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Bechno: Such a State!

@bechnokid / bechnokid.tumblr.com

MR 31 • she/they • programmer/artist • @avalypuff: the Rathalos ❤️ to my Rathian 💚
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hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys

heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:

to list what they attempt to track:

  • unique identifier
  • os version
  • device brand
  • charging status
  • device total memory
  • first name
  • gps coordinates
  • screen density
  • app version
  • device orientation
  • headphone status
  • rotation data
  • network connection type
  • city
  • available internal storage
  • device language
  • os build number
  • accelerometer data
  • network carrier
  • available device memory
  • last name
  • postal code
  • email address
  • gender
  • system volume
  • timezone
  • app name
  • country
  • state
  • screen resolution
  • cookies
  • device model
  • birthday
  • android advertising id

please for the love of God, dont download threads.

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addendum: threads is so bad that it's literally banned in All Of Europe because it violates the GDPR, aka General Data Protection Regulation.

If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.

The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.

Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.

Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.

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If anybody can spare some help, I’d actually super appreciate it. Last month, we had to deal with several thousand dollars in car repairs, and around the same time my fiance got ghosted by his last job. So we kinda need help recovering our savings. If you want to help, here is my KoFi

Thank you, and thank you for sharing.

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Shit’s still bad a month later, and now we have a fumigation coming up, so any help we can get is appreciated.

one thing you won't know until you experience it for yourself when you create art out of love is how it feels when people receive it with love. when you post a doodle and someone keeps it as their lockscreen, or when you write a story and someone tells you they were thinking about it all day, or when you post a poem and someone shares it with a touching caption. doesn't matter if it was objectively good or not. matters that someone spent time with it, that someone really, really liked it, and you made it. this kind of interaction, i think, it can really sustain you for weeks. it can sustain you through a lot of terrible things. its confirmation that you exist, and that (however briefly) your existence was appreciated by someone else through your art.

Anonymous asked:

Hi, if you don’t mind me asking, do you have any tips or ways that help you draw plus sized people that you can share?

Hello!! I'm not the best teacher, so I don't know if I'm the right person to ask for tips (especially since I tend to BS my way through my drawings lol), but I can at least share some links that I hope help you. :3 (links work as of May 09, 2023)

WARNING: the following tutorials will show partial nudity.

Recommended 1. Bramble's tutorials (includes how to draw fat women and fat athletes) 2. Tutorial on fat bodies (OP deactivated) 3. The best books I've ever laid my eyes on (and they're pocket-sized!!) 4. Fantastic database of fat body references (will need to email OP for password requests)

Personal favorites: 1. How to Draw BEEF (the main tutorial I've used for drawing muscular men and muscular fat men) 2. Fellas Tutorial (not really a plus-sized tutorial, but it helped me draw bodies that weren't just sticks or horrendously muscular)

One of these days, I'd like to host a small art stream dedicated to sharing art tips that I've learned over the years.