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you can find me now @kiwibite2 I won't be posting here anymore thanks for everything though

[what-even-is-thiss]

The little man in the walls

I’ve been inspired to write a Sanders Sides borrower au. Probably something that’s been done ten million times before but whatever. If you don’t know what borrowers are they’re tiny people that live in the walls and steal food and stuff.

Ugh, I started this months ago and just got around to finishing it I sure hope it was worth the wait ugh.

Buy a fanfic writer a coffee? (ko-fi)

Warnings: People being trapped, anxiety attacks.

Abstract: Thomas and Virgil grew up together. Virgil just didn’t know it.

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[punsterterry]

I’m glad that Virgil is such an understanding human when it comes to borrowers!!! This is wonderful

[what-even-is-thiss]

Thank you! Yeah usually the human in borrower stories seems to want to keep the borrower and that makes for nice angst and all but I sometimes find it too upsetting. So Virgil tries a little empathy and also maybe thinks he’s dreaming at first haha. Also, if you caught a tiny humanoid creature and they started having a violent anxiety attack what would you do?

[punsterterry]

I agree!! I’m actually really glad someone did from a different perspective. Where the human does in fact have a bit of empathy for the borrower. It actually made me really happy that it was Virgil you chose to act like this. Those the other sides have their merits I feel that Virgil would be the one to truly act like this.

If I were to catch a tiny humanoid creature and saw they were having a panic attack I would try to help them I believe. I wouldn’t touch them though because one it is most definitely very frightening to see a regular human up close and if you were a borrower I don’t think you would want to be touched by them. There is also the fact that I myself am not really fond of touch especially when I’m panicking. I’ll mostly try to comfort them with soothing words while giving them a bit of space. I will probably end up leaving food out so that they can eat if they want. I believe this is how I would act and behave with a borrower. I couldn’t help but want to answer your question even if it was retorical.

Thank you for getting back to me!!! I do hope Pat and Virgil can meet again. @what-even-is-thiss

[what-even-is-thiss]

It was Thomas that was the borrower. Patton is one of Virgil’s brothers.

[kiwibite]

Well, this is a final goodbye on this blog

AGAIN, here is my new blog, after I quit this one(I'll still leave it up it'll just be abandoned) I'll be on @kiwibite2 from now on, same shit, same me just a new blog

[kiwibite]

Again, here js my new blog

@kiwibite2 is my new blog, I am almost done moving stuff over and I have probably missed a few people That follow me. I'll look again. Thanks for everything, time to start anew

[lriis-west-deactivated20170102]

[wide-awaaaaake]

Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.

TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.

Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

[bollymusings]

Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.

[arubbishmedic]

It became necessary

[mckaytriarchy-2-deactivated2018]

WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.

[kiwibite]

Close to goodbye

I'm almost done transferring my data and important things over

Kinda sad cuz I'll miss this blog

But life moves on and I will adapt to these new rules even if that means losing what I love. I won't be gone but It won't be the same. It'll be a different blog. A new blog

[kiwibite]

like normal kiwi but better and gayer

Greetings from my new blog they/her - 08/26 - Homosexual/Panromantic - single - nerd anxiety, adhd,...

Have my new account. It's kinda bare right now but that's with every new blog. Kinda depressing to think I'll have to throw away all I have done so far because of this fucking new system but I guess this was inevitable

[kiwibite]

I am so fucking done with this app

Accounts I love have been put on restricted mode(mostly cuz of the age shit) and I'm seriously debating just starting over here and make a new account, I'll deal with that later, like this is you want to stay, I'll post when I change cause I'll be changing on my laptop and then here so I can find the accounts I do follow

[gear-adrift]

Tumblr HQ, apparently.

[kiwibite]

Sorru but I think that banning everything is a bad idea and won't help

[mobpsycho100]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Can’t help but think that in Tumblr land, it’s a case of “First they came for the female-presenting nipples, then they came for for fair use.”

Both are about not angering the big gatekeepers in the tech world cough Apple cough.

[sanderssidesuserboxes]

This user loves sweater paws

[zonerbonerz]

Taako: What’s this umbrella thing

Lucretia:

[internutter]

Just in case I vanish:

Dear Readers,

Tumblr has been… an experience. We all know that the content creators who make smutty fanarts aren’t the problem. We all know it’s the bots.

@staff refuse to make a means by which we can report the bots. So after the porn purge, the bots that fly under that radar will still be here. Finding ways to continue pushing porn.

Meanwhile, creators like myself who may have published something smutty in their timeline are gone. Sayonara, farewell. See you on Pillowfort when it’s back online. If not Pillowfort, then Wordpress and Medium and all those other blogging sites out there. Hell. Livejournal may come back from the dead.

If I vanish, remember internutter (dot) org. That’s my hub site and I will update linkages there accordingly.

I will not stop writing. I have found means to continue. I have found ways to persist.

The death of Tumblr is not the end of the world. You, too, can persist.

Please do.

[kiwibite]

How they are handling it will not work and only harm the site, it's so sad and I hope you don't vanish because I love your writing and your blog.

[ticktockdeadman]

Adult content

Is adult content allowed on Tumblr? Starting Dec 17, adult content will not allowed on Tumblr, regardless of how old you are. You can read m

It seems the Purge was just the beginning. By Dec 17, all will be gone

[chaoswolf1982]

All will be gone.

The porn.

The art.

The fics.

The userbase.

[kiwibite]

I feel like this isn't gonna end well. Like I don't think this will work. There will always be people thay can get around the system and it won't be fool proof, I fear that it will go wrong and it will be tok strict and delete too much

[eldritchscholar]

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

[benegesserwitch]

Hi fun fact!!

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer. 

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine. 

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.

[darkersolstice]

@we-are-threadmage

[systlin]

Someone port Doom to a blanket

[rolypolywardrobe]

I really love tumblr for this 🙌

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

It goes beyond this.  Every computer out there has memory.  The kind of memory you might call RAM.  The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory.  It looked like this:

Wires going through magnets.  This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily.  Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1.  Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:

You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is.  But these are also extreme close-ups.  Here’s the scale of the individual cores:

The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers.  Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.

And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon.  This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive.  It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.

[miraculouscontent]

I like it when Tikki does things.