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#as a youth i used to go to affluent neighborhoods #to go hegde jumping #which where you and a friend both run at a hedge and jump in to see who goes deepest #sometimes you bounce #but you sure do get lots of scratches they are not fluffy inside at all

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This is a mural in Austin that someone vandalized either way still a nice message

#genuine fan of youaremybutthole #what an artiste

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Smooth as babies bottoms

Source

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From Chen Chen's "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" (American Poets Continuum Series, 194)

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#good luck have fun

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“MARIZIBILL: HOMMAGE À APOLLINAIRE” ARMAN [FERNANDEZ] // 1996 [bronze with brown patina | 57 ½ x 26 ¾ x 35 1/2″]

#i used to dress like this

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Portrait Of An Enemy.

Lucia Heffernan

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After a ProPublica investigation last year, a group of senators demanded answers from a real estate tech company that helps landlords set rents across the country.      

The investigation revealed how some of the nation’s biggest landlords share proprietary information with RealPage, a Texas company whose software uses the data to recommend rent prices for available units. Legal experts say the arrangement may facilitate cartel-like behavior among landlords, who could use the software to coordinate pricing.

Now, RealPage has responded to questions from Democratic Sens.Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Tina Smith and Ed Markey. The company’s answers, the lawmakers said, revealed “alarming” new details.

In a letter to the Department of Justice, the senators said RealPage did not provide all the information they had asked for last November, but the answers the company did give raise concerns that its YieldStar software may play a role in driving rent inflation in some of the country’s biggest markets.

#oh hey yeah #hope this gets this soet of tech banned #i've seen it a bit in the hospitality industry and it is 100% abusive #and designed to examine market trends to fuck over customers

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Jeremy Miranda

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BAD THINGS BY D&D SPECIES

HUMANS: ONLY BIOLOGICAL LIFEFORM IN THE WORLD THAT ISN'T INNATELY MAGIC AND NGL IT FEELS TARGETED AT THIS POINT

ELVES: THAT ONE SHITTY TREE. SURE THEY LOVE NATURE BUT THAT SURE IS A SHITTY TREE OK. WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT?

DWARVES: THERE'S ONE OLD GUY WITH A STAFF YELLING THAT THEY'RE DIGGING TOO DEEP LIKE THAT'S A THING

HALFLINGS: BREXIT

TEIFLINGS: SECRET UNACKNOWLEDGED LONGING FOR PREP FASHION

GNOMES: EXCESS WHIMSY LEAKED IN WATER SUPPLY CAUSING UNSEASONABLE SHENANIGANS IN THE FISH POPULATION

GOBLINS: THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF WHY EVERYTHING IS SOMEHOW ON FIRE ALL THE TIME

DROW: YOU'D BE SURPRISED AT HOW LITTLE REPRESENTATION THE COMMON PERSON HAS IN A POLITICAL SYSTEM BASED ENTIRELY AROUND EVIL GIRLBOSSES ATTACKING EACH OTHER WITH SPIDERS

ORCS: THAT ONE HORDE THAT KEEPS RUNNING AROUND RAIDING PEOPLE THAT THE ORCS SEE FROM THEIR UTOPIAN SPACE STATION. WHAT ASSHOLES. THAT'S WHY THEY THREW THEM OFF THE SPACE STATION

DRAGONS: ACTUALLY THE DRAGONS ARE DOING GREAT. THANKS FOR ASKING!

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i am saying in the tags that the poll as an example does not read like what the post is criticizing, which is polls where the userbase at large is being genuine about being wrong about something.

it instead comes across as an example of a poll designed to deliberately piss off punk pedants.

so if i saw that joke poll i would think it was a different kind of joke

i think the main utility of polls so far has been to demonstrate just how utterly, breathtakingly, CONFOUNDINGLY wrong the people on this website are about virtually everything

#i voted for the sex pistols personally :) #they're so cool like why would god even save the queen she's already dead that's so edgy #which one did you vote for?????

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the sheer amount of artistic talent put into these panels to portray the right feeling on clark’s face is amazing

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So why do you hate the advertising industry?

Hokay so.

Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.

I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.

Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.

Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.

Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.

I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.

And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.

Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.

Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.

And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.

Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.

It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.

It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.

And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.

Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.

Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.

However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.

I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.

Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.

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#i mean are the rules creating a heirarchy #are they being enforced by a hierarchical power #you can be an anarchist rules lawyer if your heart believes in it. i think

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I would rather light my home with candles for the rest of time than have Google control my lights.

#having lots of candle ends and leftover wax is also great for starting fires #if you're into that

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perhaps one of my hotter takes as a queer person but i’m never coming out again. you can figure it out or live in pure ignorance but either way it’s not my problem. the worst thing society ever tried to teach us was that coming out is an obligation. it’s not. it’s a privilege for you to know the depths of who i am, my sexuality included.

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i think the main utility of polls so far has been to demonstrate just how utterly, breathtakingly, CONFOUNDINGLY wrong the people on this website are about virtually everything

#i appreciate the point #but the intersection of people who have enough of a cursory knowledge of punk to include penis envy by crass #and who would put mcr in a 'best punk album of all time' poll #are definitely just trolling #like you're absolutely right #but if i saw this poll for real i would assume that it was a joke #including any punk bands that are more obscure than like... the tony hawk pro skater soundtrack #is imo a dead giveaway that you know better and are just trying to deal psychic damage to random punks on tumblr