important PSA about when your car is smoking

like literally smoking from the engine

white and you smell pancakes? it’s the coolant. panic and pull over, but you’ll live

a slight blue tinge? it’s the oil. panic and pull over, but you’ll live

grey, looks like fire smoke? gasoline; the most combustable and dangerous. pull over and leave the vehicle, pray.

sharing because i didn’t know this when my car started smoking white yesterday and i was so afraid for my life.

Reblogging because a dear friend of my Moms with mechanic experience told me the same thing when I got my license.

White or blue, you’ll pull through. But if it’s gray, get away.

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

Art thieves already hate it:

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

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A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash

a study i did because i realized idk how to draw environments at all LMAO

STOP SCROLLING THIS IS A PAINTING

Seeing some cuntfuck twitter post abt how spain is no longer a HoLiDaY dEsTiNaTiOn like over reliance on the tourism industry isnt the exact thing that has set us back economically bc its easier to have a massive influx of money every summer and then coast by the rest of the year. People discussing quality vs quantity tourism when the fucking brits and germans come to our land to get blackout drunk on cheap booze and throw themselves off balconies to the point it has actually become a meme here to call the first day of summer when the first balconing brit related death happens. And then I get called "quantity" and "shit" tourism when I have to book an airbnb so I can go watch the Fallas with my friends but cant afford to pay 1-2k for a weeklong stay at a hotel for four people

Also the post in question? A map of the ground temperature in some parts of Spain reaching 60C. But yknow, who cares about the massive droughts, the earth hardening and the crops literally burning alive in the ground, its not like we arent a massive agricultural exporter lmao

People live here. A fuck ton of people live here. And a lot of them are struggling. Our country isnt your fucking commodity to abandon once it has gotten too hot, because you might be here for a week but a lot of people are here for a lifetime.

Yea I can really relate to this sorta thing over in Portugal. I'm tired of watching the tourist favoured places down by the south of my country get all this money thrown in there, to make better hotels and attractions and etc, making these expensive houses that only tourists and british retired immigrants can afford, and driving up the house market prices to the point where the rest of us portuguese can't afford to have a home anymore.

Tourists just see us southern european countries as nothing more than a fun little pretty place to stay at during the summer, and then when the actual people here get fucked over by the tourism industry or even just natural disasters, no one cares or helps. When Portugal's forests were all burning in the summer, where was those tourist's love for our country then? Or when Spain's crops are dying and the heat is pratically unbearable in some places, where the hell is their support?

THIS!! I didnt want to speak on behalf of Portugal since for some reason the news just doesnt talk abt our neighbors but holy shit. This!!

This is the bullshit southwestern Europeans have to put up with all summer long. But boo fucking hoo some tourist not being able to go get shitfaced and off themselves because its too hot out.

The other night it was 34C at 11pm in the center of Spain. The lowest temperature throughout the night was 30C. In the south they might've just as well had to sleep through 36+ temperatures, and with how shit is right now, between food prices skyrocketing electricity and gas also skyrocketing, do you think many can afford to have the AC on? No. We have to make do with a fan moving hot air.

We are not your fucking commodity, I wish we had never engaged in tourism as a viable form of long term economical stability, and its such a pity that we learned nothing from the goddamn pandemic.

On the housing issue, rents in my town, which is not especially touristic, aren't lower than 700€ a month. For what? A 30-50 square meter apartment. Try affording that on a single paycheck, which in spain the usual is 13-18k a year, which let me run some math by you real quick, is 1,08-1,5k a month before taxes reductions. People will be having to live on a 900-1,2k€ salary and have to pay 700 out of that JUST to keep a roof on their fucking head. Bills can rack up to 400 a month. Thats BEFORE having to buy food.

Guide to Maribat

Welcome

Welcome fans, antis, and new people alike! In this Guide to Maribat, we’ll delve into the history of Maribat, dissect common arguments, discuss the hate, and analyze why this community has grown so large. This is just a short crash course, so if there’s anything else you’d like me to talk about (a certain ship, a trope, etc.) feel free to request!

Introduction: What is Maribat?

Maribat is a crossover between the Miraculous Ladybug and DC fandom. It originated from the user @ozmav​​ on Tumblr, who posted the first Maribat fic with the pairing between Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Damian Wayne.

For clarification, “Maribat” encompasses the entire DC universe, not just the Batman part of it. The moniker is a bit misleading, which is why some prefer to label using “ML x DC” instead.

Common Accusations & Misunderstandings

Before we get any further, I’d like to start off by debunking a few common accusations. Many antis have a tendency to paint Maribat using a false narrative, either deliberately misconstrued or created through a lack of research. Rather than resort to using logical fallacies, let’s have a discussion.

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I am very intrigued by this paragraph from the Missouri department of conservation website that seems to suggest people try hand-feeding injured flies to sand wasps

I and all my friends used to catch these by hand as young children, though we called them sand bees. Never got bit or stung. They are really wonderful and beautiful creatures.

If I had known they ate flies as a kid, I would absolutely have hand-fed them.

Helmets - Design exercise by YUSONG ZENG

Hi folks! UPM, a Finnish forest industry company, is planning on cutting down forest in Rokansaari — an island that spans five square kilometers in Lake Saimaa. Rokansaari has often been described to be a hidden gem and a paradise island, known for its natural sandy beaches, eskers, and lush beautiful pine forests. It’s very popular among travellers, boaters, tourists, all kinds of people really. Some of the forests on the island are even 130 years old.

The areas that UPM is planning on cutting down are labelled as a protected area, but that really only means that you can’t build things there. “Careful cutting” of these forests is fine. Do you know what UPM’s definition of “careful cutting” is, according to their previous work in other parts of Rokansaari?

…Yeah. And now they’re back to cut down the rest of the area they have.

Anyway, Greenpeace has made a petition to urge UPM to not cut down Rokansaari’s forests! They’ve succeeded in telling UPM off before in 2016, when they managed to keep another similar island safe. I hope they’ll be able to do it again, so I’m sharing the petition! I’m not sure if non-Finns can sign it, but if not, sharing it would be enough. We need more people on this case!

So my skirts didn’t have pockets today, so I tied an 18th century pocket around my waist and game fucking changer

I carried my phone, a large butterfly clip, and a full sewing kit around in my pocket the entire day and still had tons of room. I am now convinced these are gods gift to man. LOOK HOW BIG THEY CAN GET

You can carry books, kittens, shoes, snacks, everything in there all at once!!! And they come in all different styles!

And you can wear them under your skirts too, as long as you have pockets slits, like this

And the best part is, they’re really easy to make!!! Here are some links to different videos on how to make them if you so desire. You can also give them fun embroidery, as was fashion

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Anyway I love these is the point

insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women

in my country, the word for crocheting, is used metaphorically, to compliment a surgeon’s work.

every AFAB person my mother’s age and older, had practiced this craft at one point on another.

My mom has made literal paintings, that decorate our house for years (I’ll come back with pictures when I visit next) you can only see that they are crocheting when you go very close.

as promised here’s my mom’s crocheting “paintings”

There is another one but it had been stored many years ago, (i remember it from my childhood) and sadly it is probably damaged by mold, it depicted wild horsed running in nature 

Baby Horse Shoe

Concept: Fire Lords traditionally dress like the stages of the sun to match their reign.

When Zuko is first crowned, he dresses in the colours of dawn. Bright yellows and pinks and even purples. He starts to wear more traditional crimson-and-gold robes after a few years, the colours of midday when Agni is at his strongest. And towards the end of his reign, when he's getting ready to pass the crown onto Izumi, he starts dressing like the setting sun.

#okay but people noticing zukos slow transition from reds and gold to oranges and purples#and at first speculate hes dying. but then realize the shift is too gradual and purposeful to be that. izumi is also shifting her wardrobe#shes wearing clothes that are dark and deep#that as zukos shift further into deeper oranges and yellows and purples hers shifts into light yellows and pinks.#and its already been announced that he'll abdicate. but everyone suspected before then. the day he does his clothes are only orange or red#at the hems. special for the abdication. and the rest a light to dark purple gradient. a visual signifier of his time as firelord ending#and i think that its a happy day. zuko has made sure his daughter and nation are ready.that it is time a different generation took the lead#so izumi is one of if not the only fire lord to be crowned by her parent. its important for the nation and its important for *them*#also teen zuko being the first firelord in over a hundred years to follow an anciet tradition whilst making sweeping reforms?#showing that the fire nation need not lose its culture to fix its wrongs and look to the future#yeah i like this a lot actually#atla (from @findafight)

Yes you get it!!!!!

People can visibly see the sun dawning on Izumi's reign just by looking at the gold thread disappearing from Zuko's robes and appearing on his daughter's

This concept has been living in my head since you posted it @captainkirkk so I had to give in and draw something for it.

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL???

au where alina is dating shifter!aleksander who is stuck in a rivalry with her best friend mal. mal doesnt know aleksander is a shifter and one day comes home to discover that alina got a pet cat. the cat is injured, so mal (being a very good vet) helps bandage him up.

the cat is the hissiest most distrustful creature mal has ever encountered, but he knows how to deal with animals and eventually coaxes the cat into letting him help and even engaging in cuddling and pets.

anyways long story short mal thinks he’s besties with alina’s new cat because they’ve been spending every day snuggling when alina’s not home. he eventually mentions it to alina off handedly one day, and this is how alina finds out that her boyfriend has been secretly hanging out with his proclaimed arch enemy for literal months.

aleksander’s perpetual fear of losing mal snuggles has driven him to do horrific things

like what

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alksdjf when mal first meets cat!aleks he’s coming home from work, and he’s actually the one that accidentally injures aleksander’s paw, because he doesn’t know there’s a tiny creature on the ground. the cat is naturally furious and goes to hide under something, and mal spends the next two hours gently coaxing him out from under the couch so he can bandage the paw.

aleksander is of course like ‘the audacity of this bitch’, but mal is very very good at what he does and his animal voice eventually starts working on aleksander, so he reluctantly allows mal to bandage him up.

then when aleksander is about to fuck off with his newly bandaged paw to go lick his wounds in peace, mal picks him up (rude), and snuggles him (isolence just off the charts), and doesn’t even jostle his paw in the process. and aleksander has to reluctantly admit that maybe this feels kind of nice and that he shouldn’t be running off anyways on an injured foot. so he sticks around and lets mal pet him as they watch tv.

and then this continues for months because aleksander can’t exactly go up to mal as a person and be like, ‘I maybe don’t hate you anymore lets hang out’, so he keeps visiting mal as a cat.

unfortunately mal thinks he’s a real cat and starts treating him like one, buying cat toys and stuff like that. even going so far as to get aleksander a stuffed animal so aleksander will stop bringing him the dead bodies of his enemies (mice). so now aleksander has a full cat persona around mal that he can’t drop because then mal will stop snuggling with him.

also unfortunately when alina finds out and tells mal about him being a shifter, he has to deal with the mortification of acting absolutely just shamelessly touch starved and cuddly around mal, and he literally stops functioning for a few days. like how will he ever recover from this

Bruce Wayne is finally forced into retirement by injury and chronic pain, which, with some encouragement and assurances, he finally accepts as being a liability out in the field, even with the best medical treatments money and scientific wits can formulate. Rather than unquestioningly put the mantle to rest, the family has a serious discussion on who should or even could carry it on, only to find out that they all have the same idea - only Cass would really functionally be the best Batman that Gotham needs, and only Jason would really functionally be the best Batman that the planet and the Justice League need. So without much fanfare or announcing it to anyone past their immediate teams and allies, two new Batmen take the stage.

You would think that Cass’s short stature would immediately clue people in to her not being the same Batman - after all, Helena got clocked. But this is Gotham we’re talking about. It’s dark. It’s scary. There’s not many photos of Batman in his home turf, and the ones that exist are grainy and difficult to make out. No one really tells you how tall he’s supposed to be, just that you feel small when looking into the two holes where his eyes are supposed to be. Helena managed to convince people she was the same Batman just by soundly thrashing them. And Cass is a bigger threat than Helena. She might be looking up at you as she approaches in cold silence, but her figure appears to loom nine feet tall as she stalks towards you past all of the other guys she just creamed before anyone could fire their weapon.

Meanwhile, the Batman on the Justice League looks just the same as he always has, only that with every recently snapped photo of him saving the planet in broad daylight, people can’t help but wonder if he’s gotten even bigger, taller, and more muscular. And the rumors of vampirism, which had died down in recent years, start to resurface when someone points out that Batman really ought to be looking older by now. He seems to always have time for protecting the world, no matter how active he is at home, and he really is exactly the Batman the world needs on TV - tall, large, skilled, clever, reassuring.

They wear identical suits. Yes, the suits are tailored to their bodies, but they’re also tailored to visually slim Jason and visually beef up Cass with clever line placement and armor design, using identical chest plates and codpieces to eliminate tell-tale clues. If you don’t see them standing side by side and see the drastic height difference, you wouldn’t question these being the same Batman. That Batman always covers the lower half of his face when in Gotham doesn’t faze anyone - it’s Gotham. Joker Venom and Fear Toxin abound. When Batman needs a respirator outside of Gotham, it’s the exact same design.

They get their stories straight every day. Not to avoid being caught out so much as it’s part of their nightly logs. They brainstorm together, compare evidence, help solve problems. Some people swear Batman’s become even more effective at solving crime than ever before. Two heads, and all that. As often as possible, whenever he has travel time to spare, Jason returns to Gotham to debrief and strategize with Cass in person. They spar together, going over recent fights to never make the same mistake twice. Jason will never be on par with Cass, but she’s dragging him close. Occasionally, they switch places if things are slow in Gotham and Cass is itching for a challenge to stay sharp.

When shit hits the fan, there will always be people who will swear up and down that they have definitive proof that Batman was in two places in Gotham at once, or that there were two Batmen working together to disable the alien warship - an oversized Batman and a much smaller Batman. But who’s going to believe that? There’s plenty of other shady Bat characters. One of them must have been helping out, but there’s only one Batman.

Jason and Cass passing out together mid-debrief in the Batcave after long nights, right on the couch in the cozy carpeted nook they set up a week into the gig to make the Batcave less utilitarian. Julia Pennyworth sighs and covers them with a blanket when she finds them curled up together for warmth, with freshly washed faces but still in the rest of their suits and gear. Bruce Wayne joins her, limping but moving more easily now that Dick finally convinced him to use a cane. He smiles at the two fondly. Together, Bruce and Julia sort through documents on the Batcomputer, speaking and joking in hushed tones as they collate information for Batman’s use the next evening.

Behaviors of the School of the Bear

Witchers are so goddamn weird, and it’s my belief that those medieval motherfuckers were using DNA in their mutagens before they knew what deoxyribonucleic acid even was. Each school is named after the animal they pulled the most DNA from, but that means their Witchers ended up with some… unintended side effects:

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Lore-Only Gwent Cards Griffin Witchers (General)

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School of the Griffin

Masterpost Card Art from Gwent.One My Edit

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Behaviors of the School of the Griffin

Witchers are so goddamn weird, and it’s my belief that those medieval motherfuckers were using DNA in their mutagens before they knew what deoxyribonucleic acid even was. Each school is named after the animal they pulled the most DNA from, but that means their Witchers ended up with some… unintended side effects:

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In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

Can we implement a rule for next year that everyone has to sing in the native language of their country? I'm so sick of everyone just singing English

Give me DRAMA Give me CULTURE

GIVE. ME. FUN.

Edit : Some of you rebloggers really can't take a joke.. like take a chill pill or two

I know in the Bridgerton fandom it’s like speaking into the void but like.

If Anthony and Ben and Simon don’t have STDs or bastards, if the Bridgerton coffers are super deep and old money with a hand wave about good investments and a single song montage of Anthony signing papers, if the Featheringtons can bounce back from housing an unmarried pregnant woman and scheming to marry her to a Bridgerton, if Marina can be considered a respectable married woman despite the nature of her scandal, if Daphne wasn’t forced to marry Berbrooke despite him and Anthony coming to an agreement and Berbrooke loudly announcing said agreement in public, if Daphne was let out of her social obligation with the Prince who was loudly and proudly courting her, if Simon was able to forgive literally being assaulted, if Kate was able to survive a regency era comatose concussion after being tossed from a horse directly onto a rock, if Edwina is able to show her face again after the public humiliation and still be desirable, if Kate and Anthony could get their happily ever after after because the Queen smiled while they danced, if Eloise can still be considered a lady and her family gets invited to balls despite being a political radical, if Eloise managed to go to the lower income side of town wearing jewel encrusted tiaras without ever being noticed or ruined from meeting with a man unchaperoned…

why on earth does everyone demand realism and realistic punishment and societal reaction for Penelope?? None of our other characters ever have been truly impacted by realism. So why now? Why this season?

THIIIIIIIIS!! ALL OF FUCKING THIS!