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every night owl I know (myself included) is as careful as possible and as quiet as a mouse so not to wake up or disturb people who are asleep while they’re awake but from the moment a morning person wakes up they will make as much noise as possible as if their god given purpose is the be the loudest most inconsiderate person alive
every day i think about this smartypants ep
how dare you question the amazing method of farming that gives us so much food by simply killing the soil and leaving lands barren without maintaining the resources that make it work in the first place.
last year i got 1800 bushels of corn by killing the soil, as opposed to before when i only got 1200 by not killing the soil. surely i can simply keep killing more soil
wym there's only so much soil. that's an externality and therefore none of my concern
Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could b
well here's the thing, under normal circumstances without human intervention soil recovery can take a long long time. with human intervention, such as mulching, cover crops (that you then turn into mulch), seeding with beneficial fungi, etc, soil buildup can be massively boosted. we can be a positive force instead of a negative one. we just have to start doing that
We literally already pulled off a 10-year turnaround by getting a company to dump a lot of orange peels in an area.
Good point! here it is:
Princeton researchers explore how discarded orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest.
people always blast right past the "if we continue with current practices" and go straight to "this is inevitable"
I did some more fantasy archery trope testing. This time the arrow stabby thing!
Welcome new followers who do not quite look like porn bots.
A word of advice: If you only hit the Like heart, your blog appears to be empty and your tumblr experience will not be good. Because people will block you.
I will block you.
Get reblogging, fill your blog. This is how it's done here.
If for whatever reason you don't feel comfortable reblogging yet, literally just make one single text post saying something like "hey I'm new to tumblr and still figuring out the culture! Not a bot, pls don't block me." An empty blog is an instant report spam.
sorry about this guys, but very much this. i have discovered that if you MISS blocking a porn bot this often results in like five times as many of them and the morning "oh god another one" process becomes much worse, so I'm straight up doing "hrm no posts WELP - "
...Truly. Just post once saying "Honest, I'm human and I'm just figuring all this out" and you'll be fine.
I emphasize this because @petermorwood was up late late Saturday night deleting both bots and empty blogs, and when I woke up he was lying next to me talking in his sleep about being sorry that he might possibly have accidentally deleted real people. (And he'd been was checking conscientiously for actual contents or signs of life, because that's how he is.)
So have some pity on us and help us out here. Likes alone are not enough. :/ ...Please & thank you.
If you don’t like rice then idk man get well soon I guess
all the bitches in the notes saying that rice sucks need to remember that rice backwards is ecir which means absolutely nothing. just like their opinion
Just FYI, it does. One of my favourite quick and easy meals is to cook a breaded chicken fillet, and while that's cooking, make a cup of rice in the rice cooker, seasoned with bouillon, curry powder, paprika and whatever other spices I have that Look Tasty. Works great, and only takes 15 minutes.
These are good. But do their handles bend when you dig them into a container of flour? That's what I want to know. (Because mine do, and frankly I'm done with that.)
Oh, and then when you take them OUT of the container the handle immediately straightens and launches your flour into the air like a little trebuchet? Yeah, measuring cups that do that are the WORST.
I want the Government to reverse their decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, as this legislation contains importa
hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word
this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures
For anyone who doesn’t know, Scotland recently passed the Gender Reform Recognition Bill, which would have made it significantly easier for trans people to legally change their in Scotland.
However, the vile Tory bastards down in London decided to use an obscure legal loophole to VETO this bill, essentially shitting over trans people and the very concept of Scottish democracy all at once.
If you live near Edinburgh, please consider coming out to the Scottish Trans Alliance’s rally on Thu Jan 19th, and I’ll see you at the referendum this October. :/
ALT
Can I just had: it wasn’t so much an obscure legal loophole as a never touched big red button. It was an ability deliberately built into the devolution of power to Scotland called Section 35 which allows the government to prevent the monarch from giving royal assent.
This has NEVER been used because it would always have been a political bombshell to say to the devolved parliament that their power could be undermined by both Westminster and the royals at a moments notice. THIS is the issue over which they chose to break the system. They’re so set on a culture war they’re going to hand Scotland every reason for leaving they could ever need by telling them ‘we can always stop you, you have no real power’.
So please, if you live in Scotland, I implore you to do everything you can to take power from Westminster. They don’t deserve it one bit.
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.
Photos: Karen Nyberg, via CollectSpace
THIS IS SO CUTE AND IS MAKING MY SCI-FI CRAFTER ASS SO DAMN HAPPY
Crafting in Space!
Guys guys… it’s… a spacecraft…
So, what is the OGL and why are DnD creators thoroughly screwed?
Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:
With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefit from said content.
With OneDnD (sometimes called “dnd 6e”), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:
Make WOTC take a cut for any DnD-related work (according to Kickstarter, a whole 25% of the benefits)
Let WOTC cancel any project related to DnD up to their discretion
Let WOTC take ANY content made based on their system, and re-sell it without crediting you, or giving you a single cent
And most importantly, revoke the old OGL, which will harm any company or game system that used it as a base, such as Pathfinder. And it means they GET ownership over any homebrew content you may have done for 5e in the past!
It’s important to note that OGLs are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned there’s a chance they may get away with it given the wording.
This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.
These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.
So, what can we do?
Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasn’t been talking much about this matter, but it’s VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing.
Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it.
And maybe consider other TTRPG systems for the time being, Pathfinder’s Paizo has been much nicer to the community, their workers are unionized and are far more healthy overall
Steel mill gases transformed into bioplastic
Plastic waste from food deliveries is rapidly polluting the environment. An alternative that has emerged is bioplastic, which is also called biodegradable plastic. Bioplastic that uses eco-friendly raw materials emits less pollutants during the production process and has natural decomposition properties. Recently, a Korea-Spain joint research team recreated bioplastic from waste byproducts from gas fermentation from steel mills.
Through joint research with Spain’s Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), a research team led by Professor Gyoo Yeol Jung, Ph.D. candidates Dae-yeol Ye and Jo Hyun Moon, and Dr. Myung Hyun Noh in the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH has developed a technology to generate artificial enzymes from E. coli. The joint research then succeeded in mass-producing itaconic acid, a source material for bioplastic, from acetic acid in E. coli. This study is published in Nature Communications.
Itaconic acid produced by fungi with membrane-enclosed organelles is used as a raw material for various plastics, as well as cosmetics and antibacterial agents. Although its global market value is estimated high at around 130 billion KRW (USD$91 million) this year, its production and utilization have been limited due to the complex production process and high cost of production.
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This is absolutely fascinating new bot behaviour. This was a tag for me on a post made by someone else entirely, not even a mutual and certainly not either of these porn bots. I presume the excessive character substitution is to prevent an algorithm finding them??
Bat shit behaviour though. Directly @ by a pornbot. What a world we live in.
This has just happened to me as well, with exactly the same bizarre choice of lettering.
The post in question was also on what appeared to be someones fetish blog too. I don't know if that's relevant or not.
I also love that, because Tumblr, we are studying them like a newly discovered species and documenting their behaviour. Then speculating on why they might do the things they do.
Fieldwork Notes:
Possible new pornbot species, for now named "taggers" (considering Pornoroboticus attaggus as the description)
Habitat preferences so far seem to be the reply sections of fetish posts. Bots engage in advanced mimicry - the lure call has thus far been identical ("click on my profile picture free girl show"), with a further distinction being excessive character substitution. Interestingly, this character substitution, while universal, varies between individuals in terms of which specific characters are selected.
Hunting method currently unclear. The blogs were empty. There was no free girl show.
They're on my post asking for donations for the vet bills too. I have no idea why they're doing this on such an innocent post like that. Sorry everyone
As an ecologist, I do have to say: this is the tumblr government's fault for hunting the native species of human porn bloggers to near-extinction.
Currently all members of the Sluttiwhoricacae family are endangered, including the key-stone genera Sexworkicus and Pornartista. Tumblr's hatred of the horny biome has caused untold ecological damage and has allowed the invasive pornbots to proliferate, as they can reproduce rapidly even when not given any attention or resource.
If we re-built the horny biome and allowed Sexworkicus and Pornartista to flourish without hunting them - Pornoroboticus would be outcompeted and face a slow decline.
Very very true
I recieved similar queries. They had been sent on a dsmp confessions blog.
Recently I have taken note that the URLs of the pornoroboticus have evolved to resemble words, perhaps in an attempt to mimic real blogs?
Specifically, they've evolved to select three random, unrelated words and to put them together. Of those listed in this fieldwork notebook we see "fancy anchor stranger", "angry strawberry earthquake" and "sticky creation destiny", suggesting the pattern is "adjective noun noun".
I suggest this naming convention may be a form of camouflage? Arguably mimesis.
Still no free girl show.
However, in sticky creation destiny's description, there appears to be a link I refused to click. I suspect it may be a virus of some sort; any thoughts?
That's its mouth. The virus is the venom it uses to digest your credit card info
(I'm pretty sure the previous two had similar, but in the interests of biosecurity and complying with expedition insurance/risk assessment, I have already reported and blocked them i.e. disposed of the samples and sterilised the area with fire)
On a lighter note.
The main reason I ever wanted to write a Hungarian mythology-based urban fantasy is that I needed to see someone do Bread Magic in a mundane modern setting.
Bread Magic shows up in a variety in Hungarian fairytales. It works like this: when someone evil, usually the devil, sometimes a dragon, wants to come into your house and hurt you, usually by taking your children, what you do is put a loaf of bread on the windowsill. It will speak for you.
When evil demands admission, the bread will say: First, they buried me under the ground, and I survived. When I sprouted, they cruelly cut me down with sickles, and I survived. They threshed me with their flails and I survived. They ground me to flour with their millstones and I survived. They put me in a bowl and kneaded me, then they put me in a hot oven to bake me, and I survived. Have you done all these things? Until you do all these things and survive, you have no power here.
This is pretty powerful magic I think, and it makes sense in a country where wheat is the staple crop and bread is the staple food. If you have bread, you are alive, if you have no bread, you are dead, therefore bread is life. It was customary to refer to wheat as “life” well into the twentieth century, and not in high literary circles either: rural seasonal workers negotiated their wages in so and so many sacks of life.
And I totally want someone to do bread magic with a shitty store-bought muffin.
“They filled me full of toxic preservatives, and yet I can still nourish. They left me under harsh florescent lighting, and yet I can still bring comfort. The one who baked me will never see the one who eats mez and yet I can still convey some sense of love, of care.
Until you can have your nature so twisted, yet remember and hold to it still, you have no power here.”
Oooh. Damn, that’s Big Magic that could unFall an angel by sheer force of logic.
I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this
And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man
muscle tov
MUSCLE TOV IM SCREAMING
This was NOT how i planned to wish my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah but with that said I must share these additions to the post:
Happy First night of Hanukkah my friends
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For over a year, a powerful social movement has defended the last remaining forest in Atlanta against the city government’s plans to build a giant police training center and corporate film studio.
Yesterday, in a brutal raid involving pepper balls and tear gas, police destroyed the inspiring structures that people have built to protect the forest. Today, they are charging five arrestees with "domestic terrorism" for allegedly participating in forest defense.
This is standard government practice whenever ecological movements threaten business interests. But it is capitalist profiteering, not eco-activists, that is destroying the environment we all depend on and hastening climate change. It is police, not eco-activists, who are terrorizing communities.
Please stand in solidarity with those who are fighting to keep the earth habitable.🖤🏴
Background on the movement to defend the forest:
https://crimethinc.com/CityintheForest
