Yet Another Blog

Warhammer 40,000, birds of prey, and pointedly not talking about politics. Snark available, free of charge.

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[moj-cien]

Some stuff I liked:

[adastra-sf]

Happy Moon Landing Day!

On July 20, 1969 - 55 years ago today! - humans first stepped foot on another world.

Apollo 11 - NASA

The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 5 hours 22 minutes

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

Split-joint seals (骑缝章qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.

[ariaste]

OMG I got so excited about this because they used a really similar (though far less refined) version of this for contracts in the European medieval period!

First they were called "chirographs", but later the word "indenture" (in its earliest meaning as just a legal document of any kind between two people) came to be used, originating from the practice of a contract being written twice on a single piece of parchment and then cut in half with serrated edges (as in dent, "teeth" -> indents -> indenture) in order for each party to take one half, so they could later piece them together and verify that there had been no forgery -- same as the Chinese silver drafts!

(Charter of the Clerecía de Ledesma, 1252, showing the serrated indents at the top -- presumably they are cutting rather than tearing because they're using parchment, which I expect is much harder to tear than wood-pulp paper like the Chinese were using)

Delights me when human beings find similar ways to solve the same problem at two different ends of the world. <3

[fumospace]

Not sure if I should share this, but my friend told me to just post it sooo This is a sketch i try to learning how to draw his details , I have plans to draw him again but that'll be after I finish clearing AF

When I look at it as a heart shape it help me a lot (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

[ackee]

"how dare you hide this in the tags" -> "you sir have won the internets"

"none of these words are in the bible" -> "thats enough internet for today"

"op check your carbon monoxide detector" -> "were you on drugs when you made this"

and so on and so forth

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[txttletale]

jump off a bridge, cunt

see this is a perfect example of what not to do with a hate ask.

poorly matched to hate target: the suicide bait is a classic of anon hate, but it's a rookie mistake to deploy it against just anybody. any careful look at my blog would see that i am incredibly egotistic--using a hate tactic better suited to a blogger with low self esteem is just sloppy.

too generic to sting: this ask mentions no specific details about any problematic behaviour, annoying personality traits, or my personal life. since it feels like it could have been sent by anyone to anyone, it's difficult to take it personally.

cultural mismatch: 'cunt' probably comes across a lot harsher in your cultural context. however, i live in the UK, so i get called and call other people a cunt every day. as such, you're left with a lackluster ending for a very weak ask overall.

F. see me after class

[insomniac-arrest]

is this Tumblr university

[realdonkeykong]

@reading-comp-posting

[reading-comp-posting]

Check for understanding:

How do you think the anonymous asker feels about OP?

How does OP react to this message? Why might she have reacted this way?

Why exactly is this message "poorly matched to [its] hate target?"

Why exactly is this message "too generic to sting?"

What is the "cultural mismatch" OP describes in this message?

What is Tumblr University? Why does insomniac-arrest reference it?

Discuss with a mutual: how do you make strong anon hate?

Additional question:

What do you think might have been my initial reaction to seeing the notification shown below?

[official-kircheis]

where's that post of someone getting a letter from their bank like "dear keith we realise you're just taking the piss but every time you venmo your mate for 'al-qaeda training camp' we do have to, by law, fill out a lot of boring paperwork for the police so we'd really appreciate it if you'd stop doing that"

[andmaybegayer]

here it is

[arborealgargoyle]

imagine being the poor bank employee that had to write this 😂 like was it assigned to them or did they go hey maybe instead of resigning ourselves to repeatedly wasting time investigating this shit we should just? ask them to stop? has anyone tried telling them they NEED TO STOP

[spirulin4]

[wrenchinator-central]

How did I not think of Clovis and his brave franks?

[preservationofnormalcy]

I'm SO excited! You may have seen my last set of 18 posters, and now I present set 2!

For those who don't know, these are workplace posters from a fictional government agency that deals with the supernatural called the Office for the Preservation of Normalcy. It's become an interactive unfiction world - check out my pinned post for more information!

All of these posters are available in my Ko-fi shop as 11x17 posters, stickers, buttons and keychains!

You can use these for your own stuff like TTRPG campaigns or print them out, but keep in mind these versions in the post are 50% size so not full quality. If you do use them, consider tipping my ko-fi as linked above!

[preservationofnormalcy]

Reblogging to say the shop is back up and all the new designs are there! I will be updating the shop listing photos as I go.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

*clobbers broody character with significantly more upbeat character* Vibe check.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"'Holy swords' aren't the sort of thing that you can just make, lad. They have to be born."

[supreme-leader-stoat]

A holy sword is a normal weapon reborn in a moment of perfect purpose, hammered in battle and baptized in fire and quenched by blood. You don't pick a holy sword up off the anvil. You pry it from between the scales of a dragon, from the hand of a shaken farmgirl who should've had no business rallying an army, from the cold fingers of a guardsman who faced down an entire enemy squad alone and held his ground. Here, the sword is the lingering sign of the miracle that resulted in its creation.

[brilliantlyhorrid]

[knitmeapony]

This is still one of the best executed jokes I’ve ever seen

[disgruntled-neighborhood-wife]

People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.

[squareallworthy]

This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep's soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that's gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.

[storm-of-feathers]

What

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

Same for me, I get a new soul with every haircut. That's why my personality changes so much.

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

Tumblr citizenship means being completely unsure if the person posting about sheep souls is being 100% serious or is just taking the piss.

[yoinky-sploinky]

THEY TAKE THEIR PISS TOO?!?!?

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

Yup, stockpiling it in giant buckets to pour on the poor

[kenzily8]

you know the generations cooked when we’re talking abt sheep wool and that turns into stockpiling sheep piss 🥀

[cosmipepper]

you haven't truly lived until this post is the first thing you see when you wake up i had to leave and come back 10 minutes later

[getblobbedcomics]

Something something Erid is a high-pressure, no light planet with liquid water and bioluminescent, lure-based, energy efficient ocean creatures could develop; something something Eridians have close to no spatial memory and therefore worse scale? memory; something something Eridians are the apex land predator specifically.

(All that, and I forgot the suit. Ah well. Point is, they deserve a buddy comedy ending.)

[sceptixfakemon]

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

[sceptixfakemon]

im never leaving this hellsite

[sceptixfakemon]

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

[sceptixfakemon]

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!