I love that your always on an adventure

The fact that the majority of those are in your head is beautiful - Tracker

[liberalsarecool]

Cosign.

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[im-your-mommy-now]

I keep thinking about how funny it is that Lauren Lopez is literally making her west end debut but she doesn’t get to bow. Like she has to stay in character and yell and scream and be carried off stage. She literally directed the show and she can’t bow

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

I’m so proud of her and want her to bow but also feel like she loves the bit

[pervocracy]

How to hack any hospital computer

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor

[dysgraphicprogrammer]

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.  

[pervocracy]

This is true of so many things in healthcare.  Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range.  If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else.  It makes sense, in our setting.

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.  Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.  Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health?  Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.  A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.  We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.  We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.  They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.”  And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.

[niiwa-angel]

The other issue is that most computer security is designed by people who will never work the jobs if those using their security systems.

No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, who’s getting what medication when, who’s allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.

My college apartment building made their fire alarms super sensitive, with the idea being that it would stop people from smoking in the units. What it actually did was set the damn things off all the time while people were cooking. So most people in the building just put cling film over their smoke alarms to stop them from reacting to regular cooking and would just take it off for an inspection.

[notexactlywonderland]

The fire alarm story makes a really good point because, this isn’t just a problem with computer security, it’s a much bigger problem of, corporate workers thinking they know better than the people who actually do the job.

I deal with this a lot, as a truck driver. Trucks are being built with a lot of new, fancy safety features that sound really nice to the corporate people who buy the trucks and the insurance companies that offer discounts for having them on the truck. The problem? All of those devices are designed, and tested, under perfectly ideal conditions and those are the only conditions they work under.

My favorite example is the system my current truck has that automatically steers the truck, if it thinks I’m too close to a line. Within the first month of having that, I nearly killed someone riding a bike because, when I merged, to go around them, the truck saw the line and tried to steer back into the lane.

The reality of these new systems is that trucks now have a lot of alarms that frequently set off when there’s not actually anything wrong. Most drivers are now constantly monitoring the ones that can be turned off, which is taking their attention away from the road. The ones that can’t be turned off, are so loud, and annoying, that we’re now seeing a major increase in drivers having anger issues (that’s not something you want a truck driver to have BTW). Meanwhile, a lot of people, in some office, are patting themselves on the back for the system they designed that works great, on a closed road, in California, in perfect weather

[dismalzelenka]

I’m an Uber driver, and I got dinged on a driver safety alert for braking too quickly one time.

The reason I slammed my brakes?

A piss-drunk guy ran out in front of me on a one way street downtown lmfao

I was like sure Uber I’ll just hit him next time you can handle my legal fees I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[scrollingdown]

[museum-of-artifacts]

Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery circa 1417, currently in University Library Uppsala, Sweden

[handmadehistorypodcast]

What wait WHAT

[mydonkeyfeet]

I love seeing parchment / vellum mended with stitching! Here are some more.

[despazito]

Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[thepastisaroadmap]

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

[headspace-hotel]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

[rackiera]

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

[a-book-of-creatures]

[butchfagminotaur]

on another note i know i’ve ranted about this before but im mad about it again

true crime has done irreparable fucking damage to middle class white women

every time i see some middle class white mom of two saying “girlies! you need to get a visible tattoo because then a rando won’t try to snatch you in broad daylight in the middle of the walmart checkout to put you into sex trafficking!” i get pissed off because you are NOT the primary target of trafficking! poor children of colour in underdeveloped countries, indigenous women, sex workers, these are the people in danger!

true crime podcasts always talk about the rare instance a middle class white woman is taken and so these true crime girlies only ever hear about it happening to women like them and start thinking they’re the main target, but if there were a true crime podcast for every poor non-white child who has been trafficked there wouldn’t be enough data centres in the entire world to hold them all! the fact that white women are the focus of these things is because society only gives a shit about white women, and turns a blind eye when women of colour are the ones being victimized!

i’m not saying that middle class white women are completely safe in society, far from it. but the fact that these podcasts prioritize stories of white women is because of white supremacy, and comes with the underlying sentiment of “these stories matter because they happened to the group of people it’s not supposed to happen to”, and the way white women are eating it up and making themselves the centre of the issue is a huge fucking problem

[a-ladyofwar]

Emily Axford always plays the kind of characters that sound like OCs weird little girls draw and write stories about (compliment). Like.

A rebellious punk rock teenager with horns and a skateboard and a sick bass! She’s in charge of hell and has a phoenix girlfriend! And she’s got 3 whole dads!

A kick ass lady in leopard print who punches creepy guys in the streets, all while accompanied by a magical cat! (Her husband’s an angel who’s also good at punching and loves her a bunch btw)

A haunted middle aged woman. who owns a toy shop and pilots airships! She did a lot of adventuring but an evil robot bird murdered her crew and now she’s out to kill it! FOR REVENGE!

Little Red Riding Hood but she’s a werewolf! She rips bad guys apart with her teeth and claws when she’s mad! Oh and likes to play Gin Rummy with gramma

A pretty robot space outlaw with roller skates and she blows up stuff with her grenade arm cannon! She’s best friends with another robot who lives in trash!

And a superhero who was bit by a ghost bat and now she’s like a human bat who uses echolocation and flies just like a bat and she’s armed with a sick parasol and also TWO KATANAS!

[secret-evil-blog-hehe]

Emily axford the woman that you are

All of her characters speak to my weird girl soul

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

Written for, by, and about a weird little girl <3

[atomictourists]

Piping hot take: I don't give a shit if straight actors play queer characters as long as they do so with empathy and authenticity. When you say shit like "only queer actors should play queer characters" what you're actually saying is only OUT queer actors should play queer characters. If you're assuming an actor (or anyone else, for that matter) who hasn't declared their sexuality is straight, you are participating in heteronormativity.

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

Is On a Bus the 20th Dimension of D20?

Cause I was counting the worlds of D20 (excluding seasons from the same universe like levitation and ravening war etc…) and thought city council of darkness was going to be the 20th world (and maybe the short IH season after could be a celebration of reaching 20th dimensions as a show, fulfilling the prophecy of the name)

But now On a Bus is listed as a Dimension20 season and not just a piece of game changer. So counting the shows it is now the 20th world on the D20 catalogue

Someone please tell me if my count is right cause it’s so funny to me. They reach 20 dimensions, the pun with which this show was named and built on. And it’s an April fools second season of a show that did not have a first season in the catalogue.

Katie Marovitch I love you

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

Will City Council of Darkness be the 20th Dimension? Not season but 20th world of D20???

Because if the FAQ about the season after it being intrepid heroes again but for a short season… I feel like it has to be something to do with there now being 20 dimensions? Some kind of Quangle to celebrate? Someone help me with this math

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

Ok wait I posted this before April 1st. Is On a Bus now the 20th dimension????

That’s so funny to me if it is…

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

I got so excited for the d20 on a bus season2 trailer only for the comments to tell me it was April fools. Then they released a behind the scenes and I started hyper analyzing like no the hair is different the clothes are different it’s not the same. Why bajazzel the box of doom if Brennan doesn’t even see it? It can’t be only a joke right? Then I forgot and went for a walk only to get a frantic FaceTime from my friend screaming YOU WERE RIGHT ITS REAL and run home. I’m genuinely so happy to have more of this incredible show I’ve already watched it twice

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

I tried dammit stop teaming up!

Picture set Brennan Lee Mulligan talking to Matt Mercer in a variety interview: “you guys aren’t competing against each other. You’re competing against people who watch your shows going for a walk.” Matt laughs. Brennan: “Go for a walk. It’s great!” Matt: “absolutely”

[whichcouldmeanothing]

Dimension 20: On A Bus Season 2

[rolling-uuuuupthehill]

I got so excited for the d20 on a bus season2 trailer only for the comments to tell me it was April fools. Then they released a behind the scenes and I started hyper analyzing like no the hair is different the clothes are different it’s not the same. Why bajazzel the box of doom if Brennan doesn’t even see it? It can’t be only a joke right? Then I forgot and went for a walk only to get a frantic FaceTime from my friend screaming YOU WERE RIGHT ITS REAL and run home. I’m genuinely so happy to have more of this incredible show I’ve already watched it twice

[areyoudoingthis]

babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world

[zuzartii]

I hope every single person who puts nice comments in tags under reblogged art knows that you you guys are the backbone of society. Being an artist online sucks these days, but here on tumblr I still get compliments under artworks that I made years ago. I hope you know every WOW and heart emoji and heartfelt compliment and funny comment you left in the tags is part of the reason I kept drawing all these years, in spite of everything that was going on.

I've been screenshotting the nice tags I get for years, and at this point it would be literal thousands of lines if I still had my old files. I love u tumblr users <333333333

[zuzartii]

This godawful recent update made me think about this post again. I still screenshot and collect all the kind comments and tags I get under my art posts on here. Some of these I got recently under art that is YEARS old. This literally doesn't happen on any other social media. The way tumblr note system works (worked) is THE reason me and my friends are on here instead on twitter or whatever else tumblr seems to desperately want to become.

Why would you fuck up THE thing that differentiates you from others? That makes your platform fun to use?

Man :(((