It's been a while since I have followed Swedish media but I can imagine!

Reading articles about drama from your home country is always weird. This was everything they talked about on the news for a while.

thanks for this, id heard about it but this was the first article i read and it did a thorough job

if you post "kill all men" that's the fastest and easiest way to delete facebook.

No problem! You might enjoy the author's blog as well: http://mcmansionhell.com.

This is so true. Thank you for sharing!

I sometimes use the even more indirect method of finding books on topic and then downloading them on libgen.

More and more if I'm searching for help with anything I just use google but limited to site:reddit.com because that's the only way to find actual help topics any more instead of just fucking ads and blogspam

My late commentary: honestly I kinda agree with the teens that using Google for research is a pain. IDK but I feel like there's some glut of irrelevancy that has been creeping up there with bad info driving out good in the search results. Increasingly it feels like a weird yet quite powerful Unix tool, controlled with a text string and adjusting a lot based on the results. I hope better stuff comes along.

In a perfect world we wouldn't have needed to play with toy bombs at all but it's been a rough year. I wish there had been a better place to do it from the dog's perspective. It sucks being a dog no matter how nice your people are.

I'm not beating myself up over it because we were one of many, many neighbours making our poor next-door-dog's life a living hell, but I am passing along what their person told me as calmly and objectively as they were able to.

There are also thunder blankets and other non-med things that help, but I'm not responsible enough to take care of a dog so I don't know all the details.

yeah, i have a dog too and he hates fireworks. when i say "in the sticks" i mean miles from any building. still probably spooks some deer and opossums but i'm less worried about nature than domesticated animals that can't survive without humans.

Since they're toy bombs anyway, we did a bunch of riot/revolution LARPing this year and had a lot of fun, but it wasn't fun for neighbourhood dogs. :(

I like the idea of a shooting range type place that had a reasonable or no fee where people could go to play with them.

A lot of dogs have to be on meds on the 4th so it's a good idea to let their people know if you have leftovers and want to play with them on the 5th if that's legal in your area. The dog's people need to know how long the meds are necessary.

DISGUSTING!!!!!

No wonder the people who volunteer to use themselves as human shields to protect me from misogyny on the internet don't feel safe being themselves around me.

Apologies for slurping my coffee while I wake up.

:'''''''(

I just don't like pride at this point

what the fuck

Hey, its form folllows function to the teary end!

this is a blog post about how blogs suck

i like fireworks a lot but we always used to go way out in the sticks to shoot them off to not bother neighbors. they deserve all the same considerations as if you were doing recreational shooting, at least. i think banning them within city limits or anywhere else that's not a good long distance away from where folks live is perfectly reasonable.

fireworks are one of those weird things that people are fiercely protective of for what feels like no reason. any attempt at regulating or curbing the use of fireworks leads to a bunch of seemingly normal becoming dont tread on me freaks, screaming about the nanny state

i feel compelled to defend tumblr because the only difference between tumblr and twitter is that journalists and other people with social cachet (at least social cachet that exists outside of tumblr) (and i use that term for lack of a better one) use twitter

while i completely understand and more often than not agree with negative descriptions of tumblr i think that often the way people dismiss it is gendered/racialised/etc in the sense that people view it as the SJW den of iniquity, where modern thinking around gender/transness was birthed. and obviously there are bad takes coming out of tumblr but i feel like we dont have this perception of sites like, idk, reddit (which i feel people sort of perceive as sort of obnoxious home for reply guys but nothing worse than that) or like even in the last few years 4chan??? obviously this is all based on my standpoint as a person who uses some sites and follows some people.

idk what my point really is. i suppose i just want people to not dismiss tumblr out of hand, because in some ways, doing so backs up years of misogynist freakery around tumblr as this hellpit where the tendrils of cultural marxism creep into internet society

Definitely 90% of the abuse you hear about on Tumblr is fandom related.

Reading this is pretty curious because I sorta drifted onto Tumblr not for fandom but because it seemed like it was like the non-discussion parts of Reddit without the shit, or rather, you could filter out the shit somewhat effectively. When I was starting to use Tumblr, I liked Reddit most for its nice places for "porniverse" (great pictures of whatever from architecture to animals), learning focused subs from /r/askphilosophy to /r/languagelearning and some humor. The first and the last things were pretty well served by Tumblr and still is, but I think the leak of energy out of Tumblr has been noticeable.

And the alternatives to Tumblr have gotten better from my perspective. As much as I don't really like a lot of Instagram bullshit, it's probably the better platform for finding aesthetic pictures when you just have an acute need to see a field of cosmos flowers and Twitter seems somewhat less dysfunctional in the end and it's actually possible to interact there.

Tumblr is pretty much the first platform I've used for fandom and that usage has really decayed something fierce much like the article says. There really is something on the structural side of the service that causes much of the issues. The privacy options don't make much sense especially if you're creating a blog that's meant to be visible to non-members. Which is sad, because I'd love to have a little blog that's easy to set up and trivial to run for uncomplicated content, without the expectation of much social media engagement or setting or some Wordpress shit.

i agree that tumblr has gotten somewhat worse over the years, but my own experiences haven't been as bad as this article suggests. i am not really involved or interested in specifically fandom-type content, though, and that's what this article seems to really heavily focus on

Jesse Singal

I am not gonna be surprised when he turns out to be a secret fascist.

also for this post i had to assume his pronouns - screen shot of his "about me" page

edit: oh wait i guess i could have started reading the article before sharing my hot take

I mean these are people who probably ostensibly support affirmative action yet didn't think through the implications of having a group like this, organized like this might have?