siren in the forest

kaioty-summer

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

yellowmagicalgirl

If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.

Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b

If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.

sibmakesart

rbging this on the main blog cause its so important plz plz sign

escuerzoresucitado

drachenkinder

On the twenty-sixth of new year my bestie gave to me

A possum in a peach tree.

figglypuff

necrolentil

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.

improper-integral

datasoong47

Consider thirteen:thirty and fifteen:fifty instead. So, rather, it should be twenteen on the model of twenty

parksanddeserts

Completely agree with twenteen, and it shouldn’t be second but twenth.

the-haiku-bot

Completely agree

with twenteen, and it shouldn’t

be second but twenth.

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

parrot-waxcap

@redrosesshadowwolf

Aw, numbers!

@parrot-waxcap

did you, reblog this from me, to me?

agnostic-atheist spectrum but with flavors

an omnipotent creator being almost certainly doesn't exist but if it does, it's a supervillain

gods shouldn't exist but we keep creating them to use as weapons. and no one knows how to defuse one

gods don't exist which is a relief bc otherwise we'd be forced to hunt them down for execution

creator god exists and we owe it nothing (DEEPLY unqualified)

god/s abandoned us and it hurt at the time but in hindsight we escaped a highly toxic relationship

the universe is a pet goldfish kept in an irresponsibly small bowl by a toddler deity whose parents are considering moving up to a hamster

not just atheist but anti-theist. a divine being descends to earth and im in the background booing

god isn't real but if it was, we'd be obligated to imprison it for crimes against humanity

Fundamentally I think that there are reasons people believe in thinks, it's a reassurance, a balm to life's hardships, and some things, some miraculous things have happened in associated to beliefs. Whether they were pure chance or actually caused by some powerful deity I do not know. But I have respect to those who have their own beliefs whether I believe in the same or not.

But yes, if some all powerful god exists it has committed some of the most atrocious crimes. Such as creating us. And then abandoning us.

Cruelty beyond measure.

Anyways my own father is a Christian minister, but wheen i starter gathering stuff to build a shrine to nature he up and suggested a mythic hunter by name since I have deer bones.

His only rule in regards to religion in the house as a kid was not to try and summon any demons, because he'd salted and put holy water in the doors and windows and didn't want something getting trapped in the house. Always found it a bit funny and worrying honestly. Just meant we couldn't do the whole summon bloody Mary during a sleepover as kids.

agnostic-atheist spectrum but with flavors

an omnipotent creator being almost certainly doesn't exist but if it does, it's a supervillain

gods shouldn't exist but we keep creating them to use as weapons. and no one knows how to defuse one

gods don't exist which is a relief bc otherwise we'd be forced to hunt them down for execution

creator god exists and we owe it nothing (DEEPLY unqualified)

god/s abandoned us and it hurt at the time but in hindsight we escaped a highly toxic relationship

the universe is a pet goldfish kept in an irresponsibly small bowl by a toddler deity whose parents are considering moving up to a hamster

not just atheist but anti-theist. a divine being descends to earth and im in the background booing

god isn't real but if it was, we'd be obligated to imprison it for crimes against humanity

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

holyfunnyhistoryherring

Transcript: Yesterday my cousin said that my rooster wasn't a real rooster. He said he's a Walmart rooster. *chicken noises* Does this not look like a real rooster to you? *chicken makes a sound again* Sure, he's small, but he has feelings.

faeblesmith

important context this person looks and sounds like they’re gonna cry

lastoneout

Also important to note that the rooster appears to be roughly the size of a large pigeon.

lastoneout

The pigeon people have informed me he is the size of a normal pigeon, or perhaps even a small pigeon. Fucking rip.

@screaming-velociraptor bird post!

#bird #chicken #rooster

*jingling the jester bells i obtained from the jesters i hunted &killed, but specifically bc im trying to reestablish traditional jester mating grounds as part of ongoing jester conservation efforts (so I can eventually return to hunting& slaughtering jesters for sport)*

a-rat-with-internet-accesses

Getting a choir to randomly shout out snarky insults to mimic a crowd of court jesters might help.

commandersheena

In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

drizzit

Happy 10 year anniversary to this post!

heroicallynude

People love to ask if I'm enjoying my new job as a field archaeologist but then when I say "Yes very much, I excavated a children's grave today!" They have the audacity to look at me like I'm the weird one

heroicallynude

It's always oh 😐 and never did you enjoy excavating the child grave? Excavating the child grave looked fun, I bet you found some nice pottery

somecutething

A cat waking up from surgery

daco-broman

I am losing my shit

yeahiwasintheshit

everyone trying to get me in the uber

queerspeculativefiction

My cat Nosse had tooth surgery, and had a very strong reaction to the drugs given so he was high as a kite for a lot longer than expected. Apparently he was so desperately cuddly for people that they put him around the neck of one of the nurses doing paperwork, and he just hung there for an hour, purring like a chainsaw, drooling on her shoulder.

Sometimes I still find my arms in prayer, praying to a god I don't belive in.

a-rat-with-internet-accesses

The future may always stay some what bittersweet. Yet, I am glad it isn't bitter

donutdrawsthings

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

skipppppy

So can non-disabled people stop doing that thing where they act like it’s morally righteous to force yourself to work while you’re sick and assume taking sick days automatically equates to laziness. Any time now. That’d be great

skipppppy

The leader of the scout group I help out at approached me out of hours while I was walking to work to tell me that people have been talking behind my back because I missed more sessions than I attended this term (on account of having Covid twice) and was like “We all show up when we’re sick because we take responsibility” and I felt really shitty and guilty and cried the whole workday then I got home and told my mum and she was like “So they want you to throw up on the kids? That’s dodgy. They don’t even pay you. Stop going” and a wave of serenity hit me like a bus

derinthescarletpescatarian

Showing up to your own and others' detriment is almost never the right or good choice.

Sometimes you make it anyways, but that doesn't mean you should have to.

There were a few times, where half the workers were out sick at a job I had. Something like the flu or a cold went and hit a bunch of us, I assume it was transmitted via the air. If we went to work, and got the other half of the staff sick, then there would have been no workers.

A few of us, returned still suffering symptoms once we thought we weren't contagious though.

Admittedly, I'm not sure if I had the same thing as them because including me, only like 4 people lost their voice during that time. I couldn't be loud enough for my job for a week. After a few days, I could get whispers out, but I had a job where I already had trouble being heard without having my voice damaged by sickness, and it was a requirement to communicate. So I was out for a week, I wasn't the only one, and the other workers probably had a hell of a week. I felt a bit bad, but I couldn't do my job in that state. And even if I hadn't lost my voice, I was still sick, likely contagious, I felt like absulute shit. So I called out. Honestly it wasn't till I came back that anyone told me other had been out sick. The managers didn't try and pressure anyone to make it in despite knowing workloads were practically doubled for those who were left.

Admittedly, this was after covid so I might have been just lucky that my time there started after they were far more aware of people needing actually stay home sick. But I'll always be glad that they were reasonable about sick days.

Because I remember being in school and people being less reasonable about them. Like, you had more than like 8 sick days a year and you could fail the grade type of unreasonable. Well, unexcused absences. But I didn't have someone in my house with a car so I ever got to get doctor notes when I was sick. The only time my family considered bringing me to a hospital when I stayed home sick was because I had a fever of 104.? °F I've always had a lower than average body temp, as does the rest of my family, so our fevers start a bit earlier. It's like what 2 degrees above your average is a fever? Uh 98.6 to 100.4 is 1.8 I think. So yeah about 2 degrees reaches a low grade.

I'm usually at 97.4 ish so 104 is 6 degrees above my normal. Lol i can see why my family was worried now. Luckily with a whole lot of medicine my fever fell by like a degree or 2 in a day. I still had a fever for another day I two but I didn't have a severe one for very long.

God's I remember needing to note down my own sick days to keep count so I could pass the year. And I did go in sick more often to school than work. Because I had no way to get excused absences.

Then the covid years apparently school's partially had to ignore excessive absences due to the required time to stay out after having covid was like a week or so. Idk if they marked them as excused or what. But when over half a grade has more sickdays than allowed its kinda hard to just fail them all apparently lmao

Calling it, this is the fucking Information Age Collapse. Bronze Age Collapse 2.0. We have three or so generations of this shit while everything slowly breaks and then in 1k years archaeologists will be unearthing hard drives and cursing us for putting all our information in such shitty, easily degraded media instead of etching it into metal and stone like a sensible civilisation.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I wrote this before AI started flooding image search results and writing web pages. I expected the problem to be entirely physical (or at least when it was software, a matter of software incompatibility as software stopped being supported), in the future. Didn’t foresee us turning our own records to soup for no particular reason while we were still using them.

thebrazenphlegmatic

The first time someone told me about Dead Internet Theory i believed that it was at least a possibility, but then i looked it up and was surprised to learn that it is largely classed as a conspiracy theory.

But then i realized the “conspiracy” version of the theory was that the internet death was orchestrated by a single shadowy organization and not, just, everything breaking because every major tech company is independently making the same bad decisions.

You know how if you get a phone call from number you don’t recognize you just automatically assume it’s spam? And it’s not any 1 group’s fault, it’s the result of perverse structural incentives and lack of accountability?

Yeah well the internet is now like that too.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I think a lot of conspiracies can be charted up to “this crappy thing has emerged as a predictable result of what is and is not incentivised in general society” “yeah well it’s pretty weird that negative stuff just happens right? It must be ten times more frequent and orchestrated on purpose, probably by [group of people I don’t like]”

btw if you're on this site it is your duty to reblog any post that has been prophecied to reach 10k notes. let's all annoy op

#this post deserves #10k notes #perchance.

ehh no actuallly it does not

jestrogames

Unfortunately for you, Tumblr is a site where the opinion least regarded on deserves notes is the original poster, sooo

@walmart-the-official

well. it's been over a month and we're not even at 1k yet, so I think I'm safe. perhaps 😌

....nate I'm really sorry I laughed at you for having posts with thousands of notes. don't do this to me

krakenartificer

I guess this isn’t common knowledge? So I guess I’ll put it here?

Very few popular posts blow up all at one time. Most of them will get waves of notes over time — like today I’m getting a bunch of notes on a post that first blew up several months ago. Every once in a while my notes spike and I have to go see which of my popular posts is making the rounds again.

And some don’t blow up at all for ages, and then get popular out of nowhere. Like, the original “this idiot hasn’t seen Goncharov” post was quietly circulating around Tumblr for years before the Goncharov “thing” happened. Never Gonna Give You Up was a perfectly ordinary 80s pop song from 1987 until 2006.

There is no time limit and there is no end. Random internet fame can strike anyone at any time for no reason at all. Don’t think you’re safe because a single month has passed.