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on the plus(?) side they let me sign up for Instagram again and I even got my old username back, just all my pictures are gone obviously. I guess I don't break their community guidelines anymore. Yay.
now you can't even look at instagram without an account? And you can't get an account without agreeing to have your data processed for ads, or pay €6 a month. €6 to use instagram and trust them not to save, process, and sell your data anyway (yeah right).
and so the internet continues to get crappier and for some reason everyone continues to use instagram and co anyway even though we all agree it's crap and people are still posting pictures of themselves and their kids and their families on there even though we know it'll be used for AI and the same on Twitter even though there's an in-built feature for people to take and alter your pictures with AI and yes these corporations are evil but I do not understand the users
ok seeing all the recent temperature polls i have another one for you
which would be less horrible to exist in?
-40° F
-40° C
I won't let you keep this in the tags
Just found this but couldn’t reblog it. I had just finished organizing a doc for a fanfic that I’m working on with a friend…. I guess I need to fucking move it now. Ffs.
Ellipsus is really good. So is libre office.

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buckynat shippers all ready to live the ship vicariously through whatever will happen in the batman sequel 👍
Etsy has now somehow* managed to turn off the email notifications when I make a sale. It worked for eleven years. Never missed one. Now suddenly it doesn't work anymore, and after two chats with customer service, several people have tried and failed to turn it back on.
And they want me to trust them with my private data. They'll encrypt it and keep it safe. No chance of the encryption feature being accidentally* disabled or the data being leaked or sold or anything like that. Promise.
*what are we betting that they (the company still trusting Persona to handle sensitive personal data ethically and correctly) just implemented a new state-of-the-art infallible super-smart AI system and fired the guy who made things work?
I just. You couldn't make this up.
The second chat ended with them saying that they'd passed it onto the "appropriate team" and they'd look into it and get back to me. Well, they got back to me:
"To fix issues with the Etsy app, follow these steps, blah blah"
... I didn't mention the app. I don't use the app. My one and only problem is that I don't get emails when I make a sale. Somehow either a) the initial support guy passed along the completely wrong problem, or b) the "appropriate team" completely misunderstood what the problem is.
Oh, and they also sent me a link to a customer satisfaction survey. It goes to a page that says "this survey is unavailable".
Give us your private data! You can trust us. You can trust our system. Everything here works perfectly. Friend system, very trust, much expert, you trust system for to keep safe :)
In a move that is long overdue, I am finally resuming work on my visual novel AND @iverna has agreed to come on board for the character art!
While production will be slower than I’d like due to the team needing to work other jobs/gigs, I am beyond excited to be working on this again. Hoping a revamped and complete demo will be up by the end of the summer, and who knows with a lot of luck (and funding 😂), maybe we’ll get even further.
An adventurer's quest to escape boredom defies expectations
Etsy has now somehow* managed to turn off the email notifications when I make a sale. It worked for eleven years. Never missed one. Now suddenly it doesn't work anymore, and after two chats with customer service, several people have tried and failed to turn it back on.
And they want me to trust them with my private data. They'll encrypt it and keep it safe. No chance of the encryption feature being accidentally* disabled or the data being leaked or sold or anything like that. Promise.
*what are we betting that they (the company still trusting Persona to handle sensitive personal data ethically and correctly) just implemented a new state-of-the-art infallible super-smart AI system and fired the guy who made things work?
The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

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Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.
If you manage to get on the turnpike before the cops stop you, a soccer mom is gonna do the Jersey slide in a RAV4 and turn your entire group into a wet speedbump
this? you want to walk down this????
please say sike
IT'S NOT A FUCKING STREET ITS AN 8-LANE SUPERHIGHWAY THAT GOES OVER A SWAMP
footpath
that is grass. just like ur ass, if you try to walk this thing
Image me gently taking your hand as I tell you the following:
This is ABSOLUTELY a perfectly fine footpath.
In fact, with how much space I’m seeing here, it is entirely plausible, that the European hordes will just create a temporary little Wanderweg right next to the highway. With that much space they might not even have to interfere with traffic.
But also have you seen the space between your highways? I‘d say the gaps each easily fit another whole stream of European walking hordes. Or maybe even two going opposite directions :D
tightly grips your hand with both of my sweaty hands.
the grass is not a permanent feature. there just happens to be a chunk of it there. the side of the road can vary from grass to swampwater ditches to steep embankments to absolutely nothing within a very short distance.
they will call in every highway enforcer in the state and mass incarcerate the lot of you before they allow you to Darwin Award yourselves across 6 lanes of traffic into an international incident or, (their real concern) impede the progress of the single most important north-south interstate corridor in america, ball kicky game be damned.
(I'm starting to believe that a fair number of you in the notes have We're Better Than Stupid Americans embedded so deeply into your cultural identity that you will Just Not Listen to anything we say to you about the material circumstances about the place we live in, rather than taking us at our word that there is a reason that most Americans travel the way we do and it's a good reason.)
maybe if we let enough europeans trample our verges they'll form functional desire paths
soooo your fancy "algorithm" relies on tens of thousands of underpaid workers pointing out to it what it's, well, not looking at because it's incapable of looking
yeah that sounds about right
special mention to the guy whose job was remotely monitoring CCTV footage in foreign shops while officially "AI" was detecting threats. There was no AI. Just disillusioned exploited Madagascan IT workers watching the screen.
real sentience and intelligence though, Any Day Now, just keep giving us money
Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses
King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.
He didn't want to talk to you.
Uh.
Point of order.
King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.
This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.
King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.
Look, at a full gallop gallop (25 mph), that trip would take under a day (18 hours). Doing it in 4 doesn't sound so impressive now, does it.
I don't know shit about horses, but I have a feeling no mortal horse can sustain a gallop for eighteen hours without keeling over dead
To contextualize:
Horses are not machines. You cannot just take the max speed of a horse and scale it up and go "that's how far a horse can go and how fast!" Horses are like us. The top speed of a human recorded is somewhere around 27mph. We sustain that for about 30-35 seconds, which is much less than a mile distance even at 27mph.
There is a guy who pulled 350 miles in something over 3 days running, but a. Humans actually have better endurance than horses (we're just a lot weaker) and importantly for this discussion, b. He was in absolute physical ruin at the other end - missing toenails, feed bleeding freely from multiple blisters, hypothermic, and woulda been in some Trouble if he hadn't had modern medicine right there to help him out. He was also running in the best equipment modern money can buy, on paved roads and clear terrain, and with his family driving alongside to help him swap socks, shoes, rinse the blood out, give him food to eat, water, and so on.
And again: humans are better at endurance than horses (honestly we're just fucking ridiculous, at peak condition, in terms of endurance, we're absurd) and the guy was a useless wreck at the end.
For horses, modern endurance races tend to max at 100miles, which are completed in around 18 hours (the max allowed is 24); there are some 2-day 100 mile races where you do two 50s and then add them together after sleeping overnight.
(This is the race for one rider with the same horse - there are much longer races (like the Mongolian Derby), but those involve switching horses, in order not to, you know, kill them.)
For the endurance races, those are intensely trained for and they're the big Effort for the year. Vet staff monitor the horses' very carefully at multiple stops, because it's very easy to injure them. Multi-day races are maxed at 50m/day in order to avoid injuring the horses.
After the race, horses normally need a month or more to recover from the effort, before it's even safe to do anything BUT rest with them, let alone actually race again.
Now if you're in a hurry and have no posts to get totally fresh horses (which is what things like the Persian messengers or the Pony Express did), you can eke a bit more out of this as within the story Théoden et al certainly did by having multiple horses, as it's harder for a horse to run with you on its back than to just run freely.
In the same time that it takes Gandalf to reach Minas Tirith, Théoden et al get to Dunharrow. Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead because they cut under Dunharrow and vastly decrease the amount of distance in order to get to the Pelargirs, because his use of the Stone has shown him that if there isn't a lot more help than Théoden is bringing sooner than he is bringing it, Minas Tirith is fucked, and it is not physically possible for Théoden to get to the Pelennor before the 15th of March and still have horses that are capable of being ridden into battle.
(Obviously, part of what he did was cut off the enemy reinforcements by doing this, thus meaning that he reduced the need for significant more numbers arriving before the Corsairs would have . . . because he arrived instead of the Corsairs.)
. . . Shadowfax ran to Minas Tirith over the same terrain in four days. That would be a little over a hundred miles a night without stopping (Pippin is specific about how infrequently they stopped and that it seemed to have been entirely for Gandalf to talk to people) and when they get there he might as well have just come off a long rest, and thinks it's super stupid that he has to go wait in a stall while his two-legs goes and does talky-stuff. The next day he runs a super-speed race out to drive the Nazgûl off in order for Faramir to continue his retreat from Osgiliath (rather than be routed).
Shadowfax just did something that would kill a normal horse and then went " . . .what, like it's hard?"
To be fair, sure, Shadowfax was probably cantering because frankly fuckin' riding at a flat gallop for 4 days would be punitively exhausting even for Gandalf's new incarnation with some of his previous restrictions eased, never mind for Pippin, while a canter is p much the most comfortable gait. But for fuck's sake, guys.
Yes, a racehorse can, at flat fastest run, get over 25mph (Secretariat hit the 30s) - they do this for less than 2 miles.
A normal horse would have keeled over dead somewhere in the middle of that ride. If you had a super-trained endurance one they might make it in six-ish but they're not going to be useful for anything when you get there and are probably useless for several months if you want them to stay sound. (And you might still have killed them, or at least made them permanently lame.)
Shadowfax was like "toss me a waterbottle bro and then let's get back out there this stable shit is boring."
So yeah no, King of Horses was not, in fact, just kinda like the other horses.
Do you think the other horses in the stable were freaked out that he was there?
Honestly suspect the opposite: it's strongly implied thru stated that other horses see Shadowfax as essentially the most comforting and security-imbuing figure in the world and tend to orient around him (implied a number of places; outright stated at the point that the three horses Aragorn and Legolas were riding initially ran away and then encountered Shadowfax in the leadup to when the three of them encountered Gandalf, if I'm remembering correctly).
To horses Shadowfax isn't Scary Freak of Nature; he's Amazing Hero come to Make All Safe. If anything they're probably like oh thank god, Dad's here - I've been getting kinda tense with all this Two Legs Stress around, but if Dad's here and pretty chill, we're fine.
I still don't see the appeal of going on a cruise
at best you get to be cramped on a ship with hundreds or thousands of other idiots, every day you dock somewhere else and annoy the locals, the rest of the time you harm marine life and pollute the ocean
at worst a virus breaks out aboard and you get to either a) die immediately because you can't get to a hospital or b) wait around for days or weeks while they figure out what to do, worrying about whether you're next, still cramped with the other aforementioned idiots

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Etsy is requiring all sellers to verify our identity, so at the end of May, I won't be able to sell on Etsy anymore.
To be clear, I have no problem verifying my identity. I already did. Etsy already has a copy of my government ID and my tax ID. The problem is that now they want me to give my ID to them again, and they're using Persona for the process.
Persona was in the news recently because it's the company Discord was going to use, until all the pushback. The pushback came because Persona a) left their collected data in a publicly-viewable database and b) turned out to be collecting wayyyy more data than they said they were and passing it onto the US government (source).
Discord since went back on that. Etsy is pushing forward. I asked them, and no, there is no way to verify myself and keep selling on there without giving my data to Persona. Unlike Discord users, most sellers don't seem to care, or just accept it as "the cost of doing business". I don't. I can't believe how easily people are giving up their privacy and, yes, their personal freedoms. "They can have my data, I have nothing to hide" - the point is that nobody is entitled to your data. They are taking your data, and selling it, and getting rich off it, and you don't see a cent of that money. Why? What gives them the right? How are you okay with someone simply taking your stuff and selling it? It's yours.
(Also, you have nothing to hide until someone decides that you are hiding something because they don't like the look of you or because you said something they didn't like. Going by history, that's how that tends to work.)
Anyway, my Etsy shop will likely be closed at the end of May. If you want anything from there, now's the time. I'll still have my website and I might just add prints to my Ko-Fi or something too if that's possible, but the Etsy chapter is closing, unfortunately.
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