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Can confirm.

Also, fog was a thing lasting of whole November ad not two days max, lake Aral still existed and when I attended elementary school among the various science teachings there was a segment about urgent talking on global warming.

I'm in the beginning of Gen-X.

it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

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Leader Desslock in Star Blazers [Dessler in Yamato] was exactly this in the third SB series. The reaction he had when he discovered that one of his generals tried to destroy the Argo was priceless. But he also had a heck of a redemption arc (one series and one movie!)

on the topic of villains redeemed or whatever... i also dislike that whenever a villain joins the good side they suddenly become weak as fuck. KEEP THEM VICIOUS. KEEP THEM SCARY. ALLOW THEM TO BE TERRIFYING AT TIMES SO THE HEROES CAN JUST EXCHANGE LOOKS OF "holy fucking shit i am so glad theyre on our side now"

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A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. 

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons—including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:

The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.

Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.

Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team’s ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr. 

Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.

When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.

Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:

Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.

Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.

Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.

We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we’re going to put in the work to rebuild it.

We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.

We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.

[juzo-kun]

Well well well

if this isn't the moment to start to learn about how to use Nightshade on Linux.

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...what's happened with Tumblr this time?

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Shattered Glass Vector Prime. I completely lost the lore about the Mirror Universe or what's called now, so I stick by my fanon. Which is: a force of good in name only, with the temper and approach of a Warhammer 40k marine for everything. (Also, tank altmode. In this version is the Fallen that retained the Cool Starship mode.)

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My friend explained the spoon theory to our DM and he was like “ohhh so it’s like when you’re out of spell slots and you need to take a long rest to regain them all” and now I keep thinking of myself as being out of spell slots instead of out of spoons

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Startled mini-Vector prime!

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When I learned about Yrro in Marathon 2 and their plight to make the spht sentient via mechanization I thought that Yrro and the whole lot of the Jjaro might have been mechanical to have this kind of idea. Anyway, that's not in line with what developers told at the end, which is that Jjaro are humans.

I don't ever try to hide how my Yrro's design (the guy at left) and my musings about Bayformer Vector Prime are similar. Then we have Durandal when he allows Toth to speak (Durandal hates this but sometimes having Toth taking the wheel is useful), below Durandal is Toth (the halo mean they are an artificial construct), some s'pht and a height chart (Yrro is tall and also hovers). The starship is Pthia - a sentient starship who fell during the battle against the w'rkeysmash. Yrro didn't take it well, as per canon.

When I draw a starship it always fall in one of these two types: "Yamato clone" or "bug navigating in reverse".

I might or might not try to make Pthia in Blender, but my learning is, shall we say, slow as a crawl.

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So I'm reordering old folders and stuff and I found things that I don't remember I ever uploaded. Livejournal era, so to speak. Ahahaha! Anyway, here's the many styles of Vector Prime: Cybertron a.k.a 'the original'; Bayformer; Animated SpacePope; Prime? [*]; Shattered Glass (he and The Fallen swapped altmode); and 'humanformer'

[*] I don't remember but the vague hourglass symbol make me think it's a try to guess the Prime style when I didn't know anything other than the aforementioned symbol

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If not for the fact that it needed way too much time to do this one, I would make a watercolour version of the whole wall sets.

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Unsurprisingly, inviting Casimir to the holiday celebrations turned out to be a bad idea.

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'tis the season for Durandal and R'uza the Red-Robed Reindeer.

(Also the first of my annual Marathon holidays arts to feature Inm!Durandal's v2 design!)

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Me playing Dragon Age 4, set in Treviso

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really not liking the marathon reboot even if it's like not even out yet. marathon is a game about being a guy (But you're not human, are you?) fighting through pathways filled with unending darkness (It's inside the sun) and mazes that cannot exist in reality unsure if you'll ever see the sun (Don't let it escape) again trying to stop an entity beyond even time from destroying (Or is it you?) everything and everyone you've ever known (Did you really know them?)

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"and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire."

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?