Maybe the anti endo community on Tumblr is not as huge as we thought it was. (CW: rare and probably only post we will make about syscourse on this blog, because we genuinely hate it.)
We went on a blocking spree yesterday and took about two to three hours manually blocking anyone who had recently posted anything in the tags "anti endo", "anti endogenic", "endos dni", "endos fuck off" and "endos aren't real" until all of the specific feeds for these tags were empty (because Tumblr would not retrieve older posts this way), which gave us about a six-month buffer (from the beginning of this year on) of nothingness in these tags. The results were... Satisfying enough, weirdly?
Now we are able to browse about any general plural tag we want without seeing posts with anti endo tags, or only very few of them (otherwise, despite having anti endo tags we know of blocked, we would still see that those posts exist and be able to expand and read them, which we don't want to happen).
It's like syscourse does not exist anymore!
If we regularly do this and block the new people who have posted, say, every Saturday, then the rest of the week we'll likely be able to completely forget that anti endo people exist. Which is kinda cool, because they make us feel really bad, as a nondisordered mixed origin system. After all, they are denying the existence of our headmates and thus the reality of the relationships we formed and the emotions we felt -- no one should have to read that about their family or friends, no matter "where" they exist.
The only problem with this strategy is that it does not take into account the fact that people can change. For example, if an "anti-willo" blog announces changing its views and rebrands itself, we still won't be able to see its posts. Moreover, we might have some issues if Tumblr has a limit on the number of blogs we can block (but if it exists, we haven't run into it yet).
Anyways, just wanted to put that out there, in case someone has two hours to spare and wants to protect themselves from syscourse.
We're even thinking of making a Python script that we would run every week and which would block people for us while we nap or something (slowly to not make it look like a poor DoS attack). We'd just have to... Learn and relearn a lot of things, because despite having studied computer science, we did not do things like that back in the days. We'll post this script if we end up writing it and it works.
And if anyone is mad about this... Well, they've got "endos dni" on their posts, blocking them is exactly what they say they are expecting us (a mixed origin system) to do.
Idea for a partnership with local museums for public libraries
The trick for grownup museums with kids is making a scavenger hunt for them related to the collection.
When I was 12 my friend & I went with my mom to the Louvre and she made a scavenger hunt for us beforehand. She had to drag us out at closing time practically kicking and screaming.
It might be interesting to partner up with local museums to have kits that parents can take out that come with a pass and scavenger hunt worksheets that can be filled out and exchanged for a sticker or other small prize at the museum (or the library, idk).
alright, was chilling out on the hijack discord and had a brainwave. here goes:
What do you do if you'd like to commission something from an artist, but you don't have the money? Well, you either suffer, or you save up for a long time, or you get a bunch of friends to pitch in together.
That last one is the thing I want to address here.
I envision a platform where:
Users pitch commission ideas to artists.
The artist decides that either they won't do the thing at all and the idea gets discarded, or they will do the thing. They set a price and make the idea public.
Public ideas can get voted on similar to Kickstarter projects. You don't get charged until the whole thing has been committed to.
Once an idea is funded, it goes into the artist's queue to be worked on in roughly the order they were funded.
Once it's fulfilled, everyone who backed the idea gets the art, and then the artist can set a price for latecomers to buy it too.
I really like this idea. I would absolutely use this if it was a thing and my favorite artists were on it. If someone builds this, or already has, please let me know.
As for building it myself? No. "Anything handling Real Money" is on my list of things to never program for. I refuse to work on things that, when they get hacked (and assholes will try, because money), will cause real problems for people.
If you’re looking to showcase your love for Ava’s Demon you can make your own Titan iPad! This is idea is simple. All it needs are your favorite Titan propaganda posters (or just your favorite scenes from the comic). Just save those images into a list and increase the index upon each click and you’re set!
An easy activity to plan/execute for Littles who believe in Santa
I covered for a coworker at last year's winter festival at our elementary school and the craft she had was genius.
What you'll need:
A bag of plain instant oatmeal (uncooked!)
A large bowl for the oatmeal
1 or more baking scoopers
Glitter of as many colours as you'd like
A ziplock bag
What to do:
Give each participatting kid a ziplock bag. They then scoop some oats and sprinkle glitter on it.
What did you just make?
Reindeer food! :D
You sprinkle it outside your house the night before Christmas so they have a tasty snack to eat while Santa delivers human goodies. (plus the glitter helps tell them where to land like an airplane runway). :)
I had a couple kids worry about whether it was safe for reindeer to eat glitter and my response was that this was special reindeer-safe glitter (we checked!). It's not safe for humans but for reindeer it's fine; kind of like dog biscuits.
They seemed to find my explanation pretty legit and solidly logical.
Hi everyone! Only three more days to submit your programming ideas, so make sure you don't miss the deadline. We're at Day 5 of our How to Run Programming series, this time talking about Tips & Tricks for Hosting a Workshop
From how to work with makeup, making plushies, knitting and other fiber arts, to beginner info on Dungeons & Dragons, or how to get into podficcing, workshops can be whatever you want to teach to a group! If you need some inspiration on where to start your planning, check out the post. Examples of attendees' workshop notes will go up tomorrow. As with the panels and group discussions, if you have notes that you'd like to share or advice for people who want to run a workshop, you'll be able to add them to that post.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment on our Dreamwidth post or email us at [email protected].
