Sepp GW

A reclusive spirit hiding in the shadow of the Cascades. They/Them (pending further investigation)

[jstor]

When I was a student, I sometimes used your search functions slightly badly on purpose so that while I was finding information relevant to a particular assignment I would also find random interesting articles that weren't relevant at all for variety.

One of these extra readings I remember very few details of, but it was some sort of anthropological article about gender and sexuality in a particular culture. Reading that article changed my perspective on what gender is and how people could relate to it, and this was instrumental to me eventually realising that I am trans.

I will always be grateful that my access to your platform wasn't restricted to my area of study and that being a student allowed me the space to explore beyond the things I knew I didn't know.

Thank you for everything. Happy pride.

Thank you for taking the time to write. This is amazing (and such a good use of the search functions)! Happy Pride!

[sepp-gw]

Did y'all know every three months a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in north Queensland?

[clerical-error]

Thought and Memory.

[sepp-gw]

A few months after 9/11 I got a phone call from a random number. I answered as normal, and a man with a thick middle eastern accent simply said "Go for today, today is go."

I'm assuming I saved my country from another attack, right? at least that's what I've been telling people during ice breakers for the last couple decades lol

[berlynn-wohl]

a marriage of humankind's two greatest design achievements: the illuminated manuscript and the cool S

[sepp-gw]

The gc is falling apart partly from homophobia and partly because of generative AI and I've never felt more in the past and in the future at the same time

[puppygirllaika]

Could you personally navigate a cross-country road trip, door to door, without your electronics (phone/computer/tablet/etc)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 29

[puppygirllaika]

every other note on this post is someone going "am i allowed to use paper maps?" yes. obviously. i did not say "without a map", i said without your electronics. And to the like, 20% of people saying "of course, i would simply take the train" that is definitionally not a road trip. i love trains too, but that is a rail trip. a road trip requires taking a trip on the road.

[puppygirllaika]

#a train can go on the road if you believe hard enough

casey jones off the shits

[sepp-gw]

If I'm somehwhere unfamiliar I just watch where the sun is going and I've got all the info I need.

[konoko]

[sepp-gw]

If it hadn't been for the proliferation and subsequent ubiquity of short-form video content on the social internet, I wonder if we would have ever learned of the vulnerability of our attention spans in the way we know of it now.

I also don't see this as a fault of Vine necessarily, but more so of TikTok. TikTok's are just a little bit too long, and something about that feels like the problem to me. Like they're just long enough to where I start to feel invested in whatever it is that I am watching, while Vine on the other hand was more like a driveby.

I never expected to get anything of substance from a Vine, but reels, shorts, TT's, they all give this feeling to me like there's something there worth sticking around for. Like there is no world in which you, as a creator of Vines, meaningfully cares about how long individual users watched your video. Like watch time just isn't a thing. And maybe that's the thing, you can't monetize "views" and effectively as you can "watch time."

I don't know why I'm thinking about this right now, but if anyone has any thoughts or anything to add I'll be glad to read it. <3

[eliotquillon]

if house md were running in 2024 there would be an episode with a patient who identifies as an ‘online content creator’ (cagily) where house agrees to take the case primarily because when he offhandedly refers to her as an onlyfans model both cameron and cuddy get really offended and say it’s a sexist assumption so he doubles down and becomes committed to finding the patient’s onlyfans and proving it. at some point it would be revealed that chase actually is an onlyfans model and started doing it as a stopgap after his dad died and he suddenly got disinherited but he makes so much money off it that now medicine is basically just a hobby. cameron and foreman both disagree with the concept online sex work but it turns out they disagree for different reasons (cameron thinks it’s exploitative and not-feminist, foreman finds it distasteful and thinks people should get ‘real jobs’) and spend most of their scenes together arguing about this while chase gets continually more shifty. they break into the patient’s house and there’s a full ringlight and camera setup which seems to confirm house’s suspicions. while trying to find the patient’s onlyfans house accidentally finds chase’s onlyfans instead and considers publicly embarrassing him about it like he did with wilson’s sex tape but soon realises that most of the staff at the hospital are already subscribed to chase’s onlyfans so makes fun of him for that instead. it then transpires that the reason why the patient is so cagey about being a content creator is that she’s an ASMR artist and all the soap she’s been shaving on camera has irritated her lungs. cuddy is about to make house give her 20 extra hours of clinic duty as recompense but at last minute it’s revealed that the website the patient uses for some of her bonus commissions is, drumroll…onlyfans, because she’s been banned from patreon. how does house know this? wilson is subscribed to her because the soap videos sometimes soothe him to sleep. something by cigarettes after sex plays. roll end credits.

[digitaldeathx-deactivated202605]

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

[blastdamage]

the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined

[blastdamage]

did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Underground french cinema

[npd-vriska]

my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.

some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.

this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.

[npd-vriska]

A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don't misgender her :)

[enbylesbie]

[johnnysilverhandssuitcasenuke]

[sepp-gw]

"knock knock"

"who's there?"

"Does a dog have Buddha nature?"

"Does a dog have Buddha natur—"

"MOOOOOOOOO"

[sepp-gw]

A Fortune:

YOU HAVE YOUTH NOW AND THAT IS BEAUTIFUL BUT TIME WILL RIP IT FROM YOU AND THAT TOO IS BEAUTIFUL THERE IS BEAUTY IN THIS LOSING FIGHT MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU HAND OVER YOURSELF TO THE END THAT IT IS BLOODY AND CARVED DEEP WITH THE CLAWMARKS OF YOUR STRUGGLE

[sepp-gw]

I might be showing up to the party way late, but I just learned today that British Intelligence seriously considered trying to forcefem Hitler so that he would be more docile and therefore more likely agree to settle things diplomatically wtf

This is probably a wild oversimplification of the whole thing, but the fact that it has anything at all in relation to the truth is, in and of itself, fucking bonkers.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.