I know European Starlings are not everybody’s favourite in America (for good reason, and I know it is not the bird’s fault), but can we for a moment sit down and admire their most beautiful plumage?
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
reblog this because it shows up every blue moon
OH NOT AGAIN
Fuck you this shit again
TERRY YOU RUINED MY DASH HOW DARE YOU!!! JAIL!! JAIL FOR 1000 YEARS!!!
Just so you know I did an evil laugh at this notification
Just so you know I
did an evil laugh at this
notification
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
How Tumblr…@the-haiku-bot got ahold of a Tumblr OG
I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.
I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.
https://www.darkpattern.games/
It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this
Hey this is extremely useful. As someone frequently confined to my bed and furious and having to sift through mobile app stores I aphave long thought about creating a database of 'ethical' games and it seems like, as usual for a procrastinator, someone went and did the thing that I was thinking about for a decade.
And I want to reblog this to remind myself to look.
also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck
"ough watching a show uses so much electricity" on road sides there are giant electrified billboards that do nothing but show you ads
Incorrect sayings that I use so often I’ve almost forgotten that they’re not the originals:
- I have bigger fish to fight
- We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it
- You can lead a horse to water, but if you drown it you have to walk home
- Opening a can of whales
- You made your bed, now shit in it
- Combining the latter two into the phrase “you opened this can of whales, now lie in it”
- A bird in the hand is worth a gift horse in the mouth
googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly
oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?
you fucking dare?
you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???
hey quick question gdocs
what the fuck
1. how the fuck did this post become so popular
2. everyone just commenting ‘QUERCHED’ is delightful
3. some people have suggested i use grammarly. this is letting the robots win and also would deprive me of the opportunity to complain about insignificant technical things instead of just wanting to scream over writing all the time
4. i use googledocs because i want access to my writing on multiple platforms and also because fuck microsoft
5. the difference between [its] and [it’s] is that [it’s] is always used as a shortened form of [it is] and [its] is used as the possessive of [it]. yes, this goes against the usual practice of just tacking on an [‘s] when you want to indicate ownership. yes, english is absolutely a trash language.
btw, gdoc’s most recent transgression:
noooope
LITERALLY THE EXACT OPPOSITE MEANING OF WHAT I WANT, GDOCS
i’m sorry what kind of AI FUCKERY is going on here that you are trying to ADD IN ADVERBS FOR ME that could ENTIRELY CHANGE THE TONE from a neutral ‘He’d been young’ to something that would put emphasis on just how young he was and how long ago it was you cannot just THROW EXTRA WORDS IN LIKE THAT
‘he’d been so young’ I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU
OH MY FUCKING GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS
me @ everyone else using googledocs:
YOU
When a society develops a new phenomenon it needs a word for that phenomenon, and since this post is so popular I’d like to suggest using the verb “querch” to mean “when autocorrect suggests gibberish”
(Not that purposely making up a word ever catches on, it’s totally not how language works, but still)
“older gay realising sex is good actually after getting romantic with their preferred gender for the first time” trope, my beloved