so erotic i feel like i need to avert my gaze
This image looks like it was pulled directly from the mind of someone that is happier than all of us.
was lying in bed laughing last night thinking about if there had been a subplot on the sopranos about a roswell type incident happening in new jersey. and it was just like
alien: "i come in p-"
paulie walnuts: BANG 💥 BANG💥💥 BANG 💥 BANG 💥BANG 💥BANG 💥💥BANGBANG 💥 BANG 💥 BANG 💥 💥BANG 💥BANG💥 BANG 💥 *click* *click* *clickclickc* *click* *click* *click*
and meanwhile tony is like yelling at one of his kids for crashing their car or whatever and he never ever finds out about any of this. later on they're at satriale's and paulie says something about "closing counters of the third kind" and tony gives him a weird look and paulie doesn't elaborate. "two little men in a flying saucer" by ella fitzgerald starts playing. roll credits