sunkissed boys and girls of paradise

sunkissed boys and girls of paradise

[lestvtdelioncourt]

WELL IT FINALLY HAPPENED

I've been kicked out for being disabled and asking for accessibility and I really need help finding new housing ASAP. all the shelters in my area are full, including the ones they referred me to, so the referral is pointless.

I need help raising funds for first/last/deposit and application fees for a new place, as quickly as possible, because this place is not shy about throwing people out on the street AND I AM IN A WHEELCHAIR. anything helps. thank you all for your support.

c*sh*pp: $g0thadjacent

p*ypal: @nicograz

117/700

[lestvtdelioncourt]

found a place to stay temporarily so I won't be on the street but I still can't afford to do this on my own. even $1 will make a huge difference since I'm on a fixed income and have no way to make extra money right now. I'm also a transmasc nb, bi, converting to Judaism, and severely mentally ill if that helps. For full transparency tho I'm white and don't claim minority status on that axis.

thank you all for rbs and your help so far. i really can't express the depth of my gratitude.

[rogha]

tumblr comedy I haven’t seen in a while and I kind of miss: when someone says like ‘smoothies are great’ and then someone else says ‘juices are great too!’ and the first person says ‘make your own post’ and then the second person says ‘okay’ and then you scroll down and theres a second post.

[ishouldreallygetofftheinternet]

I also love seeing posts where someone says something that clearly sets up a joke and then has very obviously messaged their friend to question it in a reblog so they deliver the punchline with maximum impact. Haven't seen that in a while

[rogha]

make your own post

[ishouldreallygetofftheinternet]

I love seeing posts where someone says something that clearly sets up a joke and then has very obviously messaged their friend to question it in a reblog so they deliver the punchline with maximum impact. Haven't seen that in a while

[ishouldreallygetofftheinternet]

[wolf-whisperer]

a personal essay on loneliness

“as a runner”

quotes

if i’m not around, no one can shove me in a box.

i navigate to places where i’m not categorized.

running from vulnerability. from connection. from potential. from diagnoses. from healing. from love. from support. from admitting i’m not always the person i pretend to be. from admitting i don’t want to be that person? from just being brave enough to admit “I’M NOT OKAY” but at the same time, “but i promise i’ll ask you if i need it, i prefer space.”

…

that’s simply it. that’s how i survive.

we all survive in our own unique way.

|| yet somehow, we exist in parallels ||

this is it: i don’t expect — or even, desire — anyone to understand me or my experiences. i dont expect anyone to accept this piece as an excuse for my behavior.

instead, i hope to provide a space for you to better understand yourself, the reality you are in, and the experiences you’ve had.

[entertainment]

I want to stop fighting the patriarchy and just start helping the matriarchy.

Kirt, Betty

I wanted you to be the first to know.

I’m gonna live.

Ritchie, It’s A Sin

Be kind to yourself.

Leiomy Maldonado, Legendary

If it’s hot, it’s hot.

Chester, Genera+ion

Head on over to HBO Max to watch all of your favorite characters, legends, skaters, and sinners.

👆 by Lunares

[thabeehive-deactivated20160215]

lil’ kim, as joan of arc, styled by marc jacobs for flaunt magazine (circa 2005).

church.

[pat-mcgrath]

this is so absolutely legendary that i needed to take a minute. they just don’t do it like this anymore.

[justcatposts]

Sleepy lion roadblock. 

(via)

[mockiatoh]

You can’t deserve a person’s love. You’ll drive yourself crazy thinking like that. They either love you, or they don’t. That doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough for them to love you, because love isn’t something you earn by being good enough. It isn’t something that can be quantified or doled out. Don’t blame yourself for not being loved how you need to, just teach yourself how to look for love where love lives.

[mockiatoh]

This isn’t just about romantic love, or even skewed towards romantic love, although it does apply there too. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to accept is that my mother simply wasn’t someone who was capable of loving me, and there is no version of me that I could have ever been that would have earned that love. But with acceptance came healing. I was able to love myself more instead of resenting myself for not being more than any one person could be.

[mockiatoh]

Are you listening? Even love for yourself isn’t earned. It is a kindness you give yourself.

[kaijuno]

I take you on a tour of my house but every room looks like this

[kaijuno]

Good work everyone but especially you two

[dalecooper-official]

Vaporwave house minus the house plants

[spaloonbabooguuscooties]

[lostcryptids]

not even one meme for that “gotta be one of my favorite genders” has been better than the original perfect image 

[lostcryptids]

stop trying this is already as good as it’s gonna get 

[guerrillatech]

[annoyingalchemist]

Ok so can someone explain to me how cryptocurrency pollutes? Like what crazy calculations are they running that they need enough brainpower to significantly effect things? Like I’m assuming what’s causing the pollution is increased electricity consumption but… how does sending lil pretend money tokens back and forth or whatever cause so much pollution?

Also, what the fuck is “mining”? How d'you mine… like bitcoin is not a naturally occurring resource, and I assume that you can’t just make it, cause that would make it instantly worthless… help?

[commiemartyrshighschool]

So you get “coins” as a reward for performing the cryptographic calculations necessary to update the public ledger which is the blockchain. This is, by design, an increasingly complex and resource intensive process to slow down the collection of (intentionally finite) coins.

So every transaction with bitcoins requires the ledger to be updated with the current ownership of every already existing bitcoin, which also requires encrypting and decrypting a bunch of information and sharing it across the public ledger. So every transaction made with bitcoins increases the energy requirements of updating the ledger making it harder and harder to complete the latest version and get the coin which is a reward for doing that work.

There’s a lot I don’t fully understand myself but the long and short of it is that the actual value of any crypto currency is pretty much just what people agree on, except instead of a fiat currency where a government says it’s worth something and a mint that makes physical currency, there’s a bunch of nerds who agree that solving certain math problems is worth rewarding.

[brokenmachine3553]

Feeling like adding on for a bit of context, I know it’s kind of hard to understand how mining for really any kind of crypto is hard to imagine, but seeing what a bitcoin mining facility looks like for the first time really helped me realize just how energy intensive it is.

See all these warehouses? They’re quite literally filled to the brim with specialized computers that do nothing but mine, each one filled with thousands of these computers, just row after row of this:

So all the power consumption winds up adding up like crazy.

[white-throated-packrat]

Yep, that’s why cryptocurrency and NFTs are considered major contributors to pollution – because the energy needs of all those computers doing the calculation are equivalent to a medium sized country. Currently, crypto consumes more energy than Argentina.

[ralfmaximus]

Guess what’s inside a lot of mining rigs? Gowan, guess.

Graphics cards! 

Lots and lots of these puppies side by side, spinning their little fans as fast as they can go because as it turns out: GPUs are perfect for doing the calculations required for mining cryptocurrency.

Which means amateur miners buy a lot of these things.

So many, in fact, that there is now (May 2021) a world-wide shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and building a new gaming rig is damn near impossible because of the shortage. 

OR you can pay a ridiculously inflated price by GPU scalpers on eBay.

Seriously. Places that sell GPUs impose quantity limits because if they don’t… some crypto asshole will buy out their entire stock in one go.

But the “good” news is that the professional miners (like the Bitmain site up there, in the photos) use dedicated ASIC mining rigs which don’t use consumer GPUs. But (bad news) they DO use the same sort of chips that NVIDIA & AMD rely on to make their products, which just starves the supply pipeline at a different point.

Bottom line: not only does cryptocurrency mining consume terawatts of electricity, it also consumes megatons of computer hardware. Which is expensive to produce (in resource terms, like rare metals, petroleum, water, electricity, paper) and will, someday, require even MORE resources to recycle. Or else it ends up in a landfill.

Note that current dedicated mining rigs are so highly specialized they are useless for anything other than mining. They cannot be easily repurposed to  (say) sequence DNA or fold proteins for miracle cures.

What a waste.

[smute]

was anyone gonna tell me that some nerds peepee poopoo “currency” is the reason why graphics cards are sold out everywhere or was i supposed to find that out from comments under a screenshot from twitter user whoreganic cop puncher explaining how bitcoin is just an artificially complicated math problem

[geocaprican]

In the US Cryptocurrency now consumes as much electricity as we produce with wind and solar combined. Any “progress” we’ve made with renewable energy has effectively been wasted on this bullshit.

[rymonaflowers]

But yet they’ll continue to claim that it’s harmless and that crypto is the future and way to go. Someone tried to say they run a farm on their own electricity, I guess could be possible but with the amount of mining in like that picture above how in the heck would you have enough electricity yourself without using the power grid? Also the insane waste of resources like metals for example. Y'all hurting the planet big time with this shit currency.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

The big shakeup in crypto lately is that China’s various regions are basically cooperating to kick out the bitcoin farms.

How it’s worked for the past few years is they’d set up shop in one region, cause that region to lose various bonuses from the central government, which they earn by not running their coal plants at capacity, at which point the region finds the bitcoin miners and kicks them out. So they move over to another region and screw them up.

Except this time regions started cooperating together, making their ability to find a new location more difficult. There’s even a sense that anyone who overstays their welcome could end up being arrested.

As a result the hashrate, that power-intensive part of bitcoin, is falling. Meaning transactions can’t occur as fast as they used to.

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[antique-scarecrow]

I find it suspicious that you never see posts along the lines of "cishet people should stop using the word 'queer', that's a word that only queer people get to use." Not because I think that it's necessarily true, but because that's the normal way social conversations around reclaimed slurs & pejoratives evolve. You rarely hear people on tumblr saying "black people/hispanic people/asian people aren't allowed to say [slur that has been used specifically against them]." Because most of us recognize that that's nonsense, and that you don't get to tell minorities which words they can and can't reclaim.

But tumblr didn't do that with the word 'queer'. It didn't go the usual route of discussion around who can and can't say what. Tumblr just jumped straight into trying to erase the word completely. And that is because the discourse around 'queer' isn't a conversation that evolved naturally within our community. It was purposefully (and successfully) created out of thin air from a sudden, relentless onset of terf propaganda. Terfs who hated having a trans-inclusive umbrella term for our community, who wanted nothing more than to disrupt unity. Well congratu-fucking-lations, it's been disrupted.

[antique-scarecrow]

2 years is all it took. 2 years of relentless comments and inbox messages from people pretending to be concerned strangers, friendly anons who wanted you to know 'you should maybe not use that word 🙂.' 'a lot of people have trauma around it so maybe use a different word 🙂 a less inclusive word 🙂.' 'queer isn't an identity it's a slur 🙂.' and suddenly our most powerful trans-inclusive umbrella term is blacklisted.

2 years of this and suddenly you had half a generation of lgbtqa+ teens who had been told this over and over again, by friendly trustworthy strangers, to the point it passed the evidence threshold and just became a Belief. because young teens heard it so often from so many 'random’ people, and weren't aware of where it was actually coming from. hint: the discourse around queer has ALWAYS been about disrupting unity

[lonesparkthefriendlykraken]

I only got here recently and I remember Queer Nation, so

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

And for those people in and around New York City, this year:

The Reclaim Pride Coalition (founded for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, in 2019) is organizing the third annual Queer Liberation March on Sunday, 27 June, 2021

“No Corps - No Cops - No BS”

According to their website, they will have a limited number of wheelchairs and volunteer wheelchair pushers if you’ll need a wheelchair and don’t have one of your own. There will also be a Deaf contingent, with ASL interpreters.

[idiealotdontworry]

trans men should be allowed to talk about how misogyny hurts them without being labeled as women

trans women should be allowed to talk about how toxic masculinity hurts them without being labeled as men

trans men should be allowed to talk about how toxic masculinity hurts them without being told its their fault for being men

trans women should be allowed to talk about how misogyny hurts them without being pushed out of the discussion

terfs, transmeds and exclus if you even look at this post i will stomp you to death with my hooves

[butchdyke00]

its pride month and im not having gay sex this is literally so fucked up

[radi0-open-door]