The latest in 2020 Gothic

[brin_bellway]

[arguably cw: illness]


Why do I keep getting calls from a variety of local-area-code phone numbers that are just a robotic feminine voice saying "Time to stay home. Stay safe and stay home." and hanging up?

They leave messages, too, if you don't pick up or your phone was turned off.

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[brin_bellway]

>>Every so often I have to reassure someone that their phone has not been hacked and is not making the calls without their permission, and that the calls will not appear on their phone bill. Which is not a fear that would have occurred to me.

That seems like a pretty intuitive fear to me. It was certainly very unnerving those times I got Tumblr submissions from myself.

(You can barely find *anything* about Operation Beatlemania anymore, let alone anyone with an explanation for what the hell was up with that. I guess 2012 is an eternity ago in Internet years, especially given that Tumblr was never the most searchable or stable of places.)