#Microblogging in 2023

[toxiccoworkeryaoi]

to anyone who put any thought into what they were going to wear to watch barbie: i see you, i love you and you look great <3

[bluastro-yellow]

please tell me the two robot girls in yokohama kaidashi kikou end up together 🙏

[edsonjnovaes]

Conheça alternativas semelhantes ao X 1.2 - Edição Ao Vivo on-line

Edson Jesus – A.I. Carr. 2024 set 04 Palavras Perdidas: Roubo de identidade: Yael Cohen Aris, As pessoas estão trocando o Twitter pelo Koo, Elon e vacas, James Cameron afirma que a Skynet destruiria a humanidade apenas com deepfakes, Internet morta: é MUITO PIOR do que vc pensa, Os idiomas que sobreviveram ao colapso das civilizações, Elon Musk acaba de comprar o Twitter e others tecs, COMO O…

[idknikkip]

ok an insane Buffy think I’m not really sure I actually noticed I’m blogging this so I remember tomorrow -sometimes having adhd & being this much of a stoner requires you to sort of memento (2000) yourself- is that the way werewolves look and are first shown looks weirdly similar to … actually, ya know what, this was actually an insane thing to think. & sometimes I think it’s important to catch those “2*2=4000 (if you assume it’s actually 2*2k but someone probably just forgot the k)” kind of thoughts & nip em in the bud. & it’s kinda funny to - idk what I was writing here to step away to google what causes tinnitus- turns out I have pulsatile tinnitus- I just thought that when it was too quiet everyone heard their own heart beat and it kinda sounds like when the fire alarm goes off at school and the pulsating shrillness bounces around in your skull.

[waqaryounas]

-TheThoughtThread

--Have you had any experiences where a concept became more accurate when it was moved from its original context to another context?

10th July 2023

[budgebuttons]

There's a lot of reasonably frustrated but ultimately misdirected psa-style posting about how viewers NEED to start reblogging things rather than just liking them because that is the primary mode of post circulation on this site. The modern manifestation of this sentiment seems to miss the fact that, if you've been here for ~15 years, were here prior to, during, and after the exodus to the bird app, you already know that likes have always been more common than reblogs, that many people simply don't want to put your art on their blog, and that guilting end-users into using a microblogging site A Specific Way absolutely does not work. If it did, the trend would have shifted a decade ago. Because this conversation really is that old. Regardless, the modern discourse of how difficult it is to be Seen specifically on Tumblr isn't productive because I think it ultimately misses the reason being an artist online feels so Bad, now.

The social media era has funneled Looking At Stuff on the Internet into an economy of engagement that encourages end-users to treat everything we/they see as quick, cheap, and disposable. This is just another fun and flirty way that capitalism devalues art. It's nothing new. Trying to force masses of users to behave in a way that is healthier for the circulation of art isn't going to do anything to solve the discontent we all feel when we hurl something into the void and it is ultimately ignored. I swear up and down: A higher notes number won't feel better, either. Popularity is just as demoralizing as radio silence, but it manifests differently. Instead of 4 likes and maybe 1 reblog from Old Faithful Mutual, you get a horde of people who treat you like a content machine. You keep hoping for an impossibly Bigger Number. The notifs on the first Big Number Post haven't even settled, and people are already asking when the follow-up is coming. You get anons, but most of them are trying to passively convince you to give them More Content.

It's really, really hard to make people care about art. If there was a silver bullet for making the average person appreciate the enormity of human effort behind every beautiful thing they encounter, we would have found it centuries ago.

The best thing creatives can do for their lives online is to be friendly, or at least kind, with other creators. "Big" artists don't form in-groups because they're snobs. They find each other because they casually showed each other support, and their mutual appreciation for that Thing that wound them up in the same tag becomes a foundation for connection, and in many cases, the ever-illusive Bigger Audience as they introduce themselves to each others' circles. We get more eyes on our work by building community with each other.

Where does that leave people who are just here to look at things, not post them? I think the answer is almost identical: COMMENT!! Please, comment! The first step to engaging with art on a more meaningful level is to point out something you particularly enjoy about a given work. It can go in the replies, it can go in the tags, doesn't matter!! If you notice some symbolism or make some connection, there is all likelihood that OP put it there because they desperately wanted somebody to notice it. Let them know why you like it!

Reaching for the nebulous, impossible goal of better post circulation isn't going to make being a creator online in 2023 suck less. Meaningfully connecting with each other can, will, and does. You can make someone's day just by passingly letting them know that their effort is worth more than a number.

[tiktaalic]

Second Edition of gayjoealwyn’s extemporary analysis of Wonka (2023), edited to comply with updated publication standards of Tumblr.com, microblogging platform

First edition available here.

Hugh not so mungo¹ these days. Perhaps due to wonk?²

1: “Hugh Grant | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica.” Www.britannica.com, www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Grant. Accessed 13 Jan. 2024.

States that Hugh Grant’s full name is Hugh John Mungo Grant.

2: Wilkes, Emma. “Hugh Grant Says “Wonka” Director Sent Him a Naked Oompa Loompa Image.” NME, 9 Dec. 2023, www.nme.com/news/film/hugh-grant-says-wonka-director-sent-him-a-naked-oompa-loompa-image-3556435#:~:text=Hugh%20Grant%20has%20revealed%20that. Accessed 13 Jan. 2024.

Grant’s role in Wonka (2023) is as “Oompa-Loompa”, a man who is eighteen inches tall.

Acknowledgements: thank you to Gayjoealwyn for allowing me the honor of working on your literature. Thank you to tsurangaconundrum for your extensive help with research and editing.

[zedecksiew]

BLOGGIES 2023 REVIEW WINNERS

Week four of BLOGGIES month has ended. Soon there will be a four-way free-for-all, where GOLD winners in each of the four category brackets will vie for BEST BLOG POST OF 2023!!!

But first: your winners of the REVIEW category, their medals, and acceptance speeches!

(I asked these designer-critics for some thoughts about their winning entries, and where they think we in TTRPGs are going.)

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BRONZE BLOGGIE FOR REVIEW POST:

🥉MICROBLOG: CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND TABLETOP GAMES🥉 from FAIL FORWARD

Sandro:

Firstly I'd like to thank anyone who thought it was a good idea to give me an award of any kind. It's humbling and bewildering and y'all are the best. This was a just-for-funsies lunch time blog post that almost didn't happen. It was inspired by carefully listening to folks much wiser than me talk about what makes them tick. (Often times I think people's aspirations can tell us a lot about what their origins and inspirations might be) Yet here we are, an award winning post! Let this be a testament that it's always better to put yourself out there because you never know what people will resonate with! I'd like dedicate this award to children big and small, in and out of homes of all shapes and sizes. The suffering so many kids endure is heartbreaking, so if you take anything from this little speech let it be this: Be kind to the next generation. What we pass down to the young readers of today shapes the writers of tomorrow. No pressure ~

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SILVER BLOGGIE FOR REVIEW POST:

🥈Plagiarism in Unconquered (2022)🥈 from Traverse Fantasy

Marcia:

I am so happy that Ènziramire’s excellent critique of The Mwangi Expanse won first place for reviews this year, for three reasons. First, because he is a wonderful friend and I am so excited to celebrate his successes. Second, because his critique is such an insightful application of historical materialist and anti-colonial theory to the realm of tabletop game literature, above all the rest deserving first place. Third, I’m upset that my “review” was nominated and voted for to such a degree over other bloggers’ more deserving work as well as over my own actual reviews and critiques. Being nominated for a long-form call-out post, and it being treated as a significant accomplishment on my part, feels gross. Someone had to write it, but all it had to be was over and done with. It did not, and should not, need to be celebrated. I’m very glad that an actual review, especially one so cohesive and incisive, won in the end. Congratulations, Ènziramire!! As for the content of the post itself, here's my final word on it: if you're going to commercialize your work, commercialize YOUR work. My constant emphasis on the distinction between copyright infringement and plagiarism is more than pedantic: it's the difference between disrespecting intellectual property (about which, who cares!) versus privatizing the work of others. Going forward, sure, we should work towards a better culture of creative attribution, but we should also work towards non-commercial interactions with our hobby. Pseudo-Paul says, "The love of money is the root of all evil", and it's difficult not to see the constant grind of commercial publishing and social engagement as responsible for this incident. Isn't an ideal creative culture not just an attributive one, but a free and accessible one disentangled from the demands of capital (even if expressed through our particular needs)? We should attribute generously, but we should also share freely as well. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need!

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(In lieu of a medal, Gold winners will get a linocut print; here’s a design inspired by Ènziramire's post & Christina Sharpe's In The Wake: On Blackness and Being---a dragon and her wake. )

GOLD BLOGGIE FOR REVIEW POST:

🥇An Empty Africa - PF2E's The Mwangi Expanse and the strange career of Black Atlanticism🥇 from A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

Ènziramire:

"An Empty Africa" was, if you’ll forgive the joke, written in a spirit of homecoming. Pathfinder was my first tabletop RPG and the frustrations with bourgeois Afrodiasporic creative spaces expressed in the post are the same exact ones that compelled me to make a blog in the first place. The post’s reception in those same Black spaces has been varied but the most important conversations about it that I’ve participated in have been characterized by a kind of low level nervousness. What does trans-Atlantic intimacy and community look like if many of the ‘natural’ connections between Black folks we take for granted are actually expressions of Afrodiasporic supremacy? Is the desire to feel wounds together (with the Middle Passage as the ur-wound) inherently imperial? There's nothing wrong with a bit of healthy concern, but a perspective on diaspora that includes and inscribes Africa as a constitutive locus (as opposed to a static source for diasporic self-invention) is one that opens up passages. It’s trendy to say that the politics of Afrodiasporic relation, real capital-P Pan-Africanism, ‘dies’ in the 20th century bc a solidarity of shared suffering is somehow false or limited. Fuck that. Solidarity between people going through it is just one basis for affiliation, but it’s a basis that continues to demonstrate its power and relevance. South Africa and Palestine, average Chadians rescuing Darfuris targeted by genocidal militias in Sudan, Rwandan activists risking prison or worse to protest their government’s role in the bloodletting in the Kivus, mutual support networks linking queer Ugandans and Namibians together, and so much more. My father, himself a stubborn old pan-Africanist from Somalia's "born-free" generation, is fond of saying that the experiences with racial capitalism which make immigrant Africans Black are blessings if you read them backward; mourning together gives you new kinfolk. My advice for people with similar fears: don’t let liberal constructions of identity constrain your love. The part of you that wants to be caught up in the emotional worlds of cultural Others—what Glissant might call the entangled co-creation of selves, “unities whose interdependent variances jointly piece together the interactive totality”—is something to be cherished and scholars of Black music have noted that serious play allows us to explore forms of diasporic belonging that respond to difference with joy instead of masking it behind strategic essentialism. Africa should be more than an object of retrospective rediscovery, yes, but genuine familiarity is the most potent weapon we have to combat that tendency. Anyone insisting that this work, learning to reflect each other more honestly, must be restricted to (nebulously defined) 'people of African descent' for it to matter is an idiot or a huckster. We’ll fuck up, but that's family, yeah? Thanks for reading, y'all.

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Thank you, TTRPG family!

(Special thanks to Martin / Sharkbomb for his assistance tidying up the medal graphics.)

[cleolinda]

Weekend links

My posts

No perfume or vampire recap this week, although I have one of each about 3/4 drafted. New Medication Side Effects are slowing me down (but I'm doing well on it otherwise).

Social media hell

Threads was a mistake. For me, not Zuckerberg; I'm sure it's great for him. In theory I was trying it out so you wouldn't have to, but I regret all the choices that led me to this. It is the tenth circle of privacy hell. Someone else can try out the bad idea next time. Save yourself.

After discussing the difficulty of getting on Mastodon, I actually did manage to wrestle my way through the signup process, because I felt like it wasn't fair to complain if I didn't at least try. I am now on mastodon.world. I'm not sure if I want to be there ("Shitposting is not allowed")? Can I go somewhere else? What... what are the somewhere elses? I am currently reading up on this.

I have wrangled a Bluesky invite! "What's Hot" seems a lot like the list of media journalists I follow on Twitter, which I haven't been on full-time in years. Bluesky will probably be more enjoyable once more people I know get on, which they might be able to do if Jack Dorsey would open Bluesky to the public already.

I feel very out of step with microblogging culture after years away—oddly, I got back on Tumblr full-time late last year and I felt at home pretty much immediately, which means that you're stuck with me now.

Reblogs of interest

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

Search engines and databases that aren't Google

G/O Media forced a nonsensical AI-generated Star Wars article onto io9, and the staff is pissed

Video

Indigenous Horror Films

Sparrow Tarot: Judgment and the Ace of Pentacles

Dance Here ⭕️

Dug in Real Life

The sacred texts

Tama the Eternal Stationmaster

Me getting up in the morning like

Tony Hawk's existential nightmare

IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADA

Personal tags of the week

One orange braincell (see also the subreddit of the same name devoted to doofy orange cats)

Fashion, some of it from the Fall 2023 runways

[rainbowsky]

Yibo Official and Yuehua have posted an update on some of the lawsuits against antis.

Rumors are illegal, infringement will be sued, no matter which platform or corner!

(Translation under the cut.)

YUE HUA ENTERTAINMENT

Explanation on the progress of Mr. Wang Yibo's name rights protection case

Recently, our company discovered that some network entities intentionally released seriously defamatory remarks against our artist Mr. Wang Yibo through WeChat, Weibo and other platforms, which aroused the attention, reposting and commenting of many network users. The dissemination caused serious damage to Mr. Wang Yibo's reputation and social image, and was suspected of seriously infringing on Mr. Wang Yibo's right to reputation. In this regard, our company resolutely safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of Mr. Wang Yibo, and actively protects his rights through legal means. Now our company makes the following explanations regarding this incident and the progress of Mr. Wang Yibo’s other initiated reputation rights protection cases:

1. The relevant remarks about Mr. Wang Yibo spread on the Internet are defamatory. Mr. Wang Yibo has always been law-abiding, and has been actively and conscientiously completing his work. Our company strongly condemns the malicious spreading of rumors and disrupting public order by the relevant parties and will take legal measures to investigate the administrative and civil responsibilities of the relevant parties.

2. For WeChat user "Xinxin" (WeChat ID: W1526896***) who publicly published defamatory remarks against Mr. Wang Yibo in the WeChat group, and Weibo user with UID 5777773235 who continued to publish multiple articles against Mr. Wang Yibo on the Weibo platform. For the behavior of insulting and defamatory blog posts, our company and Mr. Wang Yibo have entrusted lawyers to obtain evidence and file a lawsuit as soon as possible, and filed a lawsuit with the court according to law today, requiring the relevant online platforms to disclose the real-name identity information of the network subjects involved in the case. A lawsuit was filed against the real-name authentication subject, requiring the relevant subject to make a public apology to Mr. Wang Yibo in accordance with the law, and to compensate for the corresponding mental damage relief money and reasonable rights protection costs, etc. Regarding the follow-up progress of this case, our company will release it publicly at an optional date.

3. Regarding other rights protection cases that have been launched before, the specific progress is as follows:

①Mr. Wang Yibo and Yu **[Weibo user "Half Hawthorn yysl", UID: 7583092450] Internet tort liability dispute (the case of reputation right:

In September 2022, Weibo user "Half Hawthorn yysl" (UID: 7583092450) continued to publish a number of insulting and defamatory blog posts aimed at Mr. Wang Yibo through the Weibo platform, which seriously damaged Mr. Wang Yibo's personal reputation. At present, our company and Mr. Wang Yibo have entrusted a lawyer to initiate a lawsuit against the real-name subject of the microblog user on **, and the court has arranged for a court session, and the case is pending further trial by the court

②Mr. Wang Yibo and Chang **[Weibo user “汉晗qvq”, UID: 7799836585] network tort liability dispute (the case of reputation right:

In March 2023, Weibo user "汉晗qvq" (UID: 7799836585) published defamatory remarks against Mr. Wang Yibo through the Weibo platform, seriously damaging Mr. Wang Yibo's personal reputation. At present, our company and Mr. Wang Yibo have entrusted a lawyer to start a lawsuit against Chang**, the real-name subject of the Weibo user.

③Mr. Wang Yibo v. Zhu** [WeChat user "Zhu Rui Gabriel Jiumenwu Film Industry", WeChat ID: Gabriel****] Internet tort liability dispute (reputation right) case:

In September 2022, a screenshot of WeChat Moments circulated on the Internet platform. The content of the screenshot showed that a personal WeChat account nicknamed "Zhu Rui Gabriel Nine Gates Dance Films" (WeChat ID: Gabriel****) was in " A circle of friends was publicly released in the "WeChat" APP, and the copy of the circle of friends contained serious defamatory remarks against Mr. Wang Yibo. At present, the WeChat platform has disclosed that the real identity information of the WeChat user is Zhu **. Our company has now entrusted a lawyer to further claim rights against ** Zhu ​​through legal channels.

0410 In addition to the above-mentioned cases, there are still other cases of Mr. Wang Yibo's reputation and portrait rights protection in progress. Our company once again sternly warns all network entities to immediately stop posting and disseminating speeches suspected of infringing Mr. Wang Yibo's reputation, so as to avoid further expansion of damage consequences and incurring their own legal liabilities.

The Internet is not a place of lawlessness, and our company once again appeals to the majority of netizens: they should actively respond to the "Qinglang" action, do not publish or spread false information, do not spread rumors, do not spread rumors, respect the legitimate rights and interests of others, and jointly maintain a civilized and healthy cyberspace.

Beijing Lehuayuan Entertainment Culture Communication Co., Ltd.

July 27, 2023

[edwardos]

Attention Noticeably Beta 1.8 fans: I have a monumental piece of historic significance news.

This is not about something new that's coming out, but a discovery I made recently about old stuff in my development files. I found old screenshots I forgot I had that were made very early on while first developing the mod. That is what this post will be about.

That screenshot up there is the first screenshot I took in-game of this entire thing, in December 15th 2022, and that was taken a few hours less than exactly two years ago. It's currently NBODE's 2nd birthday.

This all just happened to coincidentally come together for me recently, when I was looking for things to post, just four days before the two-year anniversary, which I didn't even realize at the time was very quickly approaching. I was scouring my old build and screenshot folders more than usual, from back when I had to "reset" the mod folder to fix infrastructural issues in 2023 - which I did TWICE - and found out that I had more screenshots than I was dimly aware of.

When this happened, I knew that in a few days, it would be time to celebrate.

So here, two years after Noticeably Beta 1.8 officially started, let's look at some pieces of its very early development history in notes and images.

↑ This screenshot was created on the same day as the previous one, but further grass images in this post are from two days later, and then two plus five days later, and so on.

It was extremely primitive at the end of 2022, and I hadn't changed the healing system or the title in the top left corner yet. But one of the first things I ever did was work to fix Beta 1.7's terrible model for tall grass. My efforts temporarily made the grass white.

These images have - I think - never been shared on this microblog before this. I was so early into development and so paranoid about idea theft that I stayed private and/or cryptic for a while, and didn't make so much as a cryptic post with unexplained screenshots of the mod until April. It got only one note. This is that post.

So, I continued to mess around with the game's models. This struggle was still all in 2022.

On January 2nd the next year, I had even more trouble. Somehow I was randomly gaining tall grass items that could be placed down again, but would then not be the same thing as the grass that was already there. I still don't understand that one.

Jumping to the 23rd of January 2023, I discovered the API feature I wanted from ModLoader.AddOverride().

This proved to me that I could change textures of existing blocks with code in the mod as I wanted, and that I could properly enforce the difference between existing cobblestone and my new block called concrete. Scroll up to the picture with the crafting table again and you'll see what I mean. I was so happy to find this piece of functionality (especially while knowing that web searches and old forum posts just REFUSED to say anything about how to do it) I posted this outdated meme in my development channel.

Also for some reason while modding new blocks in, you have to set pickaxe speed effectiveness on them quite manually. Even after setting the material to "stone", you have to actually tell the code that pickaxes should actually do something efficiently do it. I had no idea why it was happening at first. This pic came shortly after my first confused pickaxe speed test. ↓

There's plenty more to see from this turbulent period of modding upheaval and history, and we don't have all day, so I'm going to post a blitz of seemingly random images with random gaps (in chronological order) with little or no description.

The first time I crafted soilstone.

A mess of early soilstone and cobblestone blocks.

I don't remember doing this. Evidently it was an item functionality test.

Early emerald ore generation, from back before I ensured that it didn't suck.

The first Sazmit I found in testing probably.

Even as I picked out images for and wrote for this, I found myself being impressed and amazed by how I was able to overcome challenges - all that time ago, while being such a novice - and how far this mod has come. There are plenty of images still left, so more individual posts on this era will be coming out on the blog as time goes on. And I haven't even gone into the second folder for this yet.

These images are all from the first four months. And I've been working on this mod, trying to craft and redefine most of everything there is in this base version into perfection for two years, with no release yet. It's been a hard journey from the start to all the way into the last month of 2024 as I write this, and I've pulled off some outstanding victories and easy yet smart victories over the code to make basic aspects of Beta 1.8, like fences and bookshelves, much better in that time. I even fixed a glaring oversight in Beta 1.8 or two.

As a quick note, development kind of went on longer than this, because in December of 2022 I studied for the mod ahead of time by playing hours of vanilla Beta 1.8.

I know you guys are patient, but I think it's really about time I finished Alpha 1.0.0 of this treasured Minecraft mod already, so I can try to make a public Modrinth page to host it and more people than just me and one friend can get to play this mod. I really want to watch other people play it. I'm super proud.

[toxiccoworkeryaoi]

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[orientandoorg]

Sobre o termo lesboy

Vi vc citou uma página filipina em relação ao uso antigo de lesboy. Porém encontrei usos mais antigos

https://x.com/selsellina/status/82333209928540160 (2011, é possível encontrar várias publicações em indonésio, além da fonte de uma página filipina presente no verbete da orientando)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTSQzIzgDVV (esse microblog do insta usou muito essa hashtag em 2017, confira várias outras postagens em #lesboy)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BILh5oBh-Hc (2016, br)

E esse termo já existia em inglês antes de eu postar a bandeira em 2020, slangdefine, por exemplo, já possuía entrada até onde sei, embora não haja arquivações anteriores a 2022 daquilo.

Oi, obrigade por fornecer estas fontes! Elas foram publicadas agora pouco.

Para facilitar o acesso a informações do tipo, peço que utilize ao invés da função de mensagens/perguntas daqui o Tópico geral para correções e adições.

além da fonte de uma página filipina presente no verbete da orientando

Se você encontrou alguma postagem mais antiga de tal página mencionando o termo, eu apreciaria um link (caso você faça questão dessa informação ser adicionada), porque lembro de ter usado 2019 como ponto de partida especificamente porque vi alguns dos anos anteriores e a palavra não parecia aparecer neles.

E esse termo já existia em inglês antes de eu postar a bandeira em 2020

A página não disse que você cunhou o termo, nem de forma "mais definida". Só associa a postagem em BMPF com a bandeira. O comentário sobre o termo não ter sido muito usado antes da bandeira tem mais a ver com minha experiência com o termo: nunca vi ele sendo usado ou discutido antes de 2020. Dando mais uma pesquisada rápida só pra confirmar melhor essa questão, o carrd lesboys ou surgiu ou só começou a ser arquivado a partir de 2021, e, pesquisando por lesboy no Reddit, a comunidade pública mais antiga parece ser de 2023.

...Eu nem tenho certeza se o uso do termo lesboy nessas postagens de pessoas do sul da Ásia é coerente com o uso do termo nas Américas ou se o termo é usado de forma diferente, e também não tenho conhecimento cultural e linguístico o suficiente para tentar pesquisar qual a origem do termo por lá e se tais diferenças existem.

slangdefine, por exemplo, já possuía entrada até onde sei

Olhei as definições em questão e elas não são relacionadas a como o termo é usado no Orientando ou em comunidades heterodissidentes atuais de forma geral.

[usafphantom2]

New Images Of China’s J-35 Naval Stealth Fighter, Could Depict Third Example

Oliver ParkenPUBLISHED Mar 13, 2024 9:10 PM EDT

A prototype J-35 stealth flghter in flight

Chinese internet via X/Twitter

Recent imagery shows what could be the third flying prototype of China's carrier-based Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter. The new visuals, which depict the aircraft from its underside, come after growing indications that the J-35 might eventually operate from China's two in-service carriers, Type 001 Liaoning and Type 002 Shandong, as well as future carriers fitted with catapults and arrestor gear, including the soon to set sail Type 003 Fujian.

The images were originally posted to the Chinese Weibo microblogging website earlier in March before being shared more widely. While the precise date they were taken remains murky, it has been indicated by Hui Tong on the Chinese Military Aviation blog that the aircraft was pictured as it approached the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation in Liaoning after a test flight. That same blog posits that this could be the third J-35, although we cannot confirm that at this time.

The images give us a view of the bottom of the J-35. We know from previous photos that the overall skin of the J-35 is quite smooth for low observable requirements. The rear of the aircraft shows largely standard exhaust nozzles — although we know the J-35 has serrated petals on its nozzles, although the enhanced image at the top of this post appears to have smoothed them out. The jet appears to be wearing a ventral bolt-on Luneburg lens (radar reflector) as is customary on stealth fighter aircraft when low-observability is not needed and can also be a challenge for flying in dense airspace. The style and placement look similar to the one found on the F-22 and, subsequently, the J-20. The J-35's landing gear features a twin nose wheel for carrier operations and a similar general layout as the F-35C.

Chinese internet via X

A navalized variant of the land-based Shenyang FC-31, the first flying J-35 prototype made its initial flight, at least that we know of, in October 2021, sporting a blue-green primer finish and wearing the serial 350001. The second known flying J-35 prototype, 350003, was subsequently spotted in July of 2022 with a low-visability gray tactical paint job. There was speculation that a third was pictured in flight in September 2023, although, as we noted at the time, the quality of the imagery made it difficult to ascertain whether the aircraft was indeed a navalized J-35 or a land-based FC-31 variant.

Of course, the emergence of the J-35 had long been considered closely linked with the People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN) future catapult-assisted takeoff but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) carriers.

For a time, it was widely assumed that China would stick with operating J-15 fighters from Liaoning and Shandong, which are both equipped for short takeoff but arrested recovery (STOBAR) operations. More capable future CATOBAR carriers such as Fujian would subsequently feature air wings that include J-35s and CATOBAR versions of the J-15, among other aircraft and drones. This may no longer be the case.

However, imagery that emerged out of China at the beginning of last month purported to show a J-35 mockup onboard Liaoning while the carrier was in dock. Then, later in February, further imagery materialized which showed the article next to a J-15 mockup aboard Liaoning as the carrier set out to sea for further post-maintenance trials.

A close-up view of the mockups of the J-35 and the J-15 variant from late February. Chinese internet via X

While the possibility of J-35s performing regular operations from Liaoning and Shandong may not have been anticipated by many observers, this would seem to make sense, Andreas Rupprecht, a longtime China aerospace analyst and contributor to The War Zone, has stressed: "In my opinion [the J-35 joining the Liaoning and the Shandong] makes perfect sense," he said. "Before the Fujian is ready, especially as an operational carrier, the PLAN will need to spend a lot of time training with the J-35 on the deck and in the air. Even if the training is limited due to not having a catapult, the PLAN can gain a lot of flight hours and a lot of experience."

Actually operating J-35s from STOBAR carriers would have some drawbacks, it should be noted. While recovery is the same for both STOBAR and CATOBAR carriers, J-35s would have to make use of Liaoning and the Shandong's ski-jump ramps on the bow to launch. As such, they would have to take off with less payload, in terms of weapons and fuel, compared to launching via future CATOBAR carriers. The Fujian will feature advanced electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) type catapults, instead of traditional steam-powered catapults.

However, the overall benefit they would bring to China's in-service carriers could be significant. Alongside its low-observable characteristics, it is assumed that the J-35 will feature an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar alongside a host of advanced sensors, as well as very capable weaponry. Above all else, it would get these aircraft out to sea and operating, where major lessons can be learned, before Fujian is fully ready.

While this is all intriguing, it remains speculative. It could turn out that J-35 is either unsuitable for STOBAR operations or developmental timelines will mean that waiting for Fujian is a better move. We will have to wait and see how it all plays out.

Contact the authors: oliver@thewarzone.com, tyler@twz.com

[daytura]

Hi! I'm...

daytura, he/him, a 22 y.o. cognitive science major @ (UC) Santa Cruz, CA.

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Building a next-gen theory of cognition

Ergonomic design that puts the human back into the machine

Improving my memory, attention, and social skills

Sitcoms (1960s-1990s), creative and technical writing, casual gaming, and photography

I am not interested in...

Banal discourse, drama, and vitriol

Chronic sneering (we're all cringe here)

Absolutes, lack of nuance

You should also know...

Current self-posts are under the "morning mail" tag -- older ones are under "homegrown by day" and "homegrown by postie"

I sometimes reblog to/from my conflict-theory era @roxytonic blog, but I'm now subscribed to the principle of functional differentiation per Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory

I used to be really interested in personal knowledge management (early 2021 to late 2022), Homestuck (mid 2016 to early 2023), Adventure Time (April 2020), consumer technology (2015-2021) -- feel free to ask about these topics

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[kwiyoshi]

彡✎ Is Blogging Still a Thing, or Did It Get Lost in MySpace? ("Is blogging still relevant in the age of TikToks and Instagram?")

Every time I go on social media platforms like Twitter or Tumblr, I can post the most trauma-dumping content to ever exist, or even post the funniest memes. This image is all I could think about in regard to that.

In a world where cat videos go viral and memes have become a form of communication, it's high time we ask: Is blogging still relevant in the age of TikTok and Instagram?

Blogging? Whats that

A blog is defined as an online journal or informational website that displays content in reverse chronological order, with the most recent posts appearing first. It serves as a sort of forum for writers to express their opinions on specific topics (Minaev 2023). Over the years, the relevancy of blog sites such as Tumblr and even Blogspot (now known as Blogger) seems to be declining.

Tumblr, tumbled away

For Tumblr specifically, I noticed that not a lot of people are talking about or even using Tumblr after they banned explicit content on the platform. Honestly, even before they banned adult content, I still never heard anything about Tumblr. However, it was reported that the website experienced its most significant drop in the number of blogs following the ban on adult-oriented content in December 2018, plummeting from 521 million to less than 370 million in just two months (Eira 2023).

To make matters worse, Tumblr does not even appear on any of the social media usage rankings anymore. Most people nowadays would prefer using social media platform giants such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. In short, Tumblr fell off. From that, it seems that Tumblr isn't "the vibe™" anymore with Gen-Zs.

Despite Tumblr not seeing the light of day in today's generation, I do think that blogging in general is still relevant on platforms such as Twitter and its newest competitor, Threads (from Meta). I do think that some, if not, most of the community from Tumblr has migrated to Twitter due to the similarities that the two platforms have.

Twitter, Oops I meant X

Twitter, or you can even call it "X" (don't call it that), has done quite an amazing job at carrying on Tumblr's legacy but through a different format. Twitter is considered as a microblogging platform that combines content creation and instant messaging. It also increases interaction with an online audience by sharing brief remarks using a microblog (Sprout Social 2023). Personally, I think that Twitter is a great platform to receive news, interact with the fandom that I am in, and also see who got canceled (again). I feel that part of the reason why Twitter seems to be more popular than Tumblr is due to the character limit that Twitter has, which is capped at 280 characters per post (without the premium subscription). As someone who suffers from mild ADHD, I would prefer Twitter to Tumblr for that reason. I find that Tumblr could be quite overwhelming to some people, especially those who have just started out. Twitter, on the other hand, is mostly short-formed content, that can also be separated out as a thread.

Here are a few examples that I took from my own Twitter page:

Hanging on by a Thread(s)

Threads (from Meta), is also really similar to Twitter in terms of everything. It is also a microblogging platform. In my honest opinion, I quickly got tired of Threads after a week of using it. I just thought it was quite boring to use and there isn't really anything new other than being able to still use your existing Instagram account to create a Threads account. It just felt really similar to Twitter and I think that might be part of the reason why it is not doing as well. I also feel like I am very comfortable with Twitter and have been a part of Twitter for a long time now (even though it got rebranded to "X"). I still hate the fact that Twitter got rebranded to X. No one can ever make me call it X.

Welcome back to my channel !

Besides Tumblr and Threads, blogging has also evolved into a video format, called vlogging. Vlogging is short for video blogging or video logging (changing the b to v from blogging, very original). Most content creators nowadays would typically post either their daily routine or the adventures they had on platforms like YouTube or TikTok. Each of their videos has a unique style that fits the aesthetic or personal preference of the creator. I find that vlogging is one of the easiest media to consume due to the fact that it is in a video format where I can see their vlogs visually and also from their own perspective.

Final thoughts and prayers

Overall, I do believe that, in some aspects, blogging is still a thing and is also relevant in the ages of TikToks and Instagram. With social media platforms such as Twitter, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, and Tumblr, blogging will remain relevant.

References:

Eira, A 2023, Number of Tumblr blogs in 2022/2023: User Demographics, growth, and revenue, Finances Online, viewed 27 September 2023, <https://financesonline.com/number-of-tumblr-blogs/#:~:text=The%20site%20suffered%20its%20biggest,the%20global%20COVID%2D19%20lockdown>.

Sprout Social 2022, Microblog, Sprout Social, viewed 27 September 2023, <https://sproutsocial.com/glossary/microblog/#:~:text=Microblogging%20is%20a%20combination%20of,offer%20popular%20platforms%20for%20microblogging>.

Minaev, A 2023, What is a blog? - definition of blog, Blogging & Blogger, First Site Guide, viewed 27 September 2023, <https://firstsiteguide.com/what-is-blog/>.