[sigmaleph]

How many followers do you have?

0-3

4-9

10-27

28-81

82-243

244-729

730-2187

2188-6561

6562-19683

>19683

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2023

[sigmaleph]

#the heck is up with the bracketing here though#and why that awkward gap between 244-729

the bin edges are powers of three! for the obvious reason.

(...the reason probably isn't obvious to everyone, is it)

so this was inspired by two previous polls on the same question, one of which has unpredictable ad hoc bracketing and the other has uniformly sized bins.

they both show that most tumblr users have a follower count in the low three digits, but there are non-negligible populations with much more than that. we have a distribution where the values can span orders of magnitude, and we want to get some idea of what it looks like at various 'scales'.

A uniformly-sized bins approach has to choose between a small bin size that gets you a decent resolution for the small values where most people are, but means all the big values are collapsed into the last category without getting much of a clue of what the distribution looks like there, versus a large bin size that gets you a 'bigger picture' of the range but at very low resolution. With increasing bin sizes, you can get the benefits of both at once!

so, exponential bins. I picked an integer power just for simplicity's sake, and 2 felt like it grew too slowly (the last bin would've been "513 or more", which certainly seems too early to saturate), so i went for the next integer, 3. (I considered 4, too. seeing the data now, maybe 4 would've been a better option, but obviously i didn't have the data then and i had to make a guess)

i don't know what's up with 244-729 being smaller than both its neighbour bins, but this is a surprising result that i feel validates my choice of exponential bins: i think it says something about how tumblr followers are distributed, and it would not have been obvious with other approaches to bin sizes.

[mintcarousel]

if a transbian asks you to “watch anime” with her, DO NOT GO. It is not code for sex, she will show you something called “Revolutionary Girl Utena” and your only choice will be to revolutionize the world. The path will have been prepared for you.

[mintcarousel]

i need some people in the notes (no hate, love u, mwah) to understand that I’m The Transbian

[terminallytwee]

SOME NIGHTS THE BODY IS KING

[thoughtlessarse]

The Crackdown on Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because of the Movement’s Success

One protester was killed by police, 20 were charged under a “domestic terror” law, and Georgia’s governor gave himself broad “emergency” pow

The movement to stop the construction of a $90 million police training center atop vast acres of Atlanta forest has been extraordinarily successful over the last year. With little national fanfare, Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City activists nimbly deployed a range of tactics: encampments, tree-sits, peaceful protest marches, carefully targeted property damage, local community events, investigative research, and, at times, direct confrontation with police forces attempting to evict protesters from the forest. The proposed militarized training compound known as Cop City has thus far been held at bay. The Atlanta-based movement should be seen as an example of rare staying power, thoughtful strategizing, and the crucial articulation of environmentalist politics situated in anti-racist, Indigenous, and abolitionist struggle. Unsurprisingly, however, significant national attention has only been drawn to the forest defenders in the last week thanks to the extreme law enforcement repression they are now facing. A forest defender was killed by police last Wednesday, and a total of 19 protesters now face capricious and ungrounded domestic terror charges for their involvement in the movement — a rare deployment of a state domestic terror statute, threatening to exhaust and crush a resilient and developing movement. On Thursday, Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp announced a “state of emergency” in response to the protests in downtown Atlanta in the week following the killing of the protester. The executive order grants the governor’s office extensive and preemptive repressive powers, including the ability to call on as many as 1,000 National Guard troops to quell protests at any moment. “This is an unprecedented level of repression,” said Marlon Kautz, 38, an Atlanta-based organizer with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which provides bail funds and legal support to protesters who are targeted for involvement in social movements, including against Cop City. “At this point the police seem to be charging every protester they arrest with ‘domestic terrorism’ regardless of the circumstances,” he said. “The other pattern we’ve noticed is they are charging everyone arrested on a given day with all crimes which happened that day.”

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link to donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, sourced from their website: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund

[wintercorrybriea]

olivia ballard fall 2023

[mioxenoblade]

girls will let you talk them into absolutely anything when they're massively horny, edged, and desperately need to cum.

[dadsmell]

Whenever I see people complain about how a politics of negation is scary (or frequently less charitable terms) when you dont have a prescriptive plan for what happens afterwards, I think of this exchange from a dialogue within the Black Panther Party :

"I'm not trying to say what would be established, but I say when black people get around the table and they make up something for themselves it won't be antiblack it'll be something for us, no matter what it is."

"I have my doubts"

"I understand what you mean but as long as you work within a framework of what is existing now I think youll always run into a hangup because you see, the thing is, we're about changing what exists now by whatever means necessary, including revolution, to put that word into the conversation. And when you talk about revolution, you're talking about throwing away what exists now and not worried about what's gonna come after, all we know is that this is bad, and anything else can't be much worse than what we have now."

"But you see, I'm of the opinion that if you want to destory something, you have to have something to put in it's place."

"But I'm saying if you're concerned about doing one thing we have a job enough, just worrying about this cancerous system. And whoever wants to heal the wound and sew it up and build something better can be involved in that. But I'm saying at this point is you can't build a building without tearing down the one that's there.

Can I use the analogy of this country? When they had that revolution, when did they meet? The continental congress? To draw up the laws and set up the structure of this country? Was it before the revoltion or after it?"

"Are you looking for a label? You want the name of a system that will replace another system. We don't have a name for it yet. It will be a system that has never been on the face of Earth before."

The principal, coming around to their ideas: "...These things must be done away with, and in doing away with them you are building a new soceity, call what it what you want, it doesn't really matter."

The full discourse is available here:

[stsathyre]

There's no reason for you to watch police bodycam videos

There's no reason for you to share police bodycam videos

You can be upset without spreading Black trauma

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

Lynching Postcards

After the Civil War, photographs of lynchings , usually made by unidentified photographers, were published as postcards, often inscribed wit

it’s a part of a grand american tradition if u think abt it.

[xiaoguiwang]

One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia

Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing

Coffman will recall that she feels “totally disoriented.” She cannot believe that an innovator in mass murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995.

Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: “This is, of course, nonsense.”

The level of bad faith is eye-opening for Coffman. She is “very appalled.” She sees that her confidence in Wikipedia was “very much misplaced.” All it takes to warp historical memory, she realizes, is something this small, achievable for almost anyone with a keyboard. “So few people can have so much impact, it’s a little scary,” she says. She begins to turn a more critical eye to what she sees on Wikipedia. Especially the footnotes.

[whitepajamas]

[jasvvy]

not your typical lockup. 

[sailor-retrograde]

Collection:Adam's Word

Institution:Sexual Minorities Archives

Creator:Adam Society

Date:Feb. 1991

Adam's Word was a monthly newsletter of The Adam Society, a non-profit support group for female-to-male crossdressers, transsexuals, and their significant others. This collection contains 6 issues of the newsletter and 2 meeting notices. A typical Adam's Word publication includes information concerning transitioning, support groups, books with trans content (sometimes accompanied by a review), and various reflections from contributors regarding events and conferences they attended. Some pieces in the newsletter are reprinted from other publications such as The Tartan Skirt or The Seahorse Newsletter.

[felt-texture]

Velvet, my sona ^_^

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Big… tail…………

[weepingwidar]

Oh de Laval (Thai/Polish, 1990) - We Are 99% Angels But Oh! That 1% (2020)

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[disc80s]

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