you what

Tried to tip a tumblr blog at 1am and it was such a suspicious transaction it immediately put a full fraud freeze on my account

Fortunately, banks no longer just ask 'did you make that transaction' they want to make sure you weren't scammed into making that transaction and 5mins after their call will give away all your money anyway.

This is an honest to goodness life saving movement and I cannot be happier banks are adopting it

Unfortunately, it meant I had to have the most embarrassing financial call of my life

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I think in the end Cash decided there was no saving me from myself

face of a man who has known sorrow

had to google this as i wasn't familiar with the name. incredibly specific and accurate reference. please don't compare my cat-in-law to a homestuck character again

truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life

you see an old post of yours thats dated like a month after you got introduced to Media and it says like “huh im kinda liking Blorbo Bingus? but he’s not really my favorite. he seems sillyyy though he’s neat i’m sure he’s nice :)” and you just

government radars have detected a “hating 4chan is transmisogynistic” take heading for the us mainland expected to make impact in t minus three minutes expect mass casualties on an unprecedented scale

Congressional Republicans can end this at any time, you know. They can just do that. Stopping the tariffs wouldn't even take that many of them, not even 10 total.

People keep saying, "How can one man have the power to do all this?????" One man doesn't. One man is being supported in this by an entire political party, and that political party was elected to the majority in both of our houses of Congress. This isn't one man.

oh are you friends? or just dating.

it wasn't ever normal that you guys were getting coffee for cheaper than people in Brazil and Colombia (the producers) do though, I hope you know that

having year round mangoes in Wisconsin isn't normal either btw there's a whole century that explains it actually

...and also no tariffs at Libraries

Sometimes I post stuff I know Terfs will hate just so I can get a free block list in the notes

Anyways, I think trans women have a more complex understanding of womanhood than most cis white women

When I point out the implicit ideological assumptions of a piece of media, choosing to interpret what I’m trying to say as “X is basically Y propaganda” (either from the angle of “can you believe this crazy sjw thinks X is Y propaganda?” or the angle of “OP is right, I can’t believe I never noticed X was Y propaganda all along”) that’s a complete inversion of the causality I’m trying to establish. I don’t think and have never claimed that the creators of the media I talk about are deliberately trying to promote the politics and ideological values that are implicit in it, but rather that these politics and ideological values pop up in the subtext because they are common and normalized enough in society and popular culture to go completely unquestioned and be replicated in the ideological framework of media, even (or especially) when this media isn’t conceptualized by its creators as trying to make any kind of political or ideological statement in the matter.

When I chimed in about that post about the portrayal of the humans in Wall-e I wasn’t claiming that the people behind the movie were deliberately trying to promote a poor view of fat people, but that they leaned into an already existing trope of fatness as visual shorthand for societal decay and widespread hedonism which is almost universally accepted and unquestioned due to the way fat people are already seen by society at large.

When I talk about how police procedural shows almost universally depict cops being forced to follow due process and respect people’s rights as an obstacle that gets in the way of the heroes’ ability to do their job and deliver justice™ to the dangerous criminal who’s obviously guilty (who they could easily put behind bars if only there weren’t so many rules preventing them from violating people’s privacy to get the damn evidence they need) I’m not accusing the writers of those shows of making anti due process propaganda, I’m claiming it’s deeply revelatory of widespread societal views about law enforcement and the justice system (which is why I’m kind of annoyed by all the comments in that old post going “OP there’s actually a name for this it’s called copaganda”).

In general when discussing the implicit ideological assumptions of media (especially popular, mass-market media which is more likely to align with culturally hegemonic ideological biases) I think it’s much more useful to think about it in terms of it reflecting the default, implicitly accepted ideas and values of the culture it was created in, rather than in terms of it promoting or even creating them.

I don’t think people are convinced of having these ideas because they show up in media to promote them or legitimize them (which is the implication of calling something propaganda), I think these ideas show up in media because a lot of people already implicitly share those opinions and they are normalized and unquestioned enough that they don’t even register as political implications to the average audience members or even to the creators.

While not intentionally propaganda, I do think that the absolute saturation of our media environment in these themes definitely contributes a lot to their acceptance in real life, like how I was talking about Mormonism, Calvinism, and the American idea of fighting the “armies of hell” a few weeks ago while working on Death Bed. (This isn’t a disagreement.)

Yeah the media landscape itself can definitely reinforce beliefs and influence opinions.

I just don’t like bringing it up when discussing any particular piece of media because that’s beyond the scope of what any individual piece of media can do by itself.

For the last like 2000 years you could get pussy just by being a guy. Now with divorce and the pill and women having jobs and bank accounts and shit, things have changed. If youre a dude and you want pussy you actually have to ask nicely. This will lead to the collapse of several nation states.

“every time i see this celebrity they look younger!” cool, it’s plastic surgery

it’s not pilates, it’s not skincare, it’s not moral virtue manifesting in the form of physical beauty, you’re not gonna grow old like that, they didn’t even grow old like that, and the cosmetic procedures you can afford are not gonna look that good

also the new popular comment to make is "lol [actress] has taken the substance" and it's like...yeah. that's what the substance was about

this feels like a bit. i know it’s not but this is so absurd that it feels like it’s right out of arrested development

if you're on instagram get off that thing and go outside

if you're on tumblr hold fast and keep scrolling soldier

the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.

I say shit like "If my memory serves me" knowing damn well it serves the dark lord