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I think tumblr has a HUGE problem with constructive vs destructive criticism, especially with deeply rooted topics. Like just because the topic is deeply rooted doesnt mean you need to be so harsh about it. Actually the opposite i think ! Instead of saying “you’re acting like an asshole if you do this, because [___],” say “you should try your best to stop this habit, it may come off as rude or shitty to other people, because [___].” Everything is in the phrasing of it. Lets try and be nicer with critique smiles ! It makes people take you more seriously because people dont like taking criticism if it feels like they’re being insulted !

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Hiiii hiiiiiii kills you. Makes ur body into meat for a tiny cooking channel and makes a very very tiny hamburger

i ddon’t know why i didn’t see this. hello. i think i would make many many tiny hamburgers an d you sgould use me 2 feed a very tiny army

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defernull tenna have that flower in nose thing?

HE DOES !!!!

Except he always snuffs it out before it blossoms, because I'd imagine he thinks it makes him look silly and sensitive. IT RARELY HAPPENS.

He does have a venus flytrap that comes out, I feel like this would only come out when he's super annoyed and impatient.

not in the blowing up sense (he grows when he's mad) but in the tapping his foot waiting for something to happen or leave.

also if you're curious about how the flower actually looks, I'd imagine it would almost be bouquet-like because of how long he's been keeping it in LOL

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“his cherubic, baby face…giving him the appearance of a brooding, camp history professor…his body and strange charisma”

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This is your daily reminder to keep bugging Youtube about their AI Verification Bot until they give up and scrap the plan. Whether it's through Email, or clogging up their phoneline with calls, keep pressuring them.

If it's working against the Credit Card companies, it's sure as shit gonna work against them too. We shouldn't have to give our faces and IDs to Youtube because some parents are too fucking stupid to look after their kids.

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I'm so sick of defending shit I don't even like. I hate porn. I think gender and sexuality are boring. I've never taken an illegal drug and have no interest in doing so. But people won't back the fuck off and let people live their lives so here we still are, still on the front lines with this shit. "You guys make everything about" I'D REALLY LOVE NOT TO, MATE, BUT WE'RE NOT THE ONES CREATING PROBLEMS HERE. Stop trying to control people's lives and we'll all get a chance to shut up about it, but unfortunately the Moral Police are out here endangering lives and livelihoods so here we still are. Forever.

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fabulous creature?

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For anyone who wants to call Visa or Mastercard about the Steam/Itchio: be the nice but inept person who eats up all their time.

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The thing about aggressive age-verification procedures is that they're a sign of a low-trust society. It's the sign of a society that expects people to be lying a lot. That's not a good thing for a society to be, even absent other factors.

I've spent the past few months living in Austria, and one of the things that has really impressed me about this country is how much it... trusts me. Transit works via the honour system. Nobody tries to card me when I buy beer. When I explained my usual prescription to my doctor here, she didn't try to persuade me I wanted something else instead. You can buy a vibrator from a vending machine.

And it all just works. The transit system is well-funded, the ERs are not full of dead drunk teens (it's hard to do too much damage to yourself with the weak-ass beer here, especially if comparatively few people drive), and nobody seems particularly fussed about it. This is the safest, cleanest, and happiest city I've ever seen. I live in what is broadly considered to be the worst part of town, and it's miles more pleasant than the nice parts of some North American cities I've lived in.

Nothing destroys trust more than enforcement. And if you have enough trust, you don't need enforcement. Isn't that better?

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the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

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Anti-censorship cheat sheet I took from bluesky

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It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

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do you ever think about dead versions of yourself that are fossilized in someone else's mind

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Where the FUCK is my binder. The council is literally sabotaging me. Who has a breast reduction spell i can use

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more people need to learn to distinguish between someone saying “i don’t like this” and someone saying “i think this is bad/morally reprehensible/offensive”

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He’s hot

I think he’s very attractive. I know he’s genetically modified to be a sexy man but idc

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Disgusting creature