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Not today Justin
i don't do bad sauce passes
almost home
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Misplaced Lens Cap
izzy's playlists!
noise dept.
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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twilight's castle redesign! 👑🌳🩷
finally cleaned up that sketch i did like 2 years ago now lol
i always wished for a scene where twilight would step into this new castle grown from the ashes of her old home, & see that not only were all her books saved, but the tree had added even more :"")
a few days ago an irl told me about how the alphabet is on the wrong order on the doctor who wiki because in one episode a character recites the alphabet backwards but gets two letters the wrong way around and there has been no other representation of the full alphabet in any other dw media so technically there’s no proof that it isn’t canon and i’ve been thinking about that ever since
not joking (U is supposed to come before V)
actually it gets funnier. there are multiple instances of parts of the alphabet being spoken in episodes. the problem is absolutely none of these have spoken that specific section since the episode that got the order wrong.
we cant talk here. pictochat. room c.
happy ides of march i 3D modelled Caesar so i could make him do fortnite dances
i learned about a stupid looking bird today and i cant stop laughing
its called a crested satinbird (cnemophilus macgregorii)
You can't just nerf him without admitting that he was too powerful in his original form
Let me be clear, though: this isn't just about me not being able to get a ticket. This is about Dashcon's business practices being actively designed around people not being able to get tickets. This isn't their first year anymore. They knew full well that demand vastly outstripped what their venue could supply. They could've easily demonstrated this and gotten a bigger venue this year. They chose not to. Why? Because the actual convention is just an advertisement for the real product, "VirtualDash". They limit ticket supply to just enough to generate the necessary hype for people to pay money to watch a livestream, like carnies letting a few people win at their rigged games early in the morning so they'll advertise them by walking around the fair with the prizes the rest of the day. I would've happily paid extra to buy a ticket from a scalper, but they have a no scalping policy, because it's greedy and exploitative. Y'know what else is greedy and exploitative? Charging people admission to watch a fucking livestream of a convention. Livestreaming is free, if they really wanted to nobly protect their fans from capitalist exploitation they wouldn't be fucking charging money for it. And if they really need that money, they ought to raise the prices on the actual tickets, since those people are getting a service that's actually worth something. But they don't do those things, because their policy isn't about altruism and keeping the con accessible for the poor, it's because otherwise people who are desperate for a dose of Dashcon might rather pay $150 for a real ticket from a scalper than $15 for a livestream ticket from them. I say enough with the bastards. Pirate Dashcon will be DashCon as the Onceler intended it, by which I mean organized on the fly by people with absolutely no idea what we're doing. Admission will be absolutely free, and if at least 10 people RSVP I will foot the bill for the ball pit out of my own pocket. We don't need a fancy convention center, or hoity-toity celebrity guests, or an a capella choir to sing songs from Muppet movies. We just need each other.
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Friends with benefits. And those benefits? Long insightful conversations about The Characters™️
My gift to you is becoming an unskippable cut-scene.
Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed gl
Oh they're not happy.
Tl;DR they're not canceling age verification but they're 'delaying' it til later this year. Do not stop the pressure.
DO NOT RESUBSCRIBE TO NITRO
CANCEL IT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY
[Don't forget to cancel boosts too!]
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creat
As a reminder of how dangerous and shitty age verification is.
What a great article! Here's just a bit of it. Go read it all.
"A couple weeks ago, Discord announced it would launch “teen-by-default” settings for its global audience, meaning all users would be shunted into a restricted experience unless they verified their age through biometric scanning. The internet, predictably, was not thrilled. But while many users were busy venting their frustration, a group of security researchers decided to do something more useful: they took a look under the hood at Persona, one of the companies Discord was using for verification (specifically for users in the UK).
What they found, according to The Rage, was exactly what we would predict:
Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend exposed to the open internet on a US government authorized server. In 2,456 publicly accessible files, the code revealed the extensive surveillance Persona software performs on its users, bundled in an interface that pairs facial recognition with financial reporting – and a parallel implementation that appears designed to serve federal agencies.
Let me say that again: 2,456 publicly accessible files sitting on a government-authorized server, exposed to the open internet. Files that revealed a system performing not a simple age check, but a ton of potentially intrusive checks:
Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores for each individual. IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years. The information the software evaluates on the images themselves includes “Selfie Suspicious Entity Detection,” a “Selfie Age Inconsistency Comparison,” similar background detection, which appears to be matched to other users in the database, and a “Selfie Pose Repeated Detection,” which seems to be used to determine whether you are using the same pose as in previous pictures.
This was the same company checking whether a teenager should be allowed to use voice chat on a gaming platform."
Absolutely enamoured with this snail mug I got yesterday....
A snug of snoffee
it’s nice seeing other people starting to open their eyes to what i’ve been saying for a while in that the current use and proliferation of the term “gooning” is an outright tool of fascism
the second “gooning” stopped referring to a specific sexual practice and started to be used as a replacement for “masturbation” we needed to kill it immediately and sadly we didn’t
if you call someone a “masturbator” in a derisive way you sound like a fucking mormon but suddenly you switch to calling them a “gooner” and you’ve created a way to express the same puritanical beliefs around masturbation that is not only palatable to the average person but the attached underlying implications of the term make people way more susceptible to adopting those beliefs themselves
leftists need to fucking stop using the term “gooner” right fucking now
demonizing human sexuality and treating masturbation and sexual activity as deviant and disgusting are straight up fascist tools and it’s startling how successful this aspect of it has been the last few years
I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT
(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store
i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me
Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery
i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......
also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.
oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated he then revealed that the original xbox logo...
is a sourdough boule
occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?
egg
i drew it
hey I hope you dont mind I also painted your egg
i also painted the egg hope that's ok
i heard we were painting egg?
I love how this shows how real artists drawing a thing aren't just representing the thing, but showing you what THEY found beautiful in it.
hope I'm not too late to paint egg! watercolors :)
i too have drawn the egg
heres my egg
Love every single one of these eggs. No yeah of course it's still okay to write your vampire story or whatever, even if a thousand people have done it before you. Your art will still be uniquely yours and people will find something fresh in your perspective. Paint your egg.
Grown-up Odin
