I’m gonna admit that I got on Twitter like a big ol’ dramatic dork last night and said, knowing full well that Elon Musk was doing exactly this, “If he changes the name to X, I’m out, I can’t do this anymore.”
Not because “X” is doofy and a terrible branding move, although it is, but because he wants to do THIS shit. Yeah, no, I am not hanging around for your global interactivity “everything app” bullshit. You want me to fucking BANK with you? YOU? You just lost about $30B running a platform into the GROUND by FIRING EVERYONE and doing whatever damn thing popped into your head between shitposts? Are you HIGH? I cannot hang around for this “tech king of the world, 420 blaze it lmao” bullshit. I could not stay at my beloved Livejournal after SUP said all the users would be subject to Russian law in 2017. I know The Moment when I see it. I can’t do this.
I admit, I might go back every few months and say “Hey, I posted XYZ on any platform but this, please leave this godforsaken place,” and I don’t want to delete my accounts. I’ve been on Twitter since 2008, and I have a ton of livetweet threads (on my main and also on an alt for that purpose. Remember that time I livetweeted the Twilight gender-change book? That glorious trainwreck?). I’ve saved some of them via Thread Reader PDF downloads, but there are still more to get. I don’t want to utterly destroy book and TV discussion we did over there.
I haven’t used Twitter regularly since maybe 2016 (about the time the post-Gamergate alt-right really moved in), but the conversation and community, decentralized though it was, before that–we’re going to lose the last vestiges of that, the way everyone on Reddit was upset about losing the collective knowledge over there. And I’m so fucking angry about it. I’m so angry. I immediately came back here the week he took over last year because I knew, I KNEW, somehow that Twitter would be destroyed. I just thought it would burn down in a smoking heap of rubble, not turned into a shambling tech zombie under a different name. I just. I can’t do this anymore.
Also, shut the fuck up, Linda Yaccarino. Just because you can put Elon Musk’s nonsense into coherent verbiage doesn’t mean “a global social media/marketplace/banking system/walled garden that’s basically X-Treme AOL” isn’t a fucking nightmare. I hope the EU bans the fuck out of you both. See you in bankruptcy court.
i think that every child should have unrestricted access to thick blackberry brambles or some other delicious fruit that grows encased in a painful fortress. i think wading through thorns to reach the cluster of shining ripe berries you spied through a gap between the tangled vines teaches you something important. not sure what though
i just know no fruit has ever tasted as sweet as the ones i ate while bleeding under the blistering summer sun
My grandparents let blackberry vines grow wild on their property. Oh, they’d managed to keep them in neat rows for a spell, but the blackberries did what blackberries are wont to do: grow faster & wilder than anyone can manage.
Some of my favourite childhood memories involve wandering down those rows, plucking thick, fat berries directly off their vines, putting the smaller ones in the green, plastic pint containers to take back to grandma “for canning,” while walking that razor-fine edge of “eating just enough” and “I made myself sick.”
If you are not an influencer and maybe want to reshuffle your cosplay schedule in solidarity that’s great, but you’re not under any requirements to refrain.
And it’s always valid to cosplay <X Character> with a picket sign, studios will hate it.
tumblr needs to get on top of WHN, it’s one of the most brutal and well-observed things i’ve ever read about internet freaks and the artstyle fucks
I’m so glad to see this on my dash; I read the newest chapter a few days ago and then went back and reread the first and MAN it is written MASTERFULLY. So many hints early on that seem innocuous but come to fruition later.
WHN might be the best piece of serial fiction going right now, and it’s desperately needed online in an age where Online is full of YA audience-author posturing and “good guys must be good, bad guys get no redemption” - just about EVERYONE in WHN sucks, they suck in an extremely human way, and they suck for understandable, relatable reasons.
It kinda reminds me of a way more grounded and real Paranoia Agent - tragedies big and small that unfold as everyone dodges responsibility for their actions– for reasons the reader can totally understand. It’s fucking brilliant and messy and gray and needed right now.
and yeah, heed the content warnings: it’s a rough as hell read, and necessarily so.
We’ve been telling you for literal YEARS that Guy Fieri is garbage. People who have worked with him have been telling you for years that he’s a shitty person.
WELP.
I’m going to just reblog this because this seems like another “Tumblr has decided you should hate this person” bullshit moments. Especially since Fieri is notoriously apolitical publicly so no one knows where he stands. But that’s also just the smart celebrity move these days.
Now if he comes out publicly as a staunch republican and Trump supporter, that will be an entirely different thing, and he will be dead to me at that time.
BUT for now it’s NOT a thing.
And for clarification about what’s going on in the picture I’ll share this bit someone else posted.
Basically, Fieri is nice to everyone because he doesn’t want to drive off any of his fan base. It’s a planned thing and yeah the whole “apolitical” thing is bullshit these days. But it’s also a business move.
Meanwhile he’s officiated over 100 gay weddings and is helping raise his sister’s kid, with his sister’s partner, after his sister died in 2011.
The lengths people will go to, in order to normalize and justify Guy Fieri’s just casually shaking hands and laughing with Donald Trump, as if Donald Trump weren’t the modern day incarnation of Hitler, as if Donald Trump hadn’t done any of the unforgivable things he’s done, as if uncountable numbers of people are not dead directly because of Donald Trump’s actions, and making it all just not a big deal because “Guy Fieri is just nice to everyone” is pathetic. It’s pathetic.
“Hey, I’m Guy Fieri, and I’m nice to EVERYONE, from the gays all the way to the Fascists who want to murder them for existing! See? ALL LIVES MATTER! I’M A GOOD GUY”
Get the fuck out of here. If you pose for a photo with a the most infamous white supremacist alive in America today, and smile while you’re shaking his hand, you are not apolitical. You are PROFOUNDLY political, and you’ve told EVERYONE what your values are, who you are, and what you’re willing to stand for.
At best, Guy Fieri is a coward. At worst, he’s on team trump.
And all these people who can’t trip over themselves fast enough to defend him are telling on themselves, as well.
I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?
“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.
This is a plunger.
Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?
WRONG.
The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.
These are a toilet plungers.
Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:
Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.
Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.
To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.
So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!
why does this have nearly 100 notes
Because with this level of passion, containment is futile 
The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website’s user base. (I’m sure there’s someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)
Twelve i swear to fucking god that this post had like. 3k last week . what happened
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