#support-bot

[irenereru]

Sketch that took me 1 hour to make, with the Kintobor family from the Sonic roleplay I'm in! :D

It's my OC Support-Not, Belle, and AI Kintobor, who made both of them

I'm pretty happy with how Belle turned out :D

[bootleg-grandpa]

Listen, after I witnessed Nautica tickling Megatron in mtmte, I am 100% sure girl can get away with anything

[elodieunderglass]

Eggs for Killie is over!

I award myself the 150th egg for all of the little bits of art. Thank you so much for inspiring me to make them! It’s been really amazing to see all the hard work and to truly appreciate the wide range of crafts and activities everyone can do. Bobbin lace? Shoemaking? Knife forging? Translating Irish? It’s genuinely incredible.

I also really appreciated the people who were taking a rest, too. Thank you for that as well.

And I SUPER, SUPER appreciate everyone who was going through saying encouraging words, leaving replies/reblogging with comments, or liking all these posts. That was also a huge outpouring of kindness and time. I saw you doing it (and tried to make sure OPs did too) and any credit for people feeling empowered? That’s for YOU.

I know for a fact that people were following each other simply because they spotted one of their people through doing this. Thank you for being here - and being brave enough to find each other! 

If you have a project you were working on specifically for this, and missed the inbox, drop me a message - I don’t want to miss you.

150 eggs x 60g (weight of medium-large chicken egg) is 9000g of eggs.

That’s 16.8% of Killie’s body weight in eggs.

I am planning to write a book about Killie and I think it will be very VERY funny to acknowledge every single username who contributed in the acknowledgements…

…. Because I am planning to throw them back at you.

Now rest up, everyone. April Fools tomorrow, we gotta make the REST of the website unusable.

[ms-demeanor]

making my own post because nobody needs my bullshit on their post:

OP:

Reblog 1:

Reblog 2:

My response:

The IRA blogs were here and they were active and they were quite popular; their posting patterns did not match normal tumblr users (i was followed by lagonegirl and followed back only to be put off by the account reblogging the same five or ten posts every hour for a day before selecting another five or ten posts to reblog hourly the next day - it was clear engagement bait).

Tumblr has never been as transparent about these accounts as both Twitter and Facebook were, but several of the accounts had shared names across platforms and you can find a significant amount of data that was released by both facebook (ex: ads purchased by the IRA accounts) and twitter (over three million tweets from IRA accounts). Academic researchers have published papers on the data released from facebook and twitter. Several papers. So many papers. Soooooo many papers. We have a LOT of direct evidence that you can explore for yourself that there were hundreds (possibly thousands) of IRA accounts that were created on Facebook and Twitter. Of those accounts, some shared usernames across platforms, and of those accounts, a few had tumblr accounts that posted the same content on twitter and tumblr.

To quote a buzzfeed news article from the time:

The Russian-run Tumblr accounts used the same, or very similar, usernames as the account names contained on a list of confirmed IRA accounts Twitter submitted to congressional investigators. In some cases, the Tumblr and Twitter account has the same profile image or linked to each other in their bios. Some IRA Tumblrs and Twitter accounts also cross-promoted content between platforms, further linking them together.

Current tumblr user @ alwaysbewoke (who I don't want to tag because I'm sure he's got better things to do) is interviewed in that article and talks about following one of the blogs identified by tumblr as an IRA blog that had a matching account on twitter identified as an IRA account but unfollowing when the left-leaning blog supposedly run by a black creator started rooting for trump in the election.

Dr. Jonathan Albright is heavily quoted in the article; the data review he collaborated on is one of the only reviews of this subject that includes data from Tumblr and Reddit.

One of the claims that I've seen is that tumblr just deleted funny black people, but these were blogs with thousands of followers on tumblr who never recreated, never popped up on another social media site, never started a reddit account after getting banned; nobody ever showed up saying "hey this is 4mysquad, I got banned on tumblr and twitter, follow me to pillowfort". These very popular blogs got deleted and, as far as I know, nobody ever popped up claiming to be a person who was deleted - and it's not like tumblr users haven't figured out how to evade bans.

What you are doing when you make posts saying that the IRA accounts on tumblr never existed is *absolving tumblr of guilt for their utter lack of transparency.*

Tumblr is not the only tech company that has tried to fly under the radar as its larger counterparts face regular scrutiny in Congress and in the press. Earlier this month, Reddit revealed it too had deleted hundreds of accounts with ties to the Internet Research Agency. A WIRED investigation found more than a thousand links to Russian propaganda websites are still live on Reddit, and unearthed two suspicious accounts that Reddit immediately shut down.

So should you believe what Tumblr says? No, because Tumblr has been functionally fucking silent on this issue and the information about this subject aside from the list of blogs has come from the hard work of data scientists, journalists, and researchers.

(For the record; some of those bot accounts that were recorded by Dr. Albright also had Google+ accounts in 2017 - there is every possibility that they had myspace accounts).

Now, the reason that I'm popping onto this post as an annoyed anarchist is that I was tracking a similar group of blogs for a while and was discussing them and I stopped precisely because of the galaxy-brained liberals who are now trying to dunk on communists for criticizing electoralism. One of the people who was following my project was one of the ones who started calling out the "joe biden kills dogs" posts as disinfo and I realized they were using some of the guidelines I'd written up to "identify" misinformation and that is very a rock fucking stupid approach to what was clearly a leftist making jokes and was horrified and realized there was no way that I could continue documenting what I was documenting without someone attempting to call actual leftists russian bots.

I've seen the post that OP is referencing [it's one where someone makes a very obvious joke about the democrat presidential ticket and people jump on to call them a bot and then someone tries to do the "AI tell me a story" thing and OP is just like "I don't want to :(", proving that they are in fact a person and not an AI] and have deeply enjoyed the humor of watching liberals a) not understand a very, VERY obvious joke and b) become the unwitting butt of a joke they were trying to make, but also I am so exhausted by watching normie dems call leftists AI bots after years of watching normie dems call real live actual leftists who hold actual political views that real people actually have, like prison abolition, russian bots.

But I am also so fucking tired of left conspiracism and how stupid it sounds when leftists dismiss a preponderance of evidence that is easily accessible and publicly available for analysis as "lol so you just trust everything tumblr tells you?"

No, dipshit, learn to click a fucking link or twelve.

[illustratedartist]

A Madman's Plan ❔🤖🦇🐈‍⬛💣

Happy (early) Halloween! and I bring you guys the scariest thing I could think of. Listening to Edward Nygma go on a tangent about his plans. horrifying!

SO- Ive got to be honest here, @wingedqueenlynx has like fully corrupted me into the Riddleman club so this was her fault entirely! And mix that with the fact that @finzphoenix 's art always inspires me with how realistic and detailed everything is even in black and white (which is such an impressive skill like holy shit-) This piece was bound to happen.

And Side note: I was about to beat Batman Arkham Knight, but my PS4 broke and I had to buy a whole new one AND RESTART EVERYTHING- So beaten up Eddie made me feel better LOL

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

My mom (and my sister) said that both baby Stan and Ford are adorable but Ford is cuter and she likes him better and I think my heart is shattered.

This post is dedicated to my favorite kid Stanley panels:

My mom didn’t even like him when I showed the one where he murders those two kids 😭😭😭 that’s the best part!!!

[slimubunu]

Missed Maid day but that doesn't mean I'm NOT drawing Yessie into one! He looks great in the shorter ones, promise.

[irenereru]

Look at them! My sweet baby! <3

My friend's, @irenereru sonic OC, Support Bot, but in 3D

And with mittens

[catliker49]

You're on the Air!

Still messing around with my style!! I will get there One day! Oooh!! And! It is almost one year since I have Delved into Welcome Home!! Exciting!! I will spend the day doodling and eating Colourful cake.. and...

I am cutting myself off now to realise I am supposed to be making funny Ghost Hunting videos with my friends on the 4th of April.. AAHH!!! I apologise Wally plush, I will do this on the 5th of April instead!!

[aqlstar]

Also the Eurovision Israel haters gloating about how Israel didn’t win don’t seem to understand that to literally every Jewish person, Yuval did win.

Second place is absolutely winning; we’re not like the Soviet Union where if you place second you get disappeared or whatever.

We are so proud of Yuval for putting on an amazing show and winning second place.

[izanogi]

[irenereru]

Just wanted to get some dessigns down after thinking about their lore for the past few days.

These are the dessigns of an alternate universe to my Sonic AU, Sonic Convergence. It's an alternate version of my OC Support-Bot and Belle the Tinkerer.

In their universe, their creator (that world's Eggman) went missing/passed away, and almost at the same time as he disappeared, an almost robot apocalypse was unleashed.

Most intelligent robots were captured and reprogrammed, Support-Bot being one that went through the process partially, now having a corrupted code.

Belle, on the other hand, was able to hide and avoid being captured. Thankfully, they both were capable of reuniting, and work as a team trying to help their world fight off the robot uprising.

Belle helps fixing both infrastructure for organics living underground, as well as working for a program that can cure the feral machines, including Support-Bot.

Support-Bot is a medical expert, always working to save as many people as possible, however it causes a toll to their original code to interact with living beings, only kept at bay thanks to Belle's work.

I still am unsure who exactly is responsible for that robotic apocalypse, but I can tell you that Robotnik is not involved.

[roboticseadust]

experimental piece blehhh idk

[starspice-y]

+Affection Heart icons I made for @bellamby 's TFP visual novel!

[pankiepoo]

Can't you just tell me it hurts to see me?

[i-lavabean]

Quick scribble because I'm so sick of ai