brightlotusmoon:

I’m sorry what

fandomsandfeminism:

fandomsandfeminism:

I know it’s not the worst thing about capitalism. But I do think there’s something really *bad* about the fact that between lack of leisure time, lack of disposable income, and “hustle culture” mindset that for many, many, many people the primary/only way they are able to express their creativity and artistic aesthetics is through consumer culture. Buying stuff and displaying that stuff.

When like…making stuff. Drawing, painting, weaving, crafting, sketching is like, baked deep deep into our bones as humans.

But I know so many adults who haven’t like…drawn a picture since they were children.

“Ugh my drawings look like a 10 year old did them.”

“When did you stop drawing for fun?”

“…when I was like 10.”

Never mind that art doesn’t have to be good to be fun.

Have you ever wanted to make your own propaganda poster?

sojak:

inordinatelyarticulate:

inordinatelyarticulate:

m4ge:

mobster-dad:

sage-armchair-sleep:

mobster-dad:

Now you can go churn out some vintage memes to refresh the economy 

wholesome meme creation. back to meme roots

I feel like this is the most disrespectful thing I’ve done in the past five years help

NOW THIS IS WHAT I POST FOR

guys I can’t stop making these I’m going to fail my finals

*uses for worldbuilding and conlanging*

telltaletypist:

hellsite-yano:

queerautism:

Terfs really think dicks are inherently weapons of mass destruction like??? What the FUCK are u saying lmao

PENIS BLAST

dsudis:

jaimeroyalrobertson-deactivated:

ganondorf:

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn’t be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

i hope it’s okay to add this because i think it hits the nail directly on the head

Honestly, it’s like picking up a book and saying “I know all these words, I can type, I could have written this” like there’s no middle step between the technical ability and the finished work.

elierlick:

It should be a bigger scandal that J.K. Rowling is threatening to sue small accounts for accurately calling her a Holocaust denier. So glad the Streisand effect exists. Now we can all rebuke her reprehensible views more than ever.

hypoel:

im not even sorry

fairuzfan:

fairuzfan:

What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don’t let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

Please reblog! Spread this! There is an effort by zionists to discourage people from boycotting! Don’t let them trample your spirits and help us in the fight for a liberated Palestine!

ridragon:

im a simple person if you say shit like “dont spam likes” i unfollow. Fuckin. this is why tumblr is getting less interactions. I like knowing someone took the time to read and like my posts???? Like ok. I will just Leave. Now we’re both happy.

lockandkeyhyena:

lockandkeyhyena:

lockandkeyhyena:

lockandkeyhyena:

i know you guys are all super into reclaiming slurs and stuff, but you can’t just go around calling random people faggots.

i’ve straight up seen lgbt people call other lgbt people faggots as an insult because they had an opinion they disagreed with. do you. like. hear yourself

you’re not cool and revolutionary, you’re just an asshole

lots of people are saying ‘yes, we can’t tell you apart from a homophobe when you do this’ and it’s important to note that you can’t tell because they’re being homophobic. being lgbt+ does not exempt you from bigotry

tootnoodle:

stevetwisp:

ive never seen the movie so im just gonna assume this is the actual plot

tootnoodle:

stevetwisp:

ive never seen the movie so im just gonna assume this is the actual plot

weirdnaturalscience:

utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat:

misssquirrel:

todaysbird:

todaysbird:

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

what they all have in common:

The look of annoyance and utter disdain at the human exposing their wing pit.

Yes.

UNHAND ME FEATHERLESS BIPED

spooksier:

spooksier:

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

STOP listening to the demon of capitalism and START listening to the angel of hedonism, i love you i believe in you keep making what you love forever ok?

sirfrogsworth:

tedkaczynskiofficial:

operation-teleport:

sirfrogsworth:

Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn’t even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun’s light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

Not a camera person, so eclipses are the only time I’ve ever seen this effect: didn’t realize it was from polarization.

I wonder if, on worlds orbiting dimmer stars, the light looks like this all the time?

It’s not. I’m not a camera person, but I am an engineer person. The moon is blocking out polarized light in the sense that all light is technically polarized, since that is just a function of light being transverse waves. We describe the light from the sun as unpolarized because all of the individual waves are polarized randomly. A polarizing filter only lets light in certain orientations through. This removes glare and reflections because the light from glare and reflections isn’t in the right orientation to pass through the filter.

The moon isn’t selectively filtering light, it’s just indiscriminately blocking most of it. The effect of colors looking more saturated is likely because there is just less light available to cause glare in the first place, but there may be some other mechanism. Regardless, it’s not polarization in the sense that a polarizing filter makes things look more saturated.

If what I said didn’t make sense (because I know if you haven’t seen this explanation before it may seem like gibberish), this has pictures that help explain what’s going on visually.

I admit I am not a light scientist and perhaps I am misunderstanding, but I believed I confirmed my observations with this post from American Scientist. Here is a summary of what I found to be relevant.

“From an observation site in Hermon, Maine, they made measurements of the spectrum of the sky before and during the eclipse. They indeed found that the spectrum of the skylight shifts towards blue, thus appearing more purple to the human eye, as Halley observed.

…the purple appearance of the sky during an eclipse is due to different light scattering processes becoming more significant.

Most natural light sources produce unpolarized light, in which it rapidly and randomly changes the direction it oscillates. Light coming from the Sun is unpolarized, and one would naturally assume that the light of the sky during the day is also unpolarized—however, this is incorrect, as the following video shows.

When one looks at the sky through a polarizer, which preferentially blocks polarization in one direction and allows the perpendicular direction to pass, one sees that light in the sky possesses some amount of polarization. Just as the scattering of light in the sky is different for different colors, preferentially scattering blue, the scattering of light is different for different polarizations. If one measures the direction of polarization in the sky, one finds that the direction of polarization forms a complicated pattern that has been more or less known for nearly 200 years.

There are four “special” points in the sky which possess no direction of polarization, as illustrated in the figure. At these locations the light is in fact circularly polarized. As the figure above suggests, it is generally not possible to see all four of these neutral points at one time, though they were all measured from a hot air balloon a few years ago. It was natural to ask whether the neutral points change during an eclipse, and in 1999 a Hungarian research group investigated this question during the August 11 eclipse that passed over that country. The results they found were quite complicated, but definitely showed a significant change in the polarization of the sky during an eclipse.”

Perhaps I did not explain it perfectly. But the article made it sound like the sky was shifting to purple in a similar way that is seen through a circular polarizer filter.

sirfrogsworth:

tedkaczynskiofficial:

operation-teleport:

sirfrogsworth:

Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn’t even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun’s light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

Not a camera person, so eclipses are the only time I’ve ever seen this effect: didn’t realize it was from polarization.

I wonder if, on worlds orbiting dimmer stars, the light looks like this all the time?

It’s not. I’m not a camera person, but I am an engineer person. The moon is blocking out polarized light in the sense that all light is technically polarized, since that is just a function of light being transverse waves. We describe the light from the sun as unpolarized because all of the individual waves are polarized randomly. A polarizing filter only lets light in certain orientations through. This removes glare and reflections because the light from glare and reflections isn’t in the right orientation to pass through the filter.

The moon isn’t selectively filtering light, it’s just indiscriminately blocking most of it. The effect of colors looking more saturated is likely because there is just less light available to cause glare in the first place, but there may be some other mechanism. Regardless, it’s not polarization in the sense that a polarizing filter makes things look more saturated.

If what I said didn’t make sense (because I know if you haven’t seen this explanation before it may seem like gibberish), this has pictures that help explain what’s going on visually.

I admit I am not a light scientist and perhaps I am misunderstanding, but I believed I confirmed my observations with this post from American Scientist. Here is a summary of what I found to be relevant.

“From an observation site in Hermon, Maine, they made measurements of the spectrum of the sky before and during the eclipse. They indeed found that the spectrum of the skylight shifts towards blue, thus appearing more purple to the human eye, as Halley observed.

…the purple appearance of the sky during an eclipse is due to different light scattering processes becoming more significant.

Most natural light sources produce unpolarized light, in which it rapidly and randomly changes the direction it oscillates. Light coming from the Sun is unpolarized, and one would naturally assume that the light of the sky during the day is also unpolarized—however, this is incorrect, as the following video shows.

When one looks at the sky through a polarizer, which preferentially blocks polarization in one direction and allows the perpendicular direction to pass, one sees that light in the sky possesses some amount of polarization. Just as the scattering of light in the sky is different for different colors, preferentially scattering blue, the scattering of light is different for different polarizations. If one measures the direction of polarization in the sky, one finds that the direction of polarization forms a complicated pattern that has been more or less known for nearly 200 years.

There are four “special” points in the sky which possess no direction of polarization, as illustrated in the figure. At these locations the light is in fact circularly polarized. As the figure above suggests, it is generally not possible to see all four of these neutral points at one time, though they were all measured from a hot air balloon a few years ago. It was natural to ask whether the neutral points change during an eclipse, and in 1999 a Hungarian research group investigated this question during the August 11 eclipse that passed over that country. The results they found were quite complicated, but definitely showed a significant change in the polarization of the sky during an eclipse.”

Perhaps I did not explain it perfectly. But the article made it sound like the sky was shifting to purple in a similar way that is seen through a circular polarizer filter.

thedragonagelesbian:

thedragonagelesbian:

was so caught up by the beauty of another fat tav mod that i went into the comments and got ambushed by the fatphobia…

anyway this mod is so gorgeous

candycatstuffs:

candycatstuffs:

candycatstuffs:

candycatstuffs:

Candace and doofenshmirtz would be tumblr mutuals i think

She never finds out about perry fighting him cuz shes always trying to bust her brothers while doof liveblogs getting his ass kicked

they have carl blocked

(@cogcltrcorn )

HELP

mclennonyaoi:

mclennonyaoi:

mclennonyaoi:

mclennonyaoi:

doesn’t rhyme, taylor!

this is all real . google it

daecus:

louixie:

My silly fakémons Pickerpie & Snagpie!

I had sm fun trying to recreate fake gifs inspired by the anime recently, I can’t wait to do more :3

It’s so good! It initially had me convinced it was from the anime!

kasanekhan:

unclefather:

meckamecha:

kuromi-hoemie:

meckamecha:

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it’s free and it’s good.

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who’d like to follow along, I’m gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they’re more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I’ll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

“OOBE” stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that’ll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don’t have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here’s how you get to it:

1. Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
2. Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO
3. I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you’re brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don’t have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don’t have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can’t do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I’m gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It’ll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the “Turn off” ones bumped to the top.

Here’s what you should set:

• Turn off user tracking: enabled
• Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled
• Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled
• Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled
• Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

• Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled
• Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one’s back at the top under Computer Configuration. You’re gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

• Allow Cortana: disabled
• Don’t search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

• Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don’t use a Microsoft account they’ll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can “get the most out of your experience” *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let’s just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity’s sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

meckamecha:

kuromi-hoemie:

meckamecha:

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it’s free and it’s good.

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who’d like to follow along, I’m gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they’re more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I’ll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

“OOBE” stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that’ll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don’t have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here’s how you get to it:

1. Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
2. Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO
3. I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you’re brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don’t have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don’t have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can’t do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I’m gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It’ll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the “Turn off” ones bumped to the top.

Here’s what you should set:

• Turn off user tracking: enabled
• Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled
• Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled
• Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled
• Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

• Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled
• Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one’s back at the top under Computer Configuration. You’re gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

• Allow Cortana: disabled
• Don’t search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

• Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don’t use a Microsoft account they’ll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can “get the most out of your experience” *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let’s just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity’s sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

And they say using Linux is confusing and requires tutorials for basic things 🙃

tumbleosity:

sillybeanies:

how to make your own beanie buddy!!

first: sacrifice a beanie D: this was a damaged and worn zip the cat. farewell sweet prince. thanks for your service. anyway take that beanie to bits

iron the pieces and trace them to make a pattern (make notes about how to reassemble NOW before you forget!)

Ask your sister to use her work printer to blow up the pattern from A5 to A3! thats four times bigger!!

get some plushy fabric from the craft store and get tracing and cutting (using medical scissors from that surgery you had four years ago)

SEW THAT BABY TOGETHER and then pick apart the head because you messed up AND THEN SEW IT BACK TOGETHER PROPERLY!!

make a little face :3 eyes, nose and whiskers!!

fill that beast with BEANS using your sister’s hamilton shotglass (and some fluff for the head and body)

sew her up…. and take some photos!!

optional step: repeat the process to make some siblings!

Cat Beanie Baby pattern

If you specifically want a beanie baby cat a sewing pattern can be bought on gumroad! Otherwise go thrift a beanie baby and rip that pattern for a big buddy

calebwittebane:

calebwittebane:

i love it when people trap the warden in minecraft by making a moving piston that makes noise so the warden just quietly stares at it. ipad baby

his touy

con-lentitud-poderosa:

crazysodomite:

i cant stand adventuring with necromancers 🤦‍♂️. you know what really gets to me? they never TELL you they’re a necromancer. they always use some normal spells at first. like ice spike and shit. and then you turn around to look at your party and you notice there’s one extra person there. yeeep. they resurrected the researcher that died before us and left a journal warning us of the incoming dangers at the dungeon. and you know you can’t tell them shit. you hurt a wizards’ feelings and they fireball you into a pile of dust while you’re sleeping and cook a potion with your ashes. 🤦‍♂️

and before anyone says anything i dont have anything against conjurers. just wish more of them had the common fucking sense to summon elemental spirits or whatever.

trash-hatchet:

i-am-a-fish:

ALT

NOOOOOOOO SONIC LOOK OUT YOUR GOING TO STEP ON FISH!!!!!

theriu:

wine-dark-sea:

I can’t explain how much I love baguette child. I would protect them with my life.

At first I was amazed and delighted and then I realized this is exactly the level of wit you should expect from a child who chose to dress as a baguette for trick or treating and I was even further delighted

theriu:

wine-dark-sea:

I can’t explain how much I love baguette child. I would protect them with my life.

At first I was amazed and delighted and then I realized this is exactly the level of wit you should expect from a child who chose to dress as a baguette for trick or treating and I was even further delighted

virtualgirladvance:

fedexrojas9173:

“Doesn’t know what it’s like to receive love”

Sweetie are you okay? You rebloged doesn’t know what it’s like to receive love 14 times today

bogleech:

cipheramnesia:

brawlite:

quasi-normalcy:

Okay, but why can’t we have sunken pits for people to sit around an groove in anymore?

conversation pits, my beloved.

You can still have one if you have a backhoe and are brave.

In concept I love these. In practice I am going to forget it’s there and break my neck the moment anything is on my mind other than carefully watching my every step in my own home which is just not a concern I am naturally conditioned to have

petrichara:

4x01:

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh’s Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

n0turgothgirlfriend:

natus-ex-astris:

punkitt-is-here:

radiofreederry:

this is cinema

Pause this on each screen, because there’s stuff in here I wasn’t aware of and I’m sure I’m not the only one. This isn’t just cinema, this is free education and I’m grateful for it.

I took screenshots

tumblr put them in reverse chronological for some reason

n0turgothgirlfriend:

natus-ex-astris:

punkitt-is-here:

radiofreederry:

this is cinema

Pause this on each screen, because there’s stuff in here I wasn’t aware of and I’m sure I’m not the only one. This isn’t just cinema, this is free education and I’m grateful for it.

I took screenshots

tumblr put them in reverse chronological for some reason

queselevaaser:

animentality:

Guys, it’s time to drop Google.

Google isn’t the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we’re gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can’t let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.

A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.

Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.

Supporting independant crawlers is the easiest way to fight the shittyfication of the internet.

Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It’s small, and therefore it’s usability isn’t as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn’t censor, it’s fairly respectful of people’s privacy, and it doesn’t drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it’s a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write “dig shelter” instead of “dog shelter”, that’s what it’s gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]

Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can’t find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]

Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.

Qwant.com is my go-to here—it has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].

Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn’t censor. Personally, I’ve never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don’t know. I just don’t like it. Still, I’ve added it here for completeness’ sake.

If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don’t have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!

4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It’s also very privacy conscious, so that’s an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]

If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude’s personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D

PS: here’s to hoping all the links work!

EDIT: eliminated the “read more”. Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won’t make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you’d rather)

penrosesun:

inkblot-skyz:

mywitchcultblr:

This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

Hey I just wanna quickly say that you only get these if someone reports the story. I’ve barely updated on Wattpad in the past two years and haven’t gotten any of these, mostly because I don’t even have an audience over there who has the potential or drive to report my fics. So, corporate greed is bad, yes, but it’s also readers being buttheads

Hmm, that’s interesting! You know what happens if someone reports a story for being incomplete on AO3? Jack shit, because not churning out content for your fun little hobby is not a reportable offense on AO3! And that’s because, unlike Wattpad, AO3 isn’t profiting off of your work, either directly or indirectly, and so when readers are buttheads, the AO3 abuse mods ignore them, instead of sending out weird automated messages harassing writers for daring to have a wip.

queselevaaser:

animentality:

Guys, it’s time to drop Google.

Google isn’t the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we’re gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can’t let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.

A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.

Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.

Supporting independant crawlers is the easiest way to fight the shittyfication of the internet.

Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It’s small, and therefore it’s usability isn’t as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn’t censor, it’s fairly respectful of people’s privacy, and it doesn’t drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it’s a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write “dig shelter” instead of “dog shelter”, that’s what it’s gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]

Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can’t find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]

Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.

Qwant.com is my go-to here—it has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].

Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn’t censor. Personally, I’ve never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don’t know. I just don’t like it. Still, I’ve added it here for completeness’ sake.

If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don’t have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!

4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It’s also very privacy conscious, so that’s an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]

If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude’s personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D

PS: here’s to hoping all the links work!

EDIT: eliminated the “read more”. Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won’t make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you’d rather)

traaansfem:

coelii:

thedawnofcrime:

coelii:

So I’ve been slowly learning more about makeup techniques over the last couple years and some things have been hit or miss but this feels like the FIRST video that spoke to me and actually taught me shit I haven’t picked up elsewhere. The face contouring (including hitting the forehead to make it look smaller) spoke to me and THE TIP ABOUT THE FUCKING CHAPSTICK EYESHADOW instead of traditional lipstick is a GAME CHANGER OMG

GUYS HOW DO YOU SAVE TUMBLR VIDEOS

Not easily lol

Technically by reblogging it you can now request and download a copy of your archive which will include any videos you’ve reblogged as .mp4 video files

But honestly I just downloaded this real easily from her TikTok :3

Copy the link, send it in discord, download the mp4 there. I have a second discord for things like this :3

lukadjo:

lukadjo:

What happened that day

It’s the boops

gottalottarocks:

It’s quite exciting to be working in environmental remediation when the EPA has just set maximum contaminant levels for these 6 PFAS compounds, which is the first time they’ve set new MCLs in quite a while. So I’ve been in a million meetings mentioning PFAS and “PFAS has taken over LinkedIn feeds!!!” was an actual bullet point in a PowerPoint today

saul-tortellini:

nerdlycrying:

i found it motherfuckers

edit to the post because it blew up, you are all amazing and special and wonderful in your own way, peace and love to all <3!

edit number two: ailenfucker flag

thanks @lunarflare64 for this one <3