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Loved this part 2 companion video to the "Ate at Every Rainforest Cafe in the Country" vid from last year. It was the chaos I needed for this summer
In honour of disability pride month, we made a disability Pride Knight! Stay proud! ⚔️🌈
Image ID: A digital painting of a knight atop a black horse who is rearing back on its hind legs in a field of yellow-green grass with purple mountains in the background. It is dusk, as the sun hits the bottom portion of the painting. The sky is a purple-blue and cloudy, with stars beginning to peak out.
The horse is adorned in full bridle and saddle. The saddle blanket is a quilted red with a brown leather trim, matching the bridle decorative flags that are red with gold trim and tassels. The harness on the underside of the horse is the same brown leather with golden stitching and buckles. The horse has golden horseshoes and a gold streak in their tail.
The knight is in full battle armor with a red fabric tasset and red plume at the top of their helmet. Their armor also has gold trimming aroung the edges. The saddle they're sat upon is altered to have cradles for their legs as they have a double below the knee amputation, though the other leg is obscured by the horse's body. Their stump is covered by clean bandages. Their cape is the Philadelphia Progress Pride Flag and it is billowing behind them in the wind. They have a pair of brown underarm crutches sheathed on their back. They carry a long sword with a rounded cross-guard and red grip, sheathed in a brown leather scabbard with a golden tip. In their left hand, they hold a large disability pride flag upon a brown flagpole with a golden fleur-de-lis atop it. It is being blown to the right of the image by the wind as well.
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A quick orange themed painting for fun, based on a photo I came across online 🍊
the switch successor will be as powerful as 2 switches duct-taped together
dragongirltum
Sorry these tags need to be acknowledged I think
for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?
for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?
if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason
They are doing surveys that are really hard to find because their survey blog has reblogs disabled for some reason.
Log survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP
Short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W
Blog: https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite
i couldn't think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle
you are not a bad person because of your memory loss. you are not less intelligent because of your memory loss. you are not less caring because of your memory loss.
memory loss isn’t your fault and you don’t deserve to feel ashamed.
[ID: tags reading, "#ok but. i am genuinely less intelligent because of my memory loss. #i have lost multiple skills i had in the past and am still losing more because i cannot remember how to do them #i am losing my intelligence. i am genuinely becoming less and less able to understand language even #it shouldn't be 'youre not less intelligent' it should be 'your intelligence doesn't define your worth'". End ID]
true and correct addition
This took me 35 weeks to complete. It includes beads, blending filament, gold filament, and ended up 15x18". (I blacked out my identifying info.)
Tumblr is being stupid but I will praise this. You worked hard on this and it shows. Beading and gold filament? My adhd could not.
Hey mutuals this is mine :)
Reblogging again, yep, 35 weeks *and* blending *and* gold *and* beads. The masterpiece.
You should require people who enter your house to stop and look at it like a museum piece.
KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:
- What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)
- Also, what you say on there? Is now...
- Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
- Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
- Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
- Sell / share this "content" with other businesses
- Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.
- And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)
I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.
There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.
This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.
SIGNAL. BOOST.
see i could be a different kind of autism blog because i'm real good at identifying magic: the gathering cards from crappy photos but there just isn't that many opportunities for that except me scouting ebay
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try harder please
i'm having so much fun
Even if it was for one year in fifth grade <3
Extra points for leaving in tags for how many years and if you still do
[person 500 years ago knitting a sock] O Sister Margaret, regale me again with the tale of Vicar Wesley's scandalous elopement with the baker's daughter!
[me today knitting a sock] O Youtuber Hbomberguy, regale me again with the tale of SHERLOCK IS GARBAGE, AND HERE'S WHY
*explaining kitchen appliances to my pet medieval knights* The microwave, or Micheal the Wavious, and metal fork, or Sir Silver Prong, are sworn enemies and can never cross paths lest their meeting spell destruction for all.
One wild thing about Universal cutting up all those trees is I first heard about tree law like, maybe a month ago. One of my mutuals reblogged that one comic and my reaction was sort of mildly amused, but also a little confused as to why tree law seemed to be so popular of all things
It really feels like some great karmic entity leaned down and said hey here’s the set up to a joke that won’t get a punchline for a little while. But when it does you’re gonna love it
Please reblog bc this is kinda important for a project I'm working on
#a secret seventh thing that i will add in the tags#thing being: if the vid audio stands on it's own i genuinely do not care unless it is actively distracting#though i don't mind speedpaints- i don't find them as distracting as they might seem in theory#i will add tho i do like when vids occasionally pop up images that are relevant to the topic at hand even when i'm using the vid as bg sound#and i will frequently alt-tab to see said visuals or to see if there are visuals when it seems like there should be one
Question for the Ghirahim Enjoyers
Optional follow-up in tags, have you noticed a change over time in how fanworks depict him in this regard?
Context: I feel like I saw this interpretation more in Ye Olde Days (2011-2016) but I don't recall if I was just in a weird anomalous bubble. I want to know other peoples' experiences. Ty!!