A blaze of glory in a hail of bullets
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MESSAGE FOR TWOSETTERS
Hey, it’s Libby / TwosetAndCake. I’ll follow all Ling Ling Wannabes from this account bc it’s my main blog, but if you want to follow back, please follow me at @twosetandcake - I’ll be posting all TwoSet related stuff there.
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Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.
This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.
Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.
So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.
That is not good.
In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).
It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.
This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.
(via spontaneousmusicalnumber)
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canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit:
canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit:
was bram stoker actually obsessed with trains
I think so, yes
Apparently while the descriptions of Romania are inexpertly cribbed from a travel guide, the Catholicism is largely invented, and occasionally loses track of moon phases, dates, and Lucy’s hair color
All of the train schedules are 100% accurate
Thank you for this very important information, bless you
(via a-candle-for-sherlock)
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loved one: i have a problem
me a machine built to solve problems: great here’s the solution
loved one: im so fucking emotional about the problem
me: i have the solution
loved one: i get so angry. i’m frustrated
me: i am holding the solution in my hand and showing it to you
lloved one, yelling now: the universe is indifferent
me: solution
#the trick here is that the problem actually has two parts: #one part is the problem itself #the other is the emotional distress and feeling of loneliness generated by the problem
#and counterintuitively you have to take care of that second part FIRST #because otherwise—as you point out—they won’t be able to absorb the solution #so step one is going ‘i love you i’m so sorry this is happening to you i love you’ and listening to them for a while
#and then once they remember that they’re not an island of misery in a sea of nothingness #you hit them with the solution (proposed gently so that it doesn’t seem like you’re trying to shut them up about the problem) #it’s probably going to feel weird to do it but I guarantee you it works
#tl;dr: when someone’s complaining about a problem it’s about an 85% chance that they actually want attention sympathy and kindness #and the actual problem is something they can solve—but only once they’ve fulfilled the immediate need
Bingo! Most people are not ready to even think about solutions until they’ve dealt with their emotions about the Problem, and will in fact become frustrated if offered solutions immediately.
The first step in helping someone with a problem they are emotional about is to listen, ask clarifying questions, and make sympathetic noises.
(via honeysuckledear)
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“if you can’t brush your teeth that’s fine uwu one step at a time” posts are supportive and that’s great but I’m about to have a 4.4k$ dental bill because I wasn’t taking care of my teeth when I was super depressed so uhh brush your fuckin teeth
the reason I bring up those posts is because every time I saw one I felt less and less bad about not brushing them and when my teeth actually started causing problems it made my MH worse because I was having horrible anxiety about my teeth getting worse and now I’m facing procedures that will probably be pretty painful and will definitely be expensive so I kinda got some beef with the anti-recovery culture on this site
switch up the language a little.
didn’t brush your teeth this morning? forgive your past self and do it now!
woke up at 3am and realize you didn’t brush your teeth before bed? 11pm you was tired, forgive yourself, and just do it now!
“it’s okay” DOES lose helpfulness when you forget that it’s supposed to mean “don’t beat yourself up about mistakes, and don’t let it keep you from doing something different.”
present you and future you don’t have to suffer just bc past you slipped. past you was going through it. give them a break. but, please, don’t let that stop you from doing something different. 11pm wants 3am you to feel better, even if they couldn’t make it happen.
(via honeysuckledear)
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Twitter Blue going about as well as everyone expected.
Shame Elon Musk fired the team that rigorously tested how new features would impact their global social media platform.
What advertiser, company or person of interest is going to want to use Twitter now?
It’s almost like he’s not that smart.
(via riverbitch13)
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people are cowards about fantasy settings and not including some things in em. I get the aversion to not wanting too modern of tech, however dwarves would invent and fucking love metal folding chairs
They invented them as a weapon first then later discovered their use as a seating option
Not that that isn’t funny, but consider this:
Everything built by every other species is always *too high*. So they had to invent a small, portable folding ladder in order to avoid the embarrassment of having to ask for help.
Which was metal, obviously, for strength and durability and making it useful as an impromptu clubbing weapon.
And then one dwarf looked at his ladder one day, and thought “y’know, if I put a seat on this, it could do *three* things,”
Carrying around a folding chair would become a symbol of ambassador dwarves or adventurer dwarves. Some might even dispense of traditional weaponry since the folding chair is multi-use and doing so lightens packs
“My dad wanted me to bring an axe,” the young dwarf says. They rolls their eyes, adjusting the strap of their folding chair along their back. The sunlight gleams off its reinforced back. “Like, get with the times, you know?”
The chairs become more and more multipurpose, especially in their military. Before long, the chairs can serve as shields, shovels, workbenches, and other items that are usually too cumbersome to bring separately.
They become known as Dwarf Army Chairs.Every new function requires some new innovation to make it work. Dwarves become well known for their durable, tiny hinges, seamless welds, and impeccable forges, even moreso than before.
Eventually opening a Dwarf Army Chair to the desired tool becomes akin to solving a puzzle box. Dwarves develop the new reputation of being exceedingly clever and tricky which baffles them since they’re not doing anything differently.
“I only asked you to set up the work bench,” the dwarf says, baffled. They look between the party leader and the ten foot catapult set up in the middle of the clearing. “We can’t prepare dinner on that.”
The party leader, sweating and outraged, laughs without humor. “Really?! You don’t think so?!”
The dwarf’s brow furrows. “No,” they say slowly, “because that’s a catapult.”
The party leader’s scream echoes through the woods. Luckily, when the scream attracts a winged beast, they already have a catapult set up to take care of it.
(via riverbitch13)
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The only people to blame for children under the age of 10 having “addictions” to smart phones, tablets, and technology in general is the parents. I don’t want to hear people complain about their 4 year old knowing how to play with the settings on their ipad. You put the iPad in your kid’s life. You gave a 4 year old their own ipad. They learned to use it. You did that. It’s your fault. Don’t blame kid’s for poor parenting, incompetence, and laziness when it comes to raising children.
(via riverbitch13)
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oh your pronouns are he/they?
well that’s mathematically incorrect becuase you can still simplify the fraction since both sides have “he”
making your pronouns technically 1/ty
>:)
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