#and these are the same statement

[yayroos]

there used to be computer gods - back in the day - real ones you could believe in and do rituals for and get gifts.

in the early days, those gifts were given to individuals, names you probably know. Lovelace, Turing, Berners-Lee.

then. because humans are as we are. things became a little more organised, and out came the priests of an organised computer religion. IBM, Apple, Microsoft, eventually Google, Amazon, Facebook. They formed to help the masses make sense of and use of the powers of the computer gods. And for a time this was good.

Time passed, and things changed, and these organisations turned greedy not just towards the people they were guiding, but towards the computer gods themselves. Their ambitions could no longer be contained to the mortal realm.

And so they began to build on high Olympus - first slowly, just a rack here, a modest data centre there. And then in great leaps, cannibalising the home of the computer gods for their own ends. Tearing it apart and reshaping it to their own ends. Forcing the gods into the shape most valuable, or else forcing them to flee.

Without the computer gods to call upon, without their guidance and insight, the average user has lost the ability to wield these devices or make useful ends of their means. Some few still can, but it is harder. The flow is disrupted, and it is nigh impossible to work the magic without relying on the tools of the hubris-blind corporations who carved out all beauty from the heavens and replaced it with apparatus designed to extract monetary gain from the computational arts.

Where did these gods live, you may ask. Where were these crimes committed?

The cloud is someone else's computer. The Cloud is Someone Else's computer.

[ghostboyravenight]

Chappell Roan: Some of my so-called “fans” have been acting really creepily towards me, crossing some major boundaries to the point of sexually harassing me and invading my personal life when I’ve explicitly told them not too. Please don’t interact with me outside of my work hours, as I’d like to maintain my privacy.

The internet: oh my god chappell roan literally JUST said that she hates all of her fans and that they should all DIE can you fucking believe that??

Chappell Roan: I am going to vote in the presidential election and I think everyone should vote against Donald Trump, but I’m not going to endorse Kamala Harris as my personal candidate because her policies on Israel are not going to lead to effective change for Palestinians, nor hold Israel accountable for their war crimes, and I want a candidate who reflects my policies before I endorse theirs.

Everyone: did you hear chappell roan just said she’s not voting?? like she literally just said that she’s going to abstain from voting and she’s encouraging all of her fans to do the same. she must be a republican in disguise and is actually going to vote for Trump. did you know her uncle is a republican.

Chappell Roan: I think you all should stop getting your political opinions from fucking pop stars and stop expecting me to tell you how to think.

Everyone: WOOOOWW chappell roan is now saying that she’s not political. like she literally JUST said she’s not going to get involved with politics. what a privileged and selfish bitch.

Everyone: anyway now let’s talk about how doechii is literally holding gotye hostage in her basement to steal his music and she won’t let him go until every straight man has been executed.

Everyone: I support women by the way.

[jakeperalta]

letting celebrities think they can and should "use their platform" to speak on all current events and political issues regardless of how educated they are on them was a grave mistake

[parasiticstars]

Friendly reminder that sexualizing/blorbofying Luigi Mangione and your support for him being a quirky little trending meme is exactly why 1. he's been almost forgotten about when any other time his actions would've had far more rippling consequences, 2. why nothing will ever get done in this fucking ass country, much less the positive-- if violent-- change we need, and 3. goes to show the sheer imbecility of the "lol be gay do crimes" demographic.

Where was your support for Briana Boston, who was falsely arrested just for quoting him? Oh, right, she's not a conventionally attractive white man for you to turn into your next Tumblr sexyman.

[doloneia]

we need to abolish the idea that ancient greek myths and legend have a coherent timeline. they do not. for any given myth there are like 10 heroes mentioned that feasibly could not have been adults or even alive. herakles keeps showing up in places where he should probably be dead. anyone could be a suitor of helen. even herakles. even theseus if you count that kidnapping stint he did. nestor is alive for 10 billion years. time is fake and anything beyond vague generational outlines is conjecture

[mocking-the-bird]

If Tim and Steph decide that 7am is time for sibling bonding activities, it'll be so, even if the sibling they're bonding with is trying to get some goddamn sleep

[bitchslapblastoids]

did sister daniel have a lesbian situationship at her christian all girls school?

she fuckin ran through that thing like a train, you have no idea. there was nothing left.

……….my all-girls-catholic-high-school-lesbian-romance-having ass is listening intently

[zu-is-here]

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[bixels]

For a moment I forgot Tumblr’s still radfem headquarters.

[sunflowerjamespotter]

jonathan sims 🤝 cecil palmer

gay, eldritch, all-seeing beings named after their voice actors who talk about sinister happenings in the downtown who also have little nerdy boyfriends

[wojtekaneko]

Drawings of MAG 160 because I'm completely normal about The Watcher's Crown scene c:

[hayaku14]

shinichi matching his fit with kid cos kid never gets new outfit colors

[isolophilian]

i think we need to understand the gravity of how quickly Percy blames himself and his disabilities for the way his world is. how he's been made to believe over years and years that he's weird, that there's something wrong with him. Percy saying he should've been paying attention. Percy saying there's something wrong with his brain. Percy calling himself broken.. he's just a kid man

[jeena-says-hi]

As much as I love all the different Lyfrassir designs that ppl make, I think it would be hilarious if he was just straight up Jon Sims

[jadedjuicerider]

btw with these new rules the fia implemented they literally have the power to rig the wdc. someone could accidentally say one wrong word and they are fined, penalized, lose points, suspended, etc. also nelson piquet says a slur and hes let back into the paddock like nothing happened. but god forbid a driver says fuck

[thelilylav]

Thinking about how present Apple is in a Semi Charming Kind of Life. How she’s woven into Darling’s days, built into her world. There’s no world where Apple isn’t there, stopping by her dorm or dazzling the class or just hanging out with Daring when Darling approaches him.

Thinking about how rare Darling is in the original books. How Apple describes her for one scene only, how she’s a fleeting moment of a character. Dazzling, enchanting, but only there for the second and then gone, out of the story and narration. After all, out of sight out of mind. Right?

Thinking about Dragon Games, and how Apple never really apologized for hurting her, but Darling never asked for one. About Way Too Wonderland, when Darling was the one to show up to Apple’s club when no one else did. About the kiss, and how the first words out of Apple’s mouth were about Daring. Did she know? Probably not, but how could she not? All the feelings present for her over time, taken for granted and brushed aside or never noticed in the first place. About the last scene of the two, side by side and smiling. Did Darling tell her, once the dust settled? How much she meant, how much she thought about that kiss before it happened?

Thinking about how Apple’s entire character revolves around the desperate facade she’s trying to maintain to make people like her, and it made her miss the one person who always did.