The fact that this joke is from the very first episode (which aired in January 1997) is messing with me.
Hey, Ohio! Vote NO on Issue 1 August 8th if you believe 1 person = 1 vote. Y'know, the way democracy works.
The deadline to be registered to vote this election is July 10th -- 5 days!!!
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Register to vote in Ohio by July 10th!
Please vote on this! It's a slippery slope when one state starts changing the rules of democracy.
Transcription of a 4 panel comic, which features drawings of an orange sock-puppet and a purple sock puppet talking to each other:
Orange: Hey, what's on your mind toda--
Purple: (shouting) People in Ohio need to vote on August 8th!
Orange: Whoa, okay... Didn't Ohio just make August elections illegal?
Purple: They did! And then they immediately scheduled one anyway to pass Issue 1! The one that means voters can't approve any more amendments [to the state constitution] without a 60% majority, instead of the 50.01% standard it's been for over 100 years!
Purple: Oh, and it would mean you need a signature from 5% of previous gubernatorial voters from every single county in Ohio to even get any voter proposals up for vote now -- all 88 counties, instead of just 44 -- so one county could block anything they didn't like!
Purple: And! No more time to fix any incorrect signatures' information or gather missing numbers out of the thousands you've collected! Oops, sorry! The entire proposed amendment gets thrown out! Start over! Better luck never!
Orange: Well, that doesn't really sound good no matter what side of politics you're o--
Purple: (shouting) People in Ohio need to vote NO on Issue 1 on August 8th!
Orange: Wait, how many votes do they eed to pass the 60% increase?
Purple: 50.01%
what’s your favourite colour of the sky?
[ID: A fake poll with several options, each one without text and filled in a with different color to match the “do you love the color of the sky” post. End ID.]
Ahh compressed for our convenience, just what I like to see
Hey girlies take me and riverdeitys quiz its government mandated
let’s fucking GO
it's literally insane to me that if you steal enough televisions you can go to prison forever. like we effectively go "okay your life is less important to me than a panasonic TV". we literally value property more than human life
ok so this post is insane right? like the concept of imprisoning someone forever because they've stolen TVs is really crazy right. ok now replace "televisions" and "panasonic TV" with FOOD. you can go to prison forever if you steal food to survive. if you literally are like "i'm going to starve to death if i don't steal this food" and then get caught enough you can go to prison forever.
Prisons are inherently and ideologically unethical. Prisons exist to house society's undesirables and create a slave labor force that is legal. The "violent offender that needs to be housed away from society" is a myth used to proliferate this concept. Criminality is a symptom of social inequity and can be solved with better social and economic infrastructure. Abolish prisons.
um . warning now that tumblr is allowing gif pfps . PLEASE dont use gifs with flashing or eyestraining colours <3 since the gifs Cannot be turned off it WILL negatively affect photosensitive people
not to be like "source? 🤓" but... do you have a source on this? I don't really keep up with tumblr update news and I'm unable to find anything about this
turns out that tumblrs wip blog has no update about this??? im not sure why that is, but i found out through this post and the fact that some of my mutuals have already changed their pfps to gifs (one of my friends kindly changed their gif pfp a second time after i told them the first gif was hard on my eyes <3)
ive seen some people say it doesnt show up for them (dunno if its regional, being rolled out slowly, or some other reason), but i can see it on my dash so it already directly affects me
Just so you all are aware, it's because of the webp format. webp's can be animated, (similar to apngs + gifs) and you've probably been able to have moving icons for a while. webp's aren't covered by tumblr's anti movement code (this is my theory), so technically it's a bug. I believe there should be an extension that changes this behavior, (forcing webp's to load as stills instead of moving)
I'll do some testing of various extensions and update this post with extensions that work (for firefox and chrome)
Here- you can also right click to tell it to bypass if you want to see the gif. It doesn't freeze the gif on the first frame, instead blocking it entirely, however, if you need this for medical reasons, this should be a good bandaid solution for now
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
attentiondeficitstarscream
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help
me: my what
What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.
Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.
So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’
1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!
In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose
b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.
g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.
This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.
Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.
so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!
How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense
stupidlittlereblogs
Reblogging to save a wrist
tourism entry agreements for many countries are completely unbalanced and unfair. did you know that people with a canadian passport can go to malaysia without applying for a visa / obtain an automatic tourism visa upon arrival, but if you have a malaysian passport you have to apply in advance for a tourism visa to go to canada? sometimes months in advance? any canadian can just show up to malaysia unannounced and they'll be let in, but my malaysian family has to beg the canadian gov for permission in advance (and get DENIED) just to come see me for a couple weeks. this is what it's like for most western passport holders in general, just because you are allowed free entry to the global south does not mean people in the global south are allowed free entry to the global north.
As someone who will never join Threads, I find there to be something exceptionally insidious about the part of its dogshit privacy practices where it collects users’ contact data.
A lot of people have my phone number, and not all of them take privacy seriously. A few of them are bound to join Threads at some point. This means I never even have to join the platform for it to collect my full name, contact info, current or past address, and reconstruct at least part of my social and/or professional circle. Despite the fact that I have never agreed to any of this, it is completely legal since people with my contact info have consented to Meta collecting their (and therefore my) info. I hate it here 🫠
The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924
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whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible
happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate
next specialist to refuse testing or blame my maladies on my anxiety or weight despite me asking (begging, at this point) for further testing/a differential diagnosis is getting hit with the "document your refusal in my chart." no i am not "taking it one step at a time" no i am not accepting "you're just anxious" or "you're just overweight" as an answer. you are going to be a FUCKING DOCTOR and treat me. fuck you.
this is ok to reblog btw, i Encourage people in similar situations to express their anger. you deserve better we all fucking deserve better. no more being afraid of making them upset or angry. THEY make us suffer and want to die with their negligence. whatever discomfort we bring them by demanding documentation doesnt mean SHIT compared to what we go through.
rise up my disabled siblings, we have nothing to lose but a shitty fucking doctor.
This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.
I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.
My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.
I’m so sad to see so many panicked posts about google docs when the original inflammatory post has been debunked and retracted.
Google is ONLY talking about publicly available data. Stuff that is in your drive DOES NOT COUNT as publicly available.
There are SO MANY companies that use drive and docs for proprietary information who would have MANY lawsuits to bring if it was discovered private drives were being scraped.
Now, I’m not saying NOT to swap writing programs because google docs is pretty pants as an actual word processor, and also, never ever have all your stuff only in one place, but I don’t want anyone to freak out that their writing isn’t safe.
Booooooy how people don’t want to look at this.
Arguably, with age, the majority of people do become disabled.
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“Why should healthy people pay for sick people?” “Because the only things separating healthy people from sick people are time and luck.”
All the previous reblogs with commentary being in 2019 is fucking haunting.
baristas deserve 100 dollars per hour
there's a whole culture of mostly white women whose entire personality is "Don't talk to me before I've had my coffee or ill kill you" and a barista's job is to deal with those people before they've had their coffee
"I've been thinking about" something I've thought of for 5 seconds
"it just occurred to me" this has been bugging me for 11 years.