So you agree the existence of billionaires requires the existence of poverty to thrive?

ok yes the point of this post is good, but it pisses me off every time i see some glorified "finland this finland that". FINLAND HAS NOT ENDED HOMELESSNESS. THERE ARE HOMELESS PEOPLE IN FINLAND. sure, there are less homeless people in finland and the system is better than, say, the states, but can't you just say that instead of LYING ABOUT IT?

it's the same when i hear "finland has free health care". FINLAND DOES NOT HAVE FREE HEALTH CARE. finland has low fee healthcare accessible to you by free-for-all-residents health insurance. it's not the same thing as free.

Not to mention Finland has a double healthcare system where on the one hand you have the low fee health care that is shitty with waiting lists and bullshit like mandatory drug tests, and on the other hand you have the expensive private health care that functions way better.

Also, good luck trying to get access to any kind of social services if you use drugs, Finland really really hates addicts. And guess what demographic is more likely to experience addiction? Homeless people.

pride month demon shirt!

6/13/23

I have never felt so validated in never having given up on Tumblr.

ALT

IT GETS WORSE!

"This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour."

So he artificially limited the number of tweets you can see per day with a "free" account.

Once you hit your limit, it stops you from loading the page. But it also doesn't know WHY it isn't loading, so it keeps TRYING.

Twitter is literally hitting itself in the face ten times per second per user.

This is so completely amateurish it's unbelievable. It's like putting your car in neutral and slamming your foot on the gas until your engine redlines and then wondering why it's making a horrible noise and a terrible smell but not going anywhere.

It gets worse

This is so comically bad I don’t how to explain it to people who aren’t chronically online l😂😂😂

I mean people of a certain age use Twitter for everything from talking to friends to getting news

Its like, imagine if your tv just turned off after you watched it for two hours and couldn't be turned back on from 24 hours

No it's absolutely terrible. There are people who freelance and are artists who do most of their finding of work on Twitter.

It really sucks for those people.

some random art from the past few days

Okay so Elon is dropping a pipe bomb onto Twitter I guess

Update: Now that it’ll let me actually look at tweets here’s the confirmation

Update: Elon might be lying

This is so funny. Twitter is dying. Reddit is imploding. Tumblr remains.

[ID 1: A twitter search query. The search was "Wtf Twitter" and it returned the result, "Rate limit exceeded. Please wait a few moments then try again." END ID 1.]

[ID 2: A screenshot of an article (?):

"Musk changes policy.

Hours after users began reporting the problems, billionaire owner Elon Musk tweeted that the site had applied temporary limits "to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."

Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.

Muck began offering a blue verification check mark for users who sign up for its Twitter Blue subscription service to grow revenue." END ID 2.]

[ID 3: A tweet from Elon Musk @elonmusk on 7/1/23:

"To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits:

-Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day

-Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day

-New unverified accounts to 300/day" END ID 3.]

[ID 4: A screenshot of an article on engadget.com:

"More platform instability could be in Twitter's near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company's Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract's June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google's infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is "running behind schedule," putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline." END ID 4.]

Rool

all tumbrlinas come from a common ancestor

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

among us is getting a cartoon: oh, this is gonna be a soulless sanitized kid-friendly cash-grab, probably. maybe it'll make some little kids happy, at least?

the showrunner is owen dennis, creator of infinity train: oh, this is gonna be an animated version of The Thing, basically

heard of alot of “pride is over now its time for wrath” and yeah thats cool but july is disability pride month but last night i woke up in a cold sweat with an amazing idea

drumroll please

disability wrath

let them be angry, maybe punch and/or yell at an ableist