Curious because this is the Boring Nerd™️ website apparently so I'm interested to see if that started young.
Don't count instances where you didn't get caught, I want to hear about the stuff you did that was stupid and blatant and had repercussions.
Legend has it she still flops around ireland👀
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Because I know this website’s ability to read between the lines is ass, this is directed at people HIRED, PAID or SPONSORED (with money or other perks) to cosplay for promotion of struck properties and studios, whether that be at physical events or online (insta, tiktok etc). This isn’t about you and your buddies cosplaying for fun at the local convention, so don't go attacking random cosplayers not actually involved in content creation or promotion for these cretins.
I knew having Redditors cross-train on Tumblr would produce weird fucking magic.
It gets better. This Redditor went the full Goncharov.
Glorbcharov: Dishonor Among AI Thieves
Y’all missed the best part:
Category 5 Glup Shitto event
90% of the appeal of writing pokemon fics is translating idioms. My current one contains both “the pot calling the polteageist haunted” and “a wild zangoose chase”. Terribly delightful.
I’ve read that Agatha said she loved being married to an archaeologist because the older she got, the more interesting he found her. And I think that is one of the best quotes about love that I have ever heard.
Translation: The cycle of life of the tomato, the blueberry, the blackberry, and the strawberry…
Mortifying work ordeal. I was recording a visual demo to share with my team. The shortcut to end the recording wasn't working, so it took a whole minute at the end of the video of me mashing random keys and cursing the software for it to end.
Not a problem, because there's a trimming tool. I trim to the actual demo (like 30 seconds), save file, post it to my team.
Check posted video.... it's 1:30 long. Fuck, which means it's got the last 1 minute of dead space as I'm hitting random keys and widgets are popping up. I make an edit to address this.
I watch video more closely... I realize video has audio.
Audio contains me cursing out said software...
Hastily edit to remove video from post. Act like I just wanna make sure it has the trimmed version. I RE-record the demo since I now no longer trust trimming the OG video. Re-record takes like 5 tries because I'm flustered now.
OG post contained one (1) ❤️-reaction...
I got brave enough to go relisten to the OG video, since initially my only focus was on scrambling to remove it ASAP.
OG video contained:
- one grumbled "for fuck's sake"
- one grumbled "god Fucking dammit"
- the very obvious sound of one super aggressive keysmash from me, trying to end the fucking recording.
For context! I've made like 10 of these recordings before, and while you can hear mouse clicks in the video, you never hear any actual recorded audio. Somehow, I'd just accepted that as "it records Noise From Computer (mouse is computer piece) and nothing else."
I had somehow not considered the possibility that I was simply never speaking (and there was never background noise) in any of these videos.
So when I was rewatching the video, I was doing it to gauge if the last minute of dead air and random widgets popping up was too embarrassing to keep posted.
Then out of nowhere I hear my own voice go "for fuck's sake" and I just
cw: loud
I should not have been given permission to edit these
for the love of god unmute
Muted it took me 6 seconds to figure out what was going on. Unmuted I had tears in my eyes 3 seconds in
Patreon done goofed.
If you haven't been made aware, Patreon shat the bed at the start of this billing cycle:
I had quite a few Patrons knocked off the roll this time around. If you got declined or a fraud warning or something, please be patient and try to stay on top of it.
Considering Grady's health issues, this comes at a really bad time. Pitching in would be appreciated.
An update:
For some reason, Patreon appears to have moved its payment processor to Ireland. This is causing some American banks to see payments routed internationally and they're flagging the charges as fraudulent.
Just a giant damn mess.
there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh
Do you want to hear about white-throated sparrows?!
Of course you do, they’re fantastic. They come in two models, one with tan head stripes and one with white head stripes. But the gene that controls stripe color also has a bunch of other effects! It’s a supergene!
To briefly sum up a grueling amount of fieldwork by people who were probably not getting paid nearly enough, basically the tan-stripes are nurturers and the white-stripes are fighters, across both males and females. White-stripes chase away intruders more, tan-stripes bring more food to the nest. Tan-stripe females bring more bugs to their chicks than white-stripes, white-stripe females are more aggressive and sing more.
There is a reason Jordan Peterson picked lobsters, not sparrows, to get all MRA about, because the sparrow ladies are ALL about the tan-striped males. Sexy nurturing tan-stripe males are immediately grabbed up by the more aggressive white-stripe females (who are also dead sexy if you’re a sparrow.) Then the remaining birds pair off, so you get tan and white couples reproducing in virtually all cases—nurturing male with aggressive female, hyper-aggressive male with hyper-nurturing female.*
And this is good!** Because it turns out that they can have a tough time if they don’t mate across stripes—white x white sparrows often come out undersized if they come out at all. There was some cool recent genetic sequencing and one particular chromosome is way funky, inverted, and scrambled in the white-stripes. So now every white-stripe has a funky chromosome and a normal one, and every tan-stripe has two normal ones.***
This is all really unique and means that white-throated sparrows effectively have four sexes, because they now only reproduce with a member of the opposite stripe and sex chromosome, and their offspring may be any one of the four sexes. The stripes have essentially become a second sex chromosome.
The geneticists involved think the funky chromosome probably showed up as a weird import from somebody gettin’ jiggy with another sparrow species. Presumably this created a hypersexy female whose white head stripes brought all the boys to the yard, and very unusually, that bred true.
Is that cool or what?!
*No word on whether there is a resulting sparrow tradwife media genre.
**Leaving aside the impact on the emotional health of the non-sexy sparrows.
**A population solely of tan-stripes can reproduce safely, they’re just not that into each other.
I reblogged this a minute ago but I’m going to reblog it again, because I want to add another non-binary bird species: the ruff.
First of all, look at it.
That’s a male ruff, specifically. You can see how they get their name. The females don’t have that fancy collar. They just look like sandpipers, which is what they are.
Like other sandpipers, these are wading birds, but they live in wet meadows and marshes instead of by the seashore. During the breeding season they gather together and the males hold territories, called leks, in which they display to attract females.
At least, some of them do.
Some male ruffs do not display in leks. They have plainer, often white, neck ruffs, and they sort of wander around the display grounds courting the females wherever. The interesting thing is that the territorial males tolerate this. Research suggests it’s because females are more interested in a display ground that has both kinds of males. The ladies like variety, it seems.
But it gets even more complicated. In 2006, a third male form was discovered. This form is extremely rare, and doesn’t have male display plumage at all. It looks just like a female ruff in the field. The other birds, however, can tell the difference, judging by their behavior. These female mimics travel with other males when the sexes split for the winter, and during homosexual mountings (which are common, as they are in many other animals), they often top.
What’s really interesting about these ‘cryptic males’, or faeders, is that they are apparently super sexy. Seriously. Females and males both prefer mating with them. And it’s believed that, like the satellite males, the presence of a faeder attracts more females to the area, which benefits all three forms.
And the thing about these forms is they are fundamentally different from one another. The plumage and behavior differences last throughout a bird’s life, and are determined by genetics. They are functionally three different genders - one of which shows natural intersex characteristics. All three can breed with females, and females are more interested in breeding when all three are present. They know that diversity is the good shit. Which makes them much, much smarter than TERFs.
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What’s also fun about the white-throated sparrows is what makes the white striped males more aggressive is a high level of estrogen receptor alpha.
Legitimately, dipping a toe into biology very quickly discounts TERF rhetoric. The bigots seem set on seeing our amazing planet and all the life on it as bland, unchanging, and simple. When life is instead a colorful and complicated explosion of diversity. And yes, denying the incredible diversity is how transphobia, wyte supremacy, and fascism often find common ground.
They probably get their clownfish biology facts from Finding Nemo.
Because one of the coolest things about actual clownfish biology is that they’re all born male and fight to determine who gets to be the girl.
I’m deadass, clownfish are naturally trans.
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So, in spite of suing multiple other companies with the assertion that scraping user content for generative AI training is illegal, Long Rodent has decided that the dead bird is going to do the same thing! Natively! On-platform! To train his own new generative AI engine!
With this in mind, I cannot impress this vehemently enough: