31 she/her; bi/poly, Mexican, writer, artist, traveler, TCK, and bruja

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batshit-auspol:

whimsicalsesquipedalian:

batshit-auspol:

In the mid-2000s there was a brief fad in Australian government messaging where they went out of their way to insult the public as much as possible.

This fad eventually died out after the tourism board attempted the same style of messaging in the UK, causing a minor scandal which led to the head of Tourism Australia, Scott Morrison, getting the sack.

The first time we drove past the “don’t drive like a cock” sign, my mum looked at it was immediately SO confused - after all she’s a good semi-conservative Christian woman. My brother and I knew it right away but for the next half hour she guessed literally EVERY other word for cock (don’t drive like a rooster, chicken, hen, chick, bird, fowl, poultry) trying her goddamned hardest to make the sign make sense until my - at the time - eleven year old brother got fed up and yelled COCK at the top of his lungs from the back seat.

My mum was FURIOUS - we weren’t even allowed to say “heck” - until she realised he’d just been telling her what the sign was, and for the rest of the three hour trip our good semi-conservative Christian mother proceeded to amuse herself by muttering “cock” under her breath and giggling like a teenager every time she did.

We still bring it up every now and then. So that particular advertising campaign has been making my family laugh for over a decade.

This one was always my favourite, though:

Reblogging to make sure this excellent story is seen

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poetry-protest-pornography:

zackisontumblr:

do you ever sabotage your own free time? like wtf is that about? i want to play this game or read or do something specific but instead i will just stare out the window or scroll mindlessly???

mrmeriwether:

prokopetz:

Something just occurred to me.

You know how back in the pre-Internet days, it was nearly impossible to watch a TV series in its entirety because the local affiliate stations would deliberately air the episodes all out of order, then do some sort of statistical sorcery to figure out which particular episodes gave the advertisers the best return for their dollar and just run those ten or twelve specific episodes in an endless semi-randomised rotation, and that was why every time you channel-surfed across a particular show it always seemed to be the same damn episode?

Twitter’s algorithm is literally the social media equivalent of that.

In middle/high school I put all the music I had on an off-brand mp3 player and would just set it to Shuffle All. I quickly realized the player’s shuffle fuction wasn’t purely random–it was weighted towards my favorite songs (aka the songs with the most plays).

Only I had never chosen those songs. They were just the random few to pop up the first time I shuffled everything, and they started playing more and more frequently as this horribly short-sighted algorithm fed itself bad data, until I was so annoyed at those few songs that I stopped listening entirely.

Anyway a few years later Facebook did the exact same thing with my friends list, siphoning me off from seeing most of my feed because OBVIOUSLY I interacted with them the most, therefore they must be my besties. But really they were just the only people showing up for me to interact with in the first place, until I was down to just a few people I never really talked to from high school, a college prof, and my racist uncle I kept calling out.

And shortly after that, YouTube followed suit, replacing “Subscriptions” with “Recommended” as the default category, and trying to find “things I liked” when it was really just whatever three channels I’d watched last, whatever unrelated viral vid it wanted to push that week, and weird perennials like Whose Line clips or lockpick reviews or YTPs that seem to hibernate for months at a time then return like locusts.

All this to say: the big mysterious algorithms that now run all the major platforms on the internet are never acting in your best interests. They’re just that junky mp3 player’s Shuffle All with a fresh coat of paint, and, to be clear, this is by design. They are VERY good at what they do, which is funneling users into nice predictable pockets of content that advertisers can exploit.

captain-snark:

rockshitty:

beardedmrbean:

Gandalf throwing his staff at gollum is what really makes this

Thank you for commenting because I was going to scroll past this. 

artycomicfangirl:

paraspikey:

Sarasaland!

Princess Daisy Model by: NDY
I hope you enjoy!

Her Promo poster better look like this if she should be included in a sequel to the movie. I will happy-cry

I’m a major sucker for ocean/sea/coastal and Sandlike rustic sceneries like this. I mean, look at the freaking balcony! My dream home actually!

justtken:

justtken:

#his kenergy is unmatched

kenussy 😭😭

landrylovesmatcha:

what was i made for?

“ophelia” by john everett millais but it’s barbie and for the sake of this concept let’s pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland

only-tiktoks:

every-character-ever-poll:

LLOYD IRVING - Tales of Symphonia

What do you think of this character?

I know him (positive)

I know him (neutral/it’s complicated)

I know him (negative)

I have heard of him

I do not know him

SEE RESULTS

PROPAGANDA:

oh! the game is so good! i like the whole party But!! i chose this guy !

munchiezxx:

munchiezxx:

hear me out i just think aurora and prince phillip are so butchfemme and okay honestly i haven’t seen the movie in like 10 years and i just can’t vouch so this is actually about the disney parks because they always manage to hire the twinkiest theater dudes that can REALLY sell gazing adoration into the eyes of a woman more than a straight dude ever could

today during magic happens when aurora looked back at him he literally MELTED and i swear to god i gasped out loud and my stomach dropped out in conclusion i think they need to start hiring butches in this role there’s something about the nobility that i just really need to see in a woman

i need all of you to get on my level NOW

derekscorner:

Twitter rebranding itself as X has been the funniest thing to ever happen to the trash site.

reignsan:

On the seventh month of the twitter logo’s thirteenth year it changed to X

munchiezxx:

babe wake up new personality trait just dropped

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