Coming out of the corner

My life changed a lot over the last year or so, and this is me starting anew

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[teaboot]

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

[gabebell12fi]

The ideal iPhone has to be an Android device :)

[gabebell12fi]

[gabebell12fi]

Oh my

[gabebell12fi]

[liberatethelesbians]

[gayvampyr]

[ladydei]

[weaver-z]

This boomer comic incinerated every “I hate my wife” comic instantly

[gabebell12fi]

So that's two films in a row that have really stupid endings

The first film was "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis. The ending basically shows a world where all the disabled people helped by remote/virtual bodies get fucked over because a guy decides to destroy all the remote/virtual bodies because he wants to see his wife again. No other reason - just that he misses his wife so he fucked over the entire country. It also skips over people in planes, people who are having surgery and so on getting killed because of his actions and just sells us a happily ever after world now that he has freed all the able bodied people of their "enslavement to modern technology"

And the second film (the one I didn't know what it was) was the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and the ending - again - shows modern technology shutting down, and glosses over the planes in the sky, the people having surgery, all the people who - at the point modern technology shuts down and cuts out NEED that technology to stay alive and not die a brutal bloody death, and instead just shows us a bright, new shiny world that hasn't been destroyed.

I don't want to suggest that in the late 2000s Hollywood got INCREDIBLY full of themselves about "oh aren't we going to save the world" and stopped paying attention to the fact that technology is ACTUALLY PRETTY FUCKING USEFUL in some circumstances (and speaking as someone who has had THREE lots of surgery and kind of depends on technology to keep them alive during said surgery) but I think that quite honestly (and I cannot believe these words are coming out of my mouth) very occasionally they could do to stop being so fucking preachy and pay attention to the reality of some things.

And not leave people in aeroplanes to die BLOODY HORRIBLE DEATHS when they shut off all the power.

[gabebell12fi]

A Surprising Problem with Disney+

I just got to the end of one film, and got slightly distracted answering a text on my phone, and when I looked up a whole other film had started.

So now I am watching a film. Except I have no idea what film it is, what it's about, whose in it, how long it is, or even what genre it is.

I literally have no buggering clue what this film is.

Which is making it quite entertaining.

So far there has been a guy in the arctic........ oh. I think I've figured it out. (Sorry - a giant robot just emerged from a spaceship, which is kind of a give away. Also the giant robot just said "KLATU" which is another give away).

But yeah - up until NOW it has been kind of hard to figure it out, but now it just got a whole lot easier..........

[gabebell12fi]

Kickstarter has been taken over by the Religious Right

Based on quite a LOT of posts on BlueSky, it would appear that KickStarter has been taken over by the religious right-wing and has been lost to the general public.

This is all "reported" stuff, so I can't entirely vouch for its accuracy, however I have very little reason to doubt that any of this is nonsense or invented bullshit

Bans on :-

Porn or sexually explicit content, on projects created for sexual gratification, on insertable sexual products, on sexually explicit comics, art or photography - whether that art features real people or not, products marketed specifically for sexual gratification, content that references illegal sexual acts (a), censored/black box images of any of the above.

This is just a summary of what is banned - it goes into far more detail, but in short it is a pretty comprehensive list and basically if you want to start a kickstarter for anything involving people's bikini areas you might as well forget it, because they don't want you there any more.

(a) - it doesn't reference what makes an act illegal, but if you live in a country where homosexuality is illegal, where polyamory is illegal, where the sexual act you want to depict, reference, draw, or write about is illegal, then there is the potential your kick starter will be rejected under this clause. Which literally makes it a morals clause for any religious nutjobs or right-wing bigots who might want to object to what you do.

In short - Kickstarter - that has the temerity to still have the following up on its site (see below) is apparently rejecting any adult content that it disapproves of for reasons that are not yet clear.

"Kickstarter has always been a home for bold, boundrry pushing creative work, including mature content projects like romance novels, nude art books and provocative comics. Creators working in this space are a valued part of our community, and that hasn't changed"

Apparently their definition of "boundary pushing" no longer includes explicit content or sex or anything that involves people's toilet parts.

Because that - is apparently - beyond the boundaries they want to push.

[termagax]

Hello there. Guess how much money I made last year? $28. I’m an investment banking analyst at a boutique firm, in M&A. I have my undergrad from the University of Chicago, one of the top schools in the country. With bonuses, sometimes I make even more. Are you jealous of that? Most people on Tumblr are usually jobless or they decided to major in the humanities and are poor.

$28?

[gabebell12fi]

Things people should know

If you write a letter with the words "RETURN THIS LETTER TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS" then you should REALLY INCLUDE AN ADDRESS

Otherwise people are going to say "What address am I supposed to return this to?"

[gabebell12fi]

Storm and Thunder

The Night of The Storm - the first of the new stories, and one that is potentially going to be a tad controversial. Inspired by the "Daria" story of the same name (although that seems lost) it is the first one I've written in a long while that might be the launching pad for a longer series.

Which leads me to The Ferryman which is the second story that might lead to more of a "universe" than a series of stories. Also inspired by the "Daria" fandom, but an entirely different "Daria" fandom.

[kim-jong-chill]

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

[mattheuphonium-blog]

fabulous 

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

[counterpunches]

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

[gabebell12fi]

As always, I have to point out "they did kill Jesus" is missing a LOT of plot exposition.

Because he died, sure, but then he came back three days later, and is now worshipped as a God by about 2 billion people.

Name me one woman who got treated like that.

I'll wait.

[gabebell12fi]

HS2 trains could run 16% slower than planned to save billions, minister says

The head of HS2 Ltd will report by mid-July on how slowing down trains could affect the project's cost and delivery date.

After fourteen years of Tory Mismanagement, Corruption and Idiocy, it turns out HS2 is going to be run with Low Speed Trains.

The phrase "for fucks sake" really doesn't do it justice.

[gabebell12fi]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Nicholas Brendon dies aged 54

Brendon died of "natural causes", his family said in a statement, remembering him as "passionate" and "sensitive".

[gabebell12fi]

[durrymuncher]

Please tag your world war 2 spoilers I’m only up to 1942

[tsarbucks-deactivated20190812]

thERE’S A SECOND WORLD WAR WTF MAN SPOILER ALERT

[angelholme]

Well - given the first one was called “The Great War”, Hollywood got the wrong idea, thought everyone enjoyed it and so they made a sequel….