Flipocrite
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Here’s an idea:
This smbc comic describes a scenario where consumers are able to purchase ad skips. For a small fee, you can pay the company to not show you that ad again. It quickly descends into madness as companies become incentivized to air deliberately upsetting commercials to generate profit.
Let’s try that again, with some minor adjustments.
Every time you encounter a digital advertisement, you have the option to spend five cents (or a comparable sum) to never see that advertisement again. This money wouldn’t go to the company; it would go to some third party (e.g. state or federal government). Meanwhile, the company that put out the advertisement would be fined an identical amount for every ad blacklisted. If the company actually has something useful to say (e.g. “The McRib is back”), it’s still in their best interest to advertise digitally even if the ad gets blacklisted. If they have nothing to say (e.g. “Walmart exists”), they hemorrhage money while getting nothing in return. If you actually like the company and want to stay updated… well, that’s what subscribing to a company’s email newsletter is for.
Every time you receive a piece of junk mail, you can mail it by post (support the USPS) to a specialized ad-control agency. This blacklists the company from advertising to you by mail entirely, and subsequent offenses (sent in to the agency by the recipient) incur heavy fines until you’re removed from their mailing list.
Advertising on trains and bus stops should be kept to a minimum and be permitted only if the company in question helps subsidize some percentage of the municipal operating costs.
Billboards and other advertisements in any other public spaces should be banned.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible.“
Stephen R. Lawhead
"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape.” I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, “What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?” and gave the obvious answer: jailers.“
-C.S. Lewis
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Cassandra Peterson as Elvira pose for portraits in October 1983 - Los Angeles, California - ph. by Aaron Rapoport.
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I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like “oh this is a terrible idea” and being able to do it and then die. It’s good game design.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
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the whole point of a zine is that it’s cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you’re being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than “my work can be reproduced as part of this publication” it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.
this isn’t snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as ‘zines’ have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines’ exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.
my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could’ve made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community
i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP
hi! sorry, real quick:
- grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book
- write “im indifferent to zines” on the cover
- write “i’ve never been able to buy one” on the first page
- write “and i’ll never be in one” on the second page
- write “just want to be a hater today” on the back
congrats you’re in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I’ll buy one.
ive been saying this since 2015! all my illustrator friends kept submitting to them (and gettin in which i was proud of) but they… werent zines. they were like massive books with grandiose color schemes and gilded bossing. i couldnt afford them even. zines are oft free or traded and they arent about how pretty a picture you can make.
the first zine idea i found was in a book i checked out from the library (id never remember what it was. it was about cartooning i think and had a section about chibi style lol) that had a little section on taking one sheet of paper, marking it into eighths, cutting a line in the center of the page and folding it over for a quick eight pages. like this
this makes printing soooo easy too. id love to see these floating around places
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the new family drama i’m obsessed with has been the saga of my eight year old cousin trying to understand how our uncle is related to our grandpa and not our grandma. the answer is our grandpa cheated on her with a nurse and had our uncle, but NO ONE wants to explain cheating and adultery to an eight year old so they’ve just been telling him to ask someone else. so far it’s gone my mom -> me -> his mom -> his dad and he still is no closer to an answer. we are very quickly running low on knowledgeable adults and i cannot wait to see where he goes if that trail goes dry
my roommate weighs in on the issue
my mom brought up a good point, which is the fact that this kid is heavily religious. was named after a biblical figure and watches bible retellings for fun religious. in his mind he cannot physically comprehend how you can have a child with someone you are not married to, which is a very interesting addition to this case.
i should also add that, when the concept was first brought up to him, he went, “so was grandpa the one pregnant???” and i’m so obsessed with the fact that his brain considered mpreg before literally any other possible explanation
have i not suffered enough already. was it not enough for youtube shorts to cover me. must this be my eternal fate
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they should invent a trans girl that is. in my bed.
wait shit fuck that me
they should. invent another
This post got me laid
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they should invent a trans girl that is. in my bed.
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Rich people openly brag about intentionally choosing to live off of other people’s hard work, while they shame poor people for receiving financial assistance that they need to live.
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Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you’re fucking ready for this thing
*sees 2 notes* FUCK yes let’s fucking GOOOO
Behemoth
I saw the opposite of this horse
HONSE & hrse
