Hysterical

marciaillust:

the way tumblr is trying to distance itself from being a blogging platform is fucking. infuriating!!

like do you not know this is your strength!!! I want to be able to visit other people’s pages that have been CUSTOM MADE for their purpose!!! ARTISTS HAVE LINKS AND TAGS FOR THEIR ART!!!  COMMUNITIES AND HELP/TUTORIAL BLOGS HAVE TAGS FOR SPECIFIC QUIERIES!!! WRITERS CAN LINK ME TO THEIR STORIES!!! IT HELPS BOTH THE POSTERS AND THE CONSUMERS TO MODERATE THE EXPERIENCE TO THEIR LIKING!!!!

SENDING PEOPLE TO THAT UNSLIGHTLY “BOARD” OF A “BLOG” THAT APPEARS NOW WHEN YOU CLICK THE NAME OF THE BLOG INSTEAD OF SENDING YOU TO THE ACTUAL BLOG IS SUCH A DUMBASS MOVE? IT DOESNT EVEN ALLOW LINKS!!! I CANT DO SHIT ON THERE!!! I CANT FIND WHAT IM THERE FOR!!!! IT MAKES ME NOT WANT TO USE IT!!!!

TUMBLR IS/USED TO BE THE MOST FLEXIBLE AND THAT WAS ITS BIGGEST MERIT!!! YOU HAVE ONE OF THE BEST TAGGING SYSTEMS AND YOU WONT LET ME USE IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL!!! 

YOU CAN FOSTER COMMUNITIES, YOU LET PEOPLE KEEP MULTIPLE SIDE BLOGS WITHOUT HAVING TO SIGN IN WITH A DIFFERENT EMAIL, YOU ALLOW VIDEOS AND AUDIO AND +4 PHOTOS PER POST!!!! TWITTER CANT HAVE THAT!! TIKTOK CANT HAVE THAT!! REDDIT CANT HAVE THAT!!! FACEBOOK CANT HAVE THAT!!!

IM SO SICK OF THIS TWITTERIFICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jv:

silver-tongues-blog:

silly-jellyghoty:

cop-disliker69:

oligopspispopd-deactivated20221:

alarajrogers:

jv:

guerrillatech:

This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:

“Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?”

Yeah, I remember. And I’m sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that’s a very good thing.

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.

We don’t talk about acid rain because there isn’t any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.

We don’t talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.

On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there’s nothing to notice. But don’t be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.

Now it’s time to do that thing again and make sure that we don’t kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.

Holy fuck I reblogged this one year ago when it was a tiny weeny 100 notes post and look at her one year later

surfacage:

noire and lokha would get along! too much actually. its terrible

willypadilly:

crazy-pages:

animentality:

First things first. Permanent alimony was a life changer in getting a lot of abused women out of awful situations. Don’t forget no-fault divorce only became the legal standard in the US in 1970, and was by no means accessible by all until considerably after that. There are plenty of women alive today who were abused housewives until their 50s-60s, who were abused in ways that didn’t pass fault-based divorce standards in their state, who literally couldn’t escape until that age. They were never allowed to hold a job, never allowed to manage their own finances, and already approaching retirement age in states in states which did not have the social safety nets to enable basic survival on social security alone.

Without permanent alimony, as compensation for their decades of domestic labor and childcare and the horrible abuse they endured, those women would have lived the rest of their lives and died in horrible domestic abuse. And like … I really cannot emphasize enough how horrible this was. Still is. My mom’s a couples’ counselor and she keeps some pro bono slots open for women who need support during the process of leaving but don’t have resources. I grew up hearing the anonymized echoes of their stories, every month at the dinner table. Just … gods. The fucking horror that thirty years of that kind of abuse can do to a person. I can’t describe it.

I want this to be the context for how fucking evil it is what DeSantis has done. How fucking evil these women are for going “got mine, fuck yours” about this. How much has been unmade and how much awfulness there will be going forward.

Thank you for that context, this is an overall negative. To paraphrase something I read about painkillers and drug abuse on here, I’d rather see 100 undeserving divorcees get rich from permanent alimony than one abuse victim not get the money they deserve after ending a dangerous marriage.

trashchaser:

I cannot resist a twink with flowers