if you're gonna fight me bring your own theme music

[lamignonette]

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[tsscat]

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

[filthqueen]

have some costume pictures from last year's Wasteland Weekend

[pariambod]

[pmamtraveller]

The life cycle of a cherry.

[fourleafisland]

[alexaloraetheris]

Being ace and hot is a nightmare sometimes, I met this guy in my neighborhood, we live literally 200m away from each other, he's funny and witty and a genuine delight to talk to, and YESTERDAY he makes it clear he's flirting so now I'm trying to figure out how to turn him down and also throw my single friends at him because he really is a great catch, but I don't eat fish so he's wasted on me.

So now I have to figure out how to say 'I think, based on your tastes, I have some girlfriends you might like and they'd love to take you home, doggy walking same time next week?' in human speak.

[alexaloraetheris]

Task failed abysmally, I'm having a threesome on Tuesday. My job is to look pretty and hand over the props.

[alexaloraetheris]

That was fun, amd I learned some things about myself! Namely that I would make an excellent scantly-clad servant bowing to a sadistic evil queen. 10/10 would do it again.

[alexaloraetheris]

Please stop reblogging this, if it ends up on Tiktok some teenybopper is gonna call me bad ace representation.

[alexaloraetheris]

[extra-vertebrae]

A few bits and bobs from the side-blog. Dynamax (not Gigantimax) Grimmsnarl, and Hoopa. I've grown kind of fond of Hoopa - didn't like it one bit when I first saw it, but now it's managed to climb the heights of dork mountain to slap fight Darkrai for the honour of personal favourite mythical Pokemon. Though to be entirely fair this might be because throwing Hoopa through a Fetus(tm) filter turned out more successfully than it had any right to.

[roguesquirrel]

my pre-columbian miis and the art they were based on

[madeofklay]

What I learned not to do in art school

[beau-gar]

ALTON

www.beau-gar.tumblr.com

[chainmail-butch]

Hi, its me. The warmest creature in the world. I love you. Im the warmest creature in the world and I love you so much and I need to be in your lap right now. Yes, I know about the heat wave. That's okay though because I was already the warmest creature in the world so I don't mind. I love you and you need to let me sleep in your lap right now. I'm soooo warm and I love you sooo much. If you say no you'll be saying no to a thing that love you. Let me sleep in your lap. When I fall asleep I get warmer. I love you

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

[vonlipwig]

developing the hots for ryan gosling because of project hail mary is so fucking embarrassing I swear to god. that is a conventionally attractive man. a noted hollywood heartthrob. he's even blond, are you kidding me? did he win people magazine's sexiest man alive? I don't know. I'm not going to check but it wouldn't surprise me at this point. it's such a mainstream taste. such a clichéd celebrity crush. like oh I fancy ryan gosling and my favourite drink is coca-cola and my favourite snack is ready salted crisps. jesus christ. 'b-b-but i only like him when he's in a science pun tshirt and playing a dorky-awkward loner type!' doesn't matter. he's still ryan 'ken from barbie' gosling. it's so trite. I feel like the weird nerd girl in a teen coming-of-age romcom falling for the super popular jock. don't I know that I have a reputation to uphold here? cringe.

[fandomsandfairytales]

This post is the spiritual successor to that post about David Corenswet:

[starrose17]

[mayadile]

Attention everyone!!!!

🙏🏳️‍⚧️🙏

So apparently it was Walgreen's fault and they were just being transphobic. I had a fight with a rude employee who was giving me attitude when I ask for help as to why I couldn't get my T, and said 'It's against my beliefs, we have the rights to reject the request.' and I blew up lol

So I am changing pharmacies!!! Publix it is then.

But still, if you guys could help for this upcoming week, I need your help to get $1,000!! It is what I need for this week. If you guys could help me get up to enough it would help me a lot! Thank you.

PAYPAL $0/$1,000

[mayadile]

Urgent Help 🙏

So while we are in our hotel room, my mom was called to the front. She told me we have to leave the hotel tomorrow and come back a week. They aren't mean about it, they have to do a deep clean due to mold.

So me and my mom will be out for a week until we can go back. It's hot outside too 😭 I already had a hard time yesterday and now this, I don't want to be out in the streets for a week.

So please help donate so we don't have to be out here in the heat!! I still want to get about $1000 this week, please! I got to find another hotel.

PAYPAL

[parkchanwoohoo]

[tortuah]

People in the notes need to shut the hell up about ai datacenters this is about the US military which you people are clearly not the true victims of so please fuck off and make your own post somewhere I'm not gonna see it.

[tortuah]

USAmericans will really see a post about the harm they cause and go "is no one gonna talk about how I'm the real victim here? 🥺" And NOT wait for an answer

[dono-cho]