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The process of trying to apply to a job

See a job listing

Go to the job website

Job website is a third party website that wants your phone number, full name, email, other shit

Say no (most don't even have this)

Get redirected to another job website

This job website also wants your info, say maybe later

The new job website shows you a bunch of unrelated job listings instead of the one you want

The old website also does not show you the listing you clicked on it for

Close both websites, un-bookmark the job listing

Clear your cookies and cache because this just felt like some elaborate data fishing scheme

Dishonorable mention to the job site that demanded I pay them a subscription to apply to job listings. Fuck off.

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My personal favorites are "What are you, a cop?" and "The void."

“are you tme or tma?” “what’s your asab?” what happened to the days of punching people that asked about your sex in the face.

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Art is beautiful because it exists.

Art is a process of decisions. Color choices, medium, subject, style, basically everything in art is a choice. And that's what makes it so beautiful. Being able to look at a piece of art and go "I wonder why they chose to use such a bright green here?"

That green could represent so many things. It could be the color of the grass outside that day. The color of their favorite toy. The color of their friend's hair. The color of the trees. Their favorite color. Their most hated color.

Maybe its about a message. Some part of their identity. It could be an injustice they experienced. Something unfair they saw. A victory they claimed. A fight they had. Joy they once felt or still feel. A protest piece. An important act. A source of motivation.

Or maybe there is no reason. Maybe they just felt like using it that day.

Even if art is not made to have a particular meaning, you can still look at it and see every stroke. Every line. Every intention. There was love put into this. A soul was mirrored. A little piece of that artist wound into the picture.

There is nothing there in generative AI images. It is a machine. It does not decide, it does not represent. It makes a collage of images fed to it from a database.

It does not make art. It makes images. Sure, a human prompted it. It told it what to do. But they did not make that art. If I told an artist "draw me a tree" and they did so, would I claim it as my art? I gave the prompt, but the artist created the art. Someone gave the prompt, but the machine generated the image.

There is one benefit: it has made me appreciate art far more. I wonder more when I see art just what the artist was thinking about. I like to think about each choice they made when they created it. I think about what I do in my own art.

I think I'm going to use green today.

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Hey, massively important!!! I know shit feels terrifying right now, but being loud is having an impact

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Block him. These guys are just thiefs who don't want to learn actual art

I don't normally out people but since I literally have no other recourse when people make AI generated versions of my work without my consent, this is my only option. Block this guy in particular if you want to avoid him making AI versions of your work. Please don't harass him though.

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To my uk trans people and allies out there.

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FUCK YOU SILKSONG IS REAL!!!! 2025 LETS GO!!!!!

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We don't need to look like other social media sites. STOP.

This is the equivalent of going into your own house and someone has moved all the furniture to the ceiling.

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The aroace book experience

"I want to read some books! I really like sci-fi or fantasy stuff." Basically every book has a sexual love plot in it

"Oh... maybe I'll search up 'romance free books?'"

They're all historical books or books from literature classes

"Well... let me check out these lists people put out that allows anyone to add books!"

First list has several romance books listed despite saying no romance

"Huh... what about this one?"

Person running the list has a note about needing to ban child protag books because they got flooded with them

I just want a fun sci-fi or fantasy adventure that doesn't have sex or romance. Why is this seen as childish? Why are adult books seemingly required to have these? I was an avid reader as a kid but stopped when I hit high school, and this is why. I was sick of the relationships.

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As someone who's aroace, I am begging asexuals to stop derailing aromantic posts. If you're questioning whether or not you're asexual, do it in an asexual space. Her entire blog is solely about being aromantic. The post is clearly about being aromantic.

Learn what aromantic means.

more heterosexual girls need to get aromantic asap. you don't want a wedding you don't want kids you don't want marriage you don't want roses or chocolate or romantic date nights. you WANT a boytoy that gives you good weed and good dick. and by god i will fight for your right to have that

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fuck romance, unhappy valentines day to all my aro friends 🔥🔥💚🤍🩶🖤

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DO NOT TAG AS VALENTINES WERE GETTING AROMANTIC TRENDING

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I have a doll from Budsies. They make some genuinely good stuff. I'm so happy to see them doing this

The company budsies, which specializes in making custom stuffed animals and making duplicates of old or lost plushies, is currently offering to recreate the beloved stuffed animal of any kid who lost theirs in the LA wildfire, free of charge.

Their instagram post said to share this, so please spread this around so that families who've lost everything can receive just a little bit more hope in their lives 🥺

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okay, i've gotten sick of this shit. please reblog and like and share and stuff so tumblr can know this is a problem.

i keep getting communities suggested to me on tumblr. this wouldnt be a problem... if it wasnt communities i do not care about at all. there are some fandoms i want to genuinely avoid, seeing as i have no interest in the content and honestly am potentially triggered by it.

speaking of the getting triggered part. it gets worse and genuinely very important.

there are certain nsfw communities that get randomly reccomended to me, and some of these topics can be genuinely triggering, such as r@pe f3tishes (yes, i genuinely got a post from an nsfw community featuring that recommended to me) and other VERY potentially triggering things.

though i think it's important for people to have safe spaces for that kind of stuff (such as the nsfw one, like it is not my place to kinkshame, but to people who have not shown interest in it it can be harmful), there should be ways to avoid these

my solution? the ability to block communities. not just say "not interested" (because we all know that hardly ever works)

if anyone knows any other solutions, please let me know. this is starting to genuinely bother me and make tumblr not very fun to use, which sucks.

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Tested out my new sketchbook today! This one has thicker pages, and the markers bleed way less than my previous one. It's also smaller, which I like a lot

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Stop acting like the Minecraft movie is redeemed

I feel like Im going insane. Why are we suddenly acting like the Minecraft movie will be great? In what way did the second trailer redeem it besides doing some of the bare minimum stuff?

"Guys they used C418's music!" This was the literal basic standard for the movie's sound track. I would be more surprised if they didn't use it.

"It looks better!" In what way? The iron golem looked great ngl, but everything else was mid or just awful. Go look at the villagers and tell me anything has improved.

"Haha the mines joke was funny!" Its a megacorporation trying to sound like they're in touch.

This is still another live action cash grab, and unfortunately it'll probably work. It pisses me off knowing what we could've gotten instead of this. I have seen so many fantastic ideas from people over here. You can go see the movie if you want, but stop praising it like they've done something good. They haven't.

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Two more pages from my doodle book