Unbetitelt

protect em dashes.

This is so important and occurs outside of the fanfic space as well. I've seen authors get rejected because their book sounded 'too AI' when they're just the type of writer who knows how to use em dashes. I've seen content writers and copywriters spend hours on assignments they submit for job applications that reject them for 'using AI' that they never used to begin with! All while those jobs hire writers who did in fact use AI and prompt it NOT to 'sound like AI' (because yes that is something you can very easily do), and publishers work with authors who have openly mentioned using AI for 'editing and brainstorming' while receiving little to no backlash for it.

there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful

yesterday’s update… 📸 everyone is paparazzi when ur this famous…

On this day, 30 July 1971, 38 women members of the left-wing Tupamaros guerrilla group escaped from the Cabildo women's prison in Uruguay using a tunnel which had been dug into the prison from the sewers. To prepare for the escape, dubbed Operation Star, the women used items they had like thread to measure precise dimensions of prison rooms. They exchanged information and plans written on cigarette paper. Then, comrades on the outside spent five months digging two tunnels 18 m long, 1.2 m high and 80 cm wide. The first went from a rented house to the sewer; the second from the sewer to the prison. The final breakthrough into the prison took place using a hydraulic jack at 8:30 PM on July 30, while the women held a birthday party to cover the noise. They waited until lights out at 10 PM, then made their escape. Only four of the 42 prisoners decided to stay, because they were either pregnant or about to reach the end of their sentences. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8893/cabildo-prison-break Pic: some of the escapees

You know what, fuck it, I’ll be your mom.

Don’t ask ChatGPT. Ask me. At least if I’m wrong, I won’t accidentally fucking kill you. And I drink a normal, if not a little less than I should, amount of water.

On this day, 2 August 1924, James Baldwin, renowned gay Black author and social critic was born in Harlem, New York City. Frustrated with endemic racism in the United States, he moved to France where he spent most of his life. However, he did return to the US during the civil rights movement and played an active role in fighting racism, despite the official movement's homophobia, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma march in 1965. Baldwin believed racism to be a central tool of US capitalism, telling journalist Joe Walker: "Racism is crucial to the system to keep Black and whites at a division so both were and are a source of cheap labour… The price of any real socialism here [in the US] is the eradication of what we call the race problem." In 1968 Baldwin also pledged to refuse to pay tax in protest against the Vietnam war. For these "subversive" activities, Baldwin was subjected to illegal surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who collated 1,884 pages of documents on him. This collection of writings by Angela Davis begins with the letter sent to her by Baldwin: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davis

On this day, 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, for the “Indies,” with disastrous consequences for the people who already lived there. There are popular myths that he discovered the United States and proved the Earth was round. However, he never even set foot in what is now the mainland US, and the fact that the Earth was a sphere had been known since the days of the ancient Greeks. Columbus himself believed the Earth to be pear-shaped. He landed in what is now known as the Bahamas, where he and his crew were greeted by the Indigenous Taíno people, who lived in village communes and held all property in common. Columbus began immediately imprisoning and murdering the Indigenous people and enslaving them in the search for gold. The Taíno people began fighting back but couldn’t defeat the Spanish, with their advanced weaponry and armour, so many began to kill themselves and their children to avoid a worse fate. Within just two years, half of the 250,000 Indigenous people on nearby Haiti were dead. More colonisers came, and the genocide of the native population continued across the Caribbean and the Americas. Despite all of this, today, in many places across the region, Indigenous communities survive and continue to resist. This book gives a brief overview of five centuries of genocide and resistance: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill

every conversation on here increasingly feeling like this tweet

On this day, 10 August 1680, the Pueblo Revolt (also known as Popé's Rebellion) began in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (present-day New Mexico, US) as the Indigenous Pueblo people rose up against the colonisers. The Native people have suffered greatly from abuses by the Spanish, who enslaved local people, and routinely hanged, whipped and dismembered them. The Spanish also tried to impose Catholicism, and violently repressed local religious practices, and burned ceremonial pits and sacred objects. Led by a medicine man named Popé, the uprising began on August 10, and by August 21 Spanish colonisers have been forced to retreat. 400 Spanish were killed, and the other 2000 Spanish settlers were expelled from the province. The uprising was successful in liberating the land for 12 years. Tens of thousands of Pueblo people still live in the area today, some in the original ancient pueblos, like Taos Pueblo, which are considered to be some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the US. Learn more about Indigenous resistance in the Americas in our podcast episodes 88-89: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e88-89-indigenous-resistance-since-1992/ Pictured: mural depicting the rebellion by Loren Mozley

Please, do not leave me alone in this ordeal, and do not let me watch my son suffer while I am helpless to save him. Please help—even a little—just so my son stays safe and I can see him breathe without pain. 😭💔

THE SUN IS BURNING MY CHILDREN RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES AND I AM POWERLESS TO SAVE THEM. Look closely at this picture. This is not a tent protecting us from the sun it is nothing more than torn fabric trapping the heat over my children’s heads. The sunlight breaks through every gap, and the heat suffocates us from inside. My children are exhausted and suffering, while I stand helpless in front of them, with nowhere else to take them. This is not a life… this is a slow death we are living every single day. What father could bear watching his children suffer while being unable to do anything? My wife is suffering too, and my entire family is paying the price of living like this day after day

please donate but share as well, no human being let alone children should suffer like this. they are human beings, people who bleed the same way we do. their living conditions are not adaptable to live in, please help raise $600 so he can protect their children from the heat!

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Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

hello !! as most ? of you know (i think/i hope) i own Arctonauts.com. I'm up for renewal in November (the price is not accurate, I am in the process of downgrading this plan) and as I am currently unemployed, I am going to struggle to make whatever they ask of me (it will be over 200 most likely, for 3 years). So if you've liked Arctonauts and the content on it, please consider donating so I can keep the site alive a little longer.

I want to tell a little story about arctonauts! So every once in a while, I see a meme or post on tumblr about how often people use the Wikipedia page Personnel of Franklin’s lost expedition.