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my world is a wonderful place

i did not choose

the atmosphere too hard to breathe for most other organisms

thank you for visiting anyway

you think so much. You could think about a door for a hundred years and it would stay closed.

#listen i thought about the door for 15 years and then it opened ok. I'm built different #(i also tried all of the stupid keys people kept handing me of course but the door stayed locked until i solved its riddle)

derinthescarletpescatarian

The thing I hate about bodies is that it's impossible for the whole thing to be a comfortable temperature at once.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Core and face a normal temperature? Hands and feet are freezing and stiff from cold. You've warmed up your hands and feet? Now your face is practically on fire. Why is it like this.

#i ask myself this every day

decompose1

an interesting amnt of people seem to think of intersexism as a "less bad" form of oppression for.... one of the only kinds of oppression that routinely involves mutilating infants and young children. and then a lifetime of very specific and unique medical abuse. it actually makes me feel kind of insane

caressthosecheekbones

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

chthonion

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

#oh!!! well in that case

damazcuz

How did you get hacked?

I tried to pirate a game and did so wrong.

The thing about hackers, scammers, fraudsters-- is that they cast a very wide net knowing they'll get a few suckers caught in it. Let's say 10,000 people get an email saying "YOÜVE W0N!🤩 CLiCK N⁰W!?!" 9,997 of them delete it. For the three people who get sucked in, it's life ruining.

They rely on the fact that, at some point, they are going to get you while you're not thinking clearly. Maybe you're sick. Or tired. Or work is stressful. Or you just had a fight with someone and you're mad. Your kid is going through something, your dog is at the vet, your car broke down, you got fired. Or you're in the middle of planning a big event, or you're so super excited for a convention-- and something comes across your desk. Maybe it's an email, or a phone call, a link, a text, a file. But for whatever reason you're not thinking 100% clearly and you don't question it, you trust for a minute and that's all that they need. You are now one of those three caught in the net.

And now you're actually on their list of suckers! They will return to you over and over and over and over again for more, because hey! You fell for it once. They're counting on that your grandma who answered a scam call and provided her credit card number once WILL be scammable again. Maybe not right away, maybe not the same way, but they'll get her. (And more often than not, they're right.)

I think most people are inclined to want to trust one another. Or sometimes we're curious. Or we think, "Wow, I didn't know it would be this easy!" not stopping to ask WHY it's so easy to get something good for free.

I work at a financial institution and I help people all the time who have been hacked and lost hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. They are always terrified- will I get my money back? Am I safe?- but they are also consistently ashamed and embarrassed. They feel guilty for having trusted and for not having stopped to think for a second longer. They verbally berate themselves. "I'm so stupid. How could I have fallen for it?"

Currently I'm only out about $300, which I'm being told I'll get back. That number could go up-- I'm still working on securing everything. Do you know how many passwords I had stored in my browser? 192. I have no idea how many of those had a valid card attached, but so far one account was plenty to steal a couple hundred bucks from me. And I do feel stupid, and embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated. Scared. The hacker messaged everyone I had recently messaged on discord as well as every channel in every server to @/everyone with instructions to download their Spyware. Every single person I talk to knows I fell for something dumb.

It's embarrassing, it's upsetting, and I dont even know the full scope of what more is going to happen. I had tax documents on my computer-- how much of my identity is now in their hands? I've locked my credit and placed fraud alerts everywhere, but how safe am I? Who else is at risk now because of me? What other files do they have from me?

In this case, I happen to know that a number of people did what I did. I've seen a number of threads from others who ALSO tried to download tomodachi life from github. (For the record, this was not the floralith link.) I was excited, I was in a hurry. I thought, "this is so quick and easy and now I can play!" I didnt question why in the hell it would EVER be so easy. I haven't had a virus on my computer since I was a young teen, and then I went and installed a bunch of Trojans whilst going "la la la." Incredibly stupid stuff.

But that's the thing, these people are constantly TRYING to catch someone, anyone, YOU, and they count on that eventually, EVENTUALLY, someday they'll dangle just the right bait for you to latch on to. And in my case it was a fishy video game download.

kerink

it is INCREDIBLY easy to get scammed. no matter how safe or smart you think you are. you are more likely to get scammed than not.

i almost did this exact same thing in january of this year. i'd just applied for SSA disability and a day or two after i got an legitimate looking email saying they needed additional documents. i check my email first thing in the morning so i was physically tired and stressed in every way possible and in pain from still being post-surgical and i was scared of screwing up this process.

i downloaded the attached file. the only thing that saved me was my computer asking if i was sure i wanted to run this program.

what program? i thought this was a pdf?

no. turns out the icon was a pdf but the file type was something i wasn't familiar with.

i went back to the email and sure enough the sender was some stupid gibberish.

i dodged a bullet by an unspeakably slim margin. it terrifies me how legit the email had looked, it was properly formatted with correct spelling and grammar and had all the right logos and headers and it went to my focused inbox. this was not designed to filter people out. it terrifies me how they even knew i'd just applied and to try this.

i've had friends who've lost thousands to scams that got them at the wrong time.

it doesn't matter who you are, how protected you feel, how many defenses you've got in place, how locked down your shit seems, they will get you. it may not ruin your life, but in some way to some degree you will get got.

harperhug

You (and I) are not immune to social engineering.

transfaguette

what i’ve learned in my life is if someone is treating you poorly and youre asking yourself “what magic words can I use to make this person treat me with basic respect,” those words don’t exist and they never will.

hometoursandotherstuff

headspace-hotel

They sting. I got ouched by one a couple days ago. The vest is for your protection.

headspace-hotel

@phillipfancypants

dogpuppy

communistkenobi

very funny to see people on here treat non-fiction as 1) a coherent category 2) the "teaches you things" genre in order to position themselves as intellectuals

communistkenobi

@murderthegods every so often you’ll see a post make the rounds telling people to read more non-fiction, as opposed to watching tv shows or reading fanfiction. and imo people treat non-fiction on this website like it’s the intellectual version of self-help books. “Non-fiction” is kind of a nonsense category here because people mean it in a purely normative sense - they aren’t talking about hate tracts or pseudoscience or state propaganda or outright misinformation, or usually even things like memoirs, they’re talking about “good” and “smart” non-fiction (essays, journal articles, and books that roughly conform to their pre-existing beliefs, and they may or may not declare those beliefs in the post). The popular command for others to “read more non-fiction” is so non-specific as to be meaningless if taken at face value, but normatively, it is a command to “educate yourself” on the implied good topics contained within the normative category of non-fiction.

I don’t think it’s a helpful call to action, because I don’t think it’s really much of a call to action to begin with. People mostly just want to self-aggrandise about how smart they are and how easy it is for them to teach themselves by reading. It treats learning as this pick-up-and-go skill you can do by simply reading a book, and if you pick up a smart book, you will learn smart things. And even speaking as someone who is a lifelong “good student,” it took me over a decade of post-secondary education to learn how to teach myself while reading, and I think people operate on this assumption that reading information = learning information. I don’t think “read non-fiction” is a serious statement and has a bunch of deeply flawed assumptions about self-teaching, knowledge generation, and education that usually makes me roll my eyes whenever I see those types of posts

#oh i did not realise they meant it like that #well maybe not all of them do #sometimes it seems to be about generically challenging yourself by reading something that may contain words you don't know #which ALSO annoys me even though i do that! the last nonfiction book i finished was basically a scientific study published in book form

candyredterezii

starting a collection

toadcroaky

international-repeater-station

softichill

humoristics

The ocean molded this clump of bricks into a rock shape

via

pochowek

real life texture glitch

somethingusefulfromflorida

Domesticated rock has returned to the wild and become feral

the-haiku-bot

Domesticated

rock has returned to the wild

and become feral

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

saszor

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"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.

You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

If (when) you repost this on pinterest at least put a link to the original post somewhere..

caressthosecheekbones

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

#???