Bookish ramblings

cmon child safety lid you know it's me

Something so profoundly fucked up between the inverse ratio of shrinking middle class and ever increasing aggression of advertisement

In which we're all Truman

#this is how it feels to be on tiktok#every video is secretly an ad somehow and theyre so good at hiding it u don't find out until the wnd#end*

This post has way too many notes and they've been clogging up my notifs for a month, but these are the first ones I've seen that Get It. Thank you. This is exactly it.

I wasn't talking about the absurdity of companies trying to advertise cars or vacations that no one can afford, like everyone in the notes seems to think. There are plenty of people who can afford them. Fewer than there used to be, but corporations aren't starving.

I was talking about the invasive way advertisers have taken over every modicum of available space and how it's no longer possible to turn anywhere without advertising being pushed on you, despite the fact that most people don't have the kind of expendable income that these companies are trying to extract from them. The less money the average person has to throw around, the more aggressively they're hounded to hand it over. Where people used to be able to afford a new car and a vacation and still throw expendable income around, they now save up for one or another big purchase (those who can afford one, and that population has significantly dwindled). People limit their other spending, and in response companies descend on our consciousness, on every last bit of space they can squeeze their presence into, like pigeons onto a handful of seeds thrown on the ground.

You have to sit through advertisements to watch something on youtube only to realize the video is, itself, an ad in disguise. You can't pump gas without a little screen blaring at you wanting you to buy things. Billboards and bus benches weren't enough, they have to be energy gobbling screens now so five companies can sell you shit while you wait instead of just one. Every available surface is screaming at you to BUY THE THING. Where you used to be able to play a game on your phone, now you can't get through more than a round of any without having to sit through ads to keep playing. Ads that are pushing other games to you that have more ads. Games based on making working class jobs look fun. Be a barista and fulfill every order or the customers will be angry! Lolololol! Work at a hotel and don't fail, making the demanding customer angry is failing don't fail! Hahahahahahahaaahaaaaahaaaaaaaa it's fun! Run a farm and make money to buy more things to grow and sell to make money to buy more things to grow and sell to make more money to buy more things to grow and sell and and and! Even in your free time you should be thinking about your place in the market economy! Or worse, they're ads for predatory games, whether they're "play our game and win real money!" bullshit or "doctors want you to play this to avoid alzheimer's [if you're old play this game where we'll exploit your confusion about technology to sell you more things.]"

Every free moment you have, every free surface you come across is another opportunity to sell you something. We aren't able to get a break from it in our free time in our own home unless we constantly take steps and make effort to, like installing ad blockers - which youtube and other websites are constantly working against - but those don't even work on your phone or tablet. And the closer to home the advertisement, the more it targets you specifically, because your personal devices, that should be your personal, intimate, private property and space, are exploited to collect data on you to wrench every last cent from your wallet. They want to get to know you, not because they're curious about you, but because they want your money. They don't just see you as a wallet with thumbs, they do so unabashedly and brazenly and aggressively.

This post wasn't about the content of what's being advertised to us. It was about the relentless, instrusive aggression with which advertising invades our privacy and personal space and every inch of public space. We are exposed to hundreds of images daily, none of which are art or even remotely creative or inspiring, but instead demand our attention and our money while ignoring that both have been stripped bare by the mere need to exist from one day to the next.

This post was about the insidious way advertising has embedded itself into culture and consciousness, so much so that in a post trying to call this out, most people's immediate reaction is, "yes, the problem is that I can't afford the thing being advertised" and not "why can't I go three seconds without being advertised to" in the first place. That advertisers continue to pour money into new ways to insert themselves into the average person's life when it's absolutely fucking pointless.

Scream

"I completely changed the recipe and it turned bad. This means the recipe is bad. Two stars."

Please I'm begging you all to follow r/ididnthavetheeggs it's all just posts like this please

r/ididn'thaveeggs link for the interested:

Adding some more quality replies from the rbs so they're all in one chain

my personal favorite:

making egg tarts without eggs is....a choice. sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn't an egg, indeed.

sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn't an egg

I feel that's applicable in more than one situation but oh my god these people

capybara

Guinea big.

TOL WILL PROTECT THE SMOL

ace investigators

"Voting doesnt work because not enough people in my country will vote for MY version of communism. We need a violent overthrow of the government to MAKE this happen"

@captainjonnitkessler im stealing your tags because youre so fucking right

The best that I can tell, it’s primarily about remaining Pure.

Obviously, the people who think they’re too leftist to vote aren’t monolithic, so no one reason fits all of them. But there’s a clear trend among many of them that they see voting for someone who has done things they personally find to be sufficiently Impure—or, in some cases, voting at all within an Impure system—as being an act that will somehow harm them.

So they stand firm in their conviction that they mustn’t vote, and instead talk about how great it will be when we finally have a Pure system, with only Pure candidates…

And this mindset is one of the things that has consistently fucked serious socialist governments once they do gain power, is the thing. (Another of the things is the CIA but that's another conversation.)

Because if you are unwilling to try to build institutions that can fluctuate and evolve and potentially be used in ways that aren't true to your vision, you not only have to institute tyranny, you have to build your entire system around maintaining your tyranny forever.

And once all your other goals hinge upon retaining power forever, they become subordinate to it.

At which point there is no realistic future to the Tyranny Of The Proletariat other than the tyranny of you personally. Which means you are going to 1) liquidate your own peasants or whatever similar scenario arises in your context and later 2) be overthrown and leave no useful institutional legacy, because you founded it all on virtue-by-fiat.

The self-cannibalism of ideological purity is never pretty, but in the context of government it's particularly bad.

there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever

katara is one of those impossibly cool people who “has a guy” for everything. like run into any sort of problem and she’s just like “hang on i gotchu. just contact this number and they’ll know what to do.” but half the time that guy is just sokka

incredibly in-character

Nina Dul

Scars on your forearm show that once when you were twenty you got an infected cut while driving with your girlfriend through the Yukon Territory and your arm swelled up like an inflated balloon and you didn't know where to even begin trying to find a hospital or clinic so you stopped at a random house that had a red cross outside of it and the lady who lived there turned out to be a nurse and drove you to the doctor's office where the doctor was like "we gotta drain this but I don't have any anesthesia" so he told you to ball your shirt up and bite down on it while he cut you open and he drained an astonishing amount of fluid from your arm then stitched it up with a single stitch and charged you five canadian dollars for the entire affair.

girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

me when im absolutely not corrupted by the amulet

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

"why did you follow prev" because we're bound in blood for the next eight hundred years. next question

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deleting files makes me so scared what if i Needed That

Share the last song you listened to and do this picrew! Thank you for tagging me @skijjiki, this was so fun to complete! I'm tagging @evanox @ratatoskrr @opalescent-apples @ashi-cookie and @makemeaplant!

Here they are!

@fennecwitch

@driftingballoons

@defaultoptions

Thanks for the tag! :D

@moomin-with-a-gun, @heinousactszx, @gaydiation-poisoning, @graminos, @zerger33

I am nothing if not predictable

@azure-shades-of-blue @squidgirlfriends @for-a-new-life

Thanks for tagging me!!

I will eat this album.

Tagging @azurityarts @neferirkarekakai @casual--scare

Heya! Thanks for the tag!

Tagging... @lestefanmar @ghostbreadovni @mercykiwidogg @birdkittenn and whoever else wishes to participate!

and now i tag @purple-tumbld @microraptorreactor @srubabu @hazardperceptiontest @awesomebookwormuniverse @i-just-wanna-evaporate as well as anyone else who wants to do this o7

weeeeeeeeeee

i call upon thee, @rjam9 @sneakyfox55 @reallybigland if you guys wanna :3

HII TY FOR TAGGING ME :]

the song’s been on repeat for days ty to my uncle for introducing me. does the peace sign guy in the cover art look a bit like tobey maguire or is that just me.

i tag: @subtleshenanigans @the-amber-shadow @the-chaotic-anon and anyone else who wants to play! :)

Thank you :D

My last song was Hard Drive by Griffinilla, which is such a bop, highly recommend

I tag @narwhalismyname @minecraftbookshelf and @inbetweenhours but anyone can play if they want to! I don't bite

Oooo!

Last song was Towards the Sun by Rihanna, from the “Home” movie soundtrack (full disclosure i have not seen the movie i just have the song on half my playlists XD

Thank you for the tag, this was fun!

Passing it kn to @justafeweggnoodles @lolli-popples @heliostheperson @asterthecalico @mxmallory @fanny-passerine @crada0 and anyone else who wants to join in!

Oooh, thanks for the tag !

Last song was LEMONS by Brye and Cavetown, it's been a while since I listened to it ! :D and here's lil old me :DD

Passing it toooo @feraltrashenergy and @la-confrontation

THANK YOU FOR THE TAG FANNY

last song was dolly shop man by mark knopfler (which is from the box set bonus tracks of his new album One Deep River) (i can't remember if it's from the vinyl or the CD tho) (🤓 < me)

i tag : @hootiee @coaltars @bam-bo0zle (apologies if im bothering you guys)

Last song vs me 😁 i think Raven sent me this song lol its been my current favs! reminds me of good old fall out boy..

tagging @ratsword & @cometnoodle (just chose the mutuals in my most recent activity lol, u guys are free to do it if u wanna ofc)

Thanks for tagging me Chase!

@dreamin-at-dawn @fweebie @alucohc

if any of you feel like joining the post ♡

Thanks for tagging me Pidge!!

Tagging: @starsilversword , @koolkat9 , @piscesgirl2020 , @elithegnome , @newhetaliafan , @a-dorky-american, and anyone who wants to join!!

Thanks for the tag @fweebie

I tag @theinvisibledoodlewizard @maplemadam @maplequeen94 @icebear4president @hondakiku @a-dorky-american and whoever else wants to do this

Thanks for the tag!

I tag: @irlusa @9pilkytf @floralcrematorium @spinyfruit @thegoliathbeetle @spidertalia @disneyprincessdxminatrix (No pressure!)

Abba always slaps (voulez-vous is my fave)

I've been on a kick for a very specific vibe and idk what its called,,, sort of lounge-y funk with synth n disco elements? (Idk my genre names sowwy) The type of music that feels like you're laying on the beach or taking a chill vacation (like this one, agitations tropicales from the same album, and plaisir)

Tagging umm @starsmadeinheaven @ironic-orange @peachtea-and-sage and @xyzzymancy if yall wanna do it! (Or not teehee)

One of my favorite bands. Anyway this was super fun!

@lolliepops-rox @cosmicanamnesis @randomlybookish if yall want I'd love to see what you been listening to!!

Yeah okay this is a fun ask game! Thanks for the tag.

I choose @sweetlysavage @saturninemartial @olruggioofthetorch and anyone else who wants to!

i can never face my family again

You ever see something so funny you bypass laughing entirely and go straight for crying?

always reblog

I fucking HATE how this has almost one million notes and ive NEVER seen this. I have missed out on life. This was the best study break video I have ever seen. I’m dying. I most def sharted. 

I never know which version I’m going to get when I see this video.