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butch-reidentified · 11 months ago

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DNI if you believe "everyone has a price." you're pathetic & I don't trust your morals.

Skip to bottom for About Me section.

Preface: Most of this blog is not dedicated to trans-related topics. However, seeing as I get nonstop harassment regarding trans matters, almost always from people assuming my views, experiences, and thoughts entirely incorrectly, a disproportionate number of the links in this Pinned will be aimed at this subject in order to provide legitimate insight as to my views, my feminism, and my experiences - both with my transition & the trans community in general. Chances are, you are very wrong about me in all those areas. Only one way to find out 😉

1. What is a woman?

Deep dive into my perspective on gender identity ideology (GII) & my response to an anon regarding "autogynephilia" [this includes the article above]

Argument for Using "Cis-Identifying"

Pitch: New Terminology to Replace "[Biological] Sex"

And related: A conversation with a "NERF" about radical feminism, gender identity ideology, and what we/I actually believe.

2. Inform yourself on some of the work I've done for trans people before you continue the trend of cowardly hypocrisy.

No, I obviously don't hate trans people, and if you believe that, you have a black-and-white way of looking at things. Trans people deserve safety and equality; this must not come at the expense of women/girls, homosexual people, people with DSDs, or any other marginalized and vulnerable group. If you think these opinions cannot coexist, maybe ask yourself why. If you think they can coexist, why do you have a problem with me?

3. My primary thread responding to the way much of the tumblr trans community handled my sharing my story of surviving the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting (often by stealing my lived trauma and removing my url) is easily one of the most - if not the most - important posts pertaining to trans discourse I've made to date. And a bonus: This lovely ask.

4. Hope for Women (this is a very new project, WIP)

5. Comparative Analysis of Cult-like Patterns in Gender Identity Ideology, Radfeminism

Another post (not mine) listing indicators something may be a cult

6. Response to an anon asking why radfems team up with conservatives (spoiler: we don't), including THE QUESTION I have about gender identity ideology that would make me change my views completely if answered; response to a similar anon simplifying the differences between TRA, radfem, & conservative views on gender.

About Me:

I am a butch lesbian, married to a badass gnc (but not butch) radfem lesbian goddess whose misandry surpasses even my own; she does have tumblr but rarely uses it - @psychichologramnightmare is hers. I'm 28/Taurus/May baby, though I'll be real, I've never liked astrology and found my birth chart n whatnot always laughably wildly inaccurate to me (sorry astrology girlies). Former competitive rock climber, still in love with hiking and climbing. Wilderness survivalist. Trained & armed woman, advocate for female-only firearm ownership.

My wife and I run our own business, and bought our first home together at 24 & 25 respectively - it's a lovely 4/3 on a quarter acre where we have 5 mango trees and more, plan to start growing our own food and herbs, foster kittens, and provide free housing (and more) regularly for those in need. We do a LOT of IRL feminist action/work/organizing. I post about some of that work pretty often, but I couldn't possibly post about all of it (even if it were safe to do so). I am basically organizing (mostly offline, but some online as well) full-time now.

Survivor of abuse, CSA + captivity, trafficking in my teens where I was forced into porn as a minor, the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando 2016, and more. I am no longer affected by any of these in any negative psychological manner. I own my past, every moment of it, and wouldn't change a thing I've experienced. What I often tell people is, "I'm not glad it happened; I'm glad I was there."

I got my Bachelor's in Neuroscience/Neuropsych, used to work in a top neuro research lab, and have been a coauthor on a peer-reviewed scientific journal publication. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on POTS, ADHD, some of the relevant epigenetics, and norepinephrine dysregulation. I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos & POTS in 2015, before pretty much anyone had heard of them (including most doctors). My POTS is very well-managed now, but chronic pain from EDS is more of a struggle. I recently went for testing for EDS subtype and was diagnosed with Type IV/vascular-type EDS (VEDS).

I practice "witchcraft" (kind of...) as a form of artistic expression. I don't subscribe to any literal metaphysical/supernatural/whatever set of beliefs or narrative, and have had a lifelong inability to believe in such things, but I am passionate about lesbian-centered/lesbian-exclusive (esp butch & gnc lesbian) witchcraft. I am also using this practice in part to connect further with my ancestors and their culture & way of life, but this would take a full essay to elaborate on/explain.

Adoptee with complex history. Working through a lot of feelings surrounding my ancestry - one birth parent was white, other was almost entirely indigenous Mexican (Nahua), and I have like zero personality traits in common with the former - and the fact that my adoptive family (white) has not always handled things well in raising adopted kids. I only learned my full biological family history as an adult and was lied to by them about it my whole life. Which, looking back it feels like I always knew on some level, as adoptees often seem to, and it puts a lot of my childhood difficulties etc in context. Adoption-critical but not abolitionist - I plan to adopt with my wife in a couple years. I've talked a fair bit about my experiences, adoption trauma, ethical adoption, and more. Check out my tags such as #ethical adoption, #adopted, #adoptee, and so forth (tagged on this post for easy accessibility). BTW, here's a list of native-owned businesses (mostly artists) that I hope to update periodically!

I spent many years surrounded by majority-trans-identifying friends/acquaintances both irl and online, deeply involved in trans spaces & activism, and even identified for a bit & was on T for a while. I am not "uneducated" or unfamiliar with trans-identifying people, their experiences, or gender identity ideology in general. You, like me back then, very probably have been lied to about radfems ("terfs") and what we believe and fight for. I am happy to talk in good faith (provided you do the same) 1 on 1 with anyone who is curious about what we actually believe and what we stand for, what common radfem takes on gender identity ideology & trans identity actually are and why.

I have a history of purely physical sex dysphoria (physical sensation like pain or itching). I got "top surgery" (elective mastectomy) due to this and other reasons: constant painful breast cysts & very large breasts (DDD even when I weighed under 100 lbs). I was not trans-identifying by the time I got this surgery (though I tried to briefly identify as nb/transmasc just bc I felt obligated, but hated it). I have never wanted to be a man socially and genuinely hated the very thought. I came out the womb feminist, got in trouble throughout primary school for fighting boys who tried to pull sexist bullshit, always lowkey believed in female superiority (I mean just look at our biology, lifespans, pain tolerance, the things we've done throughout history despite violent patriarchal oppression...). I spent years preparing myself. I read from & spoke to women who regretted this surgery, challenged myself at every turn, dove deep into my mind and thought processes, tried alternative treatment attempts, worked with a non-affirming therapist, made sure my past traumas were fully healed, and waited until I was in my mid-twenties so my brain was more or less fully matured. I have no regrets about it. I still have some (still purely physical sensation) dysphoria ("phantom male genitals" type of thing) at times, but have come to manage this very well. More on this here.

Formally assessed psychopath & participant in research by leading psychopathy experts (read on before jumping to conclusions). Check out this post and my #psychopathy tag (tagged on this post for easy accessibility) for info, particularly about high-EQ female psychopathy, & to find out everything you think you know about us is wrong 💕 (what you know about male psychopaths is usually right tho 💀)

Note: When it comes to politics, I strive to discuss exclusively that about which I am *uniquely knowledgeable* - by which I mean, essentially, that I (believe I) have something to contribute that is unlikely to be found on every other blog. I do not and will not make posts or reblog posts about topics I do not feel this way about. You are not entitled to know my views on every hot-button issue, and I have no intention of speaking on that which I know little about, or that I don't know enough about (through study or personal experiences) to contribute something you can't get a thousand other places.

Tag Guide (WIP):

#mine -> original posts, including ask responses

#ask -> ask responses only

#anon hate, #anon love -> should be self-explanatory. anon love does include some non-anon love for simplicity.

#catposting, #dogposting, #petposting -> images of cats, dogs, and both, respectively (not always my own)

#Wilder wives -> posts pertaining to me & my wife (last name Wilder)

#mvawg, #mvaw, #male violence -> male violence against women/girls

#ethical adoption -> my takes as an adoptee on the issues within the adoption industry & how adoption can be done ethically

#nahua, #nahuatl, #mexica -> ranges from personal journal style posts about my process of reconnecting with the Nahua community to sharing facts about the language (Nahuatl, pronounce it Nawat) and stories from Mexica mythology etc. posts I make specifically as part of the facts-and-stories series are tagged #indigenous reconstructionism.

#what we believe -> fairly new tag for posts trying to educate on what radfeminism is actually about/damage control for disinformation & misinformation about it

#trans violence -> violence committed by trans-identifying people, including threats of and graphic violent fantasies (primarily misogynistic ones)

#trans misogyny, #trans lesbophobia, #woke misogyny, #woke homophobia, #woke lesbophobia, etc. -> what it says on the tin

#mine #pinned #hope for Women #ethical adoption #adoptee #adopted #ntsd #neurological type sex dysphoria #sex dysphoria #witchcraft #brujeria #tra receipts #trans violence #male violence #mvawg #trans misogyny #pinned post #about me #what we believe

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glitteringaglarond · 2 years ago

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'Do you think those halls are fair, where your King dwells under the hill in Mirkwood, and Dwarves helped in their making long ago? They are but hovels compared with the caverns I have seen here: immeasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools, as fair as Kheled-zâram in the starlight.

'And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes, curtains fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass; cities, such as the mind of Durin could scarce have imagined in his sleep, stretch on through avenues and pillared courts, on into the dark recesses where no light can come. And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea. Then evening comes: they fade and twinkle out; the torches pass on into another chamber and another dream. There is chamber after chamber, Legolas; hall opening out of hall, dome after dome, stair beyond stair; and still the winding paths lead on into the mountains' heart. Caves! The Caverns of Helm's Deep! Happy was the chance that drove me there! It makes me weep to leave them.

'No, you do not understand,' said Gimli. 'No dwarf could be unmoved by such loveliness. None of Durin's race would mine those caves for stones or ore, not if diamonds and gold could be got there. Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the springtime for firewood? We would tend these glades of flowering stone, not quarry them. With cautious skill, tap by tap – a small chip of rock and no more, perhaps, in a whole anxious day – so we could work, and as the years went by, we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock. And lights, Legolas! We should make lights, such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dûm; and when we wished we would drive away the night that has lain there since the hills were made; and when we desired rest, we would let the night return.'

And this. This right here is why Gimli has been one of my favorite characters ever since I was a child. There is a reason my tumblr url is glitteringaglarond, and it’s this passage right here.

Gimli has proved himself to be many things throughout this story - he’s a badass, he is witty and intelligent, he has a brilliant sense of humor and is the funniest character in these books - but one of the most important things about him is his love for beauty.

We saw it in his longing to see Moria, regardless of the dangers. We saw it as he couldn’t help but turn aside and gaze into the waters of Kheled-zaram. We saw it as he praised the beauty of Galadriel. Gimli is a character with a deep, artistic, soulful love for beauty. And it comes across most strikingly here, in this passage.

Because Gimli is out of his element right now, traveling through this strange, dangerous, magical wood. He is injured and weary from battle, and is once again riding a horse - something that he explicitly dislikes. This is the absolute last situation where somebody should be unveiling their poetic soul, and yet that’s what Gimli does.

Because to Gimli love for beauty is stronger than weariness and fear and uncertainty. And while being in this forest makes him fearful, only being forced to leave a thing of beauty can make him weep.

So he tells Legolas about the caves, using language so poetic that we can’t help but see the caves through his eyes and appreciate their beauty in ways we might never have done otherwise. And even Legolas is moved.

I cannot overstate how important his love for beauty is to me, and unlike Gimli I am not enough of a wordsmith to communicate exactly how deeply the beauty of his soul, expressed through this love, touches me. The best I can do is express my joy at having been taught appreciation for beauty at such a young age by such a teacher, and I can only hope that like Gimli, I too can help others find an appreciation for the beauty around them that they might not otherwise have seen.

#lotr newsletter #Gimli #my op #I have said it before and I will say it again… the fact that I consider myself an artist has its deepest roots in Gimli son of Gloin #he is so important to me #and to those who are curious... this is thee thing that solidified gimli as one of my top 5 faves #pinned

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justducklord · 5 months ago

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Welcome to:

JustDuckLord's

First and Most Likely only...

2024 Mutuals Award show!!

[Audience Clap]

[Audience please shut up now]

We have a good few awards to give out, to all of my mutuals! If I could give y'all a badge to wear I would but, alas. In the place of badges, there will be digital medals made in Microsoft PowerPoint by yours truly! Don't worry my good friends! All of you will get an award of some kind! Of many different categories!

Up first We have:

The Winner of the Best URL Award!

Now there were many contenders in this award, but one of you stood above the rest, one who I thought of many a time, because it was a silly URL that stood out from the crowd of porn bots in my follower list. Please Clap for the Winner of the Best URL Award: @jellyfish-soliloquy!!!

[Audience Clap and Cheer]

Up Next is:

[Audience please shut up now]

The My Boyfriend Award!

Compared to the last award, there is much less of a competition here because of the category, but it is an award nonetheless. You know that I love you dearly, and this award shows that as such as well! The winner of the My Boyfriend award: @pixelriin!!

[Audience Clap and Cheer]

Up Next is:

[Audience please shut up now]

The My Sibling Award!

Now, this award has two winners, because just giving one would be picking favorites and I would not be able to do such a thing. The winners of this award have been around me for my whole life, which is a pretty long time, not sure how y'all put up with me. But anywho! The winners of the My Sibling(s) Award are: @lonely-planetboy and @phrankquey!!!!!

[Audience Clap and Cheer]

Up Next is:

[Audience please shut up now]

The Reblogs all my stuff award!

Now, This one did have multiple contenders, and I could have done the math to figure out who is the true true winner, but eh. Take it up with the HR department if you think you should have won. Just about every time I reblog something on this site, or post something on this site, this person always shows up sooner or later. I'll open this site and check my notifications to see that this person Reblogged another post of mine. So wilthout further ado, the winner of the Reblogs all of my Stuff Award: @random-shit-writing!!!

[Audience Clap and Cheer]

And last, but certainly not least:

[Audience please shut up now]

The Haha! You follow me and I follow you Award!

And for the rest of you, I do apologize that I do not have a more interesting award for you, but this is an award nonetheless. Some of you are getting this award because I do not see much of you on my dash, some of you are getting this because y'all are cool and I didn't want you to be left out. So up finally in the 2024 JustDuckLord's Mutuals Award show, the winners of the Haha! You follow me and I follow you Award: @automaton-owl, @limbowzo, @alice-short-for-alexandria, and @thecranberry!!!!

[Audience Clap and Cheer]

And one final message to all of you:

[Audience please shut up now]

I did this awards show for two main reasons, being stupid and silly on tumblr, but also to shout out all of y'all bc y'all are fuckin' awesome! Thank you so much for being forced upon my strange and weird posts on this godforsaken site, and I hope y'all enjoy y'alls awards!

#funny #maybe its the autism #duckposting #awards ceremony #awards show #awards #i love my mutuals #mutuals

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snow-and-saltea · 11 months ago

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Hihi how are you doing today? 💜

hiya! i'm doing great today actually!! today's dinner project was my favourite fish dish, and it turned out great! i hope you had a good day to or if it just started, it goes well! 😎🐢

it's called ikan 3 rasa. translated directly to 3-flavoured fish haha. it's sweet and sour and spicy and i've loved it ever since i was a child!!! and i finally made it at home!! we've made it at home before, but i wasn't the one to "lead" the project, so to speak. i'm very proud of myself heheheh. we ate it for dinner and everyone rated it very highly so i'm patting myself on the back for it!!

OH also, i forgot to follow up to your ask BUT just as you answered it, the same day i got marius's enduring light card KAHRSKDJDJFK what did you not like about it? i haven't finished it (only on part two before i fell asleep yesterday after levelling it up) but i was kinda like. Going Through It in a manner of speaking. the first cg with marius pinning rosa to the table had me feeling UMMMMM 😃😄😁🫢🫣🧐😳🤒🤧 <- like that. i was sick. i was throwing up. i was astounded. i wanted to close every door i was capable of closing. I'M NOT EVEN A MARIUS STAN HOW THE HELL DO YOU GUYS LIVE LIKE THIS 💀💀💀💀

i also lowkey rlly like how bossy and domineering he sounds, its a nice contrast. it might also be because the one sounding domineering is ishikawa kaito who has a very good warm sort of boyish voice!! i really like how different it feels as an AU compared to the canon story. in vyn's too (i went for him first and used free pulls on marius and got lucky LMAO) his dialogue writing is a lot less condescending and he sounds more petulant and childish because he drops the honorifics and respectful language due to his character in the AU. personally, i like the AU, but not because i like the writing LOL tot could use a lot of improvement there, but everyone's fits were very cool + i like the opportunity for the voice actors to try out a different "tone" for the characters. since in canon / modern world, they're all fairly even tempered and not very animated + respectful, so it's nice to see them getting openly pissed off or bossy or Mean.

lowkey kinda didn't like vyn's story for the enduring light SSR tbh. i liked it well enough because of the refreshing VA work, but the story was just alright for me. it makes me want to write my own take on the AU, but i don't know enough about the historical context and i don't feel shameless enough to bullshit things about a culture that's not mine, haha. plus i already have a vyn thing in my drafts (but still not written out orz) so i'm Tired!!

this was long as always!!! this might as well be my signature in how i post!!! fajsklfjaskjsafjkf but thank you for dropping by, friend!!! i hope your weekend goes well!! >:D

(i'm not sure how to refer to you so if it's alright i'll just go with pirate from your url!)

#yuu rambles #pirate-with-internet-connection #man i used to just use their name tags for rbing posts that are Themcore and i want to keep this post under those tags but at the same time #i dont wanna spam tags and randomly have them show up for people who are following those tags #plus im a big hater of tot's writing so ill def be a party pooper jfskjfksj i dont wanna rain on anyone's parade #these are for my blog's own uses ->#marius von hagen #vyn richter #i hope they dont show up if you follow the tag!! it should be fine bc i put 5 tags before i put their main tags

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trecomics · 2 years ago

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Mastodon is great for a quiet fandom life

Even before the buyout, Twitter has been an anxious place for a hobbyist like me.

I want to chill in my fandom bubble and find people who like the same characters I like to connect and chat maybe! I want to shitpost in peace!

Because of how twitter’s algorithm and search function works, I don’t want to force people who don’t like that sort of thing to see what I draw, so I’m careful with how I word my post. I mark the pairing name somewhere so people can mute it. (or find it) I censor full names or series titles so it ’s not found in search. I’ve been doing this for so long it shouldn’t be stressful, but getting stray comments reminds me to stay on my toes.

Mastodon, I realized, is close to perfect place for a peaceful fandom life.

Mastodon is compared to twitter a lot. That’s the wrong way of thinking about it. It’s not about trying to be “engaged” with the site 24/7. It wants to work for everyone, while keeping its focus on safety and making it harder to dogpile on others. That’s freakin’ awesome. Once you understand how it works. So how to get started?

These were my top worries while figuring out Mastodon.

There’s so many instances! What if I join the wrong one? This had me stuck deciding whether Mastodon was even viable. But there is no “wrong one.” you can join any instance, you can even make your own as the sole member. It’s simply having an address to be found.

HOWEVER

You might want to shop around first. When you sign up for an instance, their rules and which instances they don’t interact with are listed. I draw NSFW art, so I wanted to join an instance that allows that sort of thing.

AND

There’s no advantage joining a heavily populated instance. it could lag, more difficult to get into contact with the admins/support. The local timeline is a mess. Small and cozy is best. You can follow anyone, anywhere, anyway.

I don’t know how to follow others from different instances. You don't have sign up to different instances to follow others. The easiest way to do that is to copy their profile URL and paste and search into your instance’s search bar. You can also copy and search their account name, usually displayed by their username. They look like “@[email protected]”

I tried doing a search for my favorite thing but got 0 results! I’m proud of this creation, how can others find it? Mastodon’s search will only catch hashtags and URLs from all the instances. While I avoided hashtags with every fiber of my being on twitter, it’s vital to use them if you want public posts to be found by others. So don’t be shy and tag it up, use appropriate content warnings if needed on posts you want others to see! Because of these search limitations, you don’t have to censor words without fear of being found in a random search anymore. It’s great.

Best of all, you can follow hashtags! This way, any post with that hashtag will appear in your home timeline whether you follow that person or not, even from other instances. It’s great to see new stuff without manually searching. To do this, search your favorite hashtag names. Click the hashtag in the search results and in the upper right corner there’s an icon with a plus mark to click. You can remove it anytime by doing the same method.

But I want to follow others who speak different languages, twitter at least has a translate function (for now) Mastodon does too! But it’s up to each instance’s admin to implement the feature. it doesn’t hurt to politely ask them to add it. If they don’t, some apps have it built in! I know Ice Cubes for Mastodon does at least.

Quick tips: —You can change the default visibility of your posts in preferences The default is “public” but if you’re like me, you don’t want every thought out on the public/local timeline. I have mine set for “unlisted” so only followers or profile visitors can see it. The many posting options Mastodon has are almost perfect. I hope someday they adopt Twitter’s circle function.

—You can add filters to words and hashtags you don’t want to see! It just works! This is in preferences.

—No more extra work when you have to delete and repost, the “delete and re-draft” function is the best option ever.

—For the most comprehensive FAQ that answers every little thing you want to know about how Mastodon works and why, https://fedi.tips answers and then some.

I'm still a newb to Mastodon but I love being there so much. If anyone else has tips I've missed I'd love to know!

#mastodon #fandom

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tigergingicat · 3 months ago

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I'd like to remind all of you that my state, Massachusetts, has only 11 electoral votes out of 538 total. In almost every one of the 50 states, all of the electoral votes go to the candidate who wins the popular vote in that state.

Here's a map based on polling showing how electoral votes would most likely be divided if the election were held today (September 18):

If your state is beige, pink, or light blue, your vote is even more essential than if you live in a dark blue state like mine. If you live in a red state, you can change that to pink if there's a large enough turnout for Harris.

Here's a URL to keep checking the predictions:

I am an elections clerk.

I give up two days of the year to be paid less than MA minimum wage (more than US minimum wage) to keep a polling place open for 15 hours. I watch my warden set up the ballot box. I make sure that observers have a place to sit and don't invade the privacy of voters. I make sure the AutoMark is functional. I tell little kids that they can watch their parents vote but can't tell them how to vote. I make sure that I can hear the inspectors repeat back the information proving that they're checking off the correct person on the ballot-received list. I give people "I Voted" stickers and tell them to remind their neighbors to vote.

At the end of the night, the warden and I print out the unofficial results, sign them, and post them for observers. I fill in the tally sheets and hand-count ballots that the machine couldn't read.

And, above all, I make sure no-one in my polling place is trying to coerce another person's vote.

And I am always sad each election because people don't think their vote matters and I might get 10-30% of registered voters turning up.

Your vote matters. If it weren't important for you to vote, I wouldn't be making my little corner of my little purple city safe for you to vote in.

And if the guy who wants to take away your voting rights becomes President, your only hope is that the people in Congress will stop him - and they're on the ballot too.

(There are a bunch of important downballot things in MA this year, BTW. Primaries for those are in September.)

#us politics #get out the vote #vote downballot too #electoral college #all politics is personal

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blech · 5 months ago

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Automatic image tagging with Gemini AI

I used multimodal generative AI to tag my archive of 2,500 unsorted images. It was surprisingly effective.

I’m a digital packrat. Disk space is cheap, so why not save everything? That goes double for things out on the internet, especially those on third party servers, where you can’t be sure they’ll live forever. One of the sites that hasn’t lasted is ffffound!, a pioneering image bookmarking website, which I was lucky enough to be a member of.

Back around 2013 I wrote a quick Ruby web scraper to download my images, and ever since I’ve wondered what to do with the 2,500 or so images. ffffound was deliberately minimal - you got only the URL of the site it was saved from and a page title - so organising them seemed daunting.

A little preview- this is what got pulled out tagged "maps".

The power of AI compels you!

As time went on, I thought about using machine learning to write tags or descriptions, but the process back then involved setting up models, training them yourself, and it all seemed like a lot of work. It's a lot less work now. AI models are cheap (or at least, for the end user, subsidised) and easy to access via APIs, even for multimodal queries.

After some promising quick explorations, I decided to use Google’s Gemini API to try tagging the images, mainly because they already had my billing details in Google Cloud and enabling the service was really easy.

Prototyping and scripting

My usual prototyping flow is opening an iPython shell and going through tutorials; of course, there’s one for Gemini, so I skipped to “Generate text from image and text inputs”, replaced their example image with one of mine, tweaked the prompt - ending up with ‘Generate ten unique, one to three word long, tags for this image. Output them as comma separated, without any additional text’ - and was up and running.

With that working, I moved instead to writing a script. Using the code from the interactive session as a core, I wrapped it in some loops, added a little SQL to persist the tags alongside the images in an existing database, and set it off by passing in a list of files on the command line. (The last step meant I could go from running it on the six files matching images/00\*.jpg up to everything without tweaking the code.) Occasionally it hit rather baffling errors, which weren’t well explained in the tutorial - I’ll cover how I handled them in a follow up post.

You can see the resulting script on GitHub. Running it over the entire set of images took a little while - I think the processing time was a few seconds per image, so I did a few runs of maybe an hour each to get all of them - but it was definitely much quicker than tagging by hand. Were the tags any good, though?

Exploring the results

I coded up a nice web interface so I was able to surf around tags. Using that, I could see what the results were. On the whole? Between fine and great. For example, it turns out I really like maps, with 308 of the 2,580 or so images ending up with the tag ‘map’ which are almost all, if not actual maps, do at least look cartographic in some way.

The vast majority of the most common tags I ended up with were the same way - the tag was generally applicable to all of the images in some way, even if it wasn’t totally obvious at first why. However, it definitely wasn’t perfect. One mistake I noticed was this diagram of roads tagged “rail” - and yet, I can see how a human would have done the same.

Another small criticism? There was a lack of consistency across tags. I can think of a few solutions, including resubmitting the images as a group, making the script batch images together, or adding the most common tags to the prompt so the model can re-use them. (This is probably also a good point to note it might also be interesting to compare results with other multimodal models.)

Finally, there were some odd edge cases to do with colour. I can see why most of these images are tagged ‘red’, but why is the telephone box there? While there do turn out to be specks of red in the diagram at the bottom right, I’d also go with “black and white” myself over “black”, “white”, and “red” as distinct tags.

Worth doing?

On the whole, though, I think this experiment was pretty much a success. Tagging the images cost around 25¢ (US) in API usage, took a lot less time than doing so manually, and nudged me into exploring and re-sharing the archive. If you have a similar library, I’d recommend giving this sort of approach a try.

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Just Charge It

One of the longest-running consumer behavior topics I have had through the years is the discussion centering on EVs. I’ve been tossing this one around for more than a decade, and I bet I’ll be tossing it around for many more years to come.

But to cut to the chase, some are now saying that we have passed critical mass and EVs are about to see a huge surge in adoption. It’s only a matter of time until ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicles die a slow, painful death. [If the link to the WaPo article puts you up against a paywall because you have already reached your monthly limit, simply copy the URL and paste into a different browser. You’re welcome.]

Now if you are scratching your head wondering how this could be true, consider this: Last year EV sales accounted for 5% of all cars sold in 4Q, and earlier this year in 1Q, hit 7%. I’ll let that sink in for a moment.

Critics of EVs will still scoff, post laughing-face emojis in a fit of smartassery, and ask where the crowd is. And never mind the red herrings they love to serve, bringing up distractions such as child labor at lithium mines, how much energy or whatever it takes to make an EV, and the expected life of an EV battery. No one ever said they are perfect, just better. And that meme of someone having to pay $30,000 for a new battery is only partially true, because they were trying to do so for a model that is no longer made and replacements are scarce.

To hear the analysts is to assume there must be a mad rush, though. I just haven’t seen the teeming masses lining up to buy a Tesla, Rivian, Leaf, Bolt, or otherwise. Yet.

Ah, but that’s where I and the others may be wrong, because the analysts think we have just passed the tipping point, that magical moment popularized by author Malcolm Gladwell in 2000. Essentially, there is an inflection point in consumer activity that ushers in a period of rapid growth, and once that sets in, it’s Katy bar the door.

Those same analysts point to EV adoption in Norway. Now before you scream, “But that’s like comparing an apple to a zucchini,” I realize that the two nations are very different, from population to geographical size and population densities.

Alas, a decade ago, EVs accounted for 5% of sales in Norway, and today are at 80%. That’s a pretty steep adoption curve. In fact, it is this “S-“curve that analysts expect to see play out in the US.

To be fair, though, a recent study indicates that 46% of Americans still prefer an ICE vehicle. But here are the fragmented stats that, when seen in their entirety, suggest the shift is on. Nineteen-percent want an EV, while 22% want a traditional hybrid, and 13% prefer a plug-in hybrid. That means 54% want some or all-electric in their cars.

While the tide is changing, we must still deal with the biggest real and perceived problems of EVs: cost, range, and charging. But these are evolving as well, with Elon Musk initiating some steep discounts of late on Teslas. President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, perhaps one of the worst-named initiatives ever, actually has generous investment credits for wind and solar installations. The UAW strike also works to Musk’s favor, because if the demanded 40% wage increase over four years is accepted, Musk will have a huge advantage. Musk’s factories are non-union, and he recruits and retains employees with stock options, not high wages.

If you have noticed a surge in construction of wind and solar farms the last year or so, now you know why. And these help address the matter of infrastructure, another thing that critics like to point out. Otherwise, charging stations are popping up everywhere. Oh, and a general agreement to have one charging standard across EV makes and models sounds a lot like what Apple just signed onto with its latest phone.

As for me, I love the idea of driving an EV. It’s just that right now, I cannot get what I want, and that is to be able to drive 800 miles a day without significant layovers. I want 400-mile range, and charging in 15 minutes or less. My driving style often includes 12-hour days as it is, and I sure don’t want to waste a couple hours or more each day twiddling my thumbs at a charging station.

But once they remedy these issues, I’m good with this.

As for those buying EVs today as well as in recent years, perhaps their blood flows green, or they see them as stylish options. In some cases, they may actually lead to cost savings compared to $4 gas, but the up-front expense of the EV can still be daunting. I see that all changing in the years ahead, though, as production really ramps up, and charging becomes as little a concern as is finding gasoline today.

Remember—or learn for the first time now—that when autos started trickling into the public realm a little more than a century ago, gas stations were also few and far between. Folks had to lash gas-filled “Jerry” cans to their vehicles, effectively making a rolling bomb with all that fuel unprotected. But the market took care of that, and gas stations became commonplace. The same will happen for charging.

I am excited about this, although I do have some hesitations about how fast the steep part of the curve will come. I know it will come, though, but maybe not quite as fast as some would think. Still, it is fun to be living during yet another revolution. There’s never a dull moment anymore. It’s electrifying.

Dr “Waiting But Willing” Gerlich

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Cherished Moments: Pink Argyle Diamond Ring For Precious Memories

When it comes to capturing life's most cherished moments, few things can compare to the symbolism and beauty of argyle pink diamonds ring. These exquisite pieces are not just accessories; they're a testament to love, commitment, and unforgettable memories. Also they are symbolism and elegance of a pink argyle diamond ring for capturing life's cherished moments. These pieces signify more than accessories; they embody love, commitment, and indelible memories.

In this article, we'll delve into the allure of the pink argyle diamond ring and how it has become a timeless treasure for creating and commemorating precious memories.

The Allure of Pink Argyle Diamond Rings

Unveiling the Beauty

A pink argyle diamond ring is a remarkable creation that marries the rarity of pink diamonds with masterful craftsmanship. These diamonds are extracted from the renowned Argyle diamond mine in making these gems even more exceptional. Their delicate pink hue, ranging from soft blush to vivid rose, exudes elegance and sophistication.

Creating Cherished Moments

The Proposal: A Perfect Beginning

Imagine the scene: a scenic sunset, a gentle breeze, and a heartfelt question. A pink argyle diamond ring takes the proposal moment to a whole new level. Its unique beauty and the story behind its origin add a layer of meaning to the start of a journey together.

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Passing Down Through Generations

An Heirloom of Love

A pink argyle diamond ring isn't just a possession; it's a legacy. Passing down this exquisite piece through generations is a powerful way to keep cherished memories alive. The ring becomes a symbol of enduring love and connection that transcends time.

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Conclusion: A Lifetime of Memories

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So, whether you're considering it for yourself or as a gift to a loved one, remember that a pink argyle diamond ring is more than just jewellery; it's a tangible connection to the most treasured moments of our lives.

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Do I Follow Them? Yep, I do! It's been...a few months, I think? 🤔

Why Did I Follow Them? I've seen a mutual of mine RPing with them for a long while. I got curious, and Marsha seemed an interesting character, so I decided to follow them back!

Do We Role Play? Yeah, we currently have two threads (one recently started), and we mentioned some other possible crossovers / interactions.

Do I Want To Role Play With Them: Of course, I'm curious to see what kind of relationship Marsha will develop with Morty and Summer (and potentially Rick if they'll ever meet face to face).

An AU Idea For Our Muses: Damn, I don't really have any specific idea, on the top of my head the only one that comes to me could be Vampire hunters AU?

Do I Ship Our Muses? Tbh, it's still too early to tell (plus idk if there's interest on the other side). That said, I'm open to shipping as long as there's chemistry! I have a few teenage muses (Morty, Summer, Mabel in her teen verse, Adrien, Félix), who are all potentially shippable because they are (comparatively) in Marsha's age range ^^

What I Think About The Mun: Honestly, I don't know Civic too well, we never really talked, but they seem nice!

Overall Opinion: Marsha is a well built OC and fits very well in her canon!

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Chungath Jewellery: Crafting Elegance and Tradition with Precious Gems

Jewelry has been an integral part of human culture for centuries, symbolizing not only beauty and adornment but also history, tradition, and social status. In the vibrant landscape of jewelry craftsmanship, Chungath Jewellery stands as a beacon of excellence, blending heritage with innovation to create timeless pieces that capture the essence of elegance. Established in [insert year], Chungath Jewellery has been instrumental in redefining the art of jewelry-making, captivating the hearts of patrons around the world.

A Glittering Legacy

Chungath Jewellery's journey began with a commitment to quality and a passion for preserving the art of traditional jewelry-making. Over the years, the brand has meticulously curated a collection that boasts a diverse array of designs, ranging from classic and vintage to contemporary and avant-garde. The name 'Chungath' has become synonymous with exquisite craftsmanship, and each piece is a testament to the brand's dedication to perfection.

Innovative Designs with a Touch of Tradition

What sets Chungath Jewellery apart is its ability to seamlessly blend modern design sensibilities with traditional craftsmanship. The brand's designers draw inspiration from various cultural motifs, architectural marvels, and nature's beauty, infusing each piece with a unique story and character. Whether it's a stunning diamond necklace, an intricate gold bracelet, or a pair of elegant gemstone earrings, every creation resonates with the brand's commitment to creativity and attention to detail.

Craftsmanship Beyond Compare

At the heart of Chungath Jewellery lies an unwavering dedication to craftsmanship. The brand's artisans are skilled masters who have honed their talents over generations, passing down techniques and knowledge that breathe life into each piece. From casting molten metals to setting precious stones, every step of the jewelry-making process is executed with precision and passion. This commitment to quality ensures that every Chungath piece is a masterpiece in its own right.

Ethical Sourcing and Sustainability

In an era where conscious consumerism is gaining prominence, Chungath Jewellery is dedicated to ethical sourcing and sustainability. The brand recognizes the importance of responsible mining and sourcing of precious metals and gemstones, ensuring that their creations are not only beautiful but also ethical. This commitment reflects Chungath's vision of creating jewelry that not only adorns but also contributes positively to the world.

A Global Presence

Chungath Jewellery's impact extends far beyond its home base. With a global clientele that spans continents, cultures, and generations, the brand's jewelry has found its way into the hearts and collections of individuals who appreciate fine craftsmanship and the allure of precious gems. Whether it's adorning celebrities on red carpets or gracing the shelves of high-end boutiques, Chungath Jewellery's reach is a testament to its universal appeal.

A Future of Brilliance

As Chungath Jewellery continues to evolve, it remains rooted in its core values of craftsmanship, innovation, and tradition. The brand's dedication to pushing the boundaries of jewelry-making, exploring new design horizons, and continuing to set industry standards is a reflection of its dynamic spirit. With every passing year, Chungath Jewellery not only enriches its legacy but also shapes the future of jewelry craftsmanship.

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Tipper Trucks For Sale: Comparing Features And Prices

When it comes to buying a tipper truck, there are many things to consider. Not only do you have to think about the type of vehicle that will suit your needs best, but also how much it will cost and how much money you can expect to save on fuel costs. This article will give you all the information you need on purchasing a new tipper trucks for sale nz.

Tipper Truck Buying Guide

Tipper trucks are used for a variety of purposes. They are often used in the construction industry to carry materials, but they can also be found in other industries such as mining and agriculture. There are four main types of tippers: roll-on/roll-off tippers, articulated dumpers, non-articulated dumpers and side loaders.

Roll-on/roll-off tippers have a flatbed on top that allows you to load and unload large items such as pipes or cement blocks without having to lift them manually into the truck bed itself. Articulated dumpers have two connecting parts so they can turn corners easily while carrying heavy loads (like gravel).

Non-articulated dumpers only have one section, which makes them less maneuverable than their two-part counterpart but more affordable overall since there's no need for extra parts like axles or joints between sections--they're just one piece!

Side loaders use hydraulic arms instead of ramps like other models do; this makes them ideal for picking up large objects directly from ground level without having any additional steps involved.

Types of Tipper Trucks

Tipper trucks are used for lifting and moving materials. They have a tipper box at the back of their trucks, which is usually open but can be covered with a lid. The tipper box is made of steel and has two sides: one side has hinges that swing up to allow you access to the load inside, while the other side remains stationary during loading so it can support weight from above.

How Much Do They Cost?

The cost of a tipper truck can vary depending on the size and features you want. A smaller model will be less expensive than a larger one, but it might not be able to handle as much weight or carry as many materials at once.

If you need tipper trucks for sale nz that can handle heavy loads and has plenty of space for cargo or waste materials, then you may want to invest in a larger model with more powerful engines and advanced hydraulics systems--but this will also mean paying more money upfront (and possibly maintenance costs down the line).

It's important to consider whether you'll be using your vehicle regularly before deciding which kind of vehicle would work best for your needs; otherwise, if it sits idle most days then there might not be any point buying anything bigger than what fits into those narrow city streets anyway!

Tipper trucks are a great choice for businesses that need to transport large loads. They're versatile and can be used in many different applications, so it's important to know what features are available before making a purchase.

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lakelandseo · 2 years ago

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Mining for Content Ideas - Next Level

Not to state the obvious, but as marketers, part of our job is to create content. Whether it’s in the form of blog posts, landing pages, social media posts, emails, newsletters, and so on - there’s no way to get around it. It is a critical component of our job. And sometimes, it can be challenging to come up with new ideas or ways to iterate on old ones. With the world consuming content at lightning speed, it is becoming even more difficult to keep up with the expectation of turning out fresh content.

We’ve recently published some excellent pieces on the Moz Blog all about content distribution and strategy, including the Whiteboard Fridays “How to Maximize Content” and “A Content Engine that Drives Revenue” (both from Ross Simmonds). And, as I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, content ideation and inspiration can come from anywhere. But what if I told you that you can also use the Moz tools to mine for content ideas? Let’s dig into different ways to use the Moz tools to supplement our content strategies.

Find gaps in your existing content

When supplementing or modifying your content strategy, a good place to start is by examining your existing content and finding the gaps. This can help identify new content ideas and areas where your content strategy may be missing key opportunities to thrive.

The Keyword Gap tool in Moz Pro allows you to enter your site and up to 3 competitors to identify Keywords to Improve and Top Competing Content.

Pro tip: Not sure who your online competitors are? Or just want to confirm and scope out who they may be? Check out the True Competitor tool to find out.

The Keywords to Improve section is instrumental when identifying gaps in your existing content strategy. After entering the sites you’d like to compare, the tool will list keywords for which you and your competitors rank. You can then use the filter option to see only specific segments of keywords. For example, we may want to see only keywords where we’re ranking on the second page to identify opportunities for content improvements. We will even show you the Traffic Lift for those keywords, which is the amount of traffic we estimate you can gain by overtaking your competitor in the SERP.

Another great use case for this tool is to identify new content ideas. Let’s say we’re working on building out the “best of” section of our foodie blog; we can filter to see keywords that include “Best,” as seen in the screenshot below. We can then identify keywords for which we’re not ranking, but our competitors are and work to build content around them. In this case, we’re not ranking for “Best Pizza in Los Angeles,” so we may want to see about creating a blog post about this topic.

Spotting these content gaps can strengthen your content strategy. It can not only help spark ideas for new content but also help identify places where your content can be improved or refreshed for better performance.

Identify what type of content is performing

One of the best places to get ideas for content is to see what kind of content is already out there and performing. Top Competing Content in Keyword Gap can provide insight into what is performing well by listing content your competitors rank for with the Content URL and Top Ranking Keywords.

In this example, we can see that one of the competitors I’ve entered ranks well for keywords related to choosing a mattress size and, perhaps more importantly, that the content ranking is from their blog. We can now look at the blog posts themselves to get an idea of what format has been successful for them and what information they are including. We can ask ourselves:

Is this a topic we can cover on our site?

Do we already cover this, but it’s not ranking as well?

Is there a way we can improve the content or add a different perspective, format, or content type to the space?

The possibilities are endless!

Spot tangential content ideas

Sticking with Top Competing Content in Keyword Gap, let's see if we can spot some ideas for tangential content. As Amanda Milligan discusses in her Whiteboard Friday episode, content ideas which aren’t directly related to your product can often lead to positive outcomes like links, social shares, and brand awareness. These peripherally related topics can supplement your content strategy and help create a well-rounded library of assets.

Sticking with our mattress company example, let’s say we are looking for content ideas to help build out our newly launched blog. We may know that there is value in creating pieces around mattress-related topics like deciding on a mattress size or determining what firmness would be best, but what tangential content ideas can we identify in our research? The example above shows that our competitors are ranking for content related to topics like weighted blankets and sleep hygiene. These could be great opportunities for me to create new content not directly related to mattresses but still related to the sleep industry.

Uncover hidden gems

Just like content creation, keyword research is a fundamental part of SEO and marketing strategies. And as you’re out there digging into things like search volume, difficulty, and SERP analysis, you may be able to uncover some hidden gems to inform your content strategy as well.

Hopping over to Keyword Explorer, we can mine for content ideas in the Keyword Suggestions section of the tool. Keyword Suggestions will provide a list of keywords related to the seed keyword entered, sorted by Relevancy to the original term. You can also apply filters for the source type, grouping preferences, and volume to further define your results.

Let’s start by looking at the option to filter titled Display keyword suggestions that. This filter defaults to Include a mix of sources, but an option in the drop-down could be the ace up your sleeve when it comes to content ideation - the filter option called are questions. By selecting are questions, we can see a list of the types of questions searchers ask in relation to our initial keyword.

In this example, consider that we work for a real estate agency and are researching content related to buying a house. Filtering our keyword suggestions by are questions will provide us with specific content ideas related to what people ask when buying a home. This can offer a gold mine of content ideas to flesh out a real estate blog or website to help clients find the information they seek.

We can even take this research one step further by grouping our keyword suggestions by lexical similarity. Just a reminder here that lexical similarity refers to how closely related or similar the keywords in the group are. Low lexical similarity will result in fewer groups with more keywords since the tool will group keywords that are less similar.

Grouping keywords can help us identify additional keywords we may want to target and broad-match keywords that may be worth including in our content. Be mindful of over-optimizing, though! We want to avoid keyword stuffing and cannibalization since they may negatively impact rankings. That being said, consider the below example of how grouping keywords has helped to identify a few content gems.

Using our previous example of “buying a house” as the seed keyword, we’ve grouped our keywords by low lexical similarity. Within the “What to consider when buying a house” group, there are two long-tail keywords which may be great inspiration for a new piece of content for our real estate agency - “what to look for when buying a house checklist” and “what to know when buying a house for the first time.” We can now take that information and create a dedicated resource or a blog post that includes a checklist for what to consider when buying a home for the first time and what the buying process looks like. Imagine the inspiration you can get from digging into these suggestions even further!

Scope out the competition

So far, we’ve identified content opportunities, uncovered new ideas, and found gaps in our existing strategy. But what about our competition? What are they doing? We touched on this a bit using the Keyword Gap tool but let’s dig in further. When modifying your content strategy, it’s important to understand what your competitors are doing and what their audience is engaging with. Although you won’t have access to their traffic data (unless they give you access to it, which is highly unlikely), there is a way you can get an idea of what content may be driving traffic to their site. Or, at the very least, what content is of high value. This is through link analysis. Moz offers quite a few ways to do this, but I’m going to highlight a feature which can help get us started with this research.

Top Pages in Link Explorer will return a list of the pages on a site with the most backlinks. This can provide insight into the types of content people find valuable on a site - pages with more links are more valuable. This is partly because backlinks are a ranking factor. Additionally, all those links provide benefits like traffic, brand exposure, and more.

After inputting a competitor into Top Pages, we can get an idea of which pages on their site provide the most value. In the screenshot above, we can see that this particular competitor has a lot of “best of” articles which gain a lot of links. We can now explore these pages and see if there is an opportunity to create or modify content on our own site to meet similar demands.

Pro tip: Once you’ve created your content, you can use Link Intersect to find domains and pages linking to your competitors and not to you. This can offer a great way to supplement a link building strategy!

Discover opportunities for elevation

Just like creating new content, refreshing your existing URLs is essential to any content strategy. Elevating your existing content is like polishing your jewelry - it helps keep it in tip-top shape, extends the piece's life, and keeps it relevant to your “collection.” There are many ways to identify and update content in your existing library, but here are two ways to get started (and find new content opportunities in the process).

First, let’s investigate featured snippet opportunities. Once we’ve created a Campaign in Moz Pro and are tracking keywords over time, we will have access to the SERP Features section. This part of the tool tracks SERP features included in the search results for your tracked keywords, including featured snippets.

Exploring which of our tracked keywords have featured snippets in the SERP can help us identify opportunities for content refresh and new pieces of content. When looking for opportunities for a content refresh, we can seek out keywords where we are ranking on the first page of the SERP but are not included in the featured snippet. In this case, the tool will provide insight into what page is included in the featured snippet and our current rank. This can make it easier to spot high-value pages with a chance of moving into that coveted top spot of the SERP.

Alternatively, looking at which of our tracked keywords include a featured snippet but where we are not ranking on the first page (or at all) can help to identify possible opportunities for creating new, high-value content. We’ll just want to be sure to optimize for the featured snippet right from the start.

Pro tip: Export a CSV of the SERP Features data in your Campaign to sort and filter outside the app. If a SERP feature is marked Included in the CSV, it means your site is included in that particular feature. If it’s marked true it means the SERP feature is present for that keyword, but your tracked site isn’t included.

Next, we’ll pop over to the Page Optimization section of our Campaign. Although the primary purpose of this feature is to illustrate how well-optimized a page is for a particular keyword, there is a hidden gem that can help identify refresh opportunities, new content ideas, and tangential topics. The Content Suggestions tab will list keywords and topics often used on the top-ranking pages for the keyword we’re optimizing for.

In the above example, we’re optimizing for the keyword “best pillow.” Looking at the content suggestions, it may be a good idea to format this content as a list (like “11 best pillows”) or to include information about what types of sleepers would benefit from each pillow listed (like “side sleepers”). These content suggestions can also help us to find ideas for other pieces of content, tangentially related.

Find the sweet spot of innovation

If there’s one thing we can take away from this exploration of content ideation with Moz Pro, it’s that there are infinite ways to do it. This post only covers a handful of them; the reality is that the world (of content creation) is your oyster! The key is to find which features, tools, and processes fit best with your strategy and make them work for you. How do you use the tools to investigate new ideas? I’d love to hear about it!

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bfxenon · 2 years ago

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Mining for Content Ideas - Next Level

Find gaps in your existing content

The Keyword Gap tool in Moz Pro allows you to enter your site and up to 3 competitors to identify Keywords to Improve and Top Competing Content.

Pro tip: Not sure who your online competitors are? Or just want to confirm and scope out who they may be? Check out the True Competitor tool to find out.

Identify what type of content is performing

Is this a topic we can cover on our site?

Do we already cover this, but it’s not ranking as well?

Is there a way we can improve the content or add a different perspective, format, or content type to the space?

The possibilities are endless!

Spot tangential content ideas

Uncover hidden gems

Scope out the competition

Discover opportunities for elevation

Find the sweet spot of innovation

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cjlfortynine · 2 years ago

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comeback

I didn't know, that Tumblr was back. This used to be my go-to safe space for feeling alone with my thoughts. The text editor has changed, which I don't love. Why is this box so small? Makes it not as conducive to writing a lot of text. I can't remember if it used to be much larger, but this is more apt for tweets than long-form text.

That said, I think I can work with this. I feel happy to be back. The place feels familiar. I skimmed over some of my old posts. The last major set of posts I did looks like it was around this time (it is December 31) in 2018 going into 2019. So it was four years ago. It's amazing that Tumblr is a place I will go when I am in search of reflection. It has found such a cozy niche as a place that is realistically private, but has the possibility of being public, that feels intimate, safe, yet feels like you exist and your thoughts are valid. It delivers a safe space for expression without fear of judgement.

I can sense the possibility to go down a rabbit hole analyzing Tumblr, but that's not why I'm here today. I'm here because I feel pretty out of touch with my inner self. I can see in my old posts such a deep connection to myself in the sense that I can really hear what my soul and spirit are asking for. I am connected through my heart and mind, I am constantly seeking, I am constantly looking to express the desires of my heart and use my mind to bring them into reality, to act on them and to satisfy my soul - as Marley sang.

So what's happened? Why do I feel so disconnected from myself? In this moment I feel less disconnected. Maybe it is about context. Maybe it is about intention. Maybe it is about familiarity, and nostalgia, and memory. Maybe it's just about practice. Maybe it's about habit. It's about ritual. It's about return. Maybe it's about returns, an eternal returning.

A word I saw in my old posts that really struck me, and motivated me to change the URL on this tumblr, is the word "sacred." What a special word. To have a sense of the sacred in your life, I think can change everything about how you live. In can give a sense of the special, the magical, what matters, and what's broken. I think I already have gotten, in the first few minutes of writing on Tumblr, a sense of what could be the foundation or the root of my resolutions and hopes and dreams for 2023: the sacred.

The sacred gives meaning. It gives purpose, it gives a guideline and a framework for what to give attention to in life. It defines for yourself what you want to attract into your life, or what you want to pull you into its orbit.

There can be sacredness in many things. The quote I saw in my old post was this: "there are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places." I just googled it; looks like it's from a poem called How to Be a Poet. How lovely. A goal of mine that has extended through the course of my life, a goal I feel sad about, because I think I am making no progress in its direction.

Is 2023 about being a poet? That doesn't appeal to my analytical mind. It's too vague and un-actionable.

What do I consider sacred in my life?

Melanie's happiness; I seek to protect it, and the times I fail are when they are contradiction to something that I want (experimental thought).

My relationship with my mom, my relationship with my dad.

Jillian's safety.

Dewey.

Jiu-jitsu mats.

What does sacred even mean to me? Sacred means glowing with inner light that cannot be quelled, that cannot be unlit, that is the energy around which the rest of life revolves, depends on, from which other objects of reality gain their color, based in reflection of the light from sacred objects.

Must the sacred be house in a physical being, since I call it an object? Can the sacred be the relationship between objects? Of course it can. The sacred is anything that glows, that emits energy where there should be none, in a cold and physically instantiated world.

Resolution 1: Identify the sacred. Stop comparing yourself and your life to others, and notice what this moment gives you. Notice what is sacred in this moment. What glows. Notice what glows in this moment in your life.

I just got so distracted by the internet. That's too bad, I was on a roll here. Ah, I know.

Resolution 2: Be patient. It's a marathon, and not all 26.1 miles are going to be smooth, consistent. It's going to be stop and go, it's going to hurt, but as long as you are headed the right direction you will eventually get there. In fact it's not even a marathon. It's an endless journey. Forget about death. You can't control when it happens or the fact that it will happen. And when it happens, nothing will matter anymore. So don't live with an end date in mind, the fear of loss. Live as if you are on an endless journey. You are 35 years old but your life already feels so long, so full (of good and bad and wow and meh). You feel a little trapped, like the walls are closing in. But one day I am confident they will expand again. Say you live 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60 years from now, even. Wow. If life feels long now, imagine how much more will happen. Gain patience from that perspective. Life is an endless journey; there is no need to rush.

I guess my attention span is shot because I just took another 10-minute break or so, though I did order food delivered. It is raining *so hard* it's crazy. Hasn't rained like this in a long time as far as I can remember.

Do I want to get any more concrete? I guess that is the original direction I wanted to go. I didn't really know how to approach reflecting on 2022 and planning for 2023.

What was the best of 2022? It was a tough year. Everyone is saying that. I'm smiling as I type this. Why am I smiling? Because I think there is a sense of community, shared experience, in the fact that it was a tough year for many people. Coming out of the pandemic, the trauma of the past several years, it just feels shaky because everything is so uncertain. It has been an extraordinarily long period of constant significant transitions. The ground does not feel stable beneath me, beneath us, and it is hard to look earnestly toward the future when everything makes us just a little bit nervous.

I think 2023 will be a bright year, then. Things always correct, they always return. Well, I guess it could get worse, in which case 2024 will be a bright year. But I'm optimistic that 2023 will be a very bright year.

So what *was* the best of 2022? I discovered the benefit of therapy. It's not entirely a super powerful solution for me, but at times it does give me something nothing else can give me, and I'm happy to have it as an option. I lived with a lot of financial freedom, but not financial excess. I was much more intentional about how I spent money, but still felt relatively unconstrained in terms of spending it. This makes me very grateful for the conveniences I can afford in my life. But this isn't something that I want to consider is the best of 2022. It is exactly what I want to forget going into 2023. My life has been way too oriented around money. The way I think about money has desecrated the sacredness of my life. So let's not talk about that again.

The fact that I made it the second best thing of 2022 disgusts me.

We started a journey toward becoming parents. That is what I hope to be brightest about 2023, especially since it is planned to happen basically in the middle of the year. It is the centerpiece of the year. There will be a before time and an after time. I am excited about that.

I discovered a lot of internal turmoil. I have never felt so in turmoil internally. So much volatility of emotion, so much lack of confidence in my direction and the future. So much insecurity, so much impatience and stress. There were significant parts of the year where this didn't play a role. I would say it played a major role January - April, and then not again until actually November - December, so about half the year. The other half of the year was beautiful though. Looking at that timing, it seems like it's just winter, haha. April through October is basically Spring and Summer. I am a child of the Sun.

I got my brown belt but it feels like a burden, not a celebration. It feels like a responsibility put on me, and a standard I have to bear, a bar I have to attain and maintain. I do believe this will change over time. Certainly, it glows at times, and certainly, it is an endless journey, after all.

There were some good times with friends. There were some good times with family. But overall the year very colored by the end of 2021, the tumult I felt inside, the beginning stages of pregnancy and a confrontation with what feels like the realities of adulthood and the walls closing in. I think these will end up looking like an investment for the bright future that is to come.

On to 2023, then I ought to wrap up, as the food is on its way and I'm sure I'll get distracted again.

2023 - I'll be focused on EigenLayer, and hopefully momentum builds there and it gets really exciting. I'll be headed to Taipei for the first time in over 8 years, I think, which I'm looking forward to. We'll see if it feels like a sort of home. I'm excited to see family there - people I haven't seen in a very long time. It's an experience I'm looking forward to. I imagine I'll be traveling to Seattle now and then, but also that a lot of focus will be on the pregnancy starting quite soon, probably within 1-2 months.

I hope we can update the floors in the house, and continue to redecorate, especially to prepare for the baby. I'm excited for Dewey to keep growing and maturing and to see how our relationship develops as a family, especially with the entrance of a daughter. I'm really, really excited for that. I'm sure it'll be really tough at first and probably not feel rewarding at all. But I'm excited to continue investing for a bright future.

I'm curious what will happen with my parents; I hope they are happy and healthy. I am curious what will happen with Jillian; I hope she is happy and healthy. I hope that I can move my parents up to the city early next year, perhaps by Spring. That would be awesome.

I'm hopeful to spend more time learning, thinking / creating, reflecting, and get more in touch with my spirituality. I'm hopeful that I can start by identifying the sacred, and eventually embody it in some small way, and by that I mean help bring more of the sacred into our world. That is ambitious, but it should be a final resolution.

Resolution 3: Help bring more of the sacred into our world. By extension, do not desecrate the sacred; do not desecrate at all. Do not judge, do not compare, do not look down on. Only look up to, starting from eye to eye.

In 2023, I also want to have more fun. This year was not super fun. It was hard to have fun. Oh, it definitely happened, but it was rare. I think it's because I'm working so remotely that there's not a lot of in-person contact. No, that's not really it. I just have been so inhibited. So reserved. So in my own head. So fearful, really. There is some fear in me that hasn't been in me before. It is a fear that makes me want to go home, and be alone, and comfortable, and return to what is familiar. But perhaps fun is had in a different sphere than that. I think it is borne of a state of arousal. Pleasurable arousal.

Resolution 4: Seek states of arousal, and enjoy them. Don't be ashamed of them, or inhibited in them. Give in to them. Don't over think them. Have fun!

Identify the sacred; experience life as an endless journey; do not desecrate others; have fun. My gut says there should be one more. But hey, it's an endless journey. We can stop for now.

Looking forward to the year ahead. May it be hopeful and bright.

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