As one does when they're an Eldritch Abomimation

[dduane]

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him | Zoe Williams

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe

“…the sight of Elon Musk charging towards Wikipedia with his trademark guile and delicacy was so predictable that it was almost relaxing. He saw a collective resource that people prized and he wanted to hurt it.”

Thoth knows Wikipedia’s not perfect, but I’d sooner have it handy than not have it.

[lynati]

Hey, you know how we spent 7.99 at Tumblr for useless blue checkmarks mainly to spite Musk? Maybe we should go donate the same amount to Wikipedia out of spite. And also because Wikipedia is far more useful than the accurately-named useless blue checks.

I mean, same spite, but actually getting something in return? Sounds like a deal to me...

[as-warm-as-choco]

GO DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

[dommingateez]

I love closing tumblr, bye mentally ill people, see you in ten minutes when i inevitably open tumblr again

[probablyasocialecologist]

[probablyasocialecologist]

[bestoftweets]

[probablyasocialecologist]

[homoluigi]

Zuckerberg is in such better shape than Musk, and is trained in combat sports. This will be humiliating if Elon shows up

[cryptotheism]

I think the rich should engage in bloodsport for the entertainment of the masses more often. Let's get Kissinger and Cheney into a ladder match.

[steelart]

“What News Story Are They Burying?”

Reminder that if a billionaire CEO does something outrageous in the news, this should always be your first question.

Today that news story is that Meta, Zuckerberg’s company, is blocking all news content in Canada for Facebook and Instagram due to a new law requiring compensation to news publishers. Facebook is using its vast resources to apply public pressure to stop the laws of a foreign government and protect its profit margins. And they are getting sued by Malaysia.

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

I love this website

[eldritchdeepdweller]

@ara-cecily

[seravph]

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

[seravph]

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

[autoenucleate]

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[thisbibliomaniac]

Birch sugar is the same thing as xylitol and it’s toxic to dogs - Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Labeled as “xylitol” within the ingredients list for most products, the same plant-derived substance can also be identified as “birch sugar”

[lovelyardie]

Reblogging to potentially save a fur friends life

[soberscientistlife]

[closet-keys]

[ID: Tweet by @MaryHeglar reading "So sick of hearing that government 'inaction' brought about climate change. They acted: they subsidized fossil fuel companies, gave them leases, spouted their misinformation, criminalized protest. Nothing about that is passive."]

[ihatethissignin-deactivated2026]

Kill your leaders

[sizeable-nuts]

ruh roh, it gets worse

[nuclei]

I’m not a Redditor so I could be wrong. But this looks pretty fucking bad

[ktempestbradford]

Yup, they are doing that thing. Forcing open subreddits and replacing mods. They claimed that staying private was against the mod code of conduct.

(source)

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

Reddit is trying to turn mods against mods.

And the CEO has been on a press tour doubling down on his horrendousness. Also: surprise! He is doing all this on the advice of Elon Musk.

Reddit's CEO really wants you to know that he doesn't care about your feedback

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is continuing his damage control tour, this time via a new interview with The Verge. Despite...

However, Reddit mods are fighting back. They're reopening subs, but changing the rules of what can be posted so it's a big middle finger to the CEO.

A place for images of John Oliver looking sexy.

r/pics users voted 37,331 to 2,329 in favor of sexy John Oliver.

Several of them are doing this, not just r/pics.

r/GPT4 Now only allows posts about Gulfport-Biloxi international airport (code: GPT), gate 4 (GPT4).

I am dying with laughter over here.

Also, John Oliver noticed.

Get out your popcorn, because the Reddit CEO truly picked a fight with the wrong userbase.

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

without putting too fine a point on it, i think that being obscenely rich does something to like...your brain's capability of assessing risk. cuz for your whole life, the only risk has ever been "how much money will i lose out on" and if you're obscenely rich, it doesn't even matter how much money that would be. even if there's a risk of bodily harm, you can still pay your way through multiple surgeries to not only resume your quality of life but extend it several times over a la david rockefeller.

you never really think about "risk of death" when you can pay to reserve a whole hospital to cater exclusively to you and shut out the poor. so now to read about this submersible full of billionaires, not only signed a death waiver, but were fully okay with getting on this tight space with no GPS capabilities, piloted by a fucking video game controller of all things, to go deeper into the ocean than normal ppl would ever really dare to go, just to view a sunken ship through a tiny window like...to them, being this wealthy is a borderline superpower. they think "well nothing can ever happen to me, The Top 0.00001 Percent of the World". its main character syndrome on cocaine.

and like, they essentially paid to die. it was 250k to get in on that experience, which is a paltry sum to the likes of those ppl. i could not imagine having 250k to my name much less blowing it on a 8 day voyage to view the wreckage of another rich person's demise over 100 years ago...

but these rich ppl, are like "sure, thats nothing".

the fact that the submersible was named The Titan is...i mean, the word irony isn't strong enough for that kind of description.

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

okay actually this post is now about whatever the fuck this new update is, what tf is this supposed to be?????

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

AUSGFDKAUGF

[prideprejudce]

people saying that users aren’t being compassionate enough towards the billionaires stuck in the death coffin at the bottom of the ocean and calling us “ghouls” for bringing up the absolute absurdity of the entire situation and it’s like……of course no one ever deserves to die by suffocation or freezing to death and it’s a hope that by some miracle that these people are found and somehow saved. however people are aloud to point out the irony of how our current wealth gap is so high that there are people who are able to spend 250k, an amount that most people don’t see in their entire lives, like it’s a movie ticket. except instead of seeing a movie they are entering a death chamber to the bottom of the ocean so they can gawk at the mass grave of over a thousand people

“the CEO of the company tricked them and he’s the real capitalist villain while the other passengers are blameless” I agree that the CEO (who is also stuck in the submarine with them) is as grimy as they come and cut corners in order to make as much money as possible. that’s a given. but as we are seeing now, most people who have never even stepped foot in the ocean their entire lives could see that this was a disaster waiting to happen. you don’t have to be a maritime expert to see that. the submersible has no emergency beacon, is controlled by an off brand game controller, made from parts from a camp store, navigated by texts from above, is bolted in from the outside, and has a contract that passengers sign that mentions “death” three times on the front page. most people couldn’t be paid to step foot in it - and these people paid 250k to go to the bottom of the ocean in it

once again, no one is relishing at people dying stuck in an essentially gutted out minivan at the bottom of the ocean. especially when one passenger is 19 and the other is a legitimate titanic researcher. but people are allowed to be mad that thousands upon thousands of dollars of taxpayer money and resources are being used to try and literally pluck these people out of the ocean and save them from a grave that they literally helped dig themselves into without a care in the world. they are the 1% who can put themselves in peril as much as they please and spend money and waste resources like it’s water but will always expect to be saved from the brink of death by us regular folk so they can call themselves an “adventurer” at their next luncheon

[plaguedocboi]

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

[jaewul]

[astraltrickster]

Dear tumblr newbies of #196:

[depsidase]

[greenflamestherabbit]

My funniest ventriloquism story starts with the fact that I was obsessed with ventriloquism from a young age. I used to obsessively practice speaking without moving my lips, practicing the different tongue and air tricks and everything. Then I got sick with Bell’s Palsy, and it hit both sides of my face at the same time. Bell’s Palsy is like a headcold that hits your facial nerves. Anyway- This meant my entire face was paralyzed. I couldn’t speak using my lips. The doctor stared at me, dumbfounded that I was able to speak very fluently without my face moving at all.

[cantankerouscanuck]

[neofooturism]

the doctor

[vfevermillion]

Tumblr user greenflamestherabbit

[doottle]

Mods that won't reopen subreddits are getting replaced with more cooperative mods, so some subreddits are reopening but turning everything in the subreddit to NSFW mode. Basically everything appears to be NSFW from the outside, but it's just a method of keeping ads off of the subreddit, making sure the subreddit doesn't profit reddit.

Anyways that's why it seems at a glance that r/maryland has gotten so much sexier.