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Pillowfort blog!

I am now posting photos and random ramblings here:

https://www.pillowfort.social/Jackel

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Coba and flowers.  He is a fluffy little garden spirit.

…also, I love both this rhododendron and this rose.  It is really great to have them both blooming at once!

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Solstice

Just as this post appears, the planet Earth is passing the Solstice – the time when the sun is as far to the south as it can possibly get. This set of image frames is one of my favorite things to check out on the day of the solstice. This is today, December 21, as captured by the American GOES-16 weather satellite, currently sitting in a geostationary orbit over the center of this frame.

Some of the Earth’s orbital details are obvious in this clip. First of all, take a look at the south pole – much of Antarctica is illuminated 24 hours today, as you can see at the southern part of this frame. At the northern edge of the clip though, the Arctic receives very little sunlight and you can spot the shadowed line where there is no sunlight received at all. You can also look at how the sun moves across this frame and really get a feel for why it’s currently southern Hemisphere summer – watch how much more sunlight the southern hemisphere gets than the northern hemisphere.

-JBB Video source: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/goes-16.asp

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Tell, Fox, and Lord, 1897, Sweden.

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Play with me!

Author:

Polina Pavlova

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The Official “Log Off” Protest F.A.Q! 

The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW. 

This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.  

So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST. 

Times are listed above depending on timezone! 

This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over! 

How to Export Your Blog: 

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog

Alternative Sites: 

Pillowfort

Mastodan 

Wordpress 

Twitter 

There is also an official Tumblr blog (ironic, huh?) and Twitter for the protest! It’s at: 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/logoffprotest

Tumblr - https://logoffprotest.tumblr.com/

There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018 ! 

Thanks for your support guys. Let’s fight to make Tumblr better. Actually better. 

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In early 2017 evidence of blubber was found in plesiosaurs, indicating that they were probably much more chubby than they’re usually reconstructed, and now in late 2018 it’s been found in an ichthyosaur, too!

Living during the Early Jurassic (~183-179 mya) in the shallow seas that covered most of Europe at the time, Stenopterygius was an average-sized ichthyosaur growing up to about 4m in length (13′). A fossil found in Germany has some incredibly good soft-tissue preservation, showing smooth flexible scaleless skin, a layer of insulating blubber very convergently similar to that found in cetaceans, and even evidence of countershaded coloration.

While the confirmation of blubber is amazing, and gives further evidence that ichthyosaurs were warm-blooded, the color preservation might actually be even more interesting. The skin pigmentation is preserved in enough fine detail for branched melanophores to be visible under a microscope – a type of cell associated with the ability to change color. So there’s a possibility that ichthyosaurs could actively darken or lighten their color patterns, for purposes such as better camouflage, UV protection, or temperature regulation.

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Wild coyote on the roof of a bar, Queens, NY. March, 2015. via

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please for the love of dog just call them American spitzes

all the sweet little floofy spitzes are good and nice

american eskimos? 💗

Some might say that taking a type of dog from a European country, bringing it overseas and breeding them to a single colour but for political and social reasons refusing to name them for their country of origin and instead ascribing them to a group of marginalized indigenous cultures that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with said dogs (and were almost certainly 100% not asked in this situation) using a word that is widely regarded as a slur, is problematic.

But I think they’re just pure little bundles of joy!

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京都 龍安寺 🍁紅葉2018🍁 kyoto ryoanji temple

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I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean

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Silent film stars with their borzois (pt.2).

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Dromaeosauridae . Dinosaurs Comparison. ¨Raptors¨

My art is available for prints, t-shirts, phone cases and many other items HERE

https://mariolanzas.tumblr.com/

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Fefa Koroleva - “Woman with Russian Greyhound”

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Sorry guys, apparently Yuki is far too sexy for you all to see from now on 😂 I’ll ask her to tone it down in future posts Hahahaha.

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Could Dreamwidth be upgraded to include tumblr’s ease and capacity for image uploads?  Honestly the two sites complement each other --- keep Dreamwidth’s text style and add tumblr’s image facility and you have one perfect social media site.

I won’t stay on a site that censors.  Why does it need to be on an app again, anyway? 

Tumblr’s definition of “adult content” seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It’s definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr’s, I won’t lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it’ll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that’s small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.