Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

6. Content creators are not your parents and owe you nothing, not even a breakdown on why their content isn’t problematic. You don’t get to demand a dissertation denouncing any and everything unhealthy in a piece you don’t like. Move on.

7. Tagging is a nicety but not an obligation. You can message people, politely, and ask them to tag things, and many people will, but understand that it’s their blog and they aren’t obliged to say yes. Unfollow and block when you need to. Circling back to number 1, you are responsible for curating your own experience.

8. Don’t be a jerk. Remember at the end of the day, there are actual living, breathing people behind each screen name. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face in real life. 

I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this.

The Apollo 17 mission found the ruins of the kingdom, and caused NASA to cease further manned missions to the moon. Fortunately for the people of Earth the return of the kingdom stopped the US government from stopping and even sabotaging further moon missions by other nations and private companies.

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

@xkcd-for-that

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

Star Trek yet again being accurate about future history (Picard saying “little is known about this era (the early 21st century) because much of the digital records are gone.”)

Oh robots.txt, how I despise you

Goku and his mom

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IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

Indiana Bones

Sketchbook 26

Random sketches about Samus Aran, for fun

how it feels to be online these days

Metroid Prime by vanduobones

Get snailed idiot.

It reminded me of Vegeta in the rain.

No. 14 (White and Greens on Blue), Mark Rothko, 1998, Oil on Canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm

This is one of the best running gags in cinematic history

Hey um by the way the devil gave you free will, not God.

like it’s part of the Bible. In Genesis (the first creation story specifically) the devil (a title which here means “evil trickster demon” but recently has become synonymous with Lucifer or Satan) told Eve that she would not die if she ate the fruit (true) and that she would be like God (sorta true, humans gained self awareness, free will, the ability to create, etc.)

when she ate the fruit she gained the capacity to choose right from wrong because it was essentially the first time a human, not God, created evil.

without the devil we would not have free will.

thank him, not God.

.... If humans didn't have free will before the Fall, how were humans able to deliberately choose to eat the fruit that God told them not to eat? Because Adam and Eve disobeying God by eating the fruit sure sounds like they were capable of making free choices before they ate of the fruit.

Someone add emojis to this and make it a shitty copypasta

👋Hey um 👉👈 by the way the 😈devil 🤲🤲gave you 🆓free will, not ☁️God☁️. 😲😳😯

🤔🤔🤔like it’s part of the ✝️📘Bible. In 🌿Genesis🌿 (the 1️⃣first creation story 🤓specifically🤓) the 😈devil (a title which here means “👹evil 🤪trickster 👿demon” but ⌛recently has become 😈🔄😈synonymous with 👹Lucifer or 👺Satan) told 🙋‍♀️Eve that ♀️she would not 💀💀➡️⚰️die if ♀️she 🍴ate the 🍓🍒🍎🍉fruit (✅true✅) and that ♀️she would be like God❓❗ (✅❓sorta true, 👨👩humans ⬆️gained self awareness, 🆓free will, the ability to 🖌️create, etc.🤓)

when ♀️she ate the 🍊🍍fruit ♀️she gained the capacity to choose ☑️right from ❎wrong because it was essentially the 1️⃣first 🕰️time a 🧑human, not ☁️✨👨‍🦳✨☁️God, created 🚫evil.

without the 😈devil 👉we👈 would ❌not❌ have 🆓free will.😯🤔✍️

Op got their degree in theology from Hazbin Hotel

Day 7 of cutegirltober : Samus with Grunge aestetic

Didnt feel like drawing the whole flanel pattern so just pretend i did

Promt list from oceaninspace

Samus by AB.Singh