still astonished that there are people who really refer to Twitter as "x" now. Even in casual conversation. You don't need to do that.

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

tumblr may have censored porn but check this out

i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL

From the math Tumblr discord server:

Hey guys, show me the prints of how people are coping with the Brazilian ban on twitter, my morbid curiosity beckons me

insanely funny is the answer

Ball of molten iron vs discarded pineapple skin was not a 1v1 I was ever expecting to see, nor was I expecting the pineapple skin to win.

yeah but if you're wearing pineapple armour you need to look out for werewolves

Where do you think they're sourcing the pineapple skins from?

He made another video where he covers a wooden shield in pineapple skin and his friend uses a blow torch on it and the shield is barely charred

He has another one where he makes an entire suit out of pineapple and then stands in front of a blowtorch. I think he’s onto something.

What I'm hearing here is that dragons only look scaly. In reality, they are pineapple.

HELP

So uh, you know those people who insist Russian psy-ops never happened?

Me three years ago being Cassandra as usual

But there are none of these on Tumblr, nooooope, anyone who claims we’ve got Russian bots on tumblr is drinking the Biden kookaid, amirite? No way a single one of those accounts telling you not to vote is running chatgpt under the hood.

this is the best tweet i've ever seen bar none

Now that Twitter's URL has officially changed, lets all join hands and remember that Elon Musk threw away one of the most recognizable, established brands of the past decade due to his personal chuunibyou fascination with the letter X.

Damn .. enemy of my enemy Jonathan Chait

that muppet post reminded me, most if not all of the main muppets have twitter pages. Fav has gotta be Miss Piggys, which is filled with selfies and vaguely uplifting text thats also egocentric. all the comments are people complimenting her and being like “YAS QUEEN”

Close second is Gonzos. Which is just…unhinged

this tweet sends me into hysterics

harsh truth: Boomers just showed up

as in showed up to a place

asked hey you hiring and if they were then

for the job

just like that

✨wow✨

an old roommate told me a story about how in the early 90s her mom showed up to this place to interview for a secretary job

guy from an office across the hall pops his head out and asks if she's here for them, a computer position

she says no nope nu uh I know nothing about computers and he goes WE'LL TRAIN YOU PLEASE WE NEED PEOPLE and yanks her off her feet and through the door

today she's a highly sought after computer technician making bank

the point is that once the economy was so amazing that you could get fired from most jobs and have a new one the following week or even the next day

My dad got a bachelors degree and at his peak was making over $500k because he literally just applied to a couple bank jobs in the late 70s and that was that.

My mom doesn't have a university degree; the only reason she isn't a VP at the company she's worked at for nearly 50 years is because she hates leadership.

My manager at work has been with our company almost 30 years, has taken multiple promotions that moved her further from her actual education.

I, meanwhile, have a masters degree and the only way I got in the door with my company (where I'm now full time) was by applying for a part time position so badly paid in terms of skills/education required that they only had half a dozen applicants. They were also the ONLY company out of hundreds who even responded to my application. I'm only in my CURRENT position due to sheer luck of when I was hired vs when a key team member quit+our team being so understaffed by corporate that it was easier for them to move me into his job instead of go through hiring someone else.

I cannot stress enough how much folks used to just be trained on the job, and how much more important on the job experience is vs education in practical matters...

...except that education is used to gatekeep positions and limit applicants in an economy where profits are soaring but cost of living is rising.

Also! One thing I learned from being part of writing my own, current job's description is that jobs tend to have requirements based on their current/former occupants. Which in this job market can result in some seriously fucked up positions because people are having to accept jobs they are vastly overqualified for, so when HR asks them to describe their skillset, HR then decides "well, THEY have a Masters so everyone in this entry level part time position should have one".

Also algorithms and AI in HR.

And yet my parents, even after I have gone out of my way to explain all this to them, STILL assume that my youngest brother can just walk into major corporations and ask to fill out and application for a job.