Tiphys.et.Automedon.dicar.Amoris.ego.

Also known as epershand and ohephen. They/them. Queer, executive-function-deficient 40-something in tech.

[dankxsinatra]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black with moderate white spotting

[brehaaorgana]

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

[brehaaorgana]

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

[brehaaorgana]

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!

Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?

So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

[penrosesun]

While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dol

7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (Published 2023)

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared

Cambodia scams: Lured and trapped into slavery in South East Asia

Traffickers are forcing thousands of people from across Asia to work in online scam centres.

Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam mills

Myanmar youth recount life inside a cyber-scam mill before a city’s fall brought the scheme crashing down.

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[geminisee]

x

[apocryphics]

yeah

[lesoldatmort]

Manfred deserves his own post..... the best son.

[crabussy]

I know it's very common for winter to make people miserable or lethargic, but for me I find that it's honestly the opposite? winter makes me feel refreshed and alive. summer makes me feel like a slug being steamed gyozastyle. when the first autumn breeze graces my sluggy skin I will be rejuvenated and live forever

[crabussy]

I said when the first autumn breeze graces my sluggy skin I will be rejuvenated and live forever

[crabussy]

we are 19 days into autumn I would LOVE for the first autumn breeze to grace my sluggy skin. please. please. please. 1 autumn breeze? half an autumn breeze??? I'm dreaming of it. I'm closing my eyes and imagining half an autumn breeze. why is it Twenty Six Dee Grees

[crabussy]

come on

[crabussy]

IT IS COLD AND DREARY. I REPEAT. IT IS COLD AND DREARY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

THE FUCK YOU MEAN AUTUMN THIS POST WAS MADE IN MA- *i am hit by a truck that says "SOUTHERN EMISPHERE" on it*

[crabussy]

(truck driver voice) wheeee! I think I hit a pothole!

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[monstermonger]

oops I was told you can only see the photo if you have a bsky account, so here's a screenshot of it!

[mikexfaisty]

shut up they did it

[silvaurum]

basketball dracula isn't real dude he can't-- *sudden squeaking noises from the shadows*

[silvaurum]

*two pool toys having sex tumble by in the wind* oh thank god

[silvaurum]

*thunderous slam dunk noise*

[fallout-lou-begas]

Visit Original Link

[snoleopard7]

[blackgirlmagicx]

[asoniccatapult]

do they expect me to stop him somehow?

[lakariancityamusementcenteradult]

Odo is staying the night as a house guest. Which one are you offering him to regenerate in?

[ars-amatoria]

[hellaliterate]

LJ BENET as MICHAEL EMERSON , MARIA WIRRIES as STAR in 'NOW, FOREVER' from THE LOST BOYS MUSICAL

[chimaerakitten]

So we all talk about being in fandoms for things that are charmingly bad, and being able to acknowledge that they’re charmingly bad. But of course some people are in fandoms for things that are Actually Amazing. There are people out there who write fanfiction for The Best Science Fiction Novel Of The Twentieth Century. Or who draw fanart exclusively of The Best Movie of All Time. And there are even more people who are in fandoms for things that are Actually Pretty Good, which is not quite amazing but is closer to it than to Charmingly Bad.

And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of this—the very great danger—is that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.

And then it is shattering to discover that no, bad things can still stick a fork in your brain. 😔

[ars-amatoria]

A distinction I've started to draw over the years is "media that feeds me" vs "media that makes me hungry." These are the two major subcategories of things I love.

Something that "feeds me" is generally a complete work that is satisfying on its own terms. I love my time with the work but if I want "more" it generally means re-reading/watching/playing the work itself.

Works that make me hungry, on the other hand, generally contain some kind of void that gnaws at me, gives me creative energy, makes me want to fill it or read other fans' attempts to fill it. And the strength of my hunger tends to be independent of whether the author placed the voids intentionally, accidentally, or out of absolute laziness.

In the last few years I haven't generally had the energy to be truly hungry all the time, or for more than one thing at once, so I mostly look for books, etc, that feed me. And I can mostly predict what will make me hungry and make space for it. But sometimes something just sneaks up and grabs you.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[zitasaurusrex]

unrestrained summer fun

[copperbadge]

Right before I scrolled down I mumbled “unrestrained summer fun” to myself and then yelled when I saw the caption.

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[halorvic]

[no-one-offical]

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[crypticgoose3]

beautiful like to reblog ratio on this

[drtanner]

That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao

[cobythinks]

Dead wife montage but it's all slow motion shots of your dead wife throwing grenades and doing backflips and oneshotting the enemy with their long range weapons

[ars-amatoria]

I'm a changed person since I read the bit in City of Last Chances where the dude finally finds his missing wife... and frees her from the pit where she has been killing and eating the crime lords' enemies.