If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would
“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”
Freeloader Comin’ through!
We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).
And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.
Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.
Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker.
Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:
Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature
Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu
And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”
Arkansas is short for Arcane Kansas which is actually a major hub for wizards hidden away in the US. it’s why most people forget about it’s existence – it’s protected by mental wards to avoid interference from the government. after reading this you will forget it again. this cannot be helped
Slow the fuck down is also the way to avoid scams, social engineering, phishing, etc.
“Oh, no the CEO of my employer is having an emergency and I need to click this link right now!!!”
Slow down…
“Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it.” (It probably is a phishing email.)
In general, “Slow the fuck down” is an extremely powerful information literacy skill.
Genuinely thinking about showing this to my freshmen instead of the CRAAP test
This is a good illustration of Tumblr’s brand of social justice
and he still manged to include the q slur lmao
You are literally this person
To people in the notes going “but he should still paint over qu**r because it’s a slur”: I dare you to walk into your nearest LGBTQ Center and demand that any and all mention of “queer” be removed from its displays, literature, and programs. Go ahead and tell me what they say to you. I’ll wait.
I believe I will just queerly reblog this without further queer comment.
Agreed. I shall queerly join you.
To every person on here whimpering about ‘the Q slur’ you need to realise that every single identity under the umbrella began as a slur. None of you know your goddamned history.
Did you know that the first battle cry in a long line of protests was We’re here, we’re Queer, get used to it ? Or how hard people worked to give you what rights you have today? OUT OF THE CLOSETS AND INTO THE STREETS.
People were beaten to death, hung, dragged, shot, stabbed, died in prison protesting and fighting for the rights that you enjoy to this day. People who found and created power in the word Queer so that you wouldn’t have to be ashamed to be one.
And here you lot are, screaming at the older generations that we don’t know what it’s like to be called Queer in the hallways of your high school? Are you kidding? How many of my generation, and the generations before me do you think participated in the sit ins, the protests, the marches, the public displays of noncompliance? How many do you think were beaten by police, by angry bigots, chased away, threatened with violence? How many were tased, water gunned, pepper sprayed, unfairly arrested, unfairly charged, abused, mocked, and denied?
Do you even know who ACT UP are? Do you know who Queer Nation are? Do you know who Dykes on Bikes are? Who the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are? PFLAG, Oasis Centers, PRISM? How drag queens have been such a backbone to our community, those of you who say ignorant shit like “Don’t support drag queens!”? I encourage you, beg you, please do not continue to parrot transphobic bullshit by calling it the Q-slur – because that message originated with a group of transphobic people who didn’t like that Queer was all inclusive. Gay as a term originated as being used for homosexual men only.
How can I tell you. How can I convince you, brother; sister that your life is in danger. That everyday you wake up alive, relatively happy, and a functioning human being, you are committing a rebellious act. You as an alive and functioning queer are a revolutionary. There is nothing on this planet that validates, protects or encourages your existence. It is a miracle you are standing here reading these words. You should by all rights be dead.
Don’t be fooled, straight people own the world and the only reason you have been spared is you’re smart, lucky, or a fighter. Straight people have a privilege that allows them to do whatever they please and f— without fear. But not only do they live a life free of fear; they flaunt their freedom in my face. Their images are on my TV, in the magazine I bought, in the restaurant I want to eat in, and on the street where I live. I want there to be a moratorium on straight marriage, on babies, on public displays of affection among the opposite sex and media images that promote heterosexuality. Until I can enjoy the same freedom of movement and sexuality, as straights, their privilege must stop and it must be given over to me and my queer sisters and brothers.
Straight people will not do this voluntarily and so they must be forced into it. Straights must be frightened into it. Terrorized into it. Fear is the most powerful motivator. No one will give us what we deserve. Rights are not given they are taken, by force if necessary.
It is easier to fight when you know who your enemy is. Straight people are you enemy. They are your enemy when they don’t acknowledge your invisibility and continue to live in and contribute to a culture that kills you.
Every day one of us is taken by the enemy. Whether it is an AIDS death due to homophobic government inaction or a lesbian bashing in an all-night diner (in a supposedly lesbian neighborhood), we are being systematically picked off and we will continue to be wiped out unless we realize that if they take one of us they must take all of us.
Another text (1990):
Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom to be public, to just be who we are. It means everyday fighting oppression; homophobia, racism, misogyny, the bigotry of religious hypocrites and our own self-hatred. (We have been carefully taught to hate ourselves.) And now of course it means fighting a virus as well, and all those homo-haters who are using AIDS to wipe us off the face of the earth.
Being queer means leading a different sort of life. It’s not about the mainstream, profit-margins, patriotism, patriarchy or being assimilated. It’s not about executive directors, privilege and elitism. It’s about being on the margins, defining ourselves; it’s about gender-f— and secrets, what’s beneath the belt and deep inside the heart; it’s about the night. Being queer is “grass roots” because we know that everyone of us, every body, every c—, every heart and a– and d— is a world of pleasure waiting to be explored. Everyone of us is a world of infinite possibility.
We are an army because we have to be. We are an army because we are so powerful. (We have so much to fight for; we are the most precious of endangered species.) And we are an army of lovers because it is we who know what love is. Desire and lust, too. We invented them. We come out of the closet, face the rejection of society, face firing squads, just to love each other! Every time we f—, we win.
We must fight for ourselves (no else is going to do it) and if in that process we bring greater freedom to the world at large then great. (We’ve given so much to that world: democracy, all the arts, the concepts of love, philosophy and the soul, to name just a few of the gifts from our ancient Greek Dykes, Fags.) Let’s make every space a Lesbian and Gay space. Every street a part of our sexual geography. A city of yearning and then total satisfaction. A city and a country where we can be safe and free and more. We must look at our lives and see what’s best in them, see what is queer and what is straight and let that straight chaff fall away! Remember there is so, so little time. And I want to be a lover of each and every one of you. Next year, we march naked.
Another (1990):
If You’re Queer, Shout It!
Queers are under siege.
Queers are being attacked on all fronts and I’m afraid it’s ok with us. In 1969, Queers, were attacked. It wasn’t ok. Queers fought back, took the streets.
Shouted.
In 1990, there were 50 “Queer Bashings” in the month of May alone. Violent attacks. 3,720 men, women and children died of AIDS in the same month, caused by a more violent attack - government inaction, rooted in society’s growing homophobia. This is institutionalized homophobia, perhaps more dangerous to the existence of queers because the attackers are faceless. We allow these attacks by our own continued lack of action against them. AIDS has affected the straight world and now they’re blaming us for AIDS and using it as a way to justify their violence against us. They don’t want us anymore. They will beat us, rape us and kill us before they will continue to live with us. What will it take for This not to be ok? Feel some rage. If rage doesn’t empower you, try fear. If that doesn’t work try panic.
Shout It!
Be proud. Do whatever you need to do to tear yourself away from your customary state of acceptance. Be free. Shout.
In 1969, Queers fought back. In 1990, Queers say ok.
Next year, will we be here?
One last one:
Why Queer? – (1990)
Queer!
Ah, do we really have to use that word? It’s trouble. Every gay person has his or her own take on it. For some it means strange and eccentric and kind of mysterious. That’s okay; we like that. But some gay girls and boys don’t. They think they’re more normal than strange. And for others “queer” conjures up those awful memories of adolescent suffering. Queer. It’s forcibly bittersweet and quaint at best - weakening and painful at worst. Couldn’t we just use “gay” instead? It’s a much brighter word. And isn’t it synonymous with “happy”? When will you militants grow up and get over the novelty of being different?
Why Queer …
Well, yes, “gay” is great. It has its place. But when a lot of lesbians and gay men wake up in the morning we feel angry and disgusted, not gay. So we’ve chosen to call ourselves queer. Using “queer” is a way of reminding us how we are perceived by the rest of the world. It’s a way of telling ourselves we don’t have to be witty and charming people who keep our lives discreet and marginalized in the straight world. We use queer as gay men loving lesbians and lesbians loving being queer. Queer, unlike gay, doesn’t mean male.
And when spoken to other gays and lesbians it’s a way of suggesting we close ranks, and forget (temporarily) our individual differences because we face a more insidious common enemy. Yeah, queer can be a rough word but it is also a sly and ironic weapon we can steal from the homophobe’s hands and use against him.
They did it for you. They did it for me. They did it for all of us. So you wouldn’t have to go through it. So you could be freer than they ever could, than we could at your age, than our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents ever could. Not for you to invalidate the indentities of others, and your own community. You silencing Queer people and calling it a slur dishonours their legacy.
I am here. I am Queer. You will not call my identity a fucking slur and have me be silent about it. I will still fight for the rights of my community – the Queer Community.
This isn’t simply a question of vocabulary. Exclusionists and transphobes and their ilk want you to stop using “queer” because they don’t want queer people to exist. They may not be straight, but their only problem with heteronormativity is that they’ve been barred from participating in it. They’re conservative bigots and as soon as same-sex marriage was no longer blocked in the US they were ready to betray everyone in the queer community.
I’m reblogging this just to point out that most of the images have been removed because they “violate Tumblr’s community guidelines.” History. Being removed. Hmmm….
Hey, @staff ? Mind explaining how these images violated your community guidelines? You know, being the queerest place on the internet and all.
Saw this Trucks Discourse on facebook and I’m not part of that world but yeah that one on the left is delightful and I really had no idea just how wasteful and pointless the other kind is until this comparison
it’s so sad that they’ve been selectively bred for size and aesthetics over their health. look at that pushed-in muzzle—there’s no way the one on the right can breathe properly
I would love to have a truck, but you just can’t find ethical breeders these days. The new breed standard is bullshit.
“Hard at work”? I’m skulking at work. I’m straight up creeping. You’re only gonna find me if you’re looking in the supply closet. LOW in the supply closet. I can skitter like a millipede and fight like a centipede. Fuck with me.
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I think you might have your left and right mixed up, my friend
Good news! Elementary schoolers of the modern day still believe this is part of vanilla minecraft. I have borne firsthand witness to these discussions.
the folkloric gate to heaven requires journeying to hell to get its building material
so embarrassing to have a favorite character honestly. like yes that’s my specialest guy 🙄 yes i have 200 photos of him saved 😑 if i don’t look at him or hear him talk every 2 minutes i’ll start killing the hostages 😕 i think about him every day. because he’s my favorite. whatever
I actually wonder if Netflix was defrauding the WGA/SAG and that’s why they’re not negotiating.
I have seen this take knocking around. Something like, “any concession at all would entail revealing numbers that the streaming services have never revealed, and that may in turn reveal basis for legal action”
Because like, the streaming numbers for a top 10 show (supernatural) either have to be high enough that the writers should’ve been paid residuals, or low enough that the shareholders are being defrauded
I love the people who are like “it’s both” because it’s totally both.
I love the people
who are like “it’s both” because
it’s totally both.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
that moment when you stop & think about it & realize this is one of innumerable little examples of how clever thinking is punished in institutes of education.
this kid followed all the rules as written and answered correctly. the mistake was from the teacher, for leaving a loophole in the instructions to exploit. this deserves 10/10.
don’t call what you create “content”. regardless of what it is. that’s the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is
I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don’t call yourself a “content creator”. you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician
you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind
Gonna add on to this, if that’s ok, because I think a lot of people don’t know how to categorize their work:
Shitposting? You’re a comedian, a satirist.
Long posts about other people’s art? You’re a critic (positive), a scholar.
Long posts exploring ideas, society, and the world around you? You’re an essayist, a philosopher.
Can’t get enough of sharing information about X topic? You’re a scholar, an educator, a columnist.
Just love collecting and sharing other people’s stuff on your blog? Archivist, curator, collector.
Just not sure where you fit? Babe, you’re a blogger.
You don’t have to be a professional (ie get paid) to be any of these things. You can claim the title without making any claims to the quality of your work. It’s ok.
Okay so in case y'all don’t know, this is from Pose. A series about the black trans community and ball culture in new York during the 80’s. Its got vogueing, lgbt+ culture, history, drama, romance, comedy, tragedy. Its wonderful and historically accurate and all the trans people are playedby real trans actors.
This is so good I had to reblog it on both of my blogs.
people need to accept that some gay/lgbt people are terrible and some gay/lgbt people are boring and it doesnt make them Actually Straight or anything
big pet peeve of mine is gay internet users talking about ellen degeneres and pete buttigieg and acting like they’re “basically straight” as if both these people aren’t literally married to someone of the same sex sleeping in the same bed with them and having gay sex with their gay spouses and as if ellen degeneres coming out wasn’t such a huge moment in the lesbian community and pop culture as a whole that the biggest lesbian website for decades after that was called afterellen like unfortunately being gay doesn’t make you immune to being friends with war criminals.
this message belongs on my blog more than once for the simple fact that not enough people have seen it and let it sink in really deeply
Gym teacher: You have no body tension! You need to train more!
Me who doesn’t have enough bone or muscle to provide my body with structural support without the pressure of the deep sea:
No! This is not true, and not why blobfish end up like that! They have plenty of structure, in fact, they’re very bony! I’ll write more on this, but it’s a little pet peeves misconception about deep sea creatures and relates to the physiology of humans doing scuba
don’t their cells basically explode when the pressure of their environment is too high?
Okay. So this is a pedantic distinction with a fun and interesting answer, with some connections to other fun facts, so I find it fun to write about. I think a moment that drove home that this was a slight misconception that people had was a time I talked about the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s deep sea exhibit. A lot of people were confused that the tanks aren’t pressurized. They’re literally just normal fishtanks, albeit at the proper temperature, salinity, etc, but pressure wise, you can see the open top of the tanks if you look up through them. And the fish inside are fine! While they don’t have blob sculpins there, they do have many other bony fish that come from the same depths. Many other aquariums have similar setups. So how is this possible, if blobfish “explode” when they come to the surface?
If there’s one way to summarize the key takeaway here, it’s this:
Air is compressible and changes volume depending on pressure. Water does not. This includes the water inside your cells.
So let’s imagine that we’re at the surface of the ocean, and we will a plastic bag with seawater, and completely seal it. Then, we dive down, taking the bag with us. What will that bag look like at the bottom? Well… pretty much the exact same. It’ll be the exact same volume, exert the same pressure, etc. Now imagine that we take the bag down empty, fill it with water at the bottom, and take it to the top. What will it look like? Well, also the exact same. Even though the water at the bottom was at pressure, water is incompressible, and so the “pressurized” water occupies the same volume as the water at the surface. No expansion, no explosion.
What this functionally means is that there’s actually very little adaptations required to live in the deep ocean for pressure. Do the dark, cold, limited food, and thousands of other harsh conditions of that environment have to be adapted to? Sure. But not really the pressure. Many fish freely move up and down in the water column over depth and pressure changes regularly.
(disclaimer: there are also some adaptations to pressure that deal with complex 3D protein structures, and how rigid they are. But these wouldn’t cause any problems with decompression- they’re more equivalent to adding a steel beam or strut to something to fortify it, and just make things molecularly more rigid for protein protein interactions. But it has nothing to do with the “explosion”. They’re poorly understood though.)
So what’s the problem then?
Well, remember that air is compressible. Now lets redo that bag thing, except inflate the bag with air at the surface. We’ll bring it down to depth, and the bag will deflate and crush. The pressure on the bag will compress the air (good old PV=nRT) and it will occupy less volume. We bring it back up, and the bag re-expands.
Now lets do something slightly different. Lets take the bag to the bottom, and fill it with air from a SCUBA tank. Tank air is compressed beyond what the ocean will compress it to, but once released from the tank, it will expand to match the pressure of the surrounding water. Let’s fill the bag with that at the bottom, and then bring it to the top.
Now the bag bursts.
This is what’s happening to the poor blob sculpin. Every bony fish has a gas-filled swim bladder used to regulate its buoyancy. As they swim up and down in the water column, they’re able to release this gas and replace it with metabolic processes, allowing the swim bladder to have a dynamic amount of gas in it and never burst. If, however, you yoink it from the bottom of the ocean and drag it up without it ever having time to properly offgas…. the gas in the swim bladder expands outwards to the only place it can go. In this case, that’s the surrounding tissue of the fish, leading to the traditional blob corpse we all know about.
So why was this post’s wording wrong?
Well, a blobfish does have enough structure to exist without pressure. There’s nothing about it that needs constant pressure. In theory, you could collect a blobfish from the bottom of the ocean, bring it up really slowly, let it equalize appropriately, and keep it in a tank at surface pressure. In fact, the Monterey Bay Aquarium (as mentioned previously) and California Academy of Sciences developed a decompression chamber to do exactly that:
While its physically hard to use at the depths that blob sculpins live at (most notably bc they use human divers for this), there’s no theoretical reason why that approach wouldn’t work on them.
There’s a couple of other fun facts related to this. Notably, there are lots of fish that live at incredibly variable depths, but follow particular temperatures. Rockfish off the California coast tend to follow the depth that gives them the right temperatures, and some of the same fish you can find at the surface in Monterey are deepwater prize catches in San Diego.
Additionally, only bony fish have this problem. Sharks, who regulate their buoyancy with liver oils instead of gas swim bladders, freely move between depths without worrying about gas regulation. Crustaceans as well, which is why deep sea crab fishing doesn’t result in exploded crabs.
The dangers of SCUBA are also almost entirely because of this principle. There are very few problems with descending and high pressure on its own (with a couple of notable exceptions), but decompression of previously compressed gases during the ascent can easily be deadly.
This is all a bit pedantic, but its a little misconception that many people have that I think its fun to clear up a little.
Thanks for this really cool info dump :D Id like to apologize for peddling false blob fish propaganda it seems I bought into the lies of big fish \lh
I remade the meme to do the blob fish justice.
Gym Teacher: You have no body tension! You need to train more!
Me who didn’t get enough time to properly regulate the gas in my swim bladder while being pulled to the surface:
Also while i looked up more about swim bladders I found out that when they examined the sea floor with sonar tech from WW2 they found the seafloor to be several hundred meters less deep than it actually was because millions of lil marine creatures were obscuring the sonar with their swim bladders. Good on them 👍
Oooo you’re gonna make me do a ramble about the deep sea scattering layer at some point, but I’m very eepy rn
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