A comedy of errors

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

I always thought the spec fic religious prohibitions against AI were overblown, but now I am coming to appreciate that this is just the level of social oomph you need to have behind a such a prohibition for it to even have a chance of actually being effective

always interesting whenever people start talking about polyamory as particularly unstable or prone to jealousy bc it begs the question of if they’ve ever seen or heard of monogamous couples

are you aware that those people are having sincere earnest discussions on whether following someone on social media counts as cheating

sundays rule number 1: DON'T THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

sundays rule number 1: DON'T THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

do y’all remember usernames??? from back when every fuckin website didn’t need your email phone number home address social security number just to join/sign up for something?? when you could make website-specific accounts that weren’t linked to literally anything else??? they tried to boil us like a frog slowly switching to “username/email” and then just asking for your email. but I remember. I remember usernames.

im terrible at being a real person but i think i'd make an excellent fictional character

let’s talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went “actually! these phone things aren’t safe for kids but it’s magically ok once you’re eighteen. guess you’ll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause we’re gonna take the devices away from you. IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING”

ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores don’t accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I can’t text and I can’t email and I cant drive to them either and I can’t even fucking get public transport without a phone either. can’t order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that it’s not just about instagram?

The road OUT of hell is also paved with good intentions. That’s just kind of the main road we’ve got

Yeah, eventually, you do reach Rome

one thing I like about Tumblr is, in 2019 I reblogged a piece of art from 2017 of a book written in 2015 and Yesterday in 2022 someone liked it, and this is how this website is supposed to work, I have art made this week in my queue next to stuff from 2014, 2013, 2012, hell even 2011, sometimes I post 10-11 year old fan art from accounts that haven't been active since before One Direction broke up. Nothing is ever truly dead and gone on here, you can always dust off an old treasure and say "hey gang look at this!" other social media isn't set up like that, if you wonder why it feels like The Batman was released 100 years ago, its because corporate media wants you to move on! go to the NEW THING! BUY! etc but hey guess what I have fan art of Battinson being emo in my queue. So if you're a fan artist, writer, gif maker, or just fan who wants to gush, guess what, here, here we're still spreading around old art, gif sets and someone will be happy you made something new in the tag

You never know what color pallette someone's Tumblr is till ppl are screenshotting posts and tags

Oh wow.

Some people on tumblr are reading ancient scrolls and you'd never know

it is kind of frustrating that discussion of fictional portrayals of police and how the goofy nice policeman and the brutal-but-noble cowboy cop are both propaganda used to excuse or gloss over the violence of real police has kinda been watered down into people taking stupid potshots at each other for liking a fictional cop

i don't think a guy who wants to fuck chief wiggum really needs to be yelled at about it and the more often you do things like that the more convinced i am that you care less about actual police brutality and more about how your taste in characters is "objectively" better and more moral than other people

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

job interviewer: (reading the room) would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for a pizza party?