Read/Write

Just one more chapter...

[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?

[sevensmallgummies]

Sphinx employee slash bodega cat that blocks the door and asks riddles, the owner has the answer of the day on a paper taped to the door.

it never notices.

[sevensmallgummies]

important addition from a friend:

everyone thinks REALLY hard and regulars makes two bad guesses so it feels like it's doing a good job

[aviantastic]

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

[fluentisonus]

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

[cryptidofthecove]

[roycohn]

i was in the grocery store and saw an onion on the ground and picked it up, absently saying “poor little guy.” behind me a teenage girl started laughing and then stopped and went “aww. i’m sorry for laughing. that’s nice actually.” and the cycle of cruelty is broken for another generation as a young person realizes that it is not embarrassing to have empathy for another thing that was once living, because certainly to be a lone white onion rolling on the ground in a supermarket would be terrifying to anyone

[tiredqueertranarchist]

More gentle youths from @spacefuneral's tags

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags from spaceFuneral reading: #this reminds me of how these two teenage girls apparently come into my work often and i didnt recognize them but they recognized me #and they were like " do you just have a collection of mystical cat shirts" #and i was like oh god im about to be bullied by teenagers #and i was like haha yeah! #and said that one person gifted me one and then suddenly i was collecting them #and they were like "i love that i love your vibes" #and "thank you for sharing your lore" #and i was like god damn.......... peace and love on planet earth /End ID]

[transcyberism]

tired: "treat people like NPCs" as in disregard their humanity and interiority

wired: "treat people like NPCs" as in talk to them and learn their lore to feel more embedded in the world around you

[no-one-offical]

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[kamscorn]

no i dont want to ‘ask chatgpt’ i want to go to a wikipedia page and spend half an hour reading an article like a real person

[read-write]

And then clicking a link in the article to read something related to the article. Then a chain of fifty more links and articles until I'm on a page not even remotely related to the original article. A wikiwalk is good exercise for my brain!

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[calvinandhobbescomic]

[under-the-arch]

No, Calvin was right

[distributing-direwolves]

Calvin was 100% right.

[turtletotem]

You’ll notice Miss Wormwood didn’t disagree, just gave him advice on how to handle the pain.

[unyieldingsilence]

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[s-nnoh]

someone made a website where you can declare your favorite pokemon & why. let's all see if every pokemon is someone's favorite... Together

[aquilacalvitium]

Genesect nation rise!!

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

A whole lot of military films will be coming out soon. You'll see older ones showing up on streaming service and new ones soon to follow. Sure, a few are, in fact, very good movies. But here's the caution:

Any film featuring the US military is paid for by the US military. They have the final word on what comes out. These films are recruitment tools. Same applies to TV shows, and doubtless many will soon be showing up.

Do not be fooled by these films and shows. They are designed to bring in new recruits. When these are released, there is a surge in new people enlisting in the military. These recruits swiftly discover they were fed bullshit, but now they're stuck due to a contract. Going AWOL, away without leave, is desertion. You will be caught and put on trial for desertion, and they are not light with the sentencing.

Please, for the love of fuck, do not enlist with the military. You are cannon fodder. They do not care about you.

Recruiters are told to lie. To do whatever it fucking takes to enlist new people. Do not fucking fall for it.

These films and shows are recruitment tools paid for by the military. It's why they're so big, glamorous, and quickly made. Enjoy what you see, but don't sign up. It's a fucking lie.

[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[the-haiku-bot]

Brandon Sanderson:

What’s the difference between

Gollum and Sauron?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[sigynpenniman]

On that note though can we talk about how many problems being short actually causes me? And I understand this sounds crazy because you would not think that being the height I am (4’ 11”) would be short enough to be outside of the rough average height range that is comfortably covered by most infrastructure. But It Is. My feet cannot touch the floor in most chairs. Seatbelts, even adjustable ones, hit me in potentially deadly places without a 3rd party clip of some kind. I was limited in my options when I bought a car because there are some vehicles I cannot drive safely even with everything in the vehicle adjusted to the maximum. I can see absolutely nothing but the back of the guy in front of me at floor seating concerts. I have to stand on my toes to see over the counter comfortably at banks. I am being completely serious here my life and even my safety is seriously negatively affected by my height and I am not even outside the range of heights considered to be “normal.” I feel like everyone’s gonna dogpile me for saying this because I’m “acting like I have it hard when there’s really nothing wrong with me” but I am being so for real the world is not made for me and as the seatbelt in this car cuts painfully into my neck I cannot forget it.

[read-write]

It's the same for people who are left-handed. You'd be surprised how many issues they have with tools because they are designed for being used with your right hand. Not just power tools but something as simple as scissors can be more difficult to use left-handed.

Even work areas are designed and laid out with the assumption of you being right-handed. A computer desk for instance with the mouse being on the right by default. It seems like something small but left-handers have to constantly adjust things lots of us take for granted. A computer desk needing rearranged isn't a big deal, if annoying, but what about other more dangerous jobs? Many left-handers get hurt and even die just because their tools or spaces weren't designed for them.

[bob-artist]

Can I interest you in a

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crabonated beverage?

[bob-artist]

How to tell when your pun has reached both of its intended demographics

[catchymemes]

[link-the-feral-anon]

When you remember the anti-vax movement

[burger-prince]

[tatsutahimet]

I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.

[reaperrmancer]

Ur right and u should say it

[ap-kinda-lit]

Reading this in 2021

[ssv-raven]

Reading in 2026

[dovewithscales]

Y'all, we as a community have got to get better at dodgeball if we’re gonna keep tempting fate like that.

[read-write]

[macintush-deactivated20140612]

Recycled tumblr humor

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[macintush-deactivated20140612]

pun

[macintush-deactivated20140612]

pun repeated in italics

[fuglypudding]

“did you just” added

[alleneverafter]

supernatural gif that fits even though the post was nowhere near related to spn

[tateshaw-deactivated20201206]

[ginger-witz]

comment expressing disbelief on how Supernatural has a gif for everything

[something-----strange]

Comment expressing their uttermost love for Tumblr

[hohoehoes]

comment expressing utter hate for posts like these

[knitbelove]

Comment that OMG IT’S THE ORIGINAL I’VE ONLY SEEN IT IN SCREENSHOTS

[mittensmorgul]

what was old is apparently new again

[bees-official]

Someone saying this post is a must reblog

[sagegreenfrogs]

someone mentioning the ops are all deactivated

[analogue-dragon]

The @hellsite-hall-of-fame reblog

[teaboot]

Reading this in 2024 feels like an immortal returning to their old village after 300 years and finding it’s been converted to a heritage site full of period actors

[anexperimentallife]

A lot of folks don't understand, so I'll break it down: It's not just, "bad man get shot so left laugh." We're laughing because he died of the thing he specifically endorsed. This guy said the 16,576 gun deaths in 2024 (with 5,151 CHILDREN wounded or killed) in the US were "necessary."

"But his childr--" He also specifically said kids should be forced to watch public executions, HE laughed when a six-year-old little girl was shot over three hundred times, and said empathy for ANYONE was bad.

And get this--he was shot WHILE DEFENDING GUN VIOLENCE. THAT'S what makes it funny.

Like, if he'd died choking on a chicken bone or something, sure, we'd still rag on him, but the WAY he bought it just... It's like if RFK Jr. died from measles or Covid.

Oh, and the response from the far right desperately trying to link his death to "trans ideology," "the Democrats," and "The Radical Left," and calling for attacks on those groups, then when it turned out to be one of their own (who decided a guy literally calling for a race war wasn't extreme enough), it was suddenly a "lone, disturbed gunman" situation. If I wrote this stuff into a novel people would classify it as a "dark comedy."

[ilikeit-art]

[cartoondog]

we are gonna be vacuuming up this post for the next five years

[im-a-dragon-cawcaw]