Don’t have a car so I don’t listen to the radio, just now had a chance to pay attention to the Chainsmokers/Halsey’s Closer, which I guess was the song of *last* summer
I was like “oh, the verses about chasing that Instagram lifestyle and ending up a prostitute actually render that chorus pretty bittersweet, huh”
It was a lot more Belle & Sebastian than I expected that way, add in the way it even sounds like the inside of a Hollister store somehow and it’s like twee as done by sunny deviantart bloggers instead of rainy art students
The drama climaxed with well-known unemployed anti-SJW furry “comedian” 2 Gryphon releasing a video
supporting Furry Raiders’ freedom of speech, which caused even more
drama because he’s got a decent legion of fans still somehow, even
though him and his husband/manager have been transphobic,
anti-polyamory, and tell people who are depressed or disagree with them
to kill themselves.
Some screenshots people dug up of his various comments:
I’ve been seeing a sudden surge of use of the word ‘thot’ and I’m concerned
We’ve recently seen at least one ancient Egyptian deity resurrected through meme magic
Thoth is a significantly more powerful member of the pantheon than Kek and the consequences of summoning him may be even more drastic than the rebirth of Kek (Brexit, Trump winning the election, a series of celebrity deaths)
The phrase ‘return the bones thot’ radiates an obvious mystical power and it may herald that Thoth will come to preside over 2017 as Kek has presided over 2016 - the bones possibly refer to the millions of mummified ibises buried in his honor at his main temple in Khmun, by reblogging that post you may be unknowingly beseeching this ancient and powerful being to repay the thousands of years of sacrifices humanity once offered him - what form that might take, we can only speculate
Although it’s possible that Thoth has been with us for a while - his name in Greek letters is Θώθ, which is clearly referenced in the ‘OwO what’s this?’ meme
As the inventor of both magic and science and keeper of all wisdom, Thoth assuredly does know what ‘this’ is, but I’m not sure we want to find out
I’m also concerned that Thoth’s wife Ma’at may be connected to the frequent seemingly compulsive and superfluous use of the word ‘mate’ or ‘m8′ in memes
Please be careful with your memes, they may hold hidden arcane power
With its Axon unit, Taser controls roughly three-quarters of the police body camera market… .
The real profitability for Taser, moreover, lies not in its cameras but
in the cloud. Its Evidence.com service, providing cloud video storage
and support software, is far more profitable than the cameras
themselves.
This reads like a dispatch from the prime timeline where 2016 is merely a cyberpunk dystopia and not a batshit maelstrom
Elite: okay, this vote is *nominally* about whether to do the thing, but *really* it's about affirming our identity as a society that's developed to the point it would *never* do the thing
Voter: I dunno, I kinda want to do the thing
Elite: yeah I *know*, it *seems* appealing, but that's exactly what we—
That One Guy: DO THE THING! DO THE THING!
Voter: guy's got a point.
Elite: no but look, *that* guy… look, here's *all* the experts on thingdoing and they're unanimous that…
Elite: (sigh)
Elite: you did the thing, didn't you?
Voter: I did the thing!
That One Guy: HE DID THE THING
Elite: he did the thing.
Jeb is a third-year at Grand Old Academy, and many consider him the most likely to win this year’s debate tournament. Jeb is one of the co-RAs of Sunshine Dorm, along with Marco, his protegee. Everyone at the Academy thinks Jeb and Marco’s senpai/kohai relationship is the strongest they’ve seen.
Jeb is cheerful and optimistic, and wears his heart on his sleeve. This comes across as endearingly earnest to some, but to others, it’s just pathetic. It also makes him an easy target for bullies. Especially one bully in particular:
In addition to the relentless bullying he faces from Donald, Jeb has his own internal demons. His father and brother were star students at Grand Old Academy, both winning the debate tournament during their time at the school. Jeb feels pressure to live up to their legacy of greatness. He sometimes even worries that Marco is his only true friend, with everyone else only pretending to like him because of his family connections.
But despite his troubles (or maybe because of them), America can’t help but feel some sympathy towards Jeb. He’s like a sad puppy that just needs some love. Or maybe he’s more like a sea turtle (Jeb’s favorite animal): he has a soft, vulnerable underbelly and a defensive emotional shell, but a warm heart inside.
Will America try to find love with Jeb? And if she does, will he open himself up enough to trust her after being hurt by so many of the people he thought were his friends? There’s only one way to find out.
But despite his troubles (or maybe because of them), America can’t help but feel some sympathy towards Jeb. He’s like a sad puppy that just needs some love. Or maybe he’s more like a sea turtle (Jeb’s favorite animal): he has a soft, vulnerable underbelly and a defensive emotional shell, but a warm heart inside.
thank you to the 374 people who have tagged me in this
“This is the news of the millennium!” said the story
on WorldPoliticus.com. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary
Clinton will be indicted in 2017 for crimes related to her email
scandal.
“Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline.
For
Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the
baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on
Facebook.
Meanwhile, roughly 6,000 miles away in a small
Macedonian town, a young man watched as money began trickling into his
Google AdSense account.
Over the past year, the central Macedonian
town of Veles (population 45,000) has experienced a digital gold rush
as locals launched at least 140 US politics websites. These sites have
American-sounding domain names such as WorldPoliticUS.com,
TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and
USADailyPolitics.com. They almost all publish aggressively pro-Trump
content aimed at conservatives and Trump supporters in the US.
The
young Macedonians who run these sites don’t care about Donald Trump.
They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: as Facebook
regularly reveals in earnings reports,
a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US. The
fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of U.S. display advertising — a declining
market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several
teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they
learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics
stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on
Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that
caters to Trump supporters.
