I Do Youtube Videos & Media Analysis & Whatnot

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

i feel like i haven't been able to describe what this has been like without actually showing it so

so here’s something cool i learned, as a tribute to the spongebob episode “shanghaied”’s three endings (yes, the one where the flying dutchman gets turned into a vegetarian wasn’t the only ending, apparently it was a voting thing when the episode first premiered), for sb’s canonical birthday july 14th (just one day after tom kenny’s actual birthday btw), this year three new alternate endings were animated in the original style

Ugh, Squarespace just notified me the annual cost to run the Repository website is going up by $72, to $348, when it renews in August.

i think that in this day and age it is important to recognize and acknowledge the fact that not all parents of queer teenagers suck. i cite as a source my mother, whom i have been out to since i was 12, who just texted me this meme

for context: my parents were born and raised in Alabama, the heart of the Deep South. they consistently voted Republican for years before Trump came into office and they went "ok this shit is crazy" and jumped ship. they stopped going to church after i came out because they didn't want to go to a place that didn't support their kid. both of them work government jobs and are just as Southern as they are patient, accepting, loving, kind, and level-headed people.

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

hi this drives me crazy

I don't think Mark can ever top "INDEED, MR. JONES, INDEED" and "AND THAT IS HOW I KNOW YOU LIED TO ME" from the first Sandy Hook trial in Texas (not to be confused with Chris Mattei, the attorney in the Connecticut trial), but this part