a good thread
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a good thread

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Did you know that most plot holes can be fixed by making your characters canonically stupid
"This doesn't make any sense, why would he ever-" my man hasn't stumbled onto a thought in years
not to sound like a crazy sjw but parents putting little girls in frilly dresses/lavish clothes and telling them not to run, climb, play in dirt, etc lest they ruin their outfits or somebody look up their skirts is one of the most direct ways we as a society teach girls that they are only ornamental and cut their childhoods short
Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.
We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think
So I've hidden this reply, both because it's obnoxious and because I don't want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don't know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.
literally that is what the post is about, I am saying people should be less eager to jump on any chance to be snarky and rude to total strangers on the internet
DID THE JOURNAL FACTORY FUCKING EXPLODE???
you said it yourself: you're looking to vent it LITERALLY ANYWHERE
so vent it somewhere private. or at least not literally aimed AT another person, a total stranger at that
Like, this reblogger sounds so insanely self centered in their reblog. notice how both options focus on how being rude would affect THEM. "B has no consequences for me so it's perfectly fine to do"
(the only reason I didn't show their username in the screenshot is because, given how self victimizing they sound in their reblog, I believe that, if I did show their username, suddenly online stuff wouldn't seem so inconsequential to them and they'd accuse me of sending harrassment their way and putting them in danger)
You said it better than I could. Of all the inane and ridiculous things I've seen in my notes because of this post, "I NEED to say fuck you to strangers or I will literally die" is certainly one of them

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Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible
Pronouns
An accent
Bias
Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun
Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄
Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!
Gonna sign language at you in a very southern accent
Sign languages also comes with accents, you can easily watch people sign and tell the difference
You get different sign language accents, you get regional accents, and you even get "second language speaker accent"
Adam Hills at the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
for a light-hearted take on international sign differences.
you have to consciously unlearn racism and continue to watch for it because it will come out without realizing. because so much of society is structured around it. shrugging and going "i dont care" or "i dont know how else to say it" means you are okay with being racist and hurting other people with how much you dont give a shit about them.
Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand
really i think the most insidious part of white supremacy is the way it will convince white people everything is actually About Them. being called out isn’t about you. poc expressing frustration at your behaviour isn’t about you. it’s about how you are affecting others. step one is literally just de-centre yourself from the conversation. anyone who’s not white has already had to learn this lesson the hard way and it gets tiring waiting for the rest of you to catch up
Not to derail or belittle this but I think that (on the internet especially) there's this expectation that after being called out on some behaviour/thought/stereotype/etc that is racist/sexist/homophobic/etc the person in question can/should be able and willing to completely reject that position and change to the new position in an instant with no mental processing.
As someone who has had to actively unlearn things from the benign and kind of funny to the truly harmful, I can say that most times my immediate response is "I'm sorry. I didn't realise that was bigoted." Then I go home and spend 7-12 business months unpacking what I've just learned, how it was woven into my life, and how I'm going to reframe my identity given that taking out that one thing has caused a whole lot of stuff I thought I knew to shift sideways.
Then AFTER I've finished unpacking and reorganising my brain I still need to actively police my thoughts and interactions in light of the new knowledge. Particularly with language where something that was not fraught when I was young has moved on and now has implications that I had no idea even existed. (Tranny anyone? depending on your generation and location it could mean anything from "bloke likes wearing lingerie with his wife" through "drag" to "transgender" and could be anything from affectionate to violently homophobic)
I am trying and I do actively attempt to not be a dickhead but I'm in my 40s and have a LOT of unlearning still to do. At least 3 times per year I get smacked in the face with a thing that "everyone should know" but I don't because I'm simply not interacting with this particular group of people regularly.
So all this to say that if it takes someone a while to grapple with their privilege it's not because they are actively or even passively resisting. Sometimes examinemyprivilige.exe has a long run time.
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people who express seething, violent hatred towards cyclists: you make people feel unsafe as fuck! you're allowed to be annoyed with cyclists. some of us are dicks who need to learn the road rules. but anytime I see someone "joke" about hitting cyclists with their car I feel a little bit sick to my stomach.
feels like as soon as my feet are on the pedals of my only reliable mode of transport, I become a target for people driving a terrifyingly fast and heavy car. when I was barely a toddler, my dad had to go on rallies to raise awareness about the fact that people on bikes are PEOPLE who do not deserve to be KILLED BY DRIVERS.
he had slogans trying to remind people that he was a dad with a 2 year old son at home, because both him and his friends have had drivers swerve at them any time they got on their bicycles. I just find how "normal" it is to want to kill cyclists pretty fucking scary.
"it's just a joke" yep! but jokes are rooted in ideas that you are reinforcing. you can laugh about how annoying cyclists are without sounding like you want us to get life ending injuries for inconveniencing you.
South Australia did a massive research project to try to find out what would help people cycle more and increase active transport.
The No1 response across all ages, genders, areas and abilities? Not having to share the road. That's it. Off road cycle/foot paths or some sort of actual barrier between the road and the cyclist.
Cycling_Strategy_Refresh_Draft_11022022.pdf
241127-Active-Travel-Design-Guide-web.pdf
I don't see what the-- oh gosh
oh good lord that door hit me like a sack of bricks
"The median American is from almost literally every perspective immensely richer than they would have been in 1980" is one of those things that is instantly obvious looking at...most things, but somehow remains secret forbidden knowledge to a truly depressing number of confident cultural theorists, commentators and activists.
While I'm always happy to see it pointed out that the boomers had it rough, it does bear emphasizing that 1980 was a pretty bad year! Let's see, how big a difference is it, anyway? It's surprisingly hard to find inflation-adjusted data that goes back that far. I guess people use the census? Household income seems more widely reported, so from here:
That is fucking wild! From the recessionary low of the early 80s, the median American household has indeed seen a roughly 40% increase in real incomes -- a bit less starting from the prior peak -- but more than half of that happened within the last ten years. (Also interesting to see that the median asian household got twice as big a bump from the last ten years specifically, and that the median white and black households were farther apart in 2024 than at any other point on the series.)
Of course the issue with household data is that there are a lot more two-income households than there used to be. Unfortunately, person-level data is only available for people who worked full-time the whole year, which obviously hides this effect. Even allowing for that and the understatement it implies, though, I found this chart striking:
Not as rosy a picture! Of course, the benefits have been uneven in other ways, as well -- increases in equity, welfare, and safety, decreases in job security and independence; food and merchandise are down and housing and fuel are up; there's less socialized housing and infrastructure but more socialized healthcare. The limitation of the median American is that it's a specific person, but not the same person every year.
Uhm, I wanted to look up stats on median US individual or household net worth since 1980 as well, but it's abjectly impossible -- if anyone else wants to have a try, go for it! I can foresee complications in the sense that it's even worse for individual data, it obfuscates how much of people's wealth is tied up in their home, and it's likely to be much more extremely correlated with age.
On the whole, though, I feel like I've convinced myself that "the median American is richer than they would have been at most times in the past" is true, but "the median American is from almost literally every perspective immensely richer than they would have been in 1980" is not -- or at least not true enough to be obvious.
That's also a problem with looking at averages (yes even median). because while it shows what is true for the majority, it ignores the fact that society is heterogeneous. (a non-US perspective)
It is true that LGBTQIA+ rights have largely improved. But they have not improved everywhere, for everyone, in every country. In some cases, things have gotten worse.
It is true that racism has decreased. Again, not for everyone and in some cases it has increased.
It is true that extreme poverty (usually defined as 2USD/EUR or similar per person per day) has PLUMMETED! The headline tonight could have been "100,000 fewer people in extreme poverty today!" and it would be true! Apart from a few months during covid it would have been true every day since around 1995. But we still have extreme poverty. And wealth inequality is still very evident.
Life expectancy is up - but not for everyone.
Health is up - but not for everyone.
Access to education is up - but not for everyone.
Deaths due to conflict are down - that doesn't matter if you live in a warzone.
The world IS getting better. Slowly, in fits and starts, and sometimes it's two steps forward, one step back. But we are seeing progress worldwide in almost every metric. We have a lot of work to do but it is getting better.
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My Hero the late great Hans Rosling compared it to a premature baby in an incubator. it is true that the baby is still very sick and is not out of danger. But the baby's pulse is better than yesterday, and so is their breathing, and digestion. Bad and Better are both true.
If we always focus on the deficits we lose track of not only the progress that we have made but of what worked and what didn't and what we need to do more of.
There are millions of people quietly working behind the scenes, within the systems, one day at a time, to make the world a better place. To leave behind a quiet, cooperative, nameless legacy.
“omg you’re just blogging for attention”
and you’re blogging??? for gold? Women? Immortality?
Because my family might find a diary.
They will NEVER find my Tumblr.
this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

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random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
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barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC