the marriage of dying and light

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[finelinesignattwo]

It's Jharan: a psychotic, an adult.

The tags are variably-legible categories: #bodyby holds people in many states (drawn, disassembled, flushed), #microthedas has textposts, #caustic's where slurs are, #spectocular goes on aesthetic posts, #selfsaid's for originals, #piping's for brain noise, #flashinglights is for epileptic-fit-inducing media, and #putpaces is about fighting, for example. This post's tagged with the regularly-used. The theme and such are all broken, and will be fixed at some point (though the intended viewing experience is via the app). Most posts are queued.

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Ideally it'd go without saying, but I don't endorse everything said by anyone I reblog.

[argumate]

since we've been talking about cops lately, always important to remember that while lying to the police is bad, telling the truth to the police isn't much better! there's no benefit in making cops witnesses in your trial, so there's no value in talking to them.

[sysid-ace]

🌂 This post is mostly just an ad for the video, it's a very fun thing, very enjoyable, so I'm just gonna run you through the structure of what is said in the first half of it, so you can look forward to it

It Is Literally Impossible For Talking To The Police To Help You

Merely Saying "I Did Not Do It" Or Something Equivalent And Refusing To Answer Will Increase Your Sentence Compared To Silence

You're Not Better Than A Police Officer At Interrogations—You're Just Not

Even If You Want To Be Punished, Proper Representation Before That Point Can Be Greatly Beneficial, And Make Sure You Only Get Punished For The Parts You Feel Bad About It Rather Than Five Other Pieces Of Miscellany

Even The Truth Can Be Fatal With Mistaken Or Non-Credible Evidence, Something Proper Legal Representation Can Know About Before You Make A Statement But You Have No Idea In An Interrogation Room

The Police Might Recall Your Interrogation Wrong And Therefore Make It More Damning

🌂 And all of that is without any corruption on the part of the police either!

🌂 The second half is also fun, but in a different way. A police officer with a long career who's studying to become (and indeed, in the present day is) a defense attorney takes the podium and talks, very frankly, about how police officers approach "interviews", the tactics they use, to catch hard and light criminals alike, laid out so clear and...

🌂 Yeah.

🌂 You're not gonna stand up to that system. No siree.

🌂 Really underscores how bad an idea it is, after all the theoretical stuff, and is also a really Legitimately Interesting peek into the head of a cop.

🌂 We re-visit it most years. It's really something.

[finelinesignattwo]

that your saccades involve blanking that perceived during the movement between focus points isn't a thing that's necessarily so

[venonomnomicon]

you're a good soldier for mommy, aren't you?

[girlthulhu]

wololo

[venonomnomicon]

you're a good soldier for mommy, aren't you?

[waneella]

[maxknightley]

by far the strangest part of the British government deciding to enact a sword hunt is that the policy they've put together is very clear about only banning "ninja swords" and "zombie-style knives." you're allowed to have a sword for fencing, or a machete for farm and garden work, or a zweihander for historical re-enactment purposes, but if you have a wakizashi your ass is fucking GRASS

[maxknightley]

like it is genuinely impossible for me to imagine a use case for this law that isn't just "being racist in a way that feels so outmoded it's almost quaint." you know people can kill each other with regular knives, right?

[maxknightley]

second-strangest part is that their definition of "ninja sword" includes certain kitchen knives but excludes odachi

[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

god help you if your tuna knife is 4 inches too short

[cromerholt]

machetes are OK but if you doodle a little skull on it it WILL be imbued with the unholy spirit of KNIFE CRIME and you WILL be thrown in HMP Cocksarseworth FOREVER

[prudencepaccard]

that Sopranos gif where he's saying "it's anti-Italian discrimination" except replace Italian with weeb

[finelinesignattwo]

Moral panics about Orientals are a British custom: see G.K. Chesterton's description of Oriental non-Christian religion in his biography of William Blake. To wit:

"But it is the fact that the Chinese are as agnostic as oxen; and it is the fact that the Japanese are as socialistic as rats. These appalling ideas, that a man has no divine individual destiny, that making a minute item in the tribe or hive, is his only earthly destiny, these ideas do come all together out of the same quarter; they do in practise blow upon us out of the East, as cold and inhuman as the east wind."

[urtopia]

celebrative costumes from the Omu Valley, Ethiopia

[infectiouspiss]

can we kill the idea that yawning=bored because there's a million reasons to be yawning and being condescendingly asked "oh im sorry are we boring you?" because of something you can't control is really rude.

you're not boring me this is a side effect of my medication but thank you for deciding that my yawns are some sort of insult toward you and going on the offensive i loved it 👍

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[noctumsolis]

I've been out of the windows ecosystem for many years. Why do we avoid bittorrent and utorrent?

[finelinesignattwo]

They're both captured by interests that use the provision of the software for their own profit.

[bishiedoll]

Illustration by Nakahara Junichi, published in the children's magazine コドモノクニ (The Land of Children) in March, 1937.

[cleaningouttherooms]

just like cop shows love engineering scenarios where they can go damn we would have caught the serial puppy killer by now if only police had even more money and power, doctor shows love engineering scenarios where they can go damn we would have solved every problem with this patient's body by now if only patients weren't so pigheaded and lazy and entitled and dishonest

[finelinesignattwo]

who the protagonist/s are is a fair metric for 'what distortions are we asked to believe'

[mousidy]

we're abolishing gender! in the future people will just be referred to as AMAB or AFAB, no need for gender at all! 😀

[mousidy]

this is a progressive stance, you see, because AMAB and AFAB are different words from "man" and "woman." we're leaving such outdated concepts behind!

[mousidy]

no no no it's not "misgendering you." it doesn't refer to your gender, it refers to the sex you were assigned. that way we don't need gender anymore! you can just throw that old thing away

[mousidy]

now there's only two categories: AMABS and AFABS! so much simpler! what? no I didn't say there's only two genders. these aren't genders they're categories. this is progress we're making progress

[mousidy]

you want to change your assignment? because of what, your gender? no you don't need one of those, I said to get rid of it

[argumate]

since we've been talking about cops lately, always important to remember that while lying to the police is bad, telling the truth to the police isn't much better! there's no benefit in making cops witnesses in your trial, so there's no value in talking to them.

[cryptotheism]

Gaining an understanding of this philosophical mysticism, the process of cultivating the mind such that it is ready for these mystical states of transcendent consciousness, is known as cultivating Noesis. The best way to do this –according to Plotinus– is by reading and performing the philosophy of Plotinus. His metaphysics are performative, and participatory. In the sense that they must be actively participated in. In practice, this means re-reading Plotinus, and cultivating an understanding of his words. His main text, The Enneads, was compiled by a student. To his credit, the experience of puzzling one’s way through the Enneads does reflect the nature of his philosophy in an interesting way. More than many other philosophers, the Enneads reward re-reading. There is a wonderful sense of unfolding to Plotinus’s thought that reveals itself through repeated attempts at comprehension. A sense of unfolding that Plotinus would no doubt consider to be of mystical importance. This process of reading and unfolding is central to the participatory nature of his thought. It is evidence that the student is cultivating their relationship with The One. This special relationship between student and text is –to speak plainly for a moment– fun. The process is enjoyable and engaging, and it will become a common technique in later occult writings. Due to all of this, Plotinus is of the opinion that summarizing his thought is impossible. Knowledge of it can only be gained through this process of re-reading. Any summary or primer will be inherently misleading, a shadow of the true shape of the philosophy. A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLOTINUS:

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[shaftking]

AI shit does piss me off bc you don’t have to do any of that shit. If you don’t like drawing then you don’t have to be an artist. If you don’t like writing you don’t have to be a writer. If you don’t like making music you don’t have to be a musician. My fucking gog find something you like and do that instead of poorly masquerading as some type of creative when you to do the bare minimum requirements to even be defined as one.

[brazenautomaton]

I am making a Devil May Cry Magic set. All Magic cards have pictures. I just decided the Bant deck needs a board wipe that can also hose the graveyard, so I designed "The Savior Has Come," a spell based on a pivotal point in DMC4 where the Savior shows up with an army of Angelo knights to defeat a horde of demons (released by the same people that made it) that lets you destroy all of multiple types of permanent, but for each type of permanent you destroyed, you give all your opponents a Knight token to represent the Angelos that "came to the rescue." I think this is a cool, unique, and creative effect that captures a pivotal moment in the story that lets this deck have a card it needs to have. This card has to have a picture on it.

If anyone had ever drawn fanart of this moment, I would use it with credit but without asking them for permission and you would not have a problem with it. But nobody has ever drawn fanart of this moment. No concept art of it exists. The only images of it are screencaps of an Xbox 360 game, with Xbox 360 model and texture quality, where no single frame actually captures all the elements of the event (the laser only fires when nothing else is in frame, the Savior and the demons getting lasered are never in the same frame, the lighting is really bad and the Savior's details can't be made out). In order to use this card I designed, I have exactly two options:

- I can use Gemini to synthesize the pose and framing from one frame, the laser from later on, and the detailed design from a frame where it's clearly visible, redraw it in a more painterly style, and create an image that does not look like complete shit and conveys what moment the card represents.

- I can use an X360 screenshot that looks like complete shit and doesn't actually get across the visual of the event it depicts.

I'm not paying an artist $200 for a card for a custom Magic set. I'm not learning digital illustration because I'm not here to make illustrations. I'm here to design cards. Option 1 and Option 2 are the only possibilities. Why should I pick Option 2?

[shieldfoss]

masquerading as some type of creative

If you create because you want to "be a creative" that's fine I'm sure but it has nothing to do with where I'm at - I create because I want to have a creative work. The reason I don't use AI for illustrations is because I don't need any illustrations. If I did, I'd use AI.

But if you create to "be a creative" then sure, go enjoy your lifestyle. Over there. Away from people who create because they need the creations.

[finelinesignattwo]

You could say the creations are, in the case of people who define themselves as creatives (in opposition to other people, who aren't, in this framing) exactly that self-perception. Anything created externally seen as itself a piece in the self-directed project of holding a worldview where people differ fundamentally.

[finelinesignattwo]

Important Christmas news!

So, the elves Santa uses for surveillance ('elf on the shelf', for the job description) have successfully renegotiated their contract, such that they can go back to the North Pole for decontamination if a child touches them, rather than being left to die. You have to wonder why Santa didn't have a system for that already (it's not so festive to accidentally kill someone), but it is the nature of bosses to not notice a problem until it's raised explicitly.