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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

x0401x

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

starfieldcanvas

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

excusethequality

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

excusethequality

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

anarchistmemedistro

dollsahoy

Oh, hey, they have a lot of those old Wilton cake decorating publicatons

dreamyintersexpuppy

we have to stop moralizing the human condition and start jerking each other off while making out

dreamyintersexpuppy

I have had so many bad takes on this post and not only is this a breath of fresh air, I’m gonna kiss you for it, you get me

mevil

crowleystolemyshoes

[first picture ID: a picture of five fish in an aquarium lined up next to each other facing out of the aquarium. the fish are just above the floor and pressed up to the aquarium wall. text reads: "why do my fish do this a lot of the time?".

second picture ID: a comment responding to the above question. it reads "not enough room maybe." the original poster has responded to this comment with a zoomed-out picture of the aquarium; it's huge, and the fish take up a comically small part of it huddled in front of the glass. end ID]

therinly

Finished a new piece. I think it speaks to my state of mind. Notice the fine details. :)

iheartallthethings

[id: cross-stitch of large block letter words "THIS IS FINE", made entirely of tiny repeating cross-stitched " FUCK"s. End I'd]

therinly

Finished a new piece. I think it speaks to my state of mind. Notice the fine details. :)

abuzd

Daniel Sloss SAID IT THANK YOU DANIEL SLOSS

shy-retiring-oxford-chaps

Reblogging again now that Russell Brand's ugly mug is back in the news to remind everyone that in the 2023 Times expose on his abusive behaviour, Daniel Sloss was the only male comedian willing to be named and quoted like "yeah that dude's a scumbag and women have been warning each other about him for years."

romelzacarnes

Also after the recent story that "two teenage boys were spared jailed" because the judge wanted to avoid criminalising them despite them assaulting two teenage girls, filming it and sharing it online.

Things will only change if those at the very top take their responsibilities seriously.

badartxd

I keep seeing men dismissing it, but if your male friends’ idea of humour is jokes about SA (or racism/sexism/homophobia), you not calling them out on it creates a safe space for those ideas and behaviours. And I keep encountering situations where someone in a guys’ friend group turned out to be an actual bigot or abuser, and their reaction is “sure he was a bit edgy” or “I didn’t know he meant it”, but the bottom line is that he said that shit, and they laughed and nodded along, while the people who got hurt were further isolated by the enabling of their abuser’s behaviour.

Change starts with not making room for a Schrödinger’s douchebag in your circle.

anphivenas

i need to get into cars

dontsaythatillcry

they have doors which help with this

lilium-orientalis-deactivated20

tieflingkisser

rot8erconex

While this is a bad feature because it is keylogging, and is something that you should disable, it is not technically AI in the same way that ChatGPT or Grok are, and is not a new feature - it is old enough to be in early releases of Win10 (where the description is largely the same but does not mention the dubious "These stats are stored only on this device and..." disclaimer).

fugu-in-f

Yeah, there's plenty of reasons to dislike AI, but this ain't it. This is autocorrect from your phone keyboard for desktop computer.

By all means, pare it out, debloat your computer, but this isn't going to 'train' anything else or work 'the data centers.'

(still happy to take converts to linux land and stay mad at microsoft, just... understand why.)

nanalineni

I love how varied and universally weird the circumstances for making lifelong friendships are. Here's this guy I accidentally messaged once and I could not imagine my life without them now. Here's this girl I was so scared of when I met her, I would kill for her and remind her to rest on the regular. Here's this other guy we have so much in common we used to joke we were the same person in different timelines. It took us years to meet in person and I attended his wedding. There are also people who entered my life in absolutely unremarkable ways but changed it forever for the better. It's wonderful how easy it is to find people to love.

nanalineni

This is the best post I have ever written, read the notes and be blessed by loving your friends magic

gif87a-com

homosexualontheloose

sunshine-tattoo

i was about to say this is at the Toronto airport and then suddenly it definitely. Was. Not.

uncle-beanbag-mojave

That’s just the Toronto Bannana Boa

acerby

Jörmungandr is trying to catch a plane they are late for ragnarok

marauders4evr

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

galwaygremlin

wdym you can hear it?

superpaperclip

Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.