what an icebox heart i've been given

-katie -31 -vegas -gay as fuck -married to a giant nerd. 💍 formerly that-flighty-temptress-adventure but jkr is trash. ig: shiny_serenity

[vamptits]

they want you to make fried rice

[memser]

who is "they"

[vamptits]

the wok left

[solongandthanksforallthefish42]

how am I supposed to make fried rice if the wok left

[6qubed]

skillet issue

[sunshine-and-hatred]

here’s Peridot. she would like some roast beef, please.

[sunshine-and-hatred]

My sister a state over got a bunch of soup from the food pantry but her kids wouldn't eat it so she gave it to us, it was a local white lable none of us recognized. I put one in the trick or treat bowl with all the candy and our only trick or treater took it I was so excited. He got candy too. I had the other can a few days later and let it fall right back out of my mouth because it was so terrible. Sorry trick or treater I tried to be fun

I’m just stoned enough to find this fucking hilarious

[laughroditee]

"She's so beautiful! I bet she goes to the library."

- my 7 year old daughter

[official-library-posts]

official library post

[butchfagminotaur]

nothing is worse than the agony of someone getting major details of your special interest WILDLY wrong

[butchfagminotaur]

i’m watching an analog horror video and the guy is like “the family gave me a disposable camera and i’m slowly working on developing the photos” and i was like ??? what do you mean like the whole roll gets developed at once how is this slow? do you mean he’s enlarging them and that’s why it’s gradual??? then he says “i asked her if the photos within had ever been developed before” and i was like ?!?!? like what they developed the roll and put it back in??? and then you??? what? redeveloped it or something??? then the family replies “yeah this camera frequently had its photos developed” like HUH?!? THE DISPOSABLE CAMERA?!? WHAT LIKE YOU WERE PULLING OUT INDIVIDUAL FRAMES IN A DARK ROOM AND THEN DEVELOPING THEM AND THEN WHAT??? PUTTING THEM BACK?!?!?

[butchfagminotaur]

i need people too young to know how film photography works to understand that that’s like looking at a bowl of cake batter and asking if that specific batter had ever been baked into a cake before and the person responds YES IT HAS

[fawken]

Pearl playing bass is so cute that i could die

[sunshine-and-hatred]

I miss the weird anons I used to get

someone send me something weird

[sunshine-and-hatred]

[emobanana22]

Being not a teenager on this app feels exactly like this fr

[myguiltyotpleasures]

[drunkenhills]

This is the only tiktok where the automated voice actually adds to the cinematic experience

[savvylikeyeahhh]

freedom

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This is absolutely what a cats internal monologue is like <3

[suzoar]

Actually Ive decided to be angry now

[and-fishing-equipment]

sorry but someone assuming you have "left a fandom" when you don't post about it a lot anymore feels like bilbo coming home to the sackville bagginses having him presumed dead and selling all his stuff. girl i was just on a little quest????

[vintage-tigre]

Credits to @Hakusi_Katei from X/Twitter

[imwiremother]

when i was 20 i had my first ever experience of looking at a girl in a cafe and realizing i was experiencing gay attraction until she got her order and it included a teapot and she was soooo bad at pouring the tea that it made me no longer want her

[khazrablood]

wannabee twitter already bending the knee to terfs

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.

And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.

So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).

The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time.

The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.

Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.

This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now.

How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.

But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.

[frogayyyy]

idk i just really want everyone to know about the word vermiculation

[eulers-biggest-fan]

Would you still love me if I was vermiculated

[blackbackedjackal]

An aquarium in Japan was closed for renovations, and their resident sunfish got depressed not seeing visitors. So the staff put some uniforms with printed faces against the tank, and it immediately recovered.

[jellydinojelly]

I went to sealife Sydney a couple of years ago and they have a Dugong there that seaworld rescued as a baby, released it but unfortunately after a few failed attempts they decided to make its permanent home at sealife. Anyway they were saying how during covid the dugong was really depressed so they borrowed wax figures from madame tussauds next door and after that the dugong cheered up a lot

[tarragonthedragon]

irish coworker: *is back from a month in italy*

me: the weather must have been great, you're looking so tanned!

irish coworker: *stares down at his arms, which are a shade of eggshell white i associate with tasteful wedding table settings* i suppose i am!

welsh coworker: *enters room* wow, youre looking so tanned!

ghanaian coworker: *looks around like hes on the truman show*

[hussyknee]