Exactly what it says on the tin

30, she/her. I don't even know, dude.

[uniguinflutist]

I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.

When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can't do that with AI.

Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here's 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!

Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!

[foundfamilywhump]

the question, you see, is not ‘is it too ooc for this character to cry’ but rather ‘what circumstances would push this character to cry’

this is the whump wisdom, go forth and make that character cry

[bonerpill-deactivated20230602]

[costumersupportdept]

no no, I know what you're thinking but it's actually amazingly great, keep watching.

[samgirl98]

Oh wow did not see that coming

[massacre-girlypop]

The kind of public service announcements humans SHOULD be watching.

[boycritter]

maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

[boycritter]

maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Van Helsing: Now I must work diligently on the difficult task of uncovering this vampire.

Mina: Here is his name and address and his unpaid solicitor bills. Here's the exact train to take to get here for breakfast. See you tomorrow!

[inthesensethat]

[hexthelex-deactivated20250420]

This is true btw

[letmeliedown]

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really

[cherishedproperty]

I want to clarify something kind of important because this kinda used to be my field. The concept that people express and feel love in different ways, and that this might lead to misunderstandings, IS something with scientific merit. The idea that there are just five and we know what they are is NOT. The idea that people have a primary love language is NOT.

In science, we have a saying. All models are wrong, but some are useful. That’s how I see the love languages framework. It is inherently flawed, but some of its concepts are useful. Communicate with your partner what makes you feel loved and understand what makes them feel loved. Understand how your partner shows love. There is immense value in that. But don’t over-index on which one of the five you are. That part doesn’t matter.

[thesunflowersqueen]

#love languages#really reblogging for that last comment though#“all models are wrong but some are useful”#the concept is sound but the specifics are uhhhh not (via @mad-madam-m)

[thatwriterchickyouknow]

Also true for learning styles! The idea we all have one single way we learn "best" is not true, but the framework of there being multiple ways to access, internalize, recall, and apply information is incredibly useful.

[lifemod17]

Nobody's Soldier

🎥: jewelsyyy | tiktok

Casper, Wyoming || 06/30/2025

[teaboot]

As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career

This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!

If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!

What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!

What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually

Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic

[mokopirirakaugalaxias]

7. She’s literally on her luteal phase, which means she can’t think rationally. Girlypop is out here fighting for her life in the supermarket. She’s just a girl. You can’t expect her to use her brain today because her uterus has taken over. It’s biology.

[ratherembarrassing]

the back to back of 2 and 3 on this list happened, i cannot emphasis enough, in the blink of an eye. you might be tempted to think 1-2 was an upward trajectory, there was a peak in there, and then 3 through eleventymillion all the way down to hell, but no. there was no peak where things got good and then there was some backlash. it was never good and there was always backlash.

[corporationsarepeople]

[cipheramnesia]

Browsing horror on Tubi is also fun because once in awhile you come across a combination of words like "Psycho Santa 2" which forces you to recognize that whatever Psycho Santa is, it was worth making two of them. Also, every Amityville movie ever. You will never watch every Amityville.

[cipheramnesia]

[cipheramnesia]

You might think, "well I've already seen Amityville Turkey Day" NOT SO FAST are you sure it wasn't Amityville Thanksgiving??

[cantotallyeven]

Wait weren't Amityville Horror 1 and 2 serious?

[cipheramnesia]

Yes, and maybe Amityville 3, however Amityville is a real place and consequently the ability to control the copyright over horror movies using the Amityville name is pretty minimal and now anyone with access to a camera and five to ten friends can roll up and film Amityville Bigfoot.

[cipheramnesia]

Many of you expressed the concern that the Amityville Industrial Movie Complex was using AI and don't worry, they got you covered.

[lesbianralzarek]

(tags via @miss-morland)

[cipheramnesia]

Come on, man

[mossworm]

ooh, I actually know a little about this phenomenon.

Ronald DeFeo Jr shot and killed his entire family in their home in the town of Amityville on Long Island NY in the 1970s. People were shocked and disturbed. DeFeo got life in prison and died in 2021.

The house was sold to another family, the Lutzes, who left within a month and claimed there was paranormal activity. Doors opening on their own, cloven hoof prints in the yard, scary voices telling them to "get out" and such. A book was written about the supposedly haunted house, with some fake garbage about a Native American burial ground on the property thrown in. They made "The Amityville Horror" film in 1979 based on the book, which became popular. People connected to the Lutzes have at various times indicated that there were not actually spooky ghosts and horned demons in the house and they just made things up to sell a book.

Vampire-ologists and ghost-ologists became obsessed with the town of Amityville and started going there to play ouija or take photos of orbs or whatever it is they do. "The Amityville Horror" is trademarked, and they made several more movies, but "Amityville" is not, so different people made even more movies just called "Amityville [something]". There are probably hundreds of these things. It turned into a cheap colloquial term for a place where inexplicable scary ghost stuff happens. I'm pretty sure the town in Danny Phantom is named Amity-something as a direct reference.

Anyway, the people in Amityville and surrounding areas do not like this. Now they get ghost hunters and orb chasers and such roaming all over the place at night making student films and documentaries, serving as a constant reminder of some nutjob killing his family and some other nutjobs trying to profit off of the community fear in a pretty shallow and gross way. Very similar thing happened with Burkittsville in Maryland, where The Blair Witch Project was filmed. Ghost fans and movie dorks started showing up at this random little town by the hundreds, annoying people and taking things, so they demolished the house used for filming.

The moral of this story is that movies are not real and you should leave people alone.

source: so, you'll NEVER believe where my entire family is from

[kebriones]

If you're using gen AI because "you want to make art but don't know how/can't learn/it's easier/whatever"

You don't want to make art.

You want someone to make art for you, but you don't want to pay or exchange anything of equal value for it, and also you want it right now, in whatever style you fancy that moment, and in whatever quantity you want. You're greedy and entitled and it is just that simple. You don't want to make anything.

[benkaben]

"What do you want from a remake" I DON'T WANT THEM. I DON'T WANT ANOTHER SOULLESS NOSTALGIA-FILLED CASH-GRAB. I DON'T WANT ANY OF THEM. I DON'T WANT ADAPTATIONS THAT KILL THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE OF THE THING THEY WERE BASED UPON NEITHER THE SHOT-BY-SHOT DESATURATED RECREATIONS. I WANT ORIGINAL STORIES!!! NOT REMAKES OF MOVIES THAT AIN'T EVEN 30 YEARS OLD!!!​AAGGGGGHHH

[scramratz]

Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

[ladytabletop]

the slogan is in that order for a reason! It is listed in order of effectiveness and impact; if you can't reduce, reuse. If you can't reuse, recycle.

[cwicseolfor]

Refuse what you don’t need

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing

What goes unsaid here is why they’re all “re-“ prefixed: it’s about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we don’t have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.

[ladydedlock]

truly never getting over the greatest loss streaming services caused: the disappearance of DVD special features. behind the scenes, bloopers, deleted scenes, commentaries, I will never forget you, I will never stop missing you.

[batsybat91]

Guys, it's finally July! You know what that means!

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[prokopetz]

Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

[v3rb4tim]

Incredible one-liners as always