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mappingthemoon · 1 day
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I started pronouncing it like "awnt" ["ont"] after I moved to the [U.S] South so that ppl could understand what my yinzer ass was even saying. So if I'm referring to the concept of an aunt I say it like "awnt"/"ont" but if I'm referring casually to one of my own aunts I say it like "ant" bc that pronunciation is like an inherent part of their names! E.g., "Ant Judy said..." vs "My one awnt, Judy, said..."
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mappingthemoon · 2 days
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hey sportsball fans, it's T-Mobile Tuesday the last day before Opening Day, which means if you or a generous loved one has a T-Mobile phone you can get mlb.tv for free. I'm on Verizon but my roommate is T-Mobile, fuck yeahhhhh
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mappingthemoon · 2 days
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George Maciunas Piano Piece no. 13 for Nam Jun Paik 1964
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mappingthemoon · 2 days
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its relatively obvious that my mindset is not the best lately but i have been trying to keep a lot of my nihilism from spilling over. and because i'm forcing myself to do it i will say despite everything i think all these systems of oppression are emerging and solidifying particularly to combat the ease with which people are collective. i think it's very radical that people in gaza or sudan or anywhere else can reach out to the diaspora in the imperial core instantaneously. i think it's radical that the first instinct people have now is to appeal to humanity at large. do you see this? do you see us? make it go viral. people don't just appeal to organizations and governments anymore, they appeal to everyone. i think its easy to overstate the impotence of something like social media (as happened with the arab spring) in the face of war and genocide but i also think access has fundamentally restructured our world and that's terrifying to a lot of people. i have no idea how this will play out in ten, twenty, thirty years. but we've never experienced anything like the past decade as a human race. we've never had wars fought on livestream, organizers and journalists and killers and victims and colonizers and the colonized all jumbled up in one endless loop, interacting endlessly in op-eds and quote tweets and tiktok edits and scam iftars and doxxing websites and promoted ads where some latent meme can be given as much cultural weight as a drone strike on a human body as a singer choosing to make a political statement as a president scrolling through his notifications. so much is built to combat this constant exchange of life that it reinforces it all the same. i think things are bleak but i think things are changing in ways we probably can't imagine, we can only adapt to.
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mappingthemoon · 2 days
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[Image ID, Text post from New York Times reporter Pam Belluck: "The arguments involved detailed discussion about whether the anti-abortion plaintiffs have legal standing to even bring this case. Their claim: as doctors who oppose abortion, they object to having to treat women who have taken abortion pills if those women come to emergency departments with medical complications. The counterargument from the government: Medical complications from abortion pills are very rare. There’s not much likelihood doctors who oppose abortion would have to treat such patients — and if those doctors want to opt out, they already can under federal conscience protections."]
If you are a doctor who opposes drug use, are you allowed to withhold treatment from a drug user who comes to the emergency department with medical complications? If you are a doctor who opposes gun violence, are you allowed to withhold treatment from a gun owner who comes to the emergency department with medical complications? If you are a doctor who opposes literally any other religion besides Christianity, are you allowed to withhold treatment from a practitioner of another religion? Jesus fucking christ why are you even working in an ER if you only believe that some lives are worth saving. I can't believe I have to sit here in a fucking office all day while these assholes "debate" whether or not I have treated my uterus """morally""" enough to be allowed to receive medical care.
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mappingthemoon · 5 days
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ended up waiting nearly two years for this but it was still definitely exactly what i needed, while also at the same time being not enough!
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here's my arm having a great time!! still from a video captured by Amy Meacham (in which you can extremely hear me yell that i, too, am aching from fucking too much) (in reality aching from going to a show on a wednesday night) (Aries Szn off to a gr8 start y'all!!!)
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can’t wait to travel all the way to atlanta and have angry welshmen scream directly into my face in order to goad my being into experiencing some semblance of a Feeling!!!
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mappingthemoon · 8 days
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mappingthemoon · 9 days
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I've been stitching some cicadas lately. This year is going to be a big one for the screaming bugs!
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mappingthemoon · 24 days
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"Given this complicated and ever-changing supply chain, even if you read the terms of service agreements back when you started posting to Tumblr and Wordpress more than a decade ago, there was no way for you to know that that content would eventually be used by companies building AI tools that are actively working to replace the same type of human labor that created that content."
arrrghhhhh so sad & angereyyy!!! on the plus side, tho, i'm feeling aggressively inspired to go full analog at this point. given that web crawlers have the "option" to follow or ignore instructions in robots.txt, i no longer wish to put any of my creative work on the public internet tbh, even on my own site. and i'm not rly interested in attempting to migrate to another form of social media -- they are all gonna end up in the same capitalist toilet anyway. SIGH. in the long run, hopefully this will result in me spending more of my time actually MAKING ART, vs spending time maintaining an online presence that makes it look like i am a person who makes art.
If you aren't disgusted by Tumblr's complete lack of basic integrity around selling your posts and blogs to AI companies, the reporting at 404 Media this week should help:
"SocialGist calls itself the 'world’s largest index of human to human conversational content,' advertises access to WordPress and Tumblr including 'posts, comments and likes from the world's most popular blogging platform, including Wordpress.com and popular WP-powered sites around the web,' and on a page outlining its data sources, explains that 'Tumblr is home to over 500 million microblogs generating 1 million posts per day that can provide you with deep insights into the mind and market of Millennials & Gen Z in 2020 and beyond.'"
change your settings and then get off this fucking site
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mappingthemoon · 25 days
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i don't usually blog ~aesthetic~ shit like this but last night i was scrolling while high and realized... yes... this would fix me. (a clean, firm, full-size bed all to myself, and gentle lighting.)
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mappingthemoon · 26 days
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an ice cold beer topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. lying on top of the ice cream foam is a salted peanut. this is the angel. around him are sprinkles (his tears). this is "the angel's lament", my new cocktail
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mappingthemoon · 29 days
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instead of killing myself i will watch documentary about the ocean
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mappingthemoon · 29 days
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I do not fully trust the opt-out, given the 404media piece about how an alleged trial scrape allegedly already happened and it allegedly scraped private posts and other posts it wasn't supposed to scrape.
But FYI nonetheless. I've opted out and my blogs are currently non-public, only visible if you're logged in. My photography blog @sm-selenographer is also password-protected for the time being. Unsure if I'm going to stick around here tbh :/
I fully understand that corporations can do whatever they want with our content bc we agreed to the ToS by using the free product. I still think this is a shitty move. Always, always, always back up your social media!
Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 
AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
Here are the important details:
We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 
We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.
To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 
For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 
Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.
If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.
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mappingthemoon · 30 days
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CALL FOR ZINES
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MAIL ZINES TO:
Palisades Library
C/O ZINE LIBRARIAN
861 Alma Real Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
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mappingthemoon · 1 month
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new prized possession
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"Black Metal Naming Chart" from Choking Hazard #8 (April 2002) & "Gothic Word Search of Utter Doom and Despair!" from Choking Hazard #10 (Sept. 2002)
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