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AnasAbdin
Discoholic 🪩
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@theartofmadeline
Misplaced Lens Cap
oozey mess
if i look back, i am lost
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
KIROKAZE
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Love Begins
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Even though Lanturn’s sprite doesn’t show up while surfing, I keep imagining Lux and I floating quietly in the starlight.
Couldn’t get this scene out of my head, so I had to draw it. Wouldn’t it be cool if Lanturn could light up the area while surfing/diving? :) See if you can spot the 5 kinds of Pokemon in the scene. Enjoy
my dad thinks the concept of shipping is hilarious. my parents are cool, they know about my online presence, it's fine. dad doesn't scroll my blog or anything, though--he's usually too busy watching dubiously homoerotic pro wrestling clips or playing valheim--so his idea of shipping culture is bizarre
damn near every time I mention im working on a fic or piece of fanart, he gasps in hopeful anticipation and asks "tamatoa and heihei?!" and he always acts bitterly disappointed
no, dad. i'm not writing or drawing anything where a 50 foot crab and a literal chicken have any kind of relationship at all. you've been asking me to make this ship happen for almost nine years now and the answer has always been no. it's a running gag, of course, but--why would you even think of that?! what kind of shit do you think happens on ao3?!
I have decided to make my dad's vision a reality
behold
happy holidays. My dad is threatening to print this on a shirt
should i call my dad's bluff and get this printed on a t shirt and give it to him for xmas
no what the fuck in wrong with you? he might actually wear it
yes absolutely, he might actually wear it
Op did he like it or did he love it
he says he's gonna wear it to work
Gema.piano on instagram
Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭
im so fucking stubborn
michael what the fuck.
no its one of my fancy pencils :)
the end cap comes off :)
oh lard
my son he is sick he has every disease
we are nearing peak deviancy
happy back-to-school day
im so clever that its sickening
if i breathe wrong i'll lose him
it got too small for the clip. luckily i realized this eraser has the perfect holes
at what point does this stop being a pencil
I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.
For reference (heh)
At a glance, file name checks out. But!! Do not open a .vbs file!!!
.vbs, .bat, .cmd, .scr, .msi, and .exe are all executable file types on windows! never open one of those files (or any file type you don't recognize!) from a stranger.
normally i'd say u can check the type of a file using ur OS's file management tools, but windows explorer recognises files only by their extension (some scams can involve disguised files), and it's general good practice 2 avoid downloading any potential malware.
fileinfo.com is a website containing a database of 10000+ different filetypes, and has information on what the filetype is, what it's used 4, and applications that can open/use it
if ur unsure on a filetype/extension, look it up
fileinfo.com
Okay maybe today wasn’t that terrible
crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still
[ reddit thread | bsky post ]
Everything after (and including!) the question mark is the identifier. Destroy it!
That's a little broad and not true. The question mark (and subsequent ampersands) delineate URL parameters, and those are used for a variety of things of which tracking is just one.
Example: YouTube links have the format "youtube.com/watch?v=" followed by a string of numbers and letters. ?v= denotes the parameter for the video ID – the video you want to watch. Without it, you're just linking to YouTube's front page.
Forums, if anyone cares to remember them (from a time before social media rotted everyone's brains) tended to run on PHP, so a lot of the time their links would look like this: "exampleforum.example/showthread.php?thread=1234556789&page=25#reply15". Here, the parameters ?thread= and &page= tell the backend which thread and page to display, and the anchor #reply15 jumps to the fifteenth reply on that page.
Web shops use parameters to store i.e. size, colour, etc., so if you bookmark an item for later and remove these, your link will at best not store the size and colour (or other product variations) you selected and at worst just not work. What's more, Google offers the option to visit a no-AI version of their search page with the parameter ?udm=14 (you're welcome); if people just blindly removed every parameter from every URL (and yes, the query you search for is also a parameter), that wouldn't work too, any more.
Telling people to just strip out every ? and & they see is to breed digital illiteracy and set them up for failure.
Teach them to learn instead. To understand.
Most of the time, it's pretty trivial to understand what things do if you look at them for a moment and think. The aforementioned "showthread.php?thread=12345&page=25#reply15" is fairly self-explanatory once you understand that ? and & are URL parameters and # jumps to a named anchor in the page.
And likewise, ?si= (share ID) and its brethren are not that hard to spot. Anything that has "utm_" in it is Google Analytics. Instagram uses "gsh" as one of its parameters, and occasionally generates "instagram . com/share/(post and user ID go here)" links that uniquely identify you to anyone you send the link to instead of "/post/(post ID)".
Unthinkingly following overly broad instructions doesn't help you. The only self-defence is to understand what is being done to you. The advent of smartphones has alienated and entire generation or two from the idea that you can understand how computers work, but it's vital that you reclaim it.
Why am I finding out just today that Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo
????
Hey. What
"relax. sucking does not kill" would make for a fun shirt
I love this text post so I drew it
NEW FISH JUST DROPPED
I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.
Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.
We made a whole-ass fish.
The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were
140 MILLION YEARS BACK.
If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?
This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.
This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.
And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.
Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.
THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.
THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE
It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.
Oh i forgot to add
THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.
To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.
BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.
the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!
Lugia chewing undersea cables
My birthday is finally not at the bottom of the Japanese luck calendar… 2026 may just be my year hol up…
In case anyone wants to see their birthday
i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.
Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.
Last 2 are Dungeon Meshi and Shrek
Critical Role: 10 Years of Storytelling
Campaign 1, Episode 115, "The Chapter Closes." // Taliesin Jaffe, in "As D&D booms, 'Critical Role' makes its own kind of nerd celebrity" by Sarah Parvini // Campaign 3, Episode 31, "Breaking Point" // On Loving by Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé // The Legend of Vox Machina at NYCC 2022 // 8-bit Stories // Campaign 1 Wrap-Up // “Without You Without Them” by boygenius // Campaign 2, Episode 141, "Fond Farewells." // Campaign 3: Behind the Set // Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka // Campaign 1, Episode 115, "The Chapter Closes." // Explanation of the final Vex’ahlia playlist by Laura Bailey // Liam's Quest: Full Circle // Backwards by Warsan Shire // Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, Part 2 // Explanation of Fearne’s second playlist by Ashley Johnson // Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson // San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Critical Role: Fireside Chat & Cast Q&A // Exandria Unlimited Cooldown: Divergence Episode 4 // Campaign 3, Episode 23, "To the Skies." // Explanation of the final Percy playlist by Taliesin Jaffe // "For Good" by Stephen Schwartz // Campaign 3, Episode 91, "True Heroism." // Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, Episode 4, "Fire and Ruin." // Campaign 3, Episode 121, "A New Age Begins."
