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I need to make a new pinned post bc the old one is outdated but I don't have the brain power to rn to so just uhhh
I'm Cryptid (they/them) I generally just reblog stuff here sometimes I post art but most of my art is posted on my second blog @somerandomcryptid which is my dsmp blog because that's the fandom I do the most art for :3
I'll add other stuff at some point later :')
So, bad news, the bill package containing KOSA, the act that would basically mandate invasive age verification across the internet, is gearing up to be discussed on December 1st 2025, giving all indications of trying to shove it out while everyone's distracted by the holidays.
Not only is KOSA in it, albeit maybe watered down, but it's packaged with a bunch of other censorship bills including the arguably even more dangerous App Store Accountability Act.
Now, I've talked about this before, so I'll be brief, but long story short the bill is so badly written that it basically requires age verification for any website where you can download a program.
This would fuck over everything from Github to The Internet Archive to Mario Fangames Galaxy, to even any site that lets users submit stuff for upload, it is an existential threat to the open internet, I cannot emphasize that enough.
Now is the time to find your House member and call them ASAP to kill this bill, especially if they're on the Energy and Commerce Committee that will be debating this, ideally right before the Thanksgiving holidays and right after, so they know you're paying attention.
If they're Dems tell them it'll be used to censor queer kids, if they're Repubs tell them it'll be used to censor small businesses and innovation, either way tell them about how age verification has been a disaster in Britain and has already lead to major leaks of information where it's been implemented, and especially how KOSA and the ASAA would harm your favorite sites, to give it that personal touch.
We've beat this shit before, and we can beat it again, we just gotta get at it!
Also, the poster above is available under a CC-By 4.0 License as long as I, Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as the creator.
The character, by the by, is an existing one called Sister Marian, and if you want to read where she comes from...
HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI in GMAIL:
Open Gmail in your browser
Click on the Gear Icon ⚙️ in the upper right
In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNCHECK THE BOX. It is about halfway down.
Then, right below that is Google Workspace smart features. Click on the "Manage Workspace Smart Features" and make sure both toggles are OFF
Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent.
"I don’t know with certainty what’s happening in these facilities. I know what the infrastructure looks like. I know what the incentives are. I know what history tells us happens when you combine captive populations with ambitious medical research and deliberately removed oversight."
I’m starting a new series today, and I wish I didn’t have to.
Parts 2 through 4 cover the history of Neuralink
“He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that proje
In Part 2, we left off with Benjamin Rapoport and other co-founders walking away from Neuralink, citing vague concerns about safety.
I’ve been staring at a GoFundMe page for 6 days now, and I can’t stop thinking about the word “storybook.”
We need members of Congress to ask why DOD neurological surgery contracts are flowing through shell companies to civilian hospitals. We need the remaining FDA staff to explain what oversight exists for experimental procedures at military facilities. Because right now, all we have is infrastructure that looks purpose-built for something we’d rather not name. All we have are patterns that keep appearing in different cities but with the same components. All we have are gaps in documentation where accountability should be. And we have Elon Musk’s announced timeline: from 7 brain implants to 1,000 in fifteen months. Sixty patients per month. In a technology that’s experimental, risky, and requires extensive informed consent. Unless it doesn’t.
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Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!
Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.
information wants to be free
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My friend’s chicken is really sick and needs help. She means the world to them and their family. If you’ve been wanting to commission me, now would be a good time, I’ll be sending everything I make over to them to help cover their bills.
They’ve already paid $1600 and may be paying up to 3k depending on future care. Anything helps!!
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forgive me father for i have opened a notification and read the message within to make the red dot go away and then forgot to reply for a month . it will happen again
Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments
starting a collection
If I may submit:
The thing about censorship is: it actually makes kids MORE likely to stumble across things that theyre not ready for.
Back before this site banned porn, it was all tagged with whatever clear label matched it. If you wanted to search for, say, bdsm, you could type that in and find exactly that. And, crucially, it meant you could filter it out, too. Meaning that people who wanted to find that content could do so with ease, and people who wanted to not find that content on their dash by surprise could also ensure that with ease.
But then tumblr banned porn thanks to pressure from the Apple App store, and ----- did porn go away? Nope. It just stopped being labelled as porn. There's still all the same raunchy content on here as there was before -- its just not tagged, or its tagged with euphemisms, or tagged with creative tags that circumvent the bans, or tagged with completely unrelated should-be-innocuous tags like "oceans" or "photography" or "flowers" or etc.
Which not only makes it harder to find, but also, more importantly, makes it harder to avoid.
Nowadays I can be scrolling my dash and get slapped suddenly in the face by a post that is decidedly not G-rated, and its because neither the OP or the person who reblogged it has tagged with anything, meaning my blocklist (which I have in place so that I'm not surprised by a raunchy gifset while I'm scrolling my dash in the work lunchroom, surrounded by colleagues) hasn't caught it and filtered it out.
And the same thing is going to happen on other platforms. If you ban porn, the outcome is never "there is no more porn" -- the outcome is just "porn is harder to find now and simultaneously harder to avoid."
This post was prompted by a random post i saw earlier today which ive since lost, but which was an advert for some """fishing gear""" that looked pretty much like a dildo. And who knows, maybe that item WAS some kind of obscure fishing gear. But it made me think of how, with the censorship and purity culture infecting every corner of the internet, it means we ARE going to wind up with sites that are selling sex toys that are labelled as innocuous everyday items.
So imagine youre a kid and you get suddenly super into fishing, and you're looking into building a christmas wish list, so you research a bunch of fishing tackle. And there, nestled amongst the lures and weights and lines and tackle boxes, is a bunch of sex toys. None of them are labelled as sex toys. Theyre labelled as miscellaneous fishing tackle. Because, unbeknownst to you, the sex toys companies -- no longer able to advertise their wares honestly -- have started labelling their dildos as fishing lures and their whips as fishing poles and their butt plugs as fishing weights. And those In The Know are aware that to purchase sex toys, you need to look up these Regular Non-sexy Products, and you'll find the raunchy products youre after.
But meanwhile, anyone who wants to find ACTUAL fishing lures and poles and weights suddenly has to contend with mislabelled sex toys showing up in their search results.
TLDR? Censoring porn never makes it go away. It just makes it go into hiding. Which, in an internet era, makes it more likely that the kids you're trying so hard to """protect""" from porn will simply stumble upon it through routes that used to be but are no longer innocuous.
tumblr support must dread updates coming out. because it means they will receive very impassioned and detailed emails from me
- Reblogging a post used to require two clicks. The reblog button, and then the post button. Now it takes three to do the exact same thing. This doesn't seem like a lot when stated like that, but it makes me want to reblog less, which is unfortunate as reblogging is Tumblr's core functionality.
- The note count has been removed entirely, separating them into individual reblogs and likes. Before, I could see the number of notes a post had at a glance. Easy. Effortless. Now I have to do math. Bad. Annoying.
- Previously one could go through the activity on a post by clicking the note count. Now, because the note count is gone, viewing who reblogged a post now requires even more clicks. Bad design choice. The location of that information is also not intuitive, particularly if you're used to the old layout.
- Likewise, you could previously view who liked a post by clicking on the note count. Now, unless someone has reblogged the post already, you cannot view the likes on a post AT ALL, because the menu to do so is only available on posts with reblogs. What?????
- You moved the edit and delete buttons from the post footer into the top right corner drop down menu. Unintuitive: why would buttons related to generating content (like the reblog button) be hidden in a separate menu? And again: previously, editing a post took one click. Now I have to go searching for the option.
This is an even wilder choice on Tumblr's part because there's SO MUCH empty space in between icons (bad design choice) so, it's not like there's not space for them.
- Similarly, liking and deleting reblogs is also now unintiuitive. There are two "more option" drop down menus on a reblogged post: one at the top header, and one underneath, next to the body of the original post. That's silly on its own - but even more so because the edit and delete buttons only appear on one menu, and not the other. Confusing!
- It occurs to me that the layout and functionality of the new post header is probably trying to mimic Twitter/Bluesky/etc? I hate this. If I wanted to use Twitter or Bluesky, I would open up Twitter or Bluesky. I come to Tumblr to use Tumblr. Why remove Tumblr's unique, defining features?
Watching people talk about terrible Tumblr updates that haven't hit you yet is like
Just got this godawful update. Crying throwing up
I hate the new tumblr ui with a burning passion
my main issue with making aus is that i will also make sub aus. like the au but theres some different significant change or addition to it. and ill keep making these in my brain until theres like an entire ecosystem of them
I think it's because I'm a STEM major (chemistry to be exact), but I often can't take a lot of lab whump seriously bc I'm just like... that's improper lab procedure. What do you mean they just started cutting into him randomly? What do you MEAN they're testing his pain tolerance? What are they even observing here? What are the levels of this experiment? What is the control? What are the constants? How do they know which factors are effecting their results? They can't publish this shit. Whumper will be laughed out of peer review.
It has come to my attention that not everyone knows proper lab procedure and experimental design! So here's how to write lab whump like a real scientist:
Step 1. Lab cleanliness and Safety
- In all labs, no matter what kind of science you're doing, it's important to keep a clean environment. (This isn't the same as a sterile environment, which you would need if you are doing any kind of major surgery.) Mostly, it's important to keep floors and walkways clear, to prevent tripping hazards.
- In most labs, latex gloves, pants, and close toed shoes are required. Long hair must be put up in a ponytail or bun. Sometimes goggles are necessary, but only when working with heat, pressure, or volatile chemicals. Eating and drinking in the lab is also expressly forbidden.
- In whump context, I would think that ensuring the ahem... test subject, is securely restrained would be of the upmost importance. You don't want your doctors getting bitten or scratched on the job.
Step 2. Experimental Design
- This is something I see a lot of writers misunderstand and it's a pet peeve of mine. Before you can start torturing your Whumpees, first you gotta ask: "What are the scientists trying to figure out?"
- For example, lets imagine a whumpee with very fast healing. The scientists studying them might want to figure out exactly how fast their healing works. So do they just start cutting Whumpee into pieces willy nilly? Nope. They gotta be systematic. Here's how I would design this experiment:
Independent Variable (The thing that you change): The amount of flesh removed from Whumpee.
Dependent Variable (The thing that you measure): The amount of time it takes for Whumpee to heal.
Levels (The different values of the independent variable): 5mm², 10mm², 100mm², etc.
Replicates (The amount of times you repeat each level): Should be at least 3
Control (The data you are comparing to): A normal human's healing speed.
Constants (Things that stay the same between trials): Same part of Whumpee's body, same time of day, same depth of injury, etc.
Cofactors (Other variables that could be potentially affecting your data): Stress levels of Whumpee, any drugs that might be in their system, conscious vs unconscious, hungry, etc.
- With all this in mind, you would run the experiment, with someone recording in a lab notebook real time. (Very important. Lab notebooks can be on actual paper or digital. Most labs use digital these days.)
- Once the experiment is done, you'd examine the data, see if there's any discrepancies or ways that the procedure could be improved, and run another experiment.
- Sometimes, questions answered from one experiment will give rise to even more questions. For example, let's use the healing Whumpee again. Let's say your scientist figured out Whumpee's baseline healing rate. But, they want to know if/how certain drugs affect Whumpee's healing speed. To figure this out, they'd conduct a new experiment, but this time, instead of changing how much flesh is removed, they'd make that a constant, and instead they would change how much of a drug they are injecting into whumpee.
- Experiments are meant to be repetetive and methodical, meaning that your Whumpee may very well have to go through the same thing over and over again, with very minor tweaks here and there.
- Overall, you don't need to worry too much about designing an entire experiment if you just want to write simple lab whump. But, if your whumpers are meant to be official and experienced scientists, then it might be worth it to go the extra mile and show how their scientific brains are working. (And personally, I will always find methodical lab whump more interesting than aimless torture.)
I hope this helped and it wasn't too long. If y'all have any more questions on lab whump and science, feel free to send me an ask. Happy Whumping!
And thank you to @detectingeagle310 for asking me to elaborate lol
poly shipping is so much fun. you can take any ship & just throw another guy in there for a new flavor & dynamic. you can just throw another guy in there. just throw another guy in there. throw another guy in there. throw another guy in there. throw another guy in there
It's all fun and games and laughing at BookTok until you can't get on AO3 anymore, as someone who likes both romance and fanfic.
Love this so much
the practical magic musical looks great
well this fucking bangs
you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
