eslamgaza1:

blue-paintbrushes:

I’ve been contacted by @eslamgaza1 in an ask to aid her and her family. Eslam is a mother of 2 and her home was destroyed by bombings. She and her family have also been displaced to a tent and are dealing with winter cold. Please send whatever money you can to her gofundme and help save her and her family 🙏

Donate to Help Eslam Save Her Family, organized by Victoria Beauchamp

My name is Victoria, from the greater Chicagoland area, and I am starting this fundraise… Victoria Beauchamp needs your support for Help Esl

gofundme.com

I don’t know how to thank you❤️❤️❤️

you are really amazing and a talented artist🫶🦋

and this is a great support to me and my family.

I hope you and your family stay well always.

ive been waiting forever on the leg machines and while i was talking to my mom one opened up and i popped up and pointed to it in silent shock as if it was my white whale before realizing thats a silly gesture to do in a crowded gym

just saw a neighbor brush past their hallway window like a ghost and it was a great visual

armydreamerr:

ALT

this is my favourite post ever

hollowedskin:

peebs1701:

foone:

I saw this on reddit and tracked down the source (Dinara Fakhritdinova, _climbinggirl_ on instagram), because I know there’s a lot of girls here on tumblr who need to see her back muscles

If you want to see the best in their field, Google “top women pegging”

had a dream that my prof animated an undertale animatic i had made up where it was gaster, papyrus, and sans in snowdin having an adventure except sans was the family dog and they were 3D animated to look like they were models made with a 3d pen

sealiens:

scene from a fic I’m writing that will probably never see the light of day
its about Tenna being insecure in terms of getting older and Mike helping him through it. and. other stuff that i wont get into here ……..

maidthings:

comfybutter:

maidthings:

comfybutter:

maidthings:

comfybutter:

Mommy’s going to take you out of the freezer and leave you in a room temperature environment, ok? Awww you’re already dripping condensation… There’s a puddle gathering at your base, my leaky little condensation slut.

can you put that on a coaster

No. I want her to see all her little circle stains on the table…

okay thats cute and all but this table was my grandmother’s so i would really appreciate it if you could stop and actually consider other peoples belongings for 2 fucking seconds

But both Mommy and my little condensation slut gave our condensent so like I feel like I shouldn’t have to ask for yours… I guess I could get like a new table or whatever but it’s just not the same if it isn’t mahogany.

okay red what the fuck do you mean “condesent”

battry-acid:

MY MAGNUM OPUS HAS FINALLY BEEN RELOCATED…

this was my final for my sound design class in 2024. the assignment was to recreate a movie scene with entirely different sound effects to change the tone/genre/whatever and i chose the legendary nightcrawler breaks into the white house scene in X2. i won ‘silliest project’ and was rewarded with a clown horn for this video.

all sound effects are either free to use or straight up just my voice lol

icarianarts:

BECOME A NASTY LITTLE MINDLESS SOLE DRONE FOR SHOE MISTRESS PERFECT FOR HER PUPPETRY

solardrake:

greeble neeble gomble womp?? e mfucking worgle smeet huga dorble!!!!

nerves-nebula:

Medical care needed for refugees!

Donate to Help LGBTQ Refugee Survive Camp, organized by Nerves Nebula

Hi I'm Judas (internet name NervesNebula) and I'm an American fundraising for my friend … Nerves Nebula needs your support for Help LGBTQ Re

gofundme.com

520/800

Hey y’all, Abdul’s friend Peter has fallen seriously ill and is in desperate need of medical attention! He collapsed one day and the doctors said he has H. Pylori and will need around $800 for treatment.

I’m still trying to save up to go see my dad in Nigeria before he dies but despite that I’ve got basically no money, so I’d deeply appreciate the help.

I’ll update the amount donated here every few days + whenever I can spare some money

galileosballs:

Also, while I’m procrastinating on my own draft, let me share my best piece of writing advice. I call it ‘robot mode’.

One of the most common impediments people face as writers is the fear of the blank page. Starting a text is the hardest part. It feels impossible to get that opening line just right so that everything starts to flow. So, people procrastinate, and an essay that could have been a four-hour draft turns into a week.

Staring at the page until a perfect sentence arrives in your head is a bad method. Try this one instead. Try robot mode.

To engage robot mode, imagine that you are a classically-styled science fiction robot. You’re the ship’s computer. You’re a box that does logic. In the voice of that robot, simply describe the contents of whatever you intend to write in the driest, most accurate, and least-stylized method imaginable. Real bare-bones, style free stuff. Use simple words when at all possible (the style of Simple English Wikipedia is a good reference point). 'In this essay I argue for X. The argument starts by assuming Y. I describe the case study Z in which the relevant details are a, b, and c. Then I argue that a, b, and c, when combined with Y, form a good argument for the truth of X.’ Don’t do much explaining here (though you will naturally feel yourself starting to form the explanations) - just lay out the logical connections as precisely and concisely as you can.

Nobody actually wants to read an essay like that, but everyone will like an essay that is clear enough in purpose and structure that it can be described like that. If you have a precise enough vision of what the contents of your essay are that you can write a robot mode description of it, you are ready to write your essay. If you can’t, workshop it until what the robot says makes sense. Once it does, you will magically find it much easier to begin writing properly.

Usually I do not put the robot mode paragraph into my essay itself, but sometimes it makes a good abstract. And it is sufficient to make the page no longer blank. Every time I get stuck later in the draft, I can repeat the exercise. The robot returns and describes the purpose of the current section. Then it goes away and writing resumes.

Try it. See if you like it.

dearparentheses:

Paul Evans

donutsbagels:

Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG thread from when I made these a year ago were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

Post by @donutsbagels · 7 images

💬 2  🔁 715  ❤️ 1008 · Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!

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acquitarte:

walk-up-songs:

walk-up-songs:

walk-up-songs:

walk-up-songs:

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads…the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.

Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was…60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can’t tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.

Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:

Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)

Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household’s experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)

Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)

Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don’t even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I’m very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)

Privacy International’s guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)

You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don’t know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I’m bad at following directions (and it’s kind of complicated if you’ve been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider’s configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I’m not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.

Also!! if you’ve never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here’s is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.

(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)

After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.

I also use Blokada on my phone when I’m not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).

It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.