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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
Morning all. Best Paul McCartney voice:
"It was twenty years ago today…"
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no this is called lying
cant wait for this to pop up without context years down the line
A while back my pharmacist saw my deadname on my profile and accidentially called it out, he corrected and deleted my deadname from the system so only my preferred name shows up now. There was a crowd of people behind me, so as he hands over the pills he apologized, in equal tone and volume as when he called my deadname and lied saying it's been a long day and he didn't mean to call out -his own- name. I quietly told him it was fine and he didn't need to do that for my sake.
His response: "No, it's my name now."
I went to the pharmacist yesterday, his nametag is my deadname. He informed me he's immigrating and in the process he's changed his first name to my deadname to have an English sounding name. That's why he's now able to get a reprint of his nametag to be my deadname. And repeated, with the intense seriousness of someone who is going to die on this hill: "It's mine now. Not yours. I'm taking." His tone indicated that decision is final.
Bro literally deadnamed me once, and has committed to flat out stealing my deadname. It's his now. Legally. Officially. I over heard his co-workers call him by the name.
King shit! I need someone to steal my deadname(s)
Slow train journeys in rural England sure are an experience. You're going ten miles and it takes a day and a half because it stops at every lamp-post and the announcement says "The next station stop is Ferretley" or something and you think "I didn't know that was a place" and you get there and it isn't
Last stop was literally a picket fence, enough chopped wood to build another picket fence and, briefly, a train.
My guy Ferretby was barely builded here
Two clarifications:
Ferretby's name has been changed to protect the identities of it and its resident(s)
I specify slow trains to distinguish from the other two types of train in England: Delayed and Cancelled
My favourites are the Halts (a halt is naturally smaller than an actual stop.) Halts are often By Request only, a fact that may dismay you, if you:
A.) do not hold obscure local knowledge about the precise local distinction of which villages and hamlets are Halts and which are Stations, or
B.) aren’t familiar enough with colloquial British English to understand that when an elderly muppet doing a comedy voice quacks incoherently in an inhuman cadence into an underwater speaker at the other end of a bus carriage full of people shouting slowly and sweatily about football, THAT was actually vital information and you needed to hear it precisely and parse it perfectly - since that single incidence of quacking was the only briefing you were going to get about the situation re: this particular Halt, or
C.) you don’t have The App (each train line has its own app. Each train line is specific to a region. Many are silent on the etiquette of halts) or
D.) the PA system in the train was broken anyway (they usually are) so you had no chance of hearing any quacking muppet announcements even if the madman in charge of the train that day felt like making any.
On a route I travel sometimes there is a Halt By Request Only, Passengers For This Halt Must Inform The Conductor Of Their Request and Move To the Front Door of The Front Carriage Only As No Other Doors Open At This Halt. This is because the Halt has a small doormat-sized platform onto which you are catapulted, and if you do not land precisely on this platform you’d be shot into the river. If you don’t negotiate properly and if you haven’t figured out where to stand, TOO BAD.
If you are at the Halt hoping to catch the train , you are expected to flag it down like a bus. Hope and courage are required. It does Not always work.
The Halt is Picturesque and not far from a station, so you can get off at the halt and enjoy many pleasant scenic walks into the town at the station, where you can eat a nice lunch and get back on a train. (Or vice versa, disembark at the station and be collected at the halt.) this would be a delightful thing to do on a visit and is recommended to visitors, who are expected to understand how this Halt operates through osmosis.
I’ve seen many sad and bewildered visitors be unwillingly shunted into a city they had no intention of visiting, after assuming that a train stop they intended and requested on the map/app/ticket was an actual train stop, and not an arcane and elaborate masquerade, a train stop by previous arrangement only
Yup. This is a picture of Greenway Halt:
A whole two carriages of platform, specially built on the tourist line to let tourists visit a major tourism destination (Agatha Christie's house)
I have never worked out how to get the trains to stop there or pick up from there. Lovely walk to the actual stations in either direction tho.
On the one hand incredibly frustrating. On the other at least there's still an attempt at a service. Town near me has platforms in good repair, the station will definitely re open soon! They've been saying that for twenty years now
I've been meaning to write this down for some time because there are some fundamental errors that people keep making in crowdfunding/sales that shoot their campaigns in the foot. So here's a list of easy principles.
Who am I and why should you listen to me? I am a freelance chaos marketer who has raised well over $100,000 when totaling up various crowdfunding campaigns, mostly for aid to Afghanistan. In addition I've managed to successfully market everything from stuffed plush koalas to hydration salts. Why am I putting this out here for free? Because despite a years long track record of success in social media marketing no one will hire me because I don't have a college degree, so I might as well help people out who can't afford to hire full time marketing.
If you'd like to hire me to help you evaluate your marketing and sales and teach you better skills on a 1 to 1 basis then hit me up, I am often willing to barter, esp with artists in a variety of mediums!
Anyway on to HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO GIVE YOU MONEY:
TL;DR: use positive messaging that humanizes everyone involved and make it as easy as possible for people to give you money.
1. Shame and guilt are demotivators. They will not inspire people to give you money. “Why aren't people helping” “I guess people don't care” “This isn't getting enough shares/donations” etc etc. Online fundraising is often frustrating, heartbreaking, and will make you angry, especially when there's a humanitarian crisis involved. It is critical that if you are raising funds for someone else that you have a place to vent that is not the audience you would like to donate to the cause.
2. Use motivating messages instead! “You can help!” “Even a small donation is important because it tells Recipient they're not alone, and people care” “We can't fix the whole world, but we can make this one thing right, and that means something”. Emphasize that this is a problem that the reader can help fix with even a small effort. With items for sale, tell a story. "I drew this thinking about how safe I always felt under a tree in my childhood backyard". "I chose the colors in this shawl to remind me of sagebrush and piñon pine in my favorite place."
3. Make it easy for people to give you money. Never talk about your product or cause without a link that leads directly to where people can give you money. They should be able to click one link on your post and land at the fundraiser or your shop. Every required click is going to lose people, so minimize the number of them required. This also means if you have a list of fundraisers for people to choose from the ones at the bottom will be neglected - people will hit the ones at the top. Be sure to take those off when they're met or periodically shuffle the list around to make sure everyone gets a chance to be in the first 5 spots. In online stores people will often only look at the first page or two of items so be sure to shuffle things around and remove out of stock items that are taking up prime real estate.
4. Humanize the recipient - this can be tricksy when raising charitable aid because you don't want to be exploitative. But to use my last Afghan campaign as an example, “We need to raise $500 for an Afghan family” is less effective than “This Afghan family's home was damaged in heavy rains that caused extensive flooding. They only need $500 to repair and rebuild so they can stay in their home and not become displaced.” If possible, tell as much of the recipient's story as they consent to. Eg “Fred is seven and loves dinosaurs. His favorite is brontosaurus, and he carries a stuffed one with him everywhere. He wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up and discover a complete brontosaurus skeleton that he can give the same name as his stuffed friend. Unfortunately he's also a trans boy living in Texas and his family needs $1500 to rent a Uhaul and get to Colorado so he can grow up in safety and do that.”
5. If you're not the recipient, humanize yourself while you're at it! “I'd be really grateful if you all could share or donate” “This fundraiser really means a lot to me because…” “Thank you so much for any help, whether sharing or donating”
6. Treat the audience like humans. Speak to them like they are people you're having a conversation with, not ATMs. This ultimately is the goal of not using shame/guilt and humanizing yourself and the recipient.
7. Set low goals and bump them up when met. One of the weird things about people is they prefer to give to successful fundraisers. Yeah I don't know either. So you're more likely to get the full amount you need if you set a partial goal initially and then raise it when that's met. Raise it in small increments and raise it repeatedly as those goals are hit to keep momentum going. You can't always control this so if you're boosting someone else's fundraiser you can do it artificially via asks like “Hey y'all can we get together and put $500 on this?”
As the recipient of the marketing push for stuffed plush koalas, I am fully koalified to state that Shep knows what he's talking about.
You had to, didn't you?
Of course she did. Just be grateful no one has ever suggested using you as a transhipment point for European sales ;-)
But yeah, been following Shep online in various places for over a decade now, the track record is impressive, this is all good advice (says the former marketing dude who had a breakdown and quit nearly two decades ago )
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Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map
I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭
So uh I finally decided to see how long it would take to walk
BRO WHY DID YOU NOT JUST WALK
Pisses of God of Ocean
Decides to take the boat home
I'm sure it will be fine
There's being blown a bit off course then there's accidental France. Walking the Bosphorus would've been a bit of a challenge but the big problem was the loot, obvs
Just follow the coast around, no shortcuts, you'll be fine…
The Count in his Count Mobile.
Really wanna dig thru the ditches and burn thru the witches in this ride.
No no no. That's the Count Mobile, Dragula looked like this:
Would love to see them race tho…
It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique
Hey remember how you guys kept saying “why not just go to another bakery”?
Hundreds of Science Fiction novels
Uncountable hours of hobbyist studies of Astrophysics
Documentaries. Classes.
This. Is what finally gets me to see how
IMMENSE
Jupiter really is
It really is like 10% of the way to being a Star huh
It looks like there’s enough material for a whole additional planet after Mars, that’s just… being perpetually perturbed out of a proper accretion disk by Jupiter’s big fat fucking gravity well.
Huh.
So why are the red objects in a triangle? And how come the green clusters are at only two of the points?
Because of the interaction between Jupiter's gravity and the Sun's gravity, only certain orbits are stable. Specifically, orbital periods close to - but just a little longer or a little shorter than - Jupiter's are unstable. This actually holds true to some extent for all the IAU-recognized planets, though it's most obvious with Jupiter. The green clusters are known as the Trojans (called that because they were named after figures from the Trojan War - with two exceptions, those at the leading point are named after figures on the Greek side and those at the trailing point are named after figures on the Trojan side), which surround two of the five Lagrange Points, known as the L4 and L5 points, which are 60 degrees ahead and behind it. A diagram using the Earth-Moon system (not to scale):
The principle is the same for any system where the first object is much larger than the second object, with the same angular separations
Anything at one of those points will have a stable orbit equal in length to the Earth's orbit. However, only the L4 and L5 are stable in the long term. Objects that are close to the L4 and L5 point will, over the long run, kind of circle around them, with an orbit that varies over time, being sometimes slightly shorter than and sometimes slightly longer than the second object, but averaging over the long run exactly the same, causing their angular distance from Jupiter to fluctuate over time, but always around 60 degrees. Because of Jupiter's large mass, it has the most dramatic effect. A large number of asteroids have gotten caught in orbits around its L4 and L5 points. These are the ones that are marked in green on the above gif. Jupiter has over 10,000 total known asteroids between its L4 and L5 points, while most of the other planets have a few in theirs. Earth, for example, has two known asteroids in its L4 point, but none in its L5 point. Neptune has a total of 28 known asteroids between its L4 and L5 points. Mercury and Saturn are not known to have any. Theoretically, it might be possible in some other solar system for an actual planetary-mass object to be located in the L4 or L5 point of a larger Jovian, though no such system has been discovered to date
The red asteroids are known as the Hilda asteroids (named after their largest member, the asteroid 153 Hilda). Unlike the Trojans, their orbits are not in a 1:1 ratio, but rather, in a 3:2 ratio, that is, they orbit three times for every two of Jupiter's orbits (on average). Their aphelion (furthest point from the Sun) approaches Jupiter's orbit, but their orbits are such that those aphelions are reached when Jupiter is either 60 degrees ahead, 180 degrees, or 60 degrees behind - as their orbital period is 2/3 of Jupiter's orbit, each time it reaches the aphelion, the angular separation between it and Jupiter is 120 degrees less - i.e., if the first time it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Jupiter, the second time it will be 60 degrees ahead, the third time it will be 60 degrees behind, and then repeating the fourth time. Hence, when you map out all of them, those at their furthest approach from the Sun - coming approximately to Jupiter's orbit - are either 60 degrees behind Jupiter, 60 degrees ahead, or 180 away, and those that are at their closet point are between the Sun and Jupiter, 120 degrees ahead, or 120 degrees behind, with those at intermediate distances being at intermediate angles. So, each individual asteroid follows an elliptical orbit, but the sum total of all their positions creates a rough triangle which appears to orbit with Jupiter
Other orbits that are close to Jupiter's, but not in those 1:1 or 2:3 ratios, don't last long. They'll either end up getting caught up in the 1:1 or 2:3 ratio, or end up getting flung out of those orbits ending up in significantly smaller or significantly larger orbits. Jupiter's orbit also causes certain gaps in the asteroid belt around orbital periods that would be unstable with Jupiter's influence
#was anyone going to tell me#the asteroid belt is more of a triangle#or was i supposed to see a tumblr post about it by myself?
@injuries-in-dust That's not actually the asteroid belt! The main asteroid belt is in a circular shape. A more complete, but non-animated, image:
The big white band is the main asteroid belt. The animated image above only shows the Jupiter Trojans and the Hildas, two specific groups of asteroids which are outside the asteroid belt itself
It gets even better. Is Jupiter big? Yup. Jupiter is so big that
Jupiter doesn't orbit the Sun!
Seriously:
An orbit has a barycentre. If that's inside a thing you're orbiting the thing. If it's outside? Both you and the thing are orbiting that point. Jupiter is so big it forces the sun to wobble in it's orbit around the Galaxy. NASA has a longer explainer here:
And how does it help us find new planets?
How cool is that?
A performance by 蔡宏毅 (Cai Hongyi), whose specialty is sword dance.
wait that's fucking sick
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Would be great for a children's hospital
I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. Blood in the urine is a major diagnostic warning sign and an important symptom for any child at a hospital. If you have a pool like this at a children's hospital, how are you supposed to be able to see whether their pee has blood in it
“ICEBERG , ICEBERG!”
i’m so done
lettuce have a moment of silence in remembrance of the titanic
Part of the reason “We shouldn’t have to drive to the grocery store” is such a hard sell to Americans is because car culture has encouraged us to think of the grocery store as a place where you buy a trunkload of food and supplies once a week, or even less frequently. When someone goes “You should be able to take public transportation to the store!” we usually imagine ourselves struggling to carry our trunkload of groceries onto the bus, correctly conclude that it would suck, and dismiss the idea out of hand. It tends not to occur to us that people in other countries manage to stop at the market every couple of days for a small number of items.
That is actually one of the most interesting things about urban design, they way that it alters human behavior through things such as how often do you go grocery shopping and for how much, because that all has to do with how you get to the store
My mom hated grocery shopping and tried to do it once a month. I can see why Americans do this thing, and not just because of urban design. Not that the design doesn't contribute - it absolutely does - yet there are other factors. Like how much my mom hated the grocery store. She died over 20 years ago so I can't ask, but other things I do remember and things I've learned make me wonder if she was neurodiverse and if groceries were overstimulating for her.
We only lived in a suburb sometimes. Even when we lived in the city we went to Kroger's because they're wasn't always a smaller market in the area. Which I'm sure is ultimately due to the prevalence of car culture.
When house hunting, one of our major preferences was walking distance to a supermarket (it's what we call big grocery stores in England). 5 mins to Tesco, 10 to Sainsbury, 15 to Lidl and bonus 8 mins to the town centre high street. Mission accomplished
Despite this the staff are regularly surprised when I say I'm walking the shop home, and the layouts are distinctly unfriendly to pedestrians, even tho they're not meant to be
I miss stopping for a few essentials while changing bus for my commute home when I lived in Wimbledon and worked in Westminster, but I can, easily, pop to the shops —we can even have one of us grab a few things during a dog walk, as long as one of the things is dog treats. I do not miss owning a car, and love living somewhere that's an actual option
Today I discovered that the naming convention in Arkady Martine's series, Teixcalaan, isn't something she made for her books, but is from Mixtec (a Mesoamerican society)!
@specialagentartemis It might be a series you'd like. I'll bet you'd notice a lot more historical parallels than I did. Also, on a related note, I've been reading 1491 and it's good. (Not great, but solidly good for me as a layman.)
Ahh that's been on my To Read list for a while... the cultural influences from both postclassic Mesoamerica and Byzantine Eastern Europe have intrigued me...
Both are excellent, suspect 1491 is quite dated now and would love to read an updated or similar book —for a start pretty sure the cotton first hypothesis for Caral–Supe/Norte Chico agriculture is almost completely rejected even if it is fascinating
you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing
this comment fucking destroys me. I can’t think about Alan Turing for too long or I start crying.
Here is @lurchermumjennie with young Ridley sat with Alan. It's a lovely statue, easy walking distance from Manchester's main train station, and there's virtually always someone sat eating with him
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New cosmology dropped, we know what's underneath the turtle now!
you know how you can go and watch a movie you watched a bunch as a kid and the version of a song in it is different? like they actually changed it since you were a kid? that isn't normal. we didn't do that until like, the last ten years. it's fucked up.
This is a post about how the Extra-Special-Super-Limited-Collector's-Wet-Dream versions of Neon Genesis Evangelion that cost $250 on ebay don't have "Fly Me to the Moon" in the credits even on the ADV dub.
i know I'm playing this off as me being pedantic but i really shouldn't.
Up til about the last 10 years it was widely understood that if you licensed a song to be used in a film or a video game or a television show that that song would be in that film or video game or television show in perpetuity.
Then, about a decade ago, things started changing. I don't know the exact point in time it changed, but the first time i became aware of it was around 2017 or '18 when some video game, i think it was Grand Theft Auto IV, got a big patch that did exactly one thing and that was remove a bunch of songs that had been in the game because the licensing expired.
And I remember being angered by that but going "oh well, that's video games, right?"
But then a couple years later when Netflix got the rights to Neon Genesis Evangelion and not only put out a new dub but took "Fly Me to the Moon" out of the show, even on the above ultra-fancy collector's Blu-ray set, which included the old dub.
And then recently i was watching From the Earth to the Moon, a HBO miniseries about the Apollo program that I've watched many many times in my life. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and i saw that it was on HBO Max. The thing that made me wanna watch was that it was remastered in 4K. Up til a couple years ago the only version available had been on DVD and I was, you know, really excited because I'm a bit of a cinephile (as you all may have gathered from my, uh, everything) and it's something I'm very familiar with.
Now as you might expect from a docudrama about the Apollo program, there's a lot of 50s, 60s, and early 70s music in it. Episode 5, "Spider", opens with a montage of space age art set to the theme song for Fireball XL-5.
So I'm watching this episode, which mind you, is one of my absolute favorites both as a space nerd and a machine fucker. (When you are done reading this post, please take the time to watch this clip that was formative to me as a robot girl.) So I'm on my nostalgia trip and i get yanked the fuck out because the song playing is not the right one.
It's still the theme song to Fireball XL-5, but its a cover, clearly recorded much later than the original, and it's really fucking jarring. Because the original is the exact sort of kitschy, early-60s space-age stuff that is being montaged in this opening scene.
And the really nutso thing is, I can't find anything about this anywhere. It's not that I'm crazy or that it isn't happening, its that it's just...gone. They do that now.
This is not normal.
It is not normal for companies (because this is 100% corporate pissing contests) to be able to retroactively change pieces of art because they don't want to lend their "intellectual property" to it anymore.
You should be angry about this. It's disgusting. And it was not normal until the last decade.
I do hate it, but it has been normal for several decades. There was a sitcom series in the late 1970s - early 1980s called WKRP In Cincinatti. It was about a rock music FM radio station and a huge part of its success was that they involved real popular rock music from the time. It did pretty well, and continued on in syndicated reruns for several years until the original music rights expired. Suddenly the record companies that had licensed 17-second clips for $3000 wanted six figure sums to continue. Poof. Disappeared.
The rights to the show changed hands and the new owners wanted their property back out on the market, so like you describe, they did hack-job soundalikes of the originals or sometimes even just generic rock-like stock production library instrumentals, re-dubbing lines with imitation actors when there was dialogue over the music. Wikipedia says they had to re-dub the doorbell at one character's apartment because the original was a licensed tune (Fly Me To The Moon. They tried it with the first season, it bombed for good reason, they didn't continue with the later seasons.
Yeah, as much as i also dislike it, it has been going on for a long time. And it's not limited to American media or anime, it's basically everything, from everywhere. The British TV show Top Gear had several instances of music being erased between the initial airing and subsequent re-broadcasts/DVD releases. As a notable example, during the Vietnam tour special, the 'backup vehicle' was a horrifically Americana-plastered Evel-Knievel-style motorbike which had Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' blaring at max volume. In all rebroadcast versions, Born in the USA was swapped out for a generic instrumental version of the Star Spangled Banner.
The first episode of Red Dwarf has an important foreshadowing joke ruined without the right music —as the funeral casket is launched into the ether, George's chosen song is played: "See You Later Alligator"
On the Netflix stream, it's replaced with a generic "ere we go ere we go"
Which means the later invite for all crew to attend the Welcome Back George party doesn't hit as well
I was a kid at school when that was broadcast, I'll be 50 next month, but the VHS releases and repeats were limited for half a decade because some rights weren't negotiated properly
