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angelasscribbles

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

FINE! I'll do it myself

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

Why did 12 people reblog this today??? IT IS ONLY AUGUST!!!

sennydreadful

it’s time

greelin

i am in fact NOT being very brave about it and will whine and complain until i die. As is my right

rylandsgrace

We live in a dystopia....

neil-gaiman

If the background actors don't come in for work because they exist virtually then the background costume and background hair and make up and their catering and transport and all the other departments that look after them get cut too. These things have knock on effects...

scretladyspider

Queer kids deserve to become queer adults. To grow up supported. To go through adolescence finding themselves, instead of going through their 20s grieving the years they weren’t safe and had to pretend to be someone else. To be safely queer before financial independence. Wanting queer youngsters to not have a lifetime of conditioning and trauma to unpack isn’t child abuse, it is literally the opposite. Queer kids deserve to be safe.

aquatic-bees

I think a good way to describe a qpr is by using my Guinea pigs as an example.

My Guinea pigs very close with each other and do not like being apart. They are bonded to each other and hopefully they will be together for the rest of their lives but that doesn’t mean what they have is romantic. They are simply lifelong companions and that’s all.

dinosaurnews

Sorry, PETA, I would 100% eat a T-Rex.

hellohowyme

T.Rex would absolutely eat a chicken

domina-honoribila

A chicken would eat a T Rex, if it could get away with it.

vague-humanoid

meshugenist

c-l-y-d-e

The aritcle:

More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union

pepperf

From what I understand from the article, it’s even rougher than normal content moderation: a lot of these workers were hired to train AIs like ChatGPT away from, well, all the worst that the web could provide, to detoxify it for the end users. They are specifically given the worst stuff that can be dredged up from the depths of the internet, and asked to label it - so that the AI can use that data to identify hatespeech, suicide ideation, racism, CSA, etc etc.

It’s an awful job, and some are paid less than $2 an hour. Workers have PTSD. Are they being offered counselling, support, compensation? Fuck no, they get punished for speaking up.

Good luck to the African Content Moderators Union, I hope they get the protections and compensation that their workers need.

cheshire-cat-101

Ok I want to say something controversial

But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.

“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.

Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.

kyraneko

Since different people have different needs, one person’s safe space will be another’s Trauma Central.

I don’t know who said it first, but “I need to be able to express my anger without shame” and “I need to be away from yelling and loud noises” are both valid needs people can have for a safe space that really aren’t compatible with each other.

So are “I need to process my trauma” and “I need to not meet any trauma.”

Or “I want a safe space to tell/read the stories that speak to me” and “those stories are distressing to me.”

Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.

You don’t get to make others homeless to make the universe your personal safe space.

just-doing-lesbian-things

“Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.”

deadrabbitohno

This expresses my feelings precisely.

While I understand her motives and reasonings and I absolutely do not hate her as a character, I would still very much like to punch Grace Blackthorn in the face.

#jordelia #the last hours #james herondale #cordelia carstairs #james x cordelia #grace blackthorn

quasi-normalcy

I find it personally offensive how many bad writers can get published so easily.

quasi-normalcy

I used to find it reassuring, like, "Haha, wow, if THIS can get published..." but now I take it to mean "It doesn't matter if your book is good or not, all that matters is if you're in the right social circles (and you're not)"