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once i get taken out back and shot i'll be fine
Happy International Workers Day, everybody
how strange to watch their "capitalist" fantasy begin to crumble. the free market is supposed to shift the best products to the top, right? the reward for good capitalist behavior is maximized profits.
of course it's the groceries but it isn't just the groceries, it's everything. now it is $25 for you to eat at chipotle. you remember when they were famous for their portion sizes (and their food safety issues). you were a hungry college student and could actually-afford to eat there. these days the food is worse and the price is higher - why not just go anywhere else?
you have just a quick question for your pharmacy so you look at their website and even do battle with their chatbot but inevitably the answer isn't there. you try calling customer service. you listen to first a long automated message telling you to go online and try the website first. you listen to an AI voice named Jan or Kelly as she asks you to state the nature of your request and hems and haws and says i'm sorry, i don't think i'm understanding. you try pressing "0" and saying "speak to an operator" and "talk to a representative" and "live agent". she never connects you. if literally one person spoke to you, you'd have been able to resolve this in approximately 15 minutes. it has now been an hour and Jan/Kelly's server farm is out there somewhere ruining the environment while she fails to do her job.
you watch as more and more corporations choose shady business practices - are caught on camera doing so - and discover that no legal action has been taken. that the company is calling the obvious and deliberate action "a sad accident." you watch people point out that "black friday sales" are literally more expensive than the original price. you watch as someone shows an email that is literally violating consumer safety laws. you watch as someone blatantly commits fraud.
but who are you supposed to call about that? there are no regulations anymore. they're free of that nasty "red tape" republicans hate so much. food is spoiling on the shelves and there is cesium in your shrimp. everywhere you look, the same dedication to the shareholders. everywhere you look, the prices get higher while the product gets worse.
they can keep doing it forever, right! they can just keep doing whatever they want, forever. infinite money glitch.
and the thing is: you were okay to pay a certain amount to watch a movie for the experience (and of course that one moment with nicole kidman). you understand that verizon has always been evil; you weren't expecting a rapturously friendly experience. you came from a family where money was always tight: you have always been trying to "do the right thing". the coupons and the price-matching and going to twenty stores just to find 6 different things.
as an adult: actually, you are okay to spend a little extra if the product is nice, if you are given something wonderful. if it is worth it.
but now the bag is half-empty. now the clothes are ever-thinner. now they release the game half-finished with the attitude of: whatever, you'll buy it. the technology that used to last you 5+ years now falls apart in the second month due to a known manufacturing error that you have to pay to resolve. the gas monopoly quietly installs a new "smart meter" that artificially raises your costs by 300 a month. the trip to disney is not magical; it is expensive and hostile. you are priced out of your own life in order to worship the shareholders.
you do the capitalist thing: you take your business elsewhere.
on tv a reporter blinks in the early light. his face is drawn, grave. "in what some people are calling a recession indicator... another business set to declare bankruptcy today." you watch their logo flash - you actually like what they're selling, and used to be a customer, before they started price gouging. the man turns to the woman on his left. "well, in this new press statement, they say the consumer is to blame."
Every decade or so they invent a new scam where they think they can get infinite money by passing the same billion dollars back and forth between three companies, and every single time they insist it will never go wrong and then it goes horribly wrong. And the actual people have to deal with an economy that doesn't want them to exist while the corporations beg the government for more money.
But at least previous bubbles actually were trying to sell something useful. Online services and stores, houses, etc. This time, they're trying to sell each other the idea that they can fire 90% of their staff and replace them with a chatbot that doesn't work, and that they'll still have money to make even when no one has money to spend.
I stg the rich literally don't live in reality. They live in a fantasy land where there's always more money to be had no matter what, and they keep breaking society over their knees to try and get an infinite money glitch. And as long as the government lets these morons keep doing it, they'll keep doing it until they're just a bunch of wackjobs living out of bunkers passing the same digital images to each other while the rest of society moves on without them.
writers and artists everywhere all the time
tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website
youre not gonna fucjing believe this
Me, reblogging from anyone I don't follow: I'm introducing diversity into the gene pool. This will make my mutuals' dashes stronger and healthier.
Me reblogging old posts: I am reintroducing historical species into the gene pool to hybridize with the dashboard equivalent of pugs, making them stronger and healthier.
Me reblogging legacy posts: there are New Users, young Mutuals who were not here for the Old Times and do not remember the Old Ways. Someone must teach them, lest they be Lost.
âtumblr is an echo chamber where people only see opinions of other people they agree withâ please be serious. i have longtime beloved mutuals who are swifties. your experience is not universal
so you know that cursed sword that slowly drives whoever wields it mad & causes mysterious illnesses? you guessed it: scabbard was absolutely loaded with black mold
i dont CARE that its your special interest bitch whats your SOURCE !!!!!!
"source: me ! hahahađ„°" NO !!!!!!! SOURCE: First Name Middle Initiall. Last Name, Name of Book, (City: Publisher, year) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally canât code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we canât seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.
nearing the 10 year anniversary of banishing editable reblogs
July 30th, 2015
vader every time he came across 3po and r2 during the war probably
pick your fighter
the â$1000 to go to Hawaiiâ bride, the âI bought a $99 polygraph on amazonâ lady, or the âwhy was $200 so hugeâ birthday girl
a lot of people seem to be confused and think the hawaii bride and the polygraph lady are the same but theyâre actually 2 separate people so hereâs all 3 in one go
the â$1500 to go to hawaiiâ bride
Ms Polygraph Test
$200 birthday
bask in the unfiltered nonsense of it all
since someone mentioned this and I had forgotten, a last minute entry fighter: âSquire Sebastianâ lady
New to the arena, Kristie and her surprise wedding
Y'all really gonna pass up childless millennial Disney Mom?
my FAVORITE angry facebook post of all time
I found someoneâs tumblr logged in on this computer and all I did was change the icon
Really confused as to how my logo changed to kermit the frog. Unless im starting to have hallucinations from lack of sleep. Still. mindfucked.Â