A SEEDY Space Bar!

Arky here. She/they, 30, formerly meddlingManufacturer on Discord

[arkytior-foreman]

IF ANYONE knows me on Discord,

A friend I hadn’t heard from for a couple years got hacked, and someone using their account hacked me.

My account is suspended and I doubt I’ll get it back.

Supposedly, the friend had accidentally spammed my profile with reports for fraud and needed me to try to help contact a certain person in support to remove the block on my account.

My partner stepped in and warned me before I ended up losing money, but I doubt I’ll recover my account. Stay safe y’all!

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[octaviaabadassblakee]

I need fat female characters in tv whose weight is inconsequential. It means nothing to the story.

She's fat and gets the guy and no one bats an eye.

She's fat and the hottest chick in the sorority and that's normal.

She's fat and an actress and she gets good roles.

She's fat and she's funny and she has character depth and growth.

She's fat and the main character and no one mentions her weight once.

I'm fat and my weight doesn't play a part in my day to day conversations, or plans, or friendships. Why can't I have that on tv?

[fluffmugger]

[leninthesixth]

you gotta include this photo

[cumpriest]

ağlıycam

[lilli-sturmreiter]

[dovewithscales]

This is it. The internet has come full circle. You can all go home now. We’re done.

[dduane]

Nasty and sophisticated scam: BEWARE of this!

That "Pending PayPal Charge" Email Is a Scam — Even Though It Really Came From PayPal

If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call 855

Don’t get caught off guard by this. It’s quite a slick one.

[foxblues24]

Happy Birthday Sir Pterry!

You are greatly missed by all your readers and we would love to know what you would have had to say on today's world. GNU!

"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence."

-Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[callmezeemonic]

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

[castaras]

prev tags correct

[arkytior-foreman]

This is a long shot. I’m trying to find a friend that I only had contact with via Discord.

My old account is hacked and probably has sent them a scam message already.

I’m not certain what their current username actually is, but they’ll know that I played the character Doris Finley with their characters.

Formerly meddlingManufacturer, old friend please interact!!

[arkytior-foreman]

IF ANYONE knows me on Discord,

A friend I hadn’t heard from for a couple years got hacked, and someone using their account hacked me.

My account is suspended and I doubt I’ll get it back.

Supposedly, the friend had accidentally spammed my profile with reports for fraud and needed me to try to help contact a certain person in support to remove the block on my account.

My partner stepped in and warned me before I ended up losing money, but I doubt I’ll recover my account. Stay safe y’all!

[arkytior-foreman]

The account is still compromised! If anyone is getting ANY messages from meddlingManufacturer, that is not me!!

[mantisliberationfront]

I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

[prismatic-bell]

OP there is an entire Broadway musical explaining why you don’t want that

[bbcwhereareyou]

There’s a Broadway musical about them, too.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .

[booksbrackenbooze]

You can also borrow some of Tanith Lee’s books from the Internet Archive if you are unable to buy them.

Here’s a link to Night’s Master, the first book in the Flat Earth series.

I cannot recommend Lee’s work enough. And it pains me that I’d never even heard of her until last year.

[le-tas-d-art]

“Attempting To Read News In 2025” (medium: safari with ads, screencap, 2025)

[biglawbear]

If this shit happened in 2005 it meant your computer had a virus

[kosmogrl]

february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good february will be good

[cadmiumflavoredsoju]

So if for some goddamn reason you still have tiktok? Maybe delete it

This shit is dystopian as fuck

Delete it as soon as you can do not fucking use the app at all

[crow-caller]

Yeah, so, "TikTok is officially under the control of a cadre of pro-Trump billionaires including Larry Ellison."

[mama-qwerty]

Okay, I know I'm reblogging again but I just read over the "what we collect" verbiage and y'all, no app should be collecting this information about you.

racial or ethnic origin

national origin

religious beliefs

mental or physical health diagnosis

sexual life or sexual orientation

status as transgender or nonbinary

citizenship or immigration status

financial information

They [may process] 'your driver's license number to verify your identity'. No. NO. Full stop absolutely not. Do not put your driver's license into some app under the guise of 'verifying you'. This is a way to flag your account as being 'suspicious' simply by the color of your skin or your nationality or any number of other factors listed above.

No app should need to 'verify' you. What they're verifying is whether you're one of the desirables, or undesirables. And if you tick too many of their red flags, suddenly you'll find ICE at your door, or your account banned for no reason, or your content blocked.

You can't screw around with this right now. Delete the app. Don't simply accept this with an 'oh well, whatcha gonna do?' shrug and go on. This is extreme overreact at best, insidious collecting of information that could hurt you and those you love at worst.

Please, please be safe. This app isn't safe. Don't let your scrolling habit endanger yourself or your family and friends.

[mas-o-kissed]

Crazy when “fat and hairy man” is used as shorthand for ugly as if that is not the sexiest way a person can be. Give him 2 me you do not deserve him

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[destinylordoffreaks]

Day 1 of posting dolls I’ve added to my collection this year. We’re gonna start off with this one. Her name is Tammy. 

So this is a Tammy doll by ideal toys from the 1960s a friend of my mom was going through her old stuff and getting rid of things and she knew that I love to collect and restore/customized dolls so she sent me this one as well as an old G.I. Joe this missing armas you can tell she’s kind of in rough shape. Her paint is chipped. She’s still little grubby despite me already washing her once and she’s got a little puncture marks. That areprobably from a pet of some sort. She’s also got a bit of a bald patch on the left side of her head, which I have styled her hair to cover to the best of my ability. I haven’t decided for sure if I want to restore or customize her yet on one hand she’s from the 1960s so she’s pretty old but on the other hand, they’re not that hard to get a hold of and there is a part of me that has thought about buying a second one so that I can do both i’m not sure where the outfits from I don’t have any tags on it and to be quite honest with you I think it’s more that possibility it’s homemade The clip in her hair is from the rainbow high sleepover fashion pack. I just thought it looked cute on her.

And in case anybody is interested

Here some of her vintage art

[arkytior-foreman]

She’s a cutie! I have a couple of her little sister Pepper. One of them was pretty grubby when I found her, but has cleaned up impressively well with a melamine sponge.