#learning internet of things

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[hinamie]

green

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Glitchtrap really HATES Mike specifically

[bigidiotenergytm]

Headcanon for the last man to die au: Odysseus hates the feeling of synthetic fibers. ie polyester, acrylic, ect.

i can definitely see that

he actually prefers a lot of older things throughout time and takes a while to really get adjusted to "newer" things, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to learn about all these new things either

for example: once cars came around he probably became bored and took one apart and tried to put it back together- but he'd never drive a car, things like that

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I’m going to take away your media literacy skills

[codgod-archive]

i know dreams thing where he “accused” tommy of being really racist was to like. prove a point about how you shouldn’t allege things without proof/context but that was a fucking bold move from someone who has been publicly misogynistic and racist

[spitblaze]

The thing you need to remember about Tumblr discourse is that like 70% of it does not matter off of this specific website and even less of it matters once you get off the internet

[simuran]

Question to native English speakers (or anyone, really): have you seen trucks like this, and if yes, what would you call them?

That is, the trucks with curved walls that have no space to carry anything inside and exist only to display ads?

[bitchslapblastoids]

Was thinking about how much of a normo I come across as irl, how I’ve felt a lil odd person out at their shows bc of being a bit older (29) and looking so aggressively normal, how generally confused people in my life would be if they knew about my d&p obsession, how thoroughly i mask weirder traits and essentially codeswitch to suit the mainstream, etc.

i feel kind of fish out of water when I imagine how all the people that populate my tumblr phandom ecosystem are likely presenting to the world irl (I.e. more visibly queer, counterculture, and so on). But then I think maybe the most visible phannies are the ones with the most curated, alt, deliberate daytoday lewks/style? So maybe what I’m picturing is off base? But then I’m also basing this off of what audiences look like in audience footage, m&gs, etc.

Sooooooo i would like to know… do you guys feel like you present as someone who may be Deeply Online and obsessed with two gay nerds from the internet? Or do you hide it and fly under the radar, masking as a total normy and living a double life?

(To clarify I don’t mean you’re like out and about wearing the fringes boob sweatshirt lol I more mean vibes and overall lewk yk?)

[archivlibrarianist]

"Bots on the internet are nothing new, but a sea change has occurred over the past year. For the past 25 years, anyone running a web server knew that the bulk of traffic was one sort of bot or another. There was googlebot, which was quite polite, and everyone learned to feed it - otherwise no one would ever find the delicious treats we were trying to give away. There were lots of search engine crawlers working to develop this or that service. You'd get 'script kiddies' trying thousands of prepackaged exploits. A server secured and patched by a reasonably competent technologist would have no difficulty ignoring these.

"...The surge of AI bots has hit Open Access sites particularly hard, as their mission conflicts with the need to block bots. Consider that Internet Archive can no longer save snapshots of one of the best open-access publishers, MIT Press, because of cloudflare blocking. Who know how many books will be lost this way?  Or consider that the bots took down OAPEN, the worlds most important repository of Scholarly OA books, for a day or two. That's 34,000 books that AI 'checked out' for two days. Or recent outages at Project Gutenberg, which serves 2 million dynamic pages and a half million downloads per day. That's hundreds of thousands of downloads blocked! The link checker at doab-check.ebookfoundation.org (a project I worked on for OAPEN) is now showing 1,534 books that are unreachable due to 'too many requests.' That's 1,534 books that AI has stolen from us! And it's getting worse.

"...The thing that gets me REALLY mad is how unnecessary this carnage is. Project Gutenberg makes all its content available with one click on a file in its feeds directory. OAPEN makes all its books available via an API. There's no need to make a million requests to get this stuff!! Who (or what) is programming these idiot scraping bots? Have they never heard of a sitemap??? Are they summer interns using ChatGPT to write all their code? Who gave them infinite memory, CPUs and bandwidth to run these monstrosities? (Don't answer.)

"We are headed for a world in which all good information is locked up behind secure registration barriers and paywalls, and it won't be to make money, it will be for survival. Captchas will only be solvable by advanced AIs and only the wealthy will be able to use internet libraries."

[queriesntheories]

A Nest of Internet Trinkets v1 is now LIVE!!!

It's a whole directory of cool things I've collected, with 190 links so far! (and more to come in future!!)

art and writing tips

free games

web tools and webtoys

free books and watchable media

awesome things you can learn

mental health resources

a wheel you can spin!

one whole crow!

and more that i haven't elaborated on!!

Special thanks to @good-morning-czernobog for inspiring me to do this, @paperoxalis and my beloved mutuals for bearing witness to my insanity, and to everyone who's been interested in this for their utmost patience. If you have any sites to suggest, shoot me an ask, or email me!

Now go look at my awesome webbed site!!

(link was updated 16th April 2025)

[terresdebrume]

I'm just curious tbh? Feel free to talk about your experience in the tags x)

[unganseylike]

society if ronan knew the phrase “me when i lie” and used it after everything declan said

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

is Adhd/autism really becoming a trend or are the neurodivergent folk just finding each other, falling in love, because they feel seen by one another, and having kids?

is adhd/autism really becoming a trend or is the internet just the place we feel the most heard and like we can speak up without the stress of having 'perfect' neurotypical 'social interaction'? is it a trend, or has social media just created easier avenues for connection for us? Is it becoming a trend, or are we just a big chunk of the content creators online? bc ya know... the 9-5 workforce doesn't jive with a lot of us, and we're all striving to be seen and understood.

Is it a trend, or is this the place where we found out other people were like us?

idk. just thinkin thoughts my dudes

[zenathezee]

If you told me in 2012 that College Humor, Smosh, and a brand started by some dudes from Buzzfeed are some of the most diverse and inclusive places on the internet I would not have believed you

[3-aem]

who else is learning that sukuna doesnt drink his own breast milk canonically on this very sunday morning…