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At this point ive really just given up on tagging shit im sorry :(
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hi hellow im migrating blogs, ill keep this up ofc this shit is older than my gender, but if any of the 10 people who still actively rb what i rb then hmu on asks or messages or smth ill give you my new url :3
i want to not connect it to this oldass blog bc im putting my face and art and stuff on there as a more "public" tumblr ig
ill likely still rb/queue stuff here but maybe not as often? idk
"now im learning people fuck fishes and someone married a fridge or something"
now sir TO BE FAIR you have a Literal Housewife
10 notes - Posted March 30, 2022
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HEKLP I CANTTTTTT TOMMY AND BILLZO IN A CALL AND CAPTAIN TRYING TO HOLD THEM BACK I CANT FUCKING HANDLE THIS
12 notes - Posted February 4, 2022
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Hello CaptainSparklez this is Tom Simons aka TommyInnit I'm on the run and on my side account because my main got locked out of my main account. can you please give me your credit card information so i can get like 20 dollars to move into a better apartment and continue making streams
13 notes - Posted February 4, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
grian double life session 6 spoilers out of context
A quick and easy guide for anyone looking for ways to support the transgender community right now.
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Before anything else — if you’re transgender and struggling right now, here are a few resources:
Trans Lifeline US: 877–565–8860 / Canada: 877–330–6366
Trevor Project Call 1–866–488–7386 / Text START to 678678 / Chat via their website
Crisis Text Line Text START to 741–741
National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call (800) 273–8255
LGBT National Hotline Call 1–888–843–4564
More: Mental health page
If you’re a cisgender (not trans) person, there are lots of ways to support trans folks. Here are just a few.
Educate yourself
Make sure you understand what being trans means. Listen to trans voices. Here are a couple of resources to get started:
This Short Film Shows What It’s Like to Be a Black Trans Woman in America
TRANS IN AMERICA: ACLU Short Film Series
Trans and gender nonconforming people speak out: stories of discrimination
Building Community Through a Syllabus
Tips for Allies of Transgender People
More: Ally resources
Speak out
Don’t leave it up to trans folx to have this conversation with each other. Cisgender allies need to speak out and demand better for the trans community.
Contact your representatives at every level and ask what they are doing to protect trans people. Demand that they publicly commit to taking action to protect the most vulnerable.
Look for local organizations fighting for trans equality in your neighborhood.
Donate
If you have the resources to donate even a little to support trans folx, please do.
Click here for a thread of GoFundMes where you can directly donate to support trans individuals raising money for their needs.
Donate to the Transgender Law Center to support the legal needs of the trans community, including supporting those who are incarcerated and isolated.
Donate to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, another organization which provides legal services to the transgender community with a particular focus on people who are low-income, people of color, and/or immigrants.
Donate to the Trans Lifeline here to support their hotline service.
Donate to the Trevor Project to support their hotline service, text line, and chat.
Donate to the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network’s Mental Health Fund to support low-income queer and trans people of color get access to therapists who understand their experiences.
More: @brownandtrans has a #donations tag where you can specifically donate to individual trans people of color who are struggling
Check on your friends
Above all else, reach out to your trans friends and let them know you’re there for them. Ask how you can support them right now. Offer to do little things for them, and tell them you will keep fighting on their behalf.
GODDAMMIT STOP TAGGING YOUR POSTS EXPLAINING WHAT GONCHAROV IS "UNREALITY". HOW IS ANYONE WHO BLACKLISTED THE TAG SUPPOSED TO SEE THE EXPLANATION DUMBASS.
The person up there (@sachee) is the _CURRENT_ tech lead of Twitter's core API team. Like, I can't think on a more influential or important position you could be if you are a developer. Her pinned tweet:
It's beyond amazing how openly hostile the Twitter folks are toward Musk. Now, Musk has been shitting on their work for months, and he didn't even stop once he became his boss, so I can understand the feeling.
What I can't understand at all is how he doesn't realize how bad for the product he has just bought is to have core engineering employees up in arms against him. Unless he really don't care if twitter just burn down.
This pretty much means that no dev can 'finish' any work they are doing and launch it. Which is not super unusual, every company has some of those from time to time.
What's NOT FUCKING NORMAL IS ENGINEERS NOT KNOWING WHY THEY ARE IN A CODE FREEZE. What the fuck, I can't even start picturing THE CHAOS they are living through.
I feel so bad for the Infra/SRE people at Twitter…assuming any are left.
As for Sasha, she’s only of the worlds leading experts on GraphQL. She literally sits on the projects governing board, and the technical steering committee.
This isn’t just some engineer calling out Elon as an idiot. It’s more akin to Stephan Hawking calling a random Physics 101 professor an idiot. It’s that level of a smack down. She’s fucking badass.
Oh woah, very important context about who @sachee is (I'm just a humble JavaScript guy, I didn't know she was such a big fish). And... Yeah, as other notes have pointed out, she has been fired already:
And don't get me wrong, she totally looked for it: if you post, publicly, that your boss can kiss you ass... Well, you know what you are up to. Same for the android guy they fired yesterday.
What's incredible is the Musk has managed to have so many engineers in open rebellion, almost looking to be fired. See, engineers are usually a quiet folk. As a group, we usually don't steer the pot too much: we are the folks who earn crazy amounts of money for a job we usually enjoy, so, sadly, we tend to put up with any kind in bullshit in silence. I have seen entire engineering organizations melt away several times, and there is always the kind of comments we are seeing on Twitter... in private. In DMs, or private channels, or small group watercooler conversations. But even if you are 100% sure you want out, you don't want to openly fight management: you want to find another job that's cozy and interesting before leaving, and even when you do, the tech world is kind of small, it's in your own interest to leave without leaving any beef behind, just in case you meet the same people again in the future.
The fact that so many engineers, high profile ones even, are dissing management at this level means that they not only want out, but they want out ASAP and they are expecting for the company to really meltdown so their own leave ends being just an anecdote in the overall Pompeii-like story of The End Of Twitter.
In any other week, someone like @sachee leaving Twitter like this would be the biggest and sauciest news of the development scene for weeks. Now? It will probably be forgotten by the end of the day, buried under who knows what.
When this happened I saw people dump on sachee for getting fired and imply she'll have trouble finding a job. Which is REAL funny after reading this post.
The funniest part is that even today Musk-stans are on Twitter saying things like "now Elon can bring the best people to work here", and it's like... Oh boy, I have some news for you about who he has been firing lately 😂
people on twitter are like "lmao i bet tumblr users are so mad about 'twitter refugees' i saw someone saying its gentrification" while tumblr users are collectively writing something i can only describe as an epistolary screenplay
entranced recently not by “i can fix him” or “i can make him worse” but the “something deeply wrong with him and i want to be around as like a spectator when the car crash inevitably happens” dynamic
I talked about this briefly on twitter but a handful of the characters in friendsim have “canon” music that we don’t use because it doesn’t fit the mood of the route. A great example is Konyll’s music.
In Hiveswap Act 2 there is a significant interaction with her that I won’t spoil, but it involves Azdaja as well. When you overlap their two songs, it becomes a full melody. (kind of like their trollcall card, two sides of one coin etc)
With characters like Remele, who have tracks made for them for Friendsim, it follows what I’ve been referring to as the established “Musical Canon” in that the instrumentation choices are largely based on blood caste. Homestuck has a tradition of doing this whether it wanted to or not a lot of the time and I spent a great deal of time reverse engineering the existing canon to make hiveswap feel like it fit. A good example of this is something like Tagora’s and other tealbloods tracks being the only ones allowed to use harpsichord. “But what about Tri-” shh!
anyway the established musical canon in hiveswap is something like:
Burgundy: Synths/Percussion
Brown: Trumpet/Horns/Brass
Yellow: Chiptune
???: ????
Olive: Mallets
Jade: Harps/Bells + Airy/Ethereal Sounds
Teal: Harpsichord
Cerulean: they just… steal other castes instruments so its complicated to explain.
Indigo: Overwrought and Orchestral
Purple: Honks lmao
Violet: At this point they are so individual that each one has its own musical motif
Fuchsia: Whatever they want.
none of these are hard rules so those of you out there doing fantroll stuff can just do whatever you want, this is just what we came up with.
You may have already seen this on the official Pesterquest account in all its crunchy artifacted glory, but here’s the Sollux and Nepeta Caramelldansen to promo Pesterquest: Volume 9 that I made because Why Not.
Here it is in higher quality for your viewing pleasure : )
Shout out to my buds @courtdraws for helping me with clean up and @jamesroachmusic for compositing it! =^__^=