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thedogeveryonehates

zoesupreme

the student loan forgiveness application site just went live btw

bluesturngold

you're a lifesaver :')

here's the link:

https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief/application

gay-irl

I am non binary but this gave me a laugh 😅

swesq21

25 isnt their age its the number of people

notcaptainjack

misscellophane-ao3

alex51324

Yes, and, this? This is actually what an “if you liked that, maybe you’ll like this!” algorithm is trying to replicate, in its own clumsy way. The basic idea is that, if you like Thing X, then you may like other things that people who liked Thing X also liked.

Only the algorithm has no actual reasoning ability, or understanding of what it’s doing--it’s just wandering around bumping into things, looking for patterns that sorta match. Like a sack of ferrets tracking a scent trail through a department store, and the store is trying to tell you that the ferrets are highly skilled personal shoppers.

AO3, on the other hand, is set up so that you can find out directly from other human beings who like Thing X, what else they liked. It probably wouldn’t work in a department store--hence the sack-of-ferrets system--but fandom is a gift economy, so it does.

powerburial

killing myself in a tesla and just leaving it on autopilot so my corpse is in there jostling around while it crashes into things

smoqueen-deactivated20251108

megafreeman

Genuinely think we should start rounding up all the cryptobros and killing them for sport

rat-apologist

im not kidding. this has made me incandescent with rage. i can not physically imagine a series of coherent thoughts that would lead me to do something so unabashedly self serving and evil.

webkinzpossum

one day it’ll be my turn

homoquartz

something i like about sandman is that you meet Dream and he’s stern and quiet and emotionally blunted and you think all eternal beings must be so strange and then you meet death and realize that he’s just Like That

neil-gaiman

Yup.

internetgremlin-writes

IMPORTANT: TUMBLR & FANFICTION

Alright kids, listen up because @staff have pulled off a corker of a hot mess and have decided to add "Community Labels". I guess they've decided we can't be trusted to add our own warnings and people can't make sensible choices with what they engage with.

But why does it matter to me?

Tumblr have made labels AN OPT IN SITUATION which means every single blog here is automatically set to hide any triggering content

If you want to continue to be able to access and read fanfiction PLEASE go into your settings and click "show" on at least the "Mature" and "Sexual Themes" labels!!

ALSO IOS USERS: there's an extra fun "Hide additional content" bit just to really try and block us from any hopes of success. Make sure you opt out of that too otherwise I think content will be blocked on the mobile app!

Attached to this post are screenshots from my settings so you guys know what to look for. I could only find it on my desktop settings and not on the mobile app (for now at least)qq

kerrikins

I'll add a note here that it seems like on desktop there's also the ability to tag posts as a certain label. Interesting.

lu-sn

ok hold on. i'm going to add more context here because i saw this and was super confused.

to start with, here's the link to the help page on community labels.

what is a community label?

it is a label that you can add to any post you've created or reblogged. it is also a label that anyone who sees your post can SUGGEST to add, at which point the tumblr moderators are summoned to see whether the label does in fact apply to your post.

what kind of labels can you add?

mature (which is a catch-all), violence, drug/addiction, and sexual themes. so basically, mature content that iOS hates

what's the point of adding labels?

as OP said, people viewing your posts can filter based on labels. so they can choose to:

show all posts (functionally, no difference from how stuff works now)

blur all posts with a label (so they see a card for the post, but the content is hidden and they need to click to see it)

hide all posts with a label (it's as if they were never on your dash)

so what's the problem? this doesn't sound so bad

the problem is that tumblr made the hide option the default option for every community label for everyone.

if you want to be in compliance with labeling laws (aka, you don't want the tumblr moderators to come for you), you should label your posts. but if you start labeling them, your posts are IMMEDIATELY going to be hidden from EVERYONE.

uhhhh ok so what do i do?

if you're a person with a tumblr blog: immediately go to tumblr desktop and fix your label settings to whatever is best for you

if you're a consumer of content: don't start flagging posts for missing labels, please, PLEASE. give everyone a chance to figure out wtf is going on and fix their label settings

if you're a creator of content: start labeling? (but maybe, like, not right now. maybe once everyone has turned label settings off.)

if you're a reblogger of content: hell if i know. the help page doesn't specify whether a label you add to a downstream reblog affects the upstream post. maybe don't do that, until tumblr clarifies what the heck is going on

marzipanandminutiae

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

fefeman

it’s not youth culture, it’s corporation culture.

deboracabral

who would have imagined that one’s of my favourite mbmbam bits would come from an ad

k-dhd

memewhore

Penguin escapes killer whales by jumping onto a boat.

is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat

Antarctic penguins (and most other Antarctic animals for that matter) are very interesting because they lack a natural fear of humans since, of course, humans are not a natural occurrence on the continent. It is one of the few places on earth where it is completely normal for fully wild animals to be comfortable around you. In fact, most react as though humans are just especially large penguins as those are the only flightless biped native to the area.

As far as this gentoo penguin is concerned, it was saved by a float of large yellow penguins also hiding from orcas.

crystalepicness

pasdecoeur

b99 is more culpable, actually

pasdecoeur

all cop shows are propoganda, but most cop shows are made for 18-49 white men who’re scared of face masks

pasdecoeur

b99′s target demographic, however, is young, queer and racially diverse. b99′s target demo is all the people who’re the most vulnerable to police brutality. b99′s target demo is all the folks who absolutely should never be lead to believe the way to view the cops is the way you view jake fuckin peralta.

pasdecoeur

astrangeenchantedboy

b99 had a bisexual Latina cop laugh and say she suggests police brutality, later showing interest and excitement over the exact sound weapon we’re now seeing used in retaliation to protests (side note: when i saw that episode, i thought that weapon was made up because it seemed so sci-fi villain-ish).

they have their whole host of cop characters, including the straight-laced official types, regularly treat their job like a game.

yes they had an episode about racial profiling. but what was that episode telling us? that at the end of the day, there are good cops within the system actively fighting corruption and winning. i recently saw someone in exact words say “b99 taught me that not all cops are bad.” that’s copaganda. even if you believe in your heart that some cops are good, they are still people with weapons designed to kill whose job centers on apprehending anyone they deem a trouble-maker, and they are. not. your. friends.

b99 wants you to believe that diversity within the system creates fair treatment, right? that a gay Black captain and a crew of racially and sexually diverse cops are the Good Guys.

in real life, the Seattle chief of police is a Black woman who is AT BEST allowing the people in her command to terrorize their city, and at worst actively commanding it. the tear-gassing in seattle? the little girl who got pepper-sprayed? that happened under the leadership and command of a Black woman. because cops are cops first. the job itself demands that they abandon their communities and their humanity. we joke about being [x thing] first and human second a lot, right? well, cops really are.

b99 talked about the prison industry, right? they talked about guard brutality, retaliation, in-prison violence, right? but think about the fact that within that plotline, the cops were the only characters who we were told didn’t belong there. how cinnamon roll jake peralta, a Good Cop Who Didn’t Belong in Prison, was interacting exclusively with people like a gang leader and an unrepentant cannibal.

b99 is deeply insidious cop propaganda. and i’ve watched it and i’ve enjoyed it! and i don’t believe the creators set out to make copaganda. i think they were trying to do a lighthearted riff on your standard procedural, and they cast a diverse group of actors, and they tried to write socially conscious scripts, and they slowly snowballed their way into copaganda while we were all distracted by andy samberg getting hotter.

i’m not at all saying don’t watch cop shows, if that’s your thing, i guess. hell, i’ve enjoyed more than one of them in my life. but please think critically about their messaging and choose to reject what does not align with your values. think critically about your values, and what influences them. and for the love of god, stop responding to people’s angry, grieving cries over Black people being systematically murdered by cops by defending your favorite fictional cop. real people are dead.

Black lives matter more than fake cops. that’s all.

explorerrowan

There’s another thing to consider, though. B99 had to get licensing and cooperation from the NYPD, or they wouldn’t have been allowed to air the show. From the beginning, they’ve had to be under strict rules about how the NYPD was presented, or the lawyers for the NYPD would have sued them to hell and back. Every single episode had that as a subtext, that the NYPD is the good guys, and everyone else isn’t.

perfectly-ultimate-great-shoofle

i have heard people say “acab except columbo” and it’s like. do you understand why that’s how columbo works as copaganda? that the show columbo tells you “ah, but there’s this good cop” and focuses your attention on him?

do you understand how even non-cop murder media inflates peoples’ ideas of how common murder is? makes people believe in crime waves with no answer beyond the one always floating around in our culture?

the2headedcalf-archive

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

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