I'Mpulse Impact

aroace - agender - any/all - ghoost :v

[impulseimpact]

yo pulse ghost ref? and it only took 6 years lmao

[amazoogle]

evidently Meta gave their llm support chatbot the ability to reset passwords on arbitrary fb/insta accounts and literally exactly what you would expect to happen happened

[amazoogle]

whoooo could have predicted this vulnerability other than anyone at all

[pitbolshevik]

my super sustainable bmw

[pitbolshevik]

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Actually, my personal rivalry with Netflix started before they murdered She-Ra. It was January of 2023, when they cancelled the third season of Dead End Paranormal Park, WHICH WAS NOT FINISHED, AND THEY LET THE SEASON TWO FINALE END ON A FUCKING PLOT TWIST. THEY’D ALREADY WRITTEN SEASON THREE AND IT WOULD’VE FIXED IT. I CRIED FOR FIVE HOURS STRAIGHT AT THE ‘ENDING’ THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE THE ENDING IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING. I’VE NEVER RECOVERED.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[lauralot89]

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[left-lateral-incisor]

[ID: A picture of the progress pride flag. The chevron with the stripes for trans people and people of color, as well as the intersex flag, have been replaced with the Tumblr "This content has been removed for violating Tumblr's Community Guidelines." /End ID]

[cosmonaut-observer]

If you live in the UK you need to see this

Protect Internet Freedom from now until forever. It's important existentially! Americans stand with UK citizens in our struggle against government censorship

[russettrush]

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag

Got the link via @finalducc

If you live in the UK, please be sure to take part in this!

[lochthenessmonster]

hey all!

im opening emergency commissions to keep me and my sister afloat. anything helps. i have a goal of $600 and my turnaround time is incredibly fast.

my manager at my job came back from vacation and has some vendetta against me and its not giving me livable shifts. im running out of time for our bills and utilities. if you can reach out i will draw absolutely anything no limits. or share this if you cant afford to purchase right now, thank you all so much.

here are some recent examples of my work:

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

Hey, wanna make music? Yeah? Got a buncha money? No? Well that's perfectly fine, check this free stuff out:

Vital - A powerful wavetable synth, my personal favorite VST synth, very easy to figure out creating new synth sounds, with the help of the plenty of tutorials that are out there for the plug-in. (There are paid versions but they are completely unnecessary to get 99% of the features of the plug-in.)

Synth1 - A classic piece of synthesizer software.

Pendulate - An interesting, chaotic synth that you can make weird little sounds with.

Native Instruments' free plug-ins - Various cool VSTs, including the Komplete Start pack.

The Free Orchestra - A set of orchestral instruments for Kontakt Player (see previous link).

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover - More orchestral stuff! This one has its own player so you don't have to download a separate VST to use it if you don't want to.

Magical 8bit Plug - A chiptune plug-in, intended for producing sounds like that of 8-bit systems like the NES and Master System.

Genny - A synth VST made to emulate the soundchip of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

MT Power Drum Kit - A nice rock n' roll style drum kit plug-in.

This guy's weird VST collection - 6.4 gigabytes of weird VSTs, including some you might know, like Delay Lama and MeowSynth!

sforzando - A free player for soundfont files.

Musical Artifacts - A resource I mainly use to find soundfonts, on which you can find other various things as well.

Kilohearts Essentials - 30 effect VSTs including reverb, delay, compression, pitch shifting, transient shaping, ring modulation, phase distortion, and more.

Xfer's freeware VSTs - Exactly what it says on the tin, including the one and only OTT compressor.

Illformed - The good ol' dblue Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop.

Hysteresis and Fracture - Two interesting glitch effects, one being a delay and the other being a buffer.

Codec - A cool digital audio degradation effect.

Le Phonk - A slick distortion plug-in.

MAIM - An effect that mimics the sound of MP3 compression.

Soundly Shape it and Place it - One is simply an equalizer VST, the other is an effect that emulates a speaker (ex: a radio) and a space (ex: a cave).

Fresh Air - An effect that adds high end information to your sounds, to provide brightness.

ValhallaSupermassive - A combo reverb and delay plug-in that sounds quite big.

UnplugRed - A collection of various interesting VSTs, most of which have free versions.

Chowdhury DSP - I can't personally speak for all of these but their tape model effect is great for some lo-fi style effects.

TAL-Chorus-LX - A thick sounding chorus, good for "retro" sounds too.

Polyverse Wider - A great effect for widening sounds up, really simple too with only two controls.

Freesound - A good audio file resource, mainly for foley recordings.

Cymbatics Dubstep Starter Pack - A little sample pack with some good drum and synth samples.

fishmonger drum kit - A pack of samples from the album 'fishmonger' by Underscores!

WangleLine's sample packs - Free samples put out by my awesome mutual WangleLine!

aaand I might as well include this set of drums I made a while back :P

As for DAWs, it's been a long while since I've used anything other than FL Studio (not counting Audacity, which I still occasionally use for specific purposes), which, while being the only one I can directly recommend, is paid. However, I've heard good things about Reaper which has a "free trial" that you can technically use forever, akin to WinRAR. Additionally, I've also heard some good things about Waveform Free.

[uboatheflesh]

Don't forget the GOAT for turning any sound into a beautiful drone paulXstretch

and I mean ANY sound

[iamoutofideas]

Digitally Preserving Classic Synthesizers through Emulation

these guys have been emulating just about every synth from the 90’s/2000’s for free. installation is a little bit finicky but not too hard to do.

[the-big-mood]

Hey, did you know archive.org has a bunch of free 90s shows you can stream?

The problem is finding them, since no one's organized them all in one place with covers and episode info. I'm trying to fix that with my new website.

It's in BETA right now, and all the content was just added today, so I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.

Let me know what you think and what kind of shows/movies you want to see!

http://90sKid.com

[the-big-mood]

We now have a Watch Party with chat feature now live HERE

You can create a live tv channel with our existing library. The channel is time syned so whoever is watching with you will share the moment!

It also works with youtube links and archive.org links.

Registered members get 24/7 channels that run even when you're offline. Guests can make temporary Watch parties that expire after 12 hours.

Leave shows/movies/content you want to see in the comments and post tags!

[witchofanguish]

[mahead-ithurt]

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales - Engadget

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

[allosaurusfragilis]

This probably isn't going to change people's minds, but sometimes it is easier to evoke sympathy for dogs than it is to evoke sympathy for trans folks.

Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people. I'm sorry, but it's true. Equivocate all you like, but it's as true as the day is long.

[sociedadnoticiasmx]

🚨 Activistas de @GreenpeaceMX protestaron en el Palacio de Bellas Artes contra el proyecto turístico “Perfect Day Mexico” de Royal Caribbean en #Mahahual. @SEMARNAT_mx #PeriodismoParaTi #SociedadNoticias

Greenpeace protesta en Bellas Artes contra proyecto turístico de Royal Caribbean

[vastiimisterios]

Judges endorse destruction of jungle in Mahahual in favor of the construction of Royal Caribbean water park.

The injunction against Royal Caribbean's "Perfect Day Mexico" resort was dismissed by the First Collegiate Court of the Twenty-Seventh Circuit. Environmental organizations warn that this decision favors the commercial interests of Royal Caribbean and leaves the ecosystems of Mahahual, a coastal city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, vulnerable. Mahahual is located next to the world's second-largest coral reef.

The project was announced in October 2024 by the governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama. However, since its announcement, various organizations and groups have expressed concern about the potential environmental and social impacts of the development. They point to risks to local ecosystems, as well as to the livelihoods of the area's inhabitants.

🚫 NO TO THE PROJECT!! Whales need us, and we need them. Every living being is important to our planet. Let's protect their habitat. We cannot allow corporations to become millionaires at the expense of species extinction. We must join these causes and not remain passive. IT'S OUR PLANET! 🌍

[sabertoothwalrus]

as much as I mourn the presence of aesthetic blogs on tumblr, it was absolutely true that the vast majority of posts were images taken without credit or permission. so it doesn't surprise me at all that now, almost any kind of post with a minimal caption, maybe even linked and "credited", is ai.

I think it'd be worth reminding people to be diligent, to prioritize sharing images/videos you KNOW for a fact that the OP created. art, photography, cat videos, memes, etc. honestly, even if you DO know the art was created by a real person, you don't know if that artist was ok with it being shared on a website they don't have an account on

[npd-vriska]

for those wanting to find images that are free to use AND credited, i cannot recommend ccsearch enough!

i used it a lot when i was really into digital collage, it's a portal to different search engines allowing you to find works under the creative commons license easily :D

[whitepeopletwitter]

[debkorvelus]

I feel sorry for the old man, but it was stealing.  There is no apparently about it. Water is not free, it’s not a right to have it, and people pay must pay for it.  If a government gives a thing to you like utilities, its still not free because they take it from somewhere else, like in taxes.  

[nutsacktorturer]

[gigastacyy-deactivated20231011]

my friend visiting my house: hey i’m thirsty can i get a glass of water

me:

[stormesandshowers]

Nestle isn’t gonna fuck you

[asingularcanadian]

Also water IS a human right, it’s classified as one by the UN the only country that really disagrees with this is the United States

[ruffboi-mags]

I know this post is a few years old, but I stumbled on it and I just want to also point out… Even aside from water being free or not, even aside from water being a human right,

the old man wasn’t stealing.

He was using a neighbor’s water, that the neighbor pays for, with the neighbor’s permission. Nothing was stolen. The old man just wasn’t the one paying. If someone comes to my house and I let them charge their phone while they’re there, are they STEALING electricity because I’m the one who pays the electric bill? If I take someone out to dinner, are they STEALING their meal if I pay for both of us? Get fucked.

I hope that person has become a better kinder person since 2021, but I"m not holding my breath.

[seafooms]

thinking ab those horse cave paintings a lot. here's some para and dromeo equivalents available on redbubble (first para, second para, dromeo mama and babies)