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LV. 21(Feb 17th) • ♒ • System • Zee/Zeer or He/Them (or any pronouns as long as you hesitate) • Transmasc Intersex • Aro-Aceflux • Armenian • Polytheist • 🇦🇲🇷🇺🇬🇧 • Being a centipede always seems to bring out the worst in people. • Had to close my asks from the sheer volume of spam I was getting

[bonemaggotsludge]

New commission pricelist's ready!

[fuckedelf]

I think I’m missin sum vital organs or some shitt

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[bonemaggotsludge]

Commission for @borrelus

Full-body

Clean linework

Painterly coloring

Complex background

[bowelfly]

monk snoots

[bonemaggotsludge]

Commission sheet!

[boybeetles]

Sie transvestigaten meinen ikea hotdog…

[shiftythrifting]

I truly have no words

[theunlitpath]

okay??

[applefae]

classic ancient egyptian prank

[grickle14]

It had come to that.

[darkmaga-retard]

[querulousglare]

If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.

[grimthetransman]

Anyway, here's a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don't be shamed into not asking questions, and it's alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don't let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.

Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that :]

[cricketcat9]

If you don't know...here it is.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you're permanently stuck in the last show that you watched, how is it going?

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Voting ended onMar 24

[kidmograph]

ECHOES OF WAR

[cleolinda]

Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen

Radio station WJLX can no longer broadcast its AM programming since the incident.

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

[cleolinda]

My favorite tags so far:

[baenling]

so this lead me down a fucking hour-long rabbit hole. i watched a video (linked on the radio station's wikipedia page) where some young guys walk through the radio tower property a week after it was allegedly stolen, and it's an overgrown jungle. looks like it's been abandoned for years. the door is hanging open and there is lichen growing on the linoleum floor inside. down in the comments there are locals saying the area is not exactly out in the boonies, either; there are people and businesses on that road. not to mention that a 200 foot radio tower is fucking gigantic. there is no crushed vegetation from dismantling the tower. no sign of any vehicles recently on the property other than the 1 set of tire tracks from the police vehicle which came to check it out when the report was received.

the tower wasn't stolen. it hadn't been there for years before the report was filed. google earth shows the tower up on site in 2022 and gone in 2023 so in all likelihood, it fell down sometime then. ALLEGEDLY, the fcc had been on them for an inspection of their am radio tower, and then a week before the fcc were scheduled to come out and inspect it, the station reported the tower missing. so. that's an hour of my life gone. you're welcome? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cleolinda]

Then how… I believe you, but how…

how had they been broadcasting

had they been?

[galaxy-sharks-and-bottled-ships]

It's easy. They WEREN'T.

Hi, so admittedly I own one of the other radio stations in the same freaking town. And by own I mean it's in my name but I leave the technical stuff to my dad and pretty much absorb my information from being around him and the station all the time.

ANYWAYS!

The guy who runs WJLX isn't actually licensed to run an LPFM he is licensed to run an AM station. The AM station is supposed to be the one he plays his music on and he can run a translator to broadcast onto the FM frequencies as well. BUT! Only if his AM is still the main station. He can't do FM only.

That means two power bills basically. Those can be pretty hefty for a radio station.

And since no one really cares about AM these days he did the worst thing possible. He LET HIS AM STATION GO OFF THE AIR. His AM station has been off the air since as far back 2013. We have video of us testing his frequencies that far back. He's been running full time as an LPFM only for at least a decade now which in his case is illegal AF and is a $10,000 per day fine from the FCC if he's ever caught.

Well, low and behold he was caught and now he's trying to claim he didn't know because his tower was "obviously stolen".

For starters, it was eventually stolen. But only after it had already collapsed to the ground and rusted for several years. Metal scrappers will take nearly anything that looks to have been abandoned long enough.

TLDR; If he'd been running his station properly then he'd have known the exact moment his tower stopped broadcasting. He'd have known the moment it fell. There are these things called silence detectors (at least that's what we call them) and their whole job is to tell us we're not broadcasting anymore.

[cleolinda]

no shhhh it’s haunted. between dimensions. by Carmen Sandiego.

(thank you, may your station prosper)

[mymatedave10]

Thank you tumblr for the mystery and the solution.

This is like an episode of Scooby Doo where there’s a mysterious event that surprises everyone but then eventually turns out to be a corrupt businessman lying about things.

It does sadly lack the mid-episode ghost/monster running and chasing scenes though, which is a shame.

[gwalchmedi]

Mid-episode ghost would be the radio tower running amok in the town on its metal legs…

[meilas]

baba yaga radio tower

[hasufin]

So, I'm going to ask - though I can guess at the answer - why didn't he just get a license to broadcast on FM?

(I'm guessing that getting the FM license is significantly more expensive or has some other paperwork-related hurdles compared to AM with translation. Which is one of those things that anti-government people like to trumpet as "red tape", but probably has really important reasons behind it)

[antarctica-starts-here]

There are lots of reasons getting an FM license is much harder. Part of it has to do with the number and broadcast power of other FM stations within a certain radius (I think it's 100 miles; I haven't worked at a radio station since the late 90's so my knowledge is a little fuzzy) and making sure there's enough spectrum available for the stations to have gaps in between broadcasts. Some of it has to do with economics. Some of it has to do with the license application process and legal protests that can be (and almost always are) filed by the entities that own other FM stations in the region (looking at you, Clear Channel). Some of it has to do with differing cost scales for AM and FM broadcast licenses.

[redstonedust]

magical girl shows are good because their attacks will be something like "super love sunshine friendship beam" but make no mistake, super love sunshine friendship beam WILL end you. super love sunshine friendship beam will leave a crater in the ground where you once stood. you cannot understimate the power of super love sunshine friendship beam.

[weepingwidar]

Amber Skye Alcock (South African, 1998) - The Sensitive Dragon (2024)

[badwolfbadwolf]

I think I am officially Fandom Old. I am so worn out from the arguments on who's the top or the bottom (who cares), what is allowed to be written (anything you want, bejeebus), what is Problematic (I know, just tag it), what other people Should Do (they Should live their lives free of judgment). There isn't a Right Way to do things. Tag your stuff appropriately, don't read stuff you don't want to read, and leave other people (me) alone.

[leeshajoy]

There is nothing quite like the freedom of having gone through all of the Discourse and come out the other side into the promised land of Not Giving A Fuck.

[randomslasher]

The three keys to the promised land are “Block, Unfollow, and Do Not Engage” 

[avalonlights]

How it feels to have curated your space in fandom