your dashboard is supposed to be at LEAST halfway full of shit you have no context for and fandoms you're not involved in. it is the natural way of the universe

Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.

Please only vote if you've been driving for over 2 years

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"I can note your interest in that feature for future development."

i have so many questions

Inktober day 13 “drink”

You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!

Spin the wheel to find out what!

This idea was submitted by @dbnekonico!

>gas station

>primarily sells liquid

nasa trying to eat the moon

Operation Pac Man is a go

The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen

Check this out.

...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)

et tu brute?

Just because you've talked to someone directly and they seem nice does not mean they aren't a scammer. Scam farms give their "workers" (slaves and victims) personas, stories, and scripts to follow and there is a whole scam system called pig butchering, where a scammer spends time building trust and a relationship with their target to exploit them for more and more money over time. "I talked to them for days/weeks and they were so genuine between the requests for more money, they can't be a scammer," is not a vetting process.

I really think we should've all learned this already from how many popular bloggers were exposed for faking their situations after years of collecting donations and building friendships, only to just completely vanish with the money they were given. Social media has made pig butchering extremely easy because scammers don't even need to build a fake romantic relationship anymore, they just need to become "friends" with their victims and take advantage of their compassion and desire to help (and their unwillingness to question what they're being told).

Pig butchering scams also involve escalating requests, that's why they're called what they are. The scammer is "fattening" you up and preparing you for slaughter by easing you into not only trusting them as an individual but also not questioning them when they ask for money. It's a frog boiling method.

I haven't eaten for a week, can you give me $20 to buy groceries? My mom is very sick, can you send me $50 for medicine? I'm going to get evicted tomorrow, can you give me $300 right now so that I'm not homeless? My daughter is sick, can you send me $1000 for her surgery? You can't afford it? But I NEED it, ask your friends for the money, ask your family for the money, my daughter is going to die and it'll be your fault if you don't send me that money today, I thought you were my friend, I thought you cared about me, how could you abandon me like this?

Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR

AO3 SCAM

There's been a number of people reporting over on the AO3 subreddit that they're getting messages like this posted in the comments shortly after posting new fics.

The AO3 team are NEVER going to try and contact you about TOS violations via the comment section (or about anything else for that matter)

Don't click any links. Report the accounts involved (which might claim to be things like "LucySupport"), delete the message and move on.

✨Signal boost if you can!✨

Do me a favour and reblog this with a show you like that was cancelled after only one season. I don't mean shows that were always meant to be miniseries or shows that work perfectly well as a standalone story, or shows that might still get renewed. I mean shows that are and will forever remain unfinished. The more obscure the better.