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@waywardflowerturtle
Alt account, primarily (not exclusively) for fetish follows and blogs. I am ADHD, bisexual and genderfluid, so I also follow ADHD and trans issues blogs. No, I will not share my main. If you are under 18, do not follow me, period. I may occasionally write micro-fic or hypno themed stuff in addition to reblogs.
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Imagine that everywhere in the mechanical engineering world suddenly got infatuated with lasers.
Lasers have a lot of uses! Measuring things, heating things, cutting things, entertaining cats, particle physics. Lasers are pretty cool. Very versatile, very useful, potential to be very powerful.
Someone shows up one day and says "I have developed a never before seen technology! I call it a Death Star."
And it's a 3.4mW laser. Well no, we haven't seen this exact size of laser much since that's not really standard, but that's a bit of a misnomer, and I wouldn't call it new -
"HOLY SHIT GUYS! This Death Star is so entertaining! My cat loves it and it has such a nice color!" The Death Star becomes a viral novelty, and is mildly entertaining, as laser pointers often are.
Somehow, seemingly overnight, this leads to mania. "Lets stick lasers in EVERYTHING! The public loves them!"
More companies make 3.4mW lasers to jump on the bandwagon. Everyone that makes anything vaguely mechanical starts sticking lasers into their designs.
Everyone is calling them Death Stars. Any time there is a "Death Star innovation", it is just that they made a bigger laser.
Ford's next truck comes out and it has "Death Star integrated headlights", where they have just stuck giant lasers in place of their previously functional headlights.
An electric toothbrush is now "Powered by Death Stars" and shoots a laser at the tooth its cleaning. You think that maybe this could have actual applications as a sanitizing device if you're being generous, but when you actually look at the product, its laser has no purpose but to point at the tooth and drain the battery.
Mechanical products across the board get noticeably worse as everyone starts stuffing lasers in places where lasers have no right to be.
The lamp business gets in on it. "Here's a Death Star powered lamp!" These guys haven't even tried to stick a laser in their damn lamps. They've just started calling their light bulbs Death Stars and hoped you bought it before you could tell the difference. You at least appreciate that they haven't ruined their lamp about it.
Death Stars are lauded as the solution to all the world's problems. If it's not working, you should stick a laser in it! That'll fix it, everyone says. Once in a blue moon, it's even true! Weather prediction is really good now. But most things are garbage. Like "Death Star powered washing machines". What the fuck does that even mean?
Meanwhile, since all functioning mechanisms are being replaced with lasers, problems start showing up. All mirrors now cost $1000+ dollars, because the whole supply is being used up to make more lasers. The earth heats up, because everyone's blasting lasers at everything. People keep going blind, on account of all the lasers.
You, in fact, study optical mechanics. You know what a laser is, and how it works, and that it was invented many years before any of this nonsense actually started. People keep asking you about Death Stars, since surely you must know so much about them.
You explain that this is not really what lasers are for, except you have to call them Death Stars now, and that they're causing a lot of harm, so you don't like them much.
"Oh, but they're still such new tech!" they reply. "They'll figure out how to make Death Stars that don't burn your eyes out soon, and then it won't be an issue anymore!"
Somewhere, deep and buried, you remember lasers being used in particle accelerators, or in telescopes, or in laser cutters, or funny cat videos. They are, in fact, still interesting. Still cool.
But by this point they have replaced roads with "Death Star Powered Pathways", which are just laser pointers propped up on tooth picks pointing vaguely through the forests.
And you think you are going mad.
And they are still just FUCKING LASERS.
This post is about AI.
Folks are really out there arguing that generative AI represents the death of truth in advertising like we haven't spent decades watching TV commercials pour motor oil on pancakes because real syrup doesn't look like what people expect syrup to look like.
I think what the present discourse about generative AI in advertising really highlights is that a concerning number of people genuinely have no idea how far removed your average TV spot is from the reality of whatever it's trying to sell you. Like, I don't just mean camera tricks and good lighting – I mean that more often than not, the thing on screen simply objectively does not depict the thing you're buying. We're trading one maliciously deceptive simulacrum for another.
Dollar General sells groceries. So the response is, "No, but I'm calling them." And then, you call the health department responsible for this store, and document the situation for them.
This is how it's done:
And this is how you homage it:
Literally less than a year ago we were adding cool spins to it like “Sliding Up Tokyo Tower” how did we downgrade so hard?
We even got live action slide
The slide in the first post bothers the fuck out of me because he’s using his right leg to slide on the ground.
So, I ride a motorcycle and I know at least the theory of doing a power slide (still cool but you don’t slide nearly so much and you need a pretty light bike to do it most of the time). You have to lock the back wheel until your back wheel looses grip on the road and then turn sharply to the left. Rear wheel slides and the front wheel turns.
But how do you lock the back wheel you might ask? Well with your rear break of course.
WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY UNDER YOUR RIGHT FOOT! How the FUCK is he locking the back wheel, with his shifter on his left foot??? Not possible. The creators of Akira knew it, and so did everyone that homaged it. The post above gets it right even if he’s likely on a slider and being pulled back.
This is why I love tumblr. Where else could I find gifs of back to back tribute references and a perfect explanation of why the above doesn't work and how you would need to do everything to ideally execute to move in question? Thank you for explaining, fellow tumblr friend.
can we please acknowledge that tma/tme is a meaningful distinction? a justice of the US supreme court is openly saying that it's legal to discriminate against trans women because the same laws do not target trans men. the transmisogyny is what makes it permissible. your transphobia is fine as long as it has carveouts for men.
Let me reword this for what they really mean:
Barrett: How would we say this discriminates on the basis of transgender status when "girls who pretend to be boys can play on boys' teams," so that the effect of the law "really only runs towards boys who pretend to be girls?"
When we do this, think about what it is actually doing: it is carving out girls as needing special protection unless they want to play with the boys. It is transmisogyny, the hatred of transwomanhood, while equally being tranmisandry, dismissing the idea that girls who pretend to be boys (ie: trans boys) are actually boys is just as transphobic as is dismissing the idea that trans girls are girls.
And it has different harms. The person these bigots view as a girl who is allowed to play with the boys is aspirational, a girl rising above her station and birth to compete alongside boys! Never mind that she calls herself Jacob, we will just use the name on her legal papers, never mind that she does not see herself as a girl, that she insists she is a boy and should be referred to as Jacob or Jake and with he/him pronouns: THIS IS A GIRL! And this is (among other things) what transandrophobia looks like: Calling trans men women, calling trans boys girls, and simultaneously praising them for defying the gender norms of girls while refusing to acknowledge that they are trying to fit the gender norms of guys. We can't let girls be guys, but we can praise them for trying and pretending at it.
But the men who have failed so badly at manhood that they want to take the blessed sacred safety of womanhood are predators trying to exploit us! And that's transmisogyny. The transmisogyny is on display, but everybody who thinks trans men get a pass and get praised are forgetting that if trans men get praised, it's not for being a man, it's for being a girl or woman who elevates herself to man-like status, but never is she praised as a man. As a trans woman, I think it's disgusting how many people ignore this and claim that there are people exempt from transphobia or that transmisandry isn't real.
Transmisogyny is the hatred of transfemininity, transgirlishness, transwomanhood. It includes misgendering and denial of the gender identity of trans women and trans girls. It includes labeling these women as predatory men.
Transmisandry is the hatred of transmasculity, transboyishness, transmanhood. It includes misgendering and denial of the gender identity of trans men and trans boys. It includes labeling these men as aspirational women.
They both exist, and they are both critical, crucial parts of transphobia as a whole, because they are the intersections of transphobia with the negative stereotypes of both genders! Women who make themselves more mannish are aspirational, all the best parts of masculinity if only they wouldn't call themselves men. Men who make themselves more feminine must have something wrong with them, they must not be able to get women (or men!) to like them without lying about their genitals and they probably want to (we all know what goes here without me saying this, right?)! These predatory men are the ones we can safely target first, because cis straightment are scared of being gay and women are scared of SA and nobody would dare support CSA, and we can brand the predatory men with all of those labels to make them as easy target! And once they're gone, we can just keep denying the other group is anything more than confused wayward girls who are oh-so-aspirational, but not in any way actually men.
can we please acknowledge that tma/tme is a meaningful distinction? a justice of the US supreme court is openly saying that it's legal to discriminate against trans women because the same laws do not target trans men. the transmisogyny is what makes it permissible. your transphobia is fine as long as it has carveouts for men.
Yesterday: Burke released from Mountjoy on condition he does not trespass on school property,
Today: Burke attends the school, attempting to gain access to grounds.
Enoch Burke has arrived outside Wilson's School in Co Westmeath this morning.
There's no other case where someone can defy multiple court orders and yet be given such leniency. Burke is a Safeguarding Nightmare.
Burke ought to be held for the maximum time he can without consideration of early released. He has shown he has no respect for the rule of law, therefore the law must enforce its rule with all due prejudice.
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original image from the magazine:
Found a scan of this issue on the Internet Archive (it's the back cover). This scan is 4000x6000 for all your high resolution needs!
La Domenica Del Corriere v60 n29 July 20 1958, Milan, Italy, 36 pages, 40 lira.Front and rear covers by Walter Molino.
The caption reads: "Defeated by roses. Near Turin's Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was bringing a nice bunch of roses to a relative, was accosted by an unknown young man. The young woman, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bunch of flowers as a weapon. So it was that the scoundrel, his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molino.)"
Incredible. At a distance I understand how the woman might appear to be the abuser and the man the sympathetic victim, but the second you zoom into the man’s face the pink-cheeked rage- not remorse, or rejection, or embarrassment- not heartbreak or despair- but RAGE- the deeper story speaks itself into your suspicions.
And the bit where they’re HER roses? Almost a relief, but also sadder, as she will arrive at whatever event without them, or with them destroyed.
Do you think when the righteous anger and anxiety and annoyance fade, when she arrives at her destination- will her loved ones applaud her? Will she be proud? Will her hands shake? Will she walk home with company from then out, and for how long?
In this moment, she is provoked into anger. Anger is good- it appears strong. But look at his face. Would you put it past him to linger there after dark, in case she returns alone?
What story will HE tell, of ‘I was perfectly polite, but she didn’t even give me a chance- women like that, they’d swoon for a jerk in a heartbeat, but kind and flattering men like me?…”
I love this piece. It paints both stories while illustrating the power dynamics and struggles at play. This should be shown in art classes
Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.
*photographer wants to take a cool photo, inadvertently discovers sheep physics* is an all-timer of a story
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
i’m going to start calling american music a-pop. for no reason
Frank Oz and Jim Henson ad-lib as Fozzie and Kermit in this test footage for the first Muppet movie, and honestly it's pure gold.
This is a professional shitpost roleplay.
I’m crying becuase this is something I’ve never seen before, something original of that era of the Muppets with both Oz and Henson working on one of my favorite movies, but also becuase this is the funniest thing I have seen in mONTHS.
Simple mantras for those silly pets that want to pretend they aren't well on their way to being hypno obsessed pets, because your trying to pretend it's just a kink, that the hypno isnt really getting to you? That's ok pet, just stare at this and repeat the following as you edge.
I'm better when I'm wetter
When I'm wet there's no regret
When I cum I just forget
There you go, sweety, just edge and repeat your mantra. You can sink and finish as many times as you like, because you won't remember will you pet? Nice and simple for your brain to catch, one more time pet?
I'm better when I'm wetter
When I'm wet, there's no regret
When cum I just forget
Because I am a mindless pet.
See how easy that is pet? Do you need another? OK, one last time
I'm better when I'm wetter
When I'm wet, there's no regret
When I cum I just forget
Because I am a mindless pet
I rub and read, I must obey
I'll rub my silly thoughts away
See how it builds pet? Ok, one last time.to make sure I sinks in
I'm better when I'm wetter
When I'm wet, there's no regret
When I cum ill just forget
Because I am a mindless pet
I rub and read, I must obey
I'll rub my silly thoughts away
I'll read and reblog everyday
I can't resist I must obey
Doing very well dear, but your heads a little foggy now, but that's alright, just relax for me, why don't you go back to the top and start again pet?
Why is edging a strong part of hypnokink?
It's a trope when it comes to brainwashing or mental conditioning, I'm sure anyone who has been in the hypnokink section of tumblr for more than like... a day, will have seen a gif of a buxom, brainless, bimbo on her knees with a detached look of blissful emptiness in her face, mouth open, tongue out, tears of joy streaming down her face ect.
Setting aside the trope and kink angles for a second (I know it's hard to get the kneeling, brainless bimbo out of your head, it's a strong mental image) there are some practical reasons in erotic hypnosis for instructing a sub to edge while they are under.
1. First and foremost, it's fun for the subject, a large part of hypnosis is putting a subject into an open, agreeable state, linking the idea of hypnosis to direct, physical pleasure certainly renders most people agreeable.
2. It's very hard to think when your edging, if you want to derail a person's thoughts, constant physical stimulation will certainly get you there, focusing on a task that demands attention, it's easy to focus on how it feels to touch and play
3. The constant lure of something out of reach, the feeling of teasing but never quite crossing the line, like your goal is getting further away all the time, it's easy to link that to the idea your going deeper, your orgasm is further and further away, but all you have to do is keep listening, focusing and touching, feeling the pleasure building, the deeper you go the better you feel, a promise to keep you sinking down deeper and deeper.
4. It's easy to accept when it's hard to think, it's hard to think when your mind is overloaded, simple instructions are easy to follow, and once you start, it feels so good to keep going, to keep listening, reading, focusing, touching, just think about how good that feels, to let your thoughts drift away, to follow suggestion without thinking, how good it feels.
5. Simple monotonous actions are very good at holding focus, the ticking of a clock or metronome, the predictable swirling pattern of a spiral, the swaying of a crystal or pocketwatch from a chain, tick tock, around and around, back and forth, stroking up and down, easy to follow, easy to relax.
6. And then there's the trope, the idea that whole your done there, mindlessly edging, taking yourself deeper and deeper into a trance, drowning your brain in pleasure, the voice of your tist in your ear telling you that the longer you edge, the more pliable ond obedient you become, stroking up and down, breathing in and out, deeper and deeper, your mind accepts the idea that edging, down on your knees, makes you a buxom, brainless, bimbo.
So yeah, thars why edging is used a lot, are you OK pet? There's a little drool on your chin...
