You gotta love that Tumblr is on the rise because of Twitter and Reddit going down, and not because Tumblr has actually done anything to really improve its website.

I personally kin with a website that accidentally and coincidentally fails upwards.

The site that wins simply by remaining upright.

We are literally this meme, posted eons ago, in our ancient texts.

We already have written our story, our destiny, in the art we forget.

I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!

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I don't care what gender you are. Put on this slutty top and these tight shorts.

YES I'M GAY:

faGgot

dykAe (the a is silent)

trannY

i may be stupid

you shut your whore mouth

i won’t hesitate bitch

fuck everyone who has ever tried to make me feel guilty about the amount of sugar in FRUIT

evrybody hate me and want me dead. except for god he said faggot! you will live forever

They are not as high-profile as the WGA, but I would like to bring everyone's attention to the imminent strike action by thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles. They are set to go on strike tomorrow, July 1st, 2023.

More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.

Piracy is fine. Downloading a boat as we speak

twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right

Imagine purporting to be a journalist and saying there were no economic changes after 2007.

So I actually found the original article (you can get the whole thing for free online on the American Economic Association: it's the Journal of Economic Perspectives vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2022). It's coauthored by Melissa Kearney – whose whole thing is researching income inequality and poverty and explaining why social programs are a good thing – and Phillip Levine, who does this work with her a lot.

Now, bearing in mind that I am not an economist and do not understand the math involved at all, this is my understanding of the study:

• Birth rates fell a shit-ton in 2007, which everyone expected, but never bounced back (as they had in previous recessions), and in fact kept going down.
• This is across demographic groups, though some groups (like Hispanic women) had greater drops in birth rate than others.
• This is associated with education rates but in a really interesting way: women with no high school degree at all and women with a full college degree had bigger drops in birth rate than women who graduated high school but either didn't go to college or dropped out of college. Like, it's not an Idiocracy/eugenics-style "only very educated people are having fewer kids while the poorly-educated peasants are breeding like rabbits" scenario.
• Mathematically, the drops don't correlate with obvious external factors, like a sudden change in economic policy or a consistent decades-long downturn in employment rates.
• They also rule out rising costs of housing and education and whatnot, because, again, it's dropping across demographics.
• It's better correlated to age cohort: people born around the same time are hitting adulthood around the same time and having fewer and fewer kids. Not that people are marrying and having kids later (though that is happening), but that their whole age group are having fewer and fewer kids.
• To be clear: this is basically saying that I, a person born in 1993, am more likely to have kids than someone born in 2003 but less likely than someone born in 1983, regardless of how old I am. Like, it's not "when everyone born in 1993 hits 30, they'll start having kids, even though 80s kids got married at 20," it's "people born in 1993 are just not having as many kids as people born in 1983, period."

They attribute this to some kind of cultural shift around parenting (the resources it requires contrasted with the desire to work or have leisure time), but I think it doesn't go into the psychology of it enough, particularly how younger and younger people have experienced more and more world-ending trauma. Like,

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Didn’t see any posts about it so here it is for the other Photosensitive folks,

Nimona has a lot of flashing lights, no intense strobing (ie Incredibles) but includes:

Alarm sequences (red lights, ‘police’ lights), explosions and gunfire

Sparks/flashing/flickering lights, firelight

Thunderstorms and lightning effects,

Flashes from color to black (hard to describe)

All within the first few minutes of the movie, frequently throughout.

It wasn’t too terrible when I watched with other lights on during the day but I tried watching it with them off and it was pretty bad. Sharing this so other people can find it would be much appreciated!