When I started doing art, I did it traditionally and would tape the ones I really liked to my wall. Now I do more digital than traditional, so Iāll put the ones I really like here, with an occasional writing piece.
Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.
I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblrās tagging system is
I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We canāt use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.
UseĀ āflashingā in place of āepilepsyā in your tags. You arenāt warning people of epileptics, youāre warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and itās ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.
Hereās proof of what I mean:
THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!
Like I don't think you guys comprehend what happened in Poland just now but everyone needs to be talking about it.
A random influencer decided he'll listen to an anti cancer song on loop. People liked it enough times he ended up listening for 9 days.
He raised 90 million in these 9 days, and then 160 million more over the last 10 hours, for a total of 250 million.
Hundreds and thousands of people signed up to donate marrow.
Hundreds of celebrities shaved their heads in solidarity.
The Foundation receiving this money had to create a special commission to figure out how to distribute the money.
The national TV stations got highjacked to stream this for hours because it was better news than anything happening in the world.
Because we broke and DOUBLED the world record for this kind of thing.
They raised about as much as the biggest running charity event in Poland did in a whole year with three decades of tradition and a goddamn army of people.
And they did it on a goddamn amateur set up in a shabby room sitting on folding chairs.
Little update: people keep donating despite the stream being over. We're at 280 million in the fight against cancer.
Åatwogang refuses to collab with companies that only reached out to him now because of popularity or give interviews. He said any medals people wanna give them should go to the doctors and nurses and the cancer patients.
Someone offered to renovate that shabby little flat for him as a thank you. He refused.
Someone counted up how many people appeared in that room during the whole thing - it was 319 total.
Iām noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 whoā¦uhā¦mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip
Using a random fic of mine as example..
The left example: ā ā ā
The right example: āāā
Idk how many times Iāve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear itā¦itās insufferable!
If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. Iām not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer butā¦pleaseā¦tyā¦
This is a good thing to keep in mind! It is often and unfortunate that a really good fic doesnāt get love because its formatting makes it too difficult to read!
AO3's posting form has two modes: Rich Text and HTML. the vast majority of people write in Rich Text editors, aka any normal word processing software (MS Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, what have you). but when you first open it, the posting form opens in HTML view. if you paste formatted text into HTML view, it erases every piece of formatting, including paragraph spacing.
this is an easy fix. when you go to post your fic, make sure the posting form looks like this:
not like this:
and please spread the word! this is an important piece of computer literacy that nobody is teaching to the new generations and they deserve to know
I am So Fucking Pissed I'm resorting to this, but if it means protecting my damn privacy, I'll make the fucking machine eat its own tail like the ouro-fucking-boros.
Click Read More for instructions on bypassing the google age requirement.
So, if and when you get the age verification bullshit from google and youtube, DO NOT FUCKING GIVE YOUR ID/EMAIL/CREDIT CARD/WHATEVER. Use thispersondoesnotexist or this-person-does-not-exist to generate an older person (age requirements differ for different regions, but the USA is 18+ requirement, so choose someone OBVIOUSLY over 18). The first website is a refresh-to-generate site, while the second one allows you to input specifications such as age, gender, ethnicity (just pick white...), etc.
INSTRUCTIONS
When the age verification notification pops up, follow the below instructions. For those who ignored it/can't find it, go to this help page and scroll down to "Verify youāre old enough to manage your account", you will see a link to "verify your age" (image below)
BEFORE MOVING TO STEP THREE: THERE IS SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR GENERATED SELFIE
Must face camera,
No glasses,
BRIGHT ROOM. I cannot stress this enough, open ALL blinds, get artificial light, otherwise you get the "too dim" message. This is the trickiest part of the selfie bypass method.
You will only be allowed to use the front facing camera of your phone, so get in position to point your phone cam parallel to the image on your computer or tablet screen, and make sure YOU are able see if it's working/if you need to adjust.
"person" must look VERY OBVIOUSLY 18+.
Ideally choose a generated image of an elderly person, or a male with an obvious beard.
SAVE/CAPTURE MORE THAN ONE IMAGE AS BACKUPS.
For the website that allows you to set parameters, you will need to take a screenshot via the app on your computer. The site blocks right click screenshoting and it will have a watermark unless you pay for a nonwater mark version.
2. Select "take a selfie" for your method of verification. DO NOT SELECT ANYTHING ELSE. Verifying via your email might seem like a safe route, but it still allows Google to see EVERY website you ever visit, what you do on that website, and collect passwords, usernames, and other information.
3. Agree/continue with this method, and you will get a QR code that you'll need to scan via your phone camera. Follow the link after scanning.
4. Allow the site to use your camera (NOTE: I had to exit and re-scan the QR code due to a slight glitch, but the second scan worked just fine).
YOU WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED TO USE YOUR FRONT-FACING CAMERA FOR THIS.
5. Get your image in the scanning circle. The circle's border will gradually turn green as it scans and verifies. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PROMPTS ABOVE THE CIRCLE. These prompts could be urging you to center the face in the circle, say it's too dime, ask you to face the camera, or to remove glasses.
6. Continue trying numerous images or those getting very close to completion. It can take a while, and you MUST be in a brightly lit area, for the love of god. Keep trying. You will likely get a page that say it can't verify your age, but click "retry" and KEEP. TRYING.
7. When the image is successfully captured, you're golden! No more age verification bullshit from google. Close out the tab on your phone, and on your computer. Don't worry about the page on the computer staying on the QR code page, it doesn't change when age is verified, but it worked.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I DON'T VERIFY AGE?
Not doing all this makes google assume you're under age and you are locked into "safe browsing" mode, which impacts websites you visit, websites you can see when searching (aka excluding mature/percieved as mature websites from your search), and what youtube shows you. I'm not joking.
This will be the ONLY FUCKING TIME I will ever use genai, and against itself to boot. Fucking make it eat its own tail.
You can find similar instructions via Reddit (which is where I found this, but no step by step instructions).
btw while people continue to fight the system don't forget about Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), a charity that buys and forgives medical debt. on average a donation of $10 will forgive $1,000 of medical debt.
I'm fairly confident that this is now the one original post I've made that has gotten the most notes, and I honestly couldn't be happier. the more attention we give this, the higher the chances that someone will see this and donate. medical debt is both one of the most crushing things a person can deal with and one of the stupidest things humanity has invented. and if you live in the US, I have no doubt that you've had to deal with medical debt in your life, either for yourself or a loved one. even a small donation can do so much good, and now is the time of year when we are encouraged to think of others.
Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element āoverflowā and change it from āhiddenā to āvisibleā then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.
Thereās also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.
And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.TodayĀ to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue āsearch archived snapshotsā box near the bottom:
Robert Roberson is about to be executed tomorrow in Texas. Yet another innocent person will face the death penalty, despite prejudicial testimony and an unproven theory.
please take the time to call or email using this form from Innocence Project. it takes like 2 minutes.
Mr. Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Act now.
read more about his case and why the courts in Texas need to change here:
Texasā 2013 law that allows for new trials in cases with flawed scientific evidence was pioneering. But the stateās highest criminal court h
BREAKING: The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles FAILED to recommend clemency for Robert Roberson, an innocent man.
Yesterday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made the decision NOT to recommend clemency for Robert. Robert's execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT TODAY. In these final hours, we need everyone reading this to pick up their phones and urge Gov. Abbott to listen to his constituents, bipartisan legislators, and advocacy organizations and grant Robert a 30-day reprieve:
Despite the clemency petition generating overwhelming support, including from a bipartisan group of 86 Texas bipartisan legislators, autism advocacy organizations, scientists, doctors, faith leaders, and more,Ā Robert is still scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. CT today.
Gov. Abbott has the power to stop Robertās execution ā and itās up to us to urge him to make the right decision.
We have just 8 business hours to urge Gov. Abbott to listen to the citizen outcry, bipartisan legislators, and expert groups who are asking him to stop Texas from killing an innocent man. Please act now and call Gov. Abbott to urge him to stop Robert's execution and grant him a 30-day reprieve.
If your call doesn't get through,Ā please send an email or tweet using our toolĀ and call back during business hours, 8am ā 5pm C.T.
This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.
Reblogging with a link because I thought this was a legit joke. Never heard it before. Like I knew you could kill a person by inserting air into a vein but still.
As a general rule of thumb, do not push air into any bodily orifice, regardless of gender. It never ends well. Air compressors and the human body do NOT mix.
its so wild like āthis generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentialsā and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies
AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT
DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DONāT EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* ITāS SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER
FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY
*Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe
1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)
1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)
Ā½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because itās easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronnerās. Really does not fucking matter.)
After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. Thatās it. Thatās the whole thing. Use maybe a Ā¼ cup per load.
Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.
Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.
Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.
Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400Ā° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)
Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.
I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesnāt come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesnāt need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.
