Codename: X

I'm 26 now I guess

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[samglyph]

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama // Wisdom to Heal the Earth by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[husbanddaughter]

they literally deleted all existing reblogs of that post from existence btw<3

[m4timel]

[mothtowers]

danganronpa dialogue:

"maybe the killer gave them a heart attack by writing down their name. like with a certain notebook from a certain anime."

"h-huh?"

zero escape dialogue:

"and so, mr tortoise continues to believe theres a teapot floating in space because mr hare can not definitively prove him wrong. but what if something like that... applied to the entire world?"

"like how theres no way to prove if youre wearing panties or not unless you offer definitive proof"

umineko dialogue:

[sludgebitch]

if you came out to goku as trans he like wouldn't get it at all but in like a vaguely positive way like a supportive uncle who could be trained to say the right things

vegeta would be like get out of here you stupid tranny bitch and then go work in 200x gravity because he's so mad about how much he wants to fuck you all of a sudden

gohan would be like 👍 im researching bugs btw and you'd never talk about transness ever again but he'd never ever get your pronouns wrong or miss a beat the gender switch would be entirely flipped in his head in a split second

piccolo would be like hff, i suppose we all have our own training to do. i look forward to seeing your growth

bulma would immediately quote drag race at you

[sludgebitch]

android 18 would go on diyhrt.cafe using her brain computer and start listing off dosages

yamcha would be like woaahhh heh heh you're telling me dudes can be chicks? and the other way too? unbelievable, kinda like my friend puar come to think of it

goten wouldn't be able to hear you because he would be busy playing fortnite and watching family guy compilations

trunks would be like well.. yknow... if you ever need someone to talk to!! and then you'd find out he's cripplingly addicted to femboy porn

[deadgenerations]

one of the reasons I soured on Helldivers community to such a degree is that, when I was into the game, I got really into figuring out the backend. Helldivers is sort of a massively multiplayer online PVE game, with a sort of dungeon master with daylies, weeklies events and so on. so I wanted to figure out how the game determines whether the community wins and all the other secret numbers.

and I did! I figured out a lot of it, and it was very interesting. some great decisions and some poor ones. One poor decision was that there are multiple "fronts" in the war, basically different factions to fight that are always available but typically one faction will be the focus of a given "major order" which is a typically 2-5 day event, and the problem is that the game counts victory by basically the percentage of the total player base online playing on a certain planet (and winning their missions there, ofc).

Each order grants rewards, some quite significant and universal, like unlocking a new weapo nfor the entire player base! the factions also play very differently with some players being significantly polarised as to which they enjoy.

the problem is at a significantly large size of players, you playing the game at the "right place" does not significantly affect the overall winrate. you logging on to play doesn't really matter. what does significantly affect whether you win, whether everyone gets the rewards etc, is whether or not other people log on and play Wrong, play against other factions on other fronts. this naturally and immediately and significantly antagonises the players against other players for the simple crime of logging on to play the way they want to play! It's pretty obvious how this can go wrong and encourage a very obnoxious player base!

The second problem is that this is not obvious if you don't have the metrics, and so casuals don't know this, but it IS extremely obvious to anyone who has any access to the metrics, increasing the friction! Helldivers 2 in general really really loves hiding information from players, often stupid shit that should be made available.

But there are tons of metrics that can be tracked, and I loved that, I loved seeing how this worked, and so I put effort into learning it. and it made me realise that basically everyone who played Helldivers was wrong about how the game was run from the developers end. the players constantly, every time, got mad at developer interference that simply was not happening. They would constantly claim things were rigged which weren't (because I had access to datamined files showing that they had different endings prepared).

and I mean every order these people were furious at half the player base and (very stupidly and reflexively) blaming Devs for rigging things. They'd claim a major order was rigged to win when I could see based on the numbers exactly how the developers were actively balancing the calculations in their backend on a daily basis to ensure that it wouldn't be handed to them, and I could see when people said it was rigged to lose that the developers were trying to adjust things so winning was possible. basically every big ticket major order was carefully monitored in the opening hours so that certain backend calculations were balanced to 1 ensure the order lasted long enough that everyone could get their hand on the ball and it wouldnt end the same day 2 that they calculated based on the player counts and amount of interest such that there was both a chance to win and to fail. usually the devs would take their fingers off the scale as soon as A they figured out the numbers they needed B they could see the game would definitely be won or lost without major interference. Because the game was played globally they put a LOT of effort into making sure people in china and America both could play the order before it was over, and they put a lot of effort into making sure big orders always had some playtime over the weekend so people with 9-5s could really dig into it.

Sometimes they also added hidden tension, by causing hidden 'resistence' values to fall over time, so the first day the victory meter would barely move, then it would slowly increase pace at very regular intervals until the last 12 or so hours. It was all quite interesting to me

but the problem was that I now reflexively saw how the sausage was made and knew how to find and read these numbers. almost no one else did. so I would see people flipping out and raging about rigging that I could see wasn't happening, and I could see when things everyone said were rigged to fail were actually being rigged in their favour and so on! So the community couldn't help but appear to be a pack of emotional and imbicilic morons incapable of shitting and breathing at the same time, on top of them generally being toxic and unpleasant.

[dailyarturiartfgo]

URGENT COMMISSIONS OR REQUESTS OPEN

I am sorry for asking for such things but some occurences kinda happened... I am opening Ko-fi requests and commissions, just send me a message on Tumblr or on Ko-fi.

Link to my Ko-fi Page: *****

I will sketch any requests you have in mind for 2 or 3 coffees and here are my commissions sheets:

[bogleech]

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

[caroline-vibecheck]

dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist

[txttletale]

something i like about disco elysium is that although it has an obvious viewpoint (if you think the game isnt explicitly communist you're just wrong i'm afraid) it doesn't make the proponents of the other ideologies big silly goofballs to make this point--joyce and kim are wrong, both morally and factually, but they are wrong eloquently and compellingly. even measurehead, in the final cut, gets a long and compelling (and wrong! and fascist! to be clear!) monologue where he makes the case for his ideology.

[txttletale]

like it compares very favorably to a trend i see a lot in media that wants to Say Something About Fascism, which is to have a guy walk on and say 'im fasho the fascist!' and then he slips on a banana peel and goes 'bwagh!'. like--that's not a critique of fascism. you've made the fascist look bad, yeah, but not by attacking any substantial part of their politics or actions. anyone could fall over and go 'bwagh'. it's not even bad critique, it's just not critique, it's painting a groucho marx moustache and glasses onto a photo.

[important-cat-pics]

[elbiotipo]

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

[elbiotipo]

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

[crabussy]

if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kākāpō, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kākāpō numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.

[kedreeva]

Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.

[coinin]

The Lord Howe Island rodent eradication project never fails to make me cry, it’s so beautiful.

The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldn’t be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!

Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.

We are making a difference!

[aetherograph]

In 1979, an audacious, expensive conservation project was begun to try and breed california condors in captivity toward being released into the wild again. This was considered useless and hopeless by many people, but many more people said we had to at least TRY.

In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.

In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.

We did that. We fixed it.

How about another example.

When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.

My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.

When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.

There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.

There is no more acid rain.

There is an ozone.

There are wild tigers.

There are still birds on Lord Howe Island.

There are 369 California Condors flying free.

[dragonfly-wings1]

Black footed ferrets were considered completely extinct in 1979. Then we found a single den in Wyoming in 1981. In 1996 it was classified as extinct in the wild.

By 2013, there were approximately 1,200 living wild, across 18 dens. Their numbers increase regularly, and while the face challenges due to habitat loss, climate change, and their limited genetic diversity, they're in a much better place than they were.

Because people cared, and they worked, and they fought to make things better.

[gvalesdraws]

Naissance

[digicure]

i dont know if anyones made gifs of them yet but they're so stupid (positive) i think i needed to make some regardless

[porcelain-dollbones]

[coshayphinelove]

I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.

[leebrontide]

Update- Minnesota republicans are taking this opportunity to try to impeach Govt Waltz, who has already declared that he will not seek re-election in November because of Republican death threats against him and his family. Because of the "fraud". But actually because Waltz is speaking very plainly about what is happening here.

St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.

Every school I know now has safety patrols.

The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.

Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.

Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.

Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.

We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.

We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.

If human rights can be revoked because Trump doesn't like your state, then they aren't rights anymore, they are favors dispensed by your king.

[whosintheattic-now]

I am not near the Twin Cities, but last month ICE abducted a mother and her child from the front of a building four doors down from my home.

A friend of mine was downtown and said he saw a bunch of people being loaded by force onto a freight train car by ICE.

Things are scary.

[countthelions]

WIKIPEDIA IS 25 TODAY MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!! [Their celebration article here]

[countthelions]

there is not NEARLY enough noise on this post !!! CELEBRATE ITS BIRTHDAYYYYYY

[socialpants]

Happy birthday! You were one of greatest online creations for 25 years. Then greed entered the equation, and now you want money for the unpaid labour of 250K volunteers

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

[cinnamonmagick]

RIP:

While AI training has sparked legal battles elsewhere over copyright and other issues, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he welcomes it. “I’m very happy personally that AI models are training on Wikipedia data because it’s human curated,” Wales told The Associated Press in an interview. “I wouldn’t really want to use an AI that’s trained only on X, you know, like a very angry AI,” Wales said, referring to billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform.

Editors and users could benefit from AI in other ways. The Wikimedia Foundation has outlined an AI strategy that Wales said could result in tools that reduce tedious work for editors. While AI isn’t good enough to write Wikipedia entries from scratch, it could, for example, be used to update dead links by scanning the surrounding text and then searching online to find other sources. “We don’t have that yet but that’s the kind of thing that I think we will see in the future.” Artificial intelligence could also improve the Wikipedia search experience, by evolving from the traditional keyword method to more of a chatbot style, Wales said. “You can imagine a world where you can ask the Wikipedia search box a question and it will quote to you from Wikipedia,” he said. It could respond by saying “here’s the answer to your question from this article and here’s the actual paragraph. That sounds really useful to me and so I think we’ll move in that direction as well.”

Wales say he’s known Musk for years but they haven’t been in touch since Grokipedia launched. “I should probably ping him,” Wales said. What would he say? “‘How’s your family?’ I’m a nice person, I don’t really want to pick a fight with anybody.”

[insert-some-url]

I haven’t been active here for a while and probably won’t be

I just came to say that my country Iran is going through a revolution right now and I want everyone to know that Iranians will not give up until these bloodthirsty mullahs are gone for good

This time protests are even more intense than the WomanLifeFreedom uprisings

People are protesting in the streets despite brutal government crackdowns, they’re tearing down the flags of the Islamic repooplic regime and chanting slogans against the regime non stop

The IR regime has taken to attacking literal hospitals full of injured people!!!

They’re arresting kids below 18!!

Remember:

IRANIANS DO NOT WANT THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC REGIME!!!

WE DON’T WANT REFORMS WE WANT A REGIME CHANGE

As always mainstream media and all the self-proclaimed “human rights activists” are dead silent because supporting Iranians fighting against Islamist dictators doesn’t benefit them but fuck those posers because we don’t need such clowns we got our unity

If you want to help Iranians please be our voice and keep talking about Iran

Watch out for regime propaganda and listen to actual Iranian voices especially from inside Iran

پاینده باد ایران

💚🦁❤️

[wanderrnest]

The person who wrote this post probably can’t update us anymore, because the regime has decided that the internet blackout will continue indefinitely, with no access to the global internet.

After thousands were brutally murdered, and after Trump failed to keep his promise to send help, the protests have died down out of fear.

People were bravely fighting for their freedom against a murderous tyrannical regime, and the international community has failed them. Now their situation is worse than ever.

BE THEIR VOICES.

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?