Ray & Gerard Harmonising In Life On The Murder Scene

Reblog to make it die faster

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

daily affirmations

• dan howell is on the same earth as me

• we have irrefutible evidence of soulmates

• phil is proof that happy people exist

• dan would tell me to keep trying

• queer people can be successful and happy

• the rebrand is coming

I think i met an angel on the train

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders as I scroll social media to see pain and suffering and solidarity and love and I feel this deep intense guilt that I cannot make it all go away. I sit in my room and cry or spend my lunchtimes next to a whiteboard trying desperately to find a way to fix it all because I can I know I can but I can't. I can't because there will always have to be sacrifices. I can't because people will always get hurt and I believe in the greater good but I also believe in the lesser good and I feel the responsibility for it. I know ever detail if pain I have vomited it to memory like a sacred flame. It whispers that I am to blame. for not doing enough to fix it. I am far smarter than most and I could with enough time and a big enough whiteboard, find a way to fix it. but I am 16. and I too have details. teachers I don't want to bother, school trips to go on, exams to study for.

I'm trying. I will figuit out. I just need more time and a big enough whiteboard.

(x)

i had a bad day and cried watching the new dnp video but felt weirdly reassured by Phil wearing his We're All Doomed migraine hat

like yes its absolutely okay to be in pain and turn to things that comfort you

why tf are they inspiring in literally every way

Reblog to give a trans woman a warm cup of soup

and now the finale is being filmed 😭😭

Starting Good Omens S1:

Ending Good Omens S2: