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Hey you know what sucks is predatory companies that make you enter your email address so that they can harass and advertise to you to access resources you might need to keep track of expenses after a disaster. So, uh, fuck them.

If you need to track the cost of things like hotel stays, pet kenneling, medical care, etc. after a disaster you can use this worksheet.

If you need to create an inventory of your home for an insurance claim (and if you'd like to do this to keep someplace safe before a disaster) you can use this worksheet (two pages, instructions on the first page, worksheet on the second).

And here's a FEMA document with numbers for disaster relief groups and a checklist of documents that you may need to have replaced as well as a description of what to do if you had cash in your home that was destroyed and can possibly be replaced.

ms-demeanor

Bringing this back because there are a ton of people who are going to need it. A lot of stupid bullshit disaster recovery companies will be reaching out to people whose homes burned down. A lot of people whose homes burned down will be searching for resources that come from websites that require them to give up personal details in order to get worksheets and tools.

These are free documents you can download to keep track of disaster recovery expenses or make a list for insurance claims.

I know people are exhausted and frightened and not thinking about stuff but start a folder in your email for receipts for things you're paying for right now so that you can fill out these forms later.

Don't enter your info on a random website or you're going to start getting calls from scammy companies.

And here's a story from the LA Times with advice for people who lost homes or businesses during the fire; one of the primary pieces of advice is DON'T RUSH. Take your time to make decisions and look over any paperwork that anyone wants you to sign.

ms-demeanor

If you need to send people a link to these documents that isn't a tumblr post they're collected here on my website with links to archive.org instead of gdocs.

maculategiraffe

nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

br-amblinghostcat

if gods are kept alive by their followers then NASA is single-handedly the caretaker of SO MANY GODS

omorinintendoswitchedition

i am thinking abt this sooo muchh

liasangria

old friends senior god sanctuary

blackpyrefly

great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly

blackpyrefly

go white boy

blackpyrefly

sarcastic dog. dog that has contempt for you

johann159

daily-crabbys

This Friday's meme is: the perfect being

ospreyonthemoon

Have you seen fossilised crabs. They're hilarious they literally do just

Straight up they are just fully there. Shellfish are really fun like that, i have a shrimp fossil in my collection that's like. Yeah it's just 100% a shrimp, legs and antennae and all. When your skeleton is on the outside, it means your outside fossilises really well.

starplanes

This article is six parts and thousands of words, but I hope you read it. Incredibly brave creators spoke about their experience working with Rusty Quill, and their stories kept me up for nights. In my opinion, some of the actions taken by this company were unconscionable - but I invite you to read this piece and decide for yourself.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but the behavior we support will be emulated by other podcast companies. It is up to us as a community to decide what that behavior should be, and take concrete action to uphold it.

autoneurotic

the slaughter, the web, the lonely, the desolation!

1/2

autoneurotic

the hunt, the vast, the buried, the stranger, the spiral, the corruption, the flesh!

1/2

burins

hey! the house of representatives has unveiled a 14 billion dollar bill to arm Israel (by cutting the IRS budget, naturally, and making it easier for rich ppl to continue to avoid taxes.) the first hearing on this bill is TODAY, NOVEMBER 1, at 4PM ET. good time to call your reps and tell them a) not to vote for this and b) to urge them to call for (at minimum) a ceasefire.

burins

also: the white house comment line is open at 202-456-1111 (I've seen that their hours are T-Th 11-3 ET but I can't find confirmation of that.) you may have to wait on hold for a bit (laughably they have the exact same hold music as my hospital's billing department. we live in a society.)

sirfrogsworth

I'm not upset that blu-rays are being phased out. Formats all become obsolete and then die out.

My worry is there is not an adequate replacement for physical media. If you stream a 4K movie, it is usually over compressed and has a lossy audio track. Usually the quality *improves* when you move on to the next thing. But in this case, only the convenience is improved.

And there is no way to truly own the media you buy online. Even on Amazon when you "buy" something, that just means you have indefinite access to the file on their server. But if they lose the rights to that content or decide to delete it for tax purposes, you lose it too.

There is a service called Kaleidescape. It allows you to download blu-ray quality movie files onto local storage. Unfortunately the service has way too many caveats. You can only play the movies on their proprietary equipment. If they go out of business you will lose all of your movie purchases. And while they have a lot of mainstream, big budget movies, their selection is far from vast.

Oh, and their hardware starts at $8,000 and each movie is between $10 and $30 to purchase. And if you want to save more than 125 movies, the cost balloons to nearly $20K for the hardware.

The quality issue will eventually solve itself. New codecs like AV1 and H.266 will allow files to be compressed without losing any quality.

But I have no idea what to do about being unable to truly own your media. No studio will agree to DRM-free downloads that you can store anywhere and play with any device.

Maybe they can create a system where you can register any device you own and be allowed to play the file on those registered devices. So you get a file you can download, but the DRM requires verification you own the device it is being played on.

Perhaps they could designate a few cloud storage services as approved download platforms. You are free to shift your media from cloud to cloud, but it must always stay on the cloud and be registered to you. That way if a cloud storage company bites the dust, you still have the option to move your media to another place.

It's not as good as DRM-free local storage, but I don't see studios agreeing to anything else.

In truth, people are probably never going to buy movies in the future. If you have the option to rent for $3 or buy for $20, people probably aren't going to see the value in spending that much to own a movie.

Maybe the solution lies in some kind of law. If a platform no longer wishes to host a show or movie and they can't sell it to another streaming service, then they must give up the rights and allow the Library of Congress to save and distribute it.

qyriad

phatfred

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

― Edward Abbey

rosalarian

Once Patreon goes down, I really truly don't know what I'm going to do for money.

alexardov-blog

Solarpunk Manifesto

I am a permaculturalist and a writer and since I discovered solarpunk I fell in love with it.

I read everything I could about solarpunk and I decided to reorganize in a Solarpunk Manifesto some of the material that was collected in the Solarpunk Reference Guide by @solarpunks.

I would like to publish it as “The Solarpunk Collective” without any specific autor, since I just reorganized it, but it was actually written by many different people. What do you think? I would love some feedback and comments and I would love if it was published in many different places.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oSeD18lop83qVoMJSzcQVo_8wtTInaFLOo0qXrX41dM/edit?usp=sharing

We need to have the solarpunk wikipedia page back up and a solarpunk manifesto could lead to that.

@solarpunks @watsons-solarpunk @solarpunk-aesthetic @solarpunkwitchcraft @solarpunkfashionreview @tidalpunk @missolivialouise @solarpunknetwork @solarpunksideblog @solarpunkstoryexchange @solarpunksapphic @solarpunkpress @solarpunkprincess @solarpunkpunks @solarpunkpixieboy @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkandstainedglass @solarpunkarchivist @solarpunkandtea @solarpunkartist @solarpunk-afrofuturism @solarpunk-stuff @solarpunk-gnome @solarpunkbaby @solarpunkcast @solarpunkcitizen @solarpunkdreams @solarpunkexploration @solarpunkery @solarpunked @solarpunkfuturenow @solarpunkfashion @solarpunkgrrrl @solarpunkgay @solarpunkjunk @solarpunkmemes @solarpunknomadicecovillage-blog @solarpunkowly @solarpunkowl @solarpunkoasis @solarpunkreads @solarpunkrocks @solarpunkrebel @solarpunkregeneration @solarpunkturtle @solarpunkwitch @solarpunkworld @solarpunkworldbuild @thewritingsquid @watsons-solarpunk

Also, I am about to publish a novel (in Spanish) about permaculture in a solarpunk fashion and I would like to publish the Manifesto in it as well.

localtransvamp-deactivated20241

Y'all have no idea how shitty the wifi is in my gothic castle

adonischildsupportcase

specialty38-deactivated20200930

those is mcdonalds jeans?

ynfynytscrolltbh

Fun fact: those McDonald’s jeans are part of the standard uniform here in Colombia. I’ve tried at least 16x to ask where they source them, if I can buy them from the manager, even going McDonald’s not to order food but just to ask for the jeans. I asked someone high up in their marketing dept here to see if maybe they know which company sourced them, and still couldn’t get my hands on a pair. Apparently employees only get one pair per year. They’re slightly high-waisted, they taper very slightly, they’re always kind of high water at the bottom, and they’re the perfect light jean color. They’re not stiff, they’re not that stretchy, they’re the perfect denim material. They come with a cloth belt that’s either yellow or turquoise, and the stitching on the M is almost sensual. I will not give up

lolt64

theres a hourse in the dirve through

tooies

could you please stay on topic

thatwasthenightthingschanged

I’m convinced if ppl on this site knew how crappy gifs look before you color them properly, they would appreciate editors more

thatwasthenightthingschanged

for context reasons, this is how a gif I used in a recent gifset looks like without any adjustments/coloring whatsoever:

and here it is afterwards:

5ummit

I truly don’t think people realize how dingy and dark most movies and tv shows actually are so they can’t appreciate the work and skill it takes to make gifs look the way your brain “remembers” it looking.

Another before and after example:

This gif needed 6 different adjustment layers, not including the sharpening process, which is its own separate challenge. The blue window was also changed to green to keep the palette more consistent and to reduce the range of colors needed, because a wider range of colors generally results in worse gif quality since gifs only support a max of 256 (compared to the millions your monitor can display).

uuuhshiny

yeah…

headspace-hotel

lena-luthor

they really gave us a female lead in a star wars movie & made her kind and good and angry and powerful and complex & then spent the next 2 movies revolving almost her entire storyline around a white male war criminal who abused her, abused her friends, abused her family. all the while validating all the people who romanticized gaslighting and torture. for fan service lmao

pajamboree

they also gave us a strong black male lead who was kind and rebelled against his entire way of life when he saw the atrocities he was expected to take part in. He risked his life to save others and was shown to love and care deeply for his friends and willing to sacrifice himself to save him. Then the next two movies infantilize him to be this weak self preserving side character with literally no agency beyond yelling other character’s names.

celeritaschronicles

They also gave us a Latino sci-fi hero who was an ace fighter pilot with a heart of gold and a wealth of courage who showed an incredible amount of support and kindness and trust towards a man who he had just met. Then the next two movies relegated him to being a chronic fuck-up and then ret-conned his ace pilot backstory in service of a racist drug dealer backstory to make him more like Han Solo