Perhaps Here

Old. Queer. Tired.

[angelgemy]

"Do I look like him?"

[cuprohastes]

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

[alexaloraetheris]

OP did it hurt when Apollo's dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?

[anarchxst]

Tumblr took down the original

So here

[dirhwangdaseul]

i thought the femboy cafes were the greatest invention ever but this chinese lesbian bar 😭>>>>>

[persisting]

my favorite part of this is the dichotomy of queerness as understood by certain cultures in the comments at the end; i.e., “it’s all women so it’s definitely pure and not gross and sexual!” right next to “FUCK IM SO GAY FOR THIS”

[injuries-in-dust]

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[charlesoberonn]

When the 'save' button doesn't take me directly to my files

[enfernalinferno]

What kind of world do we live in?

Where love is divided by hate

Losing control of our feeling

We all must be dreaming this life away

In a world so cold

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[assiraphales]

babe. I know we’re all going thru a lot rn but I just wanna give u the heads up that sesame streets future is in jeopardy. hbo has chosen not to renew it for new episodes (a series that has been going since 1969) and the residents of 123 Sesame Street no longer have a home :(

[assiraphales]

n all seriousness sesame street is such an important piece of living media. it has been around for DECADES and from day 1 highlighted the importance of diversity empathy and education for children in a fun way. their mission statement is “Helping Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder”. it’s been such an influence for so many people at a formative age. it’s creators made it w the intention that it could be a resource for underprivileged kids and help them prepare for kindergarten. thousands of people have learned english from our friends on sesame. pls (at media corporations) don’t let a beloved cultural phenomenon die

[mapleandgingeroatmeal]

Would be lovely if people could spread this link to their donations page around the internet

Support Us - Sesame Workshop

Individual donors and partners can have a major impact. Join Sesame Workshop’s Mission to Help Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and K

[porcupine-girl]

Let’s be clear that the issue NOT that they don’t have a “home.”

SESAME STREET NEVER LEFT PBS!!!!

I realize that most of the coverage of the HBO deal ignored this fact, and so people online all freaked out thinking it would only be on HBO, but this was never true.

The deal was for HBO to get to air new episodes a few months before those episodes aired on PBS. And in return, Sesame Workshop - a nonprofit that does a lot of educational research and development beyond just the one TV show - got a huge influx of funding.

Which means that yes, they are losing this funding source, which is definitely bad! They will need more support! They get money from the government and from grants, but the HBO cash was a lot more.

But also, they are generally a very well-run nonprofit, and I’m guessing they knew the HBO money wouldn’t be forever. So I doubt they’re going to go under soon or anything.

But as far as “not having a home,” Sesame Street always has, and unless public television in the US goes away entirely likely always will, have a home on PBS.

[assiraphales]

babe. I know we’re all going thru a lot rn but I just wanna give u the heads up that sesame streets future is in jeopardy. hbo has chosen not to renew it for new episodes (a series that has been going since 1969) and the residents of 123 Sesame Street no longer have a home :(

[assiraphales]

n all seriousness sesame street is such an important piece of living media. it has been around for DECADES and from day 1 highlighted the importance of diversity empathy and education for children in a fun way. their mission statement is “Helping Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder”. it’s been such an influence for so many people at a formative age. it’s creators made it w the intention that it could be a resource for underprivileged kids and help them prepare for kindergarten. thousands of people have learned english from our friends on sesame. pls (at media corporations) don’t let a beloved cultural phenomenon die

[mapleandgingeroatmeal]

Would be lovely if people could spread this link to their donations page around the internet

Support Us - Sesame Workshop

Individual donors and partners can have a major impact. Join Sesame Workshop’s Mission to Help Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and K

[mehyewll-blog]

Link to quote source (x)

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (February 14th, 2013)

[fyeahstormandwolvie]

Storm and Wolverine by Marc Silvestri

[catasters]

[glamdolf]

 - fortesa latifi | insp.

[catchymemes]

[llysaan]

The collection is complete!!! This series of portraits took so long 😭 but I am happy with how they turned out 🥲💕

These will all be available as prints when my shop launches on Friday! And, if you’re interested in a giveaway for the whole set, check out my instagram (same username!) where we’re celebrating 15k 🥰

[blushedfemmes]

i love ppl who talk in the tags bc it satisfies my deep desire to know ppl’s opinions on everything without needing to have a conversation with them and ask. even better when it’s a side tangent that barely has anything to do with the post, or a personal anecdote, or a joke. tag talker mutuals you’re my favorite. tag talkers rise up

[sarakipin]

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