Meanwhile the wild geese,

Consuming too many stories. Thinking too much about art. Everything's a poem if you look at it the right way.

[1five1two]

[gingerbob]

I would be thrilled to be captured with such majesty

[lichjuno]

do u ever not draw for a while and then draw again and then realize you still know how to draw. anyway. oomf has been getting me into buffy (i'm only on season 2 nobody spoil anything...!)

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

[aetherograph]

Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

HELLO?

[aetherograph]

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lytefoot]

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

You can find tutorials online telling you how to open that thing up and physically remove the mic and wifi module. Frankly I don't trust anything less.

[mookimooks]

Please watch the Gamers Nexus video on LG Smart TV's and monitors! It's basically malware at this point.

[ruinedchildhood]

[jackhawksmoor]

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[sixappleseeds]

#sometimes people will do a harry potter comparison to say ppl are morally obligated to join an informal boycott of another author's work #when that author is revealed as sleazy or abusive or bigoted #and i will be real: i just don't think that's true. #go ahead and stop engaging with that other person's work if that's what your conscience dictates #but it's not a very meaningful choice one way or the other #outside of what it means to YOU. #but harry potter is different. you actually do have to eschew that shit. #you can't even 'be a fan' without paying for anything-- you're still feeding into the cultural phenomenon #that allowed and allows this woman to act like a petty tyrant #and pump money into hate groups #it truly is unique. singular. unlike any other situation in literature. (tags via @flameswallower)

[mrerichave]

JK Rowling isn't just a bigot, she's an oligarch, and has been for decades. She's personal friends with Gordon Brown, Keir Starmer, and several other major players in the Labour Party; she single-handedly funds virtually every queerphobic hate-group on this island. She single-handedly provided most of the funding for the No Campaign in 2014, meaning that she bears more personal responsibility than any other person alive for Scotland's lack of independence. She has BBC and ITN at her beck-&-call.

JK Rowling is to British politics what Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are to American politics. Indulging in Harry Potter at this point isn't the equivalent of indulging in something like Ender's Game; it's the equivalent of buying a Tesla, or stock in Palantir. Everyone who was going about blowing up Teslas during that weird six-month period when Musk was Trump's de facto co-President should've been blowing up Harry Potter shops, too, if they actually had a consistent belief system, but since most of her money comes from Americans who have no idea just how broad, and sinister her influence is here, there's nothing the people whose lives she ruins can do about it.

[gingerbob]

Sitting at my desk, doing my little computer tasks, and giggling while whispering to myself “Hal, it’s about cats”

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[gingerbob]

Mamdani this week reacted to a person being like “I need a boyfriend” with a big list of upcoming social events, I love him

[slugessence]

demon killing satisfies spike’s fighting urge. but not his biting urge. which brings me to my latest spike thesis: recreationally crunching his fangs into cardboard like a lil kittycat

[gingerbob]

picturing Dawn holding out pieces of cardboard for him to crunch like that cute video of a cat chomping papers has brought me a lot of joy

[gingerbob]

omg @mosssreblogs your tags I cannot

[writerxwren]

I love how half of Mulder and Scully's relationship just consists of

Mulder: Scully I need you to do an autopsy

Scully: No

Scully on her tape recorder 20 min later: Hello fam it's time to do another autopsy

[slugessence]

demon killing satisfies spike’s fighting urge. but not his biting urge. which brings me to my latest spike thesis: recreationally crunching his fangs into cardboard like a lil kittycat

[gingerbob]

picturing Dawn holding out pieces of cardboard for him to crunch like that cute video of a cat chomping papers has brought me a lot of joy

[katebeckets]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [505/?] ⤷ 4.01 — “Herrenvolk”

[gingerbob]

“Only in contradiction to what we know of it”

Dana Scully, a scientist and a poet

[gingerbob]

Curly being like “nah Laurey I love you so much I’m gonna stop being a rancher and become a farmer and change this here prairie land” like he’s not about to directly contribute to their future poverty during the Dust Bowl

[luntfontanne]

man fuck you tracy letts moodboard

[luntfontanne]

tracy is your wife single i'm not asking for me i'm asking for rose byrne

[gingerbob]

When I watch a movie from my comparatively small physical media collection and log it on my letterboxd, that’s the closest I’m ever gonna get to being Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts, beloved weirdoes

[damage-ko]

A treat for myself for finishing work early, statement.

[future-crab]

Imagine being Anais Mitchell and writing a song about the rhetoric of fascism so incisive and prescient that 10 years later an actual fascist would use that exact rhetoric down to the highly-specific phrasing in his presidential campaign. But also it took 10 years for the project you wrote that song for to move from living room shows to concept album to theater workshop to off-Broadway to Broadway, and its Broadway debut ended up coinciding with said fascist's successful bid for the presidency, and now it looks like your song that you wrote in 2005 is a super unsubtle reference to that one particular and highly-topical politician.

Frankly if I were her I would have started killing.

[rabbitmotifs]

i can see spike being the kind of person impossible to shut off once you get him talking about his interests, and with him being on dawn duty all the time in s5, well...

[average-acorn]