I'm not a cat

All computer safety ever for the past 30 odd years: "if you go on the internet — especially if you're under 18 — lie about everything. Lie about your name. Lie about your age. Give as little information away about yourself as you possibly can. Obfuscate, falsify, and omit anything and everything as otherwise They Will Get Your Ass. Actually, avoid it in the first place if you can altogether."

All computer safety(?) since like 2020: "it's imperative we make every 8 year old scan a passport before letting them use their LeapFrog™️. Always-on connectivity required."

purity politics

(reposting this because tumblr deleted my blog funny enough for nsfw)

Someone sent me anon hate then reported every single one of my posts because of this post

me when I randomly remember a small mistake I made ten plus years ago

A Love for Ignorance

Yeah if you haven't locked your fics down and made it so only registered users can comment (to prevent ai scraping and scams comments which only worked for a while) I'd do it just to preemptively spare you grief with the Wattpad influx because these people are absolutely certified heinously absurd. It might stall the comments for a while, they will get accounts eventually (if they ever figure out how or someone gives them an invite), but it will give you some relief if you write for ANY megafandom, if you write anything more "edgy" than angst, write any kink of any flavor, or write ships that aren't popular. They will come for you like a 12 year old that is used to being bribed to go away and coddled.

Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have

The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet

"But how are you living life WITHOUT Doctor Leroy's Magically Invigorating Nerve Tonic? I can't imagine getting anything done without it!" <- old-timey 1800s guy who has been drinking crank and goat piss daily for the price of a shiny nickel

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

Just so we’re clear about AO3 ratings

Mature = mature topics and depictions

Explicit = porn

Stop labeling your porn as “mature.” It goes under “explicit.”

additionally, stop putting depictions of extreme mental health or substance abuse under "explicit", it's "mature"

THIS IS IMPORTANT

Realistic/tasteful depictions are mature.

Kink depictions are explicit

the youtube notification of ''ooohh your video isn't starting up smoothly???? turn off your ad blocker you cunt <3'' is so pathetic to me bc it takes five seconds max. you think i can't wait five seconds? you think i need to give you money because five seconds is too long? i pity your wife.

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently

another one bites the dust

List of other people who also suck for this reason:

Bill Nighy

Hugh Laurie

James McAvoy

John Lithgow

Katherine Parkinson

Keira Knightley

Kit Harrington

Leo Woodall

Mackenzie Crook

Mathew MacFadyen

Matt Berry

Nick Frost

Paul Whitehouse

Peter Serafinowicz

Riz Ahmed

Shirley Bassey

Simon Armitage

Simon Pegg

Stephen Fry

Stephen Mangan

Warwick Davis

"It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia"

To Survive on This Shore, by Jess T. Dugan.

This being marked "mature" is actually disgusting. These are completely neutral portraits that are not sexual or provocative in any way. Trans people existing is not a fucking sexual statement, let alone our trans elders.

Seeing all the pictures on the site made me emotional, with everything happening rn growing old seems like such a blessing and also out of reach sometimes but we'll make it. They all look beautiful.

And there's nothing mature about trans people, so tumblr, pack that shit up would you, at this point the mature content label is more discrimination than its ever actually helping anybody. You'll be marking any photo of a trans person, especially if it's a trans woman as far as Ive seen, as mature for just, daring to be in front of the camera. Trans kids need to see that there's hope and trans elders deserve to be celebrated, and trans people of all ages deserve to exist in peace.

why even wear panties if you’re just chillin in the crib ?? what’s the point?

pussy 2 wet don’t wanna slide off the couch

Finally, a win

This dumbass stigma that "hick" states are somehow dumber than the more urban ones because they're from poorer areas has to cease...

Hicks are the ones who put us in space.

You know what they changed? What Alabama is doing so different from California and New York?

They’re teaching the kids phonics.

It is legally required.

Turns out, actually learning to read improves students’ skills across the board. Who woulda guessed?

You are not immune to propaganda. This article has zero citations.

And as a result you are all believing some very very -very- narrow numbers.

So lets cite:

Alabama's scores are higher than New York for 4th grade ONLY.

When we get to 8th, they lag behind. 12th grade isn't yet reported. So we do not have enough to report here.

Also CA and NY public schools -also- teach phonics based reading.

from those above articles re: Alabama

Fourth Grade Math increased by 6 points from 230 to 236, while Reading increased by 1 point from 212 to 213.

However, 8th grade Math score was 269 and Reading was 253 in 2019. Those numbers decreased to 262 in Math and 250 for Reading in 2024.

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Alabama also has 8% of it's students who identify as English Learners, as opposed to CA which has 22 and New York which has 13..

What you're reading is 'Alabama kicked CA and NY's ass in education" and what is really happening is they scored 2-3 points higher on two tests for 4th grade students.\

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Now, that said - please don't discount that Alabama's doing awesome things for their students. Especially their economically disadvantaged ones. They are making amazing steps! But don't believe a meme graphic without actually doing your research and stop and think about why a state like Alabama might have some different issues with teaching than CA or NY.

Plus it's an ai generated image, so double check the double check

attaching something to an email is so scary. what if i accidentally put hard-core porn in there. i don't think i have any downloaded but what if i do and i attached it to the email. what then.

Ad blocking/reporting should have some sort of an "I never want to see this fucking ad again and if you fail me and show it to me again I will track down where you live and fucking kill you" option.