it's been a strange ride

robin • 31 • she/they | art blog is @ikcaris

[morningstarwhipped]

heart-of-hyrule >>> morningstarwhipped

[ailuromantic-deactivated2022122]

nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends

[ailuromantic-deactivated2022122]

only ppl on this post who matter r the ppl who r saying "me except im not a girl anymore" & "me except i wasnt a girl yet"

[squeakitties]

[bobbole]

Schinako Moriyama, Stairway to the moon

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.

Instagram is full of first-person videos of men harassing women in public. They follow a similar script: A man walks up to a woman or group of women in a store, sitting outside a cafe, or walking home from a bar, and delivers a pickup line. The women almost always nervously laugh, react with barely-veiled disgust, or say "fuck off" while he stalks her or refuses to walk away. The men recording these videos capture them with Meta's smart glasses, which are designed to discreetly capture interactions like these and upload the videos to Meta's platforms where the women in the videos are turned into content for "pickup artist" accounts.

New research reveals this ecosystem works, and how pickup artists (PUA) influencers are using Meta's products, including its smart glasses and social media platforms, to perpetuate a culture of harassment against women.

[...]

"The more surreptitious the filming seemed, the researchers found, the more serious the harassment. "The data reveals a clear correlation between the 'covertness' of the filming modality and the severity of the harassment," they wrote. "This combination of first-person perspective and device concealment confirms that the means of production remain largely clandestine, facilitating a condition of low awareness among subjects and reinforcing the deceptive nature of wearable-mediated capture."

[proustianrevelry]

Here's what they look like

[innerchildabortionclinic]

That's crazy, I would not be able to tell those apart from regular glasses. I'm not typically fixated on a person's glasses in conversations anyway as someone who wears glasses

[ca-dmv-bot]

Customer: FOR UNCLE CHARALES DMV: FUCKED Verdict: DENIED

[warabou]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

a billionaire can never be held accountable, therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[dragon-in-a-fez]

forcefemming the billionaires won't help

[dragon-in-a-fez]

sorry I thought you were someone else

[sproingusblogging]

I can even be a png cutout

[i-give-animals-cigarettes]

you can even smoke cigarette

[guerrillatech]

[kedreeva]

if you, like me, are hesitant to enjoy what kinda sounds like "relaxes food standards" on the surface, I'm happy to report that this isn't "everyone can do what they want with your food supply without oversight" but rather a case where in NYC you had to have a permit to sell food and a second, superfluous permit to sell frozen desserts. This action simply removes the need for the second permit, rolling it into the first permit in order to help small businesses. Yay!

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[evilwizard]

my liege you cannot trust this buffoon. he doesn’t even begin every other sentence with “my liege.” he‘ll never whisper in your ear the way i do it, my liege. sire. your fuckableness

[plaguedocboi]

You know what? You’re right. Thank you south carolina aquarium

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 31, 2026 - A cannabis dispensary in Michigan, USA, responded to the Flock camera that was put up facing their parking lot by blocking it with a "NO FLOCK ZONE" sign. [video]

[noneedtofearorhope]

apparently, this is in response to a wisconsin man who frequented the shop being arrested after wisconsin jackboots noticed his frequent trips to a legal state

Thanks to Flock Cameras, “Drove Across State Lines” Is Now Justification for Police to Search Your Car

Police in Wisconsin searched a man's car for cannabis because Flock cameras told them he often traveled to Michigan, where weed is legal.

[forestdeity]

seeing wildflowers and birds and critters and sunsets really can keep you going

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[hotvampireadjacent]