Genderville, USA

Keeper of all things queer and sugary

[c3rvida3]

How To Tell Your Cat That You Could Walk To His Food Faster If He Weren't Weaving Under Your Fucking Feet In A Beautiful And Intricate Idiot's Ballet

[evilsoup]

how to tell human,,, "ilove you",,,

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

you can just feel the self-congratulatory glee of whoever named this paint this color, like they truly thought they were so funny and i think you're so funny paint color naming man good job paint man

[the-real-seebs]

never use this color on a wall you're going to be living with for a while, it looks okay at first but holy shit man

[boomcomplains]

Okay, but don't leave this in the tags, man.

[cuprohastes]

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

[alexaloraetheris]

OP did it hurt when Apollo's dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?

[victusinveritas]

[astercontrol]

My heart is lighter than a feather and my liver is darker than a black coffee because that's what it's marinating in

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Do I need to make a Dunkin Run and see if they have any of these left? (pictures would be posted, of course)

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 5

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Alas - I did go, but they were already sold out and I had content myself with the snacking bacon

[victusinveritas]

From all of us, thanks for trying.

[victusinveritas]

(from Facebook)

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[encryptidarchivist]

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

[zamczysko]

WRONG! searching "dracula" on letterboxd alone gives almost 600 results! and that's just movies! thousands of draculas are upon us

[kozlarz]

cmon they just started… give it some time

[encryptidarchivist]

thank you.

two

[mapsontheweb]

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

[rumbustious-backhander]

High speed rail in China on 2008 VS 2020

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

browsing some dark romance titles for reasons (you know why) and ran into this in the blurb for The Ritual

what does it mean that they "require their blood in payment"? obviously it's a play on the idea of receiving payment in blood, but what do those words actually mean in that order? also and unrelated what the fuck do you MEAN the most powerful men in the world are a gaggle of college undergrads? Tyler from Intro to Psychology???

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

working at a university really makes any romance set among college undergraduates unreadable but ESPECIALLY the dark romances where they're supposed to be like sinister mastermind daddy doms. he's 20 years old dude. there's a good chance he doesn't know how to do laundry. I know a guy who was living in a house with 4 other dudes when he was 20 and they were all sharing one fork. that guy's not leading the college mafia.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I have undergrads who still ask for permission to swear and use the bathroom in non-classroom social settings. most powerful men in the world my ass.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

male main character is doing the awful dark romance dirty talk schtick where he's like "gird your loins my little wombat... I'm about to do things to your pussy that would violate the Geneva conventions" and then he takes her to his room where it's just a mattress in the floor. it looks like this

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[dissociatingdumbass]

[bi-polarbear]

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

PoweredByWho — Who's Building Data Centers in Your Backyard?

Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

[luthienne]

Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera: Poems

[cosmicallytiredd]

hate to break this to you but if you call yourself self aware but you are only aware of your faults and never acknowledge your strengths you are not self aware. you have repackaged your self hatred

[draizetrain]

i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

[marauder-in-warblerland]

i. checked. it. off. the. list. . . . bitch

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[lazuelazuli]

We are all Giles.

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try