but did you die?

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The fourth of July was always Dean’s favorite holiday…

Made for the SPN Summer Art challenge. Notes and references at my LJ.

I love you so much.

Long time no see

i said this before to my friends but i guess it's worth posting here: i truly did not expect the scope of how bad the twitter acquisition would go. i genuinely thought musk was going to talk big and whine before the deal, then slowly over time wreck the site with a series of poor decisions.

the pace and magnitude of the fuckups he managed to pull in such a short period of time is unprecedented. it's SO fucking bad. since i at least have some technical understanding behind running a social network, i feel like i'm staring into the sun every time a new headline comes out. there is no hyperbole when it comes to describing how badly elon musk is fumbling the bag.

if you're absorbing this news and think that maybe it's not as bad as it sounds, i assure you it is probably WORSE than what we're hearing. this isn't just haters amplifying small mistakes, musk is weaving the goddamn rope.

it's a goddamn tragedy that billionaires never really suffer for their choices, but i think this is as close as we're gonna get before we start beheading them in the streets

The really funny thing? For as bad as it gotten, as quickly as it has... None of the current problems are what's going to kill Twitter.

Like yes, users are leaving because they have no trust in the site. Executives are resigning. Advertisers are pulling their ads. Companies are getting impersonated and are going to sue them. The FTC is going to fine them a bazillion dollars.

But all those things take time. They're all bad, bad things, but they won't kill Twitter overnight. They're a slow bleed, an eventual demise when a court case resolves, that kind of thing.

But one of the first things Musk did was fire much of the SRE teams, the on-call staff. These are the people who work to keep the site up and running, and they're the kind of people you pay to do nothing most of the time because what you're really paying them for is to be there at 3am when some server goes down and you need someone to log in and quickly fix it.

They're the server administration equivalent of firefighters. Musk fired THOUSANDS of them. And just like getting rid of all the firefighters, this might seem to be going fine for a little while... Because there's not a fire yet. But once there is, oh boy. Things are going to get Real Exciting fast.

Twitter is one bad day away from just ceasing to LOAD at all. Someone hacks a server, someone famous dies and a system gets a little too overloaded due to the traffic spike, or hey, maybe a server just fills up with junk files because the person who had been manually cleaning them up lost their job a week ago... And Twitter dot Com is just gonna be a big message saying "sorry we couldn't load that information, try Twitter/help or try again later".

For hours. Or days. Because the other thing about firing all your SREs... They're also the people who know the weak points of the system, and know where things go wrong when they do go wrong. You can't just replace them with any warm bodies, elm sku just had a ton of institutional knowledge walk out the front door and it's not coming back.

Yes, Twitter is the titanic, but we haven't even hit the iceberg yet. The CEO has demanded full speed on a dark night and no one has the binoculars. It's only a matter of time.

"Twitter, whose communication department has been laid off, did not respond to a request for comment."

This line from a NYT article published yesterday just got me about how big the trash fire is over there.

i love tumblr because sometimes i get an urge to rb posts about something nobody likes and everyone just politely ignores me. everyone’s like oh he’s fallen into madness again, he’ll be fine later i guess

A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️

this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in...i could watch videos of this practical joke all day

get rotated idiot

everyday i go to this stupid little website and go oh my god i love one Jane Austen loving, leather jacket wearing crime lord who goes by the name Red Hood

Jason : teeth are the only bones that are socially acceptable to show people. I smile at you and that's being polite but when I unpeel my ribcage that's "horrifying" and I "need to see a doctor"

Dick : NOTHING about that shit is "NORMAL" Jason !

Jason : OH well EXCUSE me then for being such a "FREAK" Dickface !

Ah yes, the Jason-can-catch-with-his-hips move. I’d like to test that theory at his earliest convenience.

I would also like to add this <3

I like Jason with the white streak, I like Jason with the McDonald’s bangs, I like Jason with the autopsy scar, I like Jason with the wide forearms, I like Jason with the big biceps, I like Jason with the shoulders as big as cheese wheels, I like Jason extra tall (like 6′4″), I like Jason 225lbs+ of muscle, I like Jason with the firm, rounded pecs, I like Jason with the very wide, scarred up back, I like Jason with the thunder thighs that would make Thor himself weep, I like Jason with the very square jaw, I like Jason with the long, thick c–

what if jason and dick swapped personalities or bodies??? poor bruce would probably have the hardest time dealing with it omg