iota

any pronouns (including it and neos) | mid-20s | grey fox and jackalope ΘΔ& | Indie game dev, composer, GM, conlanger. Mediocre at all of them. | pansexual, demiromantic

[this-is-audism]

I found a new terrible captioning practice.

on Instagram (and I'm sure it's happening on tiktok too) people have been substituting entirely unrelated words to censor their captions to avoid (disproven) censorship. I actually think I prefer the euphemisms to substituting "fucking" with the names of 2 celebrities who are fucking each other. it's genuinely impossible to parse at the speed of the captions. I have to sit there and puzzle through what they're saying (especially without context)

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of self-assuredness

[kitsorin]

bar fox

[fosks-box]

[dailycatsblog]

[coochiekrab]

Pregnancy cravings and pregnancy cursings

[mewwon]

the vivid sensory-memory of sucking water out of a washcloth as a child

[tranthony]

grout white shark

[ronnoffski]

I don't know what to make of it..

[snowflake-sage]

Wasting away like that poor Victorian woman in that painting

[ronnoffski]

I want to go home

[ljesak]

[alteredpanel]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[hemipenal-system]

ublock origin is pretty funny. oh? you want to show me an ad? damn buddy that sucks. L + ratio + assets.tumblr.com/pop/src/assets/images/house-rightrail-premium-with-patio-47ce20b6.gif$image into my filters immediately

[hemipenal-system]

there's more, for all my followers who don't know this, you can get ublock to just make the custom filter for you

see an annoying ui item you don't like?

click this to get to the ublock origin menu

click this

and hover over the ui item you dont like, like this

click on it, and in the window that pops up, hit "create"

now it's gone!

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[dogpuppy]