#Data is plural

[death-tinkerer]

We are hosting a sale for our Drawings! From sketches to renders! No slots, No waiting list, No hassle!

As a reminder! All prices are estimates! Heavier detailwork will always result in a high price depending on how much more detailwork there is to do!

ID in image and below the cut!

ID: Image is a commissions sale page for Kinship's drawings. At the top left is a rainbow title that says "Kinship's Commissions" with text underneath reading "All drawings are 50% off! Sketch, Lined, and Rendered! Sale Ends Sept 3rd!" overlayed onto a light greyscaled Screen Asset.

The bottom left is a currently single headed hydra fursona that has a big grin and is waving with their left hand. They have 3 sets of horns, short curly blond hair, a small blond soul patch on their chin, and pale purple-ish blue skin. Their wings and tails are mostly off screen.

To the right top to bottom, is the examples for Bust to Full Body drawings! There are 3 rows each with the original prices slashed out with a red line and the new prices right below each price. Top row are sketches of UWUMachina (No Mech, Our OC) and Hand Of The King (Dead Cells) with the prices listed between them, the new prices being 15USD to 30USD. Second row is the same character pair but now lined and colored with prices at 25USD to 75USD. The final row is the pair now fully rendered without backgrounds, priced at 32.5USD to 75USD. Below the rows is a double sided arrowed line that is labeled "Bust" to the left and "Full Body" to the right in all caps. Right behind the line and rendered examples is is a light greyscaled Desk Table Asset.

The background is a black and grey variant of an original and Undertale styled Battle Background. End of ID.

[lcdid]

Interest Check: Assistance with PK/SP data entry

So frequently I see people complaining about needing to set up PluralKit profiles or organize their Simply Plural. I understand it, but I do not feel it. I fucking love data entry.

That being said...

I've considered opening commissions for it, if that's what you'd call it, because it's relatively easy for me to do. I would need to have the data somewhere, but I would be happy to transfer all of it—that's what the payment would be for.

I'm still considering how the pricing would work, among other things, so I am also open for questions and suggestions about this.

Some other data, while I'm thinking aloud here, under the cut:

I would not be creating alters or identities, just listing information about them that already exists. The client would need to provide data (information, tags, etc) and images (icon, banner, etc).

There would be a consultation process regarding aesthetics, included information, length of description, etc...

There would be some things that I would not permit to be included on intros (triggers, mostly), but would be able to fulfill some other stuff (other languages, NSFW if you can give me a good reason)

I don't have much experience making SP fancy but it would not be hard to learn, it's just markdown. PK descriptions are all good; I'd likely have templates to choose from but could totally do some fiddling with them.

All account information would be kept secure. I'd have to come up with protocol for account/logged system access. I can't just tell people to trust me, which is what the protocol would address.

I don't have any experience with Octocon at all.

[dilsdoes]

my pet peeve is when an social media poll has an option winning the plurality and people will be like 'how do a majority of people do this unusual thing' cmon man weve been talking about the flaws of first past the post voting for like 10 years at this point. did you learn nothing.

[bookwyrminspiration]

me: mystified, confounded, perplexed, bamboozled, bewildered why this analysis doesn't make any sense

the humble "we" I have labeled, AGAIN, as third person:

[trollblivion-ooc]

feeling my creativity be crushed every time i have to work on Statistics

[sophieinwonderland]

I would suggest removing the source on Tulpas and Mental Health from your list of endogenic studies? The study is kind of ridiculous in the sample sizing and distributions and the author (who is a really bad person) says in the source that the study can’t actually show anything but a correlation, which was pretty biased due to the author’s biases and the sampling bias.

I'm not going to do that.

Yes, all it shows is a correlation, but a correlation is still a correlation which can be used to build upon later.

Right now, the article is important for combating accusations of tulpamancy being harmful to people's mental health, demonstrating that a large majority of tulpamancers report improvements in mental health, and 0% of those in the study reported negative health impacts.

And while the sample size isn't as large as I'd like, it's not bad for what it's demonstrating.

The margin of error is relatively large, but does it actually matter in the grand scheme of things whether the number of tulpamancers reporting improvements is 78% as this study showed, or if a larger study showed it as only 65%?

The sample size and margin of error would be more relevant to a study in which the results were closer.

I don't like the author or their conduct, but I don't see any reason to doubt the data they collected. Especially in the absence of any data showing the contrary.

This is still an incredibly useful study for answering baseless accusations of tulpamancy being a harmful practice. And for that matter, claims that multiplicity as a whole is inherently harmful.

As for bias... I don't think we would be discussing this if it were a DID system who had conducted a study on the DID community. I don't think a transgender person would be accused of bias for studying the transgender community. And I don't think being a tulpamancer makes the data any less valid.

[mysteriousmoss]

Winters Rebirth fic! Martyn centric(kinda)

[noncentralexample]

I agree with most of this thread — I can't personally speak to the height or the cold tolerance or the hair-washcloth thing, but in general I think it's really cool to see what changes and what doesn't! (For me I think the emotional changes were much more muted than for other transitioners.)

I understand more and more things about cisgender men the longer I’m on testosterone. I know why teenage boys use so much axe now. I understand the crying thing. I know why they accidentally break things. I know why they wear shorts in the snow. I know why so many of them don’t use washcloths. I see everything.

[death-tinkerer]

Our updated general examples page for commissions! Prices are unchanged! Prices will be linked in reblog!

ID is on image and below the cut!

[ID: A compilation of different kinds of art by Kinship/Death-Tink(erer). The image is sectioned into three vertical rows.

First row is, from top to bottom, a slugcat Xemnas, a sleeping duck, a doodlepage, a Rivulet and Leviathan shitpost, a horizontal portrait of a dragonborn OC, another horizontal portrait of a feral OC, an action scene of Spamton NEO and the Beheaded in a Kris costume, a sad simple dance scene of Hand of the King, a front view icon of Looks To The Moon, a 3/4s view icon of Snow Villiers, two 3/4s view icons of an OC and a Music OC, the Death-Tink(erer) Logo, a heart emote of Sevpro, a enraged and flaming emote of Sevpro, and a wave emote of Sevpro.

Second row is a dark green panel with light green text that reads "Doodles, Stickers, Stream Assets, Portraits and Scenes, Sprite Edits, Backgrounds (and Tiles!), Icons, Logos, Emotes, References and MUCH MORE!"

Third row is, top to bottom, a Pixel Art PNGTuber Sprite of Jack Ryder, a pencil lined PNGTuber Sprite of Davis Millhouse, a penned/lineless Sprite of Sevpro, a rainbow Moon Goddess desk VTuber Asset, two variants of a rainbow bordered sci-fi screen with one blank and the other with handwritten unconnected cursive in rainbow that read "Loading", an editted sprite Deltarune FUN Gang cast line up that appears to be swaps, two iterator sprites of an unreleased OC and Unparalled Innocence, two background tiles of an arcade carpet and a four by four division teardrop patterns, an abstract background of a cat radiating a dark light, an abstract background of repeating eyes looking at the viewer, a simple background of a tree with falling leaves, a reference for a Cobaltblood Troll OC, a reference and abilities list of a Darkest Dungeon OC, and a reference for a Sonic/Mobian OC.

The background is an original and Undertale styled Battle Background. End of ID.]

[caracoldimi]

Não, os 3873937394749383838(/j) Cesars/Kaisers do sistema não fazem aniversário no mesmo dia q o source

todos nós somos 21 de outubro ✋

[elalmadelmar]

Something I wanna add too, especially with regard to the "RSD is an ADHD only experience" thing --

To the best of my knowledge, THAT IS BASICALLY NOT VALID FOR ANY PSYCH SYMPTOM OF ANY KIND EVER.

Most unusual mental/emotional/psych traits can be symptomatic of a wide variety of issues. I am not a professional in this area, although I've spent lots and lots of time with different therapists and lots more time studying it on my own to understand my own funky brain wiring and that of my friends and family. The vast majority of clinical-level symptoms can be indicative of many different possible diagnoses when regarded in isolation, and a diagnosis involves looking at what different traits cluster together and which are the most disruptive. Intrusive thoughts aren't an OCD exclusive. RSD is not an ADHD exclusive. Insecurity is not an NPD exclusive. And so forth.

And in this particular case, RSD is -- as discussed above -- basically emotional dysregulation applied to the extremely common experience of "rejection feels bad" and emotional dysregulation applies to a HUGE variety of neurodivergences. So trying to say that only people with ADHD (whether professionally or self diagnosed) is just straight-up not how this shit works and DOUBLY not how this shit works here. It's like saying that congestion only applies to people with the flu.

rsd is not a condition. rsd is not a diagnosis. rsd is not a medically recognized symptom of adhd and the experience “rsd” describes is not exclusive to adhd at all. this does not mean people with adhd can’t experience rejection sensitivity, but “rsd” as an “adhd” thing is a concept with no emprical backing developed by one man, with claims of it being brain-based without any evidence behind that claim, as well as many other claims surrounding the “nature” of rsd. adhd is a condition characterized by executive dysfunction, which can involve emotional dysregulation, but acknowledging that is different from the framework of “rsd” and seeing people on this site pass this around without critical thought and even claiming rsd is “adhd only >:(” makes me sick. you’re buying into what’s basically pop psychology instead of scientific research.

emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity is by no means adhd exclusive, and people with adhd experiencing those things doesn’t need to have its own special label or whatever when there’s no meaningful difference between someone with adhd experiencing those things and someone without adhd experiencing those things. that’s not logical and a ridiculous mentality of “rsd is adhd ONLY because our rejection sensitivity is SPECIAL” completely goes against building common ground with other neurodivergent people for petty and invalid reasons.

the amount of misinfo going around about adhd on this site is uncanny. please investigate claims others make about disability and do your research - actual research, which doesn’t include tumblr posts that lack citation and oft unreliable sources like ADDitude Mag and WebMD. it would be INFINITELY more productive to operate on a shared experience of emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity among varying groups of neurodivergent people than to feed into this nonsensical idea of “adhd-only special super rejection sensitivity.”

[gilesmdavis]

So, over to Guardian style guru David Marsh, who makes the rules in these parts about language use. He says: It's like agenda, a Latin plural that is now almost universally used as a singular. Technically the singular is datum/agendum, but we feel it sounds increasingly hyper-correct, old-fashioned and pompous to say "the data are".

Data are or data is? | Language | The Guardian

I was reading a Tony Blair Institue paper and “data are” really stood out. So much so I was diverted t ocheck whether it was correct. Which, I assume is a massive fail for the pedant community.

[alterhumannerdygoat]

i'm actually so annoyed I'm going to be a) in a place with no wifi and having nearly ran out of data and b) visiting family for most of othercon T^T (love my family but why nowwwww /lh)

I'm still going to try attend as much as i can and hopefully most of the panels are uploaded to youtube but aaaaaaaa

[cryptidphyr]

i havent put plural anywhere in my bio or info and yet tunglr.hell is already recing plural accounts. brother.

[interstellars-plural-surveys]

survey on inner worlds in plurality

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REMEMBER TO READ THE SECTION DESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY. Many of you have told me there are no options for “N/A” on the rating questions, however we have stated that you should use the lowest rating (one) in that case.

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the interstellar cluster presents to you...

a survey on inner worlds in plurality!

this is our first plural survey but we hope y'all have fun answering these questions.

results will be posted after submissions end in three weeks (30th of May), so give or take a few days around that date to organise the data.

it's quite long, but we put the questions in sections so hopefully it doesn't feel as long as it is.

please reblog to push this further, we're aiming for at least 25 responses! :D