Tinker's Travels

I'm around.... somewhere.

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[petermorwood]

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

[valdevia]

Copper rot (Xylaria electrophaga) is a newly described fungus that, through yet unknown means, appears to obtain energy directly from electricity.

The adaptation, believed to have recently evolved from a wood-boring mushroom that fed on utility poles, lets this species enter cables through exposed metal, then grow outwards. This not only damages infrastructure, but often ends in a fire, which it uses to disperse its spores further. If encountering copper rot, it is not advised to touch it, as its white tips can conduct enough energy to cause electrocutions.

(Bestiary)

[chrispshakebake345reblogs]

oh my god i saw this without seeing the username first i got so scared

[valdevia]

Remember, kids!

The actual horror is reading things online without checking the context :)

[the-fantastic-mrs-fuck]

yuppppp

[valdevia]

Wtf it's barely even rewording it now? Thanks a fucking lot from straight up stealing a pageview from me and spreading my art as misinformation, Google

[allayns-palace]

Welcome to the class "How fast misinformation spreads 101" and today we're discussing why you shouldn't trust AI to do your research and should always check for credible sources.

All jokes aside its insane how stuff like this is even allowed to exist and how fast it was forced into every conceivable space.

[tinkertechy]

I'm so tempted to put this in front of my students as a 'here's why you verify' lesson. They're so ready to default to AI on EVERYTHING.

...But then *I* would have to explain where I found it. And that means explaining to my students that I have a Tumblr account.

[bucketofdeltav]

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

[tinkertechy]

Please! I was JUST saying to my sweetie that I need to start thinking about my world's astronomy/astrology concepts and how they would differ from our own, and was thinking about how much research would have to go into that--

Thank your Beta reader for us, for they are incredible and using their knowledge for the forces of good.

[sparklychimecho]

When you're so tired that you completely forget that your brother's left handed.😴

[just-pug-things]

Okay but does Bakool Ja Ja count as one character or two?

[tinkertechy]

HEY

Hey you. Look at me. Breathe. Look me in the eye and repeat after me.

"Some points are better than no points."

Don't worry about making that paper or discussion board or case study perfect. Make it done first. If you bump up against the deadline, turn it in. Some points are better than no points. Your teacher, above all else, wants to see that you are participating and learning and are engaged with the material.

Don't AI generate it. Even if you think it's the worst rough draft on the planet, it's your worst rough draft on the planet. It's the testament that you learned. That you struggled. That you took a thought and made it your own and explained it to someone else. You do it with characters and fanfiction all the time, now do it for history or math or language arts. That's what your teacher wants to see. If you got it perfect? great! If not? Hey, you did it. And you did it yourself. Even if you didn't give yourself time to make it perfect.

Some Points are better than No Points.

[verodynamix]

Yoshi P should bring back Alaimbert of the Spiked Butt as a boss and give him a move called Butt Slider so he can say to fans: "Well? This is what you asked for, right?"

[bed-bath-and-bazinga]

A story in three parts

[the-melancholy-man]

Joe Trees

@joehills as always your commitment to the bit is exactly perfect. Please accept this humble decorative Joe Tree

[blockofdawn]

love seeing everyone being so wonderful about respecting scar’s health needs and wearing masks around him. gem sanitizing her desk so he can comfortably come over and make a bracelet with her. grian saying he can’t make a bracelet with them bc he doesn’t have a mask and immediately going to grab one 💗

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

An important edition to the Q&A is that they do occasionally ask the Mumbo carboard cutout questions and then pause to let him answer. It is in fact still a cardboard cutout so there is no actual response.

[bubble0dragon]

Scar has party poppers…

[kaledo-art]

Gem as porcupine

My favourite moment by far

[kawaiitronwastaken]

Don’t know who needs to see this, but Gem put this in her Discord regarding the charity event and shipping. Transcript for screen readers:

“Hello community!

I really don’t want to write this, but I think the fandom is in a place right now where it does need to be said. Please refrain from shipping hermits while they are in real life raising money for charity. Do not ship real people generally tbh, it’s getting very weird.

Us hermits are all friends! Friendship and friendly chemistry with each other are great things! We are going to entertain you all, and help out gamers outreach in the process. I am simply asking that you read the room, and be appropriate.

That said, I do have 2 full time mods hired for the event. They will simply ban you on sight if you break this boundary in twitch chat, or in YouTube comments and this discord.

Thank you for understanding! I can’t wait to put on a great show for you all”

(Transcript over)

Ship what you want, I guess, I’m not really all that big on hermitshipping, but keep it out of the charity event. Shipping the creators’ silly block game characters is one thing, but during a real life charity event where so much of the Hermits’ screen time will consist of their real bodies and faces, shipping does border on weird. Maybe that’s just me as an aroace person, maybe it’s basic etiquette. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On a similar note, let’s be normal about Cleo doing their face reveal. ‘Kay? I’d say they’re being very brave about putting their face out there after being a faceless content creator for such a long time, and it’s for a good cause as well, so I’d better not see anyone being an ass about it. My friend Rat made a good post regarding that already, click here to see that.

Apologies if my tone here sounds a little snappy, I didn’t get great sleep last night. Hooray for insomnia…

[tinkertechy]

I'm gonna add to the chorus of "I can't believe we have to say this". We shouldn't have to say it. I'm going to be the 'rude' one and flat-out call it what it is: Parasocial behavior. You'd be grossed out if a complete stranger walked up to you and said "Hey, I wrote a story where you kiss your best friend." Don't do it to others.

These are real people, with real passion and dedication to their craft and the cause they support. Don't be weird. Don't be rude. Leave it in your fanfic folder.

[tinkertechy]

Item: A Cursed Amulet Rarity: ✶ Rare

Best video game villain?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Oooh.... Best video game villain...

That's hard. I've played probably a couple hundred games, and the gamut of villains ranges from 'pathetic' to 'masterpiece. I couldn't possibly-

-Oh who am I kidding?

[parasolladyansy]

DxP REWRITE - Clues

Ansy’s Legendary rock collection (minus the Light Stone, of course - the crown jewel✨).

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🔼 Diamond x Pearl REWRITE 🔽

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[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[super-autism-death-ray]

reblogging for personal use

[theunsureartist]

ART REFERENCE NOT FULL OF AI?! YESSS

[fangirling-and-making-stuff]

THANK YOU