not enough fucked up little freak animals in the barbie movie. not enough busted ass capital-c Creatures. barbie god's™ mistakes.
where were they. greta where were they.
I refuse to let anyone forget those two cunty little dogs
Creepiest monster thing alive: moves like that
this little girl: 😊☺️😄😄☺️😊🤩
This is so cute omg my heart is going vrooom vroroooooom
I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.
I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else’s story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.
the problem with the current wave of discord phishing scams is that I don't think you can blame people for clicking links without checking where they go. internet safety isn't really taught in schools anymore, sure, but there is literal research being done on how the omnipresence of social media has eroded people's ability to parse what we would otherwise identify as untrustworthy behaviour. it's blaming a structural problem on individuals
if you wanna hear someone explain this effect better than I can, check out this video essay that goes into the problem in more detail
The trouble is I know it’s a rickroll and want to click it to complete the joke, but also don’t want to because such obvious bait could easily not be even though I trust this user.
It’s like the feeling of not being able to sneeze
I promise it's not a rickroll
This post actually serves as an illustration of something I've talked about before - the shift toward mobile devices as the primary means of accessing social media, if not the internet as a whole, is also eroding a lot of understanding of internet safety. On desktop, I hover over those links and...yeah, I can see that they're not rickrolls! What it is, is right there in the lower left hand corner of my screen. On mobile? I'd have to click to find out! Which means it's easy not to know a link is malicious until it's already turned your phone into a heating brick that doubles as an advertising screen while mining crypto for some random dickhole!
It's especially bad, because the kinds of safety features that are removed from mobile are ones that...you often don't notice that you miss. After all, how many links that you glance over in that little hover preview ACTUALLY turn out to be malicious, or even pranks? Maybe 1 in 1000? Less? Maybe more if you have a friend who really likes Rick Astley. This isn't the only thing like this - mobile platforms are notorious for stripping out "extraneous" features that are actually there for very good safety reasons.
It's a very real problem, and yeah, it's systemic, not just individual people being willfully ignorant.
All that said though, you can get a preview of where a link goes on mobile by holding your finger on the link for a few seconds (at least on iphone).
This is true, but it's very different to have to take 5 seconds to make that check actively than to have that check take less than 1 second and do it passively
I've seen a few security advocates discussing this exact thing, it's a serious problem
Also, url shorteners/redirects kill even that remaining ability to check the link on mobile. Wanted more info than href.li before clicking? Tough.
i peaked when i drew these for @orufreyzine fr....
second piece is an illustration for a lovely fic written by my friend @parthenosvenus and you can read it here!