One thing I’ve learned in life, if you act really self-assured and confident you can pretty much get away with anything.
For example, I’ve watched someone walk on to a plane with no passport. Just walked right on.
Once walked out of a dude’s house with a pair of his pants slung over my shoulder. Did all the usual eye-contact, saying-goodbye movements and noises, just… while stealing his pants. He did not notice.
I told my English teacher that she graded my final paper(I did not turn one in) and that she told me it was well written. She scrambled 3 days trying to find the nonexistent paper, then apologized to me for losing it and gave me a 96%. Confidence is key
my dad’s mate just walked out of a shop with a canoe and didn’t get questioned
Humans are like bees: if they sense you’re an intruder all hell will break loose, but if you get inside the hive they just assume you belong there. Be confident.
Bee confident
This is funny but also true, and a huge tip when traveling. Act like you belong, and you won’t be bothered like other tourists might. Especially on public transportation… do your research ahead of time and look like a disinterested commuter and you’ll blend right in.
Fun Fact about Bees: they use pheromones to communicate and the pheromone to signal ALARM is the same chemical that makes bananas smell like bananas so if you eat a banana and then breathe on a beehive you will regret it and this seemed relevant when i started writing it
Author: Uff
Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.
This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.
I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.
After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”
If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.
I remember reading somewhere once “we should be speaking of equity instead of equality” and that is a principle that applies here me thinks
Dear young black kids
Don’t let your white friends get you in trouble.
You better say that.
i want to elaborate on this.
don’t buy from white dealers and don’t sell to white people.
don’t underage drink with white people.
don’t do anything that could be viewed as illegal by cops with white people and this isn’t me trying to be anti-white this is me telling you to protect yourself from anti-black cops. they won’t hesitate to pin the entire crime on you even if your white friend did 90% of the crime.
most (if not all) white people don’t understand the same crimes they commit (getting into a bar with a fake ID, stealing cigars, playing with toy guns in walmart) we are given a lengthy imprisonment or executed on the spot for.
so don’t put yourself in a situation that could get you killed and a white person a slap on the wrist.
Sorry if this isn’t the right place but I felt like its important to add, this is the most real shit I have seen on my dash in a while. After I got my license I drove everywhere, constantly picked up my friends and really just drove like a maniac making dumb decisions left and right. Now one of my best friends is a WoC and I helped her get her license and I always told her ‘9mph over the speed limit and the ticket gets thrown out in court’ because that is what I’d been taught. One day she was driving and I mentioned that to her and she kept insisting that it was 5mph. It took me YEARS to realize PoC can’t afford that extra 4mph!!!!!!!!! White teenagers are the dumbest group on the planet, please don’t let them talk you into their dumb shit!
Conversely: White people, don’t get your black friends into trouble. What is just dicking around to you is a potential death sentence to them. If you are any kind of friend, you won’t put them in that kinds of harm’s way.
Important addition
Acting like the crows won’t try to cheat the system.
Acting like the crows won’t snatch cigarettes outta people’s mouths.
Acting like murders won’t fight viciously for terf.
If they cheat the system then they earned it.
Crows reduce the rates of lung cancer by aggressively nabbing cigarettes, news at 11.
fuck it let’s just have public health policy via crows
I’d be interested to see how the trashcans determine if something is a cigarette.
I remember a story of a city that tried to do this with just any litter. And the crows quickly learned that both actual trash and NORMAL ROCKS would both work for getting treats. So they would spend hours just filling the cans with rocks.
So, the trashcans for this project need to be smart enough to handle the chaotic genius of crows.
11/2 Today Goofus the Peacock killed a mouse and instead of eating it right away, decided to wander around the pasture carrying it in his beak. The feral cats always appreciate dead-rodent-based performance art, so they followed behind Goofus single file to make a Very Exciting Dead Rodent Parade.
At one point Goofus stopped and put down his rodent and one of the feral cats dared to sniff at it, and Goofus unleashed The Most Terrifying Honk, something along the lines of I WILL END YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE AND YOUR BONES WILL BE FORGOTTEN ON THE FROZEN EARTH WHEN I SNUFF OUT THE SUN AND SING THE STARS TO DARKNESS I AM THE DEVOURER AND DESTROYER OF ALL THINGS
The feral cats, previously unaware that the Death Of The Universe And End Of All Things is currently living as a peacock, ran off at about fifty miles an hour and hid under the barn for the rest of the day. They didn’t even come out at milking time to beg for goat milk, which is a first.
We probably should not have named the Death Of The Universe And The End Of All Things “Goofus,” actually.
tumblr mirrors on ‘photosugar’
So idk if others have noticed this before – but it’s the first time I’m seeing this, hence the post.
There’s a website, https://www.photosugar.com, which apparently mirrors all pictures, gifsets etc. people post on their tumblrs (and also other social media sites like twitter and instagram, if I understand it correctly).
An eample for a tumblr user, with my name:
https://www.photosugar.com/tu/lordhellebore
Now it won‘t turn up anything but a 404 error in my case, because I sent an e-mail to the contact address, which is darius@photosugar.com with the title “My content on your website”:
Hello,
it’s come to my attention that you are mirroring all of the posts containing
pictures/gifs that I post on my tumblr. I am asking you to stop pulling the content from my tumblr and to
delete me from your website.tumblr username is „lordhellebore“
Thank you.
I got a reply consisting of the single word “removed” after just one day, and as you can see, it worked perfectly fine with the informal mail I sent. So if you want them to stop mirroring your tumblr, it seems all you really need to to is this.
I can’t test the site for all of my mutuals, but I’m tagging a few whom I found on there by random trial & error, and I suggest you look yourself up if you see this post and dislike tumblr mirrors (even if this one is only for pictures, not text).
@janiedean, @ladytp, @vaysh11, @lunavagantt, @einemelodieimwind, @robb-greyjoy, @youbuggingme, @ysilme, @rex-luscus, @bai-xue, @viendiletto, @electricalice, @contessa-de-leusse, @memetic-mutism, @bluecichlid, @mrs-storm-andrews, @ladymothwing, @prismatic-bell, @kittykatknits, @tinkili
….basically, whomever I’m trying at random, it seems that you’re on there.
Please reblog so others can know and ask for removal if they want to.
My blog appears there. Don’t want to. Will mail asap.
EDIT : They’ve added a link to remove people’s profiles : https://www.photosugar.com/remove
Wtf. I was on there. Easy to remove.
That is pretty creepy
Holey mother of cheese.
This is not fair use, y’all. Everything you post is copyright you, and tumblr’s rights to it are spelled out in the policy we all agreed to without reading when we signed up. These people are just yanking your photo posts (including your reblogs) and publishing them in a modified format without even notifying you, for whatever purpose – some way of making money off our labor, I guess.
I think the worst part was showing even the last likes… For God sake, I use tumblr just forSim-related stuff, bu what if I’d like to post a pic of myself?
Removed myself, they could at least ask for permission, before doing something like that.
I just removed my profile. That was creepy!
Signal boost! I was on there too, and by Sena, Do Not Want.
Just removed myself, so weird. I wasn’t expecting a sims blog like mine to be copied onto anything.
Check your blog names
Yikes. All 3 of my blogs are on it. Wtf?
@coffee-obsessed-writer @nobodys-baby-now @docharleythegeekqueen @lefthologramdeer
I found myself on there…. removed myself, too. Not cool.
Thanks for letting us know this.. found mine & removed it
So my blog is was on here and I just removed it. My side blog with imagines was also on there and is now removed. Y’all might wanna go search for your tumblr blog and make sure you’re not on here too. It’s easy to remove your blog by going to https://www.photosugar.com/remove and typing in your blog name
Tagging some people who might wanna know about this:
@star-spangled-man-with-a-plan @kellyn1604 @flamehairedwritings @ericuhlorain @superprincesspea @superwholoki @supernaturally-lucky @annablack1102 @ne-gans @prettyepiic @hannibalssweaters @strangersangel9 @bamby0304 @sherrybaby14 @kittenofdoomage @lucifer-in-leather @sirlsplayland @risingphoenix761 @is-this-you-manning-up-sammy @217fanfic @embracetheapocalypsewithme @dusty-cookie @letsby @noodlecupcakes @londoncapsule @jobean12-blog @badsongwinchester @vizhi0n @wickednerdery @84reedsy
DON’T SCROLL PASSED!! READ THIS!! DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR, GO BACK UP AND READ THIS POST!!!!!
So, my library blog was on there, but not my main. Still, what the fuck?!?!
I entered a few friends’ names in and found these people:
@kittenofdoomage @superprincesspea @sis-tafics @yourvoiceislikearose @crispychrissy @moonlitskinwalker @squirrel-moose-winchester @curly-haired-disaster @dean-winchesters-bacon @anticipate1003
Like, seriously people, anyone could be on there. Share the shit out of this post. Tell your friends. This is so not cool.
Oh sheesh. Removed mine.
Hey all, here’s a fucking PSA because I’m disgusted:
NO means NO.
I HAVE A S.O. means NO.
NO THANK YOU means NO.
DON’T TOUCH ME means NO.
IGNORING YOU means NO.
GOODBYE means NO.
This isn’t a challenge, nobody plays hard to get with strangers. If they show ANY sign of disinterest, you leave them the fuck alone immediately.
I’m so sorry about the leaked ARC! -hugs-
Thank you.
Me too.
What really burns–honestly, in the longer scope of things–is that I can absolutely see “we will not be doing an e-ARC of your next book” being viewed as a reasonable response. I can’t fault that. This is damaging to me, and damaging to my publisher, and reducing access to a pre-publication format is one of the few ways to reduce that damage.
But then people will be angry, because “we’re all being treated like thieves,” and the odds of someone finding another way to leak things will go way, way up, and it’s just a vicious, painful cycle.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
So the Great Barrier Reef was pronounced dead today.
Do you even realize that is this our home. We were blessed with such a beautiful, loving, and magnificent home and look what we have done to it. Mother Nature doesn’t deserve this. We don’t deserve this world we were so graciously given.
Are you waking up yetK, so this is mostly bollocks.
The Great Barrier Reef is not dead. About a third of the coral in it is dead, and it’s suffering a really bad case of a disease called coral bleaching (which is what caused the photos down below)- but it’s not dead and it has a chance to recover. Hell, you can even see it in the bottom right picture- the only coral that’s actually dead in it is the big dark twiggy bit. The rest of it is still alive- it’s just under stress and so it’s bleached.
A lot of scientists are actually kind of pissed off about this message going viral, because it sends the message that there’s nothing we can do. It’s like sending out an obituary notice for your loved one that has cancer and is on life support. They’re still not dead. They can keep fighting; they can survive.
And we can still save the Reef. It’s not too late to turn things around.
For those of you who have some extra money to spare, you can go to http://fightforthereef.org.au and donate to help the reef. You can also sign up to join the campaign that’s fighting to keep the reef alive. The website is a partnership between the Australian Marine Conservation Society and WWF-Australia, so that should calm any of those who are worried where exactly their money will end up.
FOR THE FOLKS IN AUSTRALIA
Frankenuff’s Castle 