Charles is less than two days away from being deported to Kenya and fears for his life. He needs every Canadian’s help by signing this petition. Please don’t let him down.
Charles Mwangi is a bisexual man who has spoken openly about his sexuality and has worked for years to help so many vulnerable people in his community.
MWAC says the absolute best you can do to support him right now AND I MEAN RIGHT NOW is to sign this petition that will automatically send a letter begging the minister in charge of his case to allow Charles to stay in Canada.
This is realistically a life or death scenario. if you are Canadian, or have a canadian address you can sign from, please, help Charles. it is literally the least a good person should do.
for those unaware, the spaghetti wall of letters and numbers is a base64-encoded JPEG image (and not a URL as some guessed). in certain cases when you tried to insert/paste an image into what’s ostensibly a text-only box, this could happen.
the thing that’s bugging me however is that there’s image data there. we have fairly a clear (albeit with JPEG artifacts) screenshot of text that, thanks to how Windows ClearType renders text, each character is identical to each other, that is to say, an uppercase Q will always look more or less pixel-perfect each time, meaning we don’t have to guess what a Q looks like, we simply have to pixel-accurate match it.
as an aside, this is why regular OCR struggles so much with this kind of data retrieval, such as code even when it’s clearer than a physical paper scan. ordinarily, OCR will try to best-guess every single letter because it expects each letter to be slightly different from each other (as would be the unpredictable nature in a scanned document), and on top of that most OCR today will try to autocorrect because it expects the scanned text to contain words in some human written language.
so, all we have to do is make a program to recognize each character and piece back together the whole base64 string, right? well…
first i stitched all 7 images back into a single block of text, observing the consistency of the line spacing. some of the screenshots have little bits of the previous one sticking out of it, which helps with alignment and to make sure they’re in the right order.
after that i had to sample every single letter off this file. this means going around the file and finding one example of each different character we’re trying to identify, saving it as its own separate file so that the program can load them as references to compare against in the full image. for base64, the alphabet consists of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, / and =. once i had the initial code in place…
…close! but oh so far. if any one single character in a base64 string is wrong or missing, the resulting decode will be wrong. the issues i was having were mostly with the lowercase r and j because of how the kerning affected the pixels around those letters. i was also getting false matches for r where there should be an m. what followed was grueling hours of tweaking the matching code and my known font set to better fit the original image and get as close as possible to a 100% match. here is the resulting code, maybe it’ll be useful for someone and this won’t have been a complete waste of time.
once i was confident through the verification image that i had all characters recognized, i put it through a base64 to JPEG decoder. i actually did this several times as i improved the recognition and what follows is the best result that came out of it yet. i suspect some of the data might be missing (perhaps a line or block of text got lost in between screenshots), or i have a wrong character somewhere resulting in a wrong value. this is the image extracted from OP’s base64 string:
we can finally know what they meant when they said “me in a relationship” and i can finally go the fuck to sleep.
update: i found that the string that i used to decode the image in the previous reblog actually had one letter wrong.
with this it still doesn’t parse as fully valid base64 in strict mode so i think there’s still another letter in there that’s wrong, but i couldn’t find it. however this gives us a better look:
and this is finally enough to do a reverse image search. i present to you, the HD version of our intrepid massive backpacker:
still have no idea what they mean by “me in a relationship” with that, though.
I think detaching disgust from morality is one of the keys to Chilling Out. You can find inner peace by being able to go “hm! Gross” and recognize if it’s an actual problem or not. Cause if it’s not an actual problem… it’s not your problem 🙏 god bless
Every callout post that’s like “she jacks off to Weird Porn! Isn’t that gross? Don’t you hate it?” I mean maybe but I have the same reaction to sour cream. Personally I’m in the habit of using my brain to determine if something is ethical/moral/etc or not instead of just my first knee jerk reaction, like, “is this actively harmful to anyone involved” is a more useful question than “do I personally think it’s gross”
Also if you find yourself doing mental gymnastics to explain why something could hypothetically be harmful, potentially, under the right circumstances, it’s probably Just Gross. Especially if the scenario you crafted involves a secret third party besides the Consenting Adults involved ??? You are making up a guy to be mad at, my friend
that last part is really key. “what if some vulnerable child sees it and gets the wrong idea and is HARMED” children have on average ten million random misapprehensions about how the world works at any given time, whether it’s the correct pronunciation of “segue” or whether you go to jail for doing your taxes wrong or whether it’s normal to call your partner “puppy” in the bedroom. they will figure it out eventually as long as they keep being exposed to more and more information. restricting information just means whatever misinformation gets through will stick around longer!
If anybody tries to isolate you, cut you off from other friends, or convince you that they are the only person you can trust or who can be capable of loving you, run extremely far away in the other direction
While transition is a process that takes place over time, it is so important that you love yourself for who you are in the present. You are lovable now; there’s only harm in believing otherwise or deferring your happiness until you feel like you’ve “earned” it
You can perform a double jump to reach high places by pressing the jump button while in the air
apparently I have a god complex (<- cant even fucking tell a waiter they gave me the wrong food or tell someone what to do without adding a “if you want, sorry” at the end)
She’s not a lab mix after all, miss Tiramisu is just Scooby-Doo. 100% pure Great Dane.
…thiiiiiiiiis does rather explain why she’s 9 months and 105 pounds.
The family who rescued her Dane mom (who wound up to not be spayed like they were told) thought their chocolate lab was the father, but nope. All Scooby.
We’ve had vets sure she must have some Catahoula Leopard Dog or something to explain the rampant spot pattern.
Nope.
Tiramisu’s just the very special goofy girl.
Her ears also look like toasted marshmallows. Very clever of her.
this is the funniest tweet i’ve seen in months bye
these are all the geek equivalents of Lovecraft’s Cat’s Name
his cats name couldn’t be that bad!!!! it’s a cat, what’s the worst name?
i am wrong, what the fuck
Me every time this post comes back
go Google why chainsaws were invented, it’s really fun :)
why.
I’ve seen everything at this point, so why were chain saws in-
oh what the FUCK WHY
Thanks I hate it.
I could have gone my whole life without knowing it, thank you motherfucker
To be fair, its not AS bad when you read into detail. But ya. Still like getting slapped in the face with a cold fish.
i’m boutta google why chainsaws were invented now. feel like i’m going on an adventure.
really speaks to how i’ve been around the internet, that that wasn’t what i was expecting it to be, but it was also really close to what i expected it to be.
Every time I see this post it’s gone in a completely different direction and every time it’s cursed as fuck
This post is the feeling of opening what looks like a present, but all you get is punched in the face by a boxing glove on a spring
Legit tho if this is your attitude towards sex workers & ppl who engage with us, you are not an ally to us, you’re 1 step removed from SWERFs & I don’t trust you!
I searched my uni’s online archive for anything related to the ‘Simularcum’ movie (unfinished? lost? bootlegs?). Jackpot. This is why it was never properly released.
I searched my uni’s online archive for anything related to the ‘Simularcum’ movie (unfinished? lost? bootlegs?). Jackpot. This is why it was never properly released.
i love editing my own work like yessss kill it. and by “it” i mean creative decisions i made that seemed great at the time but which i’ve since come to see with clear eyes and regret.
this post seems to have broken containment and if anyone’s interested in what they were telling me to stop, i found the og post with this song and was mass reblogging it at an alarming rate. ive done this multiple times but i think this was the instance i reblogged it 64 times in a row
ok, so I didn’t expect to have to make something like this, especially not for this.
But my incredible partner @a-sentient-cup is being kicked out of their home, and they are currently unemployed and have not been able to find a new job despite their best efforts for around a year.
This means that if we don’t get help(because I also have no money due to on social benefits due to my really bad mental disabilties) they will become hopeless.
So we’ve set up a gofundme to help Cuppy move to Denmark where they can also get proper help for their own disabilties.
Please if you can, help us out. And if not, please share
we also don’t have much time to get the money in.
Cuppy has essentially been told that they need to be out by July 7th
I know I am adding a lot really fast after each other. But Cuppy’s sister, whom they have been living with. Just threatened them on their life, supposedly it was in a exaggerated manner. But regardless that is not ok and doesn’t exactly make it safer to stay where they are.
We’ve had 10 usd donated so far, so we could really use some more
For every $1000 reached, I will do an art piece! I haven’t figured out how exactly it’s going to work, probably a poll for what pride critters y'all want me to draw. If I’m feeling up for it, I might do it at every $500 as well.
Please, help my friend get to safety with Megumin!
Commission rules:
Whoever has donated the highest amount gets to commission me for a pride critter. This happens on my terms but I’m working together with you to create something we’ll both enjoy. This will happen for sure at every $1000 mark and potentially at every $500 mark. Here’s my pride critters so far!
Description: Tiktok from user theomasters stitching user jascoombs. The first video shows a girl with a text to speech voice saying “apparently you’re meant to look like your boyfriend’s fave disney princess.” It cuts to a nonbinary person sitting at a computer and the guy behind the camera says “Emma who’s your favorite disney princess?” Emma says “Chicken little.” The camera flips around to reveal a guy with short red hair and round glasses. He pauses for a second and then wheezes.
My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
THIS IS GOLD
oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT
STILL FUNNY
The bell
The last question
The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time
It’s all beautiful
It’s all
So beautiful
I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.
“I do not feel capable summarizing this article”
Same
i was desperately hoping for a flowchart slide that would zoom in on the last bubble, which of course would say: CHICKEN???
My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
THIS IS GOLD
oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT
STILL FUNNY
The bell
The last question
The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time
It’s all beautiful
It’s all
So beautiful
I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.
“I do not feel capable summarizing this article”
Same
i was desperately hoping for a flowchart slide that would zoom in on the last bubble, which of course would say: CHICKEN???
