a walk on role in the script

been on tumblr since teens but i dont use it anymore late 20s the last i was here "moderate" left / encouraging activism, kindness and empathy

[pawberri]

We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

[pawberri]

Literally need someone with an serial killer level obsession with content moderation to sit at a wall of monitors sniping dropshippers. I need etsy HQ to look and sound like the nerv command center in Evangelion

[hokage]

💸💸💸

[bettedavisgf]

[transfemstalin-deactivated20260]

link for anyone who wants it:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20223610/chapters/47927191

[menlove-archive]

you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

[menlove-archive]

lots of ppl making this about adults who have interests they find cringe but let me be clear this is about emotional immaturity. idgaf if you're 35 and like goku okay but can you have an adult conversation without making yourself the victim is the matter at hand here

[ftmtftm]

Radical Feminist theory has no home in Intersectional theory. Radical Feminism is practically innately antithetical to Intersectional Feminism. The ideas and criticism that would create the framework of Intersectional Feminism pre-Kimberlé Crenshaw came to be as a near direct result of questioning Radical Feminist practices and ideology.

Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Angela Y. Davis, Judith Butler, Leslie Feinberg, all wrote/have written in ways that challenge and defy the core principles of Radical Feminist dogma. Kimberlé Crenshaw created terminology, Intersectionality, that ended up enveloping it all. People like Patricia Hill Collins, Mikki Kendall, Roxane Gay, Kate Bornstein, Leah Thomas, and Emi Koyama continue to write in ways that challenge Radical Feminist ideology - half the time purely by the nature of their framework.

You don't need Radical Feminism. Radical Feminism is not your friend. It will never be your friend. There is better Feminism out there - I promise you.

[guerrillatech]

[pissvortex]

DUDE

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

i’m not going to lie the imminent onslaught of democrats going on cnn crying about trump’s fascist crackdown on immigrants after they ran on being fascist adjacent in kicking out immigrants should warrant some sort of divine intervention by God. Just send pretty much everybody in power in American politics and especially joe biden to hell please

[blazingsaza]

Feelin pretty uninspired lately 😑

but Mia Goth had been living rent free in my brain for a few months

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[passionpeachy]

tangerine snail 🍊

[cross-mountain]

A life, overflowing

prints - {noah ; mio}

[jautaudoumei]

it is an undisputed fact that babel is a stunning novel and rf kuang is a gifted writer

[jautaudoumei]

i wrote a 'i like discord cuz it helps me have conversations with people than at people' a few posts back about a specific friend (its been a hot second since i used tumblr)

who then turned into a virtual fwb thing that exploded and destroyed our relationship with our friend group that he ghosted to get away from me

...which turned out to be a good thing bc as soon as the israel-hamas war started, he had some. uh. pro bombing takes let's say.

sometimes life works out just the way it should

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[thevioletcaptain]

so someone reblogged this saying basically "but it's okay to use ai art ironically or to criticize capitalism" and i'm not tagging or replying to them directly because i think their heart was in the right place and i don't want anyone dogpiling them, but i just want to say... no.

no, it's really not.

you're still feeding the ai.

you're still giving it more data points.

you're still training it.

i think a lot of us were bamboozled by the novelty back when the art prompt generators first started emerging -- i know i played with one for a few days several years ago before i really stopped to think about the implications and consequences of helping to train the ai model. and that was before i realized that the whole way they function is by scraping and stealing the creations of actual artists and writers.

but i know better now. we all know better now. we all know -- or at least, a significant portion of us know -- that the basis of ai art and writing is theft.

artists and writers are already devalued and underpaid as it is. using these ai generators that steal their work and by doing so, training them to do it more convincingly is frankly indefensible. even if you're doing it to critique or mock them.

it's like buying a jkr book just to deface it. the bigoted shitheel still got the money even if you pasted over every page with "the author is a shithead", just like the ai still got trained even if you made the bad art or story just to dunk on it.

[afloweroutofstone]

I actually enjoyed TikTok a lot for a year or two when it was a new platform, but as soon as I started to see attempts at Serious Informative Posting on there I almost immediately lost interest. Horrifyingly bad platform for trying to educate people about things. Citing sources is next to impossible, everyone’s legitimacy is tied to how hot they are, and the lines separating info/advertisement/entertainment are blurred out of existence. It’s a platform that by now is packed full of every type of crank and liar on the planet. Once marketers discovered how the platform works, they realized they could pay people to promote their products without needing any sort of warning. There’s an astrologist with 1.4 million followers being paid by crypto companies to tell teenagers that the stars have aligned just perfectly for them to buy the hot new TurboCoin or whatever. Every time I click on a TikTok where someone starts to speak in an explanatory voice it makes my skin crawl. Go back to stealing shit from your school bathroom, it’s less damaging

[colonelpipsqueaks]

Shulk & Fiora’s touching reunion in Chapter 12.