TheKingleMingle

Been lurking on tumblr for years, but the twitter fiasco has been the deciding factor in finally making an account. Not really sure what I'm doing yet.

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[edgebug]

you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt

[chimericaloutlier]

If I were an ethical time-traveler, or a society of time-travelers, who had gone to the great trouble of embedding certain myths deep into the minds of humanity through the careful cultivation of story through the oral tradition, in order specifically to convince humans not to create AI, I'd be so freaking mad right now

[slayerbuffy]

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head (1954 – 2026)

[thekinglemingle]

I'm not crying, you're crying

[todays-xkcd]

Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.

Husband and Wife [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Megan & Cueball talk.]

Megan: I still feel a little weird saying the phrase “my husband”. Megan: It makes me feel so traditional, like a Victorian gossip.

Cueball: Yeah, well, my plight isn’t much better. Megan: What do you mean? Cueball: What’s the most salient cultural reference for the phrase “my wife”?

[Cueball has his hands raised.] Megan: Ughhhh, true. Cueball: Even now, after two decades, when I speak of you I hear his voice, echoing through the halls of memory like a cringy ghost.

[quietwingsinthesky]

being too much like the doctor got missy killed and i will never stop thinking about that

[quietwingsinthesky]

because she didn’t kill saxon, she was going to let him bleed out. what’s more doctor than that, to take the moral highground by saying technically, it wasn’t my hand that did it, though i did set up the dominoes that fell. and then she. she has a speech. she has an honest to god doctor speech, aims it right at saxon, and then she turns her back on him. i can never stop thinking about that. she turned her back on him. but she’s not the doctor. and he shoots her. because she let him die slow enough to run, because she stayed for a speech and gave him time and reason to know he wanted to shoot her dead, and she turned her fucking back on the master.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s 2 parts ‘we aren’t that self-destructive’ (false) and 2 parts ‘if i was the doctor, he wouldn’t shoot me in the back, because i wouldn’t shoot the doctor in the back, i’d want to see his face when i did it’ (true) BUT SHE IS NOT THE DOCTOR. SHE IS NOT. AND IT GETS HER KILLED.

[rowanthestrange]

It gets Clara killed, Missy killed. And most importantly acting like the Doctor gets himself killed, and always does.

I actually like Moffat’s theme across his era here. Because a lot of people see it as him saying “acting like the Doctor will get you killed” but stop halfway, like he’s saying doing that is wrong. But really it’s “acting like the Doctor will get you killed; but you should still do it anyway.”

Which is what Twelve says himself.

“Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me.”

[liberalsarecool]

Mamdani is showing the world that the greatest policies are public policies: invest in The People.

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[cerenade]

i've been watching the japanese dub of yugioh dm for the first time and it's somehow even gayer than the 4kids dub. the dialogue here has been only slightly altered for comedic effect, lmao.

(this art was carefully referenced and color-picked using screenshots from the show. it counts as a study :b)

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

The two Time Lord plot devices

“That’s only a legend, it can’t hurt you” -> “THE LEGEND ATE MY FACE”

“That’s socially taboo, but it’s really inconvenient for me so I’m gonna do it anyway” -> “OH NO THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS”

[holyshonks]

If I may

[herotox5]

[professsorlayton]

look at this shit. look. at. this. shit. it has fifteen thousand notes. what does it mean? why does a picture of the pin k panther with a to do lis that makes NO SENSE have fiFTEEN FUCKING NOTES. WHY. my mom could make better posts that this shit. what even. fuck tumblr.

[godguy0001]

looks like someone doesnt know what to do. to do. to do, to do, to do, to do, to dooooooooooooo, dodododododo

[pulsingvoid]

i can't do this anymore guys. dostoevsky never wrote this. please. can anyone hear me. if you do proper research the earliest version of this quote is from like a 2010 facebook quote with a magenta flower on it. it's gotten so bad that it's even credited to him on goodreads but nobody can source where he wrote it because he fucking didn't. i can't keep seeing this in your web weaves. dostoevsky the author of crime and punishment did not in fact write "you were destined for me. perhaps as a punishment". that is just simply not true. please nod and tell me you understand

[foggyeyes]

"this quote was attributed to me. perhaps as a punishment." -dostoevsky

[metaphorparadox]

been reading the first book and i forgot how fucked up kryten’s origin story is

[butchfagminotaur]

it’s nice seeing other people starting to open their eyes to what i’ve been saying for a while in that the current use and proliferation of the term “gooning” is an outright tool of fascism

[butchfagminotaur]

the second “gooning” stopped referring to a specific sexual practice and started to be used as a replacement for “masturbation” we needed to kill it immediately and sadly we didn’t

[butchfagminotaur]

if you call someone a “masturbator” in a derisive way you sound like a fucking mormon but suddenly you switch to calling them a “gooner” and you’ve created a way to express the same puritanical beliefs around masturbation that is not only palatable to the average person but the attached underlying implications of the term make people way more susceptible to adopting those beliefs themselves

leftists need to fucking stop using the term “gooner” right fucking now

[butchfagminotaur]

demonizing human sexuality and treating masturbation and sexual activity as deviant and disgusting are straight up fascist tools and it’s startling how successful this aspect of it has been the last few years

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[kyuuvern]

welcome back to sinnoh!!!

[deliverancefromfear]

[marxistmandalorian]

Lessons from the 90s that children today need