So I was made to feel old today...
Two decades today
Touch his mind Lord is going to be a part of my vocabulary forever now
Did you know that there's another Chocolate Guy called Kris Zhaokai?
2023: missives from desktop tumblr suggest that per the latest update my mutuals are being hunted by some kind of grotesque clown. staff assure us this is driven by user feedback.
getting rid of family vlog channels one state at a time let's gooo
HUGE!
YES
And it was started by a 16 year old?!? Great job Shreya Nallamothu!
I drew a little something for the Hiveworks micro comic summer~
Turkey archaeology reveals ancient underground structures under Zerzevan Castle https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1191263572/turkey-archaeology-zerzevan-castle-discoveries
More kickass anthropology this morning!
the senate is lying to us
i was really high attempting to reference this tweet but reading it back the next day just sounds like fucking qanon sorry
"BREAKING: We just filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint, calling for an investigation into Mastercard’s policies discriminating against online sex workers."
YOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, I don't care what you think about porn - you should still be supporting the ACLU in this. Because it meant that EVERY WEBSITE had to make sure no one was selling art that ANYONE called sexy, or risk being unable to process credit cards.
And enforcement was completely haywire. One person might get their account blocked because a bra strap showed, while another person showed closeups of genatilia with no problem. No one has EVER came up with a way to moderate this in a cost-effective way, so it is all based on user complaints and AI - and both overwhelmingly target minority artists. It is pretty easy for male-female porn to sneak by unreported, but two guys kissing fully clothed? Or a black swimsuit model showing a bit more cleavage than some asshole thought was appropriate?
And of course big name movie and game companies could include all sorts of sexy content in mainstream media while even a hint of it got the little independent guys banned.
On top of that, a lot of EDUCATIONAL material got taken down. Want to know what different STDs look like? How to treat an injury to the groin?
A lot of ancient art got blocked too. A lot of cultures - including most of Europe for a long time! - don't have the nudity taboos modern America has, and a lot of the best, most technically skilled and historically important art has - gasp! - nipples bared and cocks out. For most of history, that was not a big deal.
It is still extraordinarily easy to access porn, so the ban did nothing except make it harder for independent artists to survive, in every form of media, and make it more difficult for people to check the health of their bodies.
(Last but not least, I am of the opinion that it is very healthy for people to know what all sorts of different bodies look like, and sexual desire is perfectly natural and does not need to be hidden like it is shameful. I know that is controversial. But even if you think people should never see anyone naked except their wife or husband, it should still be very obvious that this policy did a lot of harm and zero good.)
Source: twitter.com
Some computer related jobs will periodically send you emails posing as phishing scams and if you open it you automatically have to take a web safety training seminar and I just think they should do that for tumblr except with reading comprehension
Hi hi hi hi hi bomking my face on you like a small cat. Hello. Hi
I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.
Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.
It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.
- Weight: about 14.6 pounds (6630 grams)
- It probably smells faintly of blood
Why blood? Because hemoglobin in our blood has a lot of iron and thus has a metallic scent, similar to the coppery smell of a bunch of pennies collected together.
People who do things like floor an entire room in pennies counsel that you really need to seal/varnish the finished surface otherwise the smell can be pervasive.
what if i want to smell like blood?
You want vampires? Because that’s how you get vampires.
Ralf, that’s the kind of reply you can post everywhere but Tumblr.
Of course they want vampires.
I actually learned this while considering making scented candles based on the various magic scents in the October Daye series, but copper doesn’t actually smell like blood! Copper alone doesn’t smell like much of anything.
Copper is just slightly corrosive to skin, so the blood you smell comes from handling the copper and is, in fact, just blood. You are just smelling blood. Your blood, and the blood of everyone who has ever touched the copper.
Which is why it is difficult to make a copper and grass scented candle.
1. We can’t actually smell metals. Metals don’t release enough molecules to hit our nose at room temperature for us to smell them. 2. Iron and copper actually react with oils on our skins and create molecules (aldehydes and ketones) which the human nose is highly sensitive to. 3. The researchers think that our ability to detect iron and copper is related to a vestigial capability to detect blood. Probably from our mammalian predator ancestors.
Item: fourteen-pound cocktail dress made of copper coins; discussion is ongoing about whether or not it attracts vampires.
Source: Laughing Squid