when little baby rats first learn to groom themselves and their hands are too big and they’re uncoordinated so they do a bad job but they’re really trying
reblog if you agree
It’s day 4 of our Kickstarter! If you are looking for a social media platform that lets you:
choose who can see, reblog, and comment on your posts
create and join user-moderated communities
blacklist posts containing certain terms or tags
talk to other users via nested comment threads
then you might like Pillowfort.io. Check out our campaign for much more information about the site, our business plan, and how you can get into the private beta!
I backed this because it’s super cool! If you visit the site right now you can check it out as a demo user, which is helpful to see if you like what it looks like.
New platforms generally depend on a critical mass of interest. At work, my team and I have tried out almost everything that looks promising, and we’re testing PF as well. My professional (lmao) opinion is that it could be big…but we have to decide it’s going to be big. We can’t wait for the pool to fill up and then jump in. We’re the pool people. This metaphor is bad so I’m abandoning it but hopefully you get my drift.
The framework is there, but Pillowfort has decided they’re not going to depend on venture capital financing or corporate sponsorship–which is frankly counter to all conventional wisdom about how social media works in this day and age, and is risky. Based on what I’ve seen, I think they’re taking an informed risk.
But that means we’re kind of the VC here. We’re the ones who have to take a chance on it knowing that it’s still in development, that it’s not fully populated right now, and that it won’t immediately be Better Than Tumblr in all the ways we’re used to. There will be stuff you don’t like, and you will have concerns. That’s all good.
Honestly, though? Nobody is out there building a Tumblr-killer who has the capacity to launch a fully-featured website. This is probably our best bet if we really want something tailored to our needs to take off.
This has become an essay about social media so the rest of it is under the cut.
A long post that ends with a really well-thought out essay on fandom spaces, social media, and the risk we must be willing to take to support new ventures like Pillowfort!
this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really
(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”)
This further proves that Bugs Bunny is more powerful than God and is not a force to be reckoned with
“One day, about 14 days after the accident, one of Blanc’s neurologists walked into the room and tried something completely new. He went to Mel’s bed and asked, “Bugs Bunny, how are you doing today?”
There was a pause while people in the room just shook their heads. Then, in a weak voice, came the response anyone would recognize.
“Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?”
The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there too.
“I tot I taw a puddy tat,” was the reply. It took seven more months in a body cast for Blanc to recover. He even voiced Barney Rubble in the first episodes of The Flintstoneswhilelying in bed with a microphone dangling from above.
The Radio Lab piece includes excerpts from an episode of This is Your Life when Blanc’s doctor tried to explain how he revived his patient.
“It seemed like Bugs Bunny was trying to save his life,” was all he could say.
Radio Lab features another neurologist’s opinion: Blanc was such a hard-working professional that his characters lived, protected from the brain injury, deep in his unconscious mind. The doctor’s question must have sounded like a director’s cue. Essentially, “Mr. Blanc, you’re on.””
oppression isn’t generational and trying to frame politics as “the old people are wrong and the young people are right” erases the fact that there are old people who have been fighting the good fight for decades and the fact that there are young people who are literally nazis
Plus while there might be less old people fighting the good fight it’s usually because they were killed or were part of the minorities that have poor living conditions that kill you early
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