Just like to warn everyone of this account, which has a ton of fandom-related posts and follows and thus seemed legit enough to me to reply to the message
Pro tip: if @boyishflame DMs you, just ignore and/or block. Might be a normal account that's been hacked/hi-jacked by scammers, might be a straight-up scammer account, idk. Either way, not trustworthy.
(And if you don't know what this is about, "I accidentally reported your account in error" is an increasingly common scam. If I understand correctly, they tell you to go to some page or other to, like, get your account un-reported or whatever, and then you're tricked into revealing your login details and they steal your account. So. Don't do this)
It may not even be the same account. I got a similar message. Not realizing it was a scam, I kept trying to reassure the person. "My account seems fine. Haha, reported the fishey_me account for phishing, how silly. I'm sure I would have heard from Tumblr by now."
So the person tried to escalate. "I told all of my friends to report you too."
I see now that they were trying to get me to panic. My response of "Well, I kind of understand your zealotry, but maybe next time, don't try to start a dogpile." was probably not what the person wanted to see.
Fortunately, I mentioned this weird interaction on a discord server with some friends, and they told me that the scam was that this person would try to direct me to a discord server to reset my credentials for Tumblr. Fortunately they hadn't gotten that far, so I just reported and blocked the messages.
So always remember: if someone is trying to create urgency for you, especially if they want you to think you or someone you care about were in trouble, and then they ask you to go to a secondary location, don't go.
Tumblr will not have you use Discord or any other third party to appeal your account anyway. And if they "email" you, triple check where the email is coming from.
Thanks to my friends in @goodomensafterdark for telling me about the scam.
Had one of these just the other day with the new attempted "I told some of my friends to report you too" escalation. Just said "Oh dear, another of you poor deluded fools..." and blocked & reported them.
I’m willing to sacrifice my notes for this because I’m curious. so TikTok has been blowing up with this very divisive thought experiment, and I am convinced the results on tumblr will be very different based on culture here. Feel free to participate and share your thought process! For those easily caught up in rumination, this experiment involves moral ambiguity and hypothetical harm, skip if you need to.
The thought experiment goes like this. A large group of people (the whole world or a whole country or just a large and diverse group) each individually must press one of two buttons, a red button and a blue button. On their own, both buttons do nothing. However, if more than 50% of people press the red button, everyone who pressed the blue button will die. If more than 50% of people press the blue button nothing happens.
Which button do you press?
red
blue
Voting ended onMay 11
Is the button you would press different from the one you think is correct? Is there an ethical imperative to press one over the other? Which button should people press? I’ll discuss TikTok’s reaction below the cut
I want to emphasize that I don’t think this experiment reflects morality. I don’t think red or blue represent some Kantian ethical imperative and that someone is bad for choosing one or the other. Hell, I think there’s a right choice, but in the moment, I don’t know if I could choose it. Moreso I think this experiment shows the ways in which individualism vs collectivism function in the public subconscious.
TikTok is VERY split on this one. I would say it’s around 50/50, but red is a VERY vocal group. Their insistence is that people who would press the blue button are irresponsible, and they shouldn’t need to needlessly endanger their own life to press the blue button to save people too stupid to not press the red button. Meanwhile, people who would press the blue button argue that it’s impossible to get 100% of people to press red, that 50% is a much more reasonable goal, and that people who would press red are engendering eugenics rhetoric. From that write up it’s probably pretty clear where I stand.
people have tried reframing it over and over to get others to understand their positions. However what it comes back to is that people who would press the red button believe they are not actually killing anyone, blue button pushers are just pointlessly killing themselves. Meanwhile blue button pushers argue that pressing red is deliberately causing harm because they know people WILL press the blue button, and therefore are willing to actively cause harm to save themselves.
it’s a complex topic I think, but mostly what’s been interesting is seeing a phenomenon of what I believe is guilt over pressing red and making justifications to convince themselves that blue was an objectively wrong choice and they are superior. Blue people are not lashing out in this way against team red, merely advocating for communalism and understanding and the occasional insult about amorality. But mostly it is an army of people I think feel bad, don’t like that they feel bad, and then do their utmost to make sure it’s everyone else’s fault and I think that speaks to the cultural mentality of individualism that dominates the sociopolitical climate right now.
I think it’s very revealing to see how this experiment has brought out those who otherwise would not have radical beliefs functionally parroting Nazi rhetoric. By contrast, tumblr is much further left, and has a much higher population of communists, socialists, and communalists. Collective good is often assumed to be a given over individualism, and so I’m curious to see if the poll results reflect that. I hope that I framed the experiment in a neutral way, even if the write up here is clearly biased blue!
Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a
In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.
“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”
Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.
“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.
App acts like a browser but paywalls offline reading while reviews state it’s full of intrusive ads and lacks basic functionality such as commenting. Do not use this app. Use the ao3 website. The app uses Gen-AI content for imagery on categories and is essentially forcing people to pay if they want to read your fics offline.
By the way you don’t have to pay anything to read fics offline. You can do it for free using easily accessible resources that don’t cost anything.
You do not need to pay $1 every week, $2 every month, or even $18 a year. It can be done free! By anyone!
You can also turn ao3 into an app itself by adding it to your Home Screen. You don’t need to download shady apps.
Years ago I overheard (eavesdropped upon) a telephone conversation between a public parks official and a golf course owner.
Parks Official: No sir, you cannot
Parks Official: No. They are a protected species
Parks Official: You CANNOT shoot them
Parks Official: Or poison them, no. Or trap them
Parks Official: If you like, we can-- no, I'm it. I'm the ranking official here. There's nobody above me. My boss? You mean... the governor's office? Sure, I guess. Okay bye
After he hung up, he gave me this thousand-yard stare before answering my unvoiced question.
"There's a flock of flamingos at the 9th green disrupting golfers. He wanted permission to go out there with a shotgun and take care of matters, but sensed there might be... legal ramifications. So he called us."
I laughed. "Does that happen often?"
"Oh, we get calls like that a couple times a month."
fun fact: the first documented mentions of golf were a series of bans from King James II of Scotland and Scottish Parliament against it (and football) during the 15th Century because it was an “unprofitable sport” and distracting his archers from archery practice lol
so, no, golf was not created for anything to do with hoarding ridiculously large amounts of land just to brag about how little they use it. historically, golf (and other similar stick-and-ball games at the time) were fairly class-agnostic, and were actually looked down upon by the upper crust. When Scottish royalty did play it (as in the case of Mary Queen of Scots), there was still a common connotation among the English that it was some sort of “uncivilized” Scottish “barbarity”. it was just a fun game Scots played for recreation.
outside of an modern urban context (such as in the context of the Medieval/early Modern Scotland), owning a bunch of dedicated land wasn’t really necessary—as illustrated by random soldiers just playing it when they were supposed to be practicing archery. the open, rolling hills that country clubs try to artificially recreate are just naturally occurring features of the Scottish Highlands.
it really only morphed into the version talked about above with the
invention of country clubs in the 18th Century (which granted golf a more formal, “posh” & “respectable” image) (which of course made it relatively social exclusionary) (though still fairly egalitarian compared to a lot of other sports clubs), and
the specifically American evolution and expansion of country clubs in the late 19th into 20th Century (which made country clubs much bigger, hungrier, and more closely tied to the ethos of what would become White American suburban gated-communities).
in short, golf exists for the same reason most games do—simple recreation. a lot of the problems mentioned above are features of the (literal) colonization of the sport to make it respectable to the English and American upper-class. what you have a problem with are excessive country clubs, and flamingo-blasting gun nuts, lol, not golf.
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