#I miss the EU

[neotula]

i'm begging you tenel ka djo is right there

#tula rambles #gonna cut myself off right after i post that #because this is not a rant i need to restate on the internet #i miss the eu

[pencil-merchant]

The european citizens initiative for unconditional basic income is running out june 25th and so far only has 245.092 out of 1 million required signatures with only 3 countries out of 7 required meeting their goal.

so

heres the link

i know this is usually just a lighthearted tf2 blog with some personal rambles but goddamn it i hadnt even heard about this until like an hour ago so i just want to share this, this would be huge.

#politics #eu politics #unconditional basic income #penciltalks #sorry guys #imagine not having to worry about poverty among the elderly or ending up on the street because you got unlucky #i myself signed #i know given the nature of this blog that putting it here will hardly achieve anything at all but goddamn its my blog #i miss every shot i dont take

[crystal-jack-asripines]

WHYYYY does Twitter have to be down on the day Dapper, Richarlyson, and BADBOYHALO HIMSELF are making a 4halo BUFFET

#DAPPER SAYING FOREVER LOVES HIM BECAUSE ITS H I M #BBH FINDING OUT FOREVER HAS STOPPED GOING FOR ANYONE AND SAYING “but… what about me though? anybody besides me you mean 💕” #RICHARLYSON WRITING A TEA DATE FANFIC AND SAYING FOREVER WOULD BE TOO HAPPY AROUND BBH TO BE MAD CUZ THEY MISS EACH OTHER 💕 #Richarlyson showing BBH a copy of the “eu te amo <3” book and BBH SAYING HE’LL GIVE THE BOOK TO FOREVER FIRST BEFORE RICHAS CAN #actively losing my mind this stream and I can’t see the FANARTIST ON TWITTER WHO POST THINGS NOOOOOO #I still miss Forever but i see the benefit to him being gone: bbh finally expressing his feelings while he isn’t around to hear LMAO #QSMP #4halo #q!badboyhalo #q!bbh #dapper #dapper qsmp #richarlyson #richarlyson qsmp

[dailyfrank]

#I MISS THEM SO BADLY (EU FRANK AND GERARD) #frank iero #gerard way #my chemical romance #ive accidentally posted thus twice now but whatevs

[demonrice]

ordained capital punishment

#my art #ffxiv #ff14 #perfect alexander #i miss tea i wish people who played on eu were competent at one of the easier ultimates

[beautifulstorms]

Yuna Aoki, FS She • NHK Trophy 2023

#fskateedit #figure skating #nhk 2023 #yuna aoki #i keep coming back to this performance and crying my eyes out #it's like. yuna was kaori/marin cohort of juniors yk #something special about seeing a skater i loved as a junior but had entirely forgotten about make their grand prix debut ~6 seasons later #and go clean on home ice after going through injury and inconsistency and coaching changes. double standing ovations! like! #she's still got her specialties (the 3lz-3lo 2a-eu-3f bidirectional spinning the layback position) #but also a refinement and musicality and maturity that the rest of the field at NHK didn't have #but also that SHE didnt have last time i saw her skate! fuck!! #sorry guys the 'career trajectory' got me. man. #genuinely hope she does well at nats and gets sent to 4cc and has a resurgence a la sota yamamoto #i really have missed skating like this ;;; #also robbed deserved like 20 points higher etc etc but she was so happy in the k&c i can't even be mad

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

i've come ready for a war

#my art #therapeutic as always #very very excited that the hamburg show is in one month #i can't wait to see him again #avoided most videos from tour so i will be blown away and now i can really feel how much i miss him #that's a good thing #this eu/uk tour will be fantastic

[not-poignant]

Is it just me or is censorship all across social media getting really bad lately? Pinterest just removed a whole bunch of my pins for sexual content - they were all fully clothed queer men and women showing vague intimacy, nothing overtly sexual at all. Like one they removed was literally just two men's heads leaning on each other. That's wacko right??? Have I missed something big going on?

Tbh it's been getting increasingly terrible for a long time, anon, it's not a lately thing, it's been since before the Tumblr purge, and it is at least in some part due to the SESTA/FOSTA law that got passed in the USA, and the increasing passing of laws in many countries that are specifically concerned with removing net neutrality and treating all of us like 3 year olds.

It will get worse, not better. And you've probably been missing a few big things! It sounds like you were most directly impacted by what happened with Pinterest, so you've just noticed it. Many of us noticed it around 2018 with the Tumblr purge. Some of us have been impacted by elements of it way earlier, due to Livejournal's Strikethrough which necessitated the invention of Dreamwidth and helped to really get AO3 off the ground. And this was back even before we now have many laws that scare a lot of big companies into removing adult content.

Steve Jobs famously hated / loathed pornography and was on a mission to literally try and remove it from the internet, and part of that mission was to - as much as possible - make it nearly impossible for apps that have it to get listed in the Apple store. This is partly why AO3 doesn't have an app. This is why Dreamwidth doesn't have an app. This is why the Tumblr Purge happened - so they could continue to have an app. And while some sites don't get targeted, as soon as you do get targeted by the Apple store, it's either 'provide your legal identity to prove that you're the age you say you are' to access adult content or it's 'goodbye adult content.'

We've also had an increasing rise of morally panicked, puritanical TERF-informed anti-shippers who believe that their emotional reactions to fictional content they find troubling are firstly valid moral judgements, and secondly, a valid reason to abuse, bully and send death threats to real people. And these people basically work hand-in-hand (often without realising) with extremely powerful Evangelical Christians who have government influence and a lot of money in the USA and literally work to change laws to make it reflect an extremely puritanical vision they have of the future. You know, the homphobic, transphobic, misogynistic, racist, kinkphobic, bigoted, antisemitic etc. etc. etc. one. (It's highly ironic and tragic that most antis are young and queer and just extremely uneducated).

I'd say people notice based on what impacted them directly. So some of us realised in 2007. Some of us realised again in 2018. And since then there's been a lot of blows from a lot of sites. In a way, Pinterest is joining an already very bloated bandwagon of sites cornered in the manner. The reason why people say 'unalive' these days instead of suicide, or 'r@pe' these days instead of rape is because of Tiktok censors. The reason so many folks moved their adult fanart and art accounts off Instagram, or they've gone dead, is because of Instagram censors. The reason so many adult writers on Patreon are very careful about what explicit words they write directly onto the site is because of Patreon censorship.

After all this, it's possible that Pinterest has a bug and are implementing a new AI algorithm for detecting adult content, and it's just broken. In those cases, reporting and appealing actually often does help. When Tumblr first implemented their algorithm, it wasn't very well trained yet, and like, pictures of fruit etc. were being banned because the AI algorithm was still figuring out what to do. Tumblr was in a rush in order to keep the app in the Apple store (over 70% of their income is from app users, the site would have literally died if they didn't act quickly), and so they ended up with an extremely overzealous and initially broken (and still sometimes broken x.x) algorithm.

If Pinterest is going through something similar, either with the app store or with having to address a sudden legal change, they may be having algo problems, and reporting will help them train the algorithm better.

Trust me, there will be people behind the scenes - staff at all of these websites - who hate the changes as much as you do, even if they can't say so for professional reasons. But even the new owner of Tumblr got pretty close to saying 'it fucking sucks but we have to do it if you want the site to exist' (which honestly made it a lot more...possible to handle the change, because it's not usually the sites you have to hate/resent, but the laws getting changed around you. Also if anyone here is an adult and can do so - please vote!!!)

#asks and answers #personal #i'm missing a lot of history #since i'm talking primarily based on the changes that have impacted me directly #so i know i'm only looking at one slice of the pie #SESTA-FOSTA was one of the most devastating things to ever happen to the internet #and it set precedent #for so many more broken laws like this to come out #they look like they have good intentions on the surface #but they are incredibly fucked / broken #and we are getting more and more #there's some really awful ones on the table in both the EU and the US again right now #please vote if you don't like that this keeps happening folks #it's the only way forward

[count-doodoo]

palps gets a lot of flack (deservedly so) for being a shit teacher but like,, have you seen the disaster lineage?

yoda [light side]: trains dooku [falls to the dark, dies], luke

dooku [light side]: trains rael, qui-gon [dies], komari [falls to the dark]

dooku [dark side]: trains ventress [goes grey], savage [dies]

qui-gon [light side]: trains feemor [repudiated], xanatos [falls to the dark, dies], obi-wan [repudiated (melida/daan), taken back, pseudo-repudiated (tpm)]

obi-wan [light side]: trans anakin [falls to the dark], luke

anakin [light side]: trains ahsoka [leaves the order]

luke [light side]: trains ben solo [falls to the dark]

anyways hats off to NONE OF THEM for succeeding at training anyone.

#i'm not super familiar with eu or legends or even canon nowadays so i might've missed some people #i guess a lot of the qui-gon drama is actually not canon #(fee and xan are legends i believe? and so is the melida-daan thing) #but either way he DID try to take on ani in tpm #so yeah i'm down to pin ani on him if we're not accepting any legends material #star wars #disaster lineage #yoda #dooku #qui-gon #obi-wan #idk i'm not tagging the rest bc hmmphhh

[anakinnaberrie]

star wars week 2023: expanded universe

It's not about the legacy you leave, it's about the life you live.

#swaw2023 #swedit #sweuedit #comicsedit #mara jade #starwarsedit #swlegends #starwarsbookclub #star wars legends #star wars #* #eu #my wife i miss you so much <333 #the stills are entirely from the htte trilogy comic adaptation

[simdreams]

#sims 3 #ts3 #the sims 3 #mine #sims 3 screenshots #ditd:altv #this blog is slowly becoming a CABARÉ #my friends will be disappointed #it happened tho #and I honestly like the aesthetics on both posts #it sort of fits the story timeline #might be canon #brazilian au: #this is a veeeery tacky but trying to be fancy adult hotel #and na cama que eu paguei is playing from one of the other rooms #IT'S DEF MISSING A JACUZZI #but enough smut is enough

[thisiseditsandstuff]

WINTER CELCHU — The Thrawn trilogy comics

#winter celchu #star wars #leia organa #leia organa solo #Star Wars EU #star wars legends #Star Wars Expanded Universe #thrawn trilogy #i miss her ........ #miss celchu herself #winter retrac

[userblaney]

WELL. thats that!! i think it's fair to say 2023 has been one of the best years of my life and a big part of that was due to y'all. some very very special friends were made this year which was a major role in making it what it was.

JD, @formula-red for being the bestest most amazing most giggular and sillular and greatest big brother that i could ever ever hope for BROIS 4L <3.

and then the rest of stonersports for becoming my favourite group of silly little guys ever.

theo @fistful-o-dollars ilysm and forever for putting up with my insanity however it IS you i'm blaming for getting me into this mess (nascar).

@ellearts for being the most thoughtful and funniest person ever I love you soooooooooo much.

and then @lightningmcqueenstan z, for putting up with me and my extremely annoyingness I love you forever and always (I'm free Thursdays if you wanna come over x)

and then @urmuminnitt for being so severely awesome ily jess

and then last but not least a little @bushisbisexual mention because you actually are one of my best friends irl you are great ilysm.

also SHOUT OUT TO ALLIE @osaka-lilac FOR BEING MY COWBOY BROTHER AND GIGGULAR PARDNER ILYSM and the rest of the motorsports zone for being the most awesome bunch on planet earth y'all are the best

@vapidluxury FOREVER AND ALWAYS THE OG FOR STICKING RIUND THESE LAST TWO YEARS YOURE THE BEST

anyways my coherency disappeared while writing this I love all of you so much and forever y'all changed my life for the better <3

#SHOUTOUT TO @CITRIZS FOR BEING A GREAT EU NASCAR FAN W ME HOPEFULLY WE GET TO KNOW EACHOTHEr BETTER THIS NEXT YR #okay if I've missed anyone out I'm sorry and know that I love you loads

[fantastic-nonsense]

the real tragedy of The Clone Wars inventing Satine as Obi-Wan's doomed love interest instead of just using Siri Tachi is that we never got to see Anakin and Ferus Olin's epic rivalry playing out on the battlefield during the war while their masters desperately pretend they're not yearning to smooch each other in the background

#I MISS SIRI AND FERUS SO MUCH Y'ALL DON'T EVEN KNOW #star wars #star wars eu #the clone wars #siri tachi #obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #ferus olin #also it would have given us star wars' first on-screen gay character about ten years earlier and that would have been really fun

[xieyaohuan]

I'm starting to miss the clown that f*cked a pig's head and that's the last thing I'll say about UK politics today I promise

#uk politics #liz truss #politics for ts #is tumblrsaver still a thing? i have no clue #i never thought I'd miss dave #I still think he did that eu referendum so that people would forget about the pig and remember him for fucking over the entire country #which congrats i guess his plan really worked

[my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates]

Randomly found this old drawing of mine that I never got to finish.

Left to right...Jaina, Zekk, Jacen, and Tenel Ka in the back

Young Jedi Knights in... inaction. I guess.

#star wars #star wars legends #star wars eu #jacen solo #jaina solo #tenel ka djo #lowbacca #Zekk #young jedi knights #pretty sure I got Tenel Ka's missing arm wrong #and Jacen's “glasses” are supposed to be like #helmet visors #anyways #hugs #hugs for every single one of them #they deserve it #stuff i made