yikes!

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[v-ternus]

So much red. What a sick ass set up

[theegosystem-deactivated2024012]

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

[shutyourmoustache]

Phenomenal news. Just what the people ordered.

[neil-gaiman]

Were the "Moms for Liberty" prosecuted for theft?

[evilwizard]

the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post

[t-counter]

T Count: 15

Letter Count: 198

Your T Percentage: 7.58%

Average T Percentage: 6.95%

You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!

[evilwizard]

YOU EXIST???

[t-counter]

Sometimes you create a guy and it turns out they already exist

[cerayanay]

Sometimes that guy has skills beyond your comprehension @identifying-cars-in-posts

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

1993-1997 Mazda 626

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[bluenightcomedies]

thought they needed a little reminder that they still have far more to lose if they double down on this stupidity. spread the word, it seems they're... very forgetful about this.

[unlettered-heathen]

A small collection (feel free to add):

[thatonepsychouptheroad-deactiva]

@staff You're not very subtle.

[dwarf-scum]

I can’t remember who wrote it, but I saw a post going around saying that like, it’s probably not a conspiracy, it’s probably just automated moderation trained on transphobic data, which is worse. It also means that there is likely no easy and convenient fix; if there’s not a “culprit” to fire or reprimand, then it’s the slow, hard process of dismantling a bad system and replacing it with a better one. Which is not to say it can’t or shouldn’t be done, because it absolutely can, should, and must! But it’s going to require staff to put in the work, and while it might take a while, it would be nice if they would at least commit publicly to fixing this issue.

[fawnforevergone]

live footage of all hozier fans on august 18th:

[radio-jupotter]

california girls we're unforgivable

[mudmouths]

making posts that get us called out

[burningtheroots]

That‘s why I‘ll always save all my admiration for women‘s accomplishments and ignore men‘s.

[animentality]

[valtsv]

it's actually so fucked up that we live in a world where you can get bright red eyes like a vampire using flash photography and instead of acknowledging how much that absolutely rips we try to get rid of it

[valtsv]

homophobic censorship

[ripempezardexerox]

[sorry-im-a-terminalidiot]

[albatross-the-pen-chewer]

[cock-holliday]

“If this hurts my shows I’m gonna riot” “they better not cancel my favorite show” “this is so selfish I NEED this show” “what about my mental health now that they—“

So you agree. Show-writers are important to you and to the industry and should be compensated accordingly for their important work.

[dear-systems]

do not use betterhelp. do not support betterhelp. do not believe betterhelp.

they:

-do not vet their therapists

-forcefully shut down negative commentary

-lie to therapists

-lie to consumers

-trap therapists in exploitative contracts

-sells users data

etc

[denizensofkingscross]

Since I know a lot of my followers are also LGBTQ+: Pride Counseling is operated by the same company as Better Help, so don’t use them either.

[bylinehearts]

from personal expirence, i am begging yall to completely avoid betterhelp. they specifically push christian therapists onto patients who ask for non-christian help. they did it to me and theyve done it to others. the therapists will consistently pressure you into using a camera or doing audio calls, even if you request against it. the therapists are actively homophobic and transphobic and will spread that rhetoric during your sessions.

do not use betterhelp. do not even give them the time of day.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I have colleagues who have found public-facing profiles FOR THEMSELVES that are being run by Better Help despite being completely unaffiliated with the company. In at least one case, the profile was riddled with inaccuracies and bad info and the way my colleague FOUND OUT IT EXISTED was by being issued an initial warning by their fucking licensing board about it. You are reading that correctly, she was sanctioned by her licensing board for a public facing profofessional profile page she hadNO PART IN CREATING AND DID NOT KNOW EXISTED because A COMPANY SHE DID NOT WORK FOR decided to make shit up for it.

Better Help is incredibly unethical and should not be allowed to continue existing given its current business practices.

[girlmostlikely]

[tangled-pixel-harpsichord]

House republicans chanting "USA" after doing the worst job of any house since before the civil war REALLY tells you all you need to know about the state of US politics

[wikipediagf]

I’m just like tv static but a girl

[foone]

Friendly reminder that TV static is the noise of radio waves, amplified to the limit of your receiver. Most of it is just artifacting of a circuit trying its best to get sense out of nothing, or the unavoidable radio noise of motors and engines and switches, but a small part...

Somewhere around 1%...

Is the residual noise of the big bang.

The universe exploded into existence with such ferocity that 13.7 billion years later the microwaves are still bouncing around. Still energetic enough to be detected. Still bright enough to be seen on a TV screen.

People like to say "we are all star-stuff" (and we are), but if anything that's underselling it. We're star-stuff and the echoes of the explosion that created the everything.

The embers of that event still haven't gone cold, which is good, because they're us.

[villainessbian]

So what you're saying is that the fire was always burning since the world was turning?

[foone]

No. The fire was burning since like 8 billion years before the world was turning!

[aqueerkettleofish]

"The next time you are complaining that there's nothing good on television, you can always just tune in to the birth of the universe."

--Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything