maybe fonker

a they/them moron, not very interesting or particularly funny, posts things, mostly reblogs，18yo

[nyancrimew]

tumblr users dni

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Somebody in head-to-toe temu mall goth gear is standing in front of a wrinkled pride flag and doing bad ass poses into the camera with a plastic toy gun they are pretending is real, posting the photographs on Tumblr dot com. The post has sixty thousand notes and everybody thinks this is for real, actually, unironically bad ass. 1200 replies believe the plastic gun held together with screws is real and half of them are begging the poster to erotically execute them through latently-ironic meme phrases. They are all 25-35 years old. The OP is an American and it would have been cheaper to buy a real gun.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

It makes me feel like an insane cave-dwelling salamander man. It's all just empty symbols. It's all just gesturing towards ideas that only exist in the data center between the poster and the viewer. Everybody styles the same cheap crap in the same way to check the box on a commodified identity. Even the actual aesthetic property of the fashion is secondary to the performance of aesthetic. The function is to be itemized as this commodified identity more than living through its aspects. It's all social marketing, not conversation. And it works. It drowns out anyone who actually gives a shit about any of these things they're aping. I feel like I take these things too seriously and I'm making myself weirder by thinking about it so much, but I've realized authenticity is ultimately the only thing worth caring bout. Our present cultural landscape, because of how high-volume social media functions, is outright opposed to authenticity. All of this, the amount of social reward for this kind of empty performance, the amount of individual demand created for it by our media environment, is the atomized form of it. I'm going crazy. Does anyone actually do anything cool anymore?

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[ubercharge]

you're telling me a shrimpgirl fried this rice

[ubercharge]

THANK U @fursoner FOR DA 20 SHRIMP [ ON KOFI ] !!

[ubercharge]

tank mode

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Pasadena police "horseplay" accident

[gunsandfireandshit]

Rules of gun safety:

1. Have fun and be yourself

2. Pointing loaded guns at your friends is always funny

3. Trigger discipline is overrated

[trickstertime]

The wildest thing I learned about this video is not that cops in America are shooting each other by accident, I sort of expected that to be honest, its the people in the notes saying variations of "ah, yea, that police department use XYZ gun. It probably went off by itself, that model does that". Excuse me?? What are you talking about. Not only is there guns available that sometimes go off by themselves(???) but a whole police department are using them?? On purpose????

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Yeah no the Army adopted it in in 2017, as the M17, to replace the Beretta 92. It's basically a Glock clone, but without some of the safety features of the Glock. There was a whole fiasco about the guns just randomly going off, which seems to be a problem caused by their outsourcing metal injection molding parts, specifically the striker, which is sort of a combination hammer and firing pin. The P320 (the gun in question) was competing with a Glock offering in the M17 program. They skipped phase 2 trials, where they'd actually subject the handguns to testing for things like drop safety and reliability in adverse conditions, because SIG offered the army a price of around $250 per unit. The P320 became very popular with law enforcement, replacing Glock handguns (which are basically the same thing) due to the extremely low prices being offered by SIG. Then the guns just started randomly going off because of these manufacturing defects. They managed to ignore it for a couple years, until law enforcement organizations started banning the guns by name, and there was at least one wrongful death suit filed because somebody was killed by one of these things randomly going off on its own in a holster. As an aside, I have personally handled one such example of these handguns which exploded and destroyed its frame twice. They're straight up dogshit. Police departments are selling them off like crazy.

SIG also makes the M7 rifle that was recently adopted, which is going back to an incredibly stupid "battle rifle" concept that uses far heavier weapons and ammunition than what America's military has used for damn year sixty years, which we switched to in order to get away from exactly this "battle rifle" concept. That only exists because congress got freaked out about the idea that our soldiers couldn't penetrate body armor nobody uses from distances nobody would be fighting at. The M7 rifles use an incredibly high-pressure cartridge that were destroying barrels after around 2000 rounds. The initial contract for the armor piercing load of this cartridge that the whole system was adopted for was over twenty united states dollars per round. There's also this cool thing they were doing where you could push laterally on the muzzle and the barrel would just bend and stay that way for one shot, causing the zero of the weapon to wander all over the place. The M7 is already being chopped down and made into the M8 carbine. This all comes after they recently updated the M4 carbine and a massive survey was conducted at the beginning of all this asking service members how they feel about their weapons. Everybody said they loved the M4 and they were very happy with it, especially after the new bullet they came up with. Then they went forward and decided they're replacing it with the M7. Because they're all idiots.

SIG is essentially an arms megacorp. They've spent the last decade winning contracts left and right for shit they've never made before, or just with really shitty product. It's pretty obvious there's some major corruption going on with all this. They were previously a Swiss-based company known mostly for making particularly good handguns. They actually competed against the Beretta 92 in the previous M9 program in 1985. The only reason the Beretta was chosen over the Sig 226 from the time is the Beretta was cheaper. Now, about thirty years later, SIG USA (essentially a different company from the Swiss Sig) has marketed what is essentially the cheapest gun they can in order to beat Glock at their own game. Which makes a fucking dangerous gun.

[markovchaingang]

if you share the same name with someone else sometimes when having a near-death experience their life will flash before your eyes. the CIA exploits this property for surveilance purposes: they've got about a dozen kim-jong-uns doing skydiving and extreme snowboarding all the time, and it's actually how they caught bin laden

[markovchaingang]

murdering the dalai lama is morally pretty fine actually. he comes back anyway due to the whole reincarnation thing. it's probably more unethical to eat a ham sandwich

[markovchaingang]

hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market"

[markovchaingang]

alright, alright. you can talk about the clothes that damian was wearing. but only if you promise to define what each article of clothing actually is, ideally describing the materials they're typically made from also

[nsectloop]

[maidthings]

[clearly experiencing symptoms of mania] oh i get it! im finally normal!

[doomsdaydicecascader]

one of these is not like the other, one of these just doesn't belong

anyway. autopraxis posting game has been crazy recently

[sunlit-mess]

i feel like a child

[kriosv]

[cryptotheism]

I had a dream that Jamie and I got trapped in a release copy of paper Mario the thousand year door. But the copy was also owned by a famous YouTube let's player. We tried to alter the course of history by warning the YouTuber via Ben Drowned type shit.

[jame7t]

you’re dreaming about me because you’re obsessed + confuse me often with goombella

[cryptotheism]

We have to warn the world about the 2008 real estate crash

[puppygirllaika]

brutalism hatred over. let's get some hatred going for the intarnational styles. babygirl you didn't have to make everything into a panel.

[puppygirllaika]

"We have developed the technology to create hanging facades, where buildings can be made using interior steel frames with panels hanging off the sides, instead of those gross old buildings where their sturdy exteriors walls supported the structure. This has allowed us to achieve the ultimate dream of architecture, the most beautiful representation of form and function we can possibly imagine: Big Box. All buildings for the next 50 years will now be Big Box. Everyone loves Big Box."

[puppygirllaika]

Behold, architecture.

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

is this minoru yamasaki’s fault

[puppygirllaika]

i would strongly disagree with that. Yes, he designed one of the most famous building ever in the international style, the world trade center, but that wasn't until well into the development and adoption of the style across the architectural world. If anything, the main motif of his career is his arches, and he used them liberally at a time when the arch was well fallen out of favor specifically because of modernist styles like the international style that were obsessed with the advantages of the kind of squared off shapes that could be achieved with steel beams, with the architectural world moving away from more traditional arches. He did a lot of really cool and interesting things with them. it's why the bottom of the WTC looked like that. The man loved an arch.

[puppygirllaika]

oh, for reference:

Rainier Tower - Seattle, Washington, USA

Northwestern National Life Building - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

St. Louis Lambert International Airport - St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Dhahran International Airport (Now King Abdulaziz Air Base) - Saudi Arabia

Pacific Science Center / 1962 Worlds Fair - Seattle, Washington, USA

World Trade Center (Demolished) - Manhattan, New York, USA

[thotsoflore]

(Demolished)

[puppygirllaika]

(Demolished)

[fleshengine]

Why'd they demolish it? Anyone know?

[forgettableandtired]

I understand there were a number of criticisms, for one it was in international style.

[titleknown]

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

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[carolxdanvers]

Times that Copyright Expansion Resulted In Something Kinda Funny:

When Metallica did a twitch concert and got a copyright strike on their own music as a direct result of their lobbying for copyright expansion

[hagiomoto]

Okay, if you are tired then you won't be able to read. There I say it. No one else want to say it. It is strange. If you are tired, if you cannot finish a book that's a given. That's why you need to read...at work. You need to steal your reading time from your employers.