My apartment building has coin-op laundry in the basement, and on the shelf where people store detergent there are also just enough quarters to start one load in the washer. This is the collective “oh shit I forgot my quarters” bank that anyone can borrow from to start laundry without having to climb all the way back up the goddamn stairs first. These quarters have been steadily used and replaced for multiple years now, and every time I see them I think about how upon such small foundations rests all of human society.
you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this
lots of people are reblogging this and tagging it #piracy—i should clarify, this is not piracy! ripping DVDs and CDs to have your own copy is fully legal, because it’s your legal right to do what you will with your property individually. it only becomes illegal if you then distribute that file on the internet.
i genuinely need money for painkillers, food and on a way lesser note electrolytes because i think the heat is exacerbating the pain. ive been inside all day throwing up and laying in fetal position in the dark, but i have high hopes for feeling even a little bit better than this. doesnt have to be 90% but even 7% better is better than nothing. i made a post about this earlier but i didn’t get any donations so im asking with a renewed sense of urgency for you guys to pls donate if u can <3 or share if you cant. anything helps bc the pain is getting worse not better, and i have a lot to do tomorrow so i’d like to hopefully feel some relief tonight. <3
the AI voice manipulation thing where you can take recordings of a public figure’s voice and make them say anything make me SO uncomfortable. Even the silly goofy ones give me ethical nausea. It just seems really dangerous to normalize that sort of casual distortion of reality and idc if that makes me sound like an anti-technology doomer
i want art to feel EARNEST. this disgusting, near pornographic level of tongue in cheek meta humor is making me sick to my stomach. i don’t know how many more movies i can take about clever subversions and the movie winking at you to say “we know it’s a little silly, but…” where is the whimsy? why can’t we believe in the pretend you’ve created? why don’t you have enough faith in it? in my ability to believe?
My (scalding) hot take here is that this is a byproduct of artistic cowardice in the face of unrelenting criticism.
It doesn’t just plague mainstream media; this kind of tongue-in-cheek self-referential, self-deprecating “I know this isn’t that good wink wink” is all over indie media too.
So many creators are deathly afraid of being criticized for their creative choices, so terrified of an increasingly volatile online audience, that they feel compelled to sell themselves short on what their intentions are, just to plant that tiny nugget of plausible deniability: maybe if I create the illusion of not taking this all that seriously I’ll be more insulated from criticism.
If the thing they’re doing actually *is* good and becomes well-received, then they end up looking like accidental geniuses who had a moment of inspiration amid a sea of shitposts, and if the thing they’re doing is panned they get to laugh it off and go “well I wasn’t taking this that seriously to start with! You’re the one who’s making a big deal out of it!”
If no one thinks you’re really trying or that you don’t wholly and fully stand behind your creative decisions, then anyone who tells you that you could be doing your craft better looks like an idiot, and that’s the whole point.
A lack of earnestness is the perfect “get-out-of-criticism free card.”
reposting this because my last one died and this is urgent!!!
story: my mom became aware of my transition several months ago and for a while didn’t tell my dad, who is incredibly transphobic. because of this my living situation was tense but amicable.
but when she learned about my estrogen and progesterone treatment (because of the changes in my body), she told my dad.
the backlash is pretty much what i expected. since she told him (a couple weeks ago) he has threatened me, checked my social medias, and is now trying to take away my medication. he even threatened to go to the pharmacy to pick up my medication himself with the pure intent of throwing it away.
needless to say, my home is no longer a safe living space. with florida’s recent treatment of transgender people, i feel there is nothing to do beside try find a safer living space. fundraising goal will go toward rent as well as any payments needed to move into a place where i can live with my girlfriend and roommates. any donations are appreciated, as are shares. everything counts.
