#assc

[chromet]

ASSC X PRO HUNTER SUBMARINER 1/1

[hypebeast1ife]

SHOP: ANTI SOCIAL SOCIAL CLUB Kkoch Hoodie Blue

[innerxsanctum]

[hatsbuckets]

I'm editing my thesis, but here's a list of some of my fav little head canons floating around in my brain rn instead:

- John has a couch in his office. For guests, for naps, for when the boys need a nap, for when they all need a nap

- Johnny is incapable of sitting still before and after a mission. Needs to move until exhaustion crashes into him afterwards

- Johnny gets found crashing in the weirdest places, the hanger, locker room, but has recently been going to the couch.

- Simon's fav books are 'classics'. Doesn't matter the genre. Loved Alice in Wonderland as a kid. Loves The Hobbit and LOTR now. Loves Wuthering Heights too fight me.

- Kyle does his best to casually avoid stepping on cracks in the sidewalk

- Johnny counts his steps between sidewalk cracks

- if the sergeants wanna fuck with John they'll move his pack of cigars to some weird ass place. Like they won't take them (that's too fucking dangerous) but they will move them to some place John doesn't look immediately (think top of a shelf, a file cabinet). they have to get more and more creative each time until they're taping the damn things to the ceiling.

- John knows it's them and he thinks it's endearing.

- Ghost has absolutely beautiful handwriting, (got it that good after having to do lots of hand therapy after Roba) but only when he means it, otherwise it's just nice print.

- them as flower emojis.

Soap: 🌼 Price:🌹 Gaz: 🌻 Ghost:🪻

[dragongirlsnout]

Did you not like cohost? Do you think bluesky will meet the same fate

cohost had an okay idea but was allergic to user interaction and then immediately did everything possible wrong. i haven't even looked into bluesky much because i have always had negative interest because it's just another twitter clone but i highly doubt it could meet the same fate because a) it's not running off of angel investor money (i assume) and b) it has a large userbase and social interaction, whereas cohost had maybe 80-100k pages that ever interacted with the site, at least half of which were probably side pages, meaning far less real users, and then many of the most active users were just bots.

[iraprince]

indulging myself in a new-comic-celebratory poll...!! based on day one/intro of CALLIST0: ASSISTANT EXTRAORDINAIRE,

[yuwuta]

hello yuwuta! i just read yuuta okkotsu's declassified jujutsu tech survival guide and i wanted to tell you that you are an incredible writer. you understand all of the characters so well and bring them to life in your aus so well. i am in awe of you. one of my favorite parts of the fic was that reader has a domain expansion, if you don't mind, expanding (heh) on that? what are the details of her technique other than healing and healing shikigami?

vibrating at intense frequencies trying to be normal about this ask bc omgeee. first of all, thank you for the sweet words, i’m so happy you enjoyed the fic 🫶 when i first started writing, i just knew i wanted reader to have rct as the kind of antithesis to all of yuuta’s cursed energy in a kinda opposites attract way, but the more i wrote the more i wanted them to be complements—so i wanted yuuta to learn rct and reader to be able to fight/take missions unlike shoko (queen) and in the end, if you couldn’t tell, i pulled inspiration from naruto… LOL 

as for domain expansion, it’s supposed to be like a twist/play on words of the phrase “sterile field” like you would have in an operating room/medical setting, but for reader it’s a literal field or meadow like situation, and instead of having various medical assistance staff and/or tools, she has her shikigami. idk if in jjk you can technically get new shikigami but in naruto you sort of can lololol. it’s supposed to be a place for (guaranteed) healing those who are severely injured with little to no interruption or infection which is kind of the opposite of a domain expansion, but then i realized it could also allow for a guaranteed critical hit, it would just be… malpractice LOL but hey if the double glove fits… so, while everything in the domain can/should be used for healing, it can also be used to harm (like i imagine the individual blades of grass can be turned into surgical blades in her hand, i think in the fic reader mentions being able to make the bees sting/cause anaphylaxis and not just use their honey for healing, things like that)

for everything reader knows how to heal/fix, she also knows about 10 ways or things that could break or kill someone, so even tho rct/medicine is mainly used defensively or for aiding others, i imagine it could be pretty damaging in the wrong (or right?) hands, and then reader was born ❤️

i also subconsciously assc yuuta w medicine for this reason... do no harm but only for those he cares about… otherwise harm will occur xoxo

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[hypebeast1ife]

SHOP: ANTI SOCIAL SOCIAL CLUB Kkoch Hoodie Black

[achlavenue]

'di ko na alam kung sa'n ko pinaglalagay si achi, but ik i'll be glad to find a bit of him in everything i own

[fjordfolk]

Mostly, I'm surprised that if you're going to have dispensation from a docking ban based on work, you (general) choose the 'no, these' route. Instead of ie the UK version, which is purpose based instead of breed based. Imagining it left the door too open for pro-ban critics, but its an interesting choice imo.

And then ofc, being from a neighbouring country with a flat - and older - docking ban and where the same breeds are some of the most commonly used hunting dogs (Fewer weims and vizslas, but we love our brets and german pointers) I think it's silly. I would've loved to see the discourse when they passed this in the 90s, because it absolutely reads as appeasement for enthusiasts of those particular breeds.

TIL that Denmark's tail docking ban covers all dogs except 5 breeds, and only for puppies whose parents are purebred and pedigreed.

[txttletale]

the fact that cohost -- the website that famously had an ideological opposition to metrics -- was planning to use patreon's model to make revenue genuinely beggars belief. you can't have 'patreon without metrics' because that's 'patreon that nobody can reliably make a living off of' and nobody wants that! at the end of the day i can catalogue all the baffling decisions made until the end of time but it just seems to come down to the fact that ASSC was just a bunch of friends and with no formal structure it was impossible for them to have the difficult conversations that obviously needed to happen. sad story all around

[implausiblyjosh]

RIP Cohost

Cohost is shutting down because... well, of course it is. Cohost shutting down is the most "writing on the wall" shit for the last several months. The wealthy friend/funder ghosted them at one point in the last 12 months. Despite Anti-Software Software Club saying they were a "not-for-profit software company", they were just a regular LLC paying themselves near 100k/yr for their four FTEs. When they got new funding, after being ghosted, a stipulation of that funding was for them to be consistent in posting public financial updates, which they missed almost immediately. I cannot believe it lasted this long.

That they're still saying that "eggbux", the tipping and support features, fell through because of Stripe policy changes, something that seemingly did not happen, is wild. Can't even be honest at the end. Like... Cohost's early ideas started as a Patreon alternative. They've been working on "eggbux" as a concept basically since inception of Cohost. But up until the last year they were still working on this idea of being this Patreon/Ko-fi alternative without understanding the policy of Stripe and how that would work. I don't think it can be stressed enough how weird cohost's framing of the Stripe Policy Issue is. Nothing meaningfully changed about Stripe policy, ASSC just thought they could be Patreon/Ko-fi on a whim and then realized that's not how it works and had to stop dev on that.

Also, there was always this undercurrent of "Uber reinvents cabs and busses" to the whole thing. The Artist's Alley thing was just Project Wonderful, but was being pushed as a wild new thing for user-supported ads. And, like Uber, it was a pretty rough implementation of a thing that already exists because you had to click to a specific area that was just ads!

As much as I had enjoyable moments on cohost, I think it's silly to paint the site as anything it wasn't. I mean, one of the last big culture issues on the site was staff refusing to delete racist comments on a staff post until publicly shamed for their cowardice! Cohost was clearly not good for everyone who posted there. Someone got ran off the site for linking to cohost's official feature requests forum too often to ask for accessibility features, and popular people on cohost waxed poetic about how deserved it was that the person got ran off the site for being annoying. There were near-constant issues with racism not being handled well at all from a culture perspective, especially when people would criticize how white the culture of the site was. Hell, I saw someone be extremely bigoted on bluesky, then run to cohost for sympathy and get it. Even when people pointed out how bigoted they were on bluesky, with screenshots and everything, they justified it and had loads of defenders helping justify the bigotry!

I think teeing cohost up as some sort of "good sites can never exist unless it's corporate sludge" point also doesn't make sense since the site never had a plan for profitability. You can't be funded by a wealthy friend forever. There never seemed to be a plan, which is fine for a hobby but not fine when you're begging for cohost plus subs every month or so to fund your near-100k salaries. It never made sense in the long term, their own reports said so, and people were shouted down for pointing these things out.

No webbed site is perfect, and that includes cohost. It had issues up until the very end. It does no one any good to ignore the bad or pretend it was perfect, regardless of how much the site was good for you personally.

Sucks that a lot of cool people put their eggs in that posting basket, and I hope they find a different place that scratches similar itches.

[pansyfemme]

Everybody knows pee is stored in the balls. For some, that's a chest. For others, well... Assc heek. Sometimes testecal

pee is stored in the heart actually. love is stored in the balls. common misconception

[rincewitch]

oh cohost is dying for real i guess

rip! i'm not in the least surprised since the whole project seemed extremely unsustainable, but it's still kind of a shame since there are a bunch of posters i liked following over there

i've said before that i'm increasingly coming around to the opinion that it's impossible to make a social media site that's good rather than bad, and i guess the demise of cohost-- a site that was very self-consciously premised on proving that a social media site that can be good rather than bad -- is another data point. although maybe not a very significant data point because even aside from its obvious financial unsustainability, there were problems with moderation and site culture and all that jazz so its ability to deliver on that initial premise was already dicey.

although ultimately i guess a lot of the moderation problems were financial too-- they could only afford one full-time moderator, and nobly but maybe not practically didn't want to just rely on unpaid volunteer labor, so the result was a community that quickly outgrew assc's ability to moderate it. and also given its impending demise, i guess they couldn't really afford that one moderator, either.

moderation in particular feels like an intractable problem for any community that's larger than, say, a moderately-sized discord channel. even large, well-resourced social media sites from real-ass companies generally have terrible moderation; tumblr certainly does. twitter did (and now i'm not convinced it has moderators at all). we've all seen the stories about the exploited and underpaid facebook moderators who are forced to sift through a never-ending tide of beheading videos and CSAM and the rest of the worst that the internet has to offer