Update Sep 16:I’m waiting for confirmation that the tuition has been paid, in which I’ll make a new post/rewrite this one. In the meantime, Reema still needs funds for less urgent academic and living fees.
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Summary: Reema is an evacuated Palestinian studying pharmacy abroad in Egypt and needs to complete her goal in roughly 12 days (in Egypt’s timezone) so she can register for university.
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This is regarding an incident where Israel bombed dozens of Lebanese civilians using explosive pagers they slipped into the supply chain. Never let any of the people in this screenshot try to convince you they aren’t thrilled at the death of civilians as long as those civilians are Arabs
legitimately just an indiscriminate terror bombing of the sort that would be plainly reviled if it weren’t done by israel. slipping explosives into an intercepted shipment of civilian electronics most commonly used by, like, doctors. around 3000 civilians have been injured, and nine died, including a child. but no yeah epic meme, gay tumblr poster, your favourite ethnostate blew up the arab’s groins
Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron’s daughter.
Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.
Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron’s daughter.
Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.
Remember that Yemen pays a heavy price for its active solidarity with Palestine: just today, US and UK aircraft bombed a girls’ school in Taiz Governorate, killing two students and injuring several others.
when you tell facebook an ad “knows too much” you’re essentially confirming that their advertisement algorithm is working, it’s just making people uncomfortable because it’s working too well
it’s still positive feedback on them trying to either flood people with advertisements or socially engineer you into buying things by tracking frankly enormous amounts of data on your location, the other websites and apps you use, your conversations recorded through your phone, everything
instead? just mark all ads as “repetitive” or “irrelevant”- something that doesn’t give them information on how well the ad catered to your tastes.
don’t give huge creepy corporations valuable information on your ad tastes. they will use it against you in any way they can.
I was gonna do a quick “wtf is the human domestication guide?” post to explain the basics since I’ve reblogged it a bunch and people are always confused. I may still do that, but I realized I could do something much, much worse.
I could do a video essay. I could talk about the human domestication guide not to an audience of tumblr, but for reddit, for twitter, for youtube. clips out of context showing up on tiktok with someone’s face over my face going “bruh wtf is this”.
Imagine how badly that would end? I could end up on fucking fox news.
ahh, the dream
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I can’t do it until the costume arrives next tuesday
This older man moved my skirt aside and I absent-mindedly said “oh sorry” for being partially in his seat and he said “dont be sorry, this is new york” and then showed me all his poetry about observing the world and living as a restaurant worker during the pandemic and we talked about how i worked in a grocery store and as a bartender so i resonated with his work and he told me “i may never meet you again but it’s nice to meet someone worth talking to. I might sound like a world class idiot sage, but you can’t be afraid. That’s no way to live. You have to trust your humanity.” Then he shook my hand and got off the stop before me. Hello. Hello . Hello.
This older man moved my skirt aside and I absent-mindedly said “oh sorry” for being partially in his seat and he said “dont be sorry, this is new york” and then showed me all his poetry about observing the world and living as a restaurant worker during the pandemic and we talked about how i worked in a grocery store and as a bartender so i resonated with his work and he told me “i may never meet you again but it’s nice to meet someone worth talking to. I might sound like a world class idiot sage, but you can’t be afraid. That’s no way to live. You have to trust your humanity.” Then he shook my hand and got off the stop before me. Hello. Hello . Hello.
‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again.
This older man moved my skirt aside and I absent-mindedly said “oh sorry” for being partially in his seat and he said “dont be sorry, this is new york” and then showed me all his poetry about observing the world and living as a restaurant worker during the pandemic and we talked about how i worked in a grocery store and as a bartender so i resonated with his work and he told me “i may never meet you again but it’s nice to meet someone worth talking to. I might sound like a world class idiot sage, but you can’t be afraid. That’s no way to live. You have to trust your humanity.” Then he shook my hand and got off the stop before me. Hello. Hello . Hello.
‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again.
I’m 2016 I had a shoplifter role play blog because to avoid getting deleted all the shoplifting blogs claimed it was just to rp. Mine actually was though but I’d post shoplifting content and reblog tips and my “hauls” were just stuff I borrowed from my much more fashionable sister. I had a decent amount of followers and I got a lot of hate but I’d be like “ok buddy I’m just goofing around lol” and then post $150 of Sephora products legally purchased by my sister with the caption #gettingawaywithit. this did not improve my life but it did get me talking to people more often which, obviously, I needed
not that I don’t appreciate the tags reassuring me that at least it was better than shoplifting, very supportive very sweet, but you are voicing this opinion from imagination world bc there is no question that shoplifting would have been immeasurably cooler then whatever the fuck this was
I’m 2016 I had a shoplifter role play blog because to avoid getting deleted all the shoplifting blogs claimed it was just to rp. Mine actually was though but I’d post shoplifting content and reblog tips and my “hauls” were just stuff I borrowed from my much more fashionable sister. I had a decent amount of followers and I got a lot of hate but I’d be like “ok buddy I’m just goofing around lol” and then post $150 of Sephora products legally purchased by my sister with the caption #gettingawaywithit. this did not improve my life but it did get me talking to people more often which, obviously, I needed
not that I don’t appreciate the tags reassuring me that at least it was better than shoplifting, very supportive very sweet, but you are voicing this opinion from imagination world bc there is no question that shoplifting would have been immeasurably cooler then whatever the fuck this was
i wonder if super high-level competitors ever just get bored of winning. i mean, how long can you stay hungry when you’ve won everything there is to win in your field
i checked up on simone biles and after taking a break for most of 2017 post-olympics, she won the 2018 and 2019 world championships by absolutely massive margins. she even invented a new floor move that only she can do and unveiled it at the 2019 world championship, because if you’re simone biles, why the fuck not
isn’t that when you retreat into your lair full of trophies to brood and as you sink into jaded repose an obsequious flunky brings word of a brash young challenger from out of town,
or you construct or summon a challenger, or you just start abusing your powers in the hope that it will give a future challenger a dark backstory
i sleep nude because if someone ever breaks into my house they gotta fight me while im naked and i dare you to try and swing on a nigga when his dick is out
You are grade A guarenteed to get yourself hurt with this mindset? You think I’m afraid to grab a dick and yank it, bruh? You think I won’t get my hands dirty on your dick in order to end you? You got the wrong one, man—and your ass better hope I don’t have a knife.
Okay weirdly this exact situation has happened to me. It was summer so I was sleeping naked, but then I heard the lock on the front door being opened. I thought someone was breaking into my house and I had enough time to either grab my sword or my nightgown, not both.
Two things I learned.
One, sometimes apartment complexes will flat out forget to tell you they’re sending someone over from the fire department to check your fire extinguishers.
Two, no matter how bad ass a person thinks they are, a naked person swinging a sword at them will knock them off balance both physically and mentally.
However, the fireman was very nice about it and accepted my apology.
didn’t think it could get any better, yet here we are
i sleep nude because if someone ever breaks into my house they gotta fight me while im naked and i dare you to try and swing on a nigga when his dick is out
You are grade A guarenteed to get yourself hurt with this mindset? You think I’m afraid to grab a dick and yank it, bruh? You think I won’t get my hands dirty on your dick in order to end you? You got the wrong one, man—and your ass better hope I don’t have a knife.
Okay weirdly this exact situation has happened to me. It was summer so I was sleeping naked, but then I heard the lock on the front door being opened. I thought someone was breaking into my house and I had enough time to either grab my sword or my nightgown, not both.
Two things I learned.
One, sometimes apartment complexes will flat out forget to tell you they’re sending someone over from the fire department to check your fire extinguishers.
Two, no matter how bad ass a person thinks they are, a naked person swinging a sword at them will knock them off balance both physically and mentally.
However, the fireman was very nice about it and accepted my apology.
didn’t think it could get any better, yet here we are
My subs have those barcode tattoos, but it’s not some kind of slavery play like it often is…
See we’re got a complicated poly free-use situation going on with lots of extended polycule members who may drop in and want to borrow a sub or three for a scene or a month.
So we designed our system around the non-kinky institution that most closely resembles our situation, where we’ve got a bunch of individual “resources” that need to be loaned out to verified patrons and tracked so we can tell where our items are, when they are supposed to be back, if they’re late to be returned, and put holds on them.
So we’re using a library management program.
You just go to the circulation desk, scan your polycule card, then the subs you want to check out. It’s a simple and efficient solution!
We’re still having some teething problems with late returns, though. And it’s trickier than we expected to fill out the item description pages. How exactly do you categorize a bisexual transmasc painslut with a thing for puppy play into the Dewey decimal system? Still, the work continues.
sorry but. doesnt that just make it some kind of slavery play in the end…?
also HOITT
Nah cause for slavery play you gotta, you know, do slavery play. Roleplaying that you own a sub, purchasing a sub, that kind of thing.
We’re not doing that (in general, at least. I imagine at least one dom/switch has done some slavery play with a sub they were loaned). We’re doing a free use thing where any sub can be used by any dom in the group (with safewords and preestablished limits, of course. We’re playing, not running some weird human trafficking ring). The barcodes are just to help keep track of who is where and with who, because this got way too complicated for just a shared Google sheets page.
And you may think it’s hot but that’s probably only because you’re not having to maintain all this library infrastructure! This software is from the 80s and I’m running it on NT4, and the damn barcode readers keep failing to scan. They’re just not designed to read the lines off human flesh, especially single they kinda assume that the target surface is perfectly flat, which humans rarely are.
I did suggest we used contactless RFID implants instead of barcodes, but half the polycule wasn’t into the idea of getting an RFID chip injected into them, and the other half was way too into it. (the puppysub half, natch).
So I’m having to research alternate barcode readers, which is going terribly. Do you know what happens when you call up Zebra and ask them which of their scanners work best on human skin? If you’re LUCKY, they hang up on you! And explaining “no, it’s for a sex thing” does NOT HELP.
So I’m stuck here at the circulation desk looking at datasheets and trying to compare how good they are at low contrast reads and non-flat surfaces.
I thought I’d found a handheld scanner that’d work, but it turns out that if your skin is any darker than your average Irish vampire, it fails to work. And frankly this whole situation is weird enough without accidentally implementing a racist tech stack.
I really got to get my resource allocation bar code soon…
I could give you one but with the current state of my system there’s like a 20%-25% chance you’ll end up in 386 Inland waterway and ferry transportation
okay, this is amazing. but why can’t each sub just carry a library card of their own, like a “resource card” that they can wear on a collar/cuff/piercing/whatever? and that you could actually lay flat to scan? like, I see the appeal of the tattoo bar code, but for practical purposes of the functioning system, wouldn’t attaching a bar code to the sub on a piece of laminated card make more sense?
Cards are a great idea, and we did do that early on, but the subs losing them was always the problem! When a dom comes by and grabs a sub and then goes off to a room to do Weird Things with them for an hour or two, nine times out of ten they’d come back with no card, and I’d have to manually look them up in the database. It took forever, especially on busy days like weekends.
Piercings would be better but they fell into the same camp as the RFID implants: most of the polycule was bleh on the idea, and one small group was WAY too into it.
And frankly those people give me enough trouble as it is. The hucow punks are always asking me to fix their equipment, and frankly, no! I may have grown up on a farm and studied electrical engineering, but that doesn’t mean I have the slightest idea how to repair or maintain a milking machine! This kind of vacuum hydraulics is a mechanical engineering problem first and foremost, and that’s just not my forte.
Sigh. Being the asexual IT person in a big kinky polycule is difficult sometimes.
I have done some research into collars and I think they’d be a good option. Last time I surveyed the ‘cule, all the subs were fine with collars (half of them were wearing them at least part-time already anyway), it’s just a matter of figuring out some good options for sourcing custom barcoded/RFID’d collars.
That also means getting feedback from the doms about what features they want, too. The last thing we need is for doms to be taking them off all the time because they’re doing a scene that needs a collar with D-rings or something. So we’re gonna have to make sure we choose something reasonably functional.
A few doms want to go all electronic fancy pants collars but I don’t think we really have the budget for that, plus I don’t want to have to support that.
And the obvious choice of finding a local leatherworker to make us a bunch of collars won’t work because we’ve got some subs who are vegans or have leather allergies! I’ve been looking at a place on Etsy that has some good canvas options, and maybe they can do us a bulk discount of some sort, maybe with RFID chips sewn directly inside, like they already do with an airtag.
(which is something a few doms have put on the features wishlist anyway, so they can easily locate lost subs. Apparently it’s not all that uncommon for a sub to be, uhh, “played” to the point where they’re in a haze and can barely remember their name, and then the dom goes off to get them something to drink and a pillow or whatever, but the sub ended up wandering off once they extricated themselves from the scene, and God only knows where they are now. Maybe they’re off in someone else’s scene? Maybe they’re playing ps1 games down in the lounge? Doms are always asking me “where’s $SUB?” and all I can tell them is if they’re checked out or not, not where they are.)
This is all very interesting but I do gotta wonder, where do switches fit into this system? Would they have to carry a card and collar and effectively check themself out before checking out a sub?
The barcodes are the same for subs and doms, so you can carry either (or both). It just depends on how you use it: either to log in (so you can search for and check out subs) or as an item ID being checked out. (I may have written about this already in one of the many reblogs, it sounds familiar).
Switches work fine in this system. You gotta understand that it has two separate but related purposes:
1. To help doms & subs meet up in compatible groups. You don’t gotta hang out in a common room and go “hey is anybody here into Reverse Bukkake?” and potentially have no one respond. You can just go type that into the search box and it’ll show you which subs we’ve got that’re into that, and you just filter it by availability.
The profiles of switches just list both dom stuff and sub stuff they want to do. So maybe someone will like to be a dom for sex but a sub for shibari, and obviously you’re not gonna meet up with them if you want to dom them for sex.
But it doesn’t have to solve the problem 100% to work. We’ve got one of those color-coding systems that are often used with free use situations, just instead of collars or whatever, it’s listed on their item page.
So while I said we’re a free-use situation, we’re… You know, sensible? Real people? Not a fantasy? (RACK and all that)
Like don’t get me wrong there are some people on here who marked themselves the equivalent of “feel free to jam a cock in me no matter what I’m doing. Don’t ask me if it’s okay.”, the majority are “yeah I’m up for the following activities, message me if you want to set up a sesh”.
So a switch might just be like “nah I’m only into that for domming” or “sorry I only feel like subbing today” and the dom can just go find someone else.
So yeah. Switches are just a bit more complicated than “pure” subs and doms. Their profile pages are a little longer, and you’ll usually need to ask 'em a question or two before you check them out, but they work fine. We’ve had enough switches to work out most of the kinks (no pun intended).
He’s got specific lacing advice for skates and tall boots and there are decorative patterns and I recently relaced my skate shoes for both a wide forefoot and less friction on the laces so it’s easier to tighten and loosen them but he also has lace-locking patterns so that shoes stay exactly as tight as you laced them the first time and it is just a VERY GOOD website.
Like. I’ve been buying shoes the wrong size because it’s often hard to find wide shoes but the lacing pattern for a wide forefoot means that my big hobbit feet actually fit into the previously too-tight running shoes and sneakers I had.
He’s got specific lacing advice for skates and tall boots and there are decorative patterns and I recently relaced my skate shoes for both a wide forefoot and less friction on the laces so it’s easier to tighten and loosen them but he also has lace-locking patterns so that shoes stay exactly as tight as you laced them the first time and it is just a VERY GOOD website.
Like. I’ve been buying shoes the wrong size because it’s often hard to find wide shoes but the lacing pattern for a wide forefoot means that my big hobbit feet actually fit into the previously too-tight running shoes and sneakers I had.
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