Arthropoda

comrade. resource economist. DSA member. Policy over Party. Reparations First Restorative Justice Radical Liberation🌍🌎🌏

[obake-goat]

Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairytale - Chapter 88 - (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ

[aqua-regia009]

The Black Eagle of Prussia (1871) - Gustave Doré

[gay-mooshrooms]

i want to *remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health* break free

[cuprohastes]

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

[alexaloraetheris]

OP did it hurt when Apollo's dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?

[scarringstars]

every episode: the 100 → the calm ↳ I can’t believe we survived a hundred years just for us to  slaughter each other.

[fandom-man]

[skkinns]

there’s a type of longing i cannot escape these days

[xalatath]

3-5 turkey vultures will soon be dispatched to your location.

[will-grahams-tboy-swag]

Hannibal lighting Will's cigarette is actually something that can be so personal

[hoofpeet]

Torture to be a fan of any exotic animal when it's like. 90% of the footage of them is gonna be from dodo videos of people illegally keeping them as housepets . Really wish I could enjoy this video of a lynx but I also kinda wish everyone involved would die

[fluffydogbutts]

the always relevant

[blemgoid]

[trying to impress stranger at party] yeah my thoughts are literally influenced by a distant malevolent engine

[alnitaks]

wow i am not straight in any way

[thesirensense]

Your self respect has to be greater than your desire to be loved.

[djglory]

*gun shot*

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[gaybichon]

not even funny how true this is for me

[3liza]

why is pjackk back unbanned?

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💬 1  🔁 0  ❤️ 60 · reference post about the "phantom report bug" · this post is not rebloggable because i need to be able to update it and ed

^^^ i spent all night and yesterday compiling information about a "phantom report bug", where people are getting emails from tumblr support about TOS reports they did not file. pjackk was banned off one of these phantom reports, i told tumblr support about it, and now he's unbanned. i think @garaks-padded-bra was also banned erroneously off a phantom report, so hopefully that will get reversed soon as well

PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL FOR PHANTOM REPORT EMAILS. if you spot any, even if theyre old, tell me about them so i can add them to the list (linked above), and report them to tumblr support. POLITELY. tumblr support wants to fix this.

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959