deaderrose

This is my tumblr. I don't use it all that often, but then sometimes I do.

[sreegs]

hey it's me black mold. thanks for running your window air conditioner all summer. whatever you do, do not regularly clean the removable filter. that's not necessary

you should also never ever unplug the air conditioner and stick a flashlight in the vent that blows air to see if we're in there. it's very bad, that place should not be checked

and whatever you do, if you've already made the mistake of unplugging it, don't remove it from the window for cleaning if possible. and whether it's possible to remove the unit or not, don't carefully disassemble the front panel, document where the screws go and plastic bits go, and open up the vent more to be able to get into it easily

as black mold, i'm an expert on this. you should heed my warnings: now, if you've somehow made the mistake of doing all of the above, you should not use warm water and dish soap to CLEAN the inside of the vent thoroughly. DON'T ever use a bottle brush to get into the hard to reach places. and certainly don't rinse and dry the cleaned area before carefully putting it back together

there's nothing wrong with us, black mold. we don't cause or exacerbate breathing conditions like asthma or other illnesses. it's cool, we're cool

furthermore, if you're capable of removing the window unit, DONT take a hose with the same soapy water and wash the portion of the window unit that sits outside the window and is therefore weatherproofed.

whatever you do, don't allow the air conditioner to dry before plugging it back in and turning it on again

and if you have a central air conditioner, you will definitely never ever consult a manual or sources online to perform a similar cleaning procedure on the cooling unit outside.

lastly, if you're physically unable to do the things we (the black mold) warned you not to do above, you should never ever ask someone to help you or hire a service to do it.

[garbage-empress]

Also even if you do not have the time, space or ability to do some of the the things in the OP, definitely do not clean the coils (the awful sharp flat stacks of metal) with foaming coil cleaner. That removes the beneficial black mold (us) holding the unit together. It will be completely unsatisfying to watch the foam clean out the Super Beneficial Black Mold, Mildew, Hair, Lint & Dust Combo™ (that is not only a health hazard but making the unit less efficient at cooling necessary for air conditioner function) and leave the metal shiny.

It is a lot of elbow grease and definitely not just spraying a can and waiting. Especially do not use the ones that are self rinsing via the natural condensation of water around the coils where all you have to do is let the foam settle a couple hours before turning the unit back on. These foaming cleaners are also terrible to use on the removable air intake vent covers. You definitely do not just have to spray the opposite side of all the trapped shit on the plastic mesh and let the foam push it off. Also that stuff on the cover is great for you and your air conditioner.

Trust us. We, the mold, know much more about air conditioners than the people who make aerosol cans you can pick up for like $8 at home depot. Definitely do not do this a couple times a season.

[tboy-cock]

i think more people would benefit from an "i dont have to commit to this identity, if i ever change my mind, i dont have to identify that way anymore" approach to sexual/romantic orientation and gender identity

[kaazukado]

and also people need to stop treating you changing your mind as proof that you were faking the previous identity. or that you shouldn't be taken seriously when you're exploring your sexual/romantic orientation and gender identity because it's "just a phase" and you'll go "back to normal" eventually

[tboy-cock]

the way i explain the "its just a phase"/"youre too young to know" shit to parents of trans kids is this: if your kid comes out as trans and you dont accept them (which involves gendering them correctly, using their new name, new clothes, allowing them to present how they want to present without verbal abuse, ect), youre either going to be wrong (which is very, VERY likely), or your kid is going to learn that they cant come to you about important things and that they cant tell you about themselves. your kid is going to learn that your love for them is conditional, that you dont accept them unconditionally, and that they cant trust you to tell you anything important. creating an environment where your kid cant come to you if they need love and support or HELP is NEVER going to be safe for your child, in fact you are actively putting them at risk of harm by doing that. if your child wants to go by he/him and wear boys clothes and cut his hair or whatever, going along with it, EVEN IF YOU THINK ITS A PHASE, AND EVEN IF HE LATER DECIDES HES JUST A CIS GIRL, is the safest and best thing that you can do for your child. even if your child is wrong, they will learn that you are a trustworthy person who they can be themselves around, and having parents that are accepting of your transition not only lowers their suicide risk EXPONENTIALLY, but it protects them from other areas of harm, such as csa and domestic violence

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[3liza]

tumblr support just sent me a message informing me they reviewed this post^^^ and determined it did not violate their community guidelines so they didn't do anything except apply a mature content label. but i never reported this post. why would i report this post. why would they put a mature content label on it

[scanning4lifeforms]

at the risk of sounding paranoid, istg they do this so that when posts and blogs get censored/deactivated that "aren't supposed to," they'll be able to point to a glitchy system and say "see? we just haven't worked out the bugs yet, we're not nuking people on purpose"

[3liza]

^^^ second user agrees with you abt this. @zingring, you got any idea what's going on?

[3liza]

this is confirmed to be happening regularly

garaks-padded-bra (not) reported by dungeonsanddragonsfifthedition and pegglefan69 and at least one other person, and then banned based on the bug apparently (all GarakPB does is post about star trek, ive never seen them break site TOS at all)

bobacupcake (not) reported by snarp for saying "h-hello??"

pjackk (not) reported by orcboxer for saying "Bulgaria is Following in Greece's Footsteps. Here's How We Stop It." and then getting banned for it(???!!!)

no i dont think anyone on tumblr staff is doing this on purpose, there's no political or personal reason that would target this kind of thing at a star trek goof blog and a nice little illustration blog or a funny blog about medievalisms. i mean sure pjackk had enemies from killing all those dogs but this just looks like a really weird bug. much like pjackk

QUESTION: HAS ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED THESE EMAILS TRIED TO REPORT IT TO TUMBLR SUPPORT? if so, what happened?

[3liza]

ok i had my little narcolepsy blackout for the afternoon and im back.

you can put any email into the reporting form as the reporting party, whether the email is registered to tumblr or not. the Name field doesnt do anything. i just tested it. it doesnt validate for tumblr username. the only information the tumblr report form requires is an email address. so now im wondering if anyone outside tumblr has gotten these emails, and if so who, and for which reports.

i just tested this by opening a private window, reporting one of the rape threat bots from my earlier post, and filling in an email that i have not registered to tumblr. interestingly, logged-in tumblr users can one-click report spam, logged-out users have to provide a text paywall paragraph even for spam reports. everyone has to pass the textwall to report stuff other than spam. but for some reason ZenDesk doesn't seem to care if someone is reporting a tumblr TOS violation as a tumblr user or not. which seems.............like a mistake, in terms of moderation handling. but maybe they have a "reported by logged in user" flag on their backend idk

this means mass reporting, botnets, scripts, and random reporting dont even need a working tumblr account to be logged in to be reporting from. anyone can navigate their simple macro script to the reporting form and run it all day and night, reporting nonsense by pulling URLs from someone's tumblr account. so if bad actors are actually exploiting this reporting form in this way, it would certainly explain why tumblr support is swamped in bullshit reports, and why they have recently started making people fill in up to two paragraphs of explanation about how exactly something breaks TOS (paragraphs which are also trivially easy to bypass, as all users of r9k discovered exactly five minutes after that board went up)

WHY WOULD SOMEONE DO THIS? idk, this is sort of the least mysterious part of the mystery and also the most impossible to answer. for a really popular account like pjackk, popular accounts make a lot of enemies even if they are well-liked, so that could have been personal. or it could have been because his username is just really visible and therefor easy for data validation crawlers to grab and put in a database of "known active tumblr users". garakPB and bobacupcake dont have any obvious enemies except maybe "bigots generally" and the "bigots generally" motivation could certainly be responsible for some of the banned trans woman waves also. but their reports/bands seem more like noise to me and not targeted harassment, just my own reckon. most of the traffic of the internet at this point is ads and crawlers and botnets and a lot of it is shit like this that doesnt really serve a clear purpose and isnt necessarily malicious (but could be). trying to nail down motivations is pointless because much of it is just noise, people testing scripts, people forgetting scripts are running, people selling scripts to other people, etc

if your email address has ever been public anywhere, or ever on a have-i-been-pwned list, it could be used for spoofing reports. and if you run a report-spoofing script long enough pulling random posts, eventually tumblr support will either receive a report that can be interpreted as rulebreaking if they squint, or whatever automated behavior that may happen after X number of reports on a single blog is surpassed may kick in and cause some sort of autoban that then needs to be appealed by a human and then approved by a human to get past, which takes so long (due to the support backlog) that most banned accounts just assume they were banned 1. for actual TOS violation and have no appeal or 2. by a sinister behind the scenes conspiracy that they cant fight, and have no appeal or 3. that the support backlog is so long that appealing is going to take months or years so they might as well remake (which means they are ban evading, which means they are automatically violating TOS, which means if they get reported again for ban evading they will just keep getting banned even if the initial ban was a mistake)

i havent checked if tumblr "forgot my login" form can be crawled for validation easily or not but if it cant now, it probably used to be at some point, and if you have an old tumblr account and have ever received a "forgot your password?" email then yeah some database somewhere probably knows your email is registered to your tumblr account.

one thing to keep in mind when discussing this issue and speculating on reasons, actors, and motivations, is that the current tumblr support staff are not the people making decisions about how all this is being handled. the guy who owns and runs this website and personally makes most or all decisions about this kind of thing is having a normal one to put it lightly

edit: the "we put a mature content label on this post" part of this moderation message makes me think it is a tumblr bug, specifically. that indicates there is an internal malfunction happening, not that this is a reaction to external scripting or botting attacks. because there have not been mature content labels applied to the indicated posts, tumlr T&S checked on this part of the report specifically and found it was not happening. so that indicates internal reporting system glitch

[yupthatexists]

Scientists have just discovered some rocks at the bottom of the ocean can make oxygen... and they do it in complete darkness!

These aren’t magic stones, they’re polymetallic nodules, potato-sized metal lumps packed with manganese, cobalt, and nickel.

But here’s the twist; when seawater flows over their surfaces, they generate tiny electric currents that can split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, just deep-sea chemistry creating breathable gas in the pitch black.

This “dark oxygen” could explain how deep-sea creatures survive in low-oxygen zones far from the surface. What's even wilder is that if this can happen on Earth, it could be happening right now in the hidden oceans of Europa or Enceladus, two icy moons that scientists think might host alien life.

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[finnglas]

It was always a thermometer, not a thermostat, and I’m begging people to understand that.

[perriaeyjeve]

[pleasuretrade]

the Leather Archives & Museum here in chicago is remodeling and they posted a pic of some of their bathroom graffiti before they presumably tear it down/paint over it and

[amnhnyc]

You won’t find this pigeon on the streets of New York City. Meet the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)! This colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests. It hangs out in small flocks in the treetops, foraging mainly for fruit. Distinguishing males from females isn’t too difficult: Females lack pink necks and are mostly olive-green in color!

Photo: Yi-Kai Tea, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

[whatsthebird]

What's the Bird?

Location: Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Date: March

Bird - 928 is ...

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Mountain Elaenia

Yellowish Flycatcher

Yellow-olive Flycatcher

None of the Above

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Remaining time: 6 days 20 hours

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Yellowish Flycatcher - graciously submitted by @biitchrat

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[taylornprice]

somewhere in angeles national forest

[maruti-bitamin]

hanabi

cara/insta/bluesky/ store

[deaderrose]

Consider: a warlock whose patron is patreon. A crowdfunded warlock. Every magic being whos interested in bankrolling the shitshow can add a little to the pile. 

They’ve got a little milestone list and reward tiers and everything. For just one invocation a month this warlock will literally murder one person of your choosing on every full moon. That’s a bargain! 

Gods, fiends, fey, and beings from beyond all welcome to donate today!

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[kyraneko]

fight the unkillable god, because you may be mistaken about its unkillability.

fight the unkillable god, because you may be the first bacterium to take a successful bite.

fight the unkillable god, so as to set foot onto the path which leads to the god being killable.

the bacteria that couldn't eat the tree and the bacteria that could eat the tree had the same general understanding of the tree.

might as well take a bite.

[datgreenmonstah]

Still in the works, but nearly done with this, then hopefully will have the tutorial up soon.

[datgreenmonstah]

Here’s how to make one for yourself

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[dailycatsblog]

[strawberry-crocodile]

i do think white men really struggle to understand the idea that a haircut can be an act of violence, both when committed by an other and by the self.

[strawberry-crocodile]

if you cut your hair short as an act of self harm i love you. if you had to cut your hair short because of the rules of school or work i love you. if your family forced you to get a short haircut i love you. long hair is something that takes time and safety to acquire, but can be taken from you in an instant. if you wish you had long hair, if you miss your long hair, if you mourn your long hair, i love you so so much.