Kiss Kiss

Y'all Idek how to work this, but we're giving it the good old Yale try.

[discoursedrome]

nothing is worse than software that tells people when I’m online or when I read their message or when I’m typing something. I always want to be as unknowable in my silence as god

[planetclaires-deactivated202404]

pirating movies by seeing them in tumblr gifs and basing my own story around them

[rabbitrah]

that's how medieval peasants were supposed to use the stained glass windows to teach themselves bible stories when church was exclusively in latin

[crimefighterphd]

Quick reminder, especially for you younger undergrads: Discipline is a skill, not a character trait. And just like any skill, it can be practiced and improved upon incrementally. Try not to get discouraged if you have a day, or multiple days, where you are less disciplined than you would like or need to be. Don’t quit. Don’t spend the next week binging Netflix because you think it’s a hopeless endeavour. Just get up the next day and try again. Each day you try is more practice, and each day you practice, you’ll get a little bit better, and that continual improvement will pay dividends in the long run.

Keep at it.

[memewhore]

[wordsaremylife]

Healthcare PSA

[prismatic-bell]

Tiktok removed this, so keep it moving!

[downydig]

very useful info! especially for anyone who goes in-and-out of hospital! boost this!

[saywhat-politics]

AOC volunteers at Houston food bank after raising more than $3 million for Texas storm victims

AOC helped Houston Food Bank prepare meals for hard-hit city

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez volunteered at a Houston food bank after raising more than $3 million for Texas storm relief.

The New York congresswoman flew to the Lone Star state after a stunning fundraising effort following the devastating winter storm.

“That’s the New York spirit, that’s the Texas spirit that’s the American spirit,” she said.

Millions were left without power, heat and water after the storm hit the southern US, leaving the electrical grid in Texas on the verge of collapse and rolling blackouts enforced.

[yourreddancer]

They had better NOT EVER say shit about her again! This is a more Christian act that ANY Texas Repturd has done throughout any of this

[brihann-deactivated20220622]

This is the Jackie Aina money pic. Reblog and watch your skin clear, your edges grow, and your bank account flourish!

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

So like… is she tokyo cyberpunk or seattle cyberpunk?

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Tokyo Cyberpunk: Emphasizes human relationship to technology, identity, psychological transhumanism, and the human-as-resource. In Tokyo Cyberpunk - Capitalism wants to own you.

Seattle Cyberpunk: Emphasizes class analysis through technology disparity, physical transhumanism, and the disposability of humans. In Seattle Cyberpunk - Capitalism wants you gone.

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Aesthetically speaking…

Tokyo Cyberpunk showcases nightlife where clean streets are illuminated by neon signs tempting you into consumerism as a therapy for your alienation. It’s percieved cleanliness acts as a symbol where corporations justify their rulership through the illusion of social progress. The robot is friendly, companionable. Societal problems and capitalist contradiction are silenced and swept away without the common person knowing.

Seattle Cyberpunk showcases a nightlife of homelessness and decay with corporate monoliths on the horizon. The streetlights no longer work, but the darkness is kept partially at bay by the neon tubes of bars where people watch wishes of their youth vanish at the bottom of the bottle. The lucky ones working for the corporations do so with the fear they will be kicked to the street. The robot is an expression of force intended to keep the common person afraid. Corporations do not try to justify their rulership, social problems and contradiction are solved with force.

[garadinervi]

«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021

♥

[rudescience]

Since you read that, the internet archive does so much more than just preserving knowledge, it’s one of those places that has helped me a lot. If you think what they’re doing is neat and are passionate about preserving all human information please donate to the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/donate/?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton

They are hosting 70 petabytes of data and counting. All accessible to the public at no cost. Help keep it that way! 

[anxietyproblem]

[sarah-yyy]

Okay! I know I said I was going to do this early in the month, but then work got a little HMM, and before I knew it, we’re already at the end of January?? I guess?? Iust like that?? ANYWAY, I hit 10k followers just a little before I went on my 12.12 taobao shopping spree, so I decided to get some stuff for y’all as well!

There are two sets involved in this giveaway, a MDZS set and an SVSSS set, so there will be two winners! Make sure you indicate which set you’re here for by tagging either “mdzs set” or “svsss set” (or “both” if you have no preference). I will pick pick one winner from the pool first, and that person will be excluded from the draw from the other set to be fair to the others who have joined the giveaway.

MDZS Set

Wei Wuxian keychain

Wangxian standee

Bonus MDZS ficlet (details to be discussed with winner)

SVSSS Set

Bingqiu tote bag

Bonus SVSSS ficlet (details to be discussed with winner)

Knowing me, I will add extra stuff into the pack! I have……..a lot of Yibo cards that are just asking to be shared ahahahaha so some of them will find their ways into the sets, no doubt. Washi tape? Stickers? Probably!! If there is room for it, I may be able to throw some Whittakers in as well!

ALRIGHT. Now for some quick rules:

This is a follower giveaway, so you must be following me to enter. I won’t be monitoring this, but I’d rather y’all not follow me just for the purposes of entering this giveaway, because this giveaway is meant as a thanks to existing followers who have stuck around.

Only reblogs will be counted; multiple reblogs will still count as one entry.

I’ll give this a few timezone reblog runs over the next couple of days to make sure everyone gets the chance to see this, but entries will close at 12pm, 11 February 2021 (GMT+12).

This is open internationally! I will pay for tracked shipping from NZ. All the items are with me already, so once the giveaway closes, I’ll be able to ship relatively quickly (by 13 Feb, most probably).

To end this post, I guess…thank you all??? For sticking around??? Even though all I do is to write the sads to make y’all mad all the time???? And take weeks to reply to your asks????? And make y’all obsess over terrible cdramas with me?????? Jiejie loves and appreciates every single one of you! 💕💕💕

[jervae]

This had me fucking screaming at 2 am

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

If youve made a post abt this already pls ignore this, but if not, any chance y’all can explain to my economically illiterate ass wth is going on w GameStop and the like? It looks hilarious in a car crash kind of way except it’s a car I’ve never seen before and I have no clue how it’s driving

Alright lemme do my best here:

A share in gamestop is just a piece of paper that says “I am owed 1/100,000th of the profit Gamestop made this quarter.“

Lets say they cost 1$ each, so you buy a share.

If gamestop makes 200,000$ in profit that quarter, you get 2$ of it. Nice! You’ve doubled your money!

If gamestop makes 50,000$ in profit that quarter, you only get 50c. Lame. You’ve lost half your money.

If you buy enough shares, companies usually give you a spot on their coveted Board of Investors, so you get a say in how the company spends your money.

Thats how shares work.

Lets say you’re an investment firm, and you own 100 shares in gamestop. You see that Gamestop hasnt been doing well recently. You’ve got a brilliant plan.

You’re going to to sell all 100 of your stocks, wait for the price to go down, and then buy them all back on the cheap.

If all goes well, you’ll sell 100 stocks for 1$ each, netting you a cool 100$. Then in a few months after the price goes down, you'll buy back those same 100 stocks for 75c each. You’ll have the same stocks, but be 25$ richer. This is called shorting. Firms do it all the time.

Except, hold on, a bunch of redditors noticed you doing this. They bought all your stocks, but when you wanted to come buy them back cheap, they’d cranked up the price tenfold! Now you’re just 100$ in the hole, and you need to get those stocks back or you lose that seat on the gamestop board of investors, so you’re forced to buy from the redditors at whatever price they’re asking!

So you cave, you keep your board position and spend 1000$ on a 100$ box of stocks, and now you’re hella in debt.

You are very mad about this, even though this process is how you make a lot of your money. You go to the federal government crying for a bailout. You beg for some new FTC regulations to ensure these filthy poors can never do this to you again. You are probably going to get both.

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Additionally:

The redditors simply aren't selling. You're offering them rediculous sums of money. The SEC is applying pressure. This could potentially destroy your firm. You need them to sell but they won't. Why aren't they selling?

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Additionally additionally:

You don't even own these shares. They're on loan to you from a firm 10x your size and power. If you can't find some way to get these stocks back, this bigger firm will swallow you whole. You'll lose everything, and that big firm will have to cover YOUR losses from their own wallet.

[justsomeantifas]

Hedge funds shorted more than 100% of all shares of gamestop, to do this that means they had to sell more shares than actually existed.

The hedge funds never actually owned these shares to begin with because they were short selling so they never actually paid for them.

Redditors saw this and decided to buy up all these shorted shares to gamestop a company that wasnt failing that the hedge funds would then be forced to buy back as they never actually owned the shares.

The beauty of this is if you knew what to look for you could’ve seen this coming too. It isn’t mystical, it isn’t magic. They made these billionaires pay back more than what they basically stole by being greedy, this is a good thing.

[justsomeantifas]

Let me explain a bit

rich hedge funds have the ability to sell stocks they havent paid for yet that other people actually own and then pay for them after a certain amount of time. they can sell these stocks trade them whatever but they will eventually have to buy them back.

So they shorted gamestop shares from 20 dollars all the way down to 3 dollars, meaning they borrowed shares to then massively sell.

they sold shares at like 20 dollars and then 18, etc. and because when investors see massive amounts of shares being sold they get nervous and then sell their shares which drives the price of the stock ever further down.

so they took something worth 20 that they sold for 20 dollars and all its downward prices and instead of paying for it at $3 dollars they thought theyd CONTINUE to short the market, meaning they kept driving the prices down because apparently this obscene amount of money wasnt good enough.

Redditors who dont say the stock market is magic and mystical astrology saw this very obvious evidence that these hedge funds would be forced to buy back all these fucking gamestop shares and decided to drive the price of these shares up knowing that the hedge funds would then be forced to buy back the shares they have yet to pay for at increasingly wild prices.

what they were looking for was over 100% of all stocks shorted on a company that wasnt even failing or in complete disarray

they used this knowledge to bring stock that was 20 dollars brought down to $3 all the way back up to $140

the hedge funds still have to pay for all of those shares they never technically even owned in the first place which these redditors knew so they held onto these stocks they bought in a company whose shares were oversold.

INSTEAD of acknowledging this they decided to have media campaigns lie and make the stock market look even more mystical and crazy to people who dont know shit about finance so that your average folks wouldnt catch them in the act of just getting a fucking 2 billion dollar bailout for being greedy fucking pieces of shit.

They also dont want your average person to KNOW they do this shit especially when they drive shares so deep into the ground ($3)

TL;DR: Every time you call the stock market magic and mystical and ooo makes no sense, you pretty much allow these motherfuckers to get away with robbery of the average person (given a government bailout is paying for this)

Understanding how these things happen and knowing what to look for allows people to work together and not only stop it but rob back from the billionaires when they pull this shit.

financial illiteracy isnt helpful to anyone.

[justsomeantifas]

my point about financial illiteracy isnt to make anyone feel bad it’s more saying you shouldnt repeat the myth that these things dont make any sense especially when something like this happens because very set laws and rules allowed for this to happen and mystifying that only benefits hedge funds who dont want people catching them doing this.

[feanor-the-dragon]

Hi hello yes, OP? Hi, hello… thank you. Holy fucking fuck, thank you. Thank you for explaining what the fuck was going on so simply

[virovac]

I still don’t understand and may need flowcharts

[byebyebriar]

Shorting is when hedge funds sell a stock that they don’t actually own. Basically, Bob borrows Ted’s bike and pawns it. Now Bob, legally, has to return the bike to Ted so at some point he has to buy the bike back. Bob makes money by wagering that the pawnshop won’t be able to find anyone willing to buy the bike and he’ll be able to buy it back cheap, return it to Ted, and pocket the difference. 

Now, the one thing you need to the know about the stock market is that it is run by PEOPLE. And people are panicky. It really doesn’t matter how “well” a company is doing if its stock is being sold off en-mass. People panic, think that somebody knows something they don’t, and sell their stock/refuse to buy. 

The hedge funds basically bought a very specific kind of bike and pawned all of them. They bet that people would see a lot of a specific brand of bike at the pawn shop and refuse to buy because there MUST be something wrong with that brand right? Why else would a ton of them be in a pawnshop? Better ditch your own right now or risk the wheel falling off or something. 

So, Gamestop’s stock is in the toilet and the hedge funds are about to make a shit ton of money. 

Enter reddit.

Upon seeing that Gamestop’s stock is artificially low because of hedge fund dickery, one forum decides to start buying Gamestop stock out of spite. Buying raises the stock price. The Redditors raise the price enough that the hedge funds start panicking. The time when the HAVE to buy back the stock is coming due and now it is WAY more expensive than they sold it for. Its like Bob walking pass the pawnshop and seeing the bike’s price is now three times what he sold it for. Bob panics. Bob makes a horrible decision. He complains to everyone about this. EVERYONE. 

Hedge funds were on tv whiny and attracted the attention of people who REALLY DON’T LIKE THEM. People like Elon Musk whose company has been targeted by shorting before and has no problem finding the cash to buy the inflated Gamestop stock and have the social media platform to shine an even bigger spotlight on this. Now other people outside of the Reddit forum are joining in because they smelled blood in the water. 

Remember, the hedge funds HAVE to buy these stocks back. No matter what, come the due date, they will have to purchase the stocks at whatever price they are listed at if they haven’t bought them back before then. Even if that price is a hundred times what they paid. Basically, if Bob has to sell his house to get that bike back to Ted then that’s what he’ll have to do. Considering one hedge fund required a bailout already over this, its looking like a lot of people will be selling their houses over shorting Gamestop stock. 

[probablyasocialecologist]

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[spn-fandom-breathing-heavily]

not even risking that shit

[codyslipring-deactivated2015060]

scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button. 

[isamaegreenleaf]

Last comment same thing. Sorry to the next person who sees this. I just can’t risk it. I have things I need to do before my life becomes hell. Lol

[nnfirnid]

man i fucking hate yall who tf put this up knowing damn well we all gonna reblog it im heated im really sick af bout this 

[modelinterrupted]

I don’t play that shit lol sorry

[latenightsugar]

WHyyyy

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

Sorry everyone

[just-jay25]

If only if only the woodpecker sighs the bark on the tree was as soft as the sky why the wolf waits below hungry and lonely he cries to the moon if only if only

[kixgbear]

Shiddd

[angiebkxo-deactivated20180626]

this post followed me to Facebook and im sooo annoyed!

[manynamedshe]

It’s been a MINUTE since I’ve seen Madame Zeroni, fr fr

[glamhoeour-deactivated20251207]

I HATE TUMBLR FKKKK SAKES

LMAOOOO

[venusians]

Not tryna fuck up any of my planetary Returns~

[edge-of-great]

One time I didn’t and I was broke for like a month but the next time I seen it I rebloged it and a bitch just got 500 out the blue and a 20 gift card

[aiplejuice]

Oh hell nah I can’t even risking it I’ll reblog this rn

[blacksubzero90]

[imoverallofit]

I dont even joke with it

[programmerhumour]

Once upon a time…

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

[thebeanestbad]

[personification-of-anxiety]

I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are

[iamjohnlocked4life]

I made a meme for today