The map flag had the same color scheme as the pan flag and now they’re switching to the bi flag
If you see anyone with this flag or any variation
Run
Don’t fucking hesitate to block because pedos are now using this new “flag” and other forms of it
Can I get a signal boost from larger accounts? Start tagging people so this will spread
this is especially important for you kiddos following me, if you see someone with this flag on their blog, DON’T interact with them. don’t even try to pick a fight with them, its not worth risking your safety over. please stay safe..
imagine if there were like. phone cases but for roombas that resembled various animals and you could have one shaped like a giant isopod that scuttles across the floor
i encounter people who want to try short hair but have been socialized to be nervous about it way more often than people who have cut their hair short and regret it.
my advice: if you’re interested in short hair, go for it
it’s fun
so damn convenient
dries faster (great in winter)
cooler (great in summer)
less hair in the sink/on the floor
timesaver
easier to style
middle finger @ gender binary
grows faster
(not necessarily technically, it just feels that way. a few inches of growth feels crazy long if you’re used ear length)
try it in stages if you’re hesitant. take a few inches off here and there. trim it impulsively at home. shave it all off at once. do whatever, life’s beauty is its impermanence, rules are fake.
honestly it should be the norm for everyone to try both long and short styles at some point. it’s very freeing
Hey fellow creators! So, as some folks may have recently become aware, Tumblr posts with external links don’t show up in relevant tags (as detailed in this post). IE, if you post a Steven Universe picture and tag it “Steven Universe” and there’s an external link in the post, it won’t actually show up in the “Steven Universe” tag! This is very frustrating! What if I make a post and want to link to my Twitter in the description? What if I want to link people to my online store when I post a piece of art? What if I want to link to a YouTube video and still have it show up under the relevant tags I put into the post?
Hold on to your butts kids cuz here’s how we cheat the system.
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The thing about Tumblr’s Anti-Linking nonsense works is that it only blocks external links. Internal links are fine. So if you wanted to post a link to another Tumblr post, or someone’s Tumblr blog, you’re good. But if you wanted to link to your Twitter page or something, you’re screwed. So, all we gotta do is make your external link into a Tumblr link. Sounds weird. I know. But here’s how it works.
First, go to your Tumblr blog. Hit the “Edit Theme” tab.
In the theme editor sidebar, scroll all the way to the bottom, the “Page” section. (Here’s what mine looks like- I already have a few of these set up)
Hit “Add a Page”, and this window will pop up. By default it’s set to be a Standard Page. Hit the dropdown and select “redirect”.
For this example, let’s say I want to link to my Twitter page. I’ll name the page “Twitter” (this is what the redirect URL will end up being- IE yourblogname.tumblr.com/Twitter), and insert my Twitter URL under the “Redirect To” tab. Leave “Show a link to this page” turned off. (Unless you want the link to show up on your blog, in which case, turn it on. Do what you want, I’m not your mom)
Hit “Save”, and your new page should now show up on your Page list!
And done! So now, let’s say I wanted to use the new link in the text portion of a post. Simply use the Tumblr redirect link instead of the direct URL! As a test, I linked to my Twitter in a test post, using the redirect link instead of the direct link, and there it is in the tag! Success!
I recommend making a Redirect Page for any external links you’ll be using frequently. I like to post links to my webcomic/Twitter in posts fairly often, but doing that made me take a pretty big hit since my posts wouldn’t show up in tags. With this method, I can keep the external links, and have stuff show up when I tag it! Workarounds are fun!
The weirdest thing by far about the “Why didn’t they just ask a
[person who experiences that type of marginalization/trauma/adverse
situation]” response is that, well, they did. That’s literally
what they’re doing when they conduct research on that topic. Sure,
research is a more formal and systematic way of asking people about
their experiences, but it’s still a way.
And while researchers do tend to have all kinds of privilege relative
to the people who participate in their studies, many researchers are
also pushed to study certain kinds of oppression and marginalization
because they’ve experienced it themselves. While I never did end up
applying to a doctoral program, I did have a whole list of topics I
wanted to study if I ever got there and many of them were informed
directly by my own life. The reason researchers study “obvious”
questions like “does fat-shaming hurt people” isn’t necessarily because
they truly don’t know, but because 1) their personal anecdotal opinion
isn’t exactly going to sway the scientific establishment and 2)
establishing these basic facts in research allows them to build a
foundation for future work and receive grant funding for that work. In
my experience, researchers often strongly suspect that their hypothesis
is true before they even begin conducting the study; if they didn’t,
they might not even conduct it.
That’s why studies that investigate “obvious” social science
questions are a good sign, not a bad one. They’re not a sign that
clueless researchers have no idea about these basic things and can’t be
bothered to ask a Real Marginalized Person; they’re a sign that
researchers strongly suspect that these effects are happening but want
to be able to make an even stronger case by including as many Real
Marginalized People in the study as financially/logistically possible.
See also: “well of course [traditional medicine thing] works, why didn’t you listen to people who said it does?”
Well, for starters, the placebo effect is a real thing, and also where do you think the idea came from in the first place?
People don’t do studies because they have no idea what’s going to happen. They do studies because they think they know how something works and they want to confirm that.
And then on top of it, we conduct “obvious” research because sometimes what everyone knows is still wrong.
Fifty years ago everyone knew, and would swear to you by their personal experience, that paddling kids with a wooden spoon never did them any harm and, in fact, was absolutely necessary if you wanted to raise kids that had any respect for authority.
Right now there are hundreds of people out there training horses who know, from their extensive personal experience, that aversive (aka punishment-style) discipline is absolutely central to horsemanship. Of course, repeated actual studies show they’re wrong. But they still know it from their own experience.
We KNEW that dieting worked! As a society, we KNEW it was calories in calories out, one to one ratio, dead simple, you could see it all the time why would you need to test it? Except it turned out that when we did, it turned out to be a WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT.
Out there right now are all kinds of cops who know, from their own experience, that aggressive, tough-on-crime, jail-sentences-for-all methods are the only ones that work. They know it. This is their whole lives, they’ve lived it! … They also appear to be dead wrong, by the data.
We KNEW, at one point, that cigarettes were GOOD for asthma. They cleared the tubes! We KNEW that the human uterine lining is meant to make a warm, nurturing nest for the fertilized ovum to settle into! We knew all kinds of damn things.
For that matter, it’s common-sense obvious to any kid on the playground that things that are heavier will fall faster than things that are lighter. We knew that once too. And everyone with the slightest common sense (many people say) can TELL that the world is more violent and dangerous now than it was in the 1950s.
Except it turns out absolutely none of this is true. We were wrong. In all of those cases the common sense, obvious, “anyone who has any experience with these things knows that” answers were absolutely wrong. But we didn’t find that out until we did the work.
So yes a lot – a LOT – of the time these things really totally are “I’m pretty damn sure what the outcome is, so I’m going to study it for those reasons.” But we also do this work so that when we turn out to be wrong, we find out.
(My field works a lot with child-development stuff. The current big mess is “screen-time”. Everyone – including such bodies as the American Association of Pediatricians, and so on – KNOWS that screen-time for kids under a certain age is bad for them!
So it’s becoming increasingly awkward when the well-controlled, rigorous studies keep showing that this is not the case. Same happened with TV. Always look.)
Fun story about that:
In 1909 Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher measured the charge on the electron in what’s know as “the Millikan oil drop experiment” (sorry, Harvey). They got it wrong. As Feynman told it:
It’s a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It’s interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan’s, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.
Why didn’t they discover the new number was higher right away? It’s a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it’s apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan’s, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan’s value they didn’t look so hard.
Good studies of things we “already know” are important, because sometimes what we already know is wrong.
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