He submitted the proposal to the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and the plan was rejected because the proposed four-foot-high railings (fence) and simple cast iron gate (which was chosen purely privacy and security for the front of the home) were considered “too domestic” looking for the former industrial area. The council gave Sheeran a list of options for privacy “railings”, and after changing the proposal Sheeran was given permission that was more in line with the neighbourhood, which is in a conservation area. A direct quote from Sheeran states: “Dear Natalie Edwards from The Sun newspaper. Your story is bollocks, I have done lots of work in the past for Crisis and Shelter and would never build railings outside my home for that reason.The reason was to keep the paps that you employ from being on my doorstep. Have a good day.” this comment has been substantiated by the local police and security companies that Sheeran and his neighbours have had to contact previously when paparazzi have been taking photographs not only of Sheeran’s house but inside his windows, and constantly knocking on his door and yelling outside his house.
Think about this for a moment, a guy bought a house and fixed it up, he was trying to gain some privacy by asking for a simple fence and gate to indicate the property line and gain some distance from the paps, - which the police and council said was fine - and the newspapers who can no longer use these ill-gotten photos and are probably pissed have managed to spin this story to make it seem that this guy (whether you like his music or not), is an asshole and is anti-homeless. And you’re all eating this shit up and believing the newspapers, even though the Sun and Telegraph are well known across the UK for making shit up and lying. smh.
take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.
When my aunt died of covid, we had to clean out a lot of stuff that she was saving. Foods she was going to try, she was a great chef, spices she'd never opened or only used sparingly, lotions and bath things she hadn't used. After she died I started making a point of using things up: the good vanilla that has to be imported, that we finally found more of, we'd used barely an ounce before she passed away. Even though we love it. I just got my family new bottles of it for Christmas because we used one up. We enjoyed that happiness. Sometimes I still get the impulse to wait for something special, or awful, to save nice things for celebration or comfort. The phrase that always echoes in my mind is "use the good vanilla". And I have been (burning the candles, squirting the body wash, dissolving the bath bombs, putting the saffron in things). And it's been great. Use the good vanilla.
And on those rarest of occasions when Gurren Lagann comes up, Jigglypuff's voice will escalate with maniacal jubilation for just a moment before the little puffball launches straight up into space, piercing the heavens with her shrill.
This was inspired by my mood at the time, a hyper and manically happy combination of ADHD, Bipolar and extroversion. It's so much fun but oh my can it put me in dangerous situations!
I look forward to seeing people's reactions to this printed on a shirt.
Yes, you! I like you!
In science fiction, AIs tend to malfunction due to some technicality of logic, such as that business with the laws of robotics and an AI reaching a dramatic, ironic conclusion.
Content regulation algorithms tell me that sci-fi authors are overly generous in these depictions.
“Why did cop bot arrest that nice elderly woman?”
“It insists she’s the mafia.”
“It thinks she’s in the mafia?”
“No. It thinks she’s an entire crime family. It filled out paperwork for multiple separate arrests after bringing her in.”
I have to comment on this because this is touching on something I see a lot of people (including Tumblr staff and everyone else who uses these kind of deep learning systems willy-nilly like this) don’t quite get: “Deep Reinforcement Learning” AI like these engage with reality in a fundamentally different way from humans. I see some people testing the algorithm and seeing where the “line” is, wondering whether it looks for things like color gradients, skin tone pixels, certain shapes, curves, or what have you. All of these attempts to understand the algorithm fail because there is nothing to understand. There is no line, because there is no logic. You will never be able to pin down the “criteria” the algorithm uses to identify content, because the algorithm does not use logic at all to identify anything, only raw statistical correlations on top of statistical correlations on top of statistical correlations. There is no thought, no analysis, no reasoning. It does all its tasks through sheer unconscious intuition. The neural network is a shambling sleepwalker. It is madness incarnate. It knows nothing of human concepts like reason. It will think granny is the mafia.
This is why a lot of people say AI are so dangerous. Not because they will one day wake up and be conscious and overthrow humanity, but that they (or at least this type of AI) are not and never will be conscious, and yet we’re relying on them to do things that require such human characteristics as logic and any sort of thought process whatsoever. Humans have a really bad tendency to anthropomorphize, and we’d like to think the AI is “making decisions” or “thinking,” but the truth is that what it’s doing is fundamentally different from either of those things. What we see as, say, a field of grass, a neural network may see as a bus stop. Not because there is actually a bus stop there, or that anything in the photo resembles a bus stop according to our understanding, but because the exact right pixels in the photo were shaded in the exact right way so that they just so happened to be statistically correlated with the arbitrary functions it created when it was repeatedly exposed to pictures of bus stops over and over. It doesn’t know what grass is, what a bus stop is, but it sure as hell will say with 99.999% certainty that one is in fact the other, for reasons you can’t understand, and will drive your automated bus off the road and into a ditch because of this undetectable statistical overlap. Because a few pixels were off in just the right way in just the right places and it got really, really confused for a second.
There, I even caught myself using the word “confused” to describe it. That’s not right, because “confused” is a human word. What’s happening with the AI is something we don’t have the language to describe.
Anyway what’s more, this sort of trickery can be mimicked. A human wouldn’t be able to figure it out, but another neural network can easily guess the statistical filters it uses to identify things and figure out how to alter images with some white noise in exactly the right way to make the algorithm think it’s actually something else. It’ll still look like the original image, just with some pixelated artifacts, but the algorithm will see it as something completely different. This is what’s known as a “single pixel attack.” I am fairly confident porn bot creators might end up cracking the content flagging algorithm and start putting up some weirdly pixelated porn anyway, and all of this will be in vain. All because Tumblr staff decided to rely on content moderation via slot machine.
TL;DR bots are illogical because they’re actually unknowable eldritch horrors made of spreadsheets and we don’t know how to stop them or how they got here, send help
hello bloodborne side of tumblr i am here to claim the title of ultimate micolash mutual with the long-awaited Cosplay Reveal:
And of course one of my favorite images ever taken of me, the one I like to call Let's take ibuprofen together vs Give Me Your Fuckign Ibuprofen:
The funniest thing is that neither of us planned to match poses, we just both looked at the camera and the "cosplayer reach" instinct kicked in LMFAO
For those of you that are new here, I made this entire cosplay in two weeks flat, all of the seams are finished (French seams, since I don't have a serger), and I landed my first film job because of it LMAO
More in-depth discussion and detail shots under the cut!
As I said before, I made this costume from scratch except the eyeball ring, the shoes (which are antique), and the pants, which I weathered with a cheese grater in areas of high friction (thighs, backs of the knees, etc.) and near the hem, and painted and stained the hem to show wear. The cloak was a thrifted red bedsheet I dyed black (well, it was meant to be black, but it's more of a dark to medium brown depending on the lighting), and the cord is one of my college honors cords (which is why it's gold instead of white). The undercoat was a set of heavy curtains from the thrift store, the vest was some brand-new red denim lined with an extremely old floral cotton I had lying around, and the buttons were all hand painted and glossed. I handmade and hand-stitched the bias tape around the neck of the cloak, as well as all the buttonholes, and carved the insight symbol to emboss the velvet of the hood from a dense foam floor puzzle piece (like you'd find in a daycare, also thrifted).
I chose florals both for the lining of the vest and for the jacket because they make me think of Byrgenwerth, and the cloak itself has very faint vertical stripes that you can see even through the dye job, which made me think of the Mensis cages. I think the symbolism of the eye buttons, eye embroidery, and insight embossings are self-evident LMAO
The cage itself is a mix of upholstery foam, EVA foam rods and sheets, thin wooden dowels, two plastic chain links from Spirit, googly eyes for the rivets, and coffee grounds and hot glue for the rust and cobwebs. I attached everything with contact cement (reinforcing the wooden dowels with hot glue, both to emulate welded metal and give them extra stability, since it presses against my head in the back and I didn't want anything breaking apart), and needed about four cans of plastidip before I felt it was primed enough to spray paint without the foam getting eaten away. It is actually quite soft and comfortable at first because the block base is upholstery foam, but after six to eight hours at a con you Will have back and shoulder pain and a killer headache the next day LMAO
I actually made a mistake in cutting the head hole to my head measurements, without accounting for the wig, so whenever I take it off it pulls the wig off as well. Whoops! The wig itself was an old Sebastian Michaelis wig off Amazon that I cut and curled.
The bottom of the cloak is cut ragged and stained heavily with paint, coffee, and coffee grounds to emulate caked-on dirt and mud; the undercoat and vest both have coffee stains around the armpits and back to emulate sweat stains. Maybe a nightmare corpse sweats, maybe it doesn't, but I wanted to make him as horribly dirty and grimy as possible. He's doing nothing but running, after all. Regardless, I was harangued by wasps every time I went out to paint and stain--they wanted that hot coffee like nobody's business.
(ft. a little Damian cameo! <3 )
I also embroidered and beaded the red panels (made from the same bedsheet as the rest of the cloak, but left undyed) near the top, slowly making the embroidery more ragged as it goes down until it's nothing but long hanging threads, destroyed from the wear. The eyes on the sleeves are functional, serving to make the sleeves look fuller by bunching them up near my elbow since I'd miscut them originally. There are snaps behind the lapels and in the center back of the cloak to keep the costume from shifting as I move, since once I have the cage on I can't see anything directly below me or about two feet in front of me looking down.
All the blood is from Pale Night Productions, my absolute favorite blood brand. It dries looking wet, you can toss clothes with it in the wash, and it doesn't peel off solid or cloth surfaces (it can flake over time, but that's only if you handle things roughly).
The costume is Extremely warm and heavy, I'd say it's anywhere from seven to ten pounds of fabric for the main garments and then another two to five for the cage. The white collar is a sleeveless tank from Forever 21 that I got when I was sixteen (which I intend to eventually replace with a dickey), which means that without the coat and cloak Micolash is entirely sleeveless. It's very cursed LMFAO
Now, onto the glamour shots!
And these photos are from when I'd freshly restyled the wig; I like it much better now:
If you got this far, thanks for reading! Have this madman's knowledge as a gift before you go. <3
It’s a fledgling culture, also known as Gunk, that emerged in the early 2000s, probably most clearly defined when it comes to fashion. According to Urban Dictionary, ‘a geek punk is a new steriotypical genre, usually one who doesn't want to be emo/goth or anything like that. they usually listen to any kind of rock music, nintendo t-shirts, have belt buckles in the shape of a vintage games console controller, and wear either baggy jeans, camo trousers or staright leg jeans.’
This paints a pretty accurate visual image, at least. I’ll add punk skirts or cute shorts, boots and accessories. Any kind of geekery will do for the shirt – science, gaming, fandoms, whatever rocks your nerd boat. TeeTurtle’s adorable Cute, Dark and Twisted range is one of my favourites. For skirts I adore Punk Rave or anything pleated and tartan.
It’s worth noting that the terms geek and nerd differ slightly in their meanings. They share an enthusiastic passion for their chosen interests, but, according to Big Think, geeks focus more on pop culture knowledge and nerds are more achievement focused. In my experience the two aren’t mutually exclusive and both have had their influences on geekpunk culture, so I’ll be using these terms interchangeably.
When it comes to pop culture, music is the most established aspect of the geekpunk world. Geekpunk bands often feature 8-bit game music samples, also known as chiptunes, mixed with either punk or another musical genre. In a 2009 interview with FirstCoast News, Milo Aukerm, a marine biologist, D&D lover and member of the band the Descendents, said ‘many nerds ended up turning to punk, because it was a way of releasing some of that frustration that they had for being nerds.’ Punk is more than just a genre of music and punk ideals can be found in a variety of musical genres.
There are a plethora of these genres, such as nerdcore, that could arguably fall into the geekpunk category, though not all do and some could go either way. For example, German metal band Blind Guardian has entire albums written about The Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time books. Geeky? Yes. Punk? In the sense of unabashed self expression, yes. In subverting the norms of metal, yes. In rebelling against authority, no. What do you think?
In 2001 Dan Taylor and Chris Fason launched the publishing house Geekpunk, one of the earliest uses of the term that I could find. They co-created Hero Happy Hour, a comic book series satirising and subverting the superhero genre. Very geekpunk. This puts The Watchmen and The Boys firmly into that category too. Can you think of any other examples that might retroactively fit the geekpunk label?
Returning to the explicitly geekpunk, A Geek Punk Story is a 2018 short film. It’s aptly named and a fun watch. I’ll put a link in the comments. Geek Punk is a variety show created in 2019 that combines geek, punk rock and gaming influences.
Finally, there’s the internet. Geeks have brought us organisations like The Pirate Bay, Wikileaks and Anonymous, rebelling against authority with true punk passion. Geeks have designed tools to protect and celebrate individual freedoms, from VPNs to open source software to patronage sites for artists, Kickstarter for inventors, Go Fund Me for those in need. These all fit into the framework of a geekpunk mindset.
So that’s it! Welcome to the wonderful world of geekpunk!
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