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To the person that shared the list of image generators. Just know I made a Minecraft Skibidi Rizz sticker my husband's friend printed into 18 stickers. I've achieved godhood amongst the 10 year olds.
Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.
And it is a trap.
An ask like this has several purposes.
First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.
The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.
Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)
The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.
Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:
Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.
The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.
Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG
If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*
They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.
It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.
The X Files art masterpost
I've decided to put all of it in one place. will possibly get updated, but here's what I've got so far
studies
timelapses
environment studies: 1 2 3
posters:
Bad Blood, Ascension, Ice, The Unnatural
The Post-Modern Prometheus, Memento Mori, Demons, All Things
Fight the Future
Cancer arc posters
Wetwired
Pilot, Darkness Falls, Triangle, Fight the Future
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
just some general posters for the show: 1 2
Dana Scully iconic moments: 1 2 3 4 5
msr playlist part 1 msr playlist part 2
miscellaneous: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
some attempts to recreate the ✨retro✨ vibe: 1 2 3 4 5
queer msr posts: 1 2 3 4
prints
fic illustrations: 1 2
bonus: text posts
and in case any of the above makes someone start watching the show, just remember:
Context: this is a very common viewpoint on the ao3 subreddit which I very recently stumbled upon, but most people i’m friends with in danmei fandom (twt, discord etc) don’t agree and think negative bookmarks are rude.
Ok I'm not going to reply to the post directly but smoking weed on the beach is absolutely different from getting drunk on the beach because:
A) people drinking booze doesn't make the entire beach stink like the ass of a dead skunk. You do not get to nickname something SKUNK and then be shocked when people hate when you smoke it in public. It smells bad, and I can assure you I don't go to the beach to smell your shit stink
B) as an asthmatic, people drinking on the beach does not pose a health risk to me
C) I cannot get second hand drunk from people drinking on the beach
I am a person who prefers getting high to getting drunk (gummies, I am asthmatic) but you can't pretend that smoking weed in public isn't straight up obnoxious, lol
Can I be extremely real? How has Marvel not capitalized on this Doc Ock yet? The fact there isn't a miniseries or a comic or SOMETHING is crazy to me. This was revolutionary. You can't ever show me a Doc Ock again without me thinking about how it would be cooler if it was Olivia
if I've learned anything from grad school it's to check your sources, and this has proven invaluable in the dozens of instances when I've had an MBA-type try to tell me something about finances or leadership. Case in point:
Firefox serves me clickbaity articles through Pocket, which is fine because I like Firefox. But sometimes an article makes me curious. I'm pretty anal about my finances, and I wondered if this article was, as I suspected, total horseshit, or could potentially benefit me and help me get my spending under control. So let's check the article in question.
It mostly seems like common sense. "...track expenses and income for at least a month before setting a budget...How much money do I have or earn? How much do I want to save?" Basic shit like that. But then I get to this section:
This sounds fucking made up to me. And thankfully, they've provided a source to their claim that "research has repeatedly shown" that writing things down changes behavior. First mistake. What research is this?
Forbes, naturally, my #1 source for absolute dogshit fart-sniffing financial schlock. Forbes is the type of website that guy from high school who constantly posts on linkedin trawls daily for little articles like this that make him feel better about refusing to pay for a decent package for his employees' healthcare (I'm from the United States, a barbaric, conflict-ridden country in the throes of civil unrest, so obsessed with violence that its warlords prioritize weapons over universal medical coverage. I digress). Forbes constantly posts shit like this, and I constantly spend my time at leadership seminars debunking poor consultants who get paid to read these claims credulously. Look at this highlighted text. Does it make sense to you that simply writing your financial goals down would result in a 10x increase in your income? Because if it does, let me make you an offer on this sick ass bridge.
Thankfully, Forbes also makes the mistake of citing their sources. Let's check to see where this hyperlink goes:
SidSavara. I've never heard of this site, but the About section tells me that Sid is "a technology leader who empowers teams to grow into their best selves. He is a life-long learner enjoys developing software, leading teams in delivering mission critical projects, playing guitar and watching football and basketball."
That doesn't mean anything. What are his LinkedIn credentials? With the caveat that anyone can lie on Linkedin, Mr. Savara appears to be a Software Engineer. Which is fine! I'm glad software engineers exist! But Sid's got nothing in his professional history which suggests he knows shit about finance. So I'm already pretty skeptical of his website, which is increasingly looking like a personal fart-huffing blog.
The article itself repeats the credulous claim made in the Forbes story earlier, but this time, provides no link for the 3% story. Mr. Savara is smarter than his colleages at Forbes, it's much wiser to just make shit up.
HOWEVER. I am not the first person to have followed this rabbit hole. Because at the very top of this article, there is a disclaimer.
Uh oh!
Sid's been called out before, and in the follow up to this article, he reveals the truth.
You can guess where this is going.
![From The Horse's Mouth: Yale Says There Is No 1953 Goal Setting Study
I finally came across a page at the Yale Law Library that asks "Where can I find the Yale study from 1953
about goal-setting?“. The answer, in it's entirety:
It has been determined that no "goals study" of the Class of 1953 actually occurred. In recent years, we have
received a number of requests for information on a reported study based on a survey administered to the
Class of 1953 in their senior year and a follow-up study conducted ten years later. This study has been
described as how one's goals at graduation related to success and annual incomes achieved during the period.
The secretary of the Class of 1953, who had served in that capacity for many years, did not know of [the
study], nor did any of the fellow class members he questioned. In addition, a number of Yale administrators
were consulted and the records of various offices were examined in an effort to document the reported study.
There was no relevant record, nor did anyone recall the purported study of the Class of 1953, or any other
class.
(Source : Where can I find the Yale study from 1953 about goal-setting?)
So it appeared that my urging people to write down their goals was based on a study that never happened.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f030e809f96e54b0b4bb18c5dfbf6fc7/949033e70c2424f3-fc/s500x750/a6ae9836bc1b8005020c285732b1ff6cca98dc73.png)
So to go back to the VERY beginning of this post, both Pocket/Good Housekeeping and Forbes failed to do even the most basic of research, taking the wild claim that writing down your budget may increase your income by 10x on good faith and the word of a(n admittedly honest about his shortcomings) software engineer.
Why did I spend 30 minutes to make a tumblr post about this? Mostly to show off how smart I am, but also to remind folks of just how flimsy any claim on the internet can be. Click those links, follow those sources, and when the sources stop linking, ask why.
memes my therapist showed me
Kid Pix just became pubic domain, so the remade (but pretty much exactly the same) version is now available here. It's uh, wild, highly recommend checking it out not only for the wonderful nostalgia but you can legit make some incredible looking stuff!
FIND IT HERE
THE BIRDCAGE — 1996, dir. Mike Nichols
It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)
Snapshots in Autistic Spiky Skills Profile
Neurodivergent_lou
Autism and the Ability to Hyperfocus
The Autistic Teacher
Literal definition of spyware:
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
Girlies and gays playing bg3
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Channels include and not limited to
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Guy says he's wanted to see a live action version of Princess Mononoke for over twenty years. So, instead of spending time learning to make films and about cinematography and actually creating his own art?
He dumped some money into an AI generator to make a shot for shot remake of the trailer.
Dude decided the best way he could pay tribute to an iconic movie about the importance of the relationship between humanity and nature was to recreate it in a manner that includes no human actors and is an industry that is notoriously demanding devastating amounts of energy in the middle of a fucking climate crisis, this shit is beyond parody.
never forget your roots
fanfiction.net before they removed the NC-17 stories
going to fanfiction.net at all
going to adultfanfiction.net in the fallout of the great “purge”
figuring out that ain’t nobody actually monitoring NC-17 stories there anyway so just rate it “M”
“please R&R! concrit appreciated!”
warning: lemon
though it may be more on the limey side of lemon
“summary sux just read it”
replying to reviews in the author’s notes
author’s notes in which the characters talk to each other and the author
i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good
When I tell you I snorted!
How to turn off AI Training of your content on Web and Mobile:
On a Web Browser:
I had some trouble finding this option. My first instinct was to click the settings button on the left, but that's where it is!
First, you'll click the name of your blog on the left sidebar to bring it up on your browser.
Then click "Blog settings" on the right sidebar once your blog is brought up. That's where they're hiding it.
Click "Prevent Third-Party Sharing" under the Visibility section, and bam! You're done.
On Mobile:
Thankfully it's much easier on mobile. Just click the Gear icon on your blog's page, to go to settings.
Scroll all the way down until you see Visibility, then toggle the Prevent third-party sharing option for your blog!!
If you disable this setting on mobile, it automatically synced it to my web browser settings, too. ...But if you use both Web and Mobile, I would still highly recommend double checking that it actually turned off on both!!
Check that it's turned off on your side blogs too! And check your settings every now and then anyway to ensure that it's staying turned off, because if my memory serves right, some other websites will pull some shenanigans on things like this and opt you back in without telling you!
Leave Feedback on New Features at Tumblr Support Here!! Let Staff know however we can that having our content fed to AI at their whim is unacceptable.
And if you have the option to poison your art with Nightshade or Glaze, keep it up!!
(source)
Unsplash - photography, illustration, & art
Pixabay - same as unsplash
Pexels - stock photos and videos
Getty Images - photography & illustration
Veceezy - vectors and clipart
Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)
StockSnap.io - stock photos
Canva - needs login but has lots of templates
Library of Congress - historical posters and photos
NASA - you guessed it
Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie
Even Adobe has some free images
There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.
Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3
I just finished reading Tevinter Nights and it's a shame how a lot of low income folks like me don’t have access to it or any of the other Dragon Age novels or the cookbook or the two editions of world of Thedas *sigh* I did put a photo of my cat right here though if you want to see how beautiful he is, please ignore the loose pdf files in the folder!
Also you can reblog this so more people can see the picture of my cat. And since there's nothing in this post relating to Dragon Age please don't tag it with anything related to Dragon Age because there's nothing related to Dragon Age in the folder I'm just putting it on a blog that is dedicated to Dragon Age because I love my cat
My Tav wasn't raised by Tieflings and hasn't really lived as one until the events of the game. As a result she has no concept of tail body language and broadcasts shit she doesn't mean to.
Part 2
“If it weren’t for Republican tax cuts, the national debt would currently be at 60% of GDP, a very non-scary level.”
— Our national debt problem really is simple
Chapters: 2/36 Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kal'Reegar/Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Female Shepard & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Female Shepard & Garrus Vakarian, Kal'Reegar & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya Characters: Custom Shepard, Kal'Reegar (Mass Effect), Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Garrus Vakarian, Normandy Crew (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Dual POV, Canon Divergence, Dialogue Heavy, Friends to Lovers, horny to friends to lovers, Literal Sleeping Together, Sharing a Bed, vision angst, Reanimation Angst, Angst, descriptions of violence, Canon Typical Violence, Gore, Horror aspects, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Getting Together, Explicit Sex, No Shepard Without Vakarian, earthborn/war hero, No beta we die like Nihlus, no formal beta at least, do not copy to another site, I MEAN THE ANGST, shepard cannot catch a break, which is kinda the point Series: Part 1 of The Kal Project, Part 1 of Jenn Shepard Summary:
When Shepard recruits Tali, she also takes on the other survivor of the quarian team. This spurs Kal to join Shepard’s crew in the fight against the Collectors. Along the way, both him and Shepard develop a relationship deeper than lust and learn to grow.
figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever
for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:
https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]
remove the [brackets] when using it!
TOASTYSTATS: GEEKGIRLCON 2017
The above are the first half of the slides I presented at GeekGirlCon (along with some annotations to explain things I only said out loud :) ) – for the second half, read more below the cut. I’ll also be sharing the slides from the other presenters here, too, as they’re posted!
The gender representation work is part of a longer analysis that I will be posting in full soon!
Beneath the cut are also a few additional slides that I would have presented with a bit more time – several of which address things that came up in the question session.
…And the extra slides:
Daddy’s New Whip