Hyperfixation of the Day

this website's moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants

Alternate universe where faggot is a normal word and cigarette is a homophobic slur

obsessed with this

SHE IS A TRUE HERO 

No, she’s a bitch is what she is

what do u mean???? it was clearly an accident she even said “Oooppsss”

LMFAOOOO

Look, rather than being petty and destroying it, why not talk to the girl. Really ask them why they are using the confederate flag. But no, low level terrorism is the answer.

LOW LEVEL TERRORISM?

Low level terrorism

ICONIC

world heritage post

DONT USE THE PIRATE BAY PLEASEEEE I BEG YOU.

Use 1337x.to rarbg or rutracker, highly moderated public torrent trackers, because Pirate Bay has long been shut down, unmoderated, and cloned by some shady actors AND use Mullvad VPN (or any other vpn but mullvad is the best definitely) to protect your ip address while you torrent, bind it to qbittorrent and do not use utorrent anymore either because it is littered with adware.

OR if you don’t want to pay for a VPN, use direct download or streaming sites. Please y’all just take one pass through on the r/piracy or r/freemediaheckyeah mega threads to find whatever you want for free and also not infect your computer with Trojan viruses.

^^^ yes!!! Thank you sm.

If any of those terms made you go ????? and you think pirating must be So Hard, I wrote a verbose but easy to follow guide a while back for total beginners!

pirate safely friends

You curse Miette?

You curse Miette with 20k notes?

Tags via @hockpock

I AM GOING TO GET THIS TO 20K BY SHEER FORCE OF WILL

Everyone shall see. I will make them see this thing. This is my burden.

Everyone shall see.

I will make them see this thing.

This is my burden.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

This is all fantastic! I’d just like to point out that the Friend, or P.U.F. as the Friend was sometimes called, did not seem to have pronouns at all. Some people used “he,” but most used no pronouns, including the singular they (which was indeed in use already at the time!). I suspect that if the Friend were exposed to modern-day concepts of pronouns the Friend might choose friend/friendself, but as it stands, if we are to correctly gender the Friend according to the standard used by the Friend and the Friend’s congregation, we should use “the Friend” or “P.U.F.,” with no pronouns at all.

Delving into the Friend’s teachings and responses when questioned suggests this was a matter of deep personal importance; for example, when the Friend was asked “are you that person who was born Jemima Wilkinson,” the Friend replied by quoting Jesus at his trial as recorded in the book of Luke: “thou sayest it.” If you’re not familiar with the story of Jesus as told in the Christian Bible, supposedly the Romans tried him for blasphemy (which makes no damn sense since Judea was a client state but I digress), but the real reason was his large following, which threatened to destabilize Roman control of the area (entirely possible, actually). As a result, at his trial they questioned him: “are you the King of the Jews?” In other words: are you trying to start a hostile revolt and retake Judea? By trapping him into saying yes, they’d have a case for what today we’d call sedition; by trapping him into saying no they could expose him as a fraud, charlatan, and con man, thus breaking the unity of his group and his authority because he’d previously accepted people calling him this. His solution was to give the answer above. (If you struggle a little with Elizabethan English, Jesus Christ Superstar renders this line as “your words, not mine.”)

If you consider that the Friend was also the leader of a controversial splinter sect, then adding the context of this answer makes a TON of sense. The Friend would not say “I am Jemima Wilkinson” because the Friend was the Friend, not Jemima. The Friend would not say “I am not Jemima Wilkinson” because the Friend’s explanation for this change was that Jemima had died, and a new soul had been reborn in Jemima’s revived body, so saying “I am not Jemima Wilkinson” would be obviously false (even if the Friend was only using Jemima’s body, as stated).

So while it might feel odd, I’m pretty sure (as sure as one can be when dealing with the gender of someone who’s been dead for over 300 years, anyway) we shouldn’t be referring to the Friend as they/them, as the Friend’s own preference was no pronouns.

I'm fine with no new media coming out if it means that writers and actors are paid and treated properly. The content that would come out would be better too coming from a better workplace.

hating tiktok is not a "back in my day" type thing. tiktok is objectively affecting other social media platforms in detrimental ways. ux elements are being stripped and everything has to have a fucking short video clips function. it's rampant homogenization and it's a problem

. yeah

girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.

wait fr

oh my god

men when they die in svalbard

and waste fresh meat???

Whenever I see anything like this my first thought is that @thebibliosphere will know what these words mean.

Unfortunately, you would be correct.

“Vampire facials”, which many people think is needling but is actually far, far worse, refers to platelet-rich plasma facials, in which blood is taken from a patient, processed in a centrifuge to extract the plasma and then re-injected it into the face. It’s supposed to make the skin “heal” itself because of platelets or some shit, giving you a more youthful look. Kim K helped make it popular after it was on her show but I know she also supposedly regrets it.

It’s uh, controversial to say the least. And not just because it sounds like painful bullshit but because lack of regulation for this sort of thing has lead to a couple of cases of HIV transmission happening.

The penis version is that they’re doing the exact same thing, taking plasma from themselves or a donor and injecting it into the penile tissue, supposedly to treat erectile dysfunction, but a lot of the men doing this are doing it just to get a girthier look.

And if you think I hate knowing all this, you’d be right.

i hope you’re proud of yourself Joy.

bad hedgehog

(source: my twt acc that i will not expose here)

#I think a certain someone watched Mean Girls (2004) a lot

I really hate that pixel art is becoming associated with NFTs, pixel art rules

Maybe I should just make the opposite of an NFT, like I dunno, just a cute pixel art goblin anyone can right click+save for free and keep it forever and now it's theirs

You can put a hat on it too if you like

I’m totally on board. I’d like to propose a name for him: Nifty the Goblin. 

I love it, I'll try to whip something up when I'm feeling inspired

...

...[BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOL-AID MAN] HELLO, YES, HI, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS ART PROJECTS?!

...I mean, yeah, these sorts of opposite-of-NFTs Open Source Art things are something I dedicate a lot of brainspace to, and I actually have some suggestions!

Firstly, if you wanna do that, you’d probably want to use one of the organization Creative Commons’ licenses, to make the “anyone can use/save/alter it” official and legally binding, presumably one of their looser ones like CC-BY or CC0.

Secondly, honestly, this is a rad idea, something like Open Game Art’s various sprites but more as an art project than an assets thing, and i have an idea on how you could expand it further.

Basically: Fanpro but for Pixel Art. Which, for those who don’t know, Fanpro is basically this pool of character designs people contributed to for a while, released totally and utterly under a CC0 license, for anyone to use how they see fit! Basically the exact opposite of NFTs!

It ha a successor in ComPro, but that kinda sputtered out, but one based around a specific theme like pixel art might be perfect! If only as an F-you to NFTs!

...But yeah, that’s my two cents on that good idea.

Boosting this! The opposite of NFTs has existed for a long time, it's called open source and creative commons. And to add something, Kenney has recently released this little app called Creature Mixer to create little animated pixel art sprites: https://kenney.itch.io/creature-mixer It's free and it's terms of use forbid any use with any kind of NFTs for the sprites created with it.

so, with some thanks to the lovely people above and with no further aplomb ‘cause it’s just a goofy 16 by 16 pixel goblin, here goes:

Nifty is a little 16 by 16 pixel goblin who’s yours to own and do whatever you wish to do with.

Licence: You can copy, modify and distribute this work, even for commercial projects, strictly excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens (so-called "NFT") or blockchain (related) projects.

I’ve included a blown up 80 by 80 pixel version simply because I know from experience that Tumblr messes up small pixel art, but I’ve included a version in the original 16 by 16 resolution. While Sprytile is my pixel art software of choice, any image editor should do as long as long as it allows for turning off anti-aliasing, the bane of anyone who’s worked with pixels.

anyway, that’s enough pomp and circumstance for my silly little goblin powered by spite, although I do think it turned out pretty cute

I know nobody cares but I made a bunch of Nifty’s because he’s just so cute

I CARE HOLY SHIT THIS WHIPS

Shhh... sleepy

hi i love Nifty so i brought him into the physical realm

pattern:

OH i literally JUST finished my nifty piece today:

It’s Nifty the goblin in a nice little forest home with a pet cat and some friendly ducks nearby. <3

I love everything about Nifty, but Nifty and his nice little forest home are about to make me cry

Nifty with one of my d&d characters. Short queens <3

EDIT: I FORGOT TES’S MOSS she gave some to Nifty

EDIT: I FORGOT

TES’S MOSS she

gave some to Nifty

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Hi! Another program that is working to be opposite NFTs is the Extremely Fungible Token program! A bunch of artists have gotten together and released NFT-like profile pictures that are totally free to use and screenshot. They are all in the Creative Commons, and there’s an optional donate link for you to donate to the artist if you love their work. (That’s where my profile pic comes from!)

So yeah, check out EFTs!

I really hate that pixel art is becoming associated with NFTs, pixel art rules

Maybe I should just make the opposite of an NFT, like I dunno, just a cute pixel art goblin anyone can right click+save for free and keep it forever and now it's theirs

You can put a hat on it too if you like

I’m totally on board. I’d like to propose a name for him: Nifty the Goblin. 

I love it, I'll try to whip something up when I'm feeling inspired

...

...[BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOL-AID MAN] HELLO, YES, HI, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS ART PROJECTS?!

...I mean, yeah, these sorts of opposite-of-NFTs Open Source Art things are something I dedicate a lot of brainspace to, and I actually have some suggestions!

Firstly, if you wanna do that, you’d probably want to use one of the organization Creative Commons’ licenses, to make the “anyone can use/save/alter it” official and legally binding, presumably one of their looser ones like CC-BY or CC0.

Secondly, honestly, this is a rad idea, something like Open Game Art’s various sprites but more as an art project than an assets thing, and i have an idea on how you could expand it further.

Basically: Fanpro but for Pixel Art. Which, for those who don’t know, Fanpro is basically this pool of character designs people contributed to for a while, released totally and utterly under a CC0 license, for anyone to use how they see fit! Basically the exact opposite of NFTs!

It ha a successor in ComPro, but that kinda sputtered out, but one based around a specific theme like pixel art might be perfect! If only as an F-you to NFTs!

...But yeah, that’s my two cents on that good idea.

Boosting this! The opposite of NFTs has existed for a long time, it's called open source and creative commons. And to add something, Kenney has recently released this little app called Creature Mixer to create little animated pixel art sprites: https://kenney.itch.io/creature-mixer It's free and it's terms of use forbid any use with any kind of NFTs for the sprites created with it.

so, with some thanks to the lovely people above and with no further aplomb ‘cause it’s just a goofy 16 by 16 pixel goblin, here goes:

Nifty is a little 16 by 16 pixel goblin who’s yours to own and do whatever you wish to do with.

Licence: You can copy, modify and distribute this work, even for commercial projects, strictly excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens (so-called "NFT") or blockchain (related) projects.

I’ve included a blown up 80 by 80 pixel version simply because I know from experience that Tumblr messes up small pixel art, but I’ve included a version in the original 16 by 16 resolution. While Sprytile is my pixel art software of choice, any image editor should do as long as long as it allows for turning off anti-aliasing, the bane of anyone who’s worked with pixels.

anyway, that’s enough pomp and circumstance for my silly little goblin powered by spite, although I do think it turned out pretty cute

I know nobody cares but I made a bunch of Nifty’s because he’s just so cute

I CARE HOLY SHIT THIS WHIPS

Shhh... sleepy

hi i love Nifty so i brought him into the physical realm

pattern:

OH i literally JUST finished my nifty piece today:

It’s Nifty the goblin in a nice little forest home with a pet cat and some friendly ducks nearby. <3

I love everything about Nifty, but Nifty and his nice little forest home are about to make me cry

Nifty with one of my d&d characters. Short queens <3

EDIT: I FORGOT TES’S MOSS she gave some to Nifty

EDIT: I FORGOT

TES’S MOSS she

gave some to Nifty

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.

This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:

If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!

The Studios: *speak*

Botanists and other Tree Experts: