Shaye.Today

[feigenbaumsworld]

The internet just changed: Net Neutrality is dead.

The FCC sided with Comcast and decided to let ISPs censor the internet. The Internet needs to stop this from happening: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/

Last Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a “ fast lane” of Internet traffic for content providers who are willing (and able) to pay a fee. [1] The proposal reverses the FCC’s previous commitment to net neutrality and open internet and allows ISP’s like Comcast or Verizon to slow down and censor services that don’t pay the toll.

We have to be totally honest, this situation is seriously grim. But there is still hope. The FCC already knows that the Internet community wants net neutrality, but they think they can put their spin on these new rules and sneak them through. If we can prove them wrong right now with a massive public outcry, we can literally save the Internet once again.

We need to stop the FCC now. Big business groups are already ramping up lobbying efforts with the FCC in swarms since Wednesday’s announcement in support of censoring the open Internet and to ensure this dangerous proposal moves forward. [2]

This is a critical moment. In the last few weeks more than 65,000 people have taken action with us. Can you help us get to 80,000 by the end of the day today?

[1] Gautham Nagesh. “FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules”. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304518704579519963416350296

[2] Edward Wyatt. Edward Wyatt. “Lobbying Efforts Intensify After F.C.C. Tries 3rd Time on Net Neutrality” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/lobbying-efforts-intensify-after-fcc-tries-3rd-time-on-net-neutrality.html?hpw&rref=politics

  - Fight For The Future

[bpd-maribelle-blog]

we’re almost ¾ of the way there!! c’mon guys, every bit counts!

[cthulhu]

will it ever stop

[nerdfaceangst]

fucking signal boost

[nerdfaceangst]

IF YOU ARE NOT SIGNAL BOOSTING THIS YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

IF THE U.S. FALLS TO THIS IT WILL OPEN OTHER DANGEROUS DOORS INTERNATIONALLY.

[jestre]

Start a civil war against the US government.

[nicterhorst]

Signal boost for my us followers

[gentlesoulfoxy]

I try to keep the things I reblog as blog/mun-centric as possible, but this is something I just can’t let slide.

I’ve been following this cause since last year.  I’ve signed petitions, I’ve called representatives, I’ve been to protests, the whole nine yards.

This right here?  This is not a joke.  This is seriously happening, guys.

Remember the Wikipedia shutdown?  That was to protest this right here.  If you haven’t taken action against this yet, frankly, what is wrong with you?  If this doesn’t get stopped, we’re going to lose the thing that brings us all together unless we shell out huge sums of cash to these corrupt bastards.

Do not just sit there and keep browsing.

Do not scroll past this.

Fight.

[drppeppr]

yo this shit important okay? im pretty worried myself

[gabrieldreyfuss]

Guy who likes music

[ethereal-insight-deactivated201]

Is he an alien

[butangel420]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

[trixya-trash]

[kevinokevinokevino-deactivated2]

never in my gay life have i witnessed something so iconic

[finsngils-deactivated20210213]

This is some yin and yang realness

[shayesays]

I have to watch this every time it shows up on my dash.

[smoketexture]

hello everyone! i tried to keep the advice as original as possible (sometimes failing terribly). hope you can get something out of it! 🌱

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

I’d like to clarify:

dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain. 

dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)

so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.

but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing

in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement. 

so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.

related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this

tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:

you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:

[gayasscommie-deactivated2017090]

I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.

As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.

[sam-keeper]

My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:

and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:

And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.

[mizulyn]

I think you might be onto something…

x

Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.

[blackwoolncrown]

This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.

[play-dolls]

Love

[fringnubs-deactivated20160831]

[mustangsally78]

STATUS: DAY MADE.

[bebeocho]

o

[aint-that-kind-of-blog-bruv]

This post has been on my mind constantly for ages.

[amakthel-deactivated20180709]

it got better

[jackironsides]

@fyodorpavlov, @lawrencegullo

[pularia]

Okay so we have this rusty old thing in our one flower bed that would make an awful noise when you turned it and Buck Buck absolutely hated the sound of it, freaking out every time, wanting to somehow fight it??? Anyway, I haven’t turned the Sphere of Rage for several years now and figured I’d see if it can still work its great and terrible magic.

[reptarleparrot]

Oh My God

[aquanite]

I love how he runs past the other chicken like OUT MY WAY BITCH I’M ‘BOUT TO FIGHT

[ayellowbirds]

i assumed Buck Buck was the one in the foreground but NOPE.

[eatthekidsfirst]

Your chicken’s name is Buck Buck

[nayr1230-deactivated20180614]

What’s the other chickens name I must know

[pularia]

Skyler

[insufficientfailure]

“AFTER YEARS OF SILENCE, THE SCREECHING ORB AWAKENS AGAIN. I MUST DEFEND MY LAND, AND MY PEOPLE”

[pularia]

He never forgave. And he never forgot.

[shayesays]

I will never not watch this

[kirstenmakestattoos]

Detail shots!

[stand-up-gifs]

[shayesays]

bae

[teambisexual]

reblog this and put the age you realised you were not straight in the tags

[victorious]

[tropicwitch-deactivated20160303]

#submit this for best short at the oscars

[kumoi-no-hikari]

this is that one post that i’ll always reblog

[jessicacreepshow-deactivated201]

It’s back

[oldcalzone-old-deactivated20221]

the teacher killin it

[mishasminions]

HOW IS THIS 6 SECONDS

[thesylverlining]

This is literally one of my favorite vines, a masterpiece really and I will always reblog it and it’s just - I love so many just wonderful LOVING TOUCHES about it and it’s

The beautiful facial expressions and flawlessly communicative gestures the likes of which would be at home in my college-level dramatic arts classes

The universal relateability

The technical video and sound editing that’s DIRECTLY on the song beat, absolutely A+ timing and that shit is not easy to do

The amazing dramatic use of slow-motion that tells like - this is some Shakespearean drama story - conflict, BETRAYAL, this is Julias Caeser, this is The Iliad

The freaking teacher being in on it and being convinced to shake it down now

[leauxgan]

in case nobody’s seen the sequel:

[shayesays]

I am dying this is so good

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

where is the lie? (x) 

[twodotsknowwhy]

Please stop using the Holocaust as a rhetorical device. Stop playing Oppression Olympics with it. Stop lying about how everyone takes the Holocaust so seriously unlike [x tragedy]. It’s antisemitic and anti-Romani and really fucking old.

[birdmoosegirl]

yeah I normally I adore @chescaleigh but this is not a comparison that should have been made. Let’s not trivialize the oppression of one group of people to validate that of another, k?

[chescaleigh]

This is a perspective I truly hadn’t considered. We had aimed to present the museum as an accomplishment or example to be followed but in retrospect I can see how that approach failed. Of course oppression isn’t a contest and framing it as such is unfair. I regret that we didn’t present this in a more respectful way.

[shayesays]

This is how you apologize.

also, @chescaleigh​ your hair is life-giving.

[ratchetmessreturns]

[intersectionalfeminism101]

Re: Sick and tired of hearing “source?” or having to explain white privilege and systemic racism? [reformatted]

Hello all! This is a reformatted version of this post originally compiled by randymusprime​.

On Preparing for Arguments… Identifying and Avoiding Logical Fallacies

On White Privilege & Systemic Racism… 7 Facts That Prove White Privilege Exists On Racism and White Privilege The New Jim Crow Where White Privilege Came From White Privilege from Taking Action Against Racism Denying White Privilege White Privilege: An Insidious Virus 1 in 3 Black Males Will Go to Prison in Their Lifetime What is a ‘System of Privilege’? White Privilege 101 Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack 14 Examples of Systemic Racism in the US Criminal Justice System Black Student Graduation Rates Young Black Men and Gun Violence Operation Ghetto Storm Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color in the US Racial Profiling in Vermont DoJ Stats Show Clear Pattern of Racial Profiling OK, fine. Let’s talk about ‘black-on-black’ violence. Why Police So Often See Unarmed Black Men as Threats

On the Difference Between Racism and Prejudice… Toward an Understanding of Prejudice and Racism Ferguson Cops More Inept Than Strategic 10 Simple Ways White People Can Fight Everyday Racism Ferguson’s Massive Cover-Up How Moral Leaders like MLK Approach Neutrality Why It’s So Hard for Victims to See Justice America’s Stop-And-Frisk Policies Proof of Racism Examples of Institutional Racism in the US On Why White People/Americans Are Afraid to Admit Racism Exists… The Racism That Still Plagues America Why We’re Still Unwilling to Admit to Systemic Racism in America Why American Racism is Impossible to Defeat

On Reverse Racism… A Look at the Myth of Reverse Racism Why Reverse Racism Isn’t Real Why There’s No Such Thing as ‘Reverse Racism’ Enjoy my lovelies, and feel free to add to this post or to the original!

- Mod D

[blacksurfrebel]

Thank. You.

[lookatallthosereblogs-deactivat]

You’re a godsend.

[shayesays]

first in a series of professional bossed up ladies.

[ca-tsuka]

1st pictures of “The Breadwinner” animated feature film directed by Nora Twomey at Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea).

[chelseasouthard]

This Friday, April 22nd, the #phoenix , my beautiful #suzuki #dr650 was #stolen from #sanpablo and 25th St in #Oakland It was loaded into a red and black #Chevy van with a ladder on the back by two men. If anyone sees this bike, the men or the van please contact me! Here is a video of the robbery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj49WCtiOTM&feature=youtu.be (at City of Oakland)

[shayesays]

A friend’s bike was stolen - it’s her main mode of transport. It might be a long shot, but if anyone in #oakland sees it, please let her know right away!