It’s afropunk/solarpunk focused because i’m afrosolarpunk(and pastel punk)but there is general stuff in there!Title comes from my friend @constant-state-of-self-discovery tag for me on his blog,which he gave to me based on me being solarpunk.This isn’t every single resource i’ve used but it is the most important bits and i have two more links left so i offer these as a bonus🤲🏼
First one because diy or die(as in stop buying Mcdonalds if you’re grown or drop dead)and second one because Duke is an underrated canon punk character even though he’s in the same league as Hobie Brown and Kat Elliot!
A fun bonus fact for you: those No Longer Buyable DVDs?
They’re the ONLY surviving NONDAMAGED form of the show. In the late 90s, the masters from which the show is printed were damaged with a red-pink hazy filter.
So. Good luck buying them even if you find them. They’re some of the most valuable collector’s items in the entire franchise.
Without piracy, there would be NO UNDAMAGED COPIES OF SAILOR MOON AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ANYWHERE, PERIOD.
ETA: Because these undamaged copies are how you colour correct the uncensored ones.
this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby’s First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don’t share their politics
the bar is on the floor
they added new tips recently
the bar is now a crankshaft for the generator we’re running off of george orwell’s spinning corpse
Does anybody have that image of what cyberpunk dialogue is like. “to crack a cyber lemon this nasty” or whatever
That’s the bitch
If you want an idea what more authentic oldschool hacking language sounds like, there is an absolutely ANCIENT webpage called the Jargon File (seems to have been updated from the early 80s up through 2004), aka the New Hacker’s Dictionary, that kept a record. It’s not far from Gibson’s idea but if anything it sounds even dorkier, peppered with coding terms and prehistoric memes
Does anybody have that image of what cyberpunk dialogue is like. “to crack a cyber lemon this nasty” or whatever
That’s the bitch
If you want an idea what more authentic oldschool hacking language sounds like, there is an absolutely ANCIENT webpage called the Jargon File (seems to have been updated from the early 80s up through 2004), aka the New Hacker’s Dictionary, that kept a record. It’s not far from Gibson’s idea but if anything it sounds even dorkier, peppered with coding terms and prehistoric memes
If true we HAVE to make this the biggest flop in gaming history, as in ‘destroys the company’ levels of gaming flop as in a 'lesson must be taught’ gaming flop, as in 'E.T. destroyed atari’ gaming flop
At the same time, territorial rainfall continues in Ghazzah. Many tents are flooded due to the lack of a sewage system. Iyad is no exception. His personal belongings submerge in the filthy water. He worries that water-borne diseases will spread and infect his children who are 5, 7, 10, 13, and 14 years old. He is also supporting my dear friend, Ruba Abushahan and her family. They are longtime neighbours and friends and they consider each other as family. Majority of them are ill with the flu so they need to purchase medicine and warm blankets so they can recover.
So let’s help them by raising 11K in the next 4 days! As of writing this, $$9,163 USD has been raised. There is $1,837 USD left to go!
You can also match me! I have given $10 USD, but you’re more than welcome to contribute any amount!
Verification: #90 for Ruba and #173 for Iyad in the Spreadsheet. Keep in mind the fundraisers listed in the document have not be updated as GFM has unjustly terminated them. You can read more about it here.
Please help them in this difficult time, they haven’t gotten any donation since this post was made! Iyad’s diabetes and Ruba’s family’s flu put them in a situation where they have to get funds urgently to buy medecine. Moreover, they need to prepare for the cold season and protect from the rain. They are already ill enough as it is, we can’t let their situation get worse! They need to raise $1,837 in 3 days, please consider matching @/neptunerings donation, or looking into any of the commissions or art wallpaper linked above!
*bleeding to death because the paramedics can’t break the windows to get me out of my stupid fucking truck* heha well at least i dont have to worry about the friggin Zombie Apocalypse… awesomesauce 😎
[image id: On the left, a drawing of a nondescript character smiling and throwing up peace signs, labelled “First fanart of a character you liked”. On the right, the same character is seated in an elaborate dress, with feathered wings, in front of a birdcage covered in sparkle. This drawing is labelled “30th fanart of the character. This is how you know you’re cooked”. /end id]
alright alternate route for people who have problems (i understand)
Im not autistic about cars or makes or models but I AM autistic about crumple points and field of vision and blindspots and conflict points. do you understand. urban design, anti car dependency/anti car centric infrastructure, and so cars themselves are part of that interest. because car design is urban design. cybertrucks SUCK as cars and also dont function well in infrastructure thats designed to care about people. there are good cars and vehicles that are designed good and fit well with good urban design
THIS is how im autistic about cars
the funniest thing about new american trucks is that i was driving last week and saw someone with a dirt bike in the back and they had to have the tail gate propped open becuase the truck bed wasn’t long enough. the dirt bike was not that big. it was funny. you bought that car justifying to yourself that it’s a work horse, a ute. it doesn’t fit a 250cc bike brother
chiming in to point out that forward visibility in full-size american pickups is uh. not great.
I have PERSONALLY had to move/haul heavy shit a lot and the vans with the short noses beat the hell out of the pickups, except for when you’re off-roading/in mud and in that case it’s a matter of low center of gravity + 4wd that really keeps you moving (which a lot of older trucks, being smaller & lower, do a HELL of a lot better.) I have had to GET OUT OF MY CAR and peer around these behemoth trucks parked on streets so that I can see enough to pull out of a driveway. Pedestrian deaths in the US are going UP, and as a person too short to be seen over the hood of one of these fucking things, they need to NOT be a “consumer ‘car’ of choice”.
If you live in the US contact your representatives about HB 9408, the Pedestrian Protection Act to establish certain safety standards and disclose certain information relating to pedestrians and motor vehicles, and for other purposes. It was introduced by Pennsylvania district 5 representativeMary Scanlon on August 23, 2024
I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
i read this post and was like “huh i have to see this for myself” so i went and just clicked around through some random chapters
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.
op said that and was entirely accurate, this is the most fascinating bit of “the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page” that i have ever encountered.
images uh. below the cut. because yikes don’t look at them if anyone else might see it.
So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn’t a “room” so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to ‘round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.
Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with “konbarning”: a combination of “good morning” and “konban wa” (“good evening” in Japanese). It stuck.
Over the following months, “konbarning” got shortened to “barning” and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:
It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.
I mean look at this thing:
A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!
maybe nothing of value to you is here
That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.
Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.
The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.
That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)
The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.
Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.
If the area is to become unappealing why not put a landfill over it. To get to the death rocks you’ll have to dig through undecayed cabbage
See above re: archeologists. Who just LOVE garbage dumps for what they can learn about people’s day-to-day lives.
‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’ ‘Of course I’ve read it,’ said Ridcully. ‘Why d’yer think I want it opened?’ ‘Er … why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. ‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’ *
* This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.
– Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
I can’t belive they just dropped “color-changing cat priesthood” with zero explanation, so I googled it and here you go:
It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.
I mean look at this thing:
A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!
maybe nothing of value to you is here
That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.
Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.
The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.
That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)
The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.
Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.
If the area is to become unappealing why not put a landfill over it. To get to the death rocks you’ll have to dig through undecayed cabbage
See above re: archeologists. Who just LOVE garbage dumps for what they can learn about people’s day-to-day lives.
‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’ ‘Of course I’ve read it,’ said Ridcully. ‘Why d’yer think I want it opened?’ ‘Er … why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. ‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’ *
* This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.
– Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
I can’t belive they just dropped “color-changing cat priesthood” with zero explanation, so I googled it and here you go:
The image captures the miraculous moment when the rays of sun hit a rare cloud called a pile cloud, and the angle and other subtle conditions are reflected in a divine rainbow color. (Source)
The image captures the miraculous moment when the rays of sun hit a rare cloud called a pile cloud, and the angle and other subtle conditions are reflected in a divine rainbow color. (Source)
Long story short, I’m offering a $100 (USD) bounty on the pack to the first person who can beat it. Video evidence (Twitch VODs, YouTube) to verify that it wasn’t cheated will be required before I grant the reward. Standard survival gamemode, no cheats, no LAN, no off-camera mining type shenanigans. All gamerules set to default except for the optional “crouch yourself to death” one.
This challenge is open to anyone, professional or casual player. Play by the rules, get to the end, bonk the dragon, end poem, and the money is yours. Bonus to anyone who has the “crouch yourself to death” gamerule enabled.
And if anyone makes this into a YouTube series or wants to livestream it, let me know. I’d love to watch and I might even say something helpful on occasion. I’ll probably subscribe or get a channel membership too if it’s available
(Please read the pack’s description before you commit to the challenge though) Good luck!
not a single person has downloaded my monstrosity in the few hours since I made this post. I want to see this modpack get played. And yes, I’m going to signal boost the heck out of this to a reasonable limit until it starts getting downloads again. (If you don’t want to see posts about the contest block the tag the Optimized Cursedness Challenge; if you don’t want to see any talk of the modpack at all block Optimized Cursedness)
I’m serious. There is an amount of money that is at least a hundred dollars on the line here, maybe more. It’s also just a really weird goofy pack for casual play.
Long story short, I’m offering a $100 (USD) bounty on the pack to the first person who can beat it. Video evidence (Twitch VODs, YouTube) to verify that it wasn’t cheated will be required before I grant the reward. Standard survival gamemode, no cheats, no LAN, no off-camera mining type shenanigans. All gamerules set to default except for the optional “crouch yourself to death” one.
This challenge is open to anyone, professional or casual player. Play by the rules, get to the end, bonk the dragon, end poem, and the money is yours. Bonus to anyone who has the “crouch yourself to death” gamerule enabled.
And if anyone makes this into a YouTube series or wants to livestream it, let me know. I’d love to watch and I might even say something helpful on occasion. I’ll probably subscribe or get a channel membership too if it’s available
(Please read the pack’s description before you commit to the challenge though) Good luck!
not a single person has downloaded my monstrosity in the few hours since I made this post. I want to see this modpack get played. And yes, I’m going to signal boost the heck out of this to a reasonable limit until it starts getting downloads again. (If you don’t want to see posts about the contest block the tag the Optimized Cursedness Challenge; if you don’t want to see any talk of the modpack at all block Optimized Cursedness)
I’m serious. There is an amount of money that is at least a hundred dollars on the line here, maybe more. It’s also just a really weird goofy pack for casual play.
Long story short, I’m offering a $100 (USD) bounty on the pack to the first person who can beat it. Video evidence (Twitch VODs, YouTube) to verify that it wasn’t cheated will be required before I grant the reward. Standard survival gamemode, no cheats, no LAN, no off-camera mining type shenanigans. All gamerules set to default except for the optional “crouch yourself to death” one.
This challenge is open to anyone, professional or casual player. Play by the rules, get to the end, bonk the dragon, end poem, and the money is yours. Bonus to anyone who has the “crouch yourself to death” gamerule enabled.
And if anyone makes this into a YouTube series or wants to livestream it, let me know. I’d love to watch and I might even say something helpful on occasion. I’ll probably subscribe or get a channel membership too if it’s available
(Please read the pack’s description before you commit to the challenge though) Good luck!
not a single person has downloaded my monstrosity in the few hours since I made this post. I want to see this modpack get played. And yes, I’m going to signal boost the heck out of this to a reasonable limit until it starts getting downloads again. (If you don’t want to see posts about the contest block the tag the Optimized Cursedness Challenge; if you don’t want to see any talk of the modpack at all block Optimized Cursedness)
I’m serious. There is an amount of money that is at least a hundred dollars on the line here, maybe more. It’s also just a really weird goofy pack for casual play.
