the "skin color" of thumbs up emojis
Some white people may choose đź‘Ť because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.https://t.co/9g3rochT0K— NPR (@NPR) February 9, 2022
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
wow i really hate this, i wish i did not know about it
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
lol, cmon now
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
Every Simpson <thumbs up> now
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
I just pick a different color every time.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
how come the palms are all the same color as the rest of the hand.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
― Alba, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:29 (two years ago) link
some footballer and his cat
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
some cat and his footballer
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
death of the author
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
Depends which author.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
Tom Clancy
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
I guess there have been some good ones - Aeschlyus and Francis Bacon spring to mind.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
corporate logos and product packaging designs becoming increasingly soulless and minimalist. ymmv, but my quality of life hasn't declined noticeably since Frito-Lay reduced Chester Cheetah to an abstract orange and black swoosh with sunglasses
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MbwCQyg.jpg
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
He's going for a Tony Levin look.
― jmm, Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
lol
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
now available in Sour Cream and Onion and Chapman Stick flavors
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
I am aggressively not caring about the Lakers movie
― brimstead, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
when films/TV set in the past have anachronistic music on the soundtrack
― rob, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
increasingly, dune
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link
bono poem
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link
otm.
― mark e, Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
FOBO
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
Chris Rock / Will Smith beef
Also, sorry but: future of Foo Fighters
Like, there are lots of things out there that may be sad, bad, etc., but are not my business and I don't think I am obligated to formulate an exhaustively researched opinion on every one of them
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 March 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
The Oscars, Grammys, award shows in general are at the top of my Dont Care list. It makes me a little sad that they get such massive coverage.
― tobo73, Monday, 28 March 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
period british soap operas
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 1 April 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
awards shows get massively covered because it is such an easy subject you can knock out something on them with no effort
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 April 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
Who buys Chelsea
― ban slug pellets now (Matt #2), Sunday, 3 April 2022 08:29 (two years ago) link
Bennifer
― Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 April 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
Don’t think Bennifer can afford them.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 9 April 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
Heh
― Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
Depp vs. Heard
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 April 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
Elon Musk buying Twitter.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Friday, 29 April 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
The guy who self-immolated to call attention to climate change.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 April 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
The Met Gala.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
Miranda Lambert
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
the rock and roll hall of fame
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
it will be the death of ILM
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
doing anything other than sleeping
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
With regards to the HOF, I would, for the 72nd time on this board--I used to do it all the time with a venerated poster--differentiate between "caring" about something (emotionally involved, genuinely upset if the results don't go the way you want them to) and taking a detached interest in it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
buncha ppl on that thread really invested in communicating their detached interests then
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
I've been posting a lot--you're assuming I'm emotionally distraught over this year's inductees?
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
things i do care about: honkin on bobo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, April 30, 2022 11:31 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is a fucked up post tbh
― budo jeru, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
― circa1916, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
killfile a bobo?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
We should start the conversation about containment measures as well.
― circa1916, Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
Why would anyone possibly want to killfile a thread of grown men finding new and inventively hilarious ways to pun on an album title from 18 years ago?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
^truth bomb
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link