Every time someone tells Worf about Greek Mythology he’s just like “The humans know where Zeus lives. Why do they simply not raid Olympus and slay him for his misdeeds”
“But [Tumblr’s] value, of course, is more than just what it isn’t, and what it points away from. Despite all the drama and discourse lurking in its corners, it’s easy to make your own Tumblr life as simple and as happy as you want it to be. There are no algorithmic threats lurking around every corner, no onslaught of promoted posts from politicians or influencers. More than anything else, Tumblr in 2020 is a self-sustaining ecosystem. It’s a semi-sealed and increasingly fertile terrarium, a nigh-impossible perpetual-motion machine of a platform going productively psychotic in its isolation.”
Let’s be honest, going productively psychotic in isolation is this year’s mood.
Tumblr is a hellsite but goddammit its our hellsite
This really reminds me about this paper I read about private roads that weren’t very well maintained. The thing is, nobody goes down one of those roads unless they have to, they have a lot of ground clearance and confidence, and even then they go slow and careful unless they have a muddin’ truck. So even if the road is technically a through road, ain’t nobody going to go speeding through there, making noise and endangering children. Which, it turns out, is seen as a positive by many residents, enough to offset the whole having to own a 4×4 thing.
Sometimes, things that look shitty are actually protective.
tumblr is for the outcasts. it’s always been. for better and for worse
hate when people think I know stuff. I dont know anything, I just use Google. I Google simple words because they look like they’re spelled wrong and I cant be sure. I Google how to boil eggs every time I do it. this is who I am.
My boss asked me how I figured out that two of our donors were probably connected through their kids attending school together.
Me: They both had unusual last names, so I googled their last names together. Both surnames showed up on on a Lacrosse team for a high school in the region where they live.
Him: *joking* So we pay you to Google?
Me: Technically you pay me to be better at Google than you are.
Him: Yeah, seems fair.
This is also me, but like, mostly I Google to see if our donors have died so that we don’t write to them and upset their families because uhh we want their money and not to upset them.
It does mean I’m in the situation where we get a regular donation from someone who’s been dead for some time AND I have a photo of their gravestone but like, we have no way to get in touch with any of their family to say “oh hey, fyi we are still getting this donation every year, maybe there is a bank account you didn’t know about”