Magnets (Or Whatever)

Tapped by the ghost of Steve Job

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[depsidase]

[reappearedinavision]

[percyfraser]

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 — dir. Billy Wilder

[cinematicwasteland]

[dinovelvet]

[shatterpath]

The view from Calvin's neighbor's house.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I’m very entertained by the phrasing of “escaped containment” to describe posts that get shared to other sites; it implies that Tumblr is being kept under containment to begin with, as if we were some manner of SCP, or perhaps a Zoo

[andromaex]

well.

i mean. is it not?

because what is a tumblr post, really, if not a highly unstable cultural artifact? a self-replicating text organism that thrives in a very specific ecosystem of mutuals, tags, and shared context so dense it might as well be its own dialect. remove it from that environment—strip away the layers of irony, the implicit tone indicators, the ten years of accumulated in-jokes—and suddenly you’ve got something incomprehensible at best and actively alarming at worst.

like yes, of course it reads as unhinged on twitter. it was never designed for twitter. that’s like taking a bioluminescent deep-ocean creature and slapping it onto a suburban sidewalk and going “huh. why is it like that.”

tumblr isn’t a website, it’s a containment field for a very specific genre of thought. once breached, you get screenshots floating around with captions like “what does this even mean” and the answer is: it means everything in situ. it means nothing out here. you’ve removed the specimen from its native conditions. it’s going to start screaming.

and ykw i think we should lean into it.

every post should be tagged like:

Item #: TBLR-███ Object Class: Keter Special Containment Procedures: Do not allow this post to reach platforms with character limits or a fundamentally different irony structure. In the event of containment breach, deny all interpretive responsibility.

[brightlotusmoon]

[frostedmagnolias]

Pendant

19th century

Germany

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[porterdavis]

[tiredkitchenwitch]

[brightlotusmoon]

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

ask and ye shall recieve:

Thomas Aquinas reiterated Aristotle's views of successive souls: vegetative, animal, and rational. This would be the Catholic Church's position until 1869, when the limitation of automatic excommunication to abortion of a formed fetus was removed, a change that has been interpreted as an implicit declaration that conception was the moment of ensoulment.[8] Most early penitentials imposed equal penances for abortion whether early-term or late-term, but later penitentials in the Middle Ages normally distinguished between the two, imposing heavier penances for late-term abortions and a less severe penance was imposed for the sin of abortion "before [the foetus] has life".[16]

(...)

Thomas Aquinas and Pope Innocent III also believed that a fetus does not have a soul until "quickening," or when the fetus begins to kick and move, and therefore early abortion was not murder, though later abortion was.[10] Aquinas held that abortion was still wrong, even when not murder, regardless of when the soul entered the body.[65] Pope Stephen V and Pope Sixtus V opposed abortion at any stage of pregnancy.[30][64]

SOURCE

[progressivepower]

http://news.usaunify.org/TShcgD

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[writergeekrhw]

Do you recall any particularly memorable rejected pitches for ds9?

Most of the truly memorable pitches got made eventually, to be honest. For example, it took me two years to finally sell Ira on the pitch that became "Hard Time," but we got there eventually.

Honestly, all these years later, the only ones I can remember are two of my own that never crossed the finish line:

Sisko wakes up as a homeless man in 1995 Santa Monica. (Eventually I adjusted this into "Past Tense." Parts of it also kinda sorta ended up in "Far Beyond the Stars.")

The Defiant travels back in time to just before a crucial battle between the Federation and the Klingons. Worf finds his loyalties divided when Sisko realizes that to preserve the timeline, they must ambush and massacre half the Klingon fleet before the battle begins. (Ira thought we had too many time travel stories. I used this as an Andromeda episode: "Angel Dark, Demon Bright.)

We writers try to use every part of the buffalo.

[importantcatpics]

[wilwheaton]

“We understood that the Warren Court was different from the Burger Court, and that there would be advances and counterforces. But we also understood that even Warren Burger thought it was his job to find a principle of decision that was fairly grounded in the constitutional (or legislative) text and history, and that could be applied across the board. United States v. Nixon was just one example of the Court applying “law” and not just partisan politics. That conception is irretrievably broken, and not likely to come back. Shelby County, the Trump immunity decision, Callais, and the post-Callais treatment of Purcell have torn away any illusion that this Supreme Court views its job as law and not politics. As you know, the Court’s dishonesty about the Reconstruction Amendments is particularly horrifying. These decisions, among others, have destroyed much of the work my contemporaries thought that we were doing as lawyers. Even if Democrats somehow achieve a trifecta, abolish the filibuster, expand the Court, and pack it, nobody in the academy or elite bar – or the public – will accept that the Court’s decisions are “law” and not “politics.””

— More on the Fancy Lawyers #5 - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[animentality]

[bumblebeerror]

Credit card companies will TRY to saddle you with this kind of debt by the way - if ever a loved one dies and you are not co-signed on their credit card, do NOT agree to pay their debt unless you ask a lawyer first if you truly have to.

They will say “don’t you want them to go to the grave without debt”, they will try to guilt you, they will take advantage of your vulnerability.

Source: when my father died, he had some credit cards that my mom wasn’t on that she had no access to. The companies contacted her while she was sorting through the bills and getting a handle on how to run the house alone, badgering her with his credit card debt.

She wasn’t liable for any of it, but if she had ever agreed to pay before finding out that she didn’t need to, she would have been considered to have taken on his debt and would have HAD to pay it. It’s slimy, it’s predatory, and it’s entirely legal for them to do this.

Never accept the credit card company’s word about your obligation to pay anyone else’s debt, if you don’t have access to the card, ask a lawyer before agreeing to anything.

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