My bullshit range

People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

When the actual academic scholarly book makes the tumblr meme post a reality.

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

one time i got a huge pile of stuff and he STILL said it and i said "dude, you would not be satisfied with all the riches of heaven!!" and he said "i don't even get a commission. i just love doing this."

Imagine if during their 'please don't think we're gay if we are seen together... pls ... kay thanks bye' press conference, Shane says Ilya's name and pronounces it correctly (ill-ya roZAnov instead of eel-ee-a ROzanov) and at first people online clown on him for saying it wrong, but then ...

tiktok girlie: Okay guys, get this. I have looked everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE for a video of Ilya saying his own name and ... it doesn't exist. This man has not said his own name in eight years in the MLH.

*cuts to video of MLH players doing some charity thing* Marleau: Hi, my name is Cliff Marleau. Hunter: Hey. This is Scott Hunter. Ilya: You know who I am.

*cuts to another video* Interviewer: Can you introduce yourself? Ilya: No.

tiktok girlie: Like ... what the hell? I found one (ONE) video where he says his name, but ... *sigh* he says it like this:

*cuts to a video of Ilya and his teammates playing Mario Kart and Ilya saying "IL-i-AAA ROO-za-NOV" in an Iltalian accent so it sounds like 'it's a me, Maaa-ri-ooo".

tiktok girlie: You guys! What if Hollander is saying it right??? Wouldn't that be so crazy? That would mean that all of his teammates and coaches and all the commentators and fans have been saying it wrong for years. And his BIGGEST RIVAL pronounces it correctly.

Then we meet Shallan’s brother who actually has one and interacts with it, and you’re like, oh hell yeah, let’s meet this dog, but you start getting dripfed little descriptors one at a time like immediately you’re like wait, it has antennae?

And you’re like shit, I guess it’s a dog with antennae then, then Nan Balat mentions it’s carapace, something between shell and skin

And then you get the fact it has SIX LEGS

Then he describes it tearing something with his mandibles. MANDIBLES!!!!

And I cannot stress enough, we do not get a bulk description of what this thing is when we meet it, all these individual aspects are drip-fed over the course of a few paragraphs, causing you to constantly reassess what your idea of this thing is every time you learn a new thing about it, it’s insanity.

From the initial idea of it being some kind of Different Dog, like a fantasy Great Dane or some shit, to what it actually is, which is fucking, THIS:

What I expected: | What I got:

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.