Where To Find Me

So. Tumblr nuked my blog. They say it was a glitch and have restored it, but I've lost my patience with them. This website is falling apart and it's inexcusable that this shit keeps happening.

Also, the way these social media sites operate with their endless scroll is actually super toxic and unhealthy for all of us. On top of which, I'm tired of whoever has enough money to buy a social media platform being able to cut a check and then control my entire social media experience and ban whoever they want. How long until Tumblr gets sold to someone like Elon Musk? I'm not letting any more of my content get taken from me. I already copied all my essays worth keeping and I'm updating them to go on my website.

So with all that in mind, I'm moving away from Tumblr.

I have a website, which I own, hosted on a server which is owned by a friend of mine. We also have a forum on that server. So we are beholden to no one and no one but us will ever have any say in anything.

I'll be reblogging (so Tumblr doesn't hide this from the tags) with the link for the website and the forum. I'm on CoHost as well but haven't been very active, but I'm DoveWithScales everywhere.

I'll also still be accessible on Discord and try to at least occasionally show up on servers.

I welcome everyone to join the forum or contact me through my website, where I will be posting both new and old essays.

@marrow-bone

eternally true

I love this kind of cultural exchange.

thinking about the internet themed crayons again

www.purple is exactly what we all need.

New Tumblr layout sucks ass. Die.

Mood. Why are they fucking around with what works instead of fixing what doesn't?

Make the site functional before you start fucking around with anything else.

Disclaimer, eathing that much is not recommended

@badatwritingstuff

"roughly chopped" into the most beautifully uniform cuts I've ever seen. Okay man, my roughly chopped looks like I did it with my teeth 😭

This is amazing. I need to try my hand at that. I can't quite catch the name of the red pepper he's using. Anyone else know what he's saying?

It’s finally happened.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.

@victoriansecret I found your friend!!!

THIS IS AMAZING

Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.

Do NOT EVER use uTorrent. Be VERY CAREFUL on tpb.

someone said utorrent doesnt mine anymore but honestly dont use it anyway given its history, and it being proprietary closed-source adware. theres literally no reason to use utorrent, its only used because its already well known.

in comparison, programs such as qbittorrent and transmission are entirely free and open source and ad free. the great thing about being open source is you yourself (or other people who know more about security) can check the safety of the code, vulnerabilities get patched quickly, and if some bullshit does happen you can always compile it without the bullshit yourself. just make sure youre getting it from official sources, no doubt theres probably 1 or 2 fake sites with modified versions thanks to it being open source

there is literally 0 reason to use utorrent in 20fucking23, theres better options

i personally recommend qbittorrent especially if youre moving off of utorrent as its ui is explicitly designed to feel familiar to utorrent users. provided transmission as another option if you want something different, theres plenty more free opensource options out there though im sure

and use 1337x and rarbg for torrents instead of TPB, both of them are moderated and their torrents are safe to download!

Rarbg has been shut down due to a variety of issues which made the staff unable to maintain it. It no longer exists.

We loved rarbg :<

Was integrated into Sonarr for catching the latest episodes, and dropping in an IMDb code to get all results for JUST that show?? BEST SEARCH.

Think we stopped using uTorrent when it had ads with SOUNDS in the background (we had its ads blocked since the start but once we saw that it was like yea no, eject).

We don't trust killswitches in VPN software on Windows for shit. Leak test leaked when we attempted split tunneling, was def configured right too. So, old laptop, Kali, docker, with gluetun. Not exactly friendly to setup, but with it the containers with qBittorrent instances can talk to LAN, Internet is forced over VPN.

Fun fact a printer got DMCA'd for torrenting. It did not torrent.

Oh oh! nyaa.si, we use for anime uwu

I don't know what any of those things actually are that you're using, but I'm interested in learning.

So much catnip in my garden

I could use the air fryer that has a dehydrator function, but it's not unpacked yet, so these guys are getting put in the oven at 180F for 2 hours.

When we get a cat it will be for the cat, but until then it's going to be tea.

If you like mint teas, this is kind of milder in flavor. But when we had a functional garden back home I made a mix of catnip, rose, primrose, and raspberry leaf to help with cramps and pms. I think the catnip helped with nerves. I might forage some wild Rose's later and I saw some raspberry growing nearby.

Cant do much about primrose, though.

Also I think that the smell of catnip in the oven is generally calming, which is kind of what this house needs right now.

In humans, catnip is a mild muscle relaxer and sedative. I've had great success with a tea of catnip, raspberry leaf, red clover, and nettle to ease menstrual issues.

I could probably swing red clover. My rose crop got eaten by beetles, so I'm looking for replacement herbs.

I highly recommend red clover then. It helps with hormone regulation but if memory serves it does so in a different way from raspberry leaf so the two synergize nicely.

I also suggest adding nettle. It has a concentration of nutrients (Iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium) that can counteract some effects of heavy menstruation on the body in terms of blood loss.

I'd actually never heard of using rose or primrose for menstrual complaints. I'm curious. What do they do exactly in this context?

It's been awhile since I made the mix. Rose is anti-inflammatory and evening primrose relieves hormone-related cramps and lower back pain.

My red clovers are still somewhat young, so it may be a few days out.

Surprisingly unable to find nettles here??? They were all over back home. Oh welll...

Nettles love cow pastures if there's any in your area. I'm next door to one. But if I recall correctly you're somewhere up north (compared to Shenandoah) and I dunno if there's much cattle there.

req’d by @nerdy-nonbinary, @starlightomatic

love me some linguistic square dancing

the mental gymnastics required to pronounce Janice as Hanukkah nearly dislocated every single one of my vertabrae

Still not right ‘cause that first sound is not an english ‘H’

spanish speaking jews use a j to represent ח

But then the e at the end of the word turns the c soft? Is this a conglomerate pronunciation from multiple Latin alphabet languages? (Also thank you for the new information!)

It’s basically the Jewish equivalent of ghoti (pronounced “fish”) as a linguistics joke. All of these letters or letter combinations make the pronunciation, but not in the places they are/with the other letters next to them. For instance, “c” can make a /k/ sound, but almost never when followed by “e”. Also, /h/ isn’t the most accurate pronunciation of Hanukkah in Hebrew, it’s more like /x/ (look up International Phonetic Alphabet if you don’t understand what I’m saying).

So much catnip in my garden

I could use the air fryer that has a dehydrator function, but it's not unpacked yet, so these guys are getting put in the oven at 180F for 2 hours.

When we get a cat it will be for the cat, but until then it's going to be tea.

If you like mint teas, this is kind of milder in flavor. But when we had a functional garden back home I made a mix of catnip, rose, primrose, and raspberry leaf to help with cramps and pms. I think the catnip helped with nerves. I might forage some wild Rose's later and I saw some raspberry growing nearby.

Cant do much about primrose, though.

Also I think that the smell of catnip in the oven is generally calming, which is kind of what this house needs right now.

In humans, catnip is a mild muscle relaxer and sedative. I've had great success with a tea of catnip, raspberry leaf, red clover, and nettle to ease menstrual issues.

I could probably swing red clover. My rose crop got eaten by beetles, so I'm looking for replacement herbs.

I highly recommend red clover then. It helps with hormone regulation but if memory serves it does so in a different way from raspberry leaf so the two synergize nicely.

I also suggest adding nettle. It has a concentration of nutrients (Iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium) that can counteract some effects of heavy menstruation on the body in terms of blood loss.

I'd actually never heard of using rose or primrose for menstrual complaints. I'm curious. What do they do exactly in this context?

So much catnip in my garden

I could use the air fryer that has a dehydrator function, but it's not unpacked yet, so these guys are getting put in the oven at 180F for 2 hours.

When we get a cat it will be for the cat, but until then it's going to be tea.

If you like mint teas, this is kind of milder in flavor. But when we had a functional garden back home I made a mix of catnip, rose, primrose, and raspberry leaf to help with cramps and pms. I think the catnip helped with nerves. I might forage some wild Rose's later and I saw some raspberry growing nearby.

Cant do much about primrose, though.

Also I think that the smell of catnip in the oven is generally calming, which is kind of what this house needs right now.

In humans, catnip is a mild muscle relaxer and sedative. I've had great success with a tea of catnip, raspberry leaf, red clover, and nettle to ease menstrual issues.

Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.

Do NOT EVER use uTorrent. Be VERY CAREFUL on tpb.

someone said utorrent doesnt mine anymore but honestly dont use it anyway given its history, and it being proprietary closed-source adware. theres literally no reason to use utorrent, its only used because its already well known.

in comparison, programs such as qbittorrent and transmission are entirely free and open source and ad free. the great thing about being open source is you yourself (or other people who know more about security) can check the safety of the code, vulnerabilities get patched quickly, and if some bullshit does happen you can always compile it without the bullshit yourself. just make sure youre getting it from official sources, no doubt theres probably 1 or 2 fake sites with modified versions thanks to it being open source

there is literally 0 reason to use utorrent in 20fucking23, theres better options

i personally recommend qbittorrent especially if youre moving off of utorrent as its ui is explicitly designed to feel familiar to utorrent users. provided transmission as another option if you want something different, theres plenty more free opensource options out there though im sure

and use 1337x and rarbg for torrents instead of TPB, both of them are moderated and their torrents are safe to download!

Rarbg has been shut down due to a variety of issues which made the staff unable to maintain it. It no longer exists.

Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.

Do NOT EVER use uTorrent. Be VERY CAREFUL on tpb.

someone said utorrent doesnt mine anymore but honestly dont use it anyway given its history, and it being proprietary closed-source adware. theres literally no reason to use utorrent, its only used because its already well known.

in comparison, programs such as qbittorrent and transmission are entirely free and open source and ad free. the great thing about being open source is you yourself (or other people who know more about security) can check the safety of the code, vulnerabilities get patched quickly, and if some bullshit does happen you can always compile it without the bullshit yourself. just make sure youre getting it from official sources, no doubt theres probably 1 or 2 fake sites with modified versions thanks to it being open source

there is literally 0 reason to use utorrent in 20fucking23, theres better options

i personally recommend qbittorrent especially if youre moving off of utorrent as its ui is explicitly designed to feel familiar to utorrent users. provided transmission as another option if you want something different, theres plenty more free opensource options out there though im sure

and use 1337x and rarbg for torrents instead of TPB, both of them are moderated and their torrents are safe to download!

No TV show or movie I will ever watch is worth starving a writer from their home.

There's only one reason for this strike. Because rich executives would rather starve the actual creators or let a strike go on indefinitely before they'll shave a little bit off the bonuses they give themselves out of money that rightfully belongs to creators.

Honestly, if CG artists unionising kills the use of CG in films, I don't see a downside.

This post has riled a lot of people. For what it's worth, my point wasn't that technology is bad and Edison was a witch, my point was that any industry that can be killed by unionizing should be.

Dragon that hoards data. Their lair is a poorly air conditioned server farm that they keep at a consistent comfortable 150°F

That's so bad for the electronics. No dragon would mistreat their hoard that way. It should be well ventilated.