Yup that lobster is most likely a chimera, which is basically when two embryos fuse together into a single individual, often resulting in a lobster that’s half male and half female. When those embryos are two different colors you get one of these guys:
So I’ve been warning people to not use the tumblr live feature and i had this discussion in the notes of one of the people i warned
said person already used live themselves and was not aware of what all TumblrLive’s partner MEETME collects with its feature and i wanted to take the time to make a post going over the privacy policy for anyone who is interested
for the first part here MEETME talks about how creating an account (downloading) (or having a tumblr account that auto updated to include the tumblr live feature (which is a vast majority of the tumblr mobile population in the US rn)) automatically makes any information they collect visible to any of the partners they have
the three partners mentioned there Skout Flurv and Boy Ahoy are all dating sites that promote primarily their location tracking fuck all knows what they want with your live data most likely they want to advertise singles near you??? but MEETME’s other current partners are apps like PlentyfFish Zoosk Chispa and Badoo which is Match.com and Bumble
the main important parts to notice from section ii of the privacy policy is the location information limit mobile ad tracking and do not track signals the rest of the section mainly puts the onus of revealing private information that can be used maliciously on the user ie. don’t share your password say your full name in a live video where you live etc.
as far as the location information goes what its saying here is that they collect the location information when you first register for tumblr live when you first log in and whenever your phone is on even if youre not using tumblr live
what does it use this information for??? well advertising purposes of course!!!
now they try to get around saying they dont track your location or share it with other users by using this word precise several times now what that means is they have a rough geotag of your location
(your ip address they dont say here its your ip address but in later parts of the document they do in fact say they collect your ip address and if you want an idea how close an ip address can get to your exact location enter your ip address in google maps sometime)
theyre being intentionally vague about that so when you see on the live tab something that says near you you could probably not follow that exactly to said persons house but you can damn well be you will at the very least find their city
heres a reminder to all of you who havent most phones now bury in the settings an option to disable adID do it now!!! but remember that TumblrLive can still use all other information they gather they do not at all process do not track signals so you arent safe there and what data would that be that they can collect other than your location and adID??? glad you asked!!!
this is a non exhaustive list which means there is DEFINITELY other data they collect about and from you
so they collect:
your email and phone number
any info in your tumblr bio
any metadata connected to any photo youve ever uploaded
adID
ip address
cookies and beacon
which devices you use
which features you use
which pages you visit
which chats you use
anything in your private chats or posts
anything from any connected social media accounts
how well ads are doing
what youre interested in
and in some cases even your biometric information
and what do they do with this information???
ads of course
and to give anything they want to cops :)
i dont make this post in order to like ruin peoples fun when it comes to this new feature or to try to talk down to anyone or make anyone feel stupid or anything im not here to make fun of people or belittle anyone but i think its real fucking important people know what privacy rights they are forfeiting by having their phone on right now with this new feature
also everyone please feel free to give a kind fuck you to tumblrs current ceo @photomatt
Everything I hate about this post (and don’t hate about this post) in order. Points where OP is wrong are highlighted in red, points where I am neutral on what OP is saying and it is simply factual in black, Points where I agree and OP is giving good advice in green.
Point one: tumblr live does track your location. They are quite open about this, there is no problem with pointing this out. This is a fucked up thing that many websites do and I recommend that you and everyone else turn off location on all of your devices (this is a pain in the ass and most people don’t want to do it because it means mapping applications and “find my device” tools stop working).
Point two: “for the first part here MEETME talks about how creating an account (downloading) (or having a tumblr account that auto updated to include the tumblr live feature (which is a vast majority of the tumblr mobile population in the US rn)) automatically makes any information they collect visible to any of the partners they have” - this is incorrect, this privacy policy applies only to people who have agreed to the Tumblr Live ToS, it was not automatically updated to most users in the US.
Point three: It isn’t abnormal for websites to share data with their partners, in fact facebook shares data with you about their partners even if you don’t have a facebook account. MeetMe is going to share data with some partners for advertising and with some partners for localized stuff (any of the dating sites are going to share location data to match people who are close to each other obviously)
Point four: “now they try to get around saying they dont track your location or share it with other users by using this word precise several times now what that means is they have a rough geotag of your location” - this isn’t trying to “get around” anything, this is saying “we will share rough location data with other users but will not give them a precise location” that isn’t a weasel-word, that is saying “we’ll tell people in a certain radius of your location what users are also in that radius but we aren’t going to share your gps coordinates”
Point five:“(your ip address they dont say here its your ip address but in later parts of the document they do in fact say they collect your ip address and if you want an idea how close an ip address can get to your exact location enter your ip address in google maps sometime)” because of the way internet protocols work, everything you connect to on the internet “knows” or “tracks” your IP address; what’s important is whether they *share* it and while they might share it with partners (it’s part of your general data profile) they for sure aren’t going to share it with users. Also your IP address is only as accurate as the block you’re assigned to by your ISP. I did happen to look mine up and it’s five miles away from my location. Because IP addresses aren’t actually a good way to locate people.
Point six: OP is correct you should turn adID off. Furthermore you should turn location data off and you should use a browser that allows you to obscure your data, like Firefox.
Point seven: the list of stuff that tumblr/tumblr live collects your email and phone number - this is the email address you used to connect your tumblr account; a phone number is not required for a tumblr live account but if you enter one to file a DMCA takedown they may store it any info in your tumblr bio - no shit, this is public information any metadata connected to any photo youve ever uploaded - no shit, this is part of the photo you uploaded adID - pretty much all social sites do this and you should turn it off ip address - no shit it literally can’t send you information if it doesn’t have an IP address to deliver it to cookies and tracking pixels - pretty much all social media sites do this, if you are concerned about it use a browser that lets you blockor spoof that shit. which devices you use - no shit these things literally can’t display on your device without that information which features you use - do people not understand that websites are functionally databases of interactions? which pages you visit - seriously do people no know how websites with user accounts work? which chats you use - yes because you are chatting on their platform and they are maintaining the record of that chat they are hosting it anything in your private chats or posts - if it is not encrypted it is not private this is literally hosted on their servers how the fuck do you people think websites work???? IF YOU WANT PRIVACY USE A PRIVATE SERVICE, TUMBLR AND ALL OTHER SOCIALS ARE NOT PRIVATE EMAIL IS NOT PRIVATE JESUS FUCK anything from any connected social media accounts - once again most of the internet is databases and you should be using something like facebook container to keep the databases from talking to each other how well ads are doing - why is this even on this list? everyone who serves ads tracks how many clicks the ads get this isn’t tracking the user what the fuck do you mean “the ads you click on” because again there’s that whole “platforms track all your interactions” database thing what youre interested in - this is true and it is also something that literally any website with any kind of algorithm (including tumblr, just regular tumblr, not live) suggests content to you and in some cases even your biometric information - they very specifically list the cases in which biometrics are tracked it is for age verification and making sure you are a human and is used only when other methods fail, just search the ToS for “biometric” it’s not like they’re saving your voice or your thumbprint
Point eight: “and to give anything they want to cops :)” this is a pretty disingenuous framing of a standard ToS disclaimer that illegal activities may be shared with law enforcement and that they will comply with subpoenas as mandated by a court. You know when people were mad about the possibility of child porn on tumblr? Okay well if they found child porn on tumblr wouldn’t you want staff to report the user’s information to the police? That’s what’s covered under the first part of that section; tumblr can also choose to report illegal activity that you don’t think should be illegal, like drug use or sex work, but this is a big part of why you shouldn’t talk about doing crimes publicly on the internet, because the people who run the sites where you talk about it can report it. The second part of that statement is saying “even if we don’t want to give up some information, we may be forced to by a court” and literally everyone has to do that. Remember when people got pissed at protonmail for handing over the info relating to some eco activists? That’s because the eco activists hadn’t been using the service in a secure manner and proton was legally compelled to produce the data that they had available. Unless you are encrypting your data any service with that data will have to share it and even if it is encrypted they’ll still have to hand it over to the cops, it’s just that the cops can’t do anything with it.
Sheer pettiness: “i dont make this post in order to like ruin peoples fun when it comes to this new feature or to try to talk down to anyone or make anyone feel stupid” - good. Nobody should feel stupid on this post other than OP. This is a stupid fucking post. I don’t care about live, I don’t care if you hate live, I don’t care if you like live. It has somewhat more targeted advertising than tumblr but the only ways that it is a greater incursion on your privacy than tumblr itself is by sharing advertising data with some new partners and by tracking your location more aggressively (which you can and should fix by turning off your location data). The only thing this post does effectively is demonstrate how poorly people understand the way the internet works.
Anyway i hate this fucking post, i’ve hated it since January, and since people are all up in arms about it I figured I should explain why this isn’t so much an example of bold truth telling as it is an example of confident misunderstanding and alarmist framing.
Basically, long story short, TL;DR:
turn off your location in general and don’t use tumblr live if you don’t want to, but if you do use it know that they want to track your location and want to share the data they collect about you with advertising partners, however the data they collect is unexceptional and not especially intrusive (though it is *slightly* more nosy than tumblr itself).
so we’re out for a meal at one of those fancy tasting menu places and they went on about the sourdough for some elements of it so i was obv delighted to talk yeast with the chef
and when they bring us out our bill stuff and little extras at the end of the night look what i was gifted:
he’s goin in my checked luggage, looks like lassy is getting a NEW SIBLING SOURDOUGH!
its really funny bc this guy is like around 8 years old as a sourdough, my own sourdough is about 3, and peppercorn is about 2 and a half
so it sounds like I’ve got two children and I’m adopting a third
children at home!
on the left is lassy, mine own child of around 3 years, she’s fed on a 2:1:1 of water:rye:wheat, hence her darker colour.
I was told that the one on the right, (who I have named Plass after the fact that the restaurant in question was called Myse, as in reference to local historical settlements but also as a pun on mise en place) is to be fed on a 1:1 water:flour.
The flour they use is apparently milled a little finer than most places in the UK on top of the fact that the average protein content of flour is much higher on this side of the ocean, so I’m not sure if I should be looking for a specialty shop that will do me imported flour or if a diet of 2:1:1 water:all purpose:cake would be fine
(i’m hoping for the latter its less expensive)
any of yall got tips?
Try cake flour! In North America is is typically finer ground and has less protein than regular flour. It should be pretty close to a European flour in protein content.
i got cake flour on hand at least so I can do that feeding right away. i mean no matter what I’m not gonna be able to feed him on his old diet since I’m fairly sure that since Myse focuses really hard on locally grown, foraged, and produced ingredients, so they feed theirs on locally milled flour
also i KNOW he can’t stay in the little takeout container I’ll pick up a glass jar with a wide enough opening for my wrist tomorrow when I do some shopping
I’ve been using a tiny ceramic crock that can can do like. one little 6-7inch boule at a time:
but I’ve taken a look at my post vacay finances and it turns out i CAN justify buying a nicer, larger dutch oven (which will hopefully stack comfortably with our existing shallow cast iron pan lol, otherwise I’m gonna have to keep that thing in my room or smth)
Sherlock is often portrayed as someone who rarely eats and basically neglects his health. What if he has to learn to be a chef for an undercover case? In doing so he discovers he loves it. Mixing ingredients and the different flavors you can get for one dish just by adding or subtracting some seasoning.
After the case he continues to cook almost every night and especially loves finding new dishes for John. Win win, he can show his affection for people by providing them a meal, it’s fun and engaging for his brain, and he is finally eating enough or at least much closer to enough and discovers that being properly fed doesn’t hinder his thinking but actually helps it. Bonus it makes John worry about him less and just makes him happier in general.
So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom
It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education
and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up
make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll
So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn’t be deterred by the prank calls because they would ‘taper off eventually’. It’d be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇
Mongolian history class, 2022, start of the semester. We’re having a discussion on animal slaughter, featuring the one Mongolian student in our school.
The student explains that he’s slaughtered animals himself, and there are two ways of doing it that avoid the spilling of blood. For a small animal like a chicken, you reach up into the chest of the animal and sever the arteries. For a larger animal like a camel, there’s a spot on the forehead that, when hit hard enough, causes the animal to die instantly.
While this discussion is going on, a couple of the students are sharing something back and forth on their phone
The professor calls this out, asking if what they’re sharing is more interesting than Mongolian animal slaughter
The room is dead silent for a few seconds. The two students look at each other awkwardly.
@plaguedocboi is absolutely right! This is a Geckolepis! You might remember the one we described a few years ago, Geckolepis megalepis, that went as far as becoming a feature on Snapchat of all places.
And resulted in this *spectacular* art by @leotide:
There are five currently recognised species. I would hazard a guess that the one pictured above is G. typica, but these geckos are very hard to ID.
Uh now this is very interesting, why do they do this?
As a defensive tactic it seems impractical
It’s actually super effective. The scales, which are full of bone, and skin stick behind in the mouth of a predator like a snake or a bigger gecko, and the Geckolepis escapes naked but safe. The skin is weirdly sticky, too.
The whole thing doesn’t take too long to regenerate, amazingly. It’s a very cool version of autotomy—far beyond just losing the tail (which most non-snake squamates can do).
The tunglr iOS app has taken to showing me posts out of chronological order. Specifically when I reblog something and then keep scrolling, my reblog will show up even if I’m deep in the past of my watchlist. And then other reposts of my posts will start showing up, like there’s some sort of weird temporal incursion going on.
So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn’t possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I’m a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can’t be that bad, right?
Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.
The bill says that a “covered platform” - broadly defined as “anything on the internet a minor might use” which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a “duty” to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including “sexual exploitation” and other undefined terms
It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.
So here’s exactly what’s gonna happen:
Wacko republicans, as they’ve been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they’ll just axe all LGBT everything.
This bill is BAD bad. I’m appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.
this is a list of senators who have cosponsored KOSA; under ‘Give Feedback on This Bill’ there’s a link that lets you get the contact of your senators and representatives pretty easily. if your senator’s a cosponsor, tell them to cut that shit out. if your senator’s not a cosponsor, tell them to keep not being a cosponsor.
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