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[lettucemakar]

Word already had a word count?! That WORKED?

You made a computer that can't COUNT?!

[arsenalwings]

if you ever feel bad for being an annoying chud when you engage with bad faith discourse on comic internet, remember the patron saint of this business. he's very proud of you and supports you in your endeavors to be an insufferable fuck when it comes to comics. go forth, soldier

[unidentifiedlyingobject]

(from 'I Am Spock' by Leonard Nimoy, 1995)

HAROLD SPOCK!! HOW AM I ONLY FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS NOW?! thank you Jane Wyatt I will make it my life's mission to popularise the usage of Harold Spock

[novelistparty]

saw this on linkedin today, posted by a real xbox employee to announce they got laid off today

[filmphotofranz]

[maureen-corpse]

You know, it's nice knowing just enough of something to know that I don't know anything so I can go look it up. Today I saw someone on Twitter expressing displeasure with the way an item from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection was written, and immediately a bunch of people jumped in to say, "That's how she TALKED, it's called DIALECT," and I thought, "That's from the WPA Slave Narratives and the interviews were conducted by white people, right?" and I consulted the Library of Congress and the Library of Congress said, "by the 1930s, when the interviews took place, white representations of black speech already had an ugly history of entrenched stereotype dating back at least to the early nineteenth century."

And only like one person responded to that tweet with that Library of Congress link that provides a little context rather than uncritically say, "No this is accurate and she definitely talked that way and it was extremely important to write all the words the way they did." They didn't have linguists conducting the interviews, guys. Come on. So shout out to me for looking it up and also shout out to the minority of people who also looked it up and shared it.

[marzipanandminutiae]

there's a similar problem with Sojourner Truth's famous 1851 speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. it's commonly remembered as the "Ain't I A Woman?" speech, in a broad "southern slave" dialect- but that version was published 12 years after the speech in question, and a version printed only a month following the event is very different and far less stereotypical. the latter was also released with her specific blessing, the transcriber having gone over it with her before publication, suggesting that it's likely much closer to what she really said

but it's not what white readers expected from a formerly enslaved Black woman, so it's not what Frances Gage wrote in the 1863 transcription that everyone remembers

(it's also been pointed out that her first language was Dutch and she never lived in the south, so there would be no reason for her to have a southern accent)

[64mpg]

does anyone have $1k and a parasocial relationship with me that may tempt them to send it to me

[theragamuffininitiative]

tumblr users being generally knowledgeable about phishing attempts and scams and yet not hesitating to click various links from unknown users because they say such things as "spin the wheel to determine your alvin and the chipmunks band persona based on my favorite italian desserts" and we go "heck yeah."

[shetheyslain]

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

[isuggestrevolution]

good suggestion

[planetphoebe]

a true dc comics fan will always speak ill of dc comics

[penny-anna]

oh god sudden thought

so as per various DC social media concepts Clark has a Superman twitter where he posts left-leaning but fairly safe & tame stuff e.g. happy pride from Superman. Clark Kent also has his own twitter account where he posts his actual opinion.

what happens if uh. what happens if he forgets which account he's logged into.

[penny-anna]

scenario 1: what's clearly an official Superman post pops up on some rando journalist's twitter and is noticed before he can delete it. leads to controversy when people conclude that Superman has hired this Clark Kent person to do his social media. Clark now has to deal w the fact that everyone thinks he's Superman's social media manager. employers at the Daily Planet very confused as to why he didn't tell them about his side gig

scenario 2: world wakes up to Superman tweeting about how he hates the police

[the-legal-shipper]

Scenario 2: “world wakes up to Superman tweeting about how he hates the police” and then the Shazam twitter account starts agreeing with him and that’s how the world finds out that two of the most powerful heros both hate the police

[penny-anna]

Billy, seeing what Superman just tweeted: oh cool we're allowed to say fuck the police now!!

[offonaherosjourney]

Someone tweets if Bruce Wayne pays taxes, and Bruce accidentally replies with his Batman account with a simple "Yes", so people start to think that besides beating up villains, Batman also spends his time staring menacingly at billionaires while they fill their taxes to make sure there's no creative accounting going on

[nightblackowlbat]

BruceWayneOfficial: yes, the rumors are true. Batman is my accountant.

[gingertea116]

Multiverse of doomed yaoi

[crimson-chains]

A true story of something that happened to me at a con a few years ago! I just couldn't believe that bag saldjaldjalkd!!!

[threepelicansinatrenchcoat]

I think the funniest possible game samer would be if Sam managed to trap Lou, Siobhan, and Brennan in an escape room again

[caydencrypted]

a few days ago an irl told me about how the alphabet is on the wrong order on the doctor who wiki because in one episode a character recites the alphabet backwards but gets two letters the wrong way around and there has been no other representation of the full alphabet in any other dw media so technically there’s no proof that it isn’t canon and i’ve been thinking about that ever since

[caydencrypted]

not joking (U is supposed to come before V)

[caydencrypted]

actually it gets funnier. there are multiple instances of parts of the alphabet being spoken in episodes. the problem is absolutely none of these have spoken that specific section since the episode that got the order wrong.

[frozenscionchangeling]

Jason standing up for his little brother

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[juststarsandthemoon]

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data