Littlelucas6317

My tumblr of reposts and posts of stuff that I like.

[ciricearts]

ada please ada ada please ada

[petrovalineconstellations]

So if for some goddamn reason you still have tiktok? Maybe delete it

This shit is dystopian as fuck

Delete it as soon as you can do not fucking use the app at all

[crow-caller]

Yeah, so, "TikTok is officially under the control of a cadre of pro-Trump billionaires including Larry Ellison."

[ohnoitstbskyen]

OK, so while it is never a bad decision to delete social media from your devices (seriously, do it, get rid of as much of it as you can), this post is based on misinformation.

The terms of service everyone is freaking out about are more or less unchanged from what they were prior to the sale. The highlighted section in the pictures here is "Information You Provide" - which is to say, it is detailing how TikTok handles information that YOU PUBLISH on their app. If you post a video where you say something like "as a biracial New Yorker..." or "as a queer person," then you have personally and voluntarily published that information about yourself, and TikTok will store it alongside the rest of the data they have on you.

TikTok was already collecting all of that information, it was already selling all of that information to the highest bidder, and so are all of its competitors. If you're on Instagram, they are also tracking and selling that information, if you use any of Google's apps, it's the same deal. Hell, if you have installed a third party weather app or an app that identifies bird calls or a ticket app for your local public transport, or a period tracker or a news app or calendar or music player or literally any free-to-play mobile game, there's a better-than-average chance that they are collecting and selling that kind of data about you.

The major change now that TikTok has been purchased is not how much information it is extracting from you. The volume remains largely unchanged, ByteDance is a market leader in that regard. If the US government wanted to use TikTok data to identify dissenters, they could almost certainly simply purchase that data from ByteDance and feed it to Palantir the same as they do data from Meta and Google.

The greater worry about the US TikTok app is that the new government affiliated ownership will implement speech-control and heavy-handed algorithmic censorship on the US side of the app, since the gov't push to acquire the app seems to have been prompted in no small part by a panic that the app was used to disseminate information about the Gaza genocide in a way the US government couldn't easily control or interfere with.

It's also a sale that was heavily pushed for by Meta and Google, who have been extremely keen to both neuter TikTok as a competitor in the social video space, AND acquire their technical information and content serving algorithms to optimize their own products to be more competitive. Which, by the way, this is also relevant information: ONLY the US version of the app is now controlled by US billionaire interests, the global version used by everyone else in the world remains under the control of ByteDance, and by extension the Chinese government.

To be clear, I'm not recommending that anyone should be on TikTok, and I am not saying that the amount of identifying private data that these apps collect from you isn't fucking horrifying and invasive and dangerous.

I'm saying that people flying into a panic over supposedly "new" dystopian terms of service are either jumping at shadows, or else are rather cynically trying to farm engagement by playing on people's fears to prompt sharing and reposting. Panicking doesn't help anyone, and spreading misinformation doesn't help either.

Yes, everyone should be especially wary of the US branch of TikTok after the sale, but they didn't hide their nefarious doomsday plot in a ToS update like cartoon villains. They bought the app in part because it was already doing all the nefarious invasive data-collection we're afraid of, but it was under the ownership of a foreign authoritarian regime, and they wanted to cut out the middle-man.

If you want to start protecting your privacy online, deleting as much social media as possible from all of your devices is a very good place to start, but just panic-deleting TikTok is not going to make you any safer. At best it'll create a false sense of security while fourteen other apps on your phone harvest all the same data for all the same data-brokers. Yelling at other people for still being on the app won't help either, that is mostly just a way to draw a false demarcation line that you can feel better about being on the "right" side of.

Absolutely uninstall TikTok, but do it based on a factual understanding of what these apps are and how online privacy works, not because someone posted a breathless set of screenshots and the word "DYSTOPIAN!!!" on tumblr dot com.

[planet4546b]

i mean this so seriously if you have any sort of creative project you can and should be a little obsessed with it. you should reread your own writing and look at your own art and brag about your ocs its literally good for your health

[kananeski]

This recently came across my timeline on Twitter ala @coelasquid and it’s too good not to include.

[thesanityclause]

Kelly Turnbull is so fucking wise

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“Intense NPC energy” is the best possible description for this phenomenon. They’re right. The characters all have NPC energy in these movies.

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

The Chief Graphic Designer:

[commonplacefolklore]

Maria Skłodowska-Curie's notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They're so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes "yea there's a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush." like wat excuse me

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

just rewatched t2

[remanedur]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Actually this time probably not. The writing was on the wall way before Reagan became president, and the steel mill closed in November 1981, barely ten months into his president.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

He was governor of California during that "writing on the wall" period. He was the one writing. It was his wall.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Oh. Well don't I look stupid now.

[xpxssxm]

Terrible news: you learned something today

[membraneshock]

rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

[effemimaniac]

we are in the midst of a true Real One

[elbiotipo]

[fgrobichiko]

Dude the fact a COELACANTH blog is the one that survived when the rest died off……..

[coelasquid]

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

[coelasquid]

Sometimes I wonder how many of the 90 thousand people who have interacted with this post have been like “I think I’ll go to OP’s blog and see what other lovely nuggets of wisdom they have” and then get hit with a wall of nothing but homoerotic drawings of the men from the Yakuza franchise.

[haroldjaffe]

[Image description:

Panel 1:

A frustrated artist with a big colorful thought bubble labeled INFINITE POTENTIAL over their head and a pencil in one hand hunches over a blank sheet of paper and asks, "How do I pack this down into sometime I can actually share?"

Panel 2:

The artist looks at a small grey box in their hands and asks incredulously, "All that work for THIS?!" Brow furrowed, they shove it off on a second person. "Here you go, I made this, it sucks."

Panel 3:

The recipient peeks into the small grey box and colorful light pours out onto them. Holding the open box, they look around in awe, surrounded by the colors of infinite potential the artist had originally imagined.]

[coelasquid]

The middle person is the one who drew all the homoerotic yakuza art

[gjjuddmk2]

[hihogandalfaway]

(from @ruffboijuliaburnsides)

[tpwrtrmnky]

The reactionary backlash to media analysis is a natural part of the wider "fascists hate anything intellectual" phenomenon, btw.

Wanting you to ignore the politics of Star Wars comes from the same exact place that wants you to substitute the germ theory of disease with the 'sickness comes from failure to be a good christian and most people who claim to be sick are just faking anyway' myth.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

To take a quote from Dan Olson:

They don't want these complexities to exist, and by talking about them, you make them exist. It's a form of magical thought. Talking about police brutality wills police brutality into existence. A disruption of the status quo is seen as a disruption of the natural order. The problem they see is that no-one has made those people shut up. That is what they want: someone to come in and make those people shut up and go away, to put things back "where they belong." [...] Their will is a hammer that they are using to beat reality itself into a shape of their choosing, a simple world where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes, devoid of complexity, devoid of change, where they are right and their enemies are silent. They are trying to build a flat earth.

[vague-humanoid]

For years, Japan tried to keep their existence a secret. But the Ainu people refuse to disappear

Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much

As a young boy in school, Masaki Sashima would be dragged out of his classroom and beaten by his fellow students.

Masaki, now 72, was different to the other kids. 

He was Ainu, an Indigenous people from the country's northern regions, most notably the large island of Hokkaido.

"During recess, the hallway door would open, and several guys would yell at me to come out," he said.

"I clung to my desk in the classroom and kept quiet.

"Everyone would surround me and beat me."

Japan has long portrayed itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, something that some have even argued is a key to its success as a nation.

More than 98 per cent of Japanese people are descendants of the Yamato people. 

But the Ainu are distinct, with their own history, languages, and culture.

But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation, and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. 

[andnowanowl-deactivated20260413]

An Ainu woman named Chiri Yukie wrote down some of her people's oral traditions into Japanese because, as a child, her people were being displaced by Japanese settlers in Hokkaido. Her language was disappearing, so she (ironically) saw translating the stories into Japanese as a way to preserve them. She died at age 19.

[rumade]

Some of the objects from the Ainu exhibition at Japan House in London this year, showcasing traditional Ainu skills and culture. There is a campaign to get Ainu recognised as an official language, at least in Hokkaido, and small steps are happening, for example, bilingual bus stops. It reminds me of the struggle for Welsh to be revived after suppression for centuries.

[snow-nose]

second image ID: the cover of The Song The Owl God Sang: The collected Ainu legends of Chiri Yukie, Translated into English by Benjamin Peterson. end ID

[mizoguchi]

Also, this is a good short ~25 minute documentary that shows Ainu people fighting to recover their ancestral bones and bodies from Hokkaido University that's worth a watch.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

This is something which it is extremely important to understand about Japan as a nation. It has a national and international narrative about itself as a unified, geographically and culturally consistent polity, but from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south, to the Ryukyuan island chain near Taiwan (and well beyond at various times), the Japanese have undertaken imperial conquest and colonization of their nearby territories, and have attempted brutal assimilation or eradication of the indigenous people of those places, and the Japanese government has historically been wildly resistant to recognizing those minority groups as minority groups, likely in part because it would commit the country to offering them appropriate legal protections.

Japan IS ethnically diverse, Japan IS linguistically diverse, it IS culturally diverse, and the portrayal of Japan as a homogenous society is a portrayal which serves the political aims of particular groups, often the far right and conservative wings of Japanese society, and certainly the apologists for empire.

To grab a quote from Wikipedia:

Initially, to justify Imperial Japan's conquest of Continental Asia, Imperial Japanese propaganda espoused the ideas of Japanese supremacy by claiming that the Japanese represented a combination of all East Asian peoples and cultures, emphasizing heterogeneous traits. Imperial Japanese propaganda started to place an emphasis on the ideas of racial purity and the supremacy of the Yamato race when the Second Sino-Japanese War intensified. Fuelled by the ideology of racial supremacy, racial purity, and national unity between 1868 and 1945, the Meiji and Imperial Japanese government carefully identified and forcefully assimilated marginalized populations, which included Okinawans, the Ainu, and other underrepresented non-Yamato groups, imposing assimilation programs in language, culture and religion.

[kominfyrirkattarnef]

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

[vague-humanoid]

For years, Japan tried to keep their existence a secret. But the Ainu people refuse to disappear

Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much

As a young boy in school, Masaki Sashima would be dragged out of his classroom and beaten by his fellow students.

Masaki, now 72, was different to the other kids. 

He was Ainu, an Indigenous people from the country's northern regions, most notably the large island of Hokkaido.

"During recess, the hallway door would open, and several guys would yell at me to come out," he said.

"I clung to my desk in the classroom and kept quiet.

"Everyone would surround me and beat me."

Japan has long portrayed itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, something that some have even argued is a key to its success as a nation.

More than 98 per cent of Japanese people are descendants of the Yamato people. 

But the Ainu are distinct, with their own history, languages, and culture.

But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation, and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. 

[andnowanowl-deactivated20260413]

An Ainu woman named Chiri Yukie wrote down some of her people's oral traditions into Japanese because, as a child, her people were being displaced by Japanese settlers in Hokkaido. Her language was disappearing, so she (ironically) saw translating the stories into Japanese as a way to preserve them. She died at age 19.

[rumade]

Some of the objects from the Ainu exhibition at Japan House in London this year, showcasing traditional Ainu skills and culture. There is a campaign to get Ainu recognised as an official language, at least in Hokkaido, and small steps are happening, for example, bilingual bus stops. It reminds me of the struggle for Welsh to be revived after suppression for centuries.

[snow-nose]

second image ID: the cover of The Song The Owl God Sang: The collected Ainu legends of Chiri Yukie, Translated into English by Benjamin Peterson. end ID

[mizoguchi]

Also, this is a good short ~25 minute documentary that shows Ainu people fighting to recover their ancestral bones and bodies from Hokkaido University that's worth a watch.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

This is something which it is extremely important to understand about Japan as a nation. It has a national and international narrative about itself as a unified, geographically and culturally consistent polity, but from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south, to the Ryukyuan island chain near Taiwan (and well beyond at various times), the Japanese have undertaken imperial conquest and colonization of their nearby territories, and have attempted brutal assimilation or eradication of the indigenous people of those places, and the Japanese government has historically been wildly resistant to recognizing those minority groups as minority groups, likely in part because it would commit the country to offering them appropriate legal protections.

Japan IS ethnically diverse, Japan IS linguistically diverse, it IS culturally diverse, and the portrayal of Japan as a homogenous society is a portrayal which serves the political aims of particular groups, often the far right and conservative wings of Japanese society, and certainly the apologists for empire.

To grab a quote from Wikipedia:

Initially, to justify Imperial Japan's conquest of Continental Asia, Imperial Japanese propaganda espoused the ideas of Japanese supremacy by claiming that the Japanese represented a combination of all East Asian peoples and cultures, emphasizing heterogeneous traits. Imperial Japanese propaganda started to place an emphasis on the ideas of racial purity and the supremacy of the Yamato race when the Second Sino-Japanese War intensified. Fuelled by the ideology of racial supremacy, racial purity, and national unity between 1868 and 1945, the Meiji and Imperial Japanese government carefully identified and forcefully assimilated marginalized populations, which included Okinawans, the Ainu, and other underrepresented non-Yamato groups, imposing assimilation programs in language, culture and religion.

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[master-john-uk]

'Great omen for 2026' found at winter solstice celebrations at Stonehenge

One detail spotted at the winter solstice celebrations at Stonehenge has been hailed as a 'great omen' for the year ahead

A black cat was spotted atop the stones at Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice celebrations. This is considered be a good omen for the coming year.

[lynati]

Ah yes, we can all see him face!

[vapingbaby]

[dragaszagom]

[aviculor]

[snow-white-shadow]

[sloganeeer]

[punkitt-is-here]

you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is

[punkitt-is-here]

I saw a picture of my mom last week and did a double take because we both realized how similar we look. skinny white anime girls are not real women but your mom is. I promise you look like a real woman

[punkitt-is-here]

Shoutouts to the funniest possible tags on this post