tacroy

briar (formerly elle) • pnw, usa • mid 30s • transmasc&chaosgender, he/him • ao3: tacroy • it's all discworld & dwj and arcane right now

[feral-ballad]

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “All inner life runs at some delay”

[tacroyy]

id: text that reads—

The wound is where the light enters us.

end id.

[itty-britty-blog]

Oh hell yeah

From artist Margaret Kammerer (Clay.Obj)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHwqzmkyfc0/

[dharmagun]

Higgledy-piggledy unparliamentary green parrots quarrel outside in the trees

Squawking out epithets uncomplimentary Squads of unmannerly Oversized peas.

[roach-works]

i loved this poem so much that i memorized it and to this day i sometimes mutter it under my breath to keep my welding tempo even

[tacroyy]

omg oh yeah also!! name and pronouns update!! hi im briar, he/him pls

[tacroyy]

what if…….. i used tumblr again……………..

[kyleblackpaw]

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

[tacroyy]

via the case of the golden idol

[tacroyy]

@ymirjotunn @bitternanami @tinypuffballofanger

[tacroyy]

via the case of the golden idol

[maureen2musings]

In this video, take a flight through millions of galaxies mapped using coordinate data from DESI.

Credit: Fiske Planetarium, CU Boulder and DESI collaboration

astrohumanist

[silima]

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

[silima]

turmeric kun update

[glitchlight]

It would be real fucked up if anteaters and aardvarks and armadillos and pangolins were all like herons. Instead of like themselves the trundlers

[glitchlight]

They are trundling. On their way to brunch. Of ants. we've established this.

[toskarintoast]

bread so tasty. bread so nice. toast it once. toast it twice.

[toskarintoast]

toast three times. it turns to coal. burning toast is not my goal.

[mitzo]

[trans-axolotl]

okay also semi related post. I think it is really silly when people make all these posts about how adderall is so different than meth and start saying demeaning stuff about meth users when they’re discussing the artificially created adderall shortage. the two drugs are both stimulants and yeah they are not chemically identical but they are enough the same that I currently know of a clinical trial where people are piloting adderall as a form of MAT for meth users. (Which has been really popular with the participants so far, people were telling me they liked having access to a consistent supply of adderall and were interested in reducing their meth use to only a couple times a week instead.) so maybe we should start thinking a little bit more about how there’s a lot of propaganda sensationalizing and stigmatizing meth use and stop blaming people who use meth for a shortage that the DEA is causing!!!

[bisquid]

It's deranged to me that people are going 'there's this drug that's regulated and standardised and sold in precise doses, but it's really hard to get hold of because it might be used by people with a dependence on this other, unregulated, undosed, illegally produced and distributed drug often cut with dangerous substances, and what we really want to happen is that all those people never get hold of the safe drugs. This has made it really hard for all the good people who need it for their brains to work, because it's so tightly regulated. Clearly the people to blame are the drug addicts, and not the people who think drug addicts are subhuman who don't deserve access to safe medication' like,,,

As someone who does need concerta to function, I am waaaay less concerned about the people who might 'abuse' it than the legal bullshit that has led to an international shortage.

[concerningwolves]

Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

[id-choose-a-fandom-but]

[ID: REDDIT POST:

Title: "Speech to text alternative for Windows that DOES NOT censor curse words?"

Flair: "General Question"

Post main text:

"I hate how Windows speech To text censors my words, things like offensive words and curse words. I'm an adult and if I want to say those words, I should be able to say them and not have to deal with a bunch of asterisks. Speech to text alternatives?

answer: I was using a different, simpler windows voice to text functionality. Windows has a more extensive voice control functionality that actually allows you to navigate windows with voice as well but you can use it for diction only like i do:

You can turn off the profanity filter.

Use voice access to dictate text, insert symbols and special characters, automatically punctuate your text, filter out profanities, and more

Use profanity filtering

If voice access captures a profane word, it is masked in the speech feedback. If a profanity is detected while you're dictating text, the masked version is typed out. By default, this option is turned on. You can turn the profanity filtering off or on from the voice access bar.

⁠To turn profanity filtering on or off, on the voice access bar, select  (Settings)> Manage options > Filter profanity."

[concerningwolves]

THANK YOU!! I was searching desperately for alternatives and/or workaround s but kept getting Microsoft forum results of people with the same complaints + Microsoft employees staunchly defending the filter and saying there is no other option. Really should have gone to Reddit first...

[mapsontheweb]

Maximum number of tax returns required on the same income of individuals

[impishglee]

one of the characters im writing has a very specific fetish i do not have and have not been able to give myself yet but i’m hoping by the time i have to write sex scenes with him i’ll have developed the fetish in earnest so i can write it from a place of truth

[impishglee]

“meems why don’t you just give him a fetish you already have?” listen i must open my eyes and heart to what the fetishes of my characters would be and not impose my own predilections onto them should they not be in character. i can only hope to give myself a new fetish to understand them better

[precision-instrument]

[imagedescribed]

[ID: A Bluesky post by @/cyberbadboy.com that reads: "I went to the store to get a cucumber and they were all the same price but one was much bigger so of course I got that one. When I took it up to the cashier he said Dang and swung it like a baseball bat a few times. Now that's what I call Going to the Store." /end ID]