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smells like updennys in here goth shitposter type a personality natural born workaholic clown blog for clowns [ they/them ]

[alporquia]

[custer-mp3]

20 years ago today me & my best friend skipped school to ride around on the backroads with her sister & her sister's boyfriend listening to Black Sabbath & trying to get the metal station out of Flint to pick up and then to find the Amish to get a pie & we did find them but it was the wrong day for pies so they would not sell us any & we honestly made it all the way to Otter Lake & it was her 15th birthday & we haven't spoken in almost 17 years but i still know where her dad lives and how many kids her & her sisters have

[dajo42]

need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"

[redhotpussyliqours]

cleveland fucking rules dude

[nyancrimew]

if english speakers can learn just one more german word to use it should be "ticketficker" ("ticketfucker", derogatory slang term 4 "ticket inspector")

[scatt3r3d-r3mains]

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

This insane update from Neocities

[utopians]

it's so funny that italian futurism was a fascist art movement while also looking extremely Global Village Coffeehouse

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[willgrahamscock]

you’re always posting about some faggot shit

hell yeah brother

[kineticpenguin]

I think that one of the most frustrating things about algospeak, after the "compliance in advance" self-censorship, is that there is no actual evidence-based justification for it. Everyone who uses it does so because they heard from a guy who heard from a guy that The Algorithm will bury their content if they don't use cutesy euphemisms.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

it's weird how its a literal superstition about algorithms, and it's significantly changing English as it's used

[melanchol1e-deactivated20250809]

a dental typodont made with a full set of 32 human teeth

[dramatic-dolphin]

people on tumblr might lack reading comprehension but reddit users are inventing new forms of media illiteracy i never thought were possible

[dramatic-dolphin]

fascinating...

[custer-mp3]

[custer-mp3]

just remembered i forgot my free name change. with my divorce. 5 yrs ago

[toddsolondz]

i’m like a clown that no one hired or pays

[sandmandaddy69]

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr