'what part of the future do you not understand.'

▪︎ 20 ▪︎ Muslim ▪︎ on multiple spectrums ▪︎ https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine ▪︎

[purpl-dology]

Current fandoms: stalled • the umbrella academy • project hail mary

On an indefinite hiatus

Other fandoms: / future man / the umbrella academy / the Martian (book) / house md / LUCIDS / phantom pulse / Stalled / henry danger & danger force / the digital circus / hunger games / spiderverse (and spider-men in general) / FNAF / severance / pluribus / minecraft & minecraft dungeons & smps / a series of unfortunate events (show) / dead poets society / musicals(starkid, hamilton, epic, mainly) / anything superheros! / rottmnt / gravity falls / inside job / camp camp / and many more i prolly forgot about :p

Listen to my long ass Five Playlist and better tua soundtrack Now!!!

[purpl-dology]

I loveee how everything is designed to piss me off 🙂

[cowardsexual]

not to sound like "why is there slop in my hetslop" but I'm never not going to be baffled by the sheer amount of baby fics in the strattland ao3 tag. "ryland comes back to earth and *gasp* eva had his child!" you cannot convince me that woman didn't immediately get her tubes tied. girl the famine

[lesbx]

they send me to space war even though i’m so freaking small i’m literally just a grunt. they only gave me a pasma pistol. i’m gonna fucking die

[silly-blue-gosling]

call me secret third thing the way no one understands what is going on with me

[okavara]

[horreurscopes]

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

[horreurscopes]

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

[lasrina]

#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing

The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.

[stephaniematurin]

how dare you say we put jam in the printer

[berkelbites]

Ok reblogging this again because story time.

I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.

There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.

So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"

So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.

The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."

So I take a few deep breaths.

Then I lie to her.

I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"

She does.

I ask her if she still needs help.

She does not respond.

[samueldays]

I have similar story from tech support.

Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.

"What did that error message say?" I ask.

"What error message?" asks Client.

I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.

I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.

I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.

---

Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.

But then people with a perverted intellect would still be thinking about ways to avoid reading the message, like dragging it off edge of screen or hiding it behind another window. So maybe the dialog box could have an always-in-front feature to override other windows, and the alert could use the computer's hardware "beep" functionality that can't be switched off by muting the regular sound system, and keep beeping... shit, I realize I'm reinventing pain, and get philosophical about it.

[doccyuk]

Story from The Past about My Mum:

She was a computer programmer / analyst, a... Long Time Ago. Called in for a system she'd installed before, the office folk said they kept having problems where it Didn't Work Right (no error, a malfunction)

She investigated, and told them that could only happen if they did 3 specific things in a specific order, which they should not ever do.

So, she asked, did they ever do that?

No! Of course not, was the answer.

So she made a couple of small changes, packed up and said that should be fine, but they should call her if there were problems.

The next week

She had a call saying "We're getting a strange error message on the system, can you help?"

She said, of course, can they tell her the error?

And the message was:

"You Said You Didn't Do This"

[riceandanimals]

I have been on both ends on this and I can confirm:

Ads have rotten me so bad that any new tab that opens freaks me and I automatically close it or do not read it. Why? Because I'm tired of wading precious time of my life on fucking ads. So yeah it all comes back to fuck ads.

They made our brain not want to read because it might be some fuckass ad.

[apocalypticnewt]

i had a stupid idea

bonus points if you know what this is from

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“if i were you-” you’d collapse and burst into flames if you were me.

[purpl-dology]

i just KNOW five has that stupid millennial 'dont talk to me before my coffee' mug <3

[leporicervidae]

dave looks so happy 🤧🤧🤧

[probuccalfat]

i’ve been feeling like a loser because well i’ve been engaging in loser behaviour and activities like not looking after myself

[theforsakenprince]

Bet it feels good as fuckkk to rest your hand on the pommel of your sword when the newcomer steps a little too close to your lord who you’ve sworn to protect with your life

[herainsorcia]

[starburned-and-unkissed]

I think in order to (properly) adapt a story from greek mythology you HAVE to care about the greek gods, and also about greek culture. from my experience a lot of adaptations just don't feel... like the gods are actually portrayed accurately, as the Greek Gods that they are. nor do the stories care about portraying greek culture in any sort of significant way. which is connected to my second point that I think some people that like greek mythology forget that the greeks didn't just vanish after antiquity and continue to, y'know, exist

[em0goose]

Posting ocs is so embarrassing. Here's my stupid loser I guess. You can kill me if you want

[candlesoul]