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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

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I love abortion. And vaccines. Autism too.

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Hey, gay working class and gay rural interests, aesthetics, and culture belong within the wider LGBT+ community. Country music belongs in gay spaces. Camo and trucker caps and work boots belong in gay spaces. Trucks and doorless jeeps and shitty old beaters belong in gay spaces. GEDs and high school educations and blue collar jobs belong in gay spaces. Being broke and looking like shit belongs in gay spaces. The community isn’t owned by the wealthiest San Fransisco and New York gay-geoisie. Their interests, appearances, and beliefs do not define queerness. 

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cottagecore is unnervingly white… call that shit confederatecore

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The wonderful thing about Tumblr is that, even though it has the default state of a series of semi-public conversations to which anybody can add anything, encouraging people making fun digressions or interesting counterpoints to things you have posted, or conversations you’re already engaged in, it also lets you curate your dashboard so that you don’t have to interact with people you don’t want to, especially if they make your experience of Tumblr worse. And Tumblr is entirely a free-time activity! It’s recreation. Why would you want to interact with internet strangers who make your free time worse??

No one should feel the need to make their experience of Tumblr or any other website worse out of some misplaced sense of fair-mindedness. It’s not a formal debate club. It’s not even like meatspace social interactions where the cost of entering those spaces in time and physical effort and the persistence of relationships means that you can’t be quite so selective in who you spend time with. (Though I don’t think even in face-to-face interactions people have an unlimited obligation to put up with rudeness, or boredom; there is an obligation to not be callous or deliberately hurtful when trying to establish boundaries, though if polite hinting doesn’t work, I think it’s OK to be increasingly frank.)

I think a lot of people would be a lot happier if they treated online spaces as the low-stakes disposable social interactions that they are, which they have an absolute right to curate to be as pleasant as possible. This extends, I think, to moderators and admins, who get to decide what kinds of communities they want to support, and what kind of content they want to permit (though users get justly annoyed if mods are dishonest or fickle about these things). I don’t think anybody has a right to an audience, and certainly not a particular audience–nobody owes me reading anything I post, and if anyone’s life in general or time on the internet in particular will be made better by pretending I don’t exist, I mean it with utmost sincerity when I say, do what you need to do to ensure your time goofing around on the interwebs is fun for you.

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SIR

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Hi, I’m Wynter, I’m Deaf and fluent in ASL (American Sign Language). I get a lot of people telling me they want to learn to sign, but not knowing exactly where to start. So, I am here to provide that!

Let’s start off with some basics, though. ASL does NOT follow English grammar (Signed Exact English/SEE does, but it is not ASL), it only uses English words and a lot of the communication with singing is done via facial expression and body language. Basically, it goes in the order of time > topic > comment. For example, “ I am going to pet dogs next week” would be “next week dogs me pet”, but there are quite a few variants and every person who signs will have a different way of doing this. Sort of how people who speak English in different parts of America have an accent and different ways to sign things. The most important thing to note about ASL is that *American* Sign Language is not universal. Most languages have their own form of SL and a lot of the word signs/alphabets are not at all the same. Another note, learning SEE may seem easier at first, but it can actually make the transition to ASL grammar that much more difficult. An example of differing signs is BSL (British Sign Language) vs ASL. 

This is the BSL finger alphabet:

And this is the American one:

So while there is a small bit of crossover, it is very, very different! Don’t get me wrong, a lot of times signers will understand each other at least a little bit, but it does need to be noted that signs can differ by language, country, region, and sometimes person. 

Now, onto what you came for…

Alphabet:

ASL Alphabet 

ASL ABC’S (NON-CC VIDEO)

The ASL Alphabet

Deaf Culture:

*Note: if you are going to be attending Deaf events, please make sure you familiarise yourself with our culture!

American Deaf Culture

What is Deaf Culture? 

The Importance of Deaf Culture 

Deaf Culture vs Hearing Culture (NON-CC VIDEO)

Finger spelling:

American Sign Language Finger Spelling 

Sign Word List for Finger Spelling 

Learn ASL: The Finger Spelling Alphabet for Beginners (CC VIDEO)

ASL Finger Spelling Word Printer (gives you the finger spelling equivalent to what you type)!

Finger Spelling Practice

Sign Language Translator

Grammar: 

ASL Grammar 

The Basic Structure 

Learn ASL Grammar (CC VIDEO)

Learn:

*Note: The best way to learn is through Deaf people/other signers!

Lifeprint 

SignLanguage101 

The ASL App 

100 First Signs (Lifeprint)

Misc:

A Day Through a Deaf Person’s Eyes (CC VIDEO)

Deaftube 

What Questions Annoy Deaf People? (CC VIDEO)

Things Not to Say to a Deaf Person (CC VIDEO)

Why I Don’t Sound Deaf (CC VIDEO)

13 Things my Hearing Friends Should Know (CC VIDEO)

National Association of the Deaf

If you want a safe place to learn sign language (including ASL), I have created a Discord called Sign Language Learners! Come join and learn with other learners, Deaf/HoH people, and those curious kids who just want to know how the Deaf communicate.

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hello dark mode users :)

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happy 4/20

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These bizarre “5 minute crafts“ cooking/making/arts and crafts/household tips videos are just Elsagate for adult women. But unlike in Elsagate, there are actual humans in the loop, creating bizarre videos like “Greek yoghurt+cake clour, mix, bake 20 min, yummy bread!“. These people have to take these bizarre premises, and make videos with minimal instructions that somehow look like they work.

Now if you tried the yoghurt bread, you’d find that there’s no salt, yeast, or baking soda in it. It can’t work. Somebody at the production company must have mixed cake flour and yoghurt, and then put actual bread dough in the oven to film how it rises.

There is a human in the loop.

Short videos with surprising recipes or life hacks crowd out videos about things that actually work, because you already know many actual life hacks, but if some video tell you to get red wine stains out of a carpet with toothpaste, then that’s new/novel information. If you see two videos, one with a recipe that works, and one that doesn’t, either you will know which is which and you don’t need to watch either, or you’ll share/remember the one that looks prettier.

These life hack videos are viral because they don’t work, or rather, they are more viral than anything that does work, and they are viral because things that don’t work can be more surprising, counter-intuitive and thus more memorable/notable than any true information.

YouTube is not a race to the bottom, but past it.

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Out of Touch

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honestly real fucking gross how quickly commercials shifted to "in this scary & trying times you want to keep your family safe, that's why you should get some new windows installed today"

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Okay so upon watching Bernie’s statement I want to put a couple facts out there:

Bernie states he will no longer be actively campaigning

he states he will remain on the ballot and encourages you to continue to vote for him and gather delegates to make our voices and sway known

he will not be campaigning on another ballot (independent or Green Party ballot)

The media is continuing is campaign of misinformation to damage Bernies viability. Do not let them fool you. He is not going anywhere. He is merely shifting his focus to continue to help Americans through this pandemic.

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