Waste Your Youth, Count Your Years, Lose Yourself.

oh noooo I would haaaate if a mutual sent me nudes

wanna know what my mutuals feel like in my mouth

God I fucking love the look of men in their underwear

i don’t care what anyone says, ledian is the GOAT of GSC

Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

An aquarium in Japan was closed for renovations, and their resident sunfish got depressed not seeing visitors. So the staff put some uniforms with printed faces against the tank, and it immediately recovered.

Sometimes statements can be true but not useful or complete. Take “Free transit fairs didn’t work in Portland” which by all accounts this is true. The number of people being assaulted, harassed or robbed went up. The perception of transit as safe plummeted and with it so did ridership. Which sounds on the surface like the idea doesn’t work but I’d argue that what this did was point out a massive systemic failure of the city.

See the city is chilly and rainy for a lot of the year. It’s miserable to be outside all the time. If you’re unsheltered you’re going to be desperate to find shelter. There is limited space in shelters and for any unhoused people who use any kind of drug, most of those shelters/programs are closed to them. Having a place that was free and air conditioned/heated and dry became an ad hoc shelter space. However that then came into conflict with the purpose of transit. And when you have people with no options who have been failed by the city/country who use to cope with their situation and any physical or mental conditions they have, you create an environment where crime is likely. Ultimately this means that in order to have free transit in Portland there must be a viable and sustainable shelter available for ALL unhoused people not just a particular subset. There need to be resources for everyone and not just a few. Instead of working towards that, fees were reinstated and the unhoused people were forced back to the street.

So remember that sometimes people will say something true, but misleading. That those in charge have a vested interest in controlling the narrative and what they say might not be the full picture.

Now that I can’t sway the results, I can officially say I’m relieved that the “no” vote won, but horrified by how narrow the margin was: less than 2%. Please learn the value of your own privacy. Please demand trust and respect from whomever you’re dating. Please realize that these behaviors are the first step on the road to a partner telling you who you’re allowed to talk to and what you’re allowed to watch and which sites and apps you’re allowed to visit and use. Don’t ignore the warning signs of a controlling or emotionally abusive partner.

Every day i see wonderful creatures online

be a proud pervert and just send the dm otherwise nothing happens forever

yes this is a sign meant for You specifically, dear reader

Everyone please behold this baby tree:

It's so much smaller than the support posts, they had to secure it with caution tape.

Caution: baby!

One day (but not this day)!

Update:

Thriving!

Now taller than a human person!

In case you were wondering!

Update:

Filling out, and up!

We threw it a birthday party once spring arrived. 🎂

You can! Here, to help: 🪣

Happy birthday, little tree. When the sky clears we'll celebrate together again.