#I don’t trust the internet

[theborzoiarebackintown]

I’ve acquired two aquatic additions!! A beta named Crunchwrap Supreme, and a mystery snail named Queso! I’ve always loved fish and have wanted a beta for years and have finally “dipped my toes in the water” so to speak.

#I know fishblr is a thing #but it scares me to tag it lololol #not dogs #did I get orange/reddish animals to match my current pet aesthetic? #maybe #my borzoi breeding partner is an avid fish keeper and has been for many years #and when I found this out I immediately demanded she teach me everything #I don’t trust the internet #and didn’t feel confident about figuring it all out on my own #I didn’t know much but I knew it’s not as simple as throw a fish in a tank of water #so #here we are #I’ve been working on getting it cycled since Jan! #it was actually cycled a month ago but

[rotzaprachim]

the thing is that unlike providing bombs to the state of Israel, protecting Jews who are us citizens from being attacked by other U.S. citizens is in fact definitely Joe Biden’s job (and something the us gov had a rather checkered history of, considering the continuing prevalence of antisemitic hate crimes) and so while I have no trust in his gov to do a good job with online monitoring or to “fight antisemitism” in a way that doesn’t disproportionately shut down Muslim and Arab voices, I also think there’s a lottttt of people who need to think real hard about posting in favor of blanket violence against an entire ethnic group on social media, something many people take a shockingly dim view of. this wasn’t necessarily a domestic issue but people have worked hard to make it a domestic issues when they started calling for violence against Jews in the diaspora and turned that violence into a reality! Now it unambiguously IS the us, French, British, German, Canadian gov’s job to deal with on a domestic level and you’ve given pro-surveillance islamaphobes the ultimate fascism card by clearly and unambiguously supporting ethnic violence and terror oh my gd

#*well no one’s supporting h AMAs* trust me when I say plenty of people #Pretty unambiguously decided to support h AMAs on the internet #I don’t think anyone realized how fucking fucking DUMB that is #Just politically suicidal oh my gd

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Neuralink methods are unsafe at this stage given the animal deaths and shouldn’t be greenlit for human clinical trials. Calling it eugenics because of that is a bit much though.

There are other research projects doing similar, but safer, methods to help paralyzed people though. I hope people try to get on these research lists and don’t turn to musk out of desperation

It isn’t really a reach to call a procedure with over 60% mortality rate being marketed as a miracle cure to the disabled an example of eugenics. Frankly, there is a stronger word I’m tempted to use for it.

I don’t believe Elon Musk is unaware of the dangers. I don’t think any of the high profile scientists he hired are either.

At absolute best faith I can see Musk simply not caring about the risk and just using this as a desperate attempt at making back some money since he lost so much with twitter and SpaceX.

That’s giving him the most benefit of the doubt imaginable.

However, I would not call it overly cynical to suspect that this may be intentional. Is Musk really stupid enough to just think it’ll be fine because he’s the main character? Yeah, that’s plausible. It’s not any less plausible to say there’s an ulterior motive. Not when he rubs elbows with far-right figures often. Not when he’s a billionaire rich on his parents’ bloodied slave money.

I don’t trust a white man who grew up reaping the benefits of apartheid to be a friend to the disabled. I think the goal in this project has less to do with improving quality of life for the disabled and more for making the disabled less inconvenient to their abled caretakers. It’s very much giving 21st century lobotomy.

#Neuralink #eugenics #there is a long history of far-right monsters luring specific demographics to their horrible deaths by promising improved QoL #just saying #I don’t trust that at all #a brain implant attached to the temporal lobe is frightfully dangerous #and I don’t only mean because of the incompetence of the butcher shop surgeons either #if you can control the chip and it’s connected to the internet #then other people can use that chip to control you #again assuming it ever worked

[kcmalice]

Saint Harrow the first

#My art #fanart #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #If you don’t like the watermark suck a cactus #I don’t trust like that rn #Internets crazy and I’m happy with this drawing of my fave evil stick #Want a skull pendent #Made it silver for jod even tho everyone makes everything gold….

[why-the-heck-not]

death to services that ask for ur payment info even tho they are free >:( then why in the good goddamn hell would u need that info then hhUH ???

#trying to use fly.io to get this stupid app to the internet and dude I do not want to put my credit card info there #it’s for one (1) course I don’t want to suddenly wake up some day and see that I have a big ass bill for something I thought was free #bc i don’t trust anything to actually stay free #and fly.io ’’ we don’t offer free-tier. instead we offer some free resource allowances that include enough usage per month to run a small #app for free’’ but like that seems sketchy?? like are they going to inform me like hey so if u don’t take this down we are going to start #billing you?? seems like it’ll be ’’hey so ur app is actually not what we consider ’’small’’ so we took the liberty to rob ur entire #apartment for payment thanxx <3’’ #stupid heroku deciding that u now how to pay for it like literally what can u do in this world without putting ur bank account on the line?? #literally nothing #september 2023 #2023

[zorosdimples]

i would like to go on the record to say that you should wrap it before you tap it—keep yourself and your sexual partner safe by using protection. more than one kind, preferably. i only encourage reckless behavior in fiction!!!

#i don’t want kids ever TRUST #i just like to be silly silly #on the internet

[mysicklove]

just found out that one of my followers that was HEAVILY interacting with my account and even dming me is 12 years old! 12 FUCKING YEARS OLD! kill me 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗☺️☺️

#🔪 - mello talks too much #i’m disgusted. #i don’t want to be mean bc she is a child #BUT WHAT THE TUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU #WHEN I WAS 12 I WAS SMARTER TAHN THIS SHIT #she made up a fake story on why she had to block me so i went on my secret account and looked up her account #and her navigation post says she is 12 #i can’t even explain to u guys how i feel #(i had a feeling she was lying tbh so i tried not to interact with her too heavily) #but what the fuck. #she made up a whole story about her life #the internet is a scary place #i don’t trust anyone on tumblr anymore 😭😭😭😭 #i can’t explain to u guys how traumatized i am

[pupcuck]

#hate when people talk ab me like im problematic like brother im just ill #like like esp when they’re grown lol like im trying hard not to get my feelings hurt but tumblr is so cliquey it makes me upset like why f #does it feel like school all over again it should not feel that way!! it’s not that deep it’s the internet #cherry purposely attracts attention I don’t ask to get hated on trust #tw vent #it’s just like idk why do grown people make things so deep like omg a girl isn’t allowed to complain I got bpd im a chronic complainer

[basilsaur]

This is not a new or unique thought, but the existence of carrds throws me for a loop every single day. I’m a person who grew up in the early internet days where we were constantly (RIGHTLY!) told not to share our personal info with strangers, and now I can spend 2 seconds on a stranger’s profile and find out their name and age and pronouns and location and disabilities and kinks and triggers and who knows what else Y’ALL. STOP THAT. That shouldn’t be normal!!

Like I’m now comfortable saying I’m in my 30s pretty openly but that’s just about all the personal information I’ll share on my profile. No stranger on here who just happens to head to my blog is entitled to any other information about me! And that should be the norm!

#ESPECIALLY when minors do this like wtf #do NOT put ‘i’m a minor’ ANYWHERE on your public profile!! #PLEASE #FROM AN INTERNET OLD PLEASE TRUST ME ON THIS #‘I just don’t want older people to interact with a minor without knowing it’ THAT’S NOT YOUR ISSUE TO DEAL WITH BUD #PLEASE STAY SAFE INSTEAD #anyway sorry for the rant #carrd stuff #carrds #internet safety

[gayvampyr]

no one likes “proof or it didn’t happen” people but some of y’all will act like someone asking for literally any shred of evidence to support a claim means they’re evil and taking the other side or some shit and it’s stupid

#sorry if this is incoherent #but y’all are annoying #like yeah if you call someone lesbophobic i want proof #if you call someone racist i want proof #if you call someone anything that isn’t just your personal opinion i want some fuckin evidence #because people on the internet have a bad habit of trying to get others to take their side so they make up all sorts of shit to settle some #personal vendetta #even if it means raking some random persons name through the mud #over some unfounded allegation #and this idea that you’re either with someone or against them and questioning allegations means taking the other side has led to a culture #where no one speaks up or questions why we’re gathering pitchforks out of fear of being the next pariah #like i want more information not because i want to defend the person in question and not because i don’t think bigotry isn’t a big deal #it’s because if these accusations came from baseless mudslinging i want to know because i don’t want to be the kind of person who attacks or #commits libel with the masses without an ounce of thought for myself #and i also want to distance myself from people who ruin peoples lives as pastime or as a way to justify their own personal feelings toward #a person #it is far too easy to turn ‘i don’t like this person’ into ‘this person is a pedophile’ or something on the internet #so sorry for not just taking your word for it #‘just trust me bro’ is not a good defense

[tanjir0se]

Hello my manga reading angels I’m using you all as Google because I’m afraid to Google anything related to the show on account of that one time I was just trying to see how old Rengoku was and got slapped in the face with the suggested search “RENGOKU DEMON SLAYER DEATH” SO

Can anyone tell me with the least amount of detail possible which came to Urokodaki first: Giyuu or Sabito?

(Seem to have developed Sabito brain worms so intense the only way out is to dig down so I’m planning a fic in which I’m gonna make most of the stuff up but just wanted to know that one little detail)

Thank u ily

#kny #not that ansuggested search of “Sabito demon slayer death” would be a huge shocker lol #but idk I don’t trust the internet at large #I trust only the insane beautiful angels inside my phone #postcards from stupid town #thank you all ily

[queerbuckleys]

Can any astrology girlies (gn) tell me about Aries and pieces? Stereotypes, characteristics etc etc. please and thank you!

#I did a quick tiny search but I don’t trust the internet lmao

[ebp-brain]

wow I never do personal rants in the tags but I am so mad about a certain technology after a meeting about it and I don’t understand how anyone is giving it any credit at all

#just got off a zoom discussion of AI with faculty where I teach #I am boiling with rage (not at the faculty specifically just…about AI) #I don’t understand how anyone thinks generative AI can be used ethically when it scraped stuff from all over the internet #ppl say but humans do that amalgamation all the time YES AND THAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT #I don’t trust tech companies and I don’t think tech will save us #the most legitimate uses of generative AI are as band aids over poor labor practices #and AI is only going to worsen the problem academia has of just replicating itself forever #bc the technology is just about giving the most common answers #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I feel SO reactionary it’s uncomfortable?? like am I being a boomer abt this #but it’s SO dystopian?? when it comes to art and writing #okay #done ranting #personal

[ssreeder]

i never realized you were getting those rude comments I'm so sorry, ao3 has a newer feature that makes you able to block certain accounts from commenting, so if you're getting multiple comments from the same person you can block them

awwww I promise I’m just being sensitive & over dramatic because they really aren’t that bad! Im sure people get much worse & I truly get so many positive compliments I shouldn’t dwell on the handful I have gotten that I deem to be rude.

I did learn about that new feature on ao3!! It’s pretty cool they let you do that!

Thanks anon <3

#I don’t get that many #if I got 1000 comments I’d say 10 have been ‘rude’ #it’s more like… one person tries to be helpful #like give me some advice #even though I didn’t ask for it lol #which is fine! #then another person will add their advice #& then sometimes another person will add theirs #which it’s just #who wants to read that?? ya know?? #it’s me just sensitive #but I also think we live in a world where everyone on the internet has an opinion #& everyone wants to be heard #so they’re screaming in spaces not designed for that #from what I understand #ao3 authors don’t want feedback unless they specifically ask for it #& I do ask for feedback!! from people I trust and people I send my doc to before posting #I don’t ask stranger anon commenter on ao3 they didn’t like this or that or this was weird #anyway it’s really not a big deal #it just happened the last like two chapters in a row & idk I am moody sometimes and I took them too hard #I’m not perfect I KNOW THIS #but jeez I’ve been writing for two ish three idk years only leave me the fuck alone #just posting my shitty stories on ao3 #for the handful of people who wanna read them #anyway thanks anon #I don’t really wanna keep talking about this #because I really get HUNDREDS of kind comments and asks and I have a beauitful following #but idk this irked me lately and I know it’s made me less confident #& less enthusiastic to post new chapter #(but not less enthusiastic to write them haha)

[pjo-fan17]

If you’re wondering about Mike’s hesitancy to say I love you to El, or trying to use it in an argument, I suggest taking a look at this video. She is a liscensed therapist and has really good insights on why Mike had a hard time saying those three words (she also goes into a lot of other things; Will’s feelings, El lying to Mike about being fine, Max having a hard time talking to friends, and even why Dustin tends to hang around older boys like Steve and Eddie.)

If you don’t want to search for the video, here is what she says about Mike:

“Mike not saying ‘I love you’, that is something that I know as an audience member is frustrating because so many of us, if not all of us, have known he’s loved Eleven since the moment he saw her in the woods, right? The fact that he’s not saying it doesn’t really make sense but it does make sense when you factor how scary it can be to literally put everything out there about how you’re feeling to someone. Most of the time I see this manifesting as a result of insecurities when we feel like we don’t bring anything to a relationship. Sometimes subconsciously we try to even the playing field a little bit, right, because if I tell you how amazing you are, what a value add you are to my life, how much I love you and then you’re sitting there thinking like, ‘yeah, you’re right. I do add a lot of value to your life and what are you doing for me?’. That’s our fear, right? Our fear is that that person will realize that with all the amazingness they’re bringing to our lives we’re just not doing the same for them. So Mike is trying to protect himself from that and disappointment. And they do talk about that, you know, that it is easier feel disappointed than to invest more energy, more time, more faith and trust into the relationship and then ultimately be disappointed and hurt, right, so we try to self sabotage in a way that we can prevent ourselves from getting hurt down the road. So Mike not saying ‘I love you’ does make sense to me. Obviously, it wasn’t the best decision but as a therapist, my goal is to always make sense of the behavior, right. How does this make sense in the context of what this person is experiencing, has experienced, or is afraid of experiencing in the future, and so I definitely think that Mike not saying ‘I love you’ was his way of holding on to of some sort of power to feel like he’s got some sort of safety net if things don’t work out with her, ‘well at least I never said ‘I love you’ ’. To say ‘I love you’, to say ‘I need you’, to say ‘help me’, those things are very vulnerable statements, right, some people would perceive it as “weakness”, right. We feel inferior to need someone’s help, to need someone’s love, but in actuality, to be able to admit those things and be willing to accept hurt that could result from being honest and vulnerable, that’s actually the strongest that we could do, right. To allow ourselves the opportunity to fully love and be loved is such a great reward and to be able to risk having to deal with the possible pain, hurt, or rejection, with the possibility of actually being able to experience the most emotional intimacy that we could ever experience, that’s actually a sign of strength. So make sure that you are checking in with yourself and and giving yourself an opportunity to be loved completely by another person.”

#Mileven #I don’t know about you but I’m going to trust a therapist over some kids on the internet

[paranormeow7]

in the midst of getting all of our news and opinions and information in general from social media so many people online have forgotten that it’s the wild fucking west and literally anyone can just lie and say they’re a doctor and that drinking bleach is good for you. I’ve been seeing so fucking many warning posts along the lines of “sometimes people online lie!! reminder that people online can pretend to be someone else and spread false information!!” like yeah I thought this was common knowledge. we as a society need to realize that the internet is not always a reliable source of information, and that the people on here hide behind a shroud of anonymity, allowing them to genuinely be anyone. do not trust xxboyslutxx on TikTok with how to treat your crippling acid reflux or lose 10 pounds or whatever. check your sources or read a book at your local library

#actual sugar post #not trying to sound bigoted or weird or anything because a lot of valuable information has gotten more accessible through the internet #but good god it is depressing to see that people need to be REMINDED that people online are capable of telling lies #this is the telling lies hub. the telling lies capital of the world #reactionary mindsets on here have just destroyed peoples ability to see when someone’s shitting you and when you should back up #don’t get too comfortable or trusting on here #I could absolutely be a middle aged man. you guys would never know #anyways. start teaching internet safety again it’s so important now more than ever #rambles #blabbering #internet safety #izzy.txt #text post