i must be really bad at interpreting facial expressions, because when this meme took off, everyone seemed to interpret the woman’s face as “horny” or “yearning”
but i only saw simmering rage
new tag game: if you’re neurodivergent, how did you initially interpret her expression?
To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.
Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.
Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.
If you love ads, then this post is not for you. If you love Tumblr but hate ads and want the one to continue without having to endure the other, then this post is literally for you. Hello, you.
As of today, you can set up ad-free browsing on your personal desktop computer, from anywhere in the world, and then enjoy the same effervescent Tumblr you know and love, across all platforms, without the interruption of ads. Scroll away.
Some caveats:
It’s $4.99 for a month of pure, unadulterated nonsense.
If you like a discount, you can get 33% off (that’s four months for free) at $39.99 for a whole year. Imagine.
This is opt-in. You don’t have to do this. We won’t make you.
How do you opt in?
Easy! Just go to your Account Settings on desktop and hit “Go Ad-Free.” From there, you can choose to pay monthly or yearly:
And that’s it! You’ll be able to enjoy your favorite blogs and posts without any pesky ads getting in the way.
That’s all for now, Tumblr. Back to your blorbos.
why would I pay money to run a blog that might get nuked at any minute due to false report spamming?
why would I pay money to run a blog on a website that’s already been arbitrarily censored to hell and back?
If I give you $5 of my money per month, you better at least give me the freedom to post images of female-presenting nipples.
I’ll just use an ad block Staff, because it really is that free and easy to have an ad free experience
Staff you know full well we will all hate this and you won’t make shit why the fuck did u even bother. Give us back tits and get rid of the nazis and MAYBE we will give you money. Maybe.
The changes to the sidebar make sense in light of this, to me. They’re going to make ads more intrusive and obnoxious in the default view (won’t matter to desktop users who should be using ad blockers, but mobile’s gonna get worse), in order to make this more appealing.
Yeah no this is not even remotely going to work
I’ll delete my blogs before I pay for them
Ay Tumblr, this ain’t remotely even gonna fuckin’ happen.
I really hate that pixel art is becoming associated with NFTs, pixel art rules
Maybe I should just make the opposite of an NFT, like I dunno, just a cute pixel art goblin anyone can right click+save for free and keep it forever and now it’s theirs
You can put a hat on it too if you like
I’m totally on board. I’d like to propose a name for him: Nifty the Goblin.
I love it, I’ll try to whip something up when I’m feeling inspired
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…[BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOL-AID MAN] HELLO, YES, HI, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS ART PROJECTS?!
…I mean, yeah, these sorts of opposite-of-NFTs Open Source Art things are something I dedicate a lot of brainspace to, and I actually have some suggestions!
Firstly, if you wanna do that, you’d probably want to use one of the organization Creative Commons’ licenses, to make the “anyone can use/save/alter it” official and legally binding, presumably one of their looser ones like CC-BY or CC0.
Secondly, honestly, this is a rad idea, something like Open Game Art’s various sprites but more as an art project than an assets thing, and i have an idea on how you could expand it further.
Basically: Fanpro but for Pixel Art. Which, for those who don’t know, Fanpro is basically this pool of character designs people contributed to for a while, released totally and utterly under a CC0 license, for anyone to use how they see fit! Basically the exact opposite of NFTs!
It ha a successor in ComPro, but that kinda sputtered out, but one based around a specific theme like pixel art might be perfect! If only as an F-you to NFTs!
…But yeah, that’s my two cents on that good idea.
Boosting this!
The opposite of NFTs has existed for a long time, it’s called open source and creative commons.
And to add something, Kenney has recently released this little app called Creature Mixer to create little animated pixel art sprites: https://kenney.itch.io/creature-mixer
It’s free and it’s terms of use forbid any use with any kind of NFTs for the sprites created with it.
so, with some thanks to the lovely people above and with no further aplomb ‘cause it’s just a goofy 16 by 16 pixel goblin, here goes:
Nifty is a little 16 by 16 pixel goblin who’s yours to own and do whatever you wish to do with.
Licence: You can copy, modify and distribute this work, even for commercial projects, strictly excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens (so-called “NFT”) or blockchain (related) projects.
I’ve included a blown up 80 by 80 pixel version simply because I know from experience that Tumblr messes up small pixel art, but I’ve included a version in the original 16 by 16 resolution. While Sprytile is my pixel art software of choice, any image editor should do as long as long as it allows for turning off anti-aliasing, the bane of anyone who’s worked with pixels.
anyway, that’s enough pomp and circumstance for my silly little goblin powered by spite, although I do think it turned out pretty cute
I know nobody cares but I made a bunch of Nifty’s because he’s just so cute
I CARE HOLY SHIT THIS WHIPS
Shhh… sleepy
hi i love Nifty so i brought him into the physical realm
pattern:
OH i literally JUST finished my nifty piece today:
It’s Nifty the goblin in a nice little forest home with a pet cat and some friendly ducks nearby. <3
I love everything about Nifty, but Nifty and his nice little forest home are about to make me cry
#funny he was an anti-monarchist because this is some king shit
Bourdain is also one of the few celebrity chefs who is truly, and I mean truly, respected both outside and in the food service industry.
He was a chef who literally worked up from dishwasher to globally renowned “food personality”. He had worked just about every position in a kitchen. He never turned his nose up at street food and drank beer from a plastic bag because that’s how the locals did it. In an important-to-me move, he insisted his show go to the Azores when he learned while visiting Portugal that the food labeled “Portuguese” in Rhode Island and Massachusetts has its roots in Azorean cuisine rather than mainland Portuguese cuisine.
He gave a shit, not just about the food, but about the people who produced it. We bandy about the term “ethically sourced” like it’s nothing but a marketing buzzword. But Bourdain gave enough of a shit that he, Eric Ripert, and Christopher Curtin teamed up to make a chocolate bar with chocolate sourced from a single farm in Peru. But he, Ripert, and Curtin didn’t stop there. Bourdain cooked for the farmer’s family when he was there with one of his shows. He introduced the farmer’s daughter to some of the most famous chefs in Lima. He, Ripert, and Curtin, also made it a point to get rice stoves (stoves that burn rice hulls instead of wood and are not as toxic as wood) put into the homes of farming families in Peru.
There’s a prayer I’m reminded of, a modified version of a Christian prayer that’s used by my pagan church. “[Deity], we ask you to bless this food we are about to eat. We ask you to bless the hands that made it, both seen and unseen. We ask you to bless the hands that grew it and harvested it, both seen and unseen. We thank you for these gifts. So mote it be.”
Bourdain went looking for the people whose hands were unseen, he saw them, and he did what he could to make life better for them.
