Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

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this is so fucking insidious

LPT: Don't throw your junk mail away. Use it to to help the USPS instead!

Next time you get a credit card offer in the mail, or a junk piece of mail that includes a prepaid envelope or postcard, don't throw it away! Send the envelope back with a blank sheet of paper inside, or don't fill the postcard out, but still send it back. The company that sent it to you had to pay the USPS for postage on each one they get back. This is a way to support the USPS by doing very little, and sticking it to the annoying companies that want all of your money.

In the 90s we would send companies “hate mail” by stuffing prepaid envelopes with things like ‘blanks’ (flat heavy metal pieces), a roofing shingle) and layers of other competitors’ mail or junk news. This is because the company would have to pay more upon recieving the junk mail. It eats into them. It actually somewhat reduced our junk mail returnables, I think.  Send that mail y’all. 

Except please don't do this to nonprofits!!

If you do this when you get a donation request or something from a nonprofit, you'll be forcing small organizations with very little overhead to deal with the incoming mail and paying for the postage.

Credit card companies? YES. Personal loan offers? ABSOLUTELY. The chain store you've never shopped at who bought your info from a competitor? BY ALL MEANS.

But don't do this to your local "Friends of the Library" fundraiser or homeless outreach program or anything like that. You'll be draining their limited resources that would be better used elsewhere.

Feel free to do it to groups like Salvation Army, PETA, or Susan Komen cuz fuck them.

Hey y'all. I was talking to a retired postmaster about this.

She was 100 percent for this, bit please PLEASE do not use metal pieces or roof tiles. It can jam the sorting machines and cost the office millions to replace it.

Cardstock? Other papers? Fine. They are flexible. They go through the machine without issue.

So go ahead, send the junk mail, but limit it to paper.

I just watched Hot Fuzz again and I need to talk about it.

The writers for Hot Fuzz have said several times that Nicolas originally had a female love interest but she took up too much time without being connected to the murder plot so they removed her completely and instead gave her core dialogue and scenes to Danny, making him the love interest.

The movie constantly makes connections between Danny and Nicolas’ ex-girlfriend. For example, she complained about Nicolas forgetting her birthday so later on Nicolas panics when nobody told him it was Danny’s birthday. She told him he has to find someone he can love more than work and by the end he chose Danny over working in London. He gifts Danny flowers and wins him a stuffed toy. They spend the night out together followed by Danny inviting Nicolas home. They have a romantic theme that only plays during their emotional scenes. We even see the exact moment Nicolas realise he’s in love with Danny when the old lady asks if he’s buying flowers for a special someone and he says “….Yes” with a shy little smile.

The only thing missing is an actual kiss but in the Cornetto trilogy romantic relationships are rarely sealed with a kiss. In Shaun of The Dead the main romantic couple Shaun and Liz never kissed once and they had as much physical contact as Nicolas and Danny.

It’s funny to watch this movie and realise it has more queer content than some more modern movies and shows that are hailed as good queer media.

Like, I’ve never heard anyone accuse Hot Fuzz of queerbaiting but because it treats Nicolas and Danny’s relationship the same way most movies treat straight romances in the genre (it was literally originally written as a straight romance) people just didn’t notice it was a queer movie or thought it was a joke on homoerotic buddy cop movies. If it came out today it would absolutely be on the queer movie list.

All these people on this website are so cool and diverse I love being here but I wish I could meet you all in person

There should be a tumblr convention

What a fun idea! There could even be an indoor playground... Maybe with a ball pit or something.....

Time is a circle we are always doomed to repeat it whether we learn the error of our ways or not

I mean, the world is set on a course to repeat things much worse than dashcon anyway, so we might as well

If dashcon 2024 is the light in the darkness of this harsh world. Then we are surly headed down a grim path

dashcon 2024 is a beacon of hope in our dark, hopeless reality. unfortunately that beacon belongs to an anglerfish

I swear to god if this post breaches containment and inadvertently unleashes the fresh hell that is dashcon 2024 upon us. It will be the end of days

fuck yeah daschon 2024!!!!!!!!!!

Don't call it dashcon 2024, call it dashcon 2015. It's important.

If this post reaches 100,000 notes, OP *has* to organize a Tumblr con! Let's get it up there!

I’m 19 and I do not have the money or time to do such a thing

Yes, that will make it Authentic!

Let me come.

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remembering when someone reblogged my "what if blorbo from my shoes had disrespectful fucknasty sex" post to be like "um...my blorbos are siblings, so I'll pass." actually the post was a spell and once you read it it happens instantly and in real life

NOT BLORBO FROM MY SHOES...

Head's up for US Americans, your government seems likely to be legally unable to combat disinformation on social media any longer. So --- yeah. Fact check everything even remotely dodgy that you read on social media (including Tumblr).

Also seems like a good time to link back to my posts about games that help teach people how to identify misinformation and deliberate disinformation:

Absolutely BANGIN uranium glass room in Huntsville, AL

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

I'm reblogging from OP directly to encourage people to read the actual article rather than relying on a reactionary paragraph full of bias and unproven allegations. (and now here's a reactionary paragraph full of my OWN bias and unproven allegations! don't listen to me! read the article and think for yourself!)

this is actually a pretty big positive for Tumblr, in my opinion, in that they are actually willing to play ball and address the issues with the automated moderation. which are not unique to Tumblr, by the way. any automated system will inherently exhibit the biases of the data it was trained on, and in our culture (specifically Western, specifically North American) those biases are anti-LGBTQ. what Tumblr is doing is better than any social media in history has ever done, because they are actively willing to review their automod system and put in the effort to train the human moderators. it should also be added that there were no actual complaints, and that this was not actually proven in any sort of court. once again, we are seeing people making assumptions and then pretending like that's what actually happened. because this ban is likely to disproportionately affect LGBTQ content, people are framing it as if it already has in a way that is damaging and harmful. but in my experience, all of these things that I've seen people say "oh tumblr flagged it as explicit, reblog because tumblr wants this content BANNED"... the only time I've seen people say that has been directly under the post that they said tumblr's trying to take down. don't buy it! if tumblr was trying to take the post down, they would have.

do not let yourself become a reactionary. random Tumblr users are not experts in social media and discrimination law, no matter how much they might pretend to be. unless you're confident of someone's credentials, don't let them dictate your opinion to you.

Holy shit

I've added the Hen Linge dialogue for season 3 of The Witcher to my Ao3. If you'd like to see what they're saying in Hen Linge, go there. This is for the first five episodes released thus far. There's a bit of dialogue here and there, but let me tell you... Something's coming in the last three episodes (specifically, the seventh). And I cannot WAIT.

Roger Dean

So bluesky isn't safe for artists and writers at all

Actually, here’s the correct information on this: https://twitter.com/MarcoMA4PS/status/1675958135993819137?s=20

"Hi Marco, We currently use Hive’s existing models to generate labels for images — so this is the tool that helps us identify NSFW images, so we can apply the proper labels to them. Hive does not use Bluesky account content to fine-tune/train their models. That said, Bluesky  is a public social network and AI companies might be scraping data from the internet! We actually just revised our Terms of Service to have less legalese in response to conversations with artists a few weeks ago to clarify that we do not own their content. That updated version  of the TOS was published last week and you can find it here: https://blueskyweb.xyz/support/2023-06-29/tos…. We're always striving to make the dense technical, legal, etc. info easier to parse. “

Read the thread for more info

TLDR no bluesky is not scraping your art for training, this was disproven pretty immediately.

—sleep

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