pensive pencilium

Tiny bites of stories short I'd one day write though likely naught

[silurisanguine]

Linktree will be feeding your images with DALL-E, Open AI from 5th July 2026.

Warning to anyone using Linktree.

From the 5th July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

I deleted my account just now, because there was no way to turn this off or opt out.

[silurisanguine]

Update with some alternatives-

Carrd.co. Free alt with paid features.

Bento.app Currently free, integrated with bluesky

Everlink.tools Closest to Linktree, has some paid features.

Omg.lol Currently $20 a year. If paying for Linktree features this is a great upgrade.

[pencilium]

Maybe I'm an Old, but I've never caught on to how any of these services was better than just having your own homepage.

Like- make a one-page website with whatever you want on it and its yours and no one can take it away from you or change it or destroy it because you own it and its yours.

And you can register your own doman name. Which is yours and you keep it and it doesn't change till you change it.

[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.

[easel-eisel]

watching a show and it references a film so now i watch the film to understand the show and the film references a book so i need to read the book to understand the film and the book references another older book and now i need to understand everything that is unknown to me

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[lakevida]

why are people even fucking with gatcha games the wikipedia random article button is $0 and i just rolled a 10th century byzantine encyclopedia on my 17th try

[pencilium]

Wikipedia Gacha

Wikipedia Gacha は、Wikipedia の記事をカードとして集めて遊べる無料ブラウザゲームです。Collect Wikipedia articles as trading cards in your browser.

[bidoof]

Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

[mycatisnamedfrank]

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

[bidoof]

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

[domozillla-deactivated20181216]

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

[bidoof]

The finger blocks it

[dildomuncher3000]

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

[bidoof]

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

[fifty-percent-possessed-deactiv]

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

[hungwy]

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

[blipblerp]

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

[gorps]

No the finger would stop it

[joryboi]

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

[foulserpent]

no the finger would stop it

[indianworiorprincess-blog]

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

[foulserpent]

the finger would stop it

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

[petalsbleedingbeak]

These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?

@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it

[gorps]

I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet

[several-large-churros]

….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.

[gorps]

It’s because they didn’t use a finger like I did

[pencilium]

It all has to do with pressure. The finger presses against the bullet and stops it.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[pencilium]

Fun fact: Torrent is one of the methods you can use to download LibreOffice. Because the files are hosted on user's systems rather than a paid host, you can treat it as your small contribution the project: Helping them to save a little bandwidth by donating just a little bit of yours anytime someone needs a copy.

[depsidase]

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[tikkety-tok]

Good news that we deserve 😌

[bagheadautist]

for people who can’t watch the video: THE AMYGDALA CHANGES TRADITIONALLY FOUND IN MOTHERS SHOW UP IN ALL PRIMARY CAREGIVERS REGARDLESS OF SEX

Changes in this part of the brain were previously used to previously used to argue that women are the ideal primary caretakers of children in all cases. And apparently, it’s false. The reason they found these changes in women was that women were already the primary caretaker in almost all cases, not because there’s something inherent to women that makes them better parents.

this is big news for SAHF and single dads!

[legend-of-the-fandoms]

This is also big news for adoptive parents and queer couples! Many people try to argue that adoptive parents aren't real parents because of biology and blah blah blah. Bigots will also argue this case against queer people. So, to all my traditionalists: it's not science! It's bigotry and sexist!

[stele3]

Nurture Changes a Parent's Brain

The first few months of being a parent are a sensitive period.

[dailymanners]

This is why paid parental leave for all parents regardless of gender is so crucial. All parents need and deserve time to bond with their children. When only one parent is given parental leave, that parent is naturally going to have more time to develop a bond to that child than the parent who immediately goes back to work. This will, inevitably, create a lifelong imbalance in who does most, or all, of the childcare. Equal paid parental leave regardless of gender benefits all parents and all children.

[targetedknowledge]

[pencilium]

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[pencilium]

There were people who would follow their map apps even if it told them to drive into a construction zone or a lake.

This is the same problem but worse and for everything.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I get people who are like “why do you play Bethesda games” and it’s like what other game studio lets me pick up basically everything in my environment and throw it at people

[what-even-is-thiss]

Killing NPCs with a cauldron is a time honored Skyrim tradition

[what-even-is-thiss]

The Bethesda fallout games have the junk jet which is literally a giant gun that can shoot all of the random clutter you collect at people. You can kill people with a teddy bear shot out of a canon at Mach 5 and if that isn’t hilarious to you then I don’t think we can get along.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m as big of a starfield hater as you can find but it kept the Bethesda clutter that you can pick up thing which is wonderful because you can collect houseplants and drop them all over the president’s desk if you want to.

[what-even-is-thiss]

See that’s what I miss in other open world video games. In so many of them you can see the pizza box but you can’t make a collection of a thousand pizza boxes and block the road with them.

In oblivion if I want to flood the imperial palace with cabbages and I have the will to go out and collect enough cabbages then nobody will stop me from doing that.

[animentality]

[beautifulterriblequeen]

A sign to tap

[grissomesque]

"If you're still having fun in your 30s you're functionally brain damaged" sure is a take.

[dotty-literati]

One year retrospective

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

That about aligns with when it became useless trash. It seemed like waaayyy too many Japanese words were being presented as loanwords, even stuff that they would've had a native word for, and it kept on repeating Day 1 vocabulary like okay bro I fucking get it, mizu to gohan kudasai, how about "What's a good restaurant around here?"?! 300 days in and it never even got to the words for left, right, up and down. And don't even get me started on how janked the Arabic lessons were.

[pencilium]

As soon as the CEO said that teaching was about consuming endless content rather than, say, building useful lessons or oppurtunities to apply what you've learned, should've been the moment everyone jumped ship.

I mean- as soon as they said AI should be the teacher was the jumping off point.

I guess there are many points where people should've tucked-and-rolled their way out of that thing.

[vermin-and-the-maggots]

Unfortunately reblogs were turned off but that post is important for people in fandoms to see

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[pencilium]

Ryan Goose was born 1980. Animaniacs started airing 1993.

My question is did Ryan's desire to climb the tower come from his 13 year old self wanting to see if there were Warners living in there.