My Escape From Real Life

This life is overwhelming, and I'm ready for the next one. ~ Ghost - Badflower Born 1990 feel like im 60

[mimiyanna]

The permanent eyebags are cute, right? You think they look cute on me, right?

[liittlecreatures1985]

out and about and my phone is at 15% battery: better not use it so it doesn’t die on me

5 minutes later: googling average gas mileage in 1950

[esthermika]

[slutdge]

i love being a pervert online with all of you

[almostg]

The truth of it 🤣

[lemonskittlesofficial]

me, watching my mutuals post ceaselessly about a fandom i’m not in:

[geeses]

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

[the-big-mood]

[deanwincherter]

[oldfilmsflicker]

The best of The Mayhem Guy from the Allstate commercials

okay, but where is, “I’M THE SMARTEST RACCOON I KNOW”

[jumblejo]

[professor-sweetpea]

better

[chronic-cat-lady]

Okay good i didn’t want to reblog this without the racoon one

[kitsch-bitchh]

the raccoon one tho

[sweetmrvitriol]

Favorite commercial thing.

[amydiddle]

These were what I lived to see as a kid. I loved these commercials

[theriu]

HES STILL AROUND, like two days ago I saw a new one where he was a glitch in a smart house’s system keeping the garage door from opening and he was LITERALLY GLITCHING, it was so clever XD

[dragoon811]

I’m sorry, my fave is still the navigation one.

[poughkeepsiesjr]

if you feel queerbaited by actual real human beings have you considered that maybe you're just queerstupid and queerparasocial and need to touch some queergrass

[poughkeepsiesjr]

also, bisexual people exist. it's just that you people will call them straight if they're dating someone of the opposite gender and gay/lesbian if they're dating someone of the same gender. because you have no object permanence because you're, as previously noted, queerStupid

[liones-s]

AI has made the internet so much less fun. I don't want to question whether a photo of a bunny is real. I don't want to worry about someone making a deepfake just because I posted a pic with my friends. I want to read a recipe and know that the photo is a real cake they made. Yes I know I need to touch grass but also I think I should be allowed to interact online without second-guessing whether someone fabricated every image for personal gain

[luntfontanne]

BLEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luntfontanne]

[animentality]

[largishcat]

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[menaceanon]

I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”

I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.

And it’s going to happen with AI.

There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.

AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.

Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

[jonjos-library]

👆👆👆

[everything-is-awesomesauce]

Why is everything changing 😭 i opened the app and the only tab at the top of the screen was the 'following' tab. I had to go searching for them and pin the 'for you' and 'tags' tabs. And everything else is at the bottom? When did they do this? Or am I just now noticing this? Which is crazy because I'm constantly on Tumblr.

[everything-is-awesomesauce]

Why?

[everything-is-awesomesauce]

Why is everything changing 😭 i opened the app and the only tab at the top of the screen was the 'following' tab. I had to go searching for them and pin the 'for you' and 'tags' tabs. And everything else is at the bottom? When did they do this? Or am I just now noticing this? Which is crazy because I'm constantly on Tumblr.

[mandywondering]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

OOHHHHH sopranos like the singers

[ladyfeets-deactivated20211019]

HBO’s Sopranos: hark at the ducks 🦆 give zero fucks 🦆 in Tony’s pool 🦆 pasta fazool 🍝

altos: bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫 bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫

[sunshine-tattoo]

this website is a goddamn national treasure