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tumblr staff going 'i know you guys think we target trans People (nonspecific) in our bans but actually third party researchers say we're the queerest place on the internet (!!!) so um probably it's a coincidence because all of you are trans anyway, we just ban behaviour not identities 🥺 in the future we will be more clear in communicating the manner in which trans people are banned' (x) is like genuinely insulting. we should blow up their offices

mybodypaystheprice

I hate seeing shit like “people with EDs/anorexia/bulimia are fatphobic and bad people and you need to get over your anti-fatness.” Like sorry I’m actually mentally ill and this has nothing to do with you.

arikax

This

revoltingchild

mxlabradorite

I will reblog this every Christmas season I’m on tumblr.

drunkygoesonadventures

It’s beginning to look a lot like shit scram

midnight-spectrum-again

Oh my god

weltenwellen

Devin Kelly, from “All That Wanting, Right?”

anxeious

arielseaworth

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

mktsquarehero

John le Carré has not, at any point, been fucking around.

doyouknowwhatimeme

greelin

people asking “why is there hair there?” about other people’s bodies is insane to me like. it GROWS there you fucking idiot. why else. move on

greelin

“but stomach hair isn’t common” in what fucking universe. in what world.

tooquirkytolose

fascistsarefreefood

Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

pyrrhiccomedy

so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.