oh no, bestie, not this blog

HELLO, MY LOVE!! she/they. born 1996

[nebulaegem]

Hungry 😋

[eldritchbauble]

Can you remember the 90s?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 2 hours

As in, do any of your memories take place during the 90s (yes, a single memory from 1999 counts).

I can remember about half of them. My earliest memory was probably 1995 and they go from there.

[notthatamy-blog]

Can you remember the 80s?

yes

no

Remaining time: 36 minutes

Do you have any memory of watching The Wall come down on the evening news? Was anyone on Tumblr there?

[digitaldiscipline]

[only-cat-memes]

[dualboot-dollbot]

[gen4]

Nintendo DSi

The Nintendo DSi is able to connect to an online store similar to the Wii Shop Channel,called the DSi Shop. Users will be able to download DSiWare games and applications to the internal memory or the SD card of the user’s DSi system. The DSi will be released in Japan on November 1

Long wait for Australia to get this product zZzZzZ

[bunjywunjy]

pass this post GENTLY it’s a priceless relic of the First Age

[aluminumfox]

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[knightclubbing]

having to stop your conversation with a coworker when a customer walks in has the same vibe as two knights talking ildly on guard duty who have to quickly shut up and resume their positions as the king walks by. at least. i think so

[drtrinitysantos]

coffeeshops used to give you a free drink for your birthday and now they just text you like "Hey bestie! Since you're a CoffeePoints™ rewards™ member, order yourself a birthday treat right now in our app™ and you will receive two (2) extra CoffeePoints™ with your purchase!! That's two points closer to a 1500 CoffeePoints™ reward™: your choice of one (1) disposable napkin*!!!"

*Exclusions apply. Offer is non-transferable and valid only at participating locations. Cannot be used toward plastic utensils or straws. Expires 20 minutes after qualifying purchase.

[proteidaes]

Daily painting 160/365

Visiting the flowers 💐🌾

[fuhosh-i]

Confessions of a People-Pleaser

On the unpleasantness of being very, very pleasant

[jadwigaspeaks]

The fact that antisemites are using the word "noticing" and "noticing patterns" as dogwhistles is annoying because I do actually notice a lot of stuff, patterns included, and one of the most obvious patterns I've noticed to date is that all antisemitic rhetoric makes no sense if you think critically about it for 5 seconds. Often less

[jadwigaspeaks]

A TERF liked this post so I just want to clarify that another pattern I've noticed is the massive overlap between anti-trans rhetoric and antisemitic rhetoric

[pillowspace]

Stop posting AI-generated animal videos without disclaimer to Tumblr or I'm crashing the ship into a cliffside

[verysexyseagull]

[xylocope]

[l0stn3v3rf0und]

[scarletthedeadhand]

[raika-kiara]

[pillowspace]

i'm going back to sleep

[century-potpourri]

[pillowspace]

Komaeda, thank god it's you, I had a horrible nightmare that there was a guy

[evilfuckignskeleton]

[pillowspace]

Hold on Komaeda, I'm sensing a presence

[emilio-guevara-the-sexy-man]

Ah (midly startled)

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[notaplaceofhonour]

will never not be mad about gig economy apps making a 4 star rating mean “unacceptable quality”

[notaplaceofhonour]

Doordash will suspend you below 4.2 stars.

Uber drivers can be suspended at 4.6 stars.

Lyft drivers risk suspension under 4.8 stars.

Even for apps where they don’t have a publicly stated minimum, their algorithms will bury you.

4 stars does not mean 4 stars. It means 1.4 stars.

If you give a person a 4 star rating, to these companies, you are not saying “I was mostly satisfied with the service, but there’s always room for improvement”—which is what 4 stars should mean—you are voting for them to be fired.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Genuinely, do not ever give people 4 star ratings on gig service apps for any reason that is not a safety issue where their continuation on the app could seriously hurt people.

If someone gives you “just OK” service where you don’t want to give them 5 stars, but you don’t actively hate their existence and hope they die, just don’t rate them.

[when-you-fail-again]

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so close to having a coherent thought about this, but I find it very interesting how violent behaviour is viewed in characters, versus other sorts of antisocial behaviour (-phobias, -isms, etc). maybe it's the perceived separation from reality? because if you're lucky, nobody in your life will ever slit anyone's throat, so you get to view it as an abstract and fantastical action. it's pure play! whereas if a character says something like "you look fat in those jeans", BAM! instant hatred, because now you can link it to painful moments in your own life. even though the people you've heard those words from (moms, aunties, grandmas) are probably people that you still love.

which is why you get all these books that embrace hyper violence but flinch away from any -phobias and -isms, because that would be uncomfortable.

what makes the dissonance especially jarring is that viewing violence as abstract is a privilege. in Canada and the States, we get to sit comfortably in our homes while our governments fund weapons and send troops to inflict violence overseas. and sure, we can watch a genocide live-streamed on social media, but it still feels distant.

don't confuse this as me saying violence shouldn't be written about! everything should be written about! it's more me wondering why violence feels comfortable to write about, when arguably milder social offences do not.

[pangur-and-grim]

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

The American century of humiliation is goin great 👍

[wumiwux]

oh so you’re evil? Name every resident.