UEEEEA

she/it, adult

[studentofetherium]

genuinely tho, if we're seeing the end of the social media era, getting back into RSS would be a great idea. it lets you gather all manner of different websites to visit and keep track of, but without turning the experience into a facebook/twitter type slog where Engagement is the main focus

[studentofetherium]

you don't need to have a whole ton of feeds at first! it can be something you build up over a period of years— i started using RSS in high school, for example, and at first it was just a bunch of different webcomics that i followed. even if it's only a couple websites, it will make those easier to track, and whenever you see a new website or blog and think "oh, this looks neat" you can add that to the pile

[studentofetherium]

okay well this is all specialized stuff so YMMV but here's some fun stuff:

Collectr's Blog: the blog for Orphan Subs, who translate a lot of older and more obscure anime. it's cool to see what they pick up, and read the write-ups as well, even when i don't check out the anime themselves

sakugablog: great source for information about the anime industry. at least 60% of what i know about the industry comes from following this page

Ataelier Emily: anime blogger who writes analysis

Dynasty Scans: :)

The Quietus: indie music review site

Stereogum: bigger music review site

Homicidols: chika idol blog

[studentofetherium]

you're going to need an RSS feed reader, if you don't already have one. i don't have a whole lot of experience with a wide variety of readers, since i find the one that works for me and just stick with that, but... i just switched to feeder earlier, and that seems to be fine. before that, i stuck with feedly for years, and that was pretty good, with the only issue being that it seems to have started inserting ads into your feed, but, could still be worth checking out. vivaldi, and i think chrome have built-in RSS readers these days, and maybe firefox? if all else fails, just google "best feed readers 2023"

as for once you have the feed reader, there's usually a big "add feed" button

[amiibo-king]

you can also set up feeds for sites you already frequent btw. reddit, tumblr, ao3, and youtube all have native feeds (you can literally just stick a tumblr/youtube/subreddit url into ur feed reader and find the feed for it, and ao3 has a whole page on how to follow tags and such) and for ones that dont there are tools for bridging things to rss feeds, like rss-bridge.

i actually have a whole page on my neocities about how to find feeds for various different sites and i also have another page for how to create your own feed

also for prev tags: if u want to follow band tour announcements through rss feeds, and if the bands u like are tracked by songkick, you can use acoustico to create rss feeds from songkick

[yellowplumfruit]

my tree miis 💛💚

methuselah is a great basin bristlecone pine and the oldest tree in the world at over 4,800 years old! since the actual tree’s location and appearance isn’t known to the public, i decided to add the purple pinecones and pine leaves even though it’s very unlikely that he has any. however you can visit his home at the ancient bristlecone pine forest in california!

and pando is a very old aspen clone and one of the largest and heaviest trees in the world! aspen trees most commonly reproduce asexually by root sprouting, so they’re all technically the same tree

i love them very much :’)

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[mephistopheles]

i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[bowlby4]

[epicallyepicnerdery]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[twiggy-boy]

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

[latiyao]

love the concept art for Ch. 2, it inspires me

[libraford]

Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

[weshallbekind]

Also, please understand that SO often the real issue these people have is that they just want to say something inappropriate. They don't like being told they can't say "fag", so they'd say it for a reaction, just like a teenager would.

Shut down the conversation without reacting.

"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".

And that's the point. To shut them up. To make them quit saying shit like that. The first one makes him seem kinda weird for caring about what that guy does with his dick. The second one gives him something to fight against and make a big deal about.

[mckitterick]

Code-switching - Wikipedia

code-switching matters for communicating across cultures of all varieties

[teaboot]

Cannot overstate how many flavours of bullshit disguised as political opinion can be shut down by “none of my business” or “don’t be rude”

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[evilgirlmechanicock]

The fucked up thing about bringing pjackk back is 1. No one wanted it, not even pjackk, it's way funnier to weekend at bernie's the corpse, and 2. Just more ironclad proof that they can bring all the old blogs back that were deleted due to transphobia. And they won't.

Happy pride.

[u-eeee-a]

So unless I'm misremembering, Rocky's textural display translates smaller wavelengths of light as smoother/finer and broader/larger wavelengths as rougher? Wouldn't that mean that it still can't translate saturation, contrast, and extra-spectral colors? Like it couldn't display reddish purples, because it couldn't meaningfully display a smooth and rough texture on the same spot concurrently? Unless it has more than one kind of pixel—made from different materials so sound bounces off it differently—to mimic rgb??? But wouldn't that solution also descrease its resolution????? I need detailed descriptions of how the fuck this fictional display works. I NEED TO KNOW.

[u-eeee-a]

Anyways I started thinking about this initially for like. A hypothetical exchange where Grace refers to something as being a color Rocky's display cannot display.

Rocky: "Friend Grace. What color this, question?"

Grace: "That's a reddish purple... kind of wine-colored I guess?"

Rocky: "Red is rough... Purple is smooth. Is red OR purple, question?"

Grace: "No, it's reddish purple. It's reflecting red and purple wavelengths at the same time. I guess your display can't show that, huh?"

Rocky: "... Rocky think Grace make shit up."

[u-eeee-a]

So unless I'm misremembering, Rocky's textural display translates smaller wavelengths of light as smoother/finer and broader/larger wavelengths as rougher? Wouldn't that mean that it still can't translate saturation, contrast, and extra-spectral colors? Like it couldn't display reddish purples, because it couldn't meaningfully display a smooth and rough texture on the same spot concurrently? Unless it has more than one kind of pixel—made from different materials so sound bounces off it differently—to mimic rgb??? But wouldn't that solution also descrease its resolution????? I need detailed descriptions of how the fuck this fictional display works. I NEED TO KNOW.

[pineappical]

some thoughts and ideas on mobility aids (and stuff) for grace :-)

[scullee]

here’s some project hail mary studies i did recently in heavypaint

[bitzitz]

comic about grace passing away and reflecting on it with rocky and adrian (with inspo from carl sagan)