On July 9, 1640, John Punch became the first black person to be “legally” enslaved for life within the then American colonies.
We know his name. We know his name and we know the date and the judge that did it. We also know that two white dudes got a 1 year sentence for the same “crime.” (running away from someone who had bought a claim on their labor for a specific period of time).
I’m logging off now and may not be logging on again.
Aside from everything else, tumblr has hidden all my posts with fic links and notes, which were the reason I came into tumblr in the first place.
I can be found on AO3 as iesika always and forever. If you want to keep reading fic by me, I suggest subscribing there. My profile there will also be updated with where I’m active and how to find me.
I can sort of be found on Twitter as jessie.iesika and Dreamwidth as iesika but I haven’t made the switch to actually activity. I’m always on Telegram @iesika. You can find me on gmail at jessie.iesika.
I’ve paid for a fistful of pillowfort codes but haven’t received any. When I do I’ll be iesika there too if they can get it functional.
The best place to find me for fic is AO3 and for talking is Telegram. I’m going to recreate some meta posts on AO3 as well and may put all that on Dreamwidth as well.
If we’re friendly and you want my skype or phone # shoot me a message or an email.
Yeah, well, I can’t stretch out that review of 16th century economics by adding a gratuitous hand job.
Can someone please explain to me why this lichen is flagged as adult content
but not this Calostoma cinnabarinum?
as a nonbinary person I shall only be posting my left titty which is my boy titty, and not the right one which is the horrid unclean girl titty, this is as tumblr has decreed
none binary with left titty
You fucking genius
We never get a more forceful reminder that Will used to be a cop than when he tries to force Ingram to pick up that hammer.
I’m sure Will himself never tried to exploit this tactic before - he left the police because he was TOO HESSIANT to use deadly force - but he was clearly there long enough to learn a really straightforward way to get away with murder.
Which is, of course, manipulate the situation so it will appear that your life was in immediate danger, therefore justifying deadly force.
(Probably it would have helped with Will’s guilt problem if he was able to tell himself that Ingram was coming right for him, too).
Austrian School, Saint Agatha, 18th century
Giovanni Cariani, Portrait of a young woman as Saint Agatha, 1516-17
Lorenzo Lippi, Saint Agatha, 1638-44
Francisco de Zubarán, Santa Agueda (detail), 1630-33
Saint Agatha is the patron saint of breast cancer patients, wet nurses, bakers, and quite recently also of the Tumblr-community.
“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added: “Or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thud!
so this is what staff are using to decide what’s porn
I think they’ve put Auditors in charge. That’s the only explanation.
Is it a porn?
Take it apart. examine all the pixels for pornishness.
“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added: “Or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thud!
so this is what staff are using to decide what’s porn
I think they’ve put Auditors in charge. That’s the only explanation.
One of the down sides of being vegetarian is that you will never be fed human flesh buy a overly dramatic cannibal.
Bold of you to assume he wouldn’t just lie about what was in your food. Okay, maybe he couldn’t get away with chunks of flesh as such, but be careful what’s in the sauces, or in your drink.
the tofu is people!! 🤣
Even the cake is people!!
not the cake!!
Confirmed by Bryan! There was apparently human suet fat in the bread pudding XD
Aside from the Sweet William in his salads I assume he’s using human shmaltz in his dressings.
Then again, I’ve posited before that Hannibal has a whole house charcoal filter and even the water is people.
I JUST CHECKED THIS IS REAL IM SCREAMING
When you’ve spent 92 years on this earth with the name “Dick Van Dyke” and you’re only just now hearing the dumbest possible joke about it.
Me articulating all the flaws in a piece of media & enjoying it anyway
Me sneaking back on tumblr to reblog this while I’m waiting for the backup downloader and setting up pillowfort in the other window
“Deep breath”
I SWEAR TO THE FUCKIN GODS…..
(cue 25 minutes of unintelligible yelling)
….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
But then they say DON’T EAT MORE THEN 10 A DAY.
It’s not even FDA approved. “may be toxic”.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.
^^As a toxicologist, I approve this message.
Friendly reminder that the laws on supplement labeling in the US are super lax and haven’t been updated since 1994. That’s nearly 25 years ago!
There’s absolutely no guarantee that what a supplement package says is inside is actually inside. Tests of products on drug store shelves in New York ordered by the attorney general showed that a huge percentage of the supplements tested did not contain what they advertised.
Similar surveys and testing have shown similar results. Herbs turned out to be grass clippings, pills were nothing but filler, and nearly everything was adulterated with something that wasn’t on the label.
Worse, there were also amphetamine-like-compounds in a lot of the weight-loss, exercise and energy supplements, and toxic heavy metals all over the place.
(no links to sources since Tumblr will hide this if I add them, but search “Science Based Medicine” and “supplements” and you’ll find them)
As we sit on the cusp of changes to the Internet, after your other activities to support Internet freedom, archive your fandom stuff.
Save the electronic files of your favorite online fandom works. Consider print-outs of your favorite online material. And save paper ephemera from fandom events.
Why save? Because you put the effort into a fanwork. Because you may be surprised when a fandom stays alive for years, or gets revived, or when an academic asks to cite your work. Because it’s stupidly hard to find items on Tumblr. Because, lo, in ages past, many fandom archives have risen and fallen, taking favorite fics off the ‘Net. Because it made you happy, makes you remember. Because you never know.
What can you save?
Behind the cut…saving from Tumblr and AO3, delving into lost web sites, how to save computer files for the long term, and why I’m glad I saved physical fandom items from 10+ years ago.
I made this post a year and a half ago. Please read the many comments in the reblogs from archivists and long-term fans!
Signal boost.
Time for this post again!
As some of you already noticed, the Cannimals are getting flagged. Actually they have been flagged nsfw way back but i never bothered to contest it. It must be all the naked animals cavorting, for shame (there was never a nipple, female presenting or otherwise).
I’m setting up a backup and i do have all the comics saved. The best part of the comics are the interactions so i’m going to try and save those.
I will hang around and see where the Fandom goes next, if it is to another site i will let you all know.
❤️❤️😘❤️😘❤️😘❤️❤️😘😘❤️😘❤️
THE GOO IS HERE!!!!
The cutest sweetest gooiest scarf ever
The Venom scarf that I won in the awesome @ishxallxgood ‘s giveaway! I love and would die for this sweet cuddly babe. It’s the middle of summer here and I still wanna take him out with me everywhere.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yay! You got him! He’s the sweetest boy. The cuddliest. He’s very happy to be bonded to you
Pornhub’s entire business model revolves around stealing content made by sex workers without their consent and profiting off it with no compensation to the workers who generate the content they steal. Sex workers are an incredibly vulnerable and stigmatised class of workers, mostly women, mostly younger, mostly not rich, with little recourse, socially or legally, against a massive corporation like Pornhub.
Pornhub relies on this, on how little you care about sex workers, to maintain a business based on stealing their livelihoods. Stop applauding a corporation that literally exists to steal from marginalised workers just because they have a competent PR department.
Fucking thank you
I’m not defending them but isn’t that true of all porn sites?
Yes.
This is going around again because Pornhub have apparently been billing themselves as an alternative to Tumblr for artists and sex workers and it was made originally because as they say, Pornhub has a very clever PR department (I’m thinking in particular of the snow plowing stunt last year) and people have a tendency to fall for it.
Pornhub pays 69 cents per 1k views while Youtube pays $7.60 for the same amount of traffic.
If someone steals your porn and uploads it, Pornhub requires that you doxx yourself to the uploader.
^^^^ Yep! Said it before, will say it again, and have been needing to remind people pretty often because it apparently takes nothing for y'all to forget that corporations don’t care about you (since people have been all starry eyed about their new BFF Pornhub): THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: When a performer discovers their reuploaded content, they must file a DMCA req to get it pulled down. This involves two main parts. 1. Their formal statement is required to *prove* they are indeed the owner fo the content, and therefore have the right to state it was not intended for redistribution. 2. To prove this, they must submit their LEGAL NAME AND ADDRESS to the site. As part of DMCA law, the site retains the right to DISCLOSE OUR NAME AND ADDRESS to the uploader, as part of informing them who has made a claim against the upload. (Because of the frightening implications of giving my name and address to a porn site that can make the info available to a pirate, I have paid THOUSANDS in legal fees to incorporate in order to keep my info private. It was very expensive and absolutely not available to most performers, and for years I did not have this option available and had to continue doxxing myself to fucking pornsites) NOTE!!! At NO POINT are the uploaders asked to provide legal proof of clip ownership, nor are they required to submit their name and address. Sites NEVER ask pirates to prove anything is theirs aside perhaps from ticking a check box. Pirates are hard to fight because sites do next to nothing to discourage them. Why? Because they make their money off of traffic, and all income is good income to them. They don’t care. Be better than them. Tubesites are not friends to artists and fair warning, artists that think Pornhub will be a great place for them will find that out when their shit starts getting reposted.
