ahahahahahaaaa *laughs my well-rounded ass off* Somebody got smacked down HARD. Patreon’s so used to being the only game in town, they forgot that their core userbase was likely to kick back. Angry fans are like swans: they will not only beat you up, they will bring everybody they ever met to beat you up as well. That is possibly the most sincere-sounding apology I have ever seen from a corporation. ^_^
@ksonney, best known to fandom as Ursula Vernon’s husband, has offered to help creators look at their options and set up somewhere else if switching away from Patreon is a thing you still want to do. (Which it might be! As Ursula put it on Twitter, “They’ve unburned that bridge, but there are still scorch marks on the foundations.”)
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#Patreon #PSA #interesting #oh look an update #(though I don’t think I posted anything about the original) #(I don’t use Patreon myself)
I have been seeing a disturbing amount of Maccabee glorification lately in the name of anti-anti-Semitism, so:
This Hanukkah, I would like to reiterate that I do not condone killing people for attempting to convert away from Judaism. Including and *especially* when the reason they are attempting to convert is because they think being non-Jewish will be safer for them.
This is not what supporting me looks like.
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#of *course* I would rather be an alive Hellenist than a dead Jew #and what the hell kind of right do you have to stop me? #why the hell would you even *want* to if your goal is to help me? #if you really think I’m going to be up against a hard place the *last* thing you should be is a rock #no I don’t think it’s *entirely* that people didn’t think through the Maccabee stuff #because I see it in other non-Maccabee forms too #everyone–enemies and ””allies”” alike–wants to keep me trapped in Judaism #at least enemies don’t have the gall to claim they’re doing it for my own good #oh look an original post #Judaism #rants #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #Hanukkah #anti-semitism cw #murder cw
There’s a new spam virus going around that causes the victim’s blog to send messages to people they follow asking for fractions of bitcoin. So, just to let you know: I would never ask anyone for bitcoin, and chances are, anyone else asking you for it didn’t really send the message
Don’t click any links if you do get such a message, that’s the vector of infection.
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#PSA #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #(I have been known to use bitcoin in the past but I gave up because the transaction fees these days are just awful)
Is it possible to dress up like a ghost and fool people into thinking they’ve seen the real deal? Happily there is published research to answer this question, research carried out at no lesser institution than Cambridge University. For six nights in the summer of 1959, members of the Cambridge University Society for Research in Parapsychology took turns dressing up in a white muslin sheet and walking around in a well-traversed field behind the King’s College campus. Occasionally they would raise their arms, as ghosts will do. Other members of the team hid in bushes to observe the reaction of passersby. Although some eighty people were judged to have been in a position to see the figure, not one reacted or even gave it a second glance. The researchers found this surprising, especially given that the small herd of cows that grazed the field did, unlike the pedestrians, show considerable interest, such that two or three at a time would follow along behind the “ghost.” To my acute disappointment, “An Experiment in Apparitional Observation and Findings,” published in the September 1959 Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, includes no photographs.
Several months later, the researchers revised their experiment, changing the venue and adding “low moans” and, on one occasion, phosphorescent paint. One trial was set in a graveyard right off a main road and clearly in the sight line of drivers in both directions. Here observers hid in the bushes not only to record reactions, but to “avert traffic accidents” and “reassure anyone who became hysterical.” But again, not a single person of the hundred-plus who saw the figure thought it was a ghost, including two students from India. “Although we are superstitious in our country,” the men told one of the researchers, “we could see his legs and feet and knew it was a man dressed up in some white garment.”
In their final effort, the research team abandoned traditional ghost-apppropriate settings and moved the experiment into a movie theater that was screening an X-rated film. The author of the paper, A.D. Cornell, explained that the X rating was chosen to ensure no children were traumatized by the ghost, as though that somehow explained the choice of a porn theater as a setting for a ghost experiment. This time the “ghost” walked slowly across the screen during a trailer. The phosphorescence was not used this time and presumably low moans were deemed redundant. No mention is made of the specific images showing on the screen behind the ghost, but clearly they were a good deal more interesting: The audience was polled after the film, and forty-six percent of them didn’t notice the man in the sheet. Among those who did, not one thought he’d seen a ghost. (One man said he’d seen a polar bear.)
Spook, by Mary Roach
kelasparmak {{I think?}}:
“occasionally they would raise their arms, as ghosts will do.”
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#ghost #nsfw text? #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”presumably low moans were deemed redundant”)
So. Doctor Doom has built a castle which, in order to get inside, you need to break down all its walls. So the Hulk breaks down the first wall rather easily. Drax breaks down the second wall with a little more difficulty, but still with very little effort. The Thing shatters the third wall with impressive strength after weakening it first.
And for the fourth wall, Deadpool simply looks up.
” Am I supposed to be the punchline of this joke? “
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#Marvel #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
Brinens and Things 