That wasn't very cash money of you, Tumblr.

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

big shoutout to the gas station near my house which is running a deal on energy drinks and thought the best way to express this on their large LED sign was to make it read BANG MONSTER 2/$5

update: you'll be pleased to know that they rethought their sign and have changed it to read MONSTER BANG 2/$5

Monster bang inflation 😵‍💫

monster bang inflation 🥺🥺🥺

talking of surplus labor one time my father and I calculated how much money he moved at his warehouse job with one single shipment and it was several times his monthly salary. the technical base of capitalism is so advanced that a warehouse peon can generate the value necessary to sustain themselves for an entire month in mere hours, having the rest consitute surplus labor that can be reinvented to economic development exclusively. the monumental amount of value generated by a mature capitalist economy is large enough to sustain its entire population multiple times over, but at the same time, the parasitism of the small class that owns all of this surplus labor is monumental enough on its own that those workers are barely paid enough to take care of their own health and their working hours cannot be reduced a couple of hours without sending shocks through the entire capital chain. never has the degree of separation between producer and production been so large, never has the chasm between the classes been so ample

of course he didn't produce the commodities being moved, his job was to put them into various boxes and shipments. this warehouse moved textiles, as part of a large international textile company. this one single shipment that could have fed him for multiple months came from an unnamed place in Bangladesh. Even greater is the dispossession and alienation suffered by the proletariat of the parasatized nations, paid for cents on the hundredth euro. Were those textile workers paid fairly, the parasitism of the capital owners wouldn't be sustainable at its current magnitude, but the products would still be sold and the materials would still be paid and the supply would still be more than enough. and the price or production wouldn't even rise that much or at all.

Making a new video essay about 9/11 titled "we should do it again"

A lot of people have never actually been the spectre haunting people's politics and it shows

oh its bad back there.

cool feature can't wait to check it out on my blog tamamoland that i've had for 13 years

Greatest impact of Mandalorian and Grogu is not anything about the actual movie but instead the fact that somehow my Twitter feed now consists of 25-30% tweets about Podracing for some reason

metaverse being an 80 billion dollar turbo flop that immediately shut down after one of the worst performances and subsequent total company rebranding in recent history SHOULD, in a kind and just world, have spelled the end for the entire company. but unfortunately we live in hell and "Meta" is still alive

same goes for twitter too like that shit should have shut down a month after it became X, The Everything App but these guys just have so much money that 80 billion dollars can be burned with reckless abandon and their companies will survive

most of you are (reasonably) skimming over that post or just looking at the screenshots but its somehow so much worse than it already seems.

learning that long covid bisexual guy was a well respected and well known blogger on here is an experience. maybe he was otherwise smart but his thoughts on gender and sexuality do no paint a good picture of him or people who took him seriously.

okay so going through all of the blogs on the post and they're all at best centrist libs and at worst blatant reactionaries. dont even need to go far either. the first post for all of these blogs is "centrism is good actually," ranting about communists, or zionism. so long covid bisexual guy is in good company, but its near impossible to give devon price the benefit of the doubt for reblogging this three year old post with barely over a hundred notes. thats not a post which comes back on your dash every once in a while. thats one that if you want to reblog it years later you need to go out of your way to look for, which is notoriously hard to do on this site. what precisely makes you decide to go searching for a post that starts out complaining about egg culture, already not great, and ends with rants about "transggendereds" and someone citing the fucking kinsey scale other than anti trans politics? not giving a shit? i doubt theres an answer that doesnt reflect poorly on price.

you'll feel like a total dipshit train wreck and no matter what some girl is gonna see you and think "role model". you can't kill yourself you have to go be clocky in the gas station so a 14 year old can have the trajectory of her life altered forever

Being clocky when i was working as a barista was one of my big joys. Being clocky when i was teaching high schoolers how to play the marimba was my reason for being for half a decade. It sucks how scared I am to leave the house I live in now. But I still need to try and be clocky at the grocery store. I wish i had a job to be clocky at. Being visibly me is one of the most radical acts I'm capable of, and I hope that one day we live in a world where it isn't radical at all.

that's exactly what I was feeling when I wrote this. we all find ways to defy our fear, love is an excellent motivator.

I love going out being clocky. I love seeing a young queer as a cashier. Usually I'm wearing a mask so I imagine folks can't quitr tell until I speak. I almost always complimented on my hair by these folks too. I love being able to thank them and give them a compliment in return.

i saw some version of this post and took it as the "you need to actually go outside in not-boymode" sign. Which isn't much, it's cut up shirt with exposed bra and cargo shorts. And nobody mentioned abything or gave me any looks. And then I got approached in the deoderant isle by a trans guy (???) and we talked and I got their (???) number and AAAAAAHHHH. Don't know if that will go anywhere but just that inter made me so happy.

god adoptables really are the funniest fucking thing the more i think about them. imagine youre so excited to get a character and draw them so good with all your ocs but someone else wins the bid and proceeds to only do shitty ms paint drawings of them smoking fat joints

i tried once and thorns of dark force materialized agonizingly around my wrist

Do not fall for the grindset mentality; jerk off and eat a hot pocket to recover spiritually