#friday rant

I truly miss the days before December of 2018 when we could post without fear of our blogs being deleted. What strikes me retrospect is how that ability to post full nudity led to so many platonic relationships on here.

I mean, forget for a minute that Tumblr seems to have a tendency to only connect people who live far away from each other. But when we could post freely, it was so much livelier. At any given time I had a dozen or more mutuals that I was communicating with daily.

In the 13 years or so that I've been on Tumblr, I've easily had at least 100 mutuals that I was in some sort of regular contact with. Of that total, maybe 5 or 6 developed into something more than platonic (by which I mean sexting, etc. - I've never met a Tumblr mutual in-person).

The rest were just platonic. Casual nudity was simply a common interest. But it wasn't the only interest. It was a doorway to friendship.

Which is why it continues to irritate me after all these years that Tumblr has never given us the tools to manage nude/mature content responsibly. What remains of the casual nudity/SW community here very clearly wants to be responsible - nearly everyone I follow makes it clear that they do not want minors following them and they want to see indications of age in people's bios.

We try to conform to Tumblr's rules about mature content. But our blogs get forcibly labeled as "mature" - or even deleted - even when we follow the rules. Because the enforcement of the rules is largely automated.

I would love for Tumblr to give us the option to have our accounts age-verified. Speaking for myself, I would pay money to do this. Let age-verified blogs post what they want in return for letting other age-verified blogs see everything they post. EVERYTHING.

Je dois aller à Nice vendredi prochain pour le boulot, je me connecte naïvement sur le site de la SNCF :

Mouais.

5h40 de train en moyenne, mais tous les trains sont complets, et c'est le même merdier la veille.

Et sauf erreur de ma part, 5h40 c'est le temps de trajet que je mets en avion pour faire Paris-Dakar - je prends moins de temps pour aller sur un autre continent que pour faire coucou à Estrosi.

Evidemment je peux partir la veille, mais ça va me faire 6 heures de Ouigo, soit à peine trois heures de moins que si je prenais la bagnole.

Donc ce sera l'avion - ça pollue et c'est près de 600 euros contre 300 en train (mais il faut rajouter une nuit d'hôtel et deux journées non travaillées pendant les 11-12 heures de trajet AR), mais je fait l'AR dans la journée, donc une seule journée de gâchée pour un AR qui fait 3h, soit moins qu'un simple trajet aller en train.

Parfois je vois quelques billets ici et là sur mon au sujet des transports en commun, et comment ce serait soi-disant la panacée comme moyen économique pour éviter de polluer, mais franchement, je me dis que si à l'échelle d'un pays relativement petit en surface comme chez nous, on n'est pas foutus de relier des centres urbains (bon ok Nice ce n'est pas Toulouse lol) dans des conditions satisfaisantes, que ce soit niveau tarifaire ou en temps, alors imaginez un peu le merdier que ce serait pour relier deux villes dans un pays qui serait plus grand!

Avoir un réseau de transports en commun performant ça demande des investissements massifs et continus, et évidemment tout le monde est pour sauf quand il s'agit de mettre la main à la poche - en attendant, on reste avec des transports "du commun", parce que celui qui a des sous va préférer prendre l'avion (ou souffrir et payer ce foutu avion s'il doit absolument arriver à l'heure dans une ville donnée et qu'il a autre chose à faire la veille) et ce même si c'est beaucoup moins écologique et économique.

I've reached the point now where the words 'learn more' give me hives... In the enshittified on line world it appears this expression has two meanings

either:

Engage with our disinformation while we attempt to manipulate you into paying for something you've already paid for or pay us for some shit you neither want or need.

or:

We are about to be really really obtuse and attempt to divert you from finding out anything helpful or useful about the issue you are experiencing.

and...

Now I get that some people call listening to boy bands their guilty pleasure.

BUT

Productive Fridays, satisfying car slams, and much, much more.

Eurgh. Probably the best way to describe how I feel today is that I’m tired. Bone tired.

Today’s been a long day at work. But I’m pretty satisfied about how it turned out. I did three out of five tasks in my to-do list, I managed to study/prepare for my report that’s due after midterms, and I was able to get what I needed. #hellopaydaythankyou

I’m actually trying to keep this post a little more…

She is not angry with you. 

She was never angry with you. 

She was just hurt.

‘I’m not afraid to try again, I’m just afraid to get hurt for the same reason”, Her thoughts

She’s always acting like she’s okay. Hoping you notice that she’s just performing. But her plans always fail because it always ends up ‘being about you’.

But you know.

Eventually everything will fall back into place, until then…