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Jonathan Stalling’s Yingelishi is a book of poetry that is read in two ways: in Chinese and in English. He offers a line of English poetry, then rewrites it phonetically in the Chinese language, so that the new line in Chinese has its own unique and coherent meaning, which is then translated back into English. The end result is a poem existing in multiple languages and in no languages at all, with multiple meanings that can be read many ways.


[Image ID: A line that reads, “早上好” which is Simplified Chinese for “good morning.” Then a line of English text that reads, “good morning,” followed by a line of pinyin or possibly a different method of transliterated Chinese that reads, “gũ dé mào níng.” Then a line of Chinese characters which reads, “孤德貌宁,” phonically the same as the above pinyin, followed by a line of English text which is the translation of the above Chinese, reading, “Even alone, the moral one / appears peaceful.” End image ID.]

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do you know who the fuck i am? *leads dozens of guinea pigs into the room on one single leash* *the guinea pigs are all wearing bedazzled collars unique to their personality and zodiac sign*

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

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And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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Evanescence: These wounds won’t seem to heal, this pain is just too real, There’s just too much that time cannot erase

12 year old me:

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Heads up, UK friends.

Discord has implemented the age verification requirement system per the upcoming law going into affect later this week early, so prepare yourself for other sites, which may include Tumblr given the intent is to target adult content which may affect here because of how it still does get posted here, even if the intended targets are the actual site for it.

As of writing, the official petition to have the Online Safety Act repealed is close to 30,000 signatures, but it's barely enough to garner much attention to where it may be dismissed by Parliament, or may get discussed but not getting to where it'll be repealed to actually figure a system that doesn't carry the risk of private information getting leaked.

So again, please help spread and sign the official petition here.

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we need to have a way to post a pdf directly to tumblr. tumblr should have another post type called "pdf" so we can embed them easily. tumblr will never be the new pdf without this function.

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being bad at bdsm kink talk by going like Ooo who’s my epic little slut . who’s my swag bitch

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Madoka: I wish to become the Omelas kid!

Only Homura, for some reason: I think that’s kind of fucked idk about that

Everyone else: Christ you are so selfish Homura. Die

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Today I learned that whales' milk has the consistency of toothpaste.

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Managed to visit Glasgow Zine Library when I was in Glasgow earlier this month! Such a cool spot! I always wanted to make this sort of space possible for Salford Zine Library before I left Manchester

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Here's my fan art, hire me sanrio

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As if there weren’t enough ways to post to Tumblr, look what Marco got working.

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I'm a few weeks into my beginner glassblowing course and so far I have learned that glassblowers are always saying things like "put that punty deep in the glory hole to get it hot" and "when you're done necking, wet it off" and "blow that pipe as hard as you can." There's not even a joke here they're just always saying this stuff like it's not funny as hell.

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"AI uses server farms" oh boy wait until you find out about how google and youtube and twitter and tumblr and facebook and instagram work. & im sure all the digital art that existed pre-generative AI just appeared randomly without any energy cost, sprouted out of the ground i suppose. wow, this pseudoenvironmental way of looking at technology is really good at pointing out when companies you dont like are doing something that companies you do like have been doing much longer

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this is like a renaissance painting to me. its so tender

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this is like a renaissance painting to me. its so tender