#good ideas

[fantastictalesofadventure]

Oooooo...I like this!

JeromyTV does something like this on SpellShots but since my character has amnesia we learn a little bit more about Key's past whenever they're near death (which ends up being quite a bit)!

#dungeons & dragons #d&d #d&d 5e #dnd #dnd 5e #ttrpg #spell shots #spellshots #new age geeks #key #tabletop roleplaying games #d&d memes #dnd memes #memes #meme #funny #lol #good ideas #death saving throws

[mckitterick]

Let the Platforms Burn

Tumblr is seeing massive growth thanks to the implosion of Twitter and Reddit. but migrating here or elsewhere means starting all over from the beginning, which is why users so seldom make the leap away from much-despised platforms (can you say "Facebook")

in his important new piece, Cory Doctorow argues that we need to fundamentally change the way social media and other user-content platforms operate, and give users the power to easily migrate their content and connections from site to site

he argues we need to let bad platforms burn (using the metaphor of healthy fires that clear out dangerous underbrush, preventing destructive wildfires) to make room for new, better ones without punishing users for escaping social-media prison

full piece (and podcast version) here: X

a few choice excerpts:

Today's tech giants run "walled gardens" that are actually walled prisons that entrap their billions of users by imposing high switching costs on them. How did that happen? How did tech become "five giant websites filled with screenshots from the other four?"

The answer lies in the fact that tech was born as antitrust was dying. Reagan hit the campaign trail the same year the Apple ][+ hit shelves. With every presidency since, tech has grown more powerful and antitrust has grown weaker (the Biden administration has halted this decay, but it must repair 40 years' worth of sabotage).

This allowed tech to "merge to monopoly." Google built a single successful product – a search engine – and then conquered the web by buying other peoples' companies, even as their own internal product development process produced a nearly unbroken string of flops. Apple buys 90 companies a year – Tim Cook brings home a new company more often than you bring home a bag of groceries.

When Facebook was threatened by an upstart called Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg sent a middle-of-the-night email to his CFO defending his plan to pay $1b for the then-tiny company, insisting that the only way to secure eternal dominance was to eliminate competitors – by buying them out, not by being better than them. As Zuckerberg says, "It is better to buy than compete"

it's great that we're seeing such a reinvigorment of Tumblr, but this site's delight could evaporate overnight with some bad updates (presaged in recent corporate messages). better than hoping Tumblr might stay good forever is ensuring we can leave without losing everything - and knowing we can leave would help prevent the enshittification of our beloved Hellsite

#social media #enshittification #monopolies #capitalism ruins everything #good ideas #tech industry

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

#doodles #bad art #lousy drawings #doodle #my actual cat #good ideas

[chartier]

Hey check it out: Tumblr sells domains now

They easily should've done this, like, a decade or more ago. But it's a start!

#Tumblr #good ideas

[techtalkbyjames]

#team biden #ethics #good ideas #scholarships #higher education #billionaires

[delphinidin4]

#crows #ravens #how to #good ideas

[badnewlifesmpideas]

(Possible spoilers if you haven't seen Scott's newest episode!)

Since Scott is now a fungal mage, here's some random hcs i thought of

the only thing he can eat is bone meal (ik he can't eat anything but this sounds both funny and extremely worrying)

looking at the reason why he's at 8 hearts, he's a lot more frail/weaker than his transporter self

B i g mushroom hat (look, i just think it would be cool)

his footsteps have small patches of mycelium that dissapear a few minutes later

If he stands at a certain area for a while, small mushrooms start to grow nearby

his grave (aka where transporter scott died) is covered in different kinds of fungi. The fungi ended up growing so much that it covered the name on the gravestone

he does small dashes/spourous relocation a lot out of habit from being a transporter. Sometimes he tries doing things like swapping places with entities/setting up waypoints for teleporting only to realize he's no longer a transporter

new fear developed: a fear of falling :D (sometimes freezes on spot, even if it was just a small fall)

Yeah you can probably tell who i watch the most

-✨️anon

I literally love all of these ideas so much! Scott is one of my favs to watch bro.

Also the big mushroom hat is practically cannon there's np denying it now. But if he hate bone meal, would he be a cannibal in a way or no? (if it was coming from 'people'). Genuine questions I've been asking myself..

-Vicktor (Sorry for being a bit late)

#new life smp #bad new life smp idea #from vicktor #scott smajor #new life scott #scott headcannons #good ideas #cottage core scott #mushroom scott #wait...what kinda mushroom is he? #I'll try my best not to get any ideas-

[jerzwriter]

#new york #new york city #good ideas #always...

[spiderpinata]

LIFE ADVICE

#oc #luna #maple #good ideas #crime

[seramilla]

Hiya, I really like the idea of a fallen Sera becoming an overlord. I was wondering do you have a masterpost of all of the main points?

I don’t but this blog is getting big enough that I need to start making one for all the AUs that have sprung up. I will work on that!

#ask #questions #requests #good ideas #overlord sera au

[clair-iten-d]

I need to make something of Jonny doing archivist activities to the song "The Ballroom" by Harley Poe

#jonathan sims #jonny sims #the magnus archives #harley poe #the ballroom #good ideas #silly guy #the archivist #tma spoilers

[labelleizzy]

Text ID:

Smudge your house.

Stop buying shit you don't need.

Drink water. Move your body.

Eat less crap. Block the dicks.

Clear the clutter.

Let go of the bullshit.

Make way for something new, something fresh, something really fucking good.

Brooke Hampton

#goals #life goals #good ideas #stolen off fb #purveyors of fine memes #witchy shit

[merelygifted]

Solar eclipse jam — how to avoid getting stuck in traffic on April 8, 2024 | Space

Expect a traffic jam for the ages on eclipse day — and plan ahead to avoid it

Buckle up — there's a total solar eclipse coming on April 8 — and everyone will be talking about traffic.

Many who traveled into and within the path of totality last time around on August 21, 2017, will recall the long and tedious traffic jams on the way home after the eclipse.

The total solar eclipse on April 8, will traverse North America from Mexico to Canada via the U.S. Although another one happened less than seven years ago, this one is longer in duration, has a wider path of totality, and occurs over or close to many major cities. It will also happen in a part of the world where millions of people have either experienced or heard eyewitness accounts of how spectacular totality is. The potential is for millions of visitors to flock to the path of totality, defying predictions. ...

#Astronomy #Eclipses #Travel #GOOD IDEAS

[windsails]

🌊 the problem with too much repetition

say for example you have a ritual of wishing someone peace, you say "peace be with you" every single day upon greeting someone on the street

but if this ritual becomes too common and is repeated too often it eventually gets taken for granted, it becomes unconscious and therefore loses its conscious meaning and eventually people forget what it was originally adopted for in the first place

this is dangerous! because if the ritual exists for a reason, it's important to preserve the reason for the solution just as much as the solution is important

in other words, documenting problems is just as important as documenting solutions!!!! if all you do is document solutions you're going to end up creating a situation where all the solutions get taken for granted and then you're set up for a huge fall from grace

beware of documenting all the solutions, but none of the problems...! this is when people start to take all the solutions for granted until one day somebody decides to say "ok i've had enough of these boring old solutions" and then they literally created a bajillion problems nobody could remember how to solve anymore

THIS IS WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO REINVENT SOLUTIONS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

because if you don't they will get taken for granted and eventually someone blind to the value of what they have in front of them will make the mistake of throwing away paradise in favor of some more interesting looking disaster

so it's safer, to intentionally explore fictional disasters constantly specifically so you can learn from them and so you can keep everyday solutions fresh and new in everyone's eyes

#mistakes #failure #problems #learning #solutions #fixing things #fixing #fixing myself #growth #personal growth #fiction #video games #game design #storytelling #worldbuilding #good ideas #ritual #life

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive the company of good ones forever.”

-- Sam Harris

#Sam Harris #bad ideas #good ideas #criticism of ideas #religion #religion is a mental illness

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

Tumblr should sell Tumblr branded ball pit balls

#good ideas