Keeping on the windy side of care

whether this girl or that broke the ToS is in my opinion entirely besides the point--what i can say for certain is that i could easily name five transfems off the top of my head who have had blogs set up by estalkers for the sole purpose of harassing them, who have been entirely stonewalled by support, in light of which there being any kind of time or resources dedicated to generating 'internal reports' for random kink blogs is honestly shameful

dude shoshana zuboff talks at length about pokemon go in her book surveillance capitalism, not only about how niantic used pokemon go for data mining-- like this article is talking about-- but also how it was used for direct behavior modification. starbucks was the first brand to make a deal with niantic. every starbucks became a pokestop, and so suddenly you were digitally incentivized to go to starbucks-- go enough times for the pokestop and you just become someone who goes to starbucks. plus niantic's ceo was literally the former lead of Google's Geo division (which handles google's maps/earth programs)

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

imagine Benedict Cumberbatch furiously trying to hide a boner.

this is the ugliest post on this earth and if i have to see it so does everyone else

being 24 is really not It.

i was talking to friends who's main view of tumblr is that everything is sexualized on here. and when i said i do see that i also know that the most vocal groups of asexuals are on tumblr. eventually i realized how much of tumblr was de-sexualizing sex. like just saw a post of a gifset of a sexy lady smoking and tying up hands with the reblog text "me putting the little tag back on the bread bag" and so many posts are like that. just saying or talking about some sex shit in a completely neutral non-sexual manner. I was going in loops around my head trying to figure out why it was like this, something about being so used to nudity and sex and that's not shocking or even sexy anymore, until circling back to the fact that tumblr is full of asexuals and maybe the most respectful place of them. it was then a saw a poll (a post I CANNOT find again for the life of me but it was some type of sexuality poll or something) and was shocked by just how many people answering it were asexual, until I remembered this and went. oh. so yes everything on tumblr is sexualized but not even for sexualization's sake or for sexual satisfaction. its for the bit

certified door post

I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig

Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me