Jay Doesn't Know Where She Is Anymore

I know Cell has a bit of Vegeta in him but I don't think he'd be too proud to ask for help 😂

Based on my word vomit in a discord chat:

do u guys wanna see the best picture of fish i ever took

council has spoken. here she is

"this product is great for those no-makeup days!!" you experience the world in a manner i cannot even comprehend

New weird horse just dropped, folks.

A spotless giraffe was recently born at Bright’s Zoo in Limestone, TN and was just announced in the media this morning. They’re starting a public naming contest for her, of course.

I’d love to know what type of mutation causes this lack of of pattern, but I don’t know if we have genetics on that for giraffes the way we do other species. As far as is known, she’s the first spotless giraffe ever documented!

Why Hawaii needs a break from tourism — perspective from local resident palanichang on tiktok

Do we just have no standards whatsoever about what things are worthwhile to talk about

Remember when Nat Geo was a prestigious publication?

Yeah

Oh. I see.

This Barbie is a walking disaster

Have you been using the same email address and username on various platforms for twenty years?

Have you been using the same password for your accounts for twenty years?

If so, please do the following:

If the bottom of the page turns red, it means that your email is in at least one set of data from a breach.

2. Scroll down on the page to look at the breaches your email was in. I want you to look specifically for breaches that include passwords.

What this means is that your email address, which you have used as an account name for twenty years, and your password, which you have used across platforms for twenty years, are available for anyone on the web who wants to look. It’s pretty easy to go and find too!

This is how a LOT of identity theft and fraud happens these days.

Let’s say you created your LiveJournal account when you were fifteen. You used it a lot and by the time you were twenty the credentials you created for it were familiar and you plugged them in whenever you had to create an account. You plugged them in when you created a Facebook account. You plugged them in when you created a bank account. You plugged them in when you created the account that lets you see your lab results from your doctor’s office.

All that someone has to do to seriously fuck your life is to do the following:

That’s all it takes. If you used the same username and password in two accounts in a breach, you probably used it elsewhere. Maybe you put an exclamation after the password, or entered your birth year, but those are pretty easy things to guess about and well worth it if someone can send themselves all the cash in your bank or order a shitload of giftcards from your amazon account.

And look: I know it ’s really easy to not take warnings about passwords seriously. I know that if you haven’t been screwed by this yet that it’s easy to think that your password is strong enough, that you’re going to get overlooked because you’ve got less than a hundred dollars to your name, that you’re not going to have a problem with this.

People re-use passwords all the time. They re-use passwords constantly. And a lot of people don’t understand that those passwords are freely available out on the internet.

Think about what would happen if someone locked you out of your primary email account and there was no way to get back in. You go to change your password on social media and what does it do? Sends a confirmation to your email, which you now don’t control. Is your primary email one of the ways that you get information from your bank? Is it how you log into and track orders from online resellers? How do you log in to the profile on your phone? Do you have a browser profile? Do you log in with your email address? Does your browser profile save your credit card numbers?

This is why we use password managers. This is the advantage to password managers. With a password manager there is ONE password you have to be very careful to keep safe (the password to your password manager) and all the other passwords are disposable. Did your email get revealed in the Tumblr breach? NBD, use your password manager to generate a new, unique password for your tumblr account, change it, and you’re good to go.

I know it seems like a giant pain in the ass to start using a password manager. I know it seems like a much bigger headache to log into a password manager and copy passwords than it is to type in the password that you KNOW. But I promise that using a password manager is a much smaller headache than freezing your credit so that people stop applying for credit cards in your name, or trying to start a brand new email from scratch when you get locked out of your old one, or tracking down all of the photos that someone could download from your cloud storage and making sure that they aren’t getting posted on revenge porn sites.

Bitwarden is a secure, open-source password manager that has a free option for individual users. It has apps available for iOS and Android, and extensions for Firefox (which is also supported in Firefox Mobile) and Chrome. It has an extremely comprehensive tutorial series to help you learn how to use it. If you’re thinking about signing up for a password manager but you’re not sure, I strongly recommend checking out some of those videos.

I also promise that using a password manager gets easier the more you use it. It’s a big hurdle to jump over when you’re getting started, but it gets easier pretty much immediately.

And this doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition. You can create an account with a password manager and just save one login to start. It’s actually easiest if you keep it low-key and just update your logins whenever you find yourself needing to log in to a site instead of trying to go through and do it all at once before you’re familiar with the program.

I’d recommend starting with at least two things: your primary email and your primary bank account. After that update any major online retailers you shop frequently and any social media that you use often.

A password manager is also a great place to store account recovery codes, answers to security questions, previous passwords, PINs, and secondary contact methods.

A lot of people worry that a password manager is an even bigger risk than just reusing passwords or creating memorable passwords or writing passwords down in a notebook because if a password manager is breached then all of that very important data is exposed. This is a reasonable thing to fear, and that’s why it’s important to be careful about what password manager you use.

This is why I recommend Bitwarden. Bitwarden uses a very secure encryption scheme and never stores any of your data in plaintext. If Bitwarden is breached and leaks data, all that will be leaked is gibberish. What you need to worry about to keep your password manager secure are the following:

Basically YOU are the only way that someone can get into your password manager. Your password is the only thing that can unlock it, which means that A) you have to ensure that you won’t lose the password and B) you have to ensure that nobody else has access to the password. I know that first one sounds scary, but there are a LOT of ways to recover a Bitwarden account if you take the time to set them up. The second one is much simpler, and is the thing that is going to keep your password manager safe.

Anyway ILU please use a password manager.

This is actually a great question. You *SHOULD* be suspicious when presented with websites that ask you to enter your email or when given advice from randos on the internet.

One of the easiest things to do when you see a novel piece of information and you want a general background on it is to check wikipedia.

The wikipedia page does a pretty good job of explaining what it *does* and does suggest that a lot of people use it, but that’s not really enough info to know whether to trust something. So it is perfectly reasonable to do a search of your actual question: “Is haveibeenpwned safe?”

This is somewhat complicated, because various search engines are going to return various answers and it’s not like any of those answers are definitive either.

So, you know that “is haveibeenpwned safe” is a computer security question, so it’s worthwhile to see what security and computer focused people say about it. The Register, PCMag, ZDNet, and HowToGeek are all computer-focused resources; you can search “haveibeenpwned” on those sites and see what they say.

The Register describes it as ‘reliable,’ PC Mag says that it is very useful, ZDNet cites it as a source, and HowToGeek has a whole bunch of articles about the site, including updates on the project going open source and instructions on how to use it.

But you might not trust those sites either. You may want to ask a group of internet-savvy users users. It’s kind of a joke that you need to add “reddit” to the end of a query to get a good answer these days, but sometimes that’s an effective way of getting an answer!

You can also take into consideration the history of the site: It has been around for about 10 years now, and if it were dangerous or risky to use there would be a lot of articles out about it. But when you search “is haveibeenpwned dangerous?” pretty much every site agrees that it’s safe.

Information literacy has a lot in common across a lot of different fields, and one of the things that is true across the board is that you need to be able to identify good sources of information before you can feel secure discussing a topic. It is a VERY GOOD idea to question random tech advice that you stumble across on tumblr dot com because tumblr is not generally known as a good source of tech knowledge.

To the folks reccing other password managers in the notes: No. You are wrong. (mostly kidding, use what you want)

But no seriously the reason that I specifically described Bitwarden and linked to it and recommended their tutorials is because of the following reasons:

I’m kind of of the opinion that a password manager which you can only install on one device is useless. What if you need your password and you’re not at that device? What if your device falls into the ocean? What if you are sharing a vault with an elderly parent? No. Bad. Endless devices. Forever Devices. Logging In Through The Browser On Any Computer You See (don’t actually do that but there is a browser version and it kicks ass because *sometimes you have to use someone else’s device*). See A Smart Toaster, Install Bitwarden On It. Devices For Days.

There’s a serious reason for this - if someone frequently has to log in from a device that doesn’t have their manager installed, or if they frequently have to type complicated, pain-in-the-ass passwords from their computer to their phone or their phone to their computer then that person is either going to A) use their password manager less for accounts they use frequently or B) use less complicated passwords and both of those sort of defeat the purpose of using a password manager. So actually, there’s my pitch:

Bitwarden - It’s free and you can install it on whatever you want.

clocked this entire website

more and more I feel strongly defensive about the animals that people hate or look down upon and view as evil, malicious, dirty, stupid, vermin, or otherwise worthless

There are some animals where disgust or fear responses are probably to some extent hardwired in us, for example snakes. I love snakes and think they're adorable, and my brain is still highly sensitive to detecting snakes and seeing one pulls me totally out of whatever I was thinking about so I realize THAT'S A SNAKE!

Likewise with insects and other arthropods, some of them can harm you or spread disease, so it makes sense to be cautious about them and even to fear some of them. Some level of aversion to bugs is probably an adaptive thing that helped our ancestors avoid angry swarms of stinging insects and parasites like ticks.

However, regular everyday exposure to bugs, including positive or at least non-aversive experiences, would be needed to shape this instinctual fear into something that makes you appropriately vigilant about harmful bugs and able to distinguish them from bugs that won't hurt you.

My sister, who loves spiders and is a firm defender of spiders, frequently cites the fact that arachnophobia is most common in Britain, a place with no spiders hazardous to humans. The worldwide decline of insects means that many humans are getting less of that critical neutral-to-positive experience with insects that lets them be comfortable with bugs.

I see people in my notes constantly talking about how the sight or sound of a bug, any bug, immediately drives them into a terrified panic. This makes me sad for the people, and afraid for the bugs, because this kind of non-discriminatory fear probably couldn't develop in an environment that wasn't empty and devastated of life. Without the magical experiences of catching a firefly, letting a praying mantis crawl up your arm, putting crumbs from different foods down onto the sidewalk to see which ones the ants like best, or watching a spider spin her web, getting stung by a wasp will certainly be a powerful and formative trauma.

But there is another kind of distaste for wildlife I have seen, which is different— a disdain or hatred for animals just because they are common and thrive among humans.

If city folk view deer as majestic and wondrous creatures, and country folk think they're stupid and annoying, then the city folk are right. For what it's worth, I am not a city folk and I was downright shocked to see someone say that deer are "stupid" and "basically rats" in rural areas. My dad was a hunter growing up and he impressed upon me very strongly that deer are majestic, intelligent animals worthy of awe and reverence.

Having grown up hearing about the rarity and precarious existence of precious endangered species, some humans have absorbed a framework of life on Earth where important, valuable animals are rare and live somewhere far away, and any animal that is abundant among humans is worthless vermin.

Particularly repulsive is when an animal lives in human environments and has its own needs, behaviors and agendas that don't treat humans as special exceptions to the law that we all live in an ecosystem.

Raccoons will eat your trash, because it's a source of food. Moles will dig burrows in your lawn, because that's their lifestyle. Squirrels will eat your bird seed, because their diet overlaps with that of birds. Coyotes will eat your outdoor cat because a coyote is a predator that eats small animals and a domesticated small animal is mostly dependent on humans to protect it from predators. That's a major reason to become domesticated, actually.

I have never had a goose be mean to me or bother me at all, but then again I have never chased or harassed a goose or otherwise intruded upon its personal space.

I think there is embarrassment about being awed and enchanted by animals. No one wants to be a "horse girl" that's cringe, so horses must be evolutionary mistakes and anxious couches with legs. No one wants to be the gawking city slicker staring at a common and everyday creature, so deer are idiots and vermin. No one wants to be taken as naive about the inconvenient or vexing attributes of animals, so it's better to treat any commonly-encountered animal with a mix of indifference and scorn. Only an idiot who's never met a skunk would think skunks are cute, right? You think wasps are important? Spoken like someone who's never been stung by a wasp! You want to defend spiders or snakes? You've probably never lived out in the country then. Insects are everywhere and annoying so who cares about bugs. Goats are mean and stinky.

So? You're mean and stinky too.

I’ve heard from many sources that in cultures that live alongside lots of tarantulas and regularly eat them, the kids thrill in scaring white tourists with them. It’s absolutely amazing to them that anyone could be scared of such a mundane animal, let alone one that their moms frequently fry up for them as a nice little treat. People who historically lived around the deadliest snakes also have the *lowest* prevalence of phobia towards them. And that makes sense, because a panic response does not actually protect you at all. You’re much more likely to get bitten by something if your response to it is to flail around and yell. Animal phobias are totally definitely a symptom of being cut off from and unaccustomed to real nature.

zhonglis so funny bc he's always saying hes just a normal guy now but when you ask anyone about him they just talk about how unnormal he is

Tumblr girls when they become mutuals

i think one of the things that gets missed by the people who really don’t like my romanticizing adulthood post is that it’s not a passive “oh magical things happen to you as an adult” sort of deal 

it’s a “this is my one and only life, and i’m going to milk it for all it’s worth” sort of deal 

it’s a defiant “i didn’t actually think i’d make it this far” sort of deal 

i’m not trying to say, “oh just think positive and everything will be fine” because that’s not true, but we are what we practice, and i think it’s important to consciously practice joy and appreciation and treating my life like it’s special because it is. 

there are days that fucking suck being a grown up, but going, “joy is fleeting and misery is the norm” does nothing but make you (and the people around you) miserable. i am way more happy than i EVER was a kid or teenanger, and a big part of that is doing special things like buying myself a cup of dippin’ dots just because i can or deciding last minute that i want to go on an “adventure” (even if that’s just walking around a secondhand store i’ve never been to before) and recognizing that these are gifts i’m giving myself because i deserve to live a life i’m in love with. 

Kind characters are not boring; in fact, due to the vast amount of people who hold that opinion, kind characters are as edgy as it gets. In this essay I will

You know what, I’m not done! I think that the whole concept that kind characters are uninteresting and vanilla is such a broad generalization and takes kindness to mean lawful or goody-two-shoes, when there are so many ways for someone to a character to be kind.

Kindness does not require passivity or social grace. Kind characters can stick to their guns and stand up for what they believe in. They can yell and scream and curse. Kind characters can be angry and disappointed when others do not show them the same compassion they show others. Kind characters can be tactless, oblivious. They may be rough around the edges (but have a heart of gold).

Kind characters often value justice and strive to stay connected to their humanity, even when the things they must do threaten to strip it away from them. Kind characters sometimes have to make difficult choices. Sometimes, kind characters even behave in a way that is unkind.

Kindness is complex, and it’s only a single solitairy characteristic that contributes to a character’s personality. While it can absolutely present as soft-spoken, honest, and open-hearted (my personal FAVE), it certainly doesn’t have to be.

TL;DR Kindness is not boring

when i say 'i want worse graphics', some ppl assume i mean 'i want stylyzed instead of realistic' then get mad at me for saying it wrong (???) so let me be clear:

i want worse graphics. i want the models topology to be a bit off, i want the rigging to have a few verts mis-weighted, i want the final model to not be accurate to the concept art cuz it would have been too labor intensive to make the scarf that long. i want the shading to do the thing where a real time character shadow is casting on top of another baked in shadow. i want whatever eases the devs workload and prevents crunch so they can go home to their loved ones and actually enjoy their life outside of work

and im not kidding

King Piccolo: GRAAAHHH!! IM GOING TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!

Piccolo Jr. playing with Pan:

I asked my mom who she preferred, Goku or Vegeta

She said Piccolo, because "Goku is too forgiving, Vegeta is too mean. Piccolo is serious and smart. Everyone listens when he talks"

My new favorite drawing of Piccolo

Big Green appreciation made back when it was his birthday :D