So one thing I’ve noticed is that people’s DnD characters may vary but there is usually an underlying thread that they all have in common. This thread is typically related to what that person struggles with the most.
For instance, my betrotheds DnD characters: a bitchy warlock we had to bust out of two different pacts, a sassy barbarian, a reformed drow cultist, and a sunshine fighter cleric.
All these characters were wildly different but at their very core struggle was them grappling with their self worth. My betrothed struggles with their worth a great deal and even with different facets showing their characters all have that too.
Mine all tend to contend with different themes of loneliness and acceptance. Surprise, surprise, the little autistic gremlin yearns to have been met with more love and lasting friendships.
So we’re at breakfast. I am meeting a new friend of my betrotheds for the first time. It’s been twenty minutes since I’ve met this man. I say my theory. He laughs. He starts to describe a few of his characters but specifies that he often has healing aspects. He gives a very broad overview of their character arcs.
I ponder for a moment then said, “Would you like to have my assessment?”
He laughed, “Sure!”
“We’ve just met. It’s gonna get real.”
“Bring it on.”
“I think your struggle is that you feel you must offer something of value or service to people to be worthy of their love.”
His jaw dropped. His fork froze midway to his mouth. A potato fell. He stared into space as this sank in. Quietly he said, “Oh.”
so i just ran a study on long-term ttrpg play and emotional resilience with over 100 participants and uh … checks out!! we really are all out here processing big shit with our blorbos!!!
Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment’s sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.
Don’t let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.
“EV sales are in a slump” is actually a statistical error. Rolling Deathtrap Georg, who lives in South Africa and spends billions of dollars a day trying to convince people he’s cool, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:
Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!
Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:
Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!
‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:
Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.
As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”
been going insane over Bruce in his eating dome for 24 hrs now
There is so much story telling here. A person got this pacific parrotlet named it Bruce which in and of itself is amazing but then this person went here my little bird friend a raspbebe for you to enjoy and Bruce said hell yeah and went cataclysmicly and irreversible ape shit ham on that berry. And that probably happened more than once. So instead of never again allowing this little dinosaur the joy of the succulent flesh of the delectable raspberry they went what can we do for our little baby boy. and then boom they got some kind of cake cover type deal and cut a door into it so that Bruce would Not Be Trapped in a fruit prison (altho truely it is the berries who are trapped in there with Bruce but none the less) and so he may go to his pent house and freak it as crazily as his little bird heart desires.
Anyway i love pets they are each distinct little guys who are carred for by the funniest ape to ever exist bc we love animal so much
I’m in this group and Bruce’s human posts eating dome updates when he’s done a particularly good job!
On The Subject Of Bots: A Former Bot Farm Operator Speaks On The Process (Also spread this video all over this website. I mean it. Spread it. For a whole set of reasons-one of them being antiblackness)
ID [ Close up of a woman in a car wearing a green shirt. She has a dark brown ponytail. She says: ‘I’m a a former tech employee that created and sustained a bot farm between 2015 and 2018 in California USA.
Wanna give you guys some information because American bot farm operators are pretty rare. Most bot farms operate oversea. I don’t know if there’s anyone like me in the US that can tell you this stuff is what I’m saying.
I’m typically way secretive about this but it’s gotten so bad I need to talk about it
So what is a bot farm ? Something that an individual or a company purchases. You get a set amount of bots that look like normal people, go out, and spread your message. And here’s the work that goes ino that:
I as a operator have to create each individual fake person. I have to create a bio. I have to create a username, a real name, then I have to generate content that has to be supportive of the message the client is paying for.
Positive opinion of the company or the individual. If anyone has ever tried to create content (you know that) that takes time and also that takes ideas; it’s not easy.
Finally you need to program these bots based on activity. Bots respond to what you do.
You think that you going around and liking things is invisible. It’s not. You’re leaving a footprint across the app. That footprint is tracked by people like me. So based on what other people like or comment on, I program my bot to go and search for those people, find them, and then interact with them with my content that supports the message that I created.
This programming also includes research to find the people that are the most susceptible to believing the message that you’re selling, and targeting those people. This is just a scratch on the surface of what it takes to program one of these. And people are buying hundreds of them.
Now here’s the interesting part. The software to run all these bots is not free. And the time that it takes to create all the things that I just told you about also not free. All of this stuff costs money.
And it represents money when you see it. If you’re seeing non stop videos posted with a certain agenda, someone’s paying for that. So when you see a dump/ a ton of media that’s telling you all the same message, do not say wow what a thing happening right now.
Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?
End of the video ] End of ID
“Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?”
On The Subject Of Bots: A Former Bot Farm Operator Speaks On The Process (Also spread this video all over this website. I mean it. Spread it. For a whole set of reasons-one of them being antiblackness)
ID [ Close up of a woman in a car wearing a green shirt. She has a dark brown ponytail. She says: ‘I’m a a former tech employee that created and sustained a bot farm between 2015 and 2018 in California USA.
Wanna give you guys some information because American bot farm operators are pretty rare. Most bot farms operate oversea. I don’t know if there’s anyone like me in the US that can tell you this stuff is what I’m saying.
I’m typically way secretive about this but it’s gotten so bad I need to talk about it
So what is a bot farm ? Something that an individual or a company purchases. You get a set amount of bots that look like normal people, go out, and spread your message. And here’s the work that goes ino that:
I as a operator have to create each individual fake person. I have to create a bio. I have to create a username, a real name, then I have to generate content that has to be supportive of the message the client is paying for.
Positive opinion of the company or the individual. If anyone has ever tried to create content (you know that) that takes time and also that takes ideas; it’s not easy.
Finally you need to program these bots based on activity. Bots respond to what you do.
You think that you going around and liking things is invisible. It’s not. You’re leaving a footprint across the app. That footprint is tracked by people like me. So based on what other people like or comment on, I program my bot to go and search for those people, find them, and then interact with them with my content that supports the message that I created.
This programming also includes research to find the people that are the most susceptible to believing the message that you’re selling, and targeting those people. This is just a scratch on the surface of what it takes to program one of these. And people are buying hundreds of them.
Now here’s the interesting part. The software to run all these bots is not free. And the time that it takes to create all the things that I just told you about also not free. All of this stuff costs money.
And it represents money when you see it. If you’re seeing non stop videos posted with a certain agenda, someone’s paying for that. So when you see a dump/ a ton of media that’s telling you all the same message, do not say wow what a thing happening right now.
Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?
End of the video ] End of ID
“Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?”
On The Subject Of Bots: A Former Bot Farm Operator Speaks On The Process (Also spread this video all over this website. I mean it. Spread it. For a whole set of reasons-one of them being antiblackness)
ID [ Close up of a woman in a car wearing a green shirt. She has a dark brown ponytail. She says: ‘I’m a a former tech employee that created and sustained a bot farm between 2015 and 2018 in California USA.
Wanna give you guys some information because American bot farm operators are pretty rare. Most bot farms operate oversea. I don’t know if there’s anyone like me in the US that can tell you this stuff is what I’m saying.
I’m typically way secretive about this but it’s gotten so bad I need to talk about it
So what is a bot farm ? Something that an individual or a company purchases. You get a set amount of bots that look like normal people, go out, and spread your message. And here’s the work that goes ino that:
I as a operator have to create each individual fake person. I have to create a bio. I have to create a username, a real name, then I have to generate content that has to be supportive of the message the client is paying for.
Positive opinion of the company or the individual. If anyone has ever tried to create content (you know that) that takes time and also that takes ideas; it’s not easy.
Finally you need to program these bots based on activity. Bots respond to what you do.
You think that you going around and liking things is invisible. It’s not. You’re leaving a footprint across the app. That footprint is tracked by people like me. So based on what other people like or comment on, I program my bot to go and search for those people, find them, and then interact with them with my content that supports the message that I created.
This programming also includes research to find the people that are the most susceptible to believing the message that you’re selling, and targeting those people. This is just a scratch on the surface of what it takes to program one of these. And people are buying hundreds of them.
Now here’s the interesting part. The software to run all these bots is not free. And the time that it takes to create all the things that I just told you about also not free. All of this stuff costs money.
And it represents money when you see it. If you’re seeing non stop videos posted with a certain agenda, someone’s paying for that. So when you see a dump/ a ton of media that’s telling you all the same message, do not say wow what a thing happening right now.
Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?
End of the video ] End of ID
“Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?”
A lot of people in the notes are defending this with stuff like “why are you so mad that this guy made the book easier to read for himself, would you rather just not read it than read it using an accesibility feature?” And I gotta say I’m of two minds about this.
On the one hand, it’s not wrong for people to do whatever they want or need to make reading easier for them, and it seems like this change legitimately helped him get through the book more easily. At the same time, I also don’t think it’s wrong to notice or point out how this particular accesibility feature fits neatly into broader societal trends of a lot of westerners (and particularly anglos) being conditioned by their own global cultural hegemony to be unwilling to make the bare minimum effort to mentally engage with anything that isn’t immediately palatable to them, and of art being seen as unpalatable and inaccessible to western audiences if it isn’t stripped of “foreign” elements that might make it unrelatable to them.
Like. This IS a decent short-term fix, but also I think that if someone’s at the point where they find it hard to read a book because they keep mixing up names that don’t look or sound anything like each other because they all sound foreign I think it’s worth questioning if you’re having that problem because foreign names are inherently difficult and inaccessible for you, or because you’ve been culturally conditioned for your brain to bounce off anytime it encounters anything that’s too foreign-looking.
This might well work to make the book more accessible for this guy, but I don’t think it’s anything wrong with questioning why this accesibility feature is like. Two steps removed from 4Kids changing “onigiri” to “jelly donuts” in the Pokemon dub.
I honestly think an accessibility feature is maybe a skewed way to view it? Or I guess more accurately, accessibility features are not automatically value neutral. You need to ask, what is this accommodating?
Very much like imsobadatnicknames2 said, yeah it makes the book easier to read for this person, but why? Like as someone who’s a native english speaker, things are frankly remarkably easy and sanitized for us. It is very comfortable to never have to learn how foreign names are pronounced (and indeed to never have to deconstruct what we consider a “foreign” name is in the first place); our media is filled to the brim with typical white people names, and when we do get names of other ethnicities or cultures, they are typically those that are easiest for an anglophone westerner to pronounce. “Nguyen” is one of the most common family names in the world, yet I have never once seen it in any film or tv show and I have found it in exactly one book. Maybe my media tastes are pretty bland and undiversified, but that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? Because I’d have to hear and learn how to pronounce a name I don’t know already, it’s very easy for one of the most common surnames to just never come up.
So again, what is this person accommodating? They make no mention of dyslexia, or trouble reading, and a pronounciation guide seems easy enough to google. Are they accommodating poor memory? Because a small sheet of notes would do the exact same, AND reinforce the learning of these new (to them) names.
Because that’s the crux of it, right? They aren’t making it easier to learn, or easier to invest in cultural differences. They are making it easier to ignore them.
At the end of the day, it’s their copy of the book, so it’s theirs to modify as they please, I guess. But is that really how you want to engage with the text? By covering up pieces of it? What growth and discovery are you giving up to be comfortable? Who are you erasing to remain unchallenged?
[ID: A tweet from @ BatkaA02 that reads, “Scientific experiment: we gave a redditor a book to read that isn’t Harry Potter.” Attached is a screenshot of a Reddit post from watzor2332. It reads, “The content isn’t difficult however what I personally really struggled with was the names. You have Rodion Raskolnikov, Avdotya Raskolnikov, Marmeladov, Svidrigailov, Razumikhin, Katerina Ivanovna etc etc. I had a hard time remembering who was who. My solution was, because I was reading on Kindle, to save the .mobi file to my computer, open it with a free editor I downloaded and do some bulk replaces. I replaced them with common English names, Pete, Roger, Kate etc.” / END ID]
Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”
It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you
Taken from the Wikipedia page. Even Trent Reznor said it’s not his song anymore.
If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it
That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes
I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded
we got really close one time. monkey #44543 almost wrote Othello perfectly but decided to take some creative liberties in act 3 that were kinda shit so the other monkeys took his typewriter away
Monkey #44543 just sold his script to netflix and now all the other monkeys are acting like they were supporting him the whole time lol
Interestingly this assumes countably infinite monkeys.
I wonder what would be possible with uncountably infinity monkeys?
It ranges from war crimes to a very funny prank, if done right
me continuing to make terrible posts about my extremely niche interests instead of anything people actually followed me for:
Note: this is not ferret abuse, they really do enjoy being carried like sacks of potatos.
As a ferret owner I can confirm that my three ferrets do not give a single fuck about being held like that. A ferret WILL let you know if it doesn’t like how you’re holding it. But they like being turned into potato sacks for some reason.
Yeah ferrets get super limp sometimes when you hold them, plus they have a flexible spine and ribs, it doesn’t bother them a bit. They are just loose sacks of meat and kleptomania.
Me continuing to make my extremely niche posts while gesturing with a consenting ferret
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