Close your eyes, come with me

Swiss. Mostly here to procrastinate. Occasionally systemic analysis. Also... ADHD.

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Dying for a dramatic reading of this

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[cripinpain]

hello physically disabled person reading this. it is not your fault that your medical supplies are made from a lot of single use plastic and you can continue using them guilt free. your health comes first. thank you for existing.

[crippled-peeper]

if your insulin pump has lithium batteries and the tubing is plastic,

if your ostomy bags, incontinence supplies, and sanitary wipes are single-use,

if your joint replacement, bone plate, pins & screws, or spinal hardware is cobalt & chrome,

if your meds come in a plastic container you can’t recycle or reuse for sterility,

you are still innocent. you didn’t choose this particular life. we all must do what we can to survive and that includes using technology and consuming resources. it is only human and we all do it.

some people out there own several yachts and don’t ever consider the impact it has on the world. there’s nothing to be gained by beating yourself up for doing the bare minimum for a comfortable, livable, safe & long life.

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Just want to add, don’t cut corners. Don’t risk your life when there are people who could do a lot more without risking theirs.

Don’t reuse the syringe. Don’t use cloths over alcohol swabs. Choose the battery powered device over the rechargeable if it means you can carry spares. Don’t use the reusable container if you can’t get it open. Don’t choose the reusable option if you can’t keep it clean. Don’t overfill the sharps container. Don’t improvise the tourniquet. Don’t eat the expired food if you can’t afford to be sick. Don’t choose the sustainable option if it doesn’t meet your needs.

Your life is not others’ priority so it has to be yours.

[cephalopodvictorious]

Hi I work in sustainability, specifically with regards to rules and regulations around waste disposal and recycling and the #1 rule is that your health and safety as a human person comes first

There’s a lot said in the news and in activist circles about your personal carbon footprint but BP came up with that to deflect responsibility for their various and horrifying behaviors and to make us turn on each other. You know what’s more dangerous to marine life than straws? Literal tons and tons of commercial fishing nets abandoned in the ocean, and the microplastics and forever chemicals dumped by corporate manufacturers and oil companies

YOU the person, the individual, have to live, and whatever that takes? That’s good. That’s a good thing, because it means we get you in the world. Use your medical equipment, your medications, your AC, whatever you need

You physically cannot do the damage of a fleet of oil tankers or a fracking company, even a thousand or a hundred thousand disabled people cannot do the damage of someone with a personal jet

You aren’t doing anything wrong, something much bigger than you is trying to trick you into hating yourself so that you don’t hate them

Please don’t fall for it. We need you.

[mikkeneko]

There are many, many items in the modern world which don't need to be plastic, and many that should not be plastic.

Medical, sterile and sanitary equipment are categories of equipment that need to be single-use, disposable, and plastic.

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[catmask]

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

[daftpatience]

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

[qualityfarmprofessorpaper-blog]

[alexaloraetheris]

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

[myjetpack]

A recent cartoon for New Scientist

[cyle]

i should superimpose this over reblog graphs on tumblr

[nightpool]

[vaspider]

[robotslenderman]

Source

[tributary]

teetotailer

[judygemstone]

first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store

[scavengedluxury]

*record scratch*

*freeze frame*

"Ja, das bin ich. Sie fragen sich wahrscheinlich, wie ich hierher gekommen bin".

[severalowls]

quick, caesar is facing away, get him!

head 🗡

neck 🗡

back 🗡

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booty 🗡

leg 🗡

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foot? 🗡

Voting ended onMar 16, 2023

[dreamingdeadly]

[non-binary-laurie-strode]

You’ve been hit by 🔪

You’ve been struck by 🔪

A Roman Senator 🔪🔪🔪

[iamfuckingweeping]

CAESER ARE YOU OKAY

ARE YOU OKAY CEASER

[drchucktingle]

furious that i am not a playable character in this game

[neil-gaiman]

Enormously relieved that I am not a playable character in this game.

[funnytwittertweets]

[chavisory]

[Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are]

[holycrapitsbags]

This post is now a work of political art that is just A+

[softwaring]

this reply kills me 😭

[jenroses]

this is "if you can't afford to pay your workers you can't afford to stay in business". I'm sorry, if you can't train your AI without copyrighted material, you have no business doing what you're doing.

[living400lbs]

If you are using copyrighted material you need to license it and compensate the owner just like anyone else were you born in a barn?

[drst]

Saw this tweet on Blue Sky yesterday

"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, do that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."

[ekjohnston]

Publishing companies are, right at this moment, using our books to train AIs. Officially, it's for marketing and things like flap copy, but 1. THEY WRITE AWFUL FLAP COPY and 2. no one believes it'll stop there. Duolingo fired their translators and just kept a few to check the AI's work. That's where publishing is heading too. And other forms of writing. It's a nightmare.

[greyias]

Me: sees that stupid ass election interference post being reblogged for the THIRD TIME by someone who should know better to check their sources, writes up a long rant post

Me: wait—there’s a button for that!

PSA: report shady posts that seem designed to mislead you about voting. And for fuck’s sake stop reblogging things that are meant to convince people that voting doesn’t matter

[quasi-normalcy]

Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yeah. this is actually the worst#because if someone likes something for the wrong reasons and you like it too you can just sort of shrug off their opinion#but if they dislike it in a way that's unfair it's actually infuriating because now you've been put in the position#of defending this absolute dogshit piece of media - even if only in your own head - against their unreasonable complaints#it's the exact opposite of catharsis

[randobambo]

Me: “Disney live action remakes are soulless cash grabs that deny the original writers and artists the credit they deserve” Some fucking chud: “Exactly! They never should have started wokeifying all their movies” Me:

[mini-wrants]

When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

[mini-wrants]

I know I’ll never be missing an election in my life again (barring some kind of major medical event).

I just wish it weren’t so damn frustrating, feeling like you’re screaming into the void constantly, fighting against apathy.

CMS just announced that the government will start taking high-cost drugs that were developed with taxpayer dollars and start pulling patents to force competition and low cost generics. That’s fucking momentous.

I saw 1 news article on it. I wouldn’t have known it happened if I didn’t read the news every day. This should have caused the kind of celebration that erupted when companies started announcing $35 insulin caps. Why didn’t it?

Low cost hearing aids, lower and $0 student loans, concrete investments in green architecture…there was an announcement like 2 days ago to replace all leaded pipes out of US cities over the next 10 years, which will be an absolute boon in jobs for construction workers and can make our homes safer for kids. I’m sure I’ll see a headline in a year, “Biden’s lead pipe program causes drivers traffic headaches.”

[mini-wrants]

Republicans want 20 foot concrete barriers topped with barbed wire across the entire southern border, and Democrats want amnesty and ease to citizenship for just about anyone who crosses, and it really seems like until a compromise is made somewhere in there, Republicans will continue to turn out in massive numbers to elections because God told them to, and Democrats will continue to stay home because the last president didn’t accomplish 100% of their goals and voting for an imperfect president is a personal and ethical failing.

Now take that mentality and spread it over every single social and economic issue.

[lennat2]

I remember how utterly scared and angry we were sone years ago when Trump was trying to bankrupt the USPS. People were talking about it left right and sideways, asking people to buy from the USPS gift shop, start a stamp collection, anything. Then, Biden got elected and put a huge stop to that by getting rid of the unfair laws that only the USPS had to abide by. Overnight, the USPS was saved, and how did everyone react?

They didn't. It was hardly mentioned. Not a blip.

Same exact thing when it came to net neutrality!! It was DEVASTATING when it was killed. People died in wildfires because Internet providers throttled data of firefighters. Xfinity actually stole identities in order to make it happen.

About a month ago, BAM, it was restored because Biden appointed a Democratic leader to the FFC. Did anyone talk about it? Nope. I saw ONE post.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

Anyone who tries to "both sides are the same" is either lying or trying to get you to give up and not vote.

Don't let them win.

Vote.

[kedreeva]

Anyone who refuses to vote blue JUST because of what's going on re Biden and Palestine doesn't understand it not going to be better if Trump gets elected instead. Your moral purity over abstaining or throwing away your vote for a third party that stands NO chance of actually winning isn't going to stop it, it's going to directly lead to more people dying, and it's going to happen over there and start happening here as well again.

What you're going to get is people here turning attention away from that cause because they're going to be fighting for their own lives here. Because that's what happened last time, and Trump is going to be worse this time.

There's a phrase we have in English that I think applies: Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.

Hate it all you want, but start coming to terms now with voting for the lesser of two evils, because in a few months that's going to be the ONLY way you can help Palestine- by keeping Trump away from them, and from yourselves so you can continue to fight for others.

[sharkgirldick]

Also. Treat fat people with respect or die by my blade.

[sharkgirldick]

Very important addition.

[depsidase]