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A word of advice: If you only hit the Like heart, your blog appears to be empty and your tumblr experience will not be good. Because people will block you.

I will block you.

I emphasize this because @petermorwood was up late late Saturday night deleting both bots and empty blogs, and when I woke up he was lying next to me talking in his sleep about being sorry that he might possibly have accidentally deleted real people. (And he'd been was checking conscientiously for actual contents or signs of life, because that's how he is.)

hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word

However, the vile Tory bastards down in London decided to use an obscure legal loophole to VETO this bill, essentially shitting over trans people and the very concept of Scottish democracy all at once.

If you live near Edinburgh, please consider coming out to the Scottish Trans Alliance’s rally on Thu Jan 19th, and I’ll see you at the referendum this October. :/

This has NEVER been used because it would always have been a political bombshell to say to the devolved parliament that their power could be undermined by both Westminster and the royals at a moments notice. THIS is the issue over which they chose to break the system. They’re so set on a culture war they’re going to hand Scotland every reason for leaving they could ever need by telling them ‘we can always stop you, you have no real power’.

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.

Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:

With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefit from said content.

With OneDnD (sometimes called “dnd 6e”), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:

Make WOTC take a cut for any DnD-related work (according to Kickstarter, a whole 25% of the benefits)

Let WOTC cancel any project related to DnD up to their discretion

Let WOTC take ANY content made based on their system, and re-sell it without crediting you, or giving you a single cent

And most importantly, revoke the old OGL, which will harm any company or game system that used it as a base, such as Pathfinder. And it means they GET ownership over any homebrew content you may have done for 5e in the past!

It’s important to note that OGLs are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned there’s a chance they may get away with it given the wording.

This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.

These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.

So, what can we do?

Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasn’t been talking much about this matter, but it’s VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing. 

Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it. 

Steel mill gases transformed into bioplastic

Plastic waste from food deliveries is rapidly polluting the environment. An alternative that has emerged is bioplastic, which is also called biodegradable plastic. Bioplastic that uses eco-friendly raw materials emits less pollutants during the production process and has natural decomposition properties. Recently, a Korea-Spain joint research team recreated bioplastic from waste byproducts from gas fermentation from steel mills.

Through joint research with Spain’s Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), a research team led by Professor Gyoo Yeol Jung, Ph.D. candidates Dae-yeol Ye and Jo Hyun Moon, and Dr. Myung Hyun Noh in the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH has developed a technology to generate artificial enzymes from E. coli. The joint research then succeeded in mass-producing itaconic acid, a source material for bioplastic, from acetic acid in E. coli. This study is published in Nature Communications.

Itaconic acid produced by fungi with membrane-enclosed organelles is used as a raw material for various plastics, as well as cosmetics and antibacterial agents. Although its global market value is estimated high at around 130 billion KRW (USD$91 million) this year, its production and utilization have been limited due to the complex production process and high cost of production.

This is absolutely fascinating new bot behaviour. This was a tag for me on a post made by someone else entirely, not even a mutual and certainly not either of these porn bots. I presume the excessive character substitution is to prevent an algorithm finding them??

The post in question was also on what appeared to be someones fetish blog too. I don't know if that's relevant or not.

Possible new pornbot species, for now named "taggers" (considering Pornoroboticus attaggus as the description)

Habitat preferences so far seem to be the reply sections of fetish posts. Bots engage in advanced mimicry - the lure call has thus far been identical ("click on my profile picture free girl show"), with a further distinction being excessive character substitution. Interestingly, this character substitution, while universal, varies between individuals in terms of which specific characters are selected.

Currently all members of the Sluttiwhoricacae family are endangered, including the key-stone genera Sexworkicus and Pornartista. Tumblr's hatred of the horny biome has caused untold ecological damage and has allowed the invasive pornbots to proliferate, as they can reproduce rapidly even when not given any attention or resource.

I suggest this naming convention may be a form of camouflage? Arguably mimesis.

The main reason I ever wanted to write a Hungarian mythology-based urban fantasy is that I needed to see someone do Bread Magic in a mundane modern setting.

Bread Magic shows up in a variety in Hungarian fairytales. It works like this: when someone evil, usually the devil, sometimes a dragon, wants to come into your house and hurt you, usually by taking your children, what you do is put a loaf of bread on the windowsill. It will speak for you.

When evil demands admission, the bread will say: First, they buried me under the ground, and I survived. When I sprouted, they cruelly cut me down with sickles, and I survived. They threshed me with their flails and I survived. They ground me to flour with their millstones and I survived. They put me in a bowl and kneaded me, then they put me in a hot oven to bake me, and I survived. Have you done all these things? Until you do all these things and survive, you have no power here.

This is pretty powerful magic I think, and it makes sense in a country where wheat is the staple crop and bread is the staple food. If you have bread, you are alive, if you have no bread, you are dead, therefore bread is life. It was customary to refer to wheat as “life” well into the twentieth century, and not in high literary circles either: rural seasonal workers negotiated their wages in so and so many sacks of life.

For over a year, a powerful social movement has defended the last remaining forest in Atlanta against the city government’s plans to build a giant police training center and corporate film studio.

Yesterday, in a brutal raid involving pepper balls and tear gas, police destroyed the inspiring structures that people have built to protect the forest. Today, they are charging five arrestees with "domestic terrorism" for allegedly participating in forest defense.

This is standard government practice whenever ecological movements threaten business interests. But it is capitalist profiteering, not eco-activists, that is destroying the environment we all depend on and hastening climate change. It is police, not eco-activists, who are terrorizing communities.

Please stand in solidarity with those who are fighting to keep the earth habitable.🖤🏴

Background on the movement to defend the forest: