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My Dumb Nerd Stuff

@agirlinsearchof

Because why not?
Bisexual, she/her.

My tags!

#nsfw text — mentions of NSFW topics.

#sex ed — exactly what it says on the tin.

#if i had to see this so do you — stuff that freaked me out, but in a I-must-reblog way (as opposed to “I-must-not-share-this-with-anyone” way).

#too funny not to share — stuff I found silly. The line between this and #funny is arbitrary and the distinction is made by yours truly.

#minimum deaths run — I’ve done a run for Fire Emblem: Three Houses where I try to kill as few enemies as possible. I may do other runs. I also use the tag for discussing theoretical aspects of minimum death runs (like strategies and such). Here is a post that talks about my rules (though it starts off talking about the Three Houses run).

#vent post — me complaining about things. Generally nitpicky in nature, but I do enjoy the games I’m posting about.

#shipping discourse — What it says on the tin. Some may find this tiring.

#jojo’s bizarre liveblog — I watch JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure on occasion. The #dad edition tag refers to when I watch with my dad.

#liveblog of the holy war — I’m playing Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War!

#game design sins — Sometimes, video games have ill-thought out mechanics, or mechanics that simply didn’t age well. Think of this tag as “what not to do as a game designer.”

#snes classic modding — I have an SNES Classic. I have modded it. My (mis)adventures are chronicled in this tag.

If you need me to tag for anything, let me know! I will update this post as I add things I tag for.

do people actually read books while in the bathtub

how do you not get everything wet

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why is this making me laugh so fucking hard

THANK YOU FOR ADDING A VISUAL OMG

honestly kinda unfortunate that the only spooky library aesthetic is the victorian fancy bookshelves dark academia one bcos like. ok here's some library stories.

  • while i was at the university the library was undergoing a major refurbishment so for a little while the print journals were being stored temporarily down in the basement.
  • basically nobody ever consulted the print journals bcos 99% of stuff undergrads would be looking up is online these days so every time i went down there it was dead fucking silent & empty. you had to walk through what felt like several miles of empty basement to reach the collection, which was in a room w a photocopier shoved in the corner and a bunch of these:

u turn the handles to move these around (saves space) and every time you had to go and check the aisles first on the offchance that someone was in there so they wouldn't get u know. Compacted.

  • many years ago i did a week's work experience with the National Library of Scotland. here it is:

but that's just the tip of the iceberg. it keeps going down the side of the bridge, like so:

i got a tour of the stacks while i was there. it's floor after floor of this:

the bookshelves are made of metal & i was treated to the 'fun fact' that the shelves are, bizarrely, load bearing. for this reason they have to be constantly vigilant about fire hazards because even a relatively small fire could cause a bookcase to buckle from the heat, which in turn could cause the whole building to collapse in on itself like a house of cards.

this has haunted me ever since!! thank you.

some of you need to make your bed and have a shower with a soap that smells nice, and then sit in a chair near the window and have tea with milk and read a hardcover book and see how your creative block is after that tbh.

i'm not saying creative block isn't a real or difficult phenomenon. i'm saying creatives have a tendency to neglect themselves physically and emotionally in favor of manic bursts of productivity. a little softness and clean sheets and a bagel will go a long way. make a playlist and light the fancy candle you've been saving for a special occasion. life is a special occasion.

Always a good reminder.

all right y'all. dig beneath the "i just think they're neat" for a second. for better or worse, which one will most reliably get you into a new ship?

i was gonna give some specific examples, but fortunately the text-limit in the poll will prevent me from getting publicly skewered.

Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

The poll winner seems to be “depends on whether you like him” which is super valid.

Mine watches fox news so “mom’s husband” it is!

My family has a great way of distinguishing between a new spouse you like and new spouse you disdain!

Your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are actually a cool person, you use their first name. So if you were to introduce them they would be: Aunt Jane and Bob.

If your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are a fuckwad you introduce them as: this is Aunt Jane and her second husband. The implication being that they are very replaceable and that we’re all just waiting for her to wise up to the situation and serve you divorce papers, she did it once, she can do it again.

MAGNIFICENT

Alright, but what if my mom on her third marriage found a decent man, but my mother herself is shitty

“my stepdad’s wife”

@sapphic-sargent your tags omg

You are doing God’s work

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #this is so funny #in my family i have one (1) lesbian cousin and everyone calls her Literal Wife her friend so i’ve started calling all my straight relatives #spuse their fiends #is aunty sue and her… friend jerry coming? #oh brian will be bringing his… friend sarah #they’ve all been married by entire life and it drives them insane :) /End ID]

how excited would you be for the next Star Trek series captain to be a trans woman?

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Star Trek takes place in the 24th century, they have medical technology so far beyond our own. It's established in DS9 that to a Starfleet doctor a complete sex change is an easy and fast procedure that's completed within hours and fully reversible. I refute the idea that they still make a distinction between trans and cis women. They are just women. Captain Janeway was letting it hang all over the delta quadrant.

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I see your "by the 24th century no one will care about baldness" and I raise you a "by the 24th century no one will care if a Starfleet captain has a dick or not"

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I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.

The duality of "If you even imply that being aro or ace condemns someone to a sad and lonely life I will fucking fight you"

and

"being aro and ace is the most isolating thing I will ever experience"

i think the tags are important

That means that for a work to be eligible for copyright in the USA, it must satisfy three criteria:
1. It must be creative. Copyright does not apply to non-creative works (say, a phone book listing everyone in a town in alphabetical order), even if the work required a lot of labor. Copyright does not protect effort, it protects creativity. You can spend your whole life making a phone book and get no copyright, but the haiku you toss off in ten seconds while drunk gets copyright’s full protection. 2. It must be tangible. Copyright only applies to creative works that are “fixed in a tangible medium.” A dance isn’t copyrightable, but a video of someone dancing is, as is a written description of the dance in choreographers’ notation. A singer can’t copyright the act of singing, but they can copyright the recording of the song. 3. It must be of human authorship. Only humans are eligible for copyright. A beehive’s combs may be beautiful, but they can’t be copyrighted. An elephant’s paintings may be creative, but they can’t be copyrighted. A monkey’s selfie may be iconic, but it can’t be copyrighted.
The works an algorithm generates —be they still images, audio recordings, text, or videos — cannot be copyrighted.
For creative workers, this is huge. Our bosses, like all bosses, relish the thought of firing us all and making us homeless. You will never love anything as much as your boss hates paying you. That’s why the most rampant form of theft in America is wage theft. Just the thought of firing workers and replacing them with chatbots is enough to invoke dangerous, persistent priapism in the boardrooms of corporate America.

THIS IS THE LAST DAY FOR MY KICKSTARTER for the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I'm hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 5 at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

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This is how you do it. Copyright is 99% of how the entertainment industry makes it money-- this is how we starve them out!

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Anonymous asked:

no but my friend once got contacted by the fbi because on twitter he jokingly said he was going to send kamala harris to the shadow realm and he got reported for it or something. the person working on his case realized that it was really stupid and started laughing at having to be explained everything but it scared my friend so bad

really dont think the fbi needs to involve themselves in matters like this tbh its a waste of state dollars and VP Harris is one of americas greatest duelists if any body can beat her in a duel and succesfully send her to the shadow realm then we stand no chance against them anyways

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Oh look, it seems everyone has been opted into the unfortunate "experiment" now. For everyone who has been blissfully using the old UI up until now, welcome to hell :)

Do you not like hell? Do you want to leave and crawl back up into the sunlight of the old UI? Well, have I got a link for you! A beautiful tumblr user has gone and fixed things beautifully for you already: https://github.com/enchanted-sword/dashboard-unfucker

You will need you have Tampermonkey installed on your browser of choice, and once that's done, just go to the github link above, and peruse the readme to install. And voila! You have your old dash back!

The authors of XKit Rewritten said during the experiments that at the time, since this was an "experiment" they weren't going to implement anything to revert to the old UI (although who knows if they'll do it now). And the dashboard unfucker has worked beautifully enough for me to where I genuinely couldn't tell if they had ended the experiment or not.

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Thank you SO much for this, I missed having the old layout back <3

Thank you~ And to anyone else who needs this, here you go.