#nfts are toxic

[aestheticbyais]

NFTs are toxic for our planet and steal the hard work of all aspiring artists online. Reblog this if you agree that they need to be stopped!

#nfts #boycott nfts #nfts hurt the environment #save our planet #opinions #not aesthetic #nft crypto #nftcreators #nftcollectibles #nfts are dumb #nfts are a scam #nfts corrupt people #nfts are toxic #Protect the environment #climate change #climate action

[ishdaj]

Pauz of the Fifth Choir, Feral and Foul, from the Pact web serial

Another commission for @john-cherry-the-6th!

If you want to commission something, click here for my info!

#pact #pact web serial #otherverse #wildbow #i only realized it after doing the rendering but he looks like an nft 😭 #probably appropriate considering he's also toxic and all

[theempresstrash]

I’m not tumblr famous yet, but my friend @maxcapacity is so I will ride his coat tails to the top. :B

Here is is a piece I made over his work. A VR painting on top of some toxic avenger glitch. It will be incoming on #tezos for #henreunion- yes that’s nfts - tezos was always #cleannfts and about the art. We doing a tumblr reunion of sorts. It’s an empty mall here since the pr0n ban, let’s fill it will the joy of art...crypto art

UPDATE: This piece is now live on Teia Community for HENReunion. It is an open edition at .1 $xtz each. Unsold will be burned sunday/monday 10/2/2022 night.  https://teia.art/empresstrash

#glitch #glitchart #trashart #figurative painting #tezos #xtz #henreunion #toxic #nft #nftart #nftcollectors #cryptoart #nftsaredead #trashartisdead #empresstrash #vr #vrpainting #digitalart

[apollo-cackling]

you would've thought it would be easy to avoid using/propagating high school bully type mockery even if the words "NFT" or "AI" or "tiktok" are attached. on the queer disabled neurodivergent site. and yet and goddamn yet

it's so transparent that whenever some new Bad Thing comes out and it's tumblr's topic of discussion for the week most people don't know/care/care to learn about its actual harmful effects and just want to use it as a way to find socially acceptable people to bully (for low hanging fruit i.e. reactionary reasons)

#sorry I remembered the onion 'guy who's bad at a person extols AI' headline that folks were gleefully passing around and I'm mad again #by literally what metrics would the hypothetical guy not be a person #because by stereotype he's a virgin? #1) my dad unfortunately is a guy that is and continues to be the type of guy that'd caught up in the AI/NFT hype and I sure am not adopted #2) do people not fucking realise what they're goddamn saying #''women are trophies and conquests and if you don't possess/haven't conquered any of them #you're not a man(person). this is specifically targeted at men. I'm a progressive btw'' #fuck off. genuinely fuck off #even if you extrapolate that to interpersonal relationships in general- #do you know who overwhelmingly has trouble with those think it's hard to guess *zooms in on the posts proudly declaring tumblr- #the queer disabled neurodivergent site* #it's so fucking transparent so many people don't actually care about the effects of AI/NFTs they just want people that're- #socially acceptable to bully using high school bully type reactionary rhetoric #it's frustrating and fucking gross #it's all break down toxic masculinity etc etc until a demographic that's socially acceptable to bully is labelled as loser nerd guys #and then it's a free for all apparently #also the ableism. the fucking ableism #my rambles #rh

[estebanpochintesta]

When You Both Know It Will End In Disaster But You Dont Care

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5 ed / 7 Tezos

Buy/Comprar

#esteban pochintesta #nft #nfts #pipiuniversel #love #toxic love

[jabberwockprince]

your tags on the studio heartbreak post are incorrect, they have never done nfts nor is there any evidence they have done so. they have actively said they dislike nfts. it's a harmful rumor about a collection of independent artists.

damn it's crazy how there's no proof about one of their members, lead director alicemaoart, doing nfts under a different account named alicedotxyz or the official studio heartbreak account making a statement that pretty much confirms these accusations were all real

screenshot 1 / screenshot 2 / screenshot 3 / screenshot 4 /

and not weird at all to see popheadz, the nft company this artist has worked with, constantly show up in any comments made against her

tweet 1 / tweet 2 (original qrt now deleted, sadly)

and then the artist herself posting these in instagram stories (obviously I can't link these since they're instagram stories and her instagram also seems to have been deleted?)

granted, the official statement released by the studio does mention "outdated comments by one of [their] directors" that "don't reflect her current views or efforts" - if the artist stopped making NFTs, good for her! people are allowed to grow and change their mind and be given the benefit of the doubt! if she's really stopped making NFTs, then I personally would fucking LOVE to support the studio because as filipino diaspora im fucking starving for content about my culture

the harassment she faced is definitely fucked up (considering all of her socials are blank, gone or private) and there IS something to be said about the harsh scrutiny LGTBQ+ and POC creators go through constantly. or example, Kitfox Games adding a warning in Boyfriend Dungeon for a toxic shitty stalker because people wouldn't stop complaining about it AND harassing the VA who provided the voice for said stalker. some of the hate studio heartbreak is getting DOES come from that shitty mindset and some criticisms come from ppl genuinely upset that. this artist was specifically doing nfts in secret bc she was fully aware of the backlash she would receive

but whether you want to separate her career from studio heartbreak or not, that's up to you - i think people who want to support this film (because HEY. WE FINALLY GET. CONTENT FOR US. LITERALLY CATERED TO US ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE US IN PLACES WE RECOGNIZE AND ALL. I GET IT) for whatever reason despite this nft stuff coming up are in the right to do so. and the people who don't want to support it because their lead director makes/used to make nfts in secret or for whatever other reason is also fair. personally i dropped out of supporting them after seeing the pics above

the official statement also apologizes for the lack of tact when these nfts started coming up, which is good! cause posting fish titties in an attempt to get ppl to forget the issue sure is. a fucking choice

no clue how to end this post, so hey have a nice day!

#i fucking despise nfts with all my life and thats the main reason im not supporting this project anymore #even if im. so fucking desperate for toxic filipino lesbians #but thats my personal choice. yall do yall! i rlly understand the giddy excitement from other filipinos #it rlly isnt just a good or bad situation. its just a situation that happened and wasnt tackled properly bc. this stuff rarely is #transparency wouldve been nice. the artist going 'yeah i did this. sorry about that' when the pics started coming up wouldve been good #but again. the harassment deffo didnt help

[brettesims]

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#toxic social media #social media #socialmedia #artbybrette #artists #art lovers #arttalk #art talk #art community #nft community #self love #self care #mental health #community #ted talks #art world #consciousness #conscious flow #Youtube

[queercraftingchonk]

I finished Harvestella, save for full completion of the optional Quietus Dungeon. (I've completed all main and side quests, got a partner, unlocked all secret areas beyond repair/bomb prompts, grown all crops, etc.) I enjoyed my time with the game, and I have many thoughts on it.

Said thoughts are percolating and forthcoming.

I will say this though: I'm glad I acquired it down by a Caribbean pier instead of through Steam or the Switch. Squeenix is charging far too much for it, and I'd recommend everyone either head to the pier or wait until it goes on sale.

#harvestella #squeenix can gtfo with its NFT nonsense #and its general toxic developer culture ouvre

[silver-ace-of-spades]

I had a dream that Dream made NFTs and I was Toadette and accidentally bought some. Mom got mad and I got a ton of ice cream, became myself, floated through a beauty store, and hit on ladies in wedding dresses. Ladybug and Cat Noir appeared at one point to lock everyone in the mall with hypnotizing powers.

#toxic electricity #wtf dreams #dream mention #nfts #toadette my beloved #miraculous ladybug

[welcometobrightvale]

NEOPASS IS GOING TO CONNECT TO THIRD PARTY FAN SITES??? HELLO???

#MAJOR alarm bells lmfao #i feel like. i dont know how the legal ramifications actually shake out #but it always feels suuuuper sus when the Official Producers get too chummy with fan sites and have official ambassadors and stuff #most of my experience is in static media like shows or video games as opposed to something like this but #i feel like it has the potential to be toxic. promoting BNFs to canon status. something THEY can lord over smaller creators and also kind o #homogenizing the fan experience (in a way that has literally never been inclusive of my own fan experience. idk what it is about me (lie)) #but anyway props to jellyneo for opting out. the nft fiasco was not too long ago and it's wild that theyre trying this #and maybe im being very cynical!!! but it feels like a preemptive measure in case they try some fucked shit later!!! to minimize retaliatio #the neopass still feels very blockchain-adjacent to me!!!! #why do we need to franchise-ify everything. why do we need Infinite Business Growth. just let fans be fans and not a source market researc

[somekindafairy]

i have a family member who i feel is just so susceptible to certain scams and idk. its like all these people telling you how to get rich, if you just give them money they will tell you the tried and true method to get rich, you can become a millionaire if you just give them money and come to their seminar and...

idk just she talks about it and is so excited and it feels so sketchy and idk how to talk to her about it.

#it's also a lot of stuff that's so individualistic like 'if you do these things you can be rich' which means if you are not rich it's #because you aren't doing it right and not you know #we live in a broken system #and like trying to make money is still valid and necessary #i just do not think any of these people have some magic secret #they are making their money by....telling you how to make money. that is a dead end. there is no where to go from there. #or alternatively #like if there was some secret by the time it's being sold to you it's not a secret anymore #you missed the boat and are just being scammed now #and if she just watches some youtube videos or buys a book here or there it's whatever #even if i think it's a bit toxic #but she said this one lady charges 30k(???) for a how to be a millionaire seminar and said she would do it if she had the money ??? #like what the fuck #that's a scam baby! #like it actually kinda scares me sometimes #she also got really into crypto and nfts which isn't exactly the same but feels very similar

[lamia-lmiae]

The anti-AI art crowd is getting to be too much. This is bullshit.

#Anti AI art collateral damage #It was bound to happen but I admit I didn't expect it #AI art discourse is toxic and fueled by emotional smooth rains #Can't stand it #AND AS A REMINDER I DONT LIKE AI ART #I just recognize it as art being made with a tool I don't like #Not that the tool or art is bad or wrong #You fuckers are going to ruin everything #Oh #And here's a thing #You could use nfts to mark your digital work and process paintings as original work to combat the piracy #But no y'all fucked that up too #Hur dur I can right click and save #Yeah but you can t right click and save an nft fucktard

[trendmatchtouch]

https://linktr.ee/Tmtbellc ❤️ https://www.twitch.tv/tmtbellc #djay #nft #novel #lori #vallow #chud #daybell #religious #cult #zombies #eternal #being #Messiah #religion #nlp #toxic #relationship #gaslightning #narcisisstic #npd #psychopath #sociopath #greatreplacement” #Jesus #homicide #jj #taylee #tamara https://youtu.be/fq7exDaSX7Q https://www.instagram.com/p/CekPiBUlIif/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#djay #nft #novel #lori #vallow #chud #daybell #religious #cult #zombies #eternal #being #messiah #religion #nlp #toxic #relationship #gaslightning #narcisisstic #npd #psychopath #sociopath #greatreplacement #jesus #homicide #jj #taylee #tamara

[evilvillain123456789]

My demonic fucking boomer f*ther is always telling me not to make posts like this while waching tiktoks picture in picture on my samsung zflip 5 and slamming celsuis energy supplement and ritalin and sudafed and caffeine pills while doing promotional work in an IRC channel on the family santa fe's onboard computer all while doing 90 on i75 northbound (to go steal from the gainesville athleta [because, yes, i have been banned from every mid priced womens athliesure retailer in the orlando metropolitan area, thanks for asking]). news flash "dad", as if you didn't grow up staring at the gaydge cluster on your old boomer car and fucking shifting gears every five minutes, because it's literally the exact. same. thing. also im mentally ill and need constant stimulation or i WILL crash the family santa fe into other cars or pedestrians. Whose fauult is this exactly??? let's see, whos the sickly, old boomer war criminal with a taste for poisonous offgasses, which mutated and weakened his focking sperms, hmmmmmm??? The pathetic little fuck is barely clinging to life now and i think it would push him over the edge if he learned that i borrowed against his settlement, because god forbid anyone provide for this fucking family, and god forbid a mentally ill queer woman be a fucking antraprenore... its like my rival investment guru always said, no one ever made seven figures rugpulling on doomed NFTs by hanging around in the persian gulf inhaling toxic fumes like some kind of- FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK YOU BITCHES MADE ME MISS MY FUCKING EXIT!!!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense

This is the LAST DAY to get my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel THE LOST CAUSE (2023) as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

If there was any area where we needed a lot of "innovation," it's in climate tech. We've already blown through numerous points-of-no-return for a habitable Earth, and the pace is accelerating.

Silicon Valley claims to be the epicenter of American innovation, but what passes for innovation in Silicon Valley is some combination of nonsense, climate-wrecking tech, and climate-wrecking nonsense tech. Forget Jeff Hammerbacher's lament about "the best minds of my generation thinking about how to make people click ads." Today's best-paid, best-trained technologists are enlisted to making boobytrapped IoT gadgets:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification

Planet-destroying cryptocurrency scams:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/15/your-new-first-name/#that-dagger-tho

NFT frauds:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/06/crypto-copyright-%f0%9f%a4%a1%f0%9f%92%a9/

Or planet-destroying AI frauds:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

If that was the best "innovation" the human race had to offer, we'd be fucking doomed.

But – as Ryan Cooper writes for The American Prospect – there's a far more dynamic, consequential, useful and exciting innovation revolution underway, thanks to muscular public spending on climate tech:

https://prospect.org/environment/2024-05-30-green-energy-revolution-real-innovation/

The green energy revolution – funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act and the Science Act – is accomplishing amazing feats, which are barely registering amid the clamor of AI nonsense and other hype. I did an interview a while ago about my climate novel The Lost Cause and the interviewer wanted to know what role AI would play in resolving the climate emergency. I was momentarily speechless, then I said, "Well, I guess maybe all the energy used to train and operate models could make it much worse? What role do you think it could play?" The interviewer had no answer.

Here's brief tour of the revolution:

2023 saw 32GW of new solar energy come online in the USA (up 50% from 2022);

Wind increased from 118GW to 141GW;

Grid-scale batteries doubled in 2023 and will double again in 2024;

EV sales increased from 20,000 to 90,000/month.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2023/12/19/building-a-thriving-clean-energy-economy-in-2023-and-beyond/

The cost of clean energy is plummeting, and that's triggering other areas of innovation, like using "hot rocks" to replace fossil fuel heat (25% of overall US energy consumption):

https://rondo.com/products

Increasing our access to cheap, clean energy will require a lot of materials, and material production is very carbon intensive. Luckily, the existing supply of cheap, clean energy is fueling "green steel" production experiments:

https://www.wdam.com/2024/03/25/americas-1st-green-steel-plant-coming-perry-county-1b-federal-investment/

Cheap, clean energy also makes it possible to recover valuable minerals from aluminum production tailings, a process that doubles as site-remediation:

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/toxic-red-mud-co2-free-iron

And while all this electrification is going to require grid upgrades, there's lots we can do with our existing grid, like power-line automation that increases capacity by 40%:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/13/1187620367/power-grid-enhancing-technologies-climate-change

It's also going to require a lot of storage, which is why it's so exciting that we're figuring out how to turn decommissioned mines into giant batteries. During the day, excess renewable energy is channeled into raising rock-laden platforms to the top of the mine-shafts, and at night, these unspool, releasing energy that's fed into the high-availability power-lines that are already present at every mine-site:

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/06/this-disused-mine-in-finland-is-being-turned-into-a-gravity-battery-to-store-renewable-ene

Why are we paying so much attention to Silicon Valley pump-and-dumps and ignoring all this incredible, potentially planet-saving, real innovation? Cooper cites a plausible explanation from the Apperceptive newsletter:

https://buttondown.email/apperceptive/archive/destructive-investing-and-the-siren-song-of/

Silicon Valley is the land of low-capital, low-labor growth. Software development requires fewer people than infrastructure and hard goods manufacturing, both to get started and to run as an ongoing operation. Silicon Valley is the place where you get rich without creating jobs. It's run by investors who hate the idea of paying people. That's why AI is so exciting for Silicon Valley types: it lets them fantasize about making humans obsolete. A company without employees is a company without labor issues, without messy co-determination fights, without any moral consideration for others. It's the natural progression for an industry that started by misclassifying the workers in its buildings as "contractors," and then graduated to pretending that millions of workers were actually "independent small businesses."

It's also the natural next step for an industry that hates workers so much that it will pretend that their work is being done by robots, and then outsource the labor itself to distant Indian call-centers (no wonder Indian techies joke that "AI" stands for "absent Indians"):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/#twenty-one-seconds

Contrast this with climate tech: this is a profoundly physical kind of technology. It is labor intensive. It is skilled. The workers who perform it have power, both because they are so far from their employers' direct oversight and because these fed-funded sectors are more likely to be unionized than Silicon Valley shops. Moreover, climate tech is capital intensive. All of those workers are out there moving stuff around: solar panels, wires, batteries.

Climate tech is infrastructural. As Deb Chachra writes in her must-read 2023 book How Infrastructure Works, infrastructure is a gift we give to our descendants. Infrastructure projects rarely pay for themselves during the lives of the people who decide to build them:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects

Climate tech also produces gigantic, diffused, uncapturable benefits. The "social cost of carbon" is a measure that seeks to capture how much we all pay as polluters despoil our shared world. It includes the direct health impacts of burning fossil fuels, and the indirect costs of wildfires and extreme weather events. The "social savings" of climate tech are massive:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/climate-and-health-benefits-of-wind-and-solar-dwarf-all-subsidies/

For every MWh of renewable power produced, we save $100 in social carbon costs. That's $100 worth of people not sickening and dying from pollution, $100 worth of homes and habitats not burning down or disappearing under floodwaters. All told, US renewables have delivered $250,000,000,000 (one quarter of one trillion dollars) in social carbon savings over the past four years:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/climate-and-health-benefits-of-wind-and-solar-dwarf-all-subsidies/

In other words, climate tech is unselfish tech. It's a gift to the future and to the broad public. It shares its spoils with workers. It requires public action. By contrast, Silicon Valley is greedy tech that is relentlessly focused on the shortest-term returns that can be extracted with the least share going to labor. It also requires massive public investment, but it also totally committed to giving as little back to the public as is possible.

No wonder America's richest and most powerful people are lining up to endorse and fund Trump:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-05-30-democracy-deshmocracy-mega-financiers-flocking-to-trump/

Silicon Valley epitomizes Stafford Beer's motto that "the purpose of a system is what it does." If Silicon Valley produces nothing but planet-wrecking nonsense, grifty scams, and planet-wrecking, nonsensical scams, then these are all features of the tech sector, not bugs.

As Anil Dash writes:

Driving change requires us to make the machine want something else. If the purpose of a system is what it does, and we don’t like what it does, then we have to change the system.

https://www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

To give climate tech the attention, excitement, and political will it deserves, we need to recalibrate our understanding of the world. We need to have object permanence. We need to remember just how few people were actually using cryptocurrency during the bubble and apply that understanding to AI hype. Only 2% of Britons surveyed in a recent study use AI tools:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511x4g7x7jo

If we want our tech companies to do good, we have to understand that their ground state is to create planet-wrecking nonsense, grifty scams, and planet-wrecking, nonsensical scams. We need to make these companies small enough to fail, small enough to jail, and small enough to care:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

We need to hold companies responsible, and we need to change the microeconomics of the board room, to make it easier for tech workers who want to do good to shout down the scammers, nonsense-peddlers and grifters:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the FTC could hold Amazon executives personally liable for the decision to trick people into signing up for Prime, and for making the unsubscribe-from-Prime process into a Kafka-as-a-service nightmare:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/amazon-execs-may-be-personally-liable-for-tricking-users-into-prime-sign-ups/

Imagine how powerful a precedent this could set. The Amazon employees who vociferously objected to their bosses' decision to make Prime as confusing as possible could have raised the objection that doing this could end up personally costing those bosses millions of dollars in fines:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

We need to make climate tech, not Big Tech, the center of our scrutiny and will. The climate emergency is so terrifying as to be nearly unponderable. Science fiction writers are increasingly being called upon to try to frame this incomprehensible risk in human terms. SF writer (and biologist) Peter Watts's conversation with evolutionary biologist Dan Brooks is an eye-opener:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/

They draw a distinction between "sustainability" meaning "what kind of technological fixes can we come up with that will allow us to continue to do business as usual without paying a penalty for it?" and sustainability meaning, "what changes in behavior will allow us to save ourselves with the technology that is possible?"

Writing about the Watts/Brooks dialog for Naked Capitalism, Yves Smith invokes William Gibson's The Peripheral:

With everything stumbling deeper into a ditch of shit, history itself become a slaughterhouse, science had started popping. Not all at once, no one big heroic thing, but there were cleaner, cheaper energy sources, more effective ways to get carbon out of the air, new drugs that did what antibiotics had done before…. Ways to print food that required much less in the way of actual food to begin with. So everything, however deeply fucked in general, was lit increasingly by the new, by things that made people blink and sit up, but then the rest of it would just go on, deeper into the ditch. A progress accompanied by constant violence, he said, by sufferings unimaginable.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/preparing-for-collapse-why-the-focus-on-climate-energy-sustainability-is-destructive.html

Gibson doesn't think this is likely, mind, and even if it's attainable, it will come amidst "unimaginable suffering."

But the universe of possible technologies is quite large. As Chachra points out in How Infrastructure Works, we could give every person on Earth a Canadian's energy budget (like an American's, but colder), by capturing a mere 0.4% of the solar radiation that reaches the Earth's surface every day. Doing this will require heroic amounts of material and labor, especially if we're going to do it without destroying the planet through material extraction and manufacturing.

These are the questions that we should be concerning ourselves with: what behavioral changes will allow us to realize cheap, abundant, green energy? What "innovations" will our society need to focus on the things we need, rather than the scams and nonsense that creates Silicon Valley fortunes?

How can we use planning, and solidarity, and codetermination to usher in the kind of tech that makes it possible for us to get through the climate bottleneck with as little death and destruction as possible? How can we use enforcement, discernment, and labor rights to thwart the enshittificatory impulses of Silicon Valley's biggest assholes?

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/#social-cost-of-carbon

#pluralistic #ai #hype #anil dash #stafford beer #amazon #prime #scams #dark patterns #POSIWID #the purpose of a system is what it does #climate #economics #innovation #renewables #social cost of carbon #green energy #solar #wind #ryan cooper #peter watts #the jackpot #ai hype #chips act #ira #inflation reduction act #infrastructure #deb chachra

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Introducing Fifi Fafner, the Fake Facts Fox

Hi everyone! I'm Fifi Fafner, the Fake Facts Fox. With so many bloggers using an animal mascot in sickly green and purple iilluminaughtii colors for some reason, Facts-I-Just-Made-Up has decided to jump on the bandwagon in a disgusting show of pandering and trend-chasing!

From now on, this NFT-looking pixelated re-compressed aesthetic atrocity will be the face of the blog, because God has abandoned us and all that remains controlling the world are sicker and sicker despots and sadists reducing art and culture to foul greedy parodies of what our species could have been.

Though the blog is just text and lacks video and audio, please read all facts posts now in a shrill, annoying voice full of toxic positivity with a la croix level hint of tiredness and/or fear.

#internet culture #fox #foxes #tumblr polls #unreality more or less #the tag has lost all meaning