used to dream of outer space

~ Ciara ~ 28 ~ Dublin, Ireland ~ Baker ~

[spiralstaircased]

due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

[zouffle]

due to budget cuts i will grant you two wishes

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

due to recent layoffs there is only one of me and I lie 50% of the time

[highlandvalley]

Best of favorite dance moves 💃🕺 via @ Ed People on Youtube https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1560874626380857344

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[wellwaterhysteria]

hi, ummm. this is awkward. haha. yeah um do you think you could push your boulder up somewhere else? like a different hill? because this one’s kind of already taken. yeah it’s the one i’ve decided to die on, so.

[wellwaterhysteria]

yeah thanks. um and if you see that woman who sometimes comes running up here could you tell her that i’m- yeah the one who makes all those deals with god. yeah. could you tell her this is the hill i’m dying on and she needs to find a different one? fuck hang on i can see those two kids with that pail of water again give me a second-

[completelyredacted]

[10knotes]

The logic is sound

[catgirl-catboy]

No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

[penrosesun]

It’s not a paradox – it’s a different net.

When we were kids, the internet was a sandbox-style open world – full of dangerous things, yes, but also nearly unlimited potential – and we learned to be careful, and we learned fast, and we learned fairly well.

Now, the internet is a series of black box silos built by corporations to maximize engagement at the expense of everything else.

I may have seen Two Girls One Cup by accident and at the tender age of ten, but I never had to deal with companies using gambling-addiction-creating strategies pioneered in literal casinos to try and make me hand over hundreds of real dollars at the same age. I may have been exposed to vicious bigotry in anonymous and pseudanonymous messages boards, but I never had algorithms spoonfeeding me explicitly far right radicalizing content. The blithely unfettered access people of our generation had is just genuinely not the same as what kids with unsupervised access are getting today.

[problemnyatic]

There were also like… actual places for kids on the internet back then. Real ass websites full of engaging content geared towards children that was made by actual people who cared about the product.

The corporate internet has pretty much leveled the majority of it and what hasn’t been leveled has largely been turned into advertising. All that’s left is horrific bot-generated content and advertisements and algorithmic slop. The rest is the Adult Internet.

There’s fewer curios and neutral spaces, fewer forums, fewer places that are topic-specific- it’s all on youtube or social media or tiktok or whatever. It’s all the corporate net, where algorithms and advertisers are enacting agendas on their users literally constantly.

Before, unsupervised internet was dangerous because you could find anything out there. Now it’s dangerous because of what you can’t avoid.

[skajador]

[skajador]

YALL REALLY DO BRING THIS BACK EVERY SEPTEMBER

[guiltiest-gear]

I just noticed that September is spelled wrong

[the-eternal-loading-screen]

it’s the 17th of august

[jcamcript-deactivated20200414]

Strange and massive objects plow near the moon, captured on amateur film from Quebec, Canada. (26.03.2020).

[pocketphoenix]

Aliens for April…… why not

[state-issued-boyfriend]

Bro please be nice aliens, like, please

[inkythealien]

[dilf-patton-deactivated20220806]

WOAHHH that’s so cool!!!

[relevantbubble]

Me expecting a joke video and waiting to see what hilarious item flys by on camera:

Me seeing what actually happens:

[beardedzombietech-deactivated20]

Reblogging again for the “April Aliens” part

[angrybell]

Why not?

[alaska-man-wyoming-land-deactiv]

Sorry dudes, it’s the Kaguya Cadillac science mission

[latining]

catching that mission on camera by accident is just as cool as aliens.

[hawkeyetoo]

“I was looking at the moon and I accidentally captured footage of a once in a lifetime lunar mission that’s mapping the surface of the moon a quarter of a million miles away…” Now THAT’S COOL!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[rubenslikk-cspg]

[holdyourthroat]

some emergency alert operator just gave me a three minute taste of being an indie horror game protagonist jesus fuckin christ

[boxwrestlefence]

We distilled some of the wisdom from this weekend’s knife disarm class into the most internet-friendly form. Enjoy!

[cameoappearance]

#i was trying to write a knife fight a few years back #and yep #the biggest thing i took away from my research was #‘don’t get into a knife fight’ (via jackironsides)

This matches what I know of knife fights as well

[leeshajoy]

“Don’t bring a gun to a knife fight. Don’t bring a knife to a knife fight, either. Stop going to knife fights altogether. What’s your deal with knife fights?” – Welcome to Night Vale episode 64, “WE MUST GIVE PRAISE”

[aztronautz]

what is it about the mandalorian that's so attractive, like u only see his face like 3 times and he's so hot somehow without his face showing. someone explain.

[aztronautz]

can I now add to this to say... it got worse with the soft Daddy mando in Book of Boba Fett

[aztronautz]

Was scrolling your profile, re your flirty asks post: 1,10,16,19,20,23

1: are you single?

- no

10: do you get flustered when someone is flirting with you?

- depends on the situation, and how comfortable i am with the person... when my boyfriend and I were in that flirty stage, it only made me flustered sometimes as it just felt easy lost of the time

16: do you like being kissed (and if so, where)?

- yes yes yes, so much.... I love forehead kisses, but also neck kisses are just.. chefs kiss

19: which spots are your sensitive spots?

- my neck is very sensitive

20: do you prefer when people are rough or gentle with you?

- both, depends on the mood honestly

23: describe a time you won someone over with flirting

- Well my boyfriend and I were friends for 3 years before he asked me to be his girlfriend, and 1 year of that friendship was just constant flirting and bed sharing and being cuddly.. so pretty sure that won him over

[aztronautz]

How are you doing?

haven't gotten an anon in ages, I'm doing good though! you?

[jackalopiel]

no offence but is this seriously what we're doing for the rest of our lives. like. just work minimum wage and drink soy lattes? be a 4.75/10? I half-heartedly thrift for my clothes and watch the world collapse around me in a very boring and predictable way? sure I can go hike the fucking pacific crest trail and I romanticise my bus ride and listen to hozier or whatever the tiktok girlies say these days. but this can't be it.

[lorenafallen-deactivated2022102]

For others it's so much worse babe.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

yes? obviously? like i will be honest, you would be pressed to find someone who is not, at the very least, vaguely aware that some people have it worse than them. the knowledge that i am not, indeed, a child in a basement in omelas does not mean that any criticism of the fact that we're expected to be grateful to spend the majority of our waking hours working at useless bullshit until we die for the sake of affording basic necessities in a society where everyone could have enough isn't valid.

like yeah, sure, could be worse, but it could be better, and that's important too

[vaspider]

You can drown in 6 inches of water or 6 feet. It doesn't matter how deep the water is, it only matters that you're drowning.

[apolloette]

Went to the farmer’s market yesterday. Hadn’t gone out in over a year. Guy selling mushrooms asked how I was doing. I panicked and did an awkward little shimmy dance at him. He wordlessly did it back. Can’t stop thinking about this interaction

[normal-horoscopes]

[OPENS FRIDGE, REMOVES TUPPERWARE CONTAINER LABELLED "Pomegranates from land of dead do not eat"]

[normal-horoscopes]

[I REMOVE A SECOND CONTAINER LABELLED "Fairy apples do not eat (Autumn Court)]

[normal-horoscopes]

[I APPROACH THE BLENDER]

[normal-ghost]

my beloved mutual, were you aware that you’re the funniest person on the planet?