joeriley121

Gay|He/They|24 yrs old|♎| I'm just some gay nerd.  PSN: joeriley121 Switch FC: SW-7101-5034-4063

[sitcomwatcher]

everyone who interacts with a post on my blog is entered into a secret lottery wherein a winner is randomly chosen for me to go thru their blog for a minute or two. thanks for playing, everyone

[weirdmarioenemies]

HELP TRANS WOMAN RAISE POST-SURGERY RECOVERY FUNDS

I am starting a new campaign for my partner because the last one stagnated and needs have expanded.

In about a week's time, my girlfriend is going in for facial feminization surgery and thus will be taking three weeks off for recovery. She had planned to save up a recovery fund, but unfortunately her job has not given her adequate hours to realize this.

She needs 1500 USD to cover the three weeks she will be out of commission. Please donate and share.

VENMO

CA$HAPP

KO-FI

0/1500 USD

[wizard-butts]

The only emotional spectrum I can relate to

[mortalityplays]

it's crazy that you used to be able to look up specific clips from a tv show on youtube. now regardless of your search terms you get 6 unrelated promo reels from the show's official account, 6 unrelated clips of literally anything else youtube thinks you might click on, 6 unrelated promo reels from the network's official account, 6 more completely arbitrary recommendations, 6 show trailers and publicity videos of the actors by content mills called 'pop glutton' and 'comedy chunk' and finally raw gameplay footage of a mobile freemium slots game and a video essay called Liberals Can't Belive It: 10 Times Hitler Was Shockingly Woke

[mortalityplays]

you know the internet is dying when you can't even search glup shitto funniest moments and find a single relevant result

[mortalityplays]

our data wizards crunched the numbers, and they discovered something truly incredible: users spend up to 10x longer on the website when they can't find what the fuck they came looking for

[luetta]

you joke but this is literally what google realised and changed with google search and youtube.

The Man Who Killed Google Search

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple

profit projections looked like it wasn’t going to be infinite growth for a quarter, and so the head of ads ousted one of the founders and implemented drastic measures to increase search queries. these measures were: making their services worse. this is NOT an exaggeration. it’s actually crazy how anti-consumer google is as a company now.

[nondivisable]

some of yall need to understand that "my body, my choice" also applies to:

addicts in active addiction with no intention of quitting

phys disabled people who deny medical treatment

neurodivergent people who deny psychiatric treatment (yes, including schizophrenic people and people with personality disorders)

trans people who want or don't want to medically transition (yes, including trans masc lesbians with top surgery and trans women without bottom surgery, yall are so weird to them wtf)

and if you can't understand that, then you don't get to use the phrase

[bigmouthlass]

Can we add, "Fat people who can't or won't follow any kind of weight control regimen?"

[queeranarchism]

^^^ YES! All 'can we add' additions to this post are good (because yeah, 'my body, my choice' always applies) but this one might be the one people most need to hear.

[elvensilk]

sex workers who are selling our services voluntarily

[superchat]

i bring a sort of "it doesnt matter if youre into porn or not, getting elitist and mad at people for being horny aligns you with the agenda of the alt right" vibe to the conversation that some ppl dont like

[sottopressione1]

Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989

[lesbianmichelmishina]

“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”

part of kayapó’s speech during this event

also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:

[joeriley121]

Yeah, you know what fuck it.

No one's gonna repost this shit on Bsky, and probably won't here either. But I'm gonna try and boost it a few times here over the next week since I don't really have a 'following' here (I'd barely say I do on the other site, but the shorthand nature of posts on Bsky means I don't like posting stuff about my writing, because it feels especially shill-y)

My Love for Video Games, and the Tragedy of their Documentation

I love video games and I have since I was quite young. One of my earliest memories consists of sitting on my sister’s floor playing Marvel…

Building upon the Golden Age: Data East and the Game Boy

Back in September of 2023, Nintendo revealed a remake of their 2004 GBA title Mario vs Donkey Kong. To many fans, the announcement (and the…

Hi, I like to write about video games. Maybe read this amateur's (mine) write ups about them to possibly motivate me to do more.

[joeriley121]

Yeah, you know what fuck it.

No one's gonna repost this shit on Bsky, and probably won't here either. But I'm gonna try and boost it a few times here over the next week since I don't really have a 'following' here (I'd barely say I do on the other site, but the shorthand nature of posts on Bsky means I don't like posting stuff about my writing, because it feels especially shill-y)

My Love for Video Games, and the Tragedy of their Documentation

I love video games and I have since I was quite young. One of my earliest memories consists of sitting on my sister’s floor playing Marvel…

Building upon the Golden Age: Data East and the Game Boy

Back in September of 2023, Nintendo revealed a remake of their 2004 GBA title Mario vs Donkey Kong. To many fans, the announcement (and the…

Hi, I like to write about video games. Maybe read this amateur's (mine) write ups about them to possibly motivate me to do more.

[abcdfghjklmpqrobin]

I love that Jimmy Olsen is exactly the type of photographer Peter Parker pretends to be. Just bat-shit insane.

Whenever someone asks Peter how he took a picture he's like "Oh! I uh-, climmed a flagpole. Totally"

And very mortal, normal-human Jimmy is like "See, Clark, is not that weird"

I mean, look at this nutjob.

The world could be ending, lava on the streets and Jimmy would be out there photographing away. No powers, no sense of self preservation. Just khakis, a camera and a dream.

I like to imagine Peter meeting Jimmy and immediately being mortified about it.

Jimmy: –and so luckily I was able to take the picture before the building collapsed on me... Superman was super pissed at me but, photographer to photographer, it was totally worth it.

Peter: Right, no– See, this is actually my first time hearing how fucking insane that sounds. No wonder people at work look at me weird.

[bigscaryd]

Headcanon: Jimmy is immune to yellow-ring constructs because he doesn't experience fear.

[joeriley121]

Yeah, you know what fuck it.

No one's gonna repost this shit on Bsky, and probably won't here either. But I'm gonna try and boost it a few times here over the next week since I don't really have a 'following' here (I'd barely say I do on the other site, but the shorthand nature of posts on Bsky means I don't like posting stuff about my writing, because it feels especially shill-y)

My Love for Video Games, and the Tragedy of their Documentation

I love video games and I have since I was quite young. One of my earliest memories consists of sitting on my sister’s floor playing Marvel…

Building upon the Golden Age: Data East and the Game Boy

Back in September of 2023, Nintendo revealed a remake of their 2004 GBA title Mario vs Donkey Kong. To many fans, the announcement (and the…

Hi, I like to write about video games. Maybe read this amateur's (mine) write ups about them to possibly motivate me to do more.

[hostilecandle]

If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.

[hodari-pavels-good-boy]

Posting this here from my main too bc I feel that strongly about it

You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.

Pathetic loser behavior on display here

[mintedwitcher]

I'm about to get mean because this shit? this pisses me all the way off.

"hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"

I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.

we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.

I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.

quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.

[thoughtstherapy]

[anxietyproblem]

Reminder.

[trentrezmurr]

no my day is 16 Yellow circle everyday

[rogue-ai-cat]

The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.

My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.

All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.

I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!

[rogue-ai-cat]

I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.

He doesn't mention though that the toilet seat comes off. I take my toilet seat off to clean under the hinges and clean the seat more thoroughly once a quarter.

[rogue-ai-cat]

This is another video from the same guy about cleaning and depression. This advice, especially at the beginning, can feel really really difficult and oppressive to hear. However, I find that it's generally pretty solid. But I'm autistic and so is he, so that gets a massive Your Mileage May Vary stamp on it.

I have a favorite part of this video. It's from 10:52 to 12:36. I think we could all use to hear that. There's a HEFTY pause after that one. I promise the narration does come back.

I'm also going to recommend KC Davis' book "How To Keep House While Drowning"

[rogue-ai-cat]

This is a pair of videos about how to correctly load and use a dish washer.

The first one is a quick 1 minute 30 second overview on loading. I can't find the exact video I'm looking for, so consider this a substitute for that. If I can find the one I'm looking for, I'll swap it in.

The second is a half hour deep dive on dishwashers and detergents. The short form of that is you shouldn't need to pre-rinse anything, detergent pods are overpriced and can cause problems, some dishwashers have a filter in the bottom that needs to be cleaned (but most don't), run your sink until the water is HOT before starting your dish washer, and put a little detergent in the pre-rinse dispenser when you're washing extra dirty dishes (or on the inside of the door if your dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse dispenser).

[rogue-ai-cat]

Favorite Scrub Brushes + How to Clean Them - Clean Mama

Favorite Scrub Brushes + How to Clean Them. The right tools for cleaning tasks make all the difference! Scrub brushes are great tools and it

Here's a blog post about scrubbing brushes and how to clean them.

And a video for all cleaning tools, including scrub brushes. This video does use bleach. I'll try to find some alternatives to that.

[rogue-ai-cat]

How to clean a front load washer (with bleach). This should be done monthly or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

The Dirty Truth About How Often You Should Clean Your Washing Machine

With expert tips and tricks for all types of washers.

How to clean a top loader (without the removable agitator thing). This should be done every 1-3 months depending on you unit, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

Clean Your Washer and You'll Have Cleaner Laundry

Regular cleaning of a top-load washing machine will prolong the life of the appliance and leave your laundry cleaner and brighter.

How to clean a top loader (with the removable agitator thing). This should be done every month, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

[rogue-ai-cat]

This video is for pet owners.

These carpet brushes are a LIFE SAVER if you have dogs. This thing allows me to go from vacuuming about 4 square feet before my vacuum is full to vacuuming half the living room (I don't vacuum often enough. You should vacuum weekly, and I just can't.). I have to unclog the vacuum less often. It fluffs up some of the flat spots in the carpet. And I also use the brush to shampoo my rugs in the spring.

A spot cleaner (or a carpet cleaner with a spot cleaner attachment) is another life saver, ESPECIALLY if you can afford to splurge on a heated one. I see them at Goodwill or at yard sales occasionally, and they're worth picking up. The shark one in the video is great too.

This channel is gold. There's tutorials for cleaning EVERYTHING on there. Just go subscribe!

[chromegnomes]

it's really funny that HP Lovecraft's successors took the "Cthulhu Mythos," a wholly vibes-based cluster of concepts focused on the horror of the Unknowable, and tried to turn it into a highly structured system with a lot of Lore for people to argue about

[chromegnomes]

20th century Backrooms

[chantenhalf]

"Because I said so" straight up isn't as good an answer as you think it is.

[stupot]

Yesterday a kid said to me "excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair" which is already amazing and then she said "watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I'm going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out" and she sure did.

[stupot]

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