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Someone asked for a few tips regarding coloring skin tones so I threw this together real quick lol.Â
Obviously not an end all, be all â and in NO WAY covers the plethora of info regarding this topic. Just a quick guide from my perspective. One day Iâll make a tut more extensive and organized with way better examples  đ
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I'm only saying this for your sake, but objectively, it's not a smart idea to bring politics into normal hobbies. You might lose supporters of your blog just because of your political stance, and that would be terrible since you're so amazing!! It's only a suggestion, but I really reccomend not bringing politics into anything.
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Artblockâs a sonovabitch but I managed to make these.
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i dont do requests but i thought i could lift the rule for this challenge bc the colors are pretty
send me a number and i get to pick whichever character i think fits it best! no guarantees that iâll get around to all of them tho
New level of #academicdrama
This dude just called himself out in his own footnotes???
âNotoriously complacent in this regard is Freudenberg (1993).â
âŚâŚbut you *are* Freudenberg (1993) even though youâve Evolved into Freudenberg (2001).
Character development
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Iâm suing the U.S. government for causing the climate change crisis, and I'm 22.
My name is Kelsey Juliana and Iâm suing the United States government for causing and accelerating the climate change crisis. Iâm 22 years old and Iâve been a climate activist for more than half of my life.
I know that young people like me, and others who have yet to be born, have a right to a safe climate system. The constitution guarantees all Americans the right to life, liberty, and property. But how is anyone supposed to live a life of freedom amid a climate crisis? My own government is violating my constitutional rights by its ongoing and deliberate actions that cause climate change and itâs not right.
I, along with 20 other young people from around the country, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2015, called Juliana v. United States.
Weâre not asking for money. Instead, weâre asking the court to order the government to develop and implement a National Climate Recovery Plan based on the best available science.
This plan should end the reign of fossil fuels and quickly decarbonize our atmosphere so that we can stabilize our climate system before itâs too late.
The longer we go without climate recovery, the more we risk allowing our climate to spiral completely out of control.
And the climate is spiraling out of control, no matter how many politicians claim weâre experiencing normal fluctuations or, worse, a âhoax.â All of the expert witnesses in our lawsuit say that we are currentlyâalreadyâin the âdanger zoneâ and an âemergency situationâ with only 1°C of planetary heating. Allowing the planet to heat up any more is not safe for our species, as well as so many others. And according to the Trump administrationâs most recent environmental impact statement, the planet could heat as much as 7°F before the end of this century. We cannot allow this to happen because we simply will not survive.
We originally filed our lawsuit against the Obama administration. That administration tried to have the case dismissed, but the judge ruled in our favor and found that we should be allowed to go to trial.
In 2017, the Trump administration inherited the lawsuit and it has done everything in its power, employing every conceivable tactic, to deny my fellow plaintiffs and me our right to present our case in court. This administration is so fiercely attempting to silence our voices.
At this point, every level of the federal judiciaryâthe U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Courtâhas denied the Trump administrationâs efforts to have the case thrown out. Yet it will not halt its efforts to avoid standard legal procedures and confront us, the nationâs youth, in court.
Our trial is officially scheduled to begin on October 29, 2018 in Eugene, Oregon.
What weâre asking for could change everything.
My fellow plaintiffs and I want you with us as we head into the courtroom to confront the United States government for knowingly violating our constitutional rights. Supporters will hold rallies in every state around the country, so if you canât be with us in Eugene, find your local rally here.
Get regular updates by following @youthvgov on social media.
You can learn more about this case and get regular trial updates by tuning in to the No Ordinary Lawsuit podcast here.
Lastly, if you have the means, click here to make a donation to Our Childrenâs Trust, the nonprofit organization that supports our lawsuit and many others like it around the country.
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/23/our-childrens-trust.html
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do you ever just sit around and think Iâm in my twenties.
Its so weird to see people using this site grow up i guarantee the average age of the user is climbing steadily. We just never left.
If I Encounter One More Trade Name For A Gemstone Or Other Attractive Mineral I Will Puke
Iâve been making jewelry for a number of years now. Pretty early on I was directed to a company called Fire Mountain Gems as a potential supplier. They sent a copy of their catalog with my first order, which introduced me to a *lot* of stones Iâd never heard of⌠more than a few of which had trade names.
Now, understand, humanity has only relatively recently become fussy about how accurately they name their stones. For a big stretch of history, if it was reasonably hard and red OR dark red OR black with red highlights when you tilted it right, theyâd probably call it a ruby. (Example: the Black Princeâs Ruby in the state crown of England, which is a completely different gemstone called a spinel, but they named it before the 1780s which is when we started being able to actually identify rubies as rubies. So⌠yeah.) Some kinds of gem have had lots and lots of different names all historically referring to the same stone. It makes for interesting reading of historic accounts of this or that piece of jewelry. I can excuse it, it was the past, really formal gemology is only a moderately recent thing.
But these days I go to the store and I see yellow gemmy-looking beads hanging on the rack, and I look at the sticker, and it says âyellow jadeâ, only the price is way less than that much actual jade would cost online. Or I go to look for smaller beads to match a few pieces of actual turquoise that I have on hand, and I realize that I have no idea whether African turquoise is actually turquoise or not. It gets⌠irritating. I want to actually know what the hell Iâm paying for and whether itâs hard enough to risk putting it in a bracelet or ring, or whether itâs a softer stone that should be kept in earrings and necklaces, away from possible scratching or impact. If youâre buying jewelry, or if youâre looking for stones for jewelry work, or if youâre someone who believes in the metaphysical properties of stones and crystals, youâre going to want an accurate understanding of whatever it is youâve got in front of you, right? Right.
So, yeah. Hereâs a few of the trade names Iâve been stumbling over since I got started in jewelry making.
New jade - This is serpentine. Itâs a pretty rock but itâs not jadeite or nephrite; itâs not actually jade. Serpentineâs way common, since itâs basically a form of one of the most common minerals in the earthâs crust.
Mountain jade - A kind of dolomite marble. Also not jade.
Ching Hai jade - Dolomite plus a couple of other minerals. Pretty, but not jade. Let me put it like this: on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, nephrite jade is 6 to 6.5 and jadeite is 6.5 to 7. Ching Hai jade is 3.5 to 4. This stuff is softer than the outer coating of human teeth (Mohs 5, same as a basic knife blade and most kinds of everyday glass). You want a stone you can put in a ring where itâll get whacked or bounced off hard surfaces or otherwise stand a chance of impact, youâre gonna want real jade. Ching Hai jade will get scratched clear to kingdom come with a Mohs score like that.
Yellow jade - Itâs quartz. Nephrite jade comes in a lot of colors including yellow, but if theyâve labeled it âyellow jadeâ rather than saying âjadeâ or ânephrite jadeâ then itâs quartz. Same deal for âgolden jadeâ.
Malaysia jade - Also quartz.
African jade - yep, still quartz.
Black jade - Both nephrite and jadeite come in black forms, but if a stone is being sold with the name âblack jadeâ, itâs 90% likely to be serpentine. Actual jade gets labeled as jadeite or nephrite. I donât do metaphysical stone foo, but man, if youâre buying a stone because you want to use its mojo, seems to me youâd want to get the actual stone associated with what youâre trying to do, not a stone thatâs the same color and level of shiny.
Peace jade - Serpentine plus white quartz. I donât even know where they came up with this name. Itâs pretty but itâs jade the way a pommel horse is a horse.
Yellow turquoise - Serpentine again. Or rather, serpentine and quartz. At least this stuff comes from the same mines as turquoise.
African turquoise - Jasper. Itâs turquoise colored, but itâs actually harder than real turquoise, for whatever thatâs worth.
Italian onyx - They also call this one onyx marble. Itâs a kind of calcite. Takes dye really well so they use it in different color forms.
African bloodstone / Indian bloodstone - Legit name for the actual stone, for once! These are both names for the same thing. They also call it heliotrope. So any of those names all refer to the same thing.
Tigerskin jasper - And weâre back to the malarkey; this is limestone. With pretty stripes, but seriously, itâs not even jasper and jasper gets used as a substitute for other stones so wtf.
Bumblebee jasper - Sometimes they call this bumblebee agate. Itâs not jasper. Itâs not agate. Bumblebee jasper is volcano lava and sediment thatâs resulted in swirly yellow and black layers. I mean, itâs pretty, sell it as much as you want, but IT ISNâT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING JASPER.
Aqua terra jasper - Onyx marble. They also call it impression stone, but itâs marble, and itâs on the soft side as stones go. Marbleâs around Mohs 3 on a good day. Thatâs another stone you can scratch with your teeth.
Green Earth jasper - NOPE. Serpentine. Sorry.
Peridot jasper - Serpentine. Seriously, do you have any idea how many stones with pretty pretty names are actually just pretty pretty names for different colors of serpentine?
Zebra jasper - onyx marble.
Chinese chrysoprase- Oh look itâs serpentine again
Lemon chrysoprase - This is magnesite. Not dyed, which is a little unusual. Magnesite takes dye really well and gets sold in a lot of colors as a substitute for other stones. Selling it as lemon chrysoprase means someone managed to get hold of a yellowish color of the stuff.
Mosaic turquoise - If itâs labeled mosaic anything, itâs almost always fragments of a stone bound together with resin, and probably not even the stone it claims to be. Mosaic turquoise is ittybitty chips of magnesite thatâs been dyed to match turquoise color, then stabilized together as a single piece. Itâs not even close to being turquoise.
Green opal - okay, quick lesson: there are different kinds of opal, and not all of them have the flashy color changing fire you get with precious stones like Welo opal or Australian opal. Mexican fire opal and Oregon fire opal are good examples of other forms. The actual stone we call opal is a specific kind of silica with a certain level of water content, not just the pretty flashiness. And opals of both the flashy kind and the non-flashy kind do come in green. But if theyâre selling it as âgreen opalâ, they are selling you chalcedony. Chemically similar, but not as pretty, and a distinctly harder stone.
Red malachite - This is marble. They find marble with banding that resembles malachite banding and they cut it and polish it to look like malachite, just in a different color. Malachite is green; this isnât even a thing like jade coming in different colors. There isnât actual red malachite.
Opaline - this isnât even a stone. This is glass. Same deal with âsea opalâ. Sorry. Sometimes they sell chalcedony as opaline but whatever it is youâve found itâs not opal.
Fused quartz - Glass. This is glass. Fancypants glass, but itâs glass.
Goldstone, or blue goldstone: Also glass. With bits of copper in it to produce really nice sparkly effects, but itâs still a kind of glass.
Sand stone or blue sand stone: I only found out recently that some people sell goldstone as âsandstoneâ, so⌠this oneâs glass too. Actual sandstone is a sorta brown sedimentary rock.
Black moss quartz - This is glass. Worth noting, thereâs a vaguely similar product out there called rutilated quartz. Thatâs actual quartz with spindly intrusions of a different mineral, rutile. Difference is, the quartz has a Mohs hardness of 7 and will scratch the âblack moss quartz'sâ soft bitch ass six ways from Sunday as a result.
Fordite - This is paint. Fordite is automotive enamel thatâs dripped onto the same spot on factory floors for so many years that itâs built up to the point where it can be cut and polished and made into jewelry elements. Unlike a lot of trade names, this one isnât a form of bullshit to pass one thing off as another. People who go looking for fordite are specifically looking for gemstone quality layered automobile paint. Sometimes they call it Detroit agate or motor agate, but thatâs more of a joke than an attempt to sell the stuff to people looking for actual agate. I can live with this trade name.
Rainbow calsilica: Apparently thereâs just a huge amount of argument about this and some people say âthis is natural and we found it and itâs got pretty pretty stripes of all different colors just naturally and itâs a totally awesome metaphysical marvel of a totally natural gemstoneâ, but the Journal of the Gemological Institute of America says âdude, you powdered carbonated rock and added paint and stabilized it with resin, wtfâ. So yeah, be warned. I mean, itâs pretty and all, and youâll probably pay way less for it than for chrysocolla (a natural stone with somewhat similar striping), but⌠be aware itâs probably something a guy in a factory or a lab put together, okay?
And citrine: Okay, this isnât exactly a case of trade name bullshittery, but, uh. Natural citrine is stupid rare. Most citrine these days used to be amethyst. Take a crappy piece of amethyst with faint color or gray tones and heat the hell out of it long enough, and it turns yellow, and you can legally sell it as citrine. If youâve got citrine crystals and the yellow color is most intense up in the tips, youâve almost certainly got former amethyst there. Fair warning.
So⌠yeah. Lot of trade names out there. Some of them total bupkis. Some only partly so. Heads up, and if youâre in the market for a gem or a crystal or something like that, do yourself a favor and look up the name somewhere reliable first just so you know what youâre buying.
#I have no idea if any of this is of use to the Steven Universe fandom #but youâre welcome to it if it is
reblogging for the entire informative post, but especially for those tags
New headcanon: trade names are really trendy for homeworld gems to pick up if they can get away with it.
âHeâs been watching too many horror movies. Aidonsvalley is just a tourist trap for weirdos who believe in all that nonsense.â
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This vid gave me cancer
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an apocalyptic cult prophetically warning that the world wonât end, ever
itâs just going to keep going on like this, groans dismal prophet
apricops said: hooded figures chanting âno easy outs from this bullshitâ
âyou can quit the game, but the game keeps playingâ
Neural Horror Picture Show
(Images generated by BigGAN)
Neural networks are a kind of machine learning algorithm that learn to imitate the examples I give them. Theyâre pretty good at picking up on the feel of craft beer names vs guinea pig names, or metal bands vs my little ponies. So they should be pretty good at thinking of new names for horror movies, right? Right?
Ummm
The Baby Bunny Pretty Day 3 Little Clock Train The Sea Bothers No Curse Great Apartment The Funny Bear Missing Bun Noice Fish Christmas
The above titles were generated by a neural network (textgenrnn) trained on over 78,000 horror movie titles extracted from IMDB by Twitter user @enkiv2. It turns out that not every horror title is Slashy This or Murdled That. Titles in the original dataset include âPigDogâ, âPrincess Babyâ, âKing Dinosaur,â and âSasquatch! A Love Storyâ. The neural net learned a bunch of interesting vocabulary from them.
And the neural net DID manage to pick up on the vocabulary of horror film titles. It just also managed to make them sound somehow more like the Halloween special of a kidâs cartoon show.
Halloween Bear Case of the Big Monster Draculaâs Holiday The Creepy Clock The Interbother The Haunting Song The Scream Fish Tapes Monster Interviews Monster of Mystery The Devilâs Cool World of the Band Zombies The Lucky Dracula The Christmas Man Werewolf
Other times, it was just plain weird. I know horror is supposed to make the mundane scary, but I somewhat question its methods.
Haunted Boss Final Hair The Cord Thing Day in the Room Attack of the Cleaning Day The Stall Satan The Return of Bob The Date of Horror The Snape Unknown Carp Halloween Special Planet Boot Cook The Tooth Things Stanning the Damned Halloween: Realm Wars Part 1 American Star Horror Stories: The Creature of the Santa
With other titles, the neural net avoided sounding cute, but also avoided sounding convincingly human.
A Not Meat of the Wild Fright & Trap of the Woods The Man in My Dangers I Call Zombies The Night Night Fright Footage The Bad Side of the Dead The Boobley of the Dead Please Alive Lost Blood Horror Story The Haunting of Flesh Show The Will the American Horror Stories - What the Green Horrors
I really like these titles with made-up words.
The Blunge The Crooping Tomb The Moonmanic Sands My Boblop Trap Clownfull Missing The Contains of Halloween Trailerâs Comman Reaper Trailer 2000 Scarecrowning Strangler Secret + the Basament in the Children
It also generated a few that were a bit more along the lines of, um, erotic horror. To go with those, I also decided to see what would happen if I mixed the horror titles with ice cream flavors. Hereâs a taste (ahem):
Honey & Darkness Passion Owl Caramel Horror Spice
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