in the light of the newest tumblr purge, a lot of sfw content has been unjustly flagged by tumblr as explicit. all of us are here sharing the screenshots of this small dick energy. if you see a post that has been wrongfully tagged, take the time to shoot the OP a quick message (or send them an ask if they have their DMs closed) and link them the post you saw because while staff said they’d be notifying the OPs if their post got flagged, it’s not happening to all of us. my edits, for example, got flagged on accident and I didn’t get an email. I would have never known had I not seen a screenshot of my gifs. please help your creators out in this dumbass time.
Man I hate posting so much in one day and I’m sorry about that, but it’s been pointed out to me that if you go to my tumblr frontpage at zarla-s.tumblr.com (in a normal browser, not the tumblr sideview) like… enormous chunks of posts are missing? Like it skips back to two months ago and then back to a year ago. I’m really not sure what’s causing this HOWEVER – the posts are NOT deleted! They are just not being displayed on the front page for some reason. ALL the links on the Handplates index are STILL WORKING! As are all my sorting tags, like z art and z comic. You can also still see all posts by looking at the archive view, and if you go back a page on my blog too it seems to fix itself. Really not sure what’s going on right now…
Edit: My current theory now is that Tumblr stealth-rolled out a feature that has the posts with the most recent activity show up first, which is why the posts that show up on my main page seem to be disappearing and reappearing randomly and none of them have been flagged as far as I can tell. This apparently applies even to the previous pages, since I went back and saw that the Gordon flele from four years ago is on page 2, sandwiched between two posts from a week ago. Ugh.
Click the little person icon in the top right corner, go to “Edit Appearance,” make sure you have the correct blog selected, scroll all the way down, and click “export blog.” It’ll take several hours at the VERY least, but when it’s done, you’ll get an email, and you can download your blog to your computer!
I’ve downloaded my crow!Wheatley blog and my art blog, and I’m working on getting a backup of my main, though goodness knows how long that’ll take.
From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
– archive everything on your blog you want to keep
– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week.
Okay yeah and no but I’ve seen this pass my dash too many times to not be a little annoyed at the waste of perfectly good food.
1. Yes you can turn coal (carbon) to diamonds with peanut butter, but the video vastly underestimates the time, temperature, and pressure needed, as well as experimental results (which sounds like they were a) explosive and b) tiny). Frankly, the “result” shown here looks not unlike a chunk of pre-cut & polished quartz hidden in some black gunk.
3. Sprite may work as a cleaning product, but I can’t find anything solid on it and frankly it’s best to avoid trying to clean things with a sticky sugary beverage. Stick to using household cleaners where you can, my dudes.
4. Yes, although I’d use hot water accompanied by scrubbing to remove wax if you’re concerned about that and maybe even a light acid (vinegar or lemon juice) if you’re REALLY CONCERNED about that. Frankly I’m sure there’s worse in the hot cheetoes I refuse to give up but cheers for being healthy y’all
5. No. Genetics Does Not Work Like That And That Is Not What Genetic Memory Means. This is physics (fluid dynamics probably) and the circular movement of the warm water affecting the surface of the honey.
6. Yes. Egg whites do hold air all on their own if you whip them enough (see meringues, souffles, etc) so that’s a wee bit unnecessary but I guess this is a way to avoid going through separating out the yolk. So sure why not.
7. Yes, Ethylene gas is a hormone that encourages “ripening”, and can be produced by some ripening fruits; bananas, apples, pears, tomatoes themselves, etc. Just don’t expect it to act as quickly as you want it to!
8. Yes, this is basically a chemical reaction caused by the (basic) milk reacting and curdling in the (acid) soda and taking all the food color out with it. Kinda a waste of a soda so pour one out for the chem majors out there
9. Yes, you can (try to) clean silver with ketchup (an acid due to the tomato/vinegar), but no it’s not particularly effective. And again, I don’t particularly favor edible cleaners with sugar in them. Why are you wasting your ketchup on this???!
10. No, this isn’t actually mending your ceramics. You may end up filling the cracks with essentially a milk glue if it goes perfectly but this fails more often than not. Even if it does work, it is entirely temporary and structurally unsound
here internet i did some bare minimum fact checking for you
This is why baby boomers think we can pay for school while having a part time job
If you were curious, that’s $714.33 in 2018 numbers.
It’s also approximately what I make for two weeks’ Labor.
If you only make 714.33 every two weeks, sorry for your luck. Strive to be better.
How much tap water do you drink?
Also by making loans and grants for college easier they basically made it so colleges could charge more. Take them away and colleges won’t have a market, so they’d have to charge less or close down. Simple fucking economics.
Nearly all student loans in the US are federally guaranteed. This means the banks have zero liability, as if you default, the govt will pay them, and act as collector to come after you for the balance.
If the banks have no liability, they’ll happily hand out cash for whatever you want, many times knowing full well that your degree in sixth century ornithologists feminist theory won’t ever in any way lead to a financially stable career.
Because the universities know you have large sums of cash, given easily, and that you’ll pay whatever they charge, they hike tuition and book rates astronomically (lots of cash supply, and even more college demand).
Like nearly all problems in this country, it stems from banks, government, and private industry (for profit schools) conspiring to fleece entire generations while selling them effectively nothing.
It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.
Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.
I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.
The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:
A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.
B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.
tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.
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