Part of me wants to never tell my coworker I’m ace because I know he’ll be a dick about it (despite being lgbt himself)
And part of me wants to litter my desk in initially subtle but an increasing number of objects incorporating the colors of the ace pride flag just to see how long it takes him to notice.
BITCH I REBLOGGED THIS AT 4AM AND SOME FIT GUY FROM MY HOMETOWN SLID INTO MY DMS at 11PM LIKE GIRL HONESTLY iM
Can the miracle be that I actually fall asleep at a reasonable time
I’m starting to feel like that miracle is falling into a deep sleep and actually waking up rested. Bless this post.
Uggghhh the economic crisis continues. Sprint’s robbing us blind, and my phone’s been disconnected, hence my radio silence today and probably tomorrow and maybe more. Also my stepdad’s truck got repossessed. I want to feel bad, but if mine gets repossessed, I’ll get fired so. Also I’m still sick.
I’ve got that feeling again where I want to lie down but I’m already lying down.
fun fact the west coast does not have cicadas so you can imagine my surprise when my LA ass moved to Philly for college when all the trees started screaming while they’ve been on fire plenty of times where I’m from they never screamed
i’m c r y i n g
like consciously i know biodiversity exists but i guess i just never considered the fact that some people don’t have the experience where you just wake up one day to all of nature fucking shrieking like hellspawn and you’re like “huh guess it’s that season!”
No but the history behind this picture is really interesting
The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.
It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.
But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.
I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.
Hey, look; “Man Laughing Alone With Rice” is back on my dash.
The EU is mooting a new copyright regime for the largest market in the
world, and the Commissioners who are drafting the new rules are
completely captured by the entertainment industry, to the extent that
they have ignored their own experts and produced a farcical Big Content
wishlist that includes the most extensive internet censorship regime the
world has ever seen, perpetual monopolies for the biggest players, and a
ban on European creators using Creative Commons licenses to share their
works.
Since these filter systems are incredibly expensive to create and
operate, anyone who wants to get into business competing with the
companies that grew large without having to create systems like these
will have to source hundreds of millions in capital before they can even
enter the market. Youtube 2018 can easily afford Content ID; Youtube
2005 would have been bankrupted if they’d had to build it.
And then there’s the matter of banning Creative Commons licenses.
In order to bail out the largest newspapers in the EU, the Commission is
proposing a Link Tax – a fee that search engines and sites like Boing
Boing will have to pay just for the right to link to news stories on the
web. This idea has been tried before in Spain and Germany and the
newspapers who’d called for it quickly admitted it wasn’t working and
stopped using it.
But the new, worse-than-ever Link Tax contains a new wrinkle:
rightsholders will not be able to waive the right to be compensated
under the Link Tax. That means that European creators – who’ve released
hundreds of millions of works under Creative Commons licenses that
allow for free sharing without fee or permission – will no longer be
able to choose the terms of a Creative Commons license; the inalienable,
unwaivable right to collect rent any time someone links to your
creations will invalidate the core clause in these licenses.
Europeans can write to their MEPs and the European Commission using this joint Action Centre; please act before it’s too late.
And for my peeps with social phobia and other disabilities, here’s a way to protest without having to talk to anyone, since the above link requires a phone call, which not all of us can do for various reasons:
The Paradox Machine 