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@jeccaam
There is... A creature in my home
He's been here almost a week. His name is Ham (short for Hamburger). He used to have a worse name and belong to someone else but that doesn't matter bc he's mine nowwww!
I was supposed to be finding him a new home, and I did! My home. Our home now, because he lives here too. #HamHome
Look my boy!
the "new normal" couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people.........
edit: this post is about being covid cautious, like, currently, in 2024 2025 2026
it’s a pretty well-known phenomenon that you only get a couple seconds with your horror creature fully visible onscreen before it gets “chuckied,” a term coined by yours truly referring to the shift between the first and second acts of child’s play (1988) as the audience gets used to seeing the little chucky puppet moving around and consequently can no longer buy into the film’s serious slasher tone in the absence of the horror of the unknown. the tuunbaq in the terror and the dogomorph in alien 3 (1992) are also famous victims of chuckying—just like how lovecraftian horror usually falls flat on the screen, too much visibility and your scary, amorphous creature will become a very morphous puppet or cgi’d in picture. the easiest way to combat this is of course to keep the creature obscured for as much of the piece as possible; for instance, despite their oppressive presence throughout their respective works, the beast in over the garden wall is shown for less than six frames and the eponymous kaiju of cloverfield (2008) is never properly shown, allowing each to retain their mystery and danger. another route is to simply lean into the campiness of it, like the later child’s play franchise and alien resurrection (1997). in the case of the blob (1958) a mere satirical title sequence song is enough to completely transform a fairly standard creature feature into an enduring masterpiece of hokey fun. the third option to combat chuckying is for the horror creature to constantly transform—the thing (1982), the fly (1986), and aliens (1986) show their creatures in loving detail, but there is always something the audience hasn’t seen yet, something they don’t know to brace themselves for. it’s a fine line to walk, of course, but that’s the nature of the game when you want to turn the concept of the unknown into something knowable enough to bite you
The pathologization of anger needs to be talked about. What do you mean my therapist is telling me that there’s something “chemically wrong” with me because I am still angry about my mom DYING OF COVID.
of course I’m still angry? My mom and 1.3 million other Americans are dead and you want me to shoot sunshine out of my ass about it?
“But It’s been 3 years since she died, you have complex grief” yeah and she was on a ventilator for 11 days and she kept writing “I am scared” and “I don’t want to die” on a notepad over and over again. While you were still going out unmasked and unvaccinated and coughing all over each other, I was living a nightmare I couldn’t fucking wake up from. And every single day I’m reminded of it in the form of “haha wasn’t the pandemic such a wacky time haha” and “I’m not getting a booster you can’t make me 🤪 (nobody asked)” and “it’s not real they made the numbers up!!!”
“You’re not coping” Ok here’s the deal; I’ll stop feeling this anger when we have a national memorial (we don’t) or a cdc equipped to stop it from happening again (we don’t) or a population that takes a deadly disease seriously BEFORE it effects them personally (WE DON’T!)
until then, I’m pretty sure my anger is A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN REACTION given the facts at hand
Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.
Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.
There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.
i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.
I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case
Remember: April is Procrastination Awareness Month.
anyone wanna guess what this doesthedogdie tie is for?
thaaaat’s right!
[Image ID: Summary of Class Action Complaint:
There is a social credit system operating inside the American job market right now and no one told you about it. If you've applied for a job in the last few years and couldn't even get an interview, this might be why. A class action complaint just exposed the company running it. The company is called Eightfold Al. Over 100 major employers use it, including Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley, Chevron, and Bayer. When you submit a job application to any of these companies, Eightfold's Al activates in the background without your knowledge. It scrapes your social media profiles, your Linkedin, your GitHub, your location data, your cookies, your internet and device activity, and cross-references all of it against a proprietary database of 1.5 billion data points on people worldwide. It then scores you from 0 to 5 on your "likelihood of success" and ranks you against every other applicant. If you score low, your application is discarded before a human being ever sees it. You are never told Eightfold exists. You are never told your data is being scraped. You are never shown your score. You are never given the chance to review or dispute the information used against you. You don't even know there's a report. You just apply, wait, and get an automated rejection two days later, like one of the plaintiffs in this case, a woman with a master's degree and over a decade of experience who applied to Microsoft and never made it past the algorithm. Source: Kistler et al v. Eightfold Al Inc., Class Action Complaint, filed January 2026, Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa.
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Elsewhere in the reblogs, @magnetictapedatastorage added this blog post for context:
The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee
LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK
why do i even try
I THoUGHT YOU MEANT THE YEAR
my l0rd, t3h p34s4nt5 4r3 r3v01t1ng! W3 mu5t s411y f0rth 4g41n5t th3m 4thw1th!
reblog to do this w your mutuals
Create yourself with this picrew:
@mer-acle @mirakagekoko @chqoswood
NPT: @nevergonnagiveyaup @antwriterr @just-your-average-enigma @thatgenricuser @thirteen-cats-in-a-trenchcoat @sarabankesley and more so open tags
😔
I lowkey look nothing like my picrews but I wish I did 😔
No pressure tags: @synonymroll2121 @kilikesmilktea @borealismage @itsbeeugaymers @doblesoul @r1neatswalls +open tags
pterodactyl screech lol
@a-fandom-loving-rat-here, @t0ta1n3cromanc3r239, @lilicuzi, @littlebiterbeetle, @whothey7
Yoooooo, I've done this one!!! :D
@grover-underwoods-tin-cans @cassandra41924 @dayararara1238 @yourlocalavian
this is cute :3
Kinda annoyed that it *required* you to have a pride flag as the background and didnt give you other options (I'm straight 😭), so I just put one I thought looked pretty lol :]
+Open tags (still building my tags list rn)
This was so fun!!!
This needs the straight ally or just straight flag tho lol but I don't mind!
@lavendermoon48 @sunshine-snake @yourlocalavian @lotustired-squared @tabbykai @maedaeeee @iicor @bi-r-a-r-a @birdbrain-on-tumbler @beanzdabean @yosanoschainsaw @phoenixdrawz @potatodolikeuman @peskybirdonyx @rzkx @raccoonxdlol @strawbxrrypies @woofplease @wiltingtu1ips @g00sey-g00se @ver-astroii @deltenner @ @nevergonnagiveyaup @unablebagel @phantumpthetransgender @phoenixrainsfire413 and open tagzzz <3
this one is so adorable !! (ty for the tag <3 /p)
open tags! (who i'm tagging below the cut) :) /nf
my hairs a bit shorter than this rn but idc
tags: @shadowstar-2 @thepupsystem @blue-jay27 @theraccoonsinyourbackyard @a-fae-creature @sweet-and-sour-sauce-offical
@random-potato-mil-is-a-fan @rabbityfrogs @hoarder-of-rats @thesolarfiles @wolfsummoner
(Hope its okay I reblog on my not fan account? Could not find hair that matched mine. We get as close as we get.)
@hoarder-of-rats @wlwdwtys @tar-thelien @little-alien-thoughts @nezumithewriter :>
yay this was fun :D
@duckeatsdirt024 @thespianinthebackcorner @findows-10 @i-like-vocaloid-a-normal-amount @sprfnkygigi
thanks for the tag !! i like this picrew a lot :DDD
uhhh go my tags @harusukiihearts @lizwuzthere @anishenanigans @kasspergh
Tagging the first five mutuals in my activity:
@countlessgifts @slackeremeritus @sradlightstab1 @aliceapproved @booklover1323
best I can do with no enby flag option. I am a fool and @reapthegirlwind was kind enough to point me where I needed for the thing ignore me
idk who might want to poke it but tossing some names out there and if you do, cool, if not, nbd. Even if I didn't tag you and you wanna do it, by all means, I'd love to see it. And if I didn't tag you, it's probably because we're like, shared mutuals with someone I DID tag and I don't want to hog all the tags. Which is dumb logic, but that's my brain for ya.
@traverse-space , @beckyh2112 , @floranna2 , @groudonenjoyer , @chibiveneficus , @booksnchocolate , @reapthegirlwind
Tagging: @jeccaam, @ragedaisy, @weirdlet, @that-link-on-the-internet, and anyone else who wants to do this for their own amusement
not tagging but it was fun so i encourage folk to play anyway :3
right before he GETS you
uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.
it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually
it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity
this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need
adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups
i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:
open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable
no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever
not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof
cheers
Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such
KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.
LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.
I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.
ffxiv is awesome because within the game's community it's widely known that there's an entire datacenter occupied by people with max level characters who don't know how to play the game and also taylor. and there's another entire datacenter occupied by people with max level characters who don't know what the game is about and also kessel
ive been doing roulettes on crystal since my criterion static is there. cross datacenter matchmaking is going to destroy these people. im playing paladin, a class i havent bothered to learn the exact rotation of because im not max lvl yet, and getting second on the damage chart in trials as tank. first in dungeons. im seeing mechanics i never knew about. im watching the same people get blasted out the ring four times in a row. mixing crystal and aether players is dumping baby seals into an orca tank. this is an arcane ritual. this is human sacrifice. rivers of roleplayer blood will stream from the altar to get dynamis queue times under 20 years
I don't want to add to any sort of discourse here, esp since its a video game and doesn't matter at all-- I've got characters across all NA data centers. I play and do roulettes on all of them. I've had fantastic parties in them all, and I've had ones that have made me want to pull my own teeth out because of the sheer stupidity of how people were playing. Have I noticed a trend on what data centers are better about things? Yes.
Are things as dire as people are dooming about here? Absolutely not.
Aether people are not gods at the game and the mechanics. I've honestly found them to be the worst due to them thinking that they are. Crystal is not all people that are sniffing glue and here for just the "Glam and Vibes". And I think its really funny that people think that considering some of the best glam is hidden behind some of the hardest content. Primal thinks they're Aether. They're not. The vibes are better, but that doesn't say much. There are plenty of nice people there, and hell I even started on Primal with my first character, so I know damn well how nice every one can be. Confirmation bias is a powerful thing. If you think everyone on a certain data center plays a certain way you're probably only going to ever remember things that prove your opinions right.
It's a video game. Things aren't that deep. Is it annoying in the moment when you get a bad group anywhere? Yes. But that's when you take a deep breath, shake it off, and go touch grass outside if the idea of a shared party finder or roulette scare you this bad.
People are people. You find "bad" (read: people who don't care about playing their class the best for whatever reason, or have some sort of reason why they can't.) players on every data center. I've found them on Odin over on the EU. You'll find good players everywhere. People who make the game look easy when going through savages and ultimates. People are people. Good and Bad. It's a video game, and honestly, some of the tags I'm seeing under this point makes me disappointed in how people say its a fantastic community (of which I usually agree) and yet turn around and shit on others in the same community.
Strange haunted photo where Winifred looks like she's a painting
I have placed her in a more fitting setting
For the first time in my tenure on tumblr, it's "THAT'S A PHOTOGRAPH?" and not "THAT'S AN OIL PAINTING?"
Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.
Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.
Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.
SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.
This feels like calibrating my normal detector
