ginger ale is just sprite but more spicey :/
oh sure and the sistine chapel is just a room with some paint in it
ginger ale is just sprite but more spicey :/
oh sure and the sistine chapel is just a room with some paint in it
Paul McCartney, 1982
A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:
(For those going “how is this not obvious”, it’s about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)
It’s really good for stuff like this to go around every once in a while! Strange as it may seem, people may in fact migrate here from Twitter or Instagram, where this stuff works differently and where there are different expectations of engagement.
DON’T FORGET - *most* Tumblr users DO NOT MIND if you engage with their OLD posts! (Apparently on Instagram they do? this baffles me.)
Many also don’t mind if you “spam” their notifications with a bunch of likes or reblogs in a row.
Tumblr has a rich culture of Very Old Posts continuing to make the reblog rounds, and people become fond of them.
Also, unlike Twitter, you can reblog the same post multiple times. Heck, you can reblog the same post every hour on the hour for days. (Please don’t.) But you do see a lot of “oh this came across my dash again, must reblog” with posts users are fond of. This is fine.
Tags ARE a divine mystery. People use the tags both for organization (inasmuch as this works, sometimes), and for added commentary. Commentary added to the tags will generally be seen by those who follow that person and see their reblog on their dash; but the OP and whoever they reblogged it from can also see the tags in the notifications.
So again – you can use the tags for commentary, and many people do. But people WILL see it. It just won’t “stick” with the post… necessarily. Tumblr also has a culture of people seeing some tags they think are relevant or clever, and reblogging a post with someone else’s tags included. So bear that in mind as well – something you put in the tags could get “pulled up” into a reblog chain by someone else, and this is generally seen as fine.
As a noob me self, nice!
[Image ID: a Twitter thread by Robert G Reeve that reads “I’m back from a week at my mom’s house and now I’m getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I’ve been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.
As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵
First of all, your social media apps are not listening to you. This is a conspiracy theory. It’s been debunked over and over again.
But frankly they don’t need to because everything else you give them unthinkingly is way cheaper and way more powerful.
Your apps collect a ton of data from your phone. Your unique device ID. Your location. Your demographics. Weknowdis.
Data aggregators pay to pull in data from EVERYWHERE. When I use my discount card at the grocery store? Every purchase? That’s a dataset for sale.
They can match my Harris Teeter purchases to my Twitter account because I have both those companies my my email address and phone number and I agreed to all that data-sharing when I accepted those terms of service and the privacy policy.
Here’s where it gets truly nuts, though.
If my phone is regularly in the same GPS location as another phone, they take note of that. They start reconstructing the web of people I’m in regular contact with.
The advertisers can cross-reference my interests and browsing history and purchase history to those around me.
Family. Friends. Coworkers.
It will serve me ads for things I DON’T WANT, but it knows someone in regularly contact with me might want.
To subliminally get me to start a conversation about, I don’t know, fucking toothpaste.
It never needed to listen to me for this. It’s just comparing aggregated metadata.
So. They know my mom’s toothpaste. They know I was at my mom’s. They know I have Twitter. Now I get Twitter ads for mom’s toothpaste.
Your data isn’t just about you. It’s about how it can be used against every person you know, and people you don’t. To shape behavior unconsciously.
Apple’s latest updates let you block apps’ tracking and Facebook is MAD. They’re BEGGING you to just press accept and go back to business as usual.
Block the fuck out of every apps’ ads. It’s not just about you: your data reshapes the internet.”/ end ID]
It pisses me off to no end that I go to Walmart, buy my groceries, and everything I bought in person is on a “recent purchase” list on the walmaart app.
I genuinely don’t care that there is a list of stuff I bought? But it’s the principal of the matter that stuff I bought in person is now on the online app and I did not put it there or authorised it, that infuriates me.
If you live in england there’s domestic violence report numbers, shelters for women and poc people. that’s trending in tumblr and twitter. Please take care of yourselves, stay safe. send support for the guys in team england because it’s going to get ugly soon.
some numbers and sites/lines here -
08082000247 - national domestic abuse helpline
999 - urgent emergency services
08009702070 - national centre for domestic violence:
www.womensaid.co.uk
https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/
01823 334244 - mankind initiative - specific for male victims
Text YM to 85258—YoungMinds Crisis Messenger
Call 116 123 to talk to Samaritans, or email: jo@samaritans.org for a reply within 24 hours
0800 58 58 58 — Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) www.thecalmzone.net/help/webchat/ — online chat
0300 1020 505 — SOS Suicide of Silence 9 a.m. to midnight every day
Text “SHOUT” to 85258 to contact the Shout Crisis Text Line, or text “YM” if you’re under 19
Find a local NHS urgent mental health helpline (England only)
Text HOME to 85258 (UK) 50808 (Ireland) Crisis Text Line
0800 1111 — Childline for children 19 and under, number will not show up on your phone bill
Call 0800 068 41 41, Text 07860 039967, or email pat@papyrus-uk.org — Papyrus, for people under 35
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PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM
I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.
a lot of you have dmed me asking for ways to help, so here I'll put this up so that you can help us make the distribution of resources easier. Please dm me if you have any leads or resources such as availability of oxygen, hospital beds or ICU wards etc. Do try and verify the leads as it is easier for us but if you cant verify for some reason, send them our way and we'll do it.
Thank you for coming together at this time of crisis.
Alright kids, sit down while I tell you what on earth is happening. It’s a once in a lifetime historical event. It’s insane. At least 1 hedgefund has gone bankrupt, thanks to a group of average joes on Reddit. By the end of the week, there will be a line of bankruptcies.
So let’s start at the beginning:
First of all, stocks are pretty simple, when they go up in value, you make money, because it’s worth more than you bought it for. Stock goes up- you make money. Stock goes down- you lose money.
Short selling is the opposite. Short selling makes money when the stock goes down in value. Short sellers borrow someone else’s shares, and sell them, with the goal of buying them back later, and pocketing the difference as profit. So, Tim borrows Bob’s shares in GME, and sell them for $10, he pays Bob $1 to do this, and promises to give all of Bob’s shares back. Then, if the stock goes down to $5, Tim buys the shares back at a cheaper price. So Tim’s profit is $10-$5-$1 = $4 profit.
So that’s where we start. A hedge fund tried to force down the price of Gamestop, and short the stock. It usually works fine. It’s been done thousands of times, with no problems. So they shorted Gamestop (GME) from $20, to $10, to $4. Their greed kept compounding. They kept doing it again, and again, for months. Making billions of dollars, and almost bankrupting this company.
Enter Wallstreetbets. A trading/investing subreddit.
Someone noted that these hedgefunds shorted 140% of all shares available. These hedgefunds were so damn greedy, they borrowed more shares than actually existed. That’s how arrogant and dumb they were. They borrowed 140% of all the available shares. It was literally impossible for them to buy them all back. So someone on Wallstreetbets realized this, and told everyone. Now, the rule with short selling is that ALL those shares that they borrow, MUST be paid back. And so we reach our main story of how the hedgefund’s greed ruined them.
Realizing that these hedgefunds shorted GME by a ridiculous amount, these Redditors (a bunch of regular Joes like you and me), bought every share they could get their hands on. Driving the price up as much as possible. Why? Because these hedgefunds eventually (within a few months) HAD to buy all those shares back, at whatever price they could get them. They didnt have a choice.
So if they borrow a million shares, and sold them for $10. They made $10 million in immediate profit. But eventually, they HAD TO buy those million shares back. They didn’t have a choice. That was the deal they made when they borrowed the shares.
So these Redditors bought the shares, driving the price up, forcing these hedgefunds to buy back at crazy prices. Yeah, the hedgefund sold and made $10 million, but now they had to spend $147.98 million getting those same shares back. A HUGE FUCKING LOSS of $137.98 million.
So eventually, the due date for when these hedgefunds need to return the borrowed shares comes closer.
And what do they do? They double down. They short MORE. Because they’re sure that they can manipulate the stock enough to get it to crash, thereby saving themselves.
Fastforward a few days, every attempt to crash the stock fails. Oh it works temporarily, but not enough for them to save themselves. Everyone knows what theyre trying to do, so people keep buying the stock. And with every additional bit of media attention, more and more people are buying the stock, destroying the greedy hedgefund in the process. Eventually Melvin Capital- a multi billion dollar hedge fund, needs a bailout, because it has lost so much money shorting GME. They borrowed billions off another hedgefund. That was yesterday. The stock price was $76.
Today, the stock ended up at $147.98 for every share. Up from $4. These hedgefunds are STILL shorting the stock, at 130% of available shares. That’s how fucking greedy these guys are. All those millions of shares STILL have to be paid back.
And that’s where our story picks up. Hedgefunds are crying on CNBC. on CNN. on FoxNews. On literally every every platform they can get their hands on. They want the government to stop trading. They want this reddit forum investigated and banned. They’re screaming “market manipulation”, when in reality these hedgefunds were the ones manipulating the stock, but they got caught, and are now trying to take their ball and go home.
Now, if you haven’t realized it yet:
With a normal investment, when buying stocks normally, the maximum you can lose is your original investment. When short selling, your losses are theoretically infinite. Because you HAVE to buy back at whatever price is available. So while these hedgefunds are on every news channel, every investing segment screaming about Reddit and Wallstreetbets, they inevitably draw attention to themselves, and what’s going on.
Enter the “whales”- individual investors who can make a splash and impact the stock. Millionaires and billionaires that have a bone to pick with hedgefunds and short sellers. Elon Musk famously despises short sellers, because they tried to cripple Tesla so often. With a single tweet, Elon sent the share price skyrocketing from $147.98 to $230. And along with Elon Musk, a huge number of wealthy “whales” have started to jump in. Buying up HUGE amounts of stock, at crazy prices.
But these investors don’t care. They don’t care how expensive they buy the stock for. Because they KNOW these hedgefunds MUST buy the shares back. For many of them, they don’t actually care if they lose money. They just want to watch these hedgefunds burn.
Does this mean you should buy GME? I’m not gonna answer this question, because you obviously shouldn’t be listening to strangers on the internet when it comes to your money. There’s a lot of upside to buying GME, but there’s also a crazy amount of downside. Tomorrow the share could go back to $4 and you could lose everything. These shares are obscenely overvalued, and the only reason they keep going up is that people are gambling that the hedgefunds will buy them for a higher price (they likely will, but up until what point?). It’s a game of chicken. When the game ends, the house of cards will crumble, and people will lose millions.
The only thing I can recommend is that you grab a beer, and keep an eye on GME and enjoy the fireworks.
- AoShin, here
we may not have been able to save brandon. but the fight is far from over.
this is dustin john higgs.
in 1996, he was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three women and was sentenced to death.
this conviction is entirely false. he didn’t murder anybody.
he has been found not guilty of the crime. at this point, the only reason he remains in jail is because he was at the scene of the crime. the court also claims that he bullied willis hayes, the man who actually did murder the three women, into killing them. however, willis hayes has come forward and has admitted that dustin DID NOT commit the crime, and he’s also even confessed that dustin never bullied him into murdering the trio of women. but the court won’t accept it.
DUSTIN JOHN HIGGS IS SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED ON JANUARY 15, 2021. HE IS GOING TO BE EXECUTED FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT AT ALL. WE CAN’T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.
@esspress0depress0 @thesevenumbrellas @real-tua-facts @thetrueihaveaname @youngsamberg @umbrellas-be-falling @peterbparkers @amystiago @stranger-umbrellas @glitched-coffee @letsgoravendors @kakakuroo @klaus-is-the-real-number-1 @itty-bitty-rampaging-committee @mariarreynolds @benhargrieves @number5theboy @millicent-is-goose @caseoftheblues @27-umbrellas @the-aro-ace-arrow-ace @the-umbrella-academy-confessions @studentlifeproblems @sunriseseance here’s another chain post for you. you guys know the drill, please make sure to tag anybody you can think of to make sure this message gets somewhere.
I know I’m not a big blog but PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE THIS BE KNOWN, I live in Perú and things are going awfull here, the context is, our president (Martín Vizcarra) was vacated for the Congress to do whatever they want and the new president (Manuel Merino) has no and denunciations against him.
The people have been doing PEACEFULL parades complaining about this but we’ve only been met by police brutality, by now 1 person has dies and many of the protestants are injured.
I want to spread at least some awereness to this and I’ll be answering any question if it’s needed but please make this known.
Please keep sharing the other post on #PeruLivesMAtter, I share more information.
#PeruLivesMatter
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I made a doc, explaining and trying to summarize it. I also attached some of the many evidences of police brutality in the protests of the last days. I am missing things, but I hope this can help.
Here in my country, the Philippines, my people - The Filipinos - are now not only having to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Typhoons just got thrown at us and the Mayon Volcano acting up. In Cagayan, people there especially need attention and assisting. With all the water, they really looked they’re swimming in some ocean. Please, if you can, spare some resources, spare money for them. If not, spreading it around your social medias are very, very helpful too.
there is going to be an arguably even more important election than the presidency happening on january 5th in georgia. the two senate seats in their state did not reach enough of a majority in this election to decide a winner, so theyre doing a “run-off election”.
if these two seats are won by democrats they will flip the senate to a MAJORITY for democrats. we will have the presidency, the house AND the senate if the democratic candidates in georgia win. the policies biden promised could have a better chance at being passed!
if you live in georgia PLEASE vote for the democratic senate candidates on january 5th
if you do not, i recommend donating to the candidates election fund! :)
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