Methodical Slacker

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

gosh i need a new pinned tweet

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

We need to stop acting as if people like this are “not convinced” and start recognizing them as “committed to a lie.”

[Truth Nuclear Nonproliferation @SmlPenguinPolls]

The real blackpill about America that most people outside the US dont even get is that the Americans you meet when they visit your country, or when you visit theirs, or through cultural output, are the 90th percentile most open-minded, cosmopolitan, and educated Americans

[0live 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇺 ⚢ 🐇🐈🦌 @0liviaolive]

I need cis people to understand that real "allyship" is not about reaffirming our "validity" it's about helping us survive *this*.

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

@BasedYew @serketmaxxing Higurashi is Twin Peaks

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

@sbodrojan All the suggestions that if you were less online you wouldn’t be bothered by or even notice this are hilarious too, I don’t have TikTok but basically all my friends do, they’ll show me what songs are popular, and I’ll notice when I hear those tracks IRL. Simple as.

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

Given the prevalence of this kind of “reading”, I basically have no choice but to assume that everyone is illiterate until proven otherwise.

60% of adult Americas read (and think) at a 6th grade level or below. That’s functional illiteracy, and borderline lack of sapience.

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!

WHAT?!!!

[🔻🔻📕🇮🇩 Nao @naolovesindo]

I know you want to die, but the international proletariat needs you....

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

@iamnotracisttt @pompomend @rupturedpurity You’re only 15, you have your whole life ahead of you. You are already a girl. It takes time to cultivate a sense of self worth, and other people will make it hard for you, but you are truly a girl and nobody can take that from you. No matter how hard they may try.

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

@pompomend Also, your typing speed is totally cracked, how is that even possible, you’re godlike at that lol. But seriously, you arent an intruder, and you do belong. I feel like this sometimes too, but only bad people will try to make you feel this way, and to spite them, you need to live.

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

@pompomend You have nothing to apologize for. I know it’s tough to deal with these feelings of shame and guilt, especially when people jump in your comments on your vent post to say nasty things. But there’s nothing more normal than wanting to live as your true self. I see you as a woman.

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

Microdosing hell by being aware and literate

[april ⚢ @HEAVENPIERC3D]

The terms “identifies as” and “preferred pronouns” are easily some of the worst things c!shet people have imposed onto us

[Methodical Slacker @methodicalslack]

I’m closer to a fictional character than I am to being a real person

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

Keep hearing from people IRL and on here about how scarily good AI's gotten, and then I see study after study showing it's still largely useless garbage.

[Horned Sphere @Horned_Sphere]

Kinda hate the way everyone talks about everything

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

been noticing this lately, especially on here, that the rise of widespread illiteracy has also created a kind of person who wants to demonstrate their capacity for language through grammar and usage pedantry that often has absurd results like this

[Spider Queen: LVNΛ @LunaInfernale]

Dead naming and they/theming your daughter after she was murdered is fucking despicable. We get no dignity even in death.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Nev 🔻 @littlefoxnev]

personally i think if you deadname and they/them your trans daughter after she has been brutally murdered in a hate crime, i don't really think you deserve a single second of peace no matter how much you're supposedly grieving.