facebook trends: BREAKING!! vaccines make your children GAY and AUTISTIC

twitter trends: gorgun mcfuck cancelled for saying orphans should be put to work in factories again

tiktok trends: here's why breathing is actually a sign of post traumatic adhd

tumblr trends:

The concepts of NSFW is being cleared of the Internet under the false pretense of children’s safety when it’s really about the people in power sanitising for advertisers and pushing evangelical narratives AND that not enough is done to keep legitimately harmful content off of spaces that minors have access to are ideas that can coexist

can adults have their own fucking space?

a lot of people are misunderstanding this post. minors arent taking away your spaces. the internet is not being made safer for children, it is being sanitised for advertisers.

And also: minors’ spaces are being taken away.

When I was a kid, “barbie.com” looked like this

But now, if you type “Barbie.com” you’re taken immediately to Mattel’s online shop, surrounded by nothing but “shop now” links and toy collections.

Disney channel’s website is now “Disneynow.com” which still has games and shows appropriate for kids, but is aimed towards a younger audience as it combines Disney Jr and Disney Channel properties, and the look of the entire site is very juvenile and not very appealing to kids in the tween and young teen demographics.

Nick.com has been similarly streamlined and is focused primarily on streaming its shows, and the only games still left are 10 apps that can’t be played on browser.

Kid-friendly sites like icarly.com, Poptropica, Club Penguin, Neopets, Webkinz etc used to be insanely relevant and popular spaces built for kids and tweens.

Now, kids are being funneled into less moderated, more exploitative, and more public spaces like Roblox (its dangerous and exploitative nature exposed in these videos from People Make Games: (x) (x)), Fortnite (known for its gambling and microtransaction issues), and social media sites like TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter.

My elementary aged cousins spend their time on Roblox, YouTube, and some less than reputable game sites that are full of ads and stolen/reposted/reskinned games. My sister was on Musically/Tiktok and Twitter in middle school. They don’t have the same options for having fun online that I did when I was a kid, especially not when they get too old for nickjr and disneynow.

The internet has been condensed into about 5 popular sites that are full of ads, and it’s not fair to anyone.

If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday it could also be known as “2’s Day”

DUDE

I’ve had this queued for 7 years

I have an appointment today at 2:20 pm. I win.

Groundhog Day (1993) dir. Harold Ramis

Felt like doing something picture book like.

[Image description: an illustrated looping gif of three grey mice throwing mulberries into a basket. The mice are standing on their back legs, throwing the berries in a chain from one to the other. They have pink stains on their front paws and one mouse also has stains on its nose and mouth. The mouse to the right is wearing a white headscarf and the mouse throwing the berries into the basket to the left is wearing a brown vest. The background is vibrant shades of green berry bush with blue flowers. /end ID]

i think i've accurately summarized my existence on this earth

NPR trudged up the meanest, bitchiest gay they could find to write this holy SHIT

people are seriously worried about stock and all the bitcoin they’ve been mining in Kazakhstan… PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!

no, seriously, if i see one more fucking think piece on ‘what the unrest in Kazakhstan means for my fucking fake money that is destroying the environment but i deem more important than human lives’ i will go berserk

@wintersmitth yeah, when i look up ‘kazakhstan’ on the news this is what i find

The Guardian: Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation

Sky News: From gas pipelines to Bitcoin mines: why Kazakhstan upheaval could have global implications

Euronews: Kazakhstan crisis: Bitcoin price slumps as nationwide Internet blackout hits crypto miners

and that’s just the major outlets. i’m not even looking at more business oriented sources. like, i’m sorry the internet shutdown stops your international bitcoins mining schemes, im sure that’s as bad as me not being able to talk to any of my friends or family in 48 hours

This flashback in ATLA, Azulon becoming enraged with Ozai for disrespecting Iroh and the recently deceased Lu Ten, is usually interpreted as Azulon then ordering Ozai to kill Zuko. I disagree with this for two reasons. 1: We don’t actually hear Azulon say that, it’s only referred to by Azula (who was around seven or eight at the time and might have misunderstood what she heard) and by Ozai, years later, when he is taunting Zuko on the Day of Black Sun. Neither Azula nor Ozai are reliable narrators. 2: Azulon is, at the time of this flashback, the ruler of the Fire Nation who has just lost one of his only two grandsons and heirs. What kind of monarch loses one heir and then turns around and demands the death of another, especially when losing Zuko would hardly bother Ozai? My interpretation of this situation is Azulon ordered Ozai to give Zuko into Iroh’s care, replacing Lu Ten as Iroh’s heir, neatly removing any argument Ozai had about Iroh’s line having ended. Ozai of course would never accept this. He either lied to Ursa, claiming Azulon wished Zuko dead, or outright told his wife he’d kill Zuko before seeing him get ahead of him in the line of succession, thus manipulating Ursa to help him assassinate Azulon. I think this theory makes far more logical sense than ‘Azulon ordered the murder of his nine-year-old grandson’.

Oh, I like this. I like this lots.