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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

Reply to i loooove having millions of liquid crystals, coerced by captured lightning, to obscure this pane of pure light. each shadow is a sigil, and baby, i'm crafting incantations of a millions of these runes. by twovests

If you describe the process of building a phone in fantasy terms you can see that it kind of is a sort of dark magic.

Thousands of slaves spend their days digging up the earth to produce a tiny quantity of rare metals and elements. These are etched into intricate runes by automatons, themselves built by scholars and technicians that have spent their lives studying these secrets.

Legions of our brightest minds spend their days writing incantations that allow these rune devices to perform new tasks, and sometimes, subtly alter the way those who use them think so they spend more time looking at them. Sometimes, people stare too long at them and lose their grip on reality.

I really believe if you described what smart phones are to a medieval peasant they think you lived in a horrible and profane empire under the control of dark wizards that create lovecratian madness runes. And they'd be right.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to i loooove having millions of liquid crystals, coerced by captured lightning, to obscure this pane of pure light. each shadow is a sigil, and baby, i'm crafting incantations of a millions of these runes. by twovests

i know "technology is magic" is pretty cliche by now, but the thing is that it IS magical actually.

we are so saturated by magic, that it's become passe.

we're fucking tired of magic. there's too much of it. give me a tea and a sunset

these jira tickets are magical and. there are so many of them. what would my therapist say

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cowloom wrote

Reply to My Beef with Voice Messages by bbbhltz

preach. i had to ask multiple people to stop leaving voice messages in our activist group chats. i can read about ten times faster than someone can speak, and i don't want to listen to "um, ah, it's like, well, it's like..." for 15 seconds while they gather their thoughts. plus you can't skim back through a voice message if you forget part of what they said, you have to take a guess at where to seek to and then wait for them to get to the point again.

gather your thoughts, type them out in a text message, and you won't be wasting anyone's time.

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oolong wrote

Reply to My Beef with Voice Messages by bbbhltz

while i dearly wish my relatives would stop sending me multiple voice notes that say the same thing, this is the middle ground when one side can't read chinese (me)

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twovests wrote

Reply to [alert: genuinely bad post. do not read. cognitohazard] sometimes i look at someones social medias and it genuinely astounds me the types of discourse thats out there by neku

"whataboutism" has a point because some things genuinely will never matter

as a gift, one could go to tumblr to say that it is a moral failing to spend a minute caring about this, when one could care about anything else

plus, forced masculinisation is pretty funny actually. they make some funny posts

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