#online documentation

[collophora]

Quick test of magma Who instantly denied pressure sensitivity

[usnatarchives]

Real pirate names for #TalkLikeAPirateDay! 🦜🏴‍☠️

ARRRR, the disappointment! This list of mostly non-piratical pirate names (John Desfarges, Peter Morel, Robert Johnston, Charles Dickinson, etc.) come from the case file of United States v. John Defarges, et. al. for charges of piracy, from the records of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. New Orleans. More documents from this case, including the indictment and witness affidavits are available in the online catalog.

[completebest]

i really wanted to share this here b/c i feel like some of you will understand my excitement over this...somehow TWO 2005 mamimi flcl dolls ended up in my towns goodwill

apparently these were an american release from takara that was meant to include different series' but ended after the two flcl dolls (as far as i can tell)

shes hanging with my jenny's now since im pretty sure shes using the jenny facemold

truly my craziest find...will never get this lucky at the thrift again

[uesp]

"It turns out your ghost wears whatever clothes you were wearing when you died. Makes me wish I'd put on my good smallclothes that last day."

--Meln the Mouthless

[fangatic]

in case you struggle with basic comprehension of the concept of consequence as much as you do with the difference between wrenched and wretched, come walk with me.

chatgpt has an input limit of approximately 4000 characters.

my fics are, in total, approximately 1310408 characters.

that means putting all my fics through chatgpt would require you to make about 328 separate inputs.

(are you still keeping up? this next part is tough, so hold onto your binky)

per query, chatgpt produces 4.32g of co2.

4.32g 328 times is 1417.16g. 1417.16g is 1.417kg.

you could emit the same amount of co2 doing either of the following:

boiling 21 kettles of water

growing four cucumbers in a greenhouse

streaming 9 hours of netflix (the entire first season of arcane, if you need a recommendation)

or, if you were to do something stupid like pay openai to get chatgpt plus to feed it my work in a single pdf query, you'd have spent $20. you know what you could have done with those $20? bought a stanley tools curved-claw wood-handled nailing hammer and hit yourself right between the eyes with it to save me and the environment from the silly ideas you come up with in your soft-boiled head.

[aideenslight]

IGOR BLOWS HIS HORN REAL !!!!!

[stellartistic]

BUG

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[jorvik-chronicles]

🔮 ⤷ Random and Unimportant Soul Rider Headcanons [Pt.1]

These are all mostly based on my own OC-ified versions of the Soul Riders, but I thought it would be fun to share nonetheless >:)

Linda collects plushies. Her bed is absolutely full of them, all different sizes, colours, styles, etc - as well as a lot from different fandoms she's in. For those that already came with names, she reassigned them names, and probably writes them all down in a designated notebook with cool little stickers and doodles of them.

Lisa is THE plant mom. They all buy her plants for her birthday, and they are like her children. Sometimes she’ll come home from long trips and find that some of them have wilted, and it’s the most heartbreaking moment for her as she tries desperately to revive them.

Anne will often get someone's attention by calling them by their last name only. ("PETERSON! What the HELL are you doing??")

In Linda's backpack, she has pretty much anything she could ever need. 4a. One of the things she carries is a small pocket notebook, where she writes snippets of poetry from random thoughts she has throughout the day, which she will inevitably look back on hours later (having forgotten what she'd wrote) and sit there thinking “Damn, that’s really shit why did I think that was cool and aesthetic”.

Alex has her friends saved in her contacts under the silliest of names. Linda as 'Sister of the Cheese', for example, or Anne as 'Sunshine [derogatory]'.

Lisa wears odd-coloured shoe laces. The most notable are her Converse, which are also covered in colourful patches, doodles, and embroidery that the whole group has contributed to.

Anne and Alex engage in aggressively cheesy, jokey flirting with each other, despite their relationship being purely platonic. This is probably down to the fact that they have the dirtiest minds. Sometimes they’ll just greet each other like: “Hey, sweetcheeks.” “Hey, sexy.”

Anne just has really cold hands?? Like, all the time??

Wall-hangings and tapestries are a big trade-off between Linda, Lisa and Anne.

There was definitely a moment where they all found out that Alex can rap really well. Eminem better watch out fr.

Linda collects scarves ready for the Autumn and Winter. Like, imagine her just browsing lil shops in Jarlaheim and she comes across a scarf she really likes, is just like UUUUEEE >:)) She is the Pinterest girly.

Lisa can't swim, but would really like to learn how. Until then, she is the designated rubber-ring dweller.

Alex cracks her knuckles. All. The. Damn. Time.

Anne absolutely loves card and dice games, and will challenge the others to a game or two if they have the stuff available. She probably carries around a pack of cards with her.

Alex is a WhatsApp sticker FIEND. She has a bank full of meme stickers to send in response to anything.

[audoneout]

did brennan lee mulligan really just hard launch that him and Izzy have a kid now through a fucking bit of Lou and all the guests on the Fireside Chat rescuing him from the Panamanian jungle and he has a baby now in an audio format

[hungergameshyperfixation]

Oh you think you were a fan of Maysilee Donner, Haymitch Abernathy, Haymitch’s family + girlfriend, Katniss’s parents, Plutarch Heavensbee, the Undersees, the second Quarter Quell, etc, BEFORE Sunrise on the Reaping was announced?

How many of you wrote FANFICTION about them???

No seriously I’m not doubting you I just want some fanfic recs-

[bogcreacher]

Is there anywhere to read wolf's kin?

yea on my iPad 👍👍

real talk it exists in the mostly unreadable form of ~200 poorly composed thumbnail pages. AND I wrote it before I started working on my two main comics so I’ve learnt a billion things since then and probably would rewrite it completely if I made it now. tldr it’s in comic purgatory 

[wowitsverycool]

screenshots of my drawings from that one ISAT whiteboard in april

[bloobluebloo]

I suppose too many positive thoughts is not healthy for the Demon King

[gracehosborn]

I hate to be the bearer of frustrating news, but in case some of you who frequent Founders Online (like I do) and have noticed an extreme spike of 503 “Service Temporarily Unavailable” errors, making access to the site impossible for periods of time, the team posted the explanation below:

Founders Online performance issues

19 May 2025: Founders Online is experiencing periodic degraded performance owing to extreme spikes in traffic caused by excessive website crawling, associated with content scooping from AI platforms and other indexers. We are working on a viable fix within the constraints of our server resources.

This is very unfortunate and very disgusting. I’m glad that they are trying to fix the issue, but it breaks my heart that they even have to put in the effort. From personal experience working as a student technician in my university’s Preservation Department, where my primary task is to digitize all sorts of old materials—books, newspapers, photographs, etc, and collaborate on how those items should be handled and scanned so that their digital copies can be presented and made accessible in the right ways, it takes A LOT of work just to digitize one item. Almost all of the documents you see on Founders Online are digital copies of the book pages from where these transcriptions originated—series’ of the founders papers that were printed in the last 70-80 years by university presses. Books that, when Founders was launched 15 years ago, were all between a few years and many decades old, and difficult for the general public to access. Of course, I don’t know the Founders team’s exact process for making the archive when they first started, nor do I claim to be the preservation expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a big hunch that it took many hundreds of hours, and likely continues to do so for the remaining volumes they intend to add to the site, to make Founders Online as it appears and maintain its usually fast performance.

AI in general frustrates me, but to see that this extremely valuable archive has now gotten caught in the scooping net makes me equally sad and angry. If you want to gather documents from the site, but will later be offline, you have the ability through the site to download PDF files of individual documents and print them. Most of the material is also in the public domain as well (not all, however—any annotations to a document are copyright of the institution which originally published those physical volumes I mentioned). AI scooping this archive for information to feed to language learning models is a waste of time, energy, and money, and is a violation of copyright law. At the risk of causing performance issues and affecting the servers that make Founders possible, this activity is potentially detrimental to historic preservation and access to historical knowledge. Those hundreds of hours the teams behind the site have worked also come into play: this site is their baby, their hard work, and it’s being stolen. And as a result, everyone’s ability to easily use the site without issue is being affected.

I am extremely fortunate to be in a position where I have been able to acquire a personal backup system for what I primarily use Founders for (my volumes of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton), and more so in that through my university, I have access to the rest of the physical series that make up the archive. So this current issue with the site being slow on performance and frequently down does not inconvenience me much. But this is a privilege. Founders Online was created to get around that privilege and allow for everyone (with an Internet connection) to access these important historical documents. I cannot hammer down to you just how important and valuable that is. Founders Online is an invaluable resource that deserves to be maintained and protected. I’m thankful that the team behind it are working diligently to do just that, but they should never have had to combat AI stealing their hard work and affecting the usability of the site in the first place.

[impishtubist]

My favorite thing about having a brain that doesn't work is the number of hours it wastes not doing anything when we could be productive instead!!!!

[swoopyswish]

might fucking explode today due to major health insurance providers having more money than fucking god but refusing to put any of it into making it easier for their millions of clients to find out if they have care coverage or not