where am i

if i have one more person say sparkles on this post im gonna blow i swear to god

what the fuck. comics are magic

My old person take today is that I feel like people have normalized being on your phone every single moment including when you're spending "quality" time with others so much that they're defensive if someone isn't ok with it. Yes, you have a problematic relationship with your phone and social media if you physically cannot put it down for a couple of hours to like, have dinner with your friends. It's a show of respect for other people's time and energy as well as important to be present and connect with people around you. Your parents who told you no phone at the table were right for that one.

i can sense that I am not the only warrior of light in this popeyes bathroom

Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?

Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month

It's 2 years later. It's gotten worse. Happy pride month.

I do think ai is over like all of it just screams desperation. they’re trying to put it in everything like it’s a zucchini muffin and the public is a kid who won’t eat vegetables. every single tech startup is like “the new revolutionary ai assistant that privatizes pooping.” The only time chat gpt is ever in the news is when the company needs money or people are dating it. People are always arguing that ai is unethical or not useful but even more than that it’s swagless because no artists or tastemakers or it girls will touch it.

I think we weaken ourselves by running campaigns that say like “cool kids don’t use ai” because it sounds like something your parents say when you get bullied. But cool people genuinely do not use ai. there’s an aura of such raw and intense swaglessness about it. I think that’s just objectively true. All the companies who bought into it are broke and its associated with teenagers who can’t socialize, Disney adults who use it to make them look cartoon, women who are emotionally dependent on it, incels, and nerds. On an objective level you cannot come back from that culturally and it’s alienated any person in a creative field who might possibly be talented or influential enough to fix it.

On top of that multiple gaming consoles and tech devices literally can’t be made right now because ai is taking all of the ram (?) How long will the cultural goodwill last when people can’t get a new switch, a new phone, a new pc, a new PlayStation or Xbox and their only consolation is talking to this robot therapist that repeats the stuff they say more stupidly? and all the companies that switched to cashless and pay with an app now can’t make money because the neighborhood switched to rolling blackouts and all the phones and iPads can’t get wifi or died? like is that really going to be deemed less important than a broke tech company that reeks of desperation and whose founder is quite frankly ugly?

this is the vibe i bring to the party actually