Deborah Poynton (South African, 1970) - To Be Possessed (2025)

hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.

choosing how many !s to put at the end of the sentence and how many 3s to put in a <3

Its so funny being a person who loves to chat but never knows what to talk about. I feel like Hi Can we play staring and breathing together.

𝔒𝔥, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔰 𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫… 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔞 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔬𝔴… 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔟𝔢 𝔩𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔞𝔳𝔬𝔦𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢.

𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣… 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔡𝔰 𝔢𝔫𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔩𝔲𝔠𝔨 𝔱𝔬 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔬𝔫𝔠𝔢.

𝔈𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔶 ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔩𝔩, 𝔗𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔚𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔰

get fucking ROTATED

made her smaller and faster

In Memoriam' by John Anster Fitzgerald, (1823-1906)

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

Hellenistic Greek Cast Glass Pomegranate Vase

2nd century B.C.E. — 1st century C.E.

straight up it should be illegal for a physical storefront not to accept physical currency, or for restaurants not to provide physical menus

I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground

if a business cooerces its customers to download an app, i should legally be allowed to set both the business and its board of directors on fire

The assumption that every single business, or service, is owed your personal data, and should be able to track you and mercilessly spam you and monetise the ability to sell off your contact details and so on it’s absolutely deranged.

I have flashlights that are borderline unusable because, while the hardware is fine, the company that made them (hello OLight!) demands that you install and login to the storefront before you can access the configuration software.

But they don’t actively maintain the software or provide any of the new utilities that they promise. They are mostly using it as a way to turn off functional hardware to try and force you to upgrade.

We are living in a society where you can pay for something and the manufacturer can turn it off because they’ve decided that you’ve owned it too long .

I’ve just had to warn my family not to buy electronic door locks because the chances are, if they are Internet connected they will be disabled once the company that owns them has decided that they’re not making enough money charging you a monthly fee to open your own front door.

This is part of an ongoing trend to turn money into something that is no longer usable by everybody .

The eventual aim is to be able to pay people company scrip: If you lose your job, or badmouth the company, or disagree with the dictator, they severely curtail what you are allowed to buy, and from who.

And at that point, you have to pick sides – do you want to be able to have drinking water from Coca-Cola, or Pepsi, and whose package allows you to buy Doritos, and use your smart oven to cook food? Because it won’t turn on unless you use the app to scan the appropriate barcode from the company who now owns your ability to eat drink, heat your home, and wear clothes from brands that they approve.

And if you think that Bezos wouldn’t do that or run his own ghetto where employees have to use Amazon brands and be paid in Amazon money… You haven’t been paying attention to what he’s been building lately.

Read "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, from his book Radicalized

Found a link to the story: Unauthorized Bread

Holy shit.