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you got it. ay ay you got it.

[pikklemikkle]

hello! i am PikkleMikkle (he/him) and you’re watching the last vestige of my online presence. instagram? threw it out the window. twitter? escaped with my life. now i am here, bright eyed and bushy tailed and waiting for the day when i’m ready to throw my phone into the ocean for good. for now, i will reblog stuff i like, maybe talk a bit about being an international politics student, and keep a record of the unhinged internet posts i made as a teenager under the tag the tweets. i do not live on any of the american continent(s)!! sorry not sorry!

that’s all for now. to see what i mean, i think you’ll like this post right here⤵️

[liquidstar]

"only 90s kids remember-" wrong, if you're poor and/or rural enough, old tech and fashion doesn't just disappear when it stops being trendy. We had dial-up until 2012

[forsakenwitchery]

The Mighty Nein | season 1 + the lows aka such a cute wholesome show where nothing bad happens to anyone ever

[pikklemikkle]

Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! make my blorbos suffer!

[slunch]

[cpericardium]

[eclipsen-smiles]

I’d be SO interested to see what problems this guy so “obviously” foresaw.

[pikklemikkle]

Early touch screens were so bad. So so bad. I’m not a science person so i don’t know exactly how they worked, but i have a basic idea. In order to get a signal that a computer can read from your finger into the computer, there needs to be some kind of electric signal. One way early touch screens did this was by having two conductive screens on top of each other with a small gap in between. when you pushed down on the top screen, it would touch the bottom screen and complete a circuit. there were other ways too but that’s the one i remember. one of the reasons they were bad was because you never knew how much pressure to apply. in a phone, where the expectation back then is that you press a button and it works, it would have been disaster. also unbelievably thick and fragile. in 2007 you had tactile buttons that worked every time (my old LG Cosmos comes to mind), thin sleek designs (Razr was The phone), and built to withstand apocalypse (Nokia 3310).

Steve Jobs’ innovation was to have your finger be the top screen. you carry a liiiittle bit of electricity in you, so if you touch an iphone (and nowadays most every phone) it will complete a circuit. lots of things are conductive, so if you touch your phone with a hot dog, it will also work. if you throw a hotdog at your phone, it won’t.

so imagine you’re in 2007, touch screens have been around for about 40 years, and they have all sucked. every single one of them. every new innovation creating new problems and solving few others. then some nutjob walks up on tv and says “i’ve done it.” like, yeah right bozo. it makes perfect sense not to trust it. something that has always been really bad suddenly becoming basically perfect?

but also jeff is right in other ways. the horrors of the phone cannot be understated.

[sroloc--elbisivni]

i'm reading a book about seventh century northumbria and you've heard of the tiffany problem but let me tell you there is nothing quite like reading through 350 pages calibrating for names like Oswiu and Æthelfrith and Paeda and Ecgfrith and Eanflæd and then getting smacked in the face with the fucking Bishop Chad

[pikklemikkle]

this reminds me of one of the best cathedral windows i’ve ever seen

top 1 best things to see in Chester

[smashcut]

On the day of Dick Cheney’s death, I’m thinking about a lot of horrible consequences of his actions, but I’m also thinking about Lauren Hough telling Dick Cheney to waterboard her “if it makes him feel better” when she repaired his cable.

[draconym]

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

[mikeyhasthoughts]

frankly the universe is playing cosmic pranks on me right now soo if anyone has some really good cat photos i appreciate it

[pikklemikkle]

i found the cats!!

[mikeyhasthoughts]

frankly the universe is playing cosmic pranks on me right now soo if anyone has some really good cat photos i appreciate it

[pikklemikkle]

not a cat but, just look

[deepblueink2d]

Does anyone have any musical recommendations? I've had Hadestown, Amelie and Nerdy Prudes Must Die on a loop all year and probably need to find some new things to listen to ♥️

[pikklemikkle]

Dicks: The Musical. it’s perfect. bowen yang plays god. it has sewer boys. megan thee stallion has a secret song. nathan lane. Nathan Lane

[homunculus-argument]

It would be fun to re-learn french, but specifically go for one of the African dialects, just to make it clear that even if I only learned the language to be able to talk to more people, I have no respect for the colonialism. It took immense violence to put french into Africa, but now no amount of violence can take Africa out of french. And I'm joining this fight specifically against you.

[pikklemikkle]

my grandma, an 80-something short white finnish woman, lived in Senegal for 10 years. now whenever she speaks french to someone it’s in this heavy Senegalese accent that makes all the parisians say

qu'est ce que le fuck?

a delight every time

[magicratfingers]

I know some of you will love this

[nsomniacsdream]

that looks awesome. tybalt is a mitsubishi forklift. the real understand

[nsomniacsdream]

[nsomniacsdream]

[magicratfingers]

wake up babe new blorbos just dropped

[foolhearteyes]

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

[jkthinkythoughts]

I swear this is how I feel every time I see a Tumblr screenshot out in the wild

[hedgehog-moss]

I didn’t know fondue was a thing outside USA—stupid but i thought it was like, fake cheese that we would melt to dip tiny weenies in. Looked it up and found out it’s Swiss—so probably more people than I realized enjoy it! I would love to try a fondue of local cheese, but that’s not easy to come by where i live. Enjoy yours!

I'm sorry but I am so morally disoriented by the concept of 'fake cheese' that I have trouble focusing on any other aspect of your message. What is fake cheese?? You say that like it's a perfectly understandable and emotionally neutral combination of words. I feel like I've just been handed a koan.

Then you add the phrase “tiny weenies" like it's the logical next step rather than a new psychological event. From my (very French) perspective the sentence "fake cheese to dip tiny weenies in" sounds like such a unique cultural artefact in itself, like a linguistic diorama to be displayed in a vitrine. This is not meant as a negative judgment of you or your country! just my earnest ethnographic confusion as I try to grapple with the concept of "tiny weenies" from a place of "fake cheese" trauma...

I had no idea fondue was seen this way in the US—I thought we (as a species) had a collective working definition of it, a sort of global consensus like the commutative property of addition, so the idea that in some corners of the world "fondue" means “fake cheese to dip tiny weenies in” has made me remember that you can just flay language off reality like skin. There's also a non-zero chance for this phrase to have activated a sleeper agent in Lausanne and authorised targeted elimination under the Académie Française’s emergency powers.

The concept of fondue now feels violently theoretical but I wish you many delicious ones in the future though :) You have politely disintegrated a couple of foundational concepts I'd never realised I relied on, which is always enriching. I won't recover, but thank you for sending this!

[deepblueink2d]

Me: I know I'm a bit colourblind but I'm not THAT colourblind.

My sincere attempt at drawing a lasagna in 2023:

[pikklemikkle]

just to see what colors these could possibly be, i tried upping the saturation by like. too much. besides the fact that this lasagna looks like a deep fried meme now, i can kinda see it? the ragu is red, just like mama used to make, and the noodles are yellow. success?

[electronicmail]

aieeee!!!!!! Just kidding im fine.

[electronicmail]

I’m fine.