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have-you-seen-this-animal

Has tarsier been done?

Tarsiers haven't been done yet. I can do the whole family, to start us off.

Have you seen a tarsier (Family: Tarsiidae)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Voting ended on14h

The first species is Gursky's spectral tarsier, the second species is the Bornean tarsier.

#primates #tarsier #I am too loud to see the Bornean tarsier :(#catch me huffing and puffing through the Bornean rainforest at 4:30 am scaring them off with my loud breathing

tainbocuailnge

I've been using this tool called tumblr-utils to back up my tumblr blogs. it creates a locally navigatable archive of a given tumblr url's posts, which is more convenient than the post soup you get from tumblr's native blog export feature.

what that means is that I have a folder on my computer with the name of my url with an index.html file in it, and when i click on that file to open it in a browser I get a simple page with a list of years and months. selecting a specific month will send me to a list of the posts i made or reblogged in that month, similar to tumblr's own archive page. the contents of the post including images are stored locally on your machine.

It can also make a separate index file that organises posts by tag, which is great if you're a consistent tagger, but it will list every single tag you've ever used so it can take a while to find the tag you're looking for in the list if you're a habitual tag commentator. generating the tag archive also takes a while depending on how many posts have to be processed.

you can make it back up any blog as long as it's not set to private. I have backups of both my main and sideblogs and it keeps them in separate folders.

it's had some trouble going all the way back to the start of my main blog in 2012 just by sheer volume of posts, but by making it fetch posts from one month at a time I've been able to go back to 2015 (that's tens of thousands of posts), which was good enough for my purposes.

it might be a little scary to use if you've never touched the command line before, but there's both text and video instructions to set it up and using it is just a matter of typing the command and letting it do its thing in the background.

ltleflrt

This document has a really good guide for setting it up, along with some other options for backup. I've been using tumblr utils for a while myself, and I run an incremental backup once a week.

#reference

fleshdyk3

i haaate when ppl are talking abt mammal colouration and they bring up mandrills but not vervet monkeys.... fake fans

fleshdyk3

put some respect on his name

ahsjskabsxnxn

#had to describe these for my master’s thesis and included the phrase ‘blue testes and red penes’#yes the plural of penis is apparently penes #primates #vervet

have-you-been-here

Milwaukee public museum, Wisconsin, USA

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onJun 14

#RIP to the streets of old Milwaukee but by and large this place DESPERATLEY needs this new update

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

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shamebats

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

iamoutofideas

“heres how to make a pair of pants for yourself”

step 1: have a entire room completely set up just for tailoring

niceferatu

it needs an iron, masking tape, a pencil, and see-through paper. you don't need the pins if you're careful about keeping it lined up. you could do that on your floor and hand-sew it after that if you wanted to. the most specialised piece of equipment they used in the video, apart from the sewing machine, was a clear ruler.

vinceaddams

Yeah that's a silly complaint, tons of people cut fabric on their kitchen tables or on the floor. I've been sewing since 2011 and didn't have an actual sewing room until the start of 2024. It was frustratingly cramped sewing in my bedroom, but I still sewed lots of things in there.

Most of my fabric is secondhand, and I've gotten a lot of sewing supplies from thrift stores and estate sales. I know not everyone lives somewhere that has those things, but there are still budget options to look into. There are a lot of things that are nice to have but not strictly necessary.

Frieda Leopold did an experiment earlier this year where she bought the minimum sewing supplies necessary for a dress, and kept to a budget of 150 euros for all the tools including the sewing machine.

And this Morning Mercury video about trying to learn weaving without spending any money also feels relevant.

#reference

babyjanedough

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

isuckattechnology

Audio:

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!

have-you-been-here

The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onJun 7

#MKE babey!#we looked up getting married here #the art museum alone cost more than we paid for our who wedding total 😅

gumy-shark

oh, no, you misunderstand me. those were my monkeys. yeah the circus and i have since parted ways. yeah it was the elephant thing, i dont really want to address that right now though

#me with the primate center

cheaphalloweencostume

also we have GOT to collectively come to terms with the fact that me or any other stranger online disliking or even making fun of something you like is not saying “no fun allowed” “no one can ever enjoy this” you have simply got to grow a spine and be able to like the shit you like. you don’t even have to defend it! like 90% of the media i really enjoy is divisive and half my friends actively hate it. i really don’t give a fuck though because i like it. you can write whatever you want! you’re allowed! even if it’s MY least favorite genre or style of writing and i have active distaste for it!

#it’s very freeing to stop caring what other people think #there was a time in my life #the majority of my life actually #where being presented with something being mocked and it being mock able would be enough that I would never let myself like such a thing #but no longer!#I discovered minimalist nativity sets via that tumblr post making fun of minimalist nativity sets and fell in love #i now own a very expensive wooden minimalist nativity set and I’m not even religious #I just love it so much #it sparks joy #shoutout to the minimalist nativity set haters for dunking on them so hard that post when viral and introduced me to them #(I am aware this was an insane set of words but I stand by them nonetheless)

have-you-been-here

World’s shortest and steepest railroad - Fenelon Place Elevator, Dubuque, Iowa, United States

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onMay 11

#to the person in the notes planning a vacation to dbq #don’t do that #is someone making you do that?#blink if you’re being held hostage

edgebug

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

#neil banging out the tunes

therizinosaurus--cheloniformis

Happy 20th Anniversary of Neil Banging Out The Tunes!!!!!

More rarer images of Neil, my beloved:

20 years.

I find it so beautiful that this little rat's life has been remembered with love for 20 years and will be hopefully for decades to come. Truly a marvel of the internet.

<3 love you Neil!!!!

#neil banging out the tunes #20 years wow #❤️