πββ¬β¨ samwise/fionn/alto πββ¬β¨ they/star/moth/xor/he/ze/ve/xe (ou iel/il) πββ¬β¨ cohost of the quilt collective πββ¬β¨ multifandom (homestuck, amphibia, gravity falls, classic lit, les mis, sonic, wtnv, tma, black cat, etc) πββ¬β¨ very occasionally we type with a typing quirk; feel free to ask for a translation πββ¬β¨ i'm an adult now BUT please don't follow me if you're a porn blog (or like... that's exclusively what you do, you know?) πββ¬β¨ i used to be @h-e-double-gun so you might know me from that
heya, it's samwise/alto/paradox/orion/perseus/tamiss/fionn here. i'm the host of the quilt collective and this is my blog! (though other members will post here sometimes. dw about it)
my pronouns page is here -> link
sideblogs are going under the cut since i've got a lot
@arachnidsgr1p - vriska's blog
@ghosts-of-gold - lexie's blog
@luna---moth - luna's blog
@jazzyteas - jazz's blog
@rainyyyyyyyyy - ailbhe's blog
@knightoftimez - dave's blog
@sweetsweetlolita - my sweet lolita blog
@stimsandcrims - stim blog
@a-quilted-milky-way - gender hoard/coining blog
@pluralstuck - plural homestuck blog
@transsexual-stuck - trans homestuck blog
@the-golden-ghosts - blog for the golden ghosts au
@bugsnblinkies - blinkies blog
(i run @punctuation-completionist , @i-say-not-ok , and @vriska-identifier but those are on the down low so shhh)
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1. I will always find it weird for an adult to think a child is being "manipulative" because a child quite literally doesn't have the brain development to understand what manipulation is or why they shouldn't be manipulative.
2. Yes, Disabled adults *can* be manipulative, as any adult can be. However, I think it's important to realize that Disabled people are somewhat set up to be strategic in order to get needs met. This can essentially train us to lean into manipulative behaviors. Direct and clear communication is often not only inconsistent, but we are also at high risk if it fails. This means that we can be placed in a similar state of vulnerability as children, where we simply have to be strategic to survive (or at least that is the instinct).
One time I came home from uni very upset and my younger siblings asked what's wrong. I said that mutated flies in our lab escaped because someone broke their jar. I didn't even realise how scary it sounded to them until I saw their faces lmao. I was upset because we were short on said flies (they don't reproduce very well) and my siblings thought that some crazy radioactive fly monsters escaped and we are all fucked now. Love being a mad scientist in their eyes lowkey
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they really gave us a female lead in a star wars movie & made her kind and good and angry and powerful and complex & then spent the next 2 movies revolving almost her entire storyline around a white male war criminal who abused her, abused her friends, abused her family. all the while validating all the people who romanticized gaslighting and torture. for fan service lmaoΒ
they also gave us a strong black male lead who was kind and rebelled against his entire way of life when he saw the atrocities he was expected to take part in. He risked his life to save others and was shown to love and care deeply for his friends and willing to sacrifice himself to save him. Then the next two movies infantilize him to be this weak self preserving side character with literally no agency beyond yelling other characterβs names.
They also gave us a Latino sci-fi hero who was an ace fighter pilot with a heart of gold and a wealth of courage who showed an incredible amount of support and kindness and trust towards a man who he had just met. Then the next two movies relegated him to being a chronic fuck-up and then ret-conned his ace pilot backstory in service of a racist drug dealer backstory to make him more like Han Solo
my archnemesis @baleful-meat-worm graciously entrusted me with drawing its somewhere else jon design. therefore he will be cozy and happy and warm :-) yay
so one of the largest open source data communities on the internet, data.world, got bought out by a company called ServiceNow, who has decided to fucking delete all of it by July 11th. they've given users barely any notice, no emails, just a fucking banner at the top and a blog post from June that gives barely a month to download your data before they fucking delete it all.
a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.
i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.
the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)
and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.
an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:
I haven't, I don't really have a reddit anymore. if somebody else would be willing to do that, that would be great. I'm pretty sure it only lets you post with a certain amount of karma now which is annoying
It looks like this has gotten onto Reddit and people are saving the data - but I can imagine researchers who uploaded assets wonβt know this, so hopefully can reach some.
There are over 3500 respectable data repositories on one respectable global registry; to a researcher thereβs no point in data existing if not findable; if youβre trying to find a new home for your dataset, start there
Iβve been emailing folks at my university about this today, and no one that I have talked to has been previously aware that this is happening.
Here are some of the scripts Iβm using to email University Research Librarians and department chairs/assistant and associate deans who I know oversee faculty who use resources from data.world for their lessons:
Email for a Research Librarian: To find a research librarian try running an internet search like: β[College Name] Library Staff Directoryβ and see who may be a good fit.
Subject: Data.world public archive private purchase and deletion
Hi [Research Librarian or Data Preservation Specialist],
I recently ran into news that data.world has been purchased by ServiceNow, and that ServiceNow is ending public access to these archives July 11th. This is a very large public data archive that I personally used in my undergraduate work several years ago. I don't know much about digital preservation, or how it works at [College Name], but I thought it might be worthwhile to try reaching out.
I wanted to let someone in Libraries know in case current [College Name] students are using data in this archive for their research and need to be notified to save the data elsewhere, and to see if there is anything that [College Name] can do to help with greater preservation efforts.
The archive can be accessed here for now. A login is required, but it is free to set up.
https://data.world/_all/w/datasets
Here is a screenshot with the announcement of the closure of the site. Site users were not notified that access will be ending and would have to be looking at the page regularly to know that access will be terminated.
Please let anyone know who may need to use the site (or who would be interested in trying to preserve it).
Thanks,
[Your Name]
[Your Job/College Affiliation]
[Your Contact Information]
If you know a current department or school within a college that is using data.world archives, this is a template that I am using to contact department chairs or assistant/associate deans of research within specific schools.
Subject: Loss of public data.world access 7/11/26
Hi [Dr. Last Name]
I recently learned that the public data archive data.world has been purchased by ServiceNow and that they are closing public access 7/11/26. [Sentence about how the data is or was used by the department/school you are contacting].
I wanted to make sure this was on your radar in case any students are doing research with this data and need to act quickly to retrieve the data sources they need for their work, similarly for faculty using this data in their research or teaching.
The archive can be accessed here for now. A login is required, but it is free to set up.
https://data.world/_all/w/datasets
Here is a screenshot with the announcement of the closure of the site. Site users were not notified that access will be ending and would have to be looking at the page regularly to know that access will be terminated.
Please let anyone know who may need to use the site (or who would be interested in trying to preserve it).
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Martin Blackwood was ABSOLUTELY going to be the next person Jonah Magnus wore if the ritual didn't pop off and he had to wait until the next Archivist.
We can infer from his choice of Elias Bouchard (Eric Delano and Gertrude Robinson, both of them former coworkers with the real Elias, were SHOCKED he was head of the Institute) that Jonah got some delight out of picking a "failure" with no close family ties and hauling them up the ladder. And NO ONE would have seen "Martin" getting hand selected.
With the way Simon and Peter treated Martin? Yeah, they knew it, too. They KNEW Jonah's taste.
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u can tell the 4chan migration on here was successful / we lost the culture war bc anytime i even touch a post regarding autism i automatically get recommended more post about it and the post will literally have phrases like βtotal neurotypical deathβ with 20k notes and a bunch of high functioning white autistic ppl rbing it happily and giggling and whatever not even caring that βtndβ is a racist dog whistle no not even a dog whistle just straight up a racist chant but if u ask them to stop using it they go βso now we cant even complain about neurotypical?????β as if thats whats being criticized instead of the fact that yall r extremely open to fascism as long as its fun
to clarify any variation of βtotal ____ deathβ is just a rebranding of the nazi slogan βtotal nigger deathβ like. ur just using a nazi slogan, u cannot swap out black people in that phrase and think its okay to use now, especially if ur still using a word that starts with the letter n like im kinda sick of yall being so okay with hating black people
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