Let’s make a giant F in the chat for those who don’t have polls yet.
If the last digit of the votes is 1, 2, 3 or 4, vote for the first. If it’s 5, vote for the second, if it’s 6, 7, or 8, vote for the third. If it’s 9, the fourth, and if it’s 0, the last. Please reblog to make the biggest F possible 🤗
Look I know everyone is getting the porn bot follows but like .. what’s are they even for? What’s the point of them? What are they trying to accomplish?
Okay, so… tumblr is ‘free’ right? It costs nothing to create an account and utilize the service. So the startup costs of running a pornbot army is zero, right?
Wrong!
Shady websites sell kits to create/operate pornbot networks. You pay $$$ for an engine and a collection of scripts tuned for various free websites. And apparently (I guess) there is a new tumblr script that comes preloaded with a zillion girlie names + 3 digits, so all the prospective portbot meister has to do is start the script with some seed values and wait for their bot army to grow.
In order to fly beneath the radar, these scripts operate in stages. First they create the account then follow a few high profile blogs. THAT is why, when they first follow you, they’re just a generic stolen cheesecake pic named (randomly generated name) ChestyMoorbutt754 with an otherwise empty profile.
Then after a preset number of days/weeks they start blogging 'content’ like bit.ly links to malware or whatever. Along with some legit-looking reblogs to keep up appearances. All these scripted behaviors are configurable.
Their hope is that some certain percentage of idiots will (1) click thru the hosted links to an intermediary landing page (with ads, naturally) that acts as a portal to buy subs for OnlyFans, Sinder etc, or (2) interact with an actual chatbot that eventually convinces the poor schmuck to enter their credit card info so it can be hijacked.
We’re seeing a new flood of bots NOW because twitter is floundering and all the talk about twitter alternatives (like tumblr) has caught the attention of the guys who make/sell pornbot tools.
Who are the ones REALLY making profit off all of this. Not the pornbots themselves, but the darkweb dweebs who sell the accounts & kits. Because selling access to pornbot armies is guaranteed income whereas who the hell knows how successful any given pornbot will be in the wild. After awhile, the pornbot army gets detected & shutdown or the customer running the botnet get disillusioned and quits or both… then the cycle begins anew with new sheep to be fleeced.
Just like in the 1840s gold rush era, it wasn’t the miners who got rich; it was the guys selling picks & shovels.
For reference: according to the Kansas Secretary of Stateās office, a normal primary election (where this referendum was abnormally placed) draws around 450,000 voters.
This election drew 800,000.
When everyone votes, progressives win. And now you know why the GOP is hellbent on making it harder.
voting is not the be-all-end-all of fixing our fucked up system, but it DOES protect people at the local level and helps with harm reduction
Today my tumblr shoelaces arrived in the mail. I had to explain the ENTIRE saga of tumblr shoelaces to my mother while my brother (also a grown adult in his 30s) groaned loudly from his office. My mother, however, was delighted. She has declared her intent to compliment people’s shoelaces and watch their expressions. (She is 67 and apparently an agent of pure chaos.)
She also asked me to “tell tumblr” that she thought the whole thing was “delightful” and that we are all “very funny people.”
There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!
Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isnāt a social media site, itās an archive.
Posting fics on Tumblr isnāt the same as posting fics on Ao3
Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.
Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads donāt push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.
Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.
Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.
Happy reading, and if youād like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!
i love you cane i love you wheelchair i love you heating stuff i love you vaporizer i love you muscle rub i love you ointment i love you inhalers i love you peppermint tea i love you wipes i love you mouthwash i love you medication i love you glasses i love you comfy clothes
none of us would still be here without the queen herself freddyismyqueen so let’s all pour one out for her an how much we miss an appreciate what she did for so many years.
A key point in framing is that almost every anti-choice idiot says, is that they always frame it as āthe choice to have a kidā. Specifically, in this case:
āYou chose to have sex, so you have to deal with the kidā
Letās justā¦side-step the puritanical root of punishing people for having sex, and the actual, sincere belief that humans Not Having Sex is something we can actually achieve, which is stupid.
People explicitly make choices to not have kids when they have sex, too.
There are whole swaths of things that men and women do, hopefully overlapping, to not have kids.
None of them are 100% effective. Even Female and Male sterilization arenāt 100% effective, other than a full blown hysterectomy.
Literally, a man and a woman can both go to a doctor, have actual surgeries performed so they donāt have kids, have sex with one another, and still wind up pregnant. Especially if itās in the first few years after their surgeries are performed. Surgeries which have weeks to months of recovery time, planning, and costing thousands of dollars each.
I choose to go to work every day; punishing me for getting hit by a cab as a āpotential outcomeā of going to work is fucking ludicrous. People smoking are more likely to get a cancer, but we still treat them in hospitals. Getting AIDS from donating blood is a thing that can happen, but youāre damn well going to sue the hospital or agency that gave you AIDS. I can play the lottery every day and eventually win a million dollars, but itās still āthe stupid taxā and actually thinking it will happen is the literal Gold Standard for ānot gonna happenā.
Nowhere else in society do we accept bullshit like that except when weāre talking about controlling women and their sex lives for doing things you donāt want them to. And itās always, always from the same people who want the woman to deliver the baby (which itself has a high risk of just killing the mom outright, especially in the US) who donāt want to feed the baby when itās delivered, who donāt want to give it a home or clothes or healthcare.
If you can, please donate to the Internet archive, links in the description. The loss of the archive would be devastating for dozens of reasons.
I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. Itās been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.
The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archiveās program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.
The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that theyāre underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archiveās 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as thatās when books typically make the most money.
Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to ācitation neededā or citations will lead to dead links.
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