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Men need to normalize having friendships with women without a sexual or romantic foundation. Some women are just really cool people to know, regardless of your attraction to them.
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"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.
Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.
Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
Lightzone to replace Lightroom
Inkscape to replace Illustratr
Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)
If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.
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Reblog to save an artist.
I wish more people...cis and trans...understood that transitioning and passing is just not possible for a lot of us and never will be. I’m so tired of the trans narrative being focused on this supposedly universal experience.
I’m extremely disabled. I will probably never be able to transition in any capacity. I am dependent on my bigoted family and on a bigoted medical system to survive. HRT could hurt my body very badly and I cannot bind because of chronic chest pain. I cannot have top surgery for those same reasons.
There’s so much more to being a man, woman, non-binary than how you can present yourself. And a lot of us are trying desperately to come to terms with that. With the idea of being closeted forever or just straight up trying to navigate our own identies among other trans people more privileged than us.
[everyone can reblog but don't clown on this post, no t*rfs, no tr*sc*m]
👏 HUGE HUGE HUGE AGREE 👏
It’s so fucking frustrating. And frankly I’m getting pissed off because tucking and binding are dangerous! I get so worried, especially with trans youth who could really hurt themselves 😰 being told you HAVE to conform to this presentation or you aren’t trans, pushing it as the ONLY way to feel better if you're dysphoric is not safe! It’s not helpful!
okay everyone
somehow people missed this.
cis people, any kind of ‘I’m cis but....' or 'I don’t understand but...' comments are completely unasked for, you can reblog posts without adding commentary.
more pressing though, this post is absolutely not the place to goof around and act cutesy. your voice is not needed here. please learn how to listen to and boost trans voices by themselves.
I am talking about disability and the health and safety of real goddamn people, do not infantilize my words.
I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:
IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.
1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.
2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.
3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”
4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”
5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.
TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.
Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.
why on earth doesn’t this have more notes
I actually had to do this once. She lived.
if you scroll past this on your dash you are absolutely heartless.
Reblog this!! This can save somebody’s life!
reblog.
help.
do not scroll down.
I SWEAR TO GOD IF ANYONE SCROLLS PAST THIS WITHOUT REBLOGGING I WILL LITTERALLY FIND THEM AND GIVE THEM A LECTURE
may I just update this?
see the little thing that says help?
Don’t ever scroll past this post. FUCKING NEVER SCROLL PAST!!!
🌸🌸🌸
Anyone know where it is on mobile ???
You report the user, choose “something else”, scroll down and choose “suicide or self harm”
DO NOT SCROLL DOWN
REBLOG TO LITERALLY SAVE A LIVE
PLEASE REBLOG
Please don’t scroll past this post, you could save someone’s life.
SAVE A LIFE
this. reblogging this on my largest blog for y’all to see this
You can also do this on Android mobile.
Scroll to the top of the post
Click the three dots in the top right corner of the post.
When the menu pops up, click Report Something Else
Then choose Suicide or Self Harm Concern.
Sorry this ain’t my usual content. But this is important.
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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨
10 of Pentz came thruuu
Omg this actually works!!! Thank you 10 of Pentacles!!!
I could seriously use this money right now….
Please give me my refund of 400$ soon…
I feel obligated to reblog this every time it shows up in my dash
No bragging, just 100% floored and grateful. Work hard, maintain a positive attitude, and believe that anything can happen.
So I reblogged this exactly a week ago because I thought it was funny and uh lo and behold, a family friend wrote me a big ol’ check just to help me out of a tough financial spot AND my bank refunded me $32 for fees they’d originally taken out. SO UH YEAH. Reblogging this again in hopes that it brings equally good fortune to my followers.
Sure why not? Jobs bring in money and prosperity…
I NEED TO FIX MY CAR DOOR
It fucking WORKED.
Loki, too, shall bless his loyal followers with the ten of pentacles money magic in 2020.
Seriously, I asked him real nice.
Hhh lit
I hope Wikipedia doesnt go bankrupt it will feel like the end times . I think I will literally panic
Encyclopedia Britannica is always there
there’s this place called a library. and they have these things called books. and then there’s this thing called Google Search. where you can find books in PDF form.
Wikipedia is user edited. you can literally put anything you want in an entry almost. I think you know where I’m about to go with this.
You’re condescending and annoying. I am attached to Wikipedia out of sentimentality it’s always been there for as long as I remember and reliable to me for some casual trivia. Wikipedia is iconic and I love her. go write a research paper or something
who let high school teachers find tumblr
me: hm i wonder how many countries drive on the same side as the UK
friend: let’s check wikipedia in 2 seconds on our phones
some asshole on tumblr: um excuse me why don’t you stop what you’re doing to go to the library and look it up in an outdated book that’s edited maybe twice a decade and that definitely doesn’t have a single page article called “list of countries with left-hand traffic”
also “user edited” really doesn’t mean as much as you think it does. there are millions of people displaying accurate information, for every one person displaying inaccurate information. and that inaccurate information is usually changed quickly, and the person who made it can get their ip blocked from wikipedia if it was bad enough. way more accurate than textbooks or a library.
Librarian here! I’ve worked at both academic (college/university) and public libraries, and let me tell you this: most print encyclopedias are useless garbage we can’t get rid of fast enough. With the exception of subject-specific sets which we need to buy again every few years because the information has become outdated, most of the information in any volume of an encyclopedia is far more accessible and far more in-depth on the internet.
Wikipedia as a reference resource is fantastic because, just like print encyclopedias, it serves as a jumping-off point for research… and so do librarians! A librarian isn’t going to just write your paper for you, we’re going to point you to the books, articles, and websites that contain the information. Wikipedia is great for that, too, because any article that gets more than a bit of traffic will wind up with sources and external links. But print encyclopedias don’t go that far in citing their sources, and because they’re static media, the references may not only be outdated, they might be entirely inaccessible due to age, obscurity, or cost of access.
And there’s an interesting thing about all those books we have on the shelves… anyone can write one, and usually they only have a handful of other people checking their work. Academic journals are somewhat notorious for the ease with which a completely falsified paper can see publication (especially in cases of electronic journals), but printed books can also be easily falsified, whether as a result of publishers with an agenda or just fact-checkers slacking off.
As has been pointed out above, wikipedia is really great at getting obscenely specific in terms of the topics of articles. It’s an amazing collection of data, and more importantly, it’s an amazing collection of sources of data.
The role of a reference librarian and a wikipedia editor are basically the same: show you a brief summary of the information you need, and point you to more in-depth, reliable sources.
I was helping a friend clear out their dad’s old stuff from their home recently and we came across encyclopedias from the 90s.
They all went to the dump. They were ASTOUNDINGLY outdated. Totally fucking useless.
High school English teacher here–I regularly get crap from some of my colleagues, but I am completely fine with students using Wikipedia for info. Wikipedia does an excellent job of flagging articles that have been recently edited until someone can verify the changes, so pages with inaccurate info often have giant warnings at the top saying “THIS PAGE MAY CONTAIN IANCCURATE INFO”. Won’t find that in an out-of-date print edition.
Not only that, but Wikipedia cites its sources. It tells you right at the bottom of the page where all its info came from, so if you want to use a fact from Wikipedia but don’t want a teacher annoyed with you, just cite the source in the footnote. Teachers and professors are (a) not likely to check up on this and (b) it’s a real source so even if they do it’s legit?
The biggest problem I have had with letting students use Wikipedia is actually that Wikipedia articles are often written in such academic language that students sometimes struggle to understand them. That part kids have to overcome on their own or with the help of their teacher. But there’s nothing wrong with Wikipedia as a source. Hatred for it is a remnant of academic elitism, thinking that “peer-reviewed” can only mean some handful of crusty white dudes instead of literally anyone with enough knowledge and motivation to review it.
Honestly. My dad is a college professor and he’s told me time and again to always start my research at Wikipedia. You have to go further, obviously, but its such a great jumping off point for information.
Plus, where else can I find an itemized and updated list of every Cryptid known to human kind?
For the impenetrable articles, here’s my tip.
The list of other languages in the sidebar? Look at it and check whether the article has a version in Simple English.
Simple English is a mode for non-native English speakers but is also great if your reading comprehension is not super good, you’re having a slow brain day for any mental health or developmental disorder reason, or the English version is just poorly written.
Librarian here, and this whole post gives me so much joy.
@sugargroupie, @turtletotem
I feel like people think “not a reliable source” means “not true” but it actually means “can’t be quoted because the words might change”
I never knew there was a simple English version? I learned something new!
So yeah, everyone go donate to Wikipedia, they’re having a hard time over there.
Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen
This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.
Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]
^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.
NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT
@osunism
NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.
This deserves every reblog.
@geh-is-okeh
In the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.
I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes
Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job
Coming into a fandom late
Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck
Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie
Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war.
Accuracy at its best
Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…
all of this shit…lol
When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF
When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead
This gets better every time I see it.
@fuboos-mess
Being in a dead fandom…
Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one
The accuracy hurts.
Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.
When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.
Being in a fandom meant for kids.
This just gets better..
@mi-kleos
When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you
Fandom hell in general
Yes.
This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.
Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on
THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!
Trying to recruit people to your fandom
Annnnnnndddd it’s back
Being in a fandom which has so many antis
I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.
Being in a fandom that actually works together
Why is this so true? All of it.
being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs
I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.
Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions
When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)
Being in a fandom you never meant to join
I love this. and it’s gotten better
After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….
All of these are me. Lol
Being in a fandom on Tumblr
And it reached its epic conclusion
Cannot resist this at this point
Are you happy?
I look around and see glimpses of you. All I can hear are the songs you played, the jokes you made and all the little sweet things that you said.
I can still smell little traces of you and feel every little touch you imprinted on me. The memories in my head make me all warm and fuzzy, until the reality of you leaving makes me sick and dizzy.
I can’t help but wonder as I move on to find someone new. Are you as happy without me as I was with you?
Playground Soilders
Something’s been bothering me but I’m too afraid to tell you. I feel like somethings changed. We’ve changed.
We used to walk side by side, brothers in arms and now it seems like we’re fifty feet apart and I’m dragging behind.
You’re living your best life, growing from a spark to a roaring flame whilst my fire slowly dies and I fear being left alone with my own mind.
Our history is rich but I feel so broke. Empty pockets and nothing but a small ray of hope. You’ve save me time and time again and I wish I could say the same.
All I do is weigh you down, like an anchor holding a balloon to the ground. I wonder if you still look at me and see your friend, if you meant it when you promised we’d last till the very end.
Do you look at me and still see me? Or have I become the enemy?
Player 1 Questions
If life is a game then how do I start over? How do I correct the choices I’ve made and the enemies I’ve created? What experience have I gained from the items I’ve collected or the people I’ve befriended? Can I change the settings? Is there an easy mode? Is the sensitivity too high? Who’s in control? Should I complete those side quests or just focus on the main goal? What skills should I boost? What class should I be? Is any of this really up to me? Should I really eat this? Do I need to sleep? Does any of this really matter? I mean it’s just a game, right?
Fairytales don’t last
I’m going to tell you the tale of a bird born from the flames and a man made of steel.
In the beginning, she rose from the ashes for she was a Phoenix. With all the grace of a hatchling, she was awkward and barely made a spark. Unlike others of her kind, she was small and weak but still each day she grew.
One day she found a statue of a man made from steel. She nestled in his arms against better judgment because she knew that the steel would stand strong just has it had already for so long. She built a nest and there she stayed for many years, in the arms of a man who would never move.
But as the years past the Phoenix grew stronger and her flames grew fiercer until she was as bright and as beautiful as the stars that light the sky. Yet as the Phoenix grew her protector had become weathered and rusted and could not withstand the heat of her flames. The statue crumbled and melted, he had turned go rubble.
Looking at what had happened to the metal man the Phoenix started to weep but even she knew that her tears could not bring fix him. So she left and to this day the man of steel lays broken as the Phoenix blazes through the sky in search of a new nest.
Sensual
I shouldn’t be here. I know that I should not have come here, but everything about this place is so intoxicating.
There’s music playing. I can’t hear any words but I can feel it, pounding in my veins, moving my body like a puppeteer with invisible strings.
All around me the room is filled with a sent that I can't quite describe, it's sweet yet musky and more aromatic than all the flowers in the world.
It's drawing me in, my eyes blinded by the darkness follow blindly to some unspoken command, a dead language only known to me and them.
I can feel them all around me, strangers illuminated in a prism of flashing lights. I can feel every caress, every grind and every light touch.
I'm drunk on the senses, every nerve in my body sparking like wildfire as I become one with the crowd. I shouldn't be here, none of us should but it feels so damn good that I never want to leave.
Do Not.
Do not demand from me what you would not give in return.
Do not expect from me what you would not do for me first.
Do not decide for me when I have my own mind.
Do not hide from me for I am not blind.
List of Elemental Abilities
Air/Wind
Aerokinesis -manipulate the air, wind, and gas.
Aeroportation - teleport using air/wind currents.
Air Mimicry - transform into a cloud of gas, fog, or mist.
Atmokinesis - manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Deoxygenation - suck up all the oxygen from a place.
Lung Adaptation - breath anywhere
Wind Generation - create blasts of air.
Divine Winds Manipulation - create and control heavenly winds.
Dark Wind Manipulation - create and control eerie winds.
Earth
Geokinesis - control, manipulate, and reshape the earth at will.
Atmokinesis - control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Crystallokinesis - manipulate minerals and crystals.
Ferrokinesis… manipulate metal at will.
Fraxikinesis - manipulate burnt matter.
Geo-Thermokinesis - manipulate, control, and create lava, magma and volcanoes.
Golem Creation - make golems out of inanimate materials like rocks, wood, plants, magma, etc.
Granulation… can turn things into sand.
Halokinesis - control and manipulate salt.
Hyalokinesis - control and manipulate glass.
Koniokinesis - manipulate and control dust particles.
Plassikinesis - manipulate and control all forms of plastic.
Psammokinesis - can control and manipulate sand.
Terrakinesis - control, manipulate and alter/reshape the surrounding terrain and landscape at will.
Terraportation - teleport via the earth and earth-based materials.
Sacred Earth Manipulation - Create, manipulate, control, reshape divine earth minerals.
Black Earth Manipulation - Create, manipulate and control tainted and evil earth minerals.
Fire
Pyrokinesis - create, control and manipulate fire, flame and heat.
Atmokinesis - control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Fire Breath - breathe out flames.
Geo-Thermokinesis - manipulate lava, magma and volcanoes.
Heliokinesis - manipulate and control the sun and sunlight.
Hell-Fire Manipulation - Generate and control flames of hell.
Holy Fire Manipulation - Generate and control flames of Heaven.
Inflammation - burn things.
Melting - heat molecules to melt things.
Plasmakinesis - can control plasma.
Pyrotechnics - create fireworks.
Self-Detonation - explode self and reform.
Thermokinesis - create, control and manipulate heat.
Water
Hydrokinesis - manipulate and control liquid water and mold it into any desired shape or form.
Aquatic Adaptation - adapted to underwater living.
Aquatic Respiration - breathe underwater.
Atmokinesis- control and manipulate the various aspects of the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Dehydration - absorb water.
Hydroportation - teleport across short or long distances through liquid water.
Water Mimicry - turn into liquid water.
Holy Water Manipulation - create, manipulate and control graceful waters.
Dark Water Manipulation - create, manipulate and control evil and dangerous waters.
Darkness
Umbrakinesis - can manipulate and control darkness or shadows.
Animated Shadow - Animate one’s shadow.
Light Absorption - block out light in an area.
Night Vision - see in the dark.
Sacred Darkness - create holy darkness.
Shadow Camouflage - be unseen in shadows.
Shadow Mimicry - become a shadow.
Umbrageous Teleportation - teleport via the shadows and darkness.
Electricity/Lightning
Quintessence Force -Can generate whitish-blue lightning that also contains pure life energy.
Electrokinesis - control, generate or absorb electric fields and shoot lightning bolts.
Activation & Deactivation - turn stuff on and off.
Positron Manipulation - control positrons, the antimatter counterpart to electrons.
Electrical Absorption - absorb electricity.
Electric Mimicry -transform entire body into a lightning-like being of pure electrical energy
Electrical Transportation - teleport with lightning.
Divine Lightning Manipulation - create and control the brightest lightning.
Black Lightning Manipulation - create and control the darkest lightning.
Energy
Dynamokinesis - manipulate existing energy.
Energy Blast - create blasts of energy.
Energy Emission - release energy.
Quintessence Force - create and manipulate unique form of electrical and life energy.
Mana Manipulation
Chi Manipulation
Electricity Manipulation
Energy Manipulation
Ice
Cryokinesis - control ice, snow and other forms of frozen water.
Freeze Breath - freeze things in solid ice.
Freezing - lower the temperature in kinetic atoms to freezing temperatures.
Frigokinesis - control snow either as precipitation or already on the ground.
Ice Beam - shoot beams of freezing energy.
Ice Generation
Light
Dark Light Manipulation - create the darkest light in existence.
White Light Manipulation- create sacred light from the divine.
Photokinesis - create and manipulate pure light.
Force-Field Generation - create protective shields of solid photons.
Invisibility - be unseen.
Laser Emission - bend light wavelengths to create lasers.
Light Absorption -absorb the light around you.
Light Generation - emit blinding light or glow in the dark.
Light Mimicry - take on the traits of light.
Photoportation - Teleport by using photons.
Projective Invisibility - turn other things invisible.
Evil Banish - Rid and banish all spirits of evil and black magic.
Light Manipulation
Weather
Atmokinesis - manipulate the various aspects of the weather by using water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Atmokinetic Resistance - immunity to all weather-based abilities and effects.
Atmokinetic Sensing - sense the future weather patterns.
Other
Aether Manipulation
Cosmic Manipulation
Gravity Manipulation
Nether Manipulation
Space-Time Manipulation
From Superpower Wikia. See their complete list of superpowers HERE.
Damn Tumblr, I came here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked rn