let's do something wrong

drunk on rose water / mid 2000s pop punk, svss, mdzs, and cats. etc. etc. etc. i tag inconsistently. 18+

[aliasfrost-deactivated20250802]

Imagine being Kaiba, holding the Millennium Puzzle.

An object he had to excavate from a collapsed tomb in Eqypt where he had developed an advanced puzzle solving AI that validated his intelligence. An object that he believes contains the soul of his rival, who he has grown so obsessed with, he designed a 3D simulation model after. Which possibly took him hundreds of hours of footage to be able to replicate and mask Atem's dueling style, thought process, facial expressions, and mannerisms. With just as if not more time to skin graph, texture, and model. Just so he can live a power fantasy where he defeats him.

Yet despite all of this, Kaiba never once wears the puzzle. He never refers to it as 'Belongs to me' or 'My puzzle'. In fact, in the original Japanese dub, he refers to Atem by name. Not as Pharaoh, not as Yugi but as Atem. Instead of taking those pieces from Diva/Aigami and Yugi, he chooses to earn them through dueling.

Despite everything, he still has so much respect for his rival. He is still learning and living by the lessons Atem taught him. Everything must be earned, not taken. You have to fight fair even if it means you have to even the playing field. By the end of the movie, he has to relearn that you can't control people. Because grief blinded him.

[monsterbutch]

*takes your hand* we'll go to the local kebab guy ok. no mcdonalds. local kebab guy loves us

[monsterbutch]

i'm glad this resonated with a lot of you but this wasn't a "cute date ideas" thing this was a "boycott fast food that feeds genocidal soldiers" thing

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

op renovated the bedroom where her parents had lived for thirty years by 在逃许师傅

[memegetter]

She did a followup video just about the light fitting, it's actually two lasercut flatpacks that she altered to accommodate a light:

有手就会！DIY中国风古建吊灯_哔哩哔哩_bilibili

-, 视频播放量 237507、弹幕量 104、点赞数 22653、投硬币枚数 1271、收藏人数 3622、转发人数 266, 视频作者 在逃许师傅, 作者简介 一个人就是一支装修队 未授权，视频禁止搬运，相关视频：挑战全网最豪华大学宿舍，绝美小角落 | 适合看书、打盹、煲剧

(note: I don't speak Chinese, just did an image search using a screenshot of the light and it sent me to this video)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

op renovated the bedroom where her parents had lived for thirty years by 在逃许师傅

[thingsthatmakeyouacey]

This isn’t majorly important but I’m seeing the stat about the US bombing of Afghanistan being changed through a game of telephone. The original comparison was to show that Israel’s bombing of Gaza in a single week is comparable to the US bombing campaigns on Afghanistan either in a specific year (2018 or 2019) or at their maximum (in 2019)—not “more than any single year.” In 2019, the US dropped over 7,000 bombs on Afghanistan (compared with Israel’s 6,000 on Gaza this week). This is still an unimaginable number—in both cases—and I’m not out to diminish the evil of either (and I’m guessing the difference will unfortunately change). Just be aware of what you read and how you extrapolate numbers and operators.

Mondoweiss: “This [6000] falls just short of the highest number of bombs dropped by the US in a year in the war on Afghanistan.” https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/israel-is-preparing-to-commit-genocide/

Chart showing (reported?) American bombs per year, with 2018 and 2019 at the highest (more that 7,000). https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/16079/weapons-released-by-the-us-coalition-over-afghanistan/

[marxism-transgenderism]

I can't stop thinking about the connection between early American settlers in the midwest and the creation of the myth of Johnny Appleseed as a way to explain away the miles and miles of indigenous food gardens as the creation of early settlers and the early Zionist settlers in Palestine who wanted to build Jewish-only farming communities and the use of the word sabra (a term used during the mandate system for a Jewish person who was born in Palestine) in global marketing to sell middle eastern foods grown exclusively by settlers rather than by indigenous Palestinians. How both are used to 'indigenize' settlers in the wider culture to the regions they invaded and erase the actual indigenous people who grew apples or corn or olive trees or chickpeas

[marxism-transgenderism]

The story of Johnny Appleseed in the US is one of the most foundational settler colonial myths especially in the midwest. Very loosely based on the life of a real early settler and land speculator, the myth seeks to explain for early settlers why there were so many fruit trees all across the region. The myth goes that Johnny walked barefoot across the empty land, living off of nature and at every point he could, planting an appleseed to feed the settlers who would follow him. His myth served as an image of the ideal, masculine, agrarian settler who would tame the forests of this region and expand the growing United States.

This myth was told by later settlers not only to explain the abundance of Eurasian fruits like apples, but also to provide a settler origin for the wide abundance of native plants like squash and corn. The reality is that these fields which really did provide sustenance to early settlers unfamiliar with the region is that they were Indigenous food gardens. The Indigenous nations of this region had long since had extensive trade with the Spanish, French, and English which allowed them to import European crops which they planted right alongside their vast cornfields for decades prior to American invasion.

American armies invading the region in the 1790s would burn thousands of acres of these fields, the same genocidal tactics used by George Washington against the Six Nations during the revolution, but they could never come close to burning them all.

And so these tress which had been grown to sustain the tens of thousands of Indigenous people who lived in this region was now would feed invading settler families for a season or two before being chopped down with the surrounding wetlands drained to clear the land for the European style agriculture which still destroys this regions natural fertility to this day. Today not only is the tale told as a myth to children about the founding of America, but also used to sell products from organic fruit to ciders.

Now to flash forward about a century: early Zionist settlers in Palestine sought to build independent farming communities of Jewish settlers which could feed and sustain themselves. Earlier Jewish settlers in the region were highly dependent on Arab labor not only to feed themselves but also to house themselves and access basic commodities. To change this, organizations like the Jewish Colonisation Association and the Jewish National Fund bought large swaths of land to be developed (swamps drained, previously Arab villages torn down, forests planted) with the labor done primarily by settlers for those settlers to live on.

The term sabra came to be used for those Jewish settlers born in Palestine, primarily for the generation born in these recently made settlements under the British mandate. The sabra became an archetypal nationalist symbol for the type of the Jewish settler created by the Zionist movement as a bold, masculine, agrarian pioneer of what would become Israel. And it would gain even more prominence during the creation of the IDF in 1948 and the establishment of the state of Israel. This was the Nakba, where the IDF and other settler militias would burn villages, destroy native olive tree gardens, slaughter those that resisted, and send nearly 700k Palestinians into exile.

After the creation of Israel, the term sabra came to be used to market Israeli products to Europe and America. Thus, we get Sabra liquor and, as I'm sure you all know, the Sabra Dipping Company. Thus products native to Palestine and the wider region could be marketed and sold in Israel and other imperialist countries while exclusively benefitting Israeli companies and settlers.

Here we see two instances of settlers creating a masculine ideal to justify their existence and serve as propaganda for their expansion. And as the areas settlers invaded transitiones from primarily agrarian to industrial economies, these symbols become marketable images for their products to sell to each other. Settler-colonialism is the same no matter the century.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says

Palestinian fighters treated Israeli captives "humanely," recalls Yasmin Porat.

An Israeli woman who survived the Hamas assault on settlements near the Gaza boundary on 7 October says Israeli civilians were “undoubtedly” killed by their own security forces. It happened when Israeli forces engaged in fierce gun battles with Palestinian fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri and fired indiscriminately at both the fighters and their Israeli prisoners. “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she told Israeli radio. “There was very, very heavy crossfire” and even tank shelling. The woman, 44-year-old mother of three Yasmin Porat, said that prior to that, she and other civilians had been held by the Palestinians for several hours and treated “humanely.” She had fled the nearby “Nova” rave. A recording of her interview, from the radio program Haboker Hazeh (“This Morning”) hosted by Aryeh Golan on state broadcaster Kan, has been circulating on social media.[...]

Notably, the interview is not included in the online version of Haboker Hazeh for 15 October, the episode in which it apparently aired.

Most Moral Army in the world. Btw.

16 Oct 23

[psychotrenny]

And people keep trying to justify Israel's existence on the basis that it is somehow a safe place for the preservation of Jewish people and their culture and not only is that an awful argument for establishing a Settler Colonist Apartheid State but it's not even true. Like the state is politically and economically dominated by Ashkenazi Jews from Northern Europe and their descendants. While not as severely mistreated as Palestinians, there is still a significant disparity between the European and Non-European Jews in terms of income and education. Non-European Jews are still regularly subject to interpersonal bigotry (hell earlier this year there was a news story about a viral video where Ashkenazi girls in a Purim made a skit mocking the Mizrahi) and Israel government policies towards non-Ashkenazi migrants have done severe damage to their social structure and cultural traditions. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason why many Mizrahi migrated in the first place was to escape the violence caused by European Jews committing atrocities in their name, tearing communities apart as neighbours that had peacefully co-existed for centuries found themselves on opposite sides of this new ethno-religious conflict

There have even been attempts in Israeli history at the forceful assimilation or even biological reduction of non-European Jews; the kidnapping and adoption of Yemeni Jewish children in the 1950s is significant example of the former while the forced contraception of Beta Israeli (Ethiopean Jewish migrants) with the explicit intention of reducing their population's birth rate is an example of the latter. There's also very clear favouritism when it comes to recent converts; white Afrikaner converts are given the right of Aliyah while Nigerian Igbos are not. Like the fact of the matter is that Israel's fundamental nature is as a European Settler Colony, incredibly racist not only towards the indigenous Palestinians but the many Non-European Jews it claims to represent. It's an outpost of Western Imperialism, not a haven for the Jewish people. If it was ever meant to be the latter than it has failed miserably

[najia-cooks]

سبع بهارات فلسطينية / Seb'a baharat falastinia (Palestinian seven-spice)

Seb'a baharat is one of a few spice blends often referred to in English simply as “baharat” (the plural of Arabic بهار / bahar, “spice”). A warm, earthy blend, it is commonly used to season meat, fish, and poultry in the Levant, Eastern Arabia, and Egypt, where recipes differ from region to region and from person to person. Common ingredients include cumin, cardamom, black pepper, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

Palestinian versions of seb'a baharat are usually dominated by allspice, black pepper, and cinnamon, giving them a pungent and sweet head; nutmeg, cloves, and cardamom provide additional warmth, while cumin and coriander often round out the blend with earthiness and a hint of florality. Ginger is also an occasional inclusion.

By the early 2010s, decades of Israeli taxation on exports and imports of non-Israeli goods had eroded Palestinian economic and culinary self-determination; Israel had instituted further blockades of the Gaza border in 2007, leading to a sharp decline in exports. Several farmers in Gaza turned to growing spices and herbs, including cumin and ginger, on their farms with the intention of finding a profitable market for them in Europe. However, frequent border closings, punitive export taxes, and Israeli shooting at Palestinian farmers who were attempting to work their land, made the plan unviable.

More recently, Palestinians have continued to work to find new ways to produce food despite shrinking access to arable land and fresh water. Resisting Israeli targeting of Palestinian food self-sufficiency is matter, not just of subsistence and economic power, but of identity and dignity.

Today, Israel's total siege of Gaza continues as civilians run out of food, water, power, and medical supplies. Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has put out an urgent call for donations to provide medical supplies to hospitals when supply lines reopen. Also contact your representatives in the USA, UK, and Canada.

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp ground allspice (6.6g; 1 Tbsp + 1 tsp allspice berries)

1/2 Tbsp ground black pepper (6.2g; 1/2 Tbsp black peppercorns)

1/2 Tbsp ground cinnamon (5.3g; 1 large stick Chinese cassia)

1 1/4 tsp ground coriander (2g; 1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds)

1 tsp ground nutmeg (1.4g; 1/2 nutmeg)

1 tsp ground cloves (2g; 1 1/4 tsp whole cloves)

1 tsp ground cardamom (scant 1/2 Tbsp pods; 2.6g just seeds)

3/4 tsp ground cumin (2.1g; scant tsp cumin seeds)

Instructions:

1. In a mortar and pestle or using the flat of a knife, roughly crush nutmeg and cinnamon.

2. In a dry skillet over medium heat, toast whole spices one at a time until each is strongly fragrant. Remove from heat and allow to cool in a single layer on a large plate.

3. Grind all spices together in a mortar and pestle or a spice mill. Pass through a sieve to remove large pieces. Store in an airtight jar in a cool, dark place.

[tamamita]

[thenyanguardparty]

couldn't decide which lie to go with

[apas-95]

[tamamita]

Israel dropping a new lie

[kaibacorpintern]

in Yugioh verse there's a David Fincher movie called The Family in the style of The Social Network and it's a high energy beautifully shot dramedy with slick Sorkin dialogue about how Kaiba took over KaibaCorp and Kaiba fucking hates it

[vozaho]

Bro.

[catastrophic-dream]

I recently bought a refurbished mini computer to use as a home server, and I’m thinking of documenting the learning process through blog posts, primarily as a way to solidify the things I’ve learned, however, I’m not sure where to best do this. X, the service formerly known as Twitter, is completely out, and I’m basically using as “private account read only with retweets for things I want to save for later”. I have a bunch of social media accounts I don’t really use, but I’m thinking of going a simple self-hosted blog... For now I’m going to use Tumblr, but I may migrate these else where...

step 1 - buying the hardware

This was both kind of easy and not, because you need to think about use case and cost. 

Initially was thinking of going with Raspberry Pi or Odroid, but I eventually ruled them out because the cost:power ratio is just too expensive. I eventually settled on “let’s get a mini computer” and spent the last uhhh two ish years dithering back and forth waiting for a good price.

Recently, my need to Actually Learn Some Networking has gotten more urgent, so when I found a decent price, I went ahead with it.

I ended up getting a Dell Optiplex Micro 7060 i5 8500t with 8GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD for about $250 AUD. I’m a bit miffed because I purchased this off eBay about a week ago, and yesterday, I saw the almost exact same model (i5 8500 with 16GB RAM) for $235 AUD.

I think ultimately the 8500T is the better choice for me, as it uses less energy than the 8500, but that extra RAM would’ve sure come in handy.

The hardware purchase process was a bit of a pain, because even though I’ve learned the meanings of various acronyms again and again and again over the years, I keep forgetting what they actually mean.

Things I learned (or relearned):

CPU generations matter when considering “what’s better”. An i5 from ten years ago is worse than an i3 from last year.

I still don’t remember what SODIMM stands for

step 2 - set up the thing (which OS?)

After the computer arived, I spent a good number of hours on the internet reading around to try and figure out how I wanted to do this. This project was originally inspired by wanting to set up Home Assistant, however, given my need to learn/mess around with/figure out some networking things without falling asleep watching a Youtube video for upteenth time, I’d chosen to go with something that had a little bit more computing “oomph” than the bare minimum requirements.

So. I definitely didn’t want to install the Home Assistant OS on the bare metal of the computer. But what other methods were there? Virtual Machines, Docker containers, installing it purely on Linux... A whole bunch of options basically.

After some research, and thinking on it overnight because I had an awful headache, I ended up going with Proxmox, which is an operating system that’s based off a Linux distribution (I think it was Debian) that lets you create a bunch of virtual machines. People had also talked about how it was good with RAID and UNRAID and VFS, but my head was already spinning with all the acronyms. From what I remember from research last year, RAID and UNRAID refer to data duplication and backup. VFS I read a brief explanation on and decided to put it in the box called “too complicated”, but I think it also has to do with being able to restore your stuff in case of catastrophic failure.

Both of these things required hardware that I don’t have (SSD or HDDs) and were a use case that I don’t need - I don’t care if everything on the drive is lost as I’m not planning on putting anything important on there.

But before I went ahead and installed Proxmox, I needed to figure out how it worked. Thankfully, there’s an odd dozen or more explainers for basically everything. Proxmox needs to be installed on bare metal. Cool. But that means it’s going to overwrite the default Windows installation that my refurbished lil machine comes with.

So my next question was: will I be able to install and activate Windows again if I install Proxmox over it? Cue another hour or so of Googling around and trying things, but in my specific case, the Windows activation key is... Stored? in the “BIOS” (but actually it’s the UEFI). But if you mess up the BIOS or UEFI, it might disappear, so I copied it down into my password manager.

The next step... Installation! Used Balena Etcher to write the OS installer onto a USB stick, confirmed that I had the right UEFI settings, and installed.

For the most part, the process was very simple due to this informative guide someone had written up. I suspect I possibly shouldn’t have been using Proxmox given that I didn’t have the first clue as to what some of the things were referring to, but oh well.

I had a tiny bit of an embarrassing faff when I realised that the powerline cable wasn’t working to give my mini computer internet. I realised that all these years, I had assumed that the powerline adapter somehow just magically pulled the internet connection from the wall plug. In actual fact, the powerline wasn’t connected to the router.

Anyways... Installation finally done!

step 3 - home assistant, SSH access

After that, it was pretty simple. Login to the Proxmox localhost website it’d set up on my network, then use the handy scripts located in that guide to install Home Assistant. I had to terminate the Home Assistant virtual machine because for some reason, the password I’d set up for the admin account was.... Not it, and so I was locked out, but since this was literally the first time setting it up, it was fine.

One of the first things I need was set up SSH access through a user with sudo access, because I was getting sick of all the cables... With SSH access, I could detach the computer from all of the freaking cables I had use to set things up. It was... Let’s see, DP, wired mouse, wired keyboard, power cable. Geez, in retrospect, that’s very few things, but the desk I was working on looked like a definition of “cable management nightmare”

I was actually at a meetup recently where the person had SSH’d in directly as root and did everything as root... Ouch. I gave her a very mild lecture and then an explanation to the others that didn’t know what was going on that it’s considered umm.... not good/best practise to login directly as root... 

I’ve currently got SSH access setup with a password, but I’ll want to change it to an SSH key soon.

Added the few “smart” devices I had to home assistant.... And since it was 2am, it was power off for the night.

step 4 - now what?

I’ve been dealing with a somewhat wretched headache for the past one a half days, so I haven’t had much motivation to do anything with these.

On the list are:

I’ve got a Sonoff Zigbee adapter coming in the mail eventually, so once it’s arrived, I’ll be able to connect the Ikea air purifier that I brought and maybe set up some automations with that.

Also on the list (but which may have to wait for the Zigbee adapter) is the house’s solar panels. Right now it requires cloud polling (a la API requests) which I’m not happy about. I have a Raspberry Pi that I might be able to install solar-assistant on, but the license is I think 80 dollars? There’s also Grott. Either way, I’d love to have local only monitoring, and it seems like Grott might be able to do it in a sort of “man in the middle” way.

Some of the apps we use at work use both NGINX and Tomcat, so I want to get better familiarity with it.

I’m extremely leery of setting up a connection to this server to the wider internet, so reading up and implementing Linux security best practices is a must. My friend loves Tailscale so that’s possibly on the list, but given that my initial thoughts around security were “let’s buy a cheap second hand router and put everything on a LAN that has no access to the internet”...

Crypt pad maybe?

Element Matrix?

At some point I want to go through the process of setting up AO3′s source code, however, I think this might be done better with rented server space rather than a refurbished home devices.

Very far down the track, a Plex/Jellyfin server might be an option, but I’m not sure the current hardware I have is adequate for that. I do want to move away from SaaS subscriptions, but they’re also just very convenient. Right now my mindset is “fuck around and mess up, don’t put anything important on there”.

So anyways, that’s a wrap.

[mwagneto]

i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw

[wasforcenturies-deactivated2016]

x

[pumpkinpaix]

Regarding #EndOTWRacism’s summaries of 2023 OTW Board election candidate positions

Before I begin, let me say now that while I am a volunteer with the OTW, my views are personal and should not be taken as any kind of official statement from the org, its leadership, or other volunteers, especially not the candidates in question. My focus here is on the Asian candidates for obvious reasons, but this post is not meant as endorsement or disavowal of any of the candidates, whose bios and platforms can all be read here.

Do not take this as an excuse harass the mods running EOTWR. I cannot make myself clearer.

--

I am making this post to express my extreme disappointment with End OTW Racism’s post purporting to summarize the platforms of the candidates for the upcoming Board elections. It is no longer rebloggable, but can be read here.

The way that the candidates with Asian names were spoken of is deeply insulting when compared with how candidates with English-language names were discussed. Asian candidates had their platforms misrepresented, their expertise downplayed, and their lived experiences reduced down to “bringing an international presence” to the board, which was then further caveated with, “diversity alone is not going to solve the issue of racist harassment currently allowed in the OTW’s policies and enforcement practice”. While it is true that diversity alone is not a solution, it’s pretty offensive to essentially have “remember! Just because they aren’t white doesn’t mean you should vote for them!” tacked on to one of the Asian candidates’ platforms. 

End OTW Racism seems more concerned with whether or not candidates used the buzzwords they wanted to hear rather than with how racism is discussed holistically within the statements. While I can appreciate that EOTWR has a specific agenda, to say things like, “[s]he does not mention racism, racist harassment, or hiring a DEI consultant in her platform, so outside the outreach and support she mentions, there is not enough for us to conclude that these would be priorities for her” regarding Zixin Z.’s position, directly following the statement, “[s]he also mentions the need for outreach towards non-English-speaking fans and has a desire to provide support to volunteers from minority groups” is fucking laughable, especially after the initial mistake of stating that Zixin Z. only wanted to do more outreach to Chinese-speaking fans. Again, I understand that people make mistakes and that this mistake has since been corrected, but I hope it prompts some reflection on the sort of biases that would lead to such a mistake in the first place. It may have been completely innocuous, but in charged discussions about racism, please understand that it gives an impression that is difficult to shake. I do thank you for not trying to hide that this happened. 

Why is Anh P.’s lack of discussion on TOS/PAC a point against her, while Zixin Z.’s years of experience on PAC, her role as a mod on Weibo, and her background in nonprofits don’t even warrant a mention? For that matter, why did none of the Asian candidates’ skills or experience warrant mention? Qiao C. and Zixin Z. have both been volunteers with the organization for several years now, and Anh P. has years of moderation and volunteer experience elsewhere prior to her work with the OTW.

It is so fucking frustrating that despite each one of these candidates specifically talking about the need for diverse voices, they had their platforms essentially passed over because they didn’t use the right words, and it is particularly fucking aggravating to see that EOTWR will use Chinese issues as props when trying to press OTW leadership on the racism that occurs within the org, but then completely fail to connect the dots on why these candidates are running because the wrong language was used. Zixin Z. is one of the Weibo mods, for fuck’s sake. 

The entire post feels like an exercise in virtue signalling, from every time it was brought up that a candidate did not provide pronouns in their platform statements, despite every one of them having pronouns provided in their bios (why mention this detail at all? You could have simply used the pronouns), to what felt like willful obliviousness to the anti-racism stances in the Asian candidates’ platforms. It feels like the concern starts and ends with racism in Anglophone terms, on Anglophone terms.

I can respect the driving ideas behind EOTWR, even if I disagree with the way that EOTWR pursues their goals. I do believe that we want the same things in the end, and therefore chose not to interact with the many posts I have seen about the protest. However, I saw the summary post and could not let it pass without speaking.

For a protest group supposedly dedicated to ending racism in the OTW, this felt incredibly hypocritical, conscious bias or not. In my most charitable frame of mind, I can see this as misjudging and overcorrecting to ensure that there was no favoritism shown to the obvious non-white candidates lest EOTWR be accused of tokenizing– again, it is true, that diversity in and of itself is not a solution to racism. 

In my least charitable and most bitter frame of mind, I feel inclined to wonder if EOTWR, much like the OTW itself, is uncomfortable with the lack of influence they could exude over an international candidate. It would be much, much easier to push their agenda forward with more culturally familiar candidates, particularly white ones. Guilt and public scrutiny are powerful weapons and easy to wield against those with perceived privilege in our current atmosphere, often to the detriment of the actual discussion at hand in my experience. I know that’s cynical. It’s hard not to be. (For clarity's sake: I do not know the other candidates' races. This is a hypothetical.)

This isn’t a demand for an apology. I think we fetishize the capital-A Apology to the point where I find them sort of meaningless unless they are given freely. I don’t need EOTWR to agree with me, and I don’t really want to keep talking about it. Rather, I would prefer that EOTWR take action to do better as they continue in their campaign. What that action is is their decision. If they truly mean to stand against racism in the OTW, then I’d like them to demonstrate it.

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DO NOT HARASS EOTWR MODS. I AM FUCKING SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.

[phoenixyfriend]

Reminder that there are currently no workarounds to following a reblog chain back.

"Prev tags" is not going to work. It was always inconvenient and controversial, but it is now impossible.

If someone brings up the "click the empty space next to it" thing, they are mistaken. Here's an example:

If I click "sergeant-angels-trashcan" I will go to the top of that blog. If I click the white space below the username, I will go to this post on that blog.

If I click fucklestat, I will go to the top of that blog. If I click the white space next to that username, I will go to this post, at that specific comment, on that blog. This is how we avoid additional comments we don't want, like when you have three people in a row that were just tagging another person or going 'omg this' and you want to cut back on

(That doesn't apply to this specific post, where the dedalvs addition is actually super cool, but the fact that I have multiple reblogs in a single post was important for the example.)

However, if sergeant-angels-trashcan were to tag this as "prev tags," with no additional information, then the reading is "sarge appreciates the tags from rainbowwificonnection. I need to find this post on that person's blog.

Previously, I would click on their name up here, and it would take me to that exact post on their blog:

It does not do that anymore.

Like the other 'click on the username' situations, it takes me to the top of this person's blog. However, clicking the white space above, below, or next to them will take me to Sarge's post, not rainbowwificonnection's.

Can I open up the notes and dig through the tags? Sure, maybe. If it's a post that's gone viral, though, and it's a few days out of date, it will be next to impossible to find the specific post and specific tags. Could I go to their post and scroll down until I find the post? Sure, if this isn't a queued post, and the post is from the last day or two instead of a few weeks. Remember, searches don't work consistently on this site.

And beyond that, if the previous person has reblogged a post multiple times, you can't be sure you've found the correct one.

"Prev tags" only has meaning to the person you reblogged from, unless you copy the tags out and include them in the body of the post or into your tags with "<< prev tags" as an indicator.

So yeah. Stop using prev tags. They've gone from inconvenient to downright impossible.