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Caroline, United States. Bookworm, full of useless facts. Currently reading at minimum 5 books at once.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Technological literacy only exists in a very slim age demographic of people born from roughly 1980 to roughly 2007

[queer-as-city-folk]

Like I know someone who was born in '09, they can't even use the windows file manager to mod the Sims 4, after I made the folders for it!! All you need to do is move the files from downloads to the mod folder

[queer-as-city-folk]

This isn’t me saying young people are stupid, it's me saying, we have a massive fucking problem if young people can't even do simple tasks with computers considering how digital our world is

[prismatic-bell]

There has been a deliberate stifling of that education and it needs to stop.

[prismatic-bell]

I was here in April.

I need you all to know that a few weeks ago I was at an anime convention and the girl coming up behind me was in a panic because her entire panel was online, and she apparently hadn't read the panelist agreement to know the convention doesn't provide WiFi.

So I said "it's fine, I can hook you into my hotspot and we can download your panel to a local folder" and she looked at me like I'd just started speaking in Martian.

So I said: "I have internet through my phone. We can put your panel onto your computer so you won't need internet. Go ahead and pull up your WiFi options."

She didn't know what that was.

I need to emphasize you have to be at least sixteen to panel at this convention, and most panelists are eighteen. Including this girl. WHO WAS IN COLLEGE.

I showed her how to connect to my hotspot. Then, seeing a Google Drive icon on one of her tabs, I said "okay, we're in business! Go ahead and open your Google Drive."

...y'all.

This girl.

Who had a high school diploma.

And got accepted to college.

Looked at me.

And said.

"What's that?"

I had to explain that Google Drive was the name of the website (I didn't dare say "program" because we were running short on setup time) that she made slideshows on.

I showed her how to download her panel and check that it was working on her computer locally.

And then, as I went to unplug my phone from her computer, she panicked because she thought "downloaded locally" was like using a .webp file.

Y'all, if you are a teen or young adult, I am BEGGING you to learn this stuff. Don't assume you'll never need it because a lot of stuff gets done on phones (notice she didn't even know how a mobile hotspot worked?). Don't let Big Capitalism convince you that these are useless skills. They're not and not knowing them is literally just handing all your data to people who'd sell their own mothers for half a corn chip. And if you're thinking "so? Let them have my stupid Hamlet essay, whatever"....

YOUR TAXES.

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.

YOUR PICTURES.

Learn these skills. I guarantee your local library has a class. Mine has a series of classes that literally starts with "how to use a computer mouse."

If you want to take power from capitalism, take control of your data.

[zvaigzdelasas]

If I were a snake I know it'd feel good as fuuuuuck to just stick out my tongue to sense my environment #mysurroundings

[wanderingwriter87]

you know that program where they tried to train crows to pick up litter for a treat that backfired because they started attacking people to grab half eaten food wrappers out of their hand. i feel like 2012 tumblr did the same thing, but instead of litter it was covert bigotry and instead of crows it was a whole generation of leftists who now have moral OCD where their critical thinking should be

[bowlby4]

[sunfortune]

[vicrathis]

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

[saveaboudfamily]

In every speech, Netanyahu justifies his crimes by saying he is fighting Hamas. I want to tell him that in 1948, when Israel killed my grandfather, Hamas did not even exist.

[vicrathis]

[mysharona1987]

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

[drb13695]

Gaza's seaport. 2023 vs 2025.

[blackirishweab]

It just hit me that the soil turned gray from concrete dust. So many buildings have been turned to rubble that their powdered remains completely blanket the soil and muddy the sea itself to the point that it looks like a gray scale filter has been applied.

[8nin]

hey sorry i acted weird the other day i was trying so hard to act normal that it backfired

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

[bloodraven55]

never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

[jackhawksmoor]

and then when they find Saruman's pantry he's got fucking barrels of it for himself. Like, girl what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament

[thememedaddy]

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