#crowdsourcing

[reasonsforhope]

Happy Holidays to everyone celebrating holidays right now!!

Let's spread some holiday cheer and crowdsource this shit!

Link a good news story that you know in the notes on this post!

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Here's mine, I'm cheating by providing a giant compilation that is by FAR the best good news roundup I've seen this year.

-via Fix the News, December 19, 2024

And for those of your who have already seen that from my other post, here's another great compilation!

-via Positive.News, December 23, 2024

[digitalnewberry]

How's your cursive?

William Ellen Wallace whaling logbook, 1841-1844 (view | transcribe)

Newberry Transcribe -- our crowdsourcing site where you can help with historical research by transcribing handwritten letters and diaries -- is back in action!

From screenwriters to socialists to soldiers, the subjects of our collections left behind a wealth of primary source materials -- such as the above 1840s whaling logbook that includes what some of us thought were whimsical doodles, but turned out to be a much less fun industry convention indicating "how many gallons of oil were procured from each [whale] body."

Libraries lack sufficient staff to transcribe the millions of manuscript pages in our collections, so it used to be up to the user to painstakingly decipher every page, with each individual replicating this work from scratch. Thanks to the magic of crowdsourcing, the public can volunteer to help out by transcribing the page once and for all, allowing researchers to easily find, search, and browse the material.

Plus, figuring out the handwriting can be a fun challenge. Wordle, shmordle -- come solve puzzles while also learning about history and contributing to humanities research!

Visit Newberry Transcribe

Read our project newsletter

Jack Conroy correspondence at Newberry Transcribe

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I’ve got some accessibility questions around zoo maps! Specifically, I’m interested in how people are impacted by the lack of paper maps / digitization of maps, especially when the ones in other languages than English are only online.

Please chime in in the replies and tell me about accessibility impacts you’ve experienced (or know someone who has experience) with:

No paper map policies

Online-only maps

QR codes to access maps

Maps available in an app only

Policies that instruct visitors to print their own maps ahead of time at home

Being told to photograph big signs with maps on them throughout the zoo in lieu of using an online map

Non-English maps being available online only

Policies that guests should use an app / Google translate to access map information / signage

I’ve got my own thoughts, but I know my perspective is limited to my personal experience. If these policies impact you in any way - not just due to disability - please tell me how. TIA!

[bylinehearts]

hello!

i hate to beg but i was in a car accident on sunday night and now have to pay to fix my car ($249), rent a car ($50 + $40 a day for as long as i need it), and pay a citation (unspecified amount because they haven't added my ticket into the system.) i am also currently struggling with my health and have several doctor's appointments lined up that will probably range between $100 and $200. if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you!

cash@pp: $horatiobo

payp@l: please send a message for my @

[weaselmcdiesel]

Want to help me with an assignment by talking about your pet?

Hi!! I have an assignment to make a piece of art using crowdsourcing. My idea involves collecting a lot of text about people's pets! Anything about them, what you like about them, a description of their personality or appearance, something funny they did--really anything. In the end, I want to use all the text to make something interesting (I haven't decided the specifics yet). I'll upload the finished project here when it's done! (it's due a week from now, March 12th)

How to be a part of this project:

Reply to this post or reblog and put in the tags or in the post itself anything you want about your pet. You can also send me an ask if you want, but I will not post any of these asks.

If you want to speak about a pet that has passed, please indicate somewhere in your reply that it has passed. I intend to use that information in the piece itself.

You can include a picture of your pet ONLY IF YOU WANT! Pictures aren't necessary but I might figure out a way to incorporate them.

Important:

The text you provide is not going to be credited to you/your url, everything will be anonymous.

I'll be reblogging this every now and then to help get a lot of different responses :) Sorry if you get sick of seeing this post! Also, if you don't have a pet or you don't want to talk about your pet, it would help out if you would reblog this anyway! But ofc, you don't have to.

[patmax17]

Looking for ttrpg suggestions: character focused and with a bit of crunch!

Hi tumblr! I want to try to crowdsource, like opening my mind to the psychic maelstrom.

The kind of stories I like most are character focused, where they face hard choices that challenge their beliefs and values, and where they have to learn from their mistakes and the consequences of their actions. Bonus points if friendship is important!

I also like crunchy games with combat, I like finding combos and feeling smart about the use of my skills, as well as cooperating with my teammates.

On the "role-playing side", I like game systems that help the players (and DM) set up a stage loaded with potentials, and give inputs about what could happen next.

Games i like are:

Dogs in the Vineyard: I love the way building the town gives the GM a tense situation with NPCs that have clear agendas, the conflict resolution mechanic gives hard choices to the players, and the experience mechanic really gives a sense of how the characters grow based on their choices and the consequences of those choices (writing this now I see how DitV actually hits all the sweet spots for me)

In Contenders I like how it has an internal economy of currencies, and the state of each currency guides the kind of scene you want to play

Kagematsu is very simple but incredibly elegant in its design, I especially like the mechanic of the acts of desperation, and how they interact with how you earn love

Apocalypse World is character focused, it doesn't have a party but follows a cast of character with intertwined stories

Atlas:Reckoning never saw the light of day, but I liked how it was the right amount of crunchy, how the "drift" mechanic helped explore the pilots' backsyory and deeper layers, and how the out-of-combat scenes were structured in a similar way to Contenders

I've been ootl of recent ttrpg games in the last years (mainly because I don't have a stable playing group anymore). So here I am, asking for suggestions to all tumblr ttrpg connoisseurs out there.

Thanks!

[exlibrisfangirl]

Hi friends,

In the current political climate, it's becoming harder than ever for chronically ill/disabled people to survive. Our political leaders are blatantly using eugenics language (e.g. health = "patriotic duty") to reinforce the ableist and classist view of us as lazy, entitled, parasites who are a financial drain on society. We are being shamed and blamed for our unlucky circumstances and our needs. The government is slashing funding for the services we rely on, including proposed cuts to Medicaid, SSDI/SSI, and SNAP. The next few years are going to be especially terrifying for your disabled family, friends, and neighbors as we fight to stay alive with decreasing resources and aid. Hundreds of thousands more disabled Americans are going to become homeless, food insecure, and left without access to the health care we depend on to stay alive. All of this makes it that much harder for the sick and disabled to ask for help.

As many of you know, I lost my job in February because I ran out of disability leave and was unable to return to work. Due to chronic dysphonia (vocal cord dysfunction), vision fluctuations, vertigo, and severe nerve pain attacks in my face (trigeminal neuralgia), head (occipital neuralgia), and throat (glossopharyngeal neuralgia), I am currently unable to work in any capacity. I've been living off of savings, but the money is rapidly running out. I'm working on applying for SSDI, but I have no idea how long that will take or if it will even continue to exist. I need financial aid as I find a way to support myself going forward. I am keenly aware that I have asked for help from my community many times in recent years, and I feel a deep sense of shame in asking again. My mom reminded me the other day that I've spent my whole life filling others' cups in every way I can, and it's not shameful to allow others to fill my cup when it's empty. I'm still struggling to believe it.

If you can help me, even just a little, Phoebe and I would be profoundly grateful. I will pay it forward someday, somehow. Believe me... I will.

Venmo: @ Mellifluity8

PayPal: @ MelissaLHuitt

CashApp: $mellifluity8

Love & Light,

Mel 🙏🏻💛

[salvadoerena]

Hello! I'm not in the habit of sharing gofundme's, but my friend could really use the help. No pressure—if you can't donate, spreading the word would be really helpful!!

[datvtranscripts]

does uh. anyone want to record the fade memories from a playthrough where you don't do the labs below memory first. for science.

[krirebr]

Soooooo... what sort of things do you think would be on a sugar matchmaking website??

[deebrisbyfish]

In wrapping up the crossover, I decided to have a little 4th wall-breaking fun. "Finding Dee" actually began with me, as "the cartoonist" coming out as Trans IN a "Dandy & Company" strip. That makes this comic, technically, a spin-off. I had been a recurring character in the strip for YEARS and had a regularly tense relationship with my own creations. It seemed fitting to end this crossover with my having fun with that dynamic and reasserting that this is taking place slightly outside the "reality" of the regular strip.

[digitalnewberry]

Say you're an artist...

... but you have a day job, so you take an evening class at the Art Institute, but it's the early 1890s which is pre-indoor lighting technology, so you can't draw the human figure from live models. What would you do??

That's right -- you'd probably start a Sunday morning art class just down the street from the Newberry, and call it the Palette & Chisel Club. And now, 130ish years later, we're both still going strong -- they continue to teach art classes, we're digitizing their archives and adding handwritten items to Newberry Transcribe, our transcription crowdsourcing site. So please stop by and browse their first scrapbook (1895-1906) at our digital collections site, or transcribe it to create searchable text documenting drunken art student shenanigans Chicago's early art scene.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Okay, this is super preliminary, but since we've been talking about zoo accessibility I wanted to launch a project I've been planning for a couple months.

One of the hardest things about visiting zoological facilities when disabled is the lack of knowledge ahead of time, right? Often the information on the zoo's website about accessibility doesn't contain everything folk need to know to plan a visit. I think we can probably help fix that, even if it's with just crowd-sourced knowledge!

This is a google spreadsheet for recording accessibility information for various zoos. It is super unfinished right now, FYI. That's partially because I need to fill in more of it from my own experiences, and partially because there are things I didn't note or experience - which I'd love for y'all to chime in about.

Categories for the spreadsheet so far include rentable assistance options, service dog information, accessible bathroom locations, mobility, vision, auditory and sensory issues (or accommodations), food allergy options, and general notes. I'm also including the information each zoo website provides, and guest assistance phone numbers, so all the information is in one place.

To add to this crowd-sourced zoo accessibility resource:

Send an ask to the blog, or comment on the appropriate cel on the spreadsheet (if the facility you want to comment on is already listed).

Provide the name of the zoo/aquarium/sanctuary and the approximate date you visited.

Tell me your experiences / information, and what categories they belong in.

Feel free to submit photos, if that's useful info! I'm going to see if I can find a way to host them and link in the spreadsheet.

I'll take information as it's submitted and integrate it into the sheet. If the zoo you've visited isn't on the list yet, I still want to add it! This resource is going to stay US-based, however. (I just don't have the capacity to manage an international one).

Obviously, I can't personally verify everything people submit, so this is very much a resource and not a definitive guide. Date stamps are crucial important for keeping track of what's recent and what might have been updated since someone visited.

Let's make zoo, aquarium, and sanctuary visits more accessible for everyone!

[greaterblogston]

Happy Monday party people.

Ollie Morris nd I just finalized a track on The Perfect Sentence that is so beautiful and I can't wait for people to hear it.

Just a reminder that I'm still pushing the TPS Indiegogo. Click the link to learn more and contribute if you can.

Also - were at 76%. Amazing. My goal is to hit 80% by Wednesday and we only need $77 to get there.

[leiascully]

Hi there Leiascully! I was directed your way by Fanfic Reddit hoping you might be able to point me in the direction of an old, old Xfiles fic that might still be on Gossamer.

The premise of this fic was kind of Pusher-esque in that there was a villain who had the ability to - with a bare hand - touch you and in an instant learn all of your secrets, your background details, your heart's desires. I'm 99% sure he laid a hand on both Scully and Mulder, separately. And this villain had captured Scully, and was holding her at knife point. In the climax, the villain was in a standoff between himself and Mulder and forced Mulder to admit that he loved Scully - just to toy with him before he killed them both. Then Scully jumped into action (I think she kicked the guy in the crotch) and ducked, getting injured by a knife slash while Mulder shot the guy dead.

(There was also a sequel where Scully had The Talk with Mulder afterwards about whether or not he meant it)

Does this ring a bell? It's been a while since I've read it - its probably my favorite, and Im kinda dying to re-read it.

Bless fanfic reddit for their faith in me, but I am not the best fic reccer! That's @lilydalexf or @randomfoggytiger or @calimanc - they've all kept much better records than I have! I'll poke around, but they might already know :) It sounds great!

[deliciouskeys]

Related question: who has used the term 'supe' in the show?

Butcher obviously. Frenchie, MM, and I think Hughie from time to time. I think Grace Mallory has. Bob Singer. Joe Kessler (lol).

Has Annie? Did Becca?

Has any supe or anyone employed by Vought ever used it?

Control F-ing some scripts, Sage did refer to herself as a supe on at least one occasion, and in Season 4 'Supe' seems to have acquired a new connotation. Firecracker is introduced as "a leading voice of the alt-Supe movement on YouTube". But it seems to be a term Vought has been staying away from using?