a sky full of ghosts

hey! i'm charlie and bemmet is life ey/em/eir pronouns!!

[roanrampant]

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[captoring]

when oitnb season 3 rolls around, can we all keep in mind alex is an emotionally abusive, lying, dangerous, unrepentant criminal who literally threatened to rape a girl at one point and all around a very shitty person and not worship her as the perfect sexy girlfriend? poussey washington is the perfect girlfriend. redirect all alex love to poussey

[captoring]

lol not to mention manipulative, biphobic and hinted at being a cheater

[argeiphonte-deactivated20170128]

Rosalina and peach palette swap

[haveagooddalyn]

This came into my work today and it made me really happy, because it’s so perfect and there needs to be more of this.

Just think of the little blind kid who’s just learning to read Braille and they find this and think for the first time that something was made special for them, with them in mind, and here it is telling them that there are others like them and that you don’t need to see to still experience all the joys and beauties of the world. That color can be smelt and heard and felt as much as seen. That you are not experiencing the world in a lesser or incomplete way, but just differently, and difference is beautiful.

Bless this children’s book author from the bottom of my heart. Bless.

[dolkienne]

I was gonna speedpaint Alistair as warm up before working on another project. Somehow I added armour — and I’ve never drawn armour before. I srsly have no idea what I was thinking. But hey, have some weird Alistair in questionable lighting.

[rizes--moved-deactivated2016091]

☆ *･゜ﾟ☆･*:. ☆

[klingonsarecute-deactivated2015]

I’m glad that shitting on anti-vaxxers is becoming like a thing. But i just want you to remember one fucking thing: the autistic community has been fighting anti-vaxxers for a long ass time so don’t push aside autistic voices.

[izzieanne]

zodiac doodles (february) - enlarge the images for better quality

[specialspaceship-blog]

Brianna Wu is Risking Her Life Standing Up to Gamergate

This weekend, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video on YouTube outlining his plans to murder me. I know his real name. I documented it and sent it to law enforcement, praying something is finally done. I have received these death threats and 43 others in the last five months. 

This experience is the basis of a Law & Order episode airing Wednesday called the “Intimidation Game.” I gave in and watched the preview today. The main character appears to be an amalgamation of me, Zoe Quinn, and Anita Sarkeesian, three of the primary targets of the hate group called GamerGate.

My name is Brianna Wu. I develop video games for your phone. I lead one of the largest professional game-development teams of women in the field. Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues. I’m doing everything I can to save my life except be silent. 

The week before last, I went to court to file a restraining order against a man who calls himself “The Commander.” He made a video holding up a knife, explaining how he’ll murder me “Assassin’s Creed Style.” He wrecked his car en route to my house to “deliver justice.” In logs that leaked, he claimed to have weapons and a compatriot to do a drive-by. 

After the crash, he sent me a deranged video that Jezebel called “bizarre” and “terrifying.” Sam Biddle of Gawker said that if this happened to him, he’d be “locked in a closet rocking back and forth.” For me, it’s just another Tuesday. My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it’s a muscle that can do no more.

The Law and Order character based on the three of us eagerly wants to push past the death threats and launch her game. The reality is, this circus has sucked every bit of joy from a career I once felt destined for. Zoe recently Tweeted a picture of a vending machine with a sign: ”The light inside is broken, but I still work.” There’s not a single day I don’t ask myself why I’m here, and why I keep doing this.

Software increasingly defines the world around us. It’s rewriting everything about human interaction — I spend a lot more time on my iPhone than I do at my local civic center. Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities — how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don’t truly have a seat at the table. 

This has disastrous consequences for women that use these systems built by men for men. I must use Twitter, as it’s a crucial networking tool for a software engineer, yet I must also suffer constant harassment. Women’s needs are not heard, our truth is never spoken. These systems are the next frontier of human evolution, and they’re increasingly dangerous for us. 

When Twitter is completely ineffectual at handling harassment — it’s because women don’t truly have a seat at the table in running it. We don’t have a voice. They tell us they’re going to do better.

When Wikipedia’s highest ruling board chooses to discipline only feminists — it’s because 9 out of 10 of its editors are men. They tell us they’re going to do better. 

When a Silicon Valley founder sends a woman reporter a gift basket with a dildo and K-Y jelly then doesn’t understand why it might be offensive, it’s because most of the venture capital system and the tech entrepreneurs are men. We don’t have a voice. They tell us they’re going to do better. 

Amazingly, the field of video games is the most misogynistic area in all of tech. The lead writer of Ubisoft’s hit franchise Watch Dogs angrily denied that Gamergate was a hate group, calling such statements a “smear tactic” and an “obvious lie.” During the reign of terror of Gamergate, I have had hundreds of conversations with other women. We’re exhausted, we’re terrified we’ll be next, we’re all thinking of quitting. 

I have a folder on my hard drive with letters from dozens and dozens of women who’ve abandoned their dream of becoming game developers due to Gamergate, some as young as 12. 

You’d hope that the gaming press would provide some sort of check on the unrelenting sexism in the game business, but the truth is, they’re complicit in creating our Gamebro culture. One of our largest gaming sites, IGN, has written one single, weak article addressing Gamergate where they don’t even mention it by name. I wish I could say I was surprised, but this is the site that advertises itself as “broverload.”

All this horror begs the question — what can be done? 

Fortunately, this isn’t something that requires us to boil the ocean to solve. Here are four easily achievable things that can be done immediately.

Firstly: For the last year, Reddit has had a female CEO named Ellen Pao. She has also struggled with high-profile sexism. Ellen, you have a hate group operating on your site called Kotaku in Action, creepily called KiA. This lunatic fringe of gamer doxxers who slanders us creates a culture that is making it impossible for us to do our jobs. Before this piece ran, I reached out to Pao, who said she wasn’t ready to talk about any plans publicly. I am calling on Pao and her Reddit admins to stop letting this hate group operate on their site.

Secondly, there have been no prosecutions for the hundreds of death threats that have been sent to Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, or myself. I am calling on law enforcement, specifically the FBI, to step it up. This will not stop until you show the public that there are consequences to these illegal acts.

Thirdly, many of the most serious harassers have committed criminal acts — doxxing us, repeatedly threatening to murder women and attempting to blackmail me and other women. Yet they keep creating new accounts and coming back to harass us. Dick Costolo, we need Twitter to work with us to ban them when they create new accounts until you can develop better tools. If Twitter reaches out to me, I’d be delighted to help the with names of specific people breaking their TOS.

Lastly, I am calling on the Obama administration to arrest and prosecute Fredrick Brennan, the owner of 8chan. 8chan doesn’t just host child pornography, it also runs Baphomet, the most hardcore doxxing and swatting site on the Internet. It’s time for Brennan to face justice. 

Just before this piece went to print, I became aware of a federal judge’s private information being shared on Brennan’s platform, and I’d like share what I know with law enforcement.

Invariably, by speaking up, I’ll experience a new round of threats and harassment. The people doing this see themselves as noble warriors, not criminals. I’ll probably get more rape and death threats. I’ll be told I’m being dramatic. For pointing out the game media’s silence, behind closed doors these people will tell themselves what amazing allies to women they feel they are, and nothing will be done.

As a friend recently told me, “It’s a very dangerous time to be a woman with an opinion.”

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Do we fight this battle now, or do men get to be the only ones shaping our future? I’m doing my part — you can do yours by sharing this piece, and helping me hold these institutions accountable.

[nevergooutofstyle-deactivated20]

taylorswift I hope you see this but we’ve been together for 4 months, he just texted me and told me he was done with me. Gave me no reason and kept trying to get me to do irrational things to get him back. Now he’s calling me names and I just feel crumbled. I don’t know what to do

[breakmelikeapromise]

[lskbe-deactivated20160223]

TAYLOR IS AN ACTUAL ANGEL SENT FROM HEAVEN

[stormofthunder-deactivated20200]

ok so due to this whole tumblr audio posts thing you can use this tampermonkey script to go to your mass post editor, select “show only: audio” and “is original” so you get all your original audio posts and you can delete then from there 

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

huge signal boost thank you storm

[idgah]

foods that will poison cats:

alcohol 

chocolate

caffeine

dairy products (adults turn lactose intolerant)

fat trimmings, raw meat, eggs, fish

grapes and raisins

onions and garlic

tuna (when not made for cats)

xylitol (artificial sweetener)

if you have a cat please reblog this

[flightless-moth]

Even if you don’t have a cat please reblog this for all your followers who may have their own precious little baby.

[nintendette]

Hey I'm doing a study about bad surveys

Reblog if you think my data and population will be biased

Like if you agree that my sample size is impossible to determine.

[dolphin-machine]

DON'T POST COPYRIGHTED SONGS ON TUMBLR ANYMORE. STAFF IS DELETING BLOGS FOR IT.

please spread this around so it doesn’t get you like it got nosdrinker

[stewardessme]

Why is this happening now? Many reasons, but the most important: Around February 1, 2015, Yahoo changed Tumblr audio posts to add download functionality (a “get” button), which would turn Tumblr into a pirated-music-hub unless Yahoo gives the music industry free rein to search and destroy — and Yahoo has.

Tumblr support staff is not involved in the account terminations. They are down to the music industry (especially the IFPI) and their bots, which continually search Tumblr audio and video posts for song metadata, including song titles and song lyrics. Using the data gathered by the bots, music industry companies automatically generate Tumblr takedown notices (DMCAs), which at Tumblr automatically generates content removal, content removal notifications, and account terminations. The entire process is automated.

Are there errors? Hell yes. See the IFPI and Jeremy Banks tags for the latest sadness.

The music industry bots search content going way back; people have had their accounts terminated for stuff posted more than two years ago, so you need to delete all of your old copyrighted music posts to evade the bots. Why? Tumblr accounts are terminated after three copyright violations within 18 months, which doesn’t sound so bad — but the 18 month time period does not apply to when you uploaded the content, but to the dates of the takedown notices. If you upload only one song a year for three years in a row, but the bots issue takedowns on them within an 18 month period, you have just qualified for immediate and automatic account termination.

I cannot stress enough that Tumblr support staff is not involved. Yahoo is not devoting Tumblr staff to reviewing bot-generated account terminations, because there are millions of audio posts on Tumblr, and personal reviews would cost Yahoo more money than Yahoo would like to spend, which is zero.

Yahoo takes the music industry bot’s “word” as proof of copyright violation because that is the cheapest thing to do. Sad emails to Tumblr about your post content being fair use will be ignored. The only way to get your account or content restored is through a DMCA Counter-Notification.

For years, Tumblr allowed us to upload music (up to five audio posts a day) because it substantially increased Tumblr’s user base and user “activity,” therefore increasing Tumblr’s value to its eventual buyer, Yahoo, and to the advertisers Yahoo is so eager to court. Now Yahoo/Tumblr is letting us take the DMCA fall for it, reminding us yet again that we aren’t the customers, but the product being sold to advertisers.

[wtpyrofreak]

Oh hey a detailed explanation over what the hell’s going on and what you can do! Spread this version instead of any of those fear-mongering ones!

[tracey123224-deactivated2019060]

"Previously, researchers had misidentified skeletons as male simply because they were buried with their swords and shields. By studying osteological signs of gender within the bones themselves, researchers discovered that approximately half of the remains were actually female warriors, given a proper burial with their weapons."

[mxmmercury]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[narcotic]

cuddle me and tell me I’m cuter than your exes and I’m all yours