EXTREMELY rare w from the uk media

Defamation lawsuits in UK are heavily weighted in *favor* of the plaintiff. You have to have a pretty weak case to lose over there. If there wasn't a rabbid, inescapable social media campaign against Amber Heard, he would have lost in America too.

These tags are very pertinent because they're right. It is a matter of fact in the case that Depp's abuse of her was acknowledged. The fact that the court basically said "yes, he abused you, but talking about it is defamation" when she didn't even use his name in the original piece she wrote should have us all very nervous. It's incredibly frightening legal precedent to set in a world where powerful celebrities use their status to abuse people.

Yeah !!!!! Firefox truly is the superior browser

much to Yahoo's chagrin, Firefox is actually the new pdf

this is a big deal since adobe recently locked editing PDFs behind a paywall :’)

Tumblr: No NSFW! You know how it is we banned it because of the bots in 2018!

Also tumblr:

Hey everyone! As part of a personal project I’m trying to brainstorm factors that would make communities/locations more resistant to climate change and the damage that it can cause to people’s lives. If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them!

Just to clarify because there were a couple questions about what I meant I’m thinking along the lines of things that make cities safer from the effects of climate change

*puts on mortarboard*

• Create green spaces, especially ones with trees, to mitigate both heat and flooding, and reduce air pollution as well. They could be parks of varying size, swales, nature strips, wall gardens, rooftop gardens, etc. Increasing tree cover is probably the most beneficial though.
• Design urban spaces so that excess water is directed into green spaces, to mitigate flooding and/or make the most of rainwater. Swales, “sunken” gardens, and large green spaces where rivers are likely to overflow are all good ideas.
• Urban farming and urban gardening to mitigate disruption of food supply, as well as provide green spaces. Dig for victory!
• Diversify food sources as much as possible.
  
• Paint rooftops white to mitigate heat. I have also heard of painting road surfaces white.
• Where there must be a hard surface (roads, footpaths, etc.) use a porous surfacing material that allows water to seep through. That could be pavers with small holes or a new type of porous “concrete” (I’ve forgotten what it’s called).
• If you can grow mangroves, plant mangroves to mitigate storm surges, as well as improve biodiversity.
  
• Build large offshore wind farms to reduce storm intensity, as well as provide electricity. Yes, really.
• Build a modular energy supply to mitigate damage from natural disasters. Avoid large areas being reliant on one energy source or distribution network. Ensure backups for important resources like hospitals, communication, and transportation.
• Educate and inform citizens.
• Create and strengthen community networks. Community projects, community hubs, and buy nothing/food sharing groups are good places to start.
• Anticipate what emergencies are likely to occur and what peoples’ needs will be in that situation. Allocate funding, stockpile resources, and make plans accordingly.
• Install early warning systems if necessary, and make sure everyone understands them.
• Relocate people or important resources that are unavoidably in harm’s way.
  
• Enforce vaccinations. The last thing anyone wants to deal with in tough times (never mind an emergency) is a pandemic.
• Always account for supply lines!

These are all super great! Thank you!

These are awesome! Here’s a few more ideas:

• In flood-prone regions, have government buyouts of flooded houses and turn those areas into green spaces
• Change zoning laws where necessary to allow denser population (looking at California) while maintaining green spaces and flood planes
• Ensure that city planning takes into account making evacuation routes
• In drought-prone regions, subsidize homeowners collecting rainwater
• In fire-prone regions, restrict building on the forest margins where fires spread; bury power lines where possible

Oops this is my exact field actually… My city is a wretched hive of developers and property management companies at the moment, and I have lots of opinions about how to make it not one of that

• BUSES BUSES BUSES are the first step in getting us from the existing car-dependent urban sprawl to the user friendly low/no emission public transit network we deserve. They’re many times more efficient than cars (passenger capacity vs emissions) and much faster to implement than any kind of rail or streetcar. I would say test a route map on buses and later convert the most used routes to electric streetcar.
• Speaking of which, no-fare transit now. Public money already pays for it and most transit systems only get a small percentage of their funding from fares.
• Strong communities where people know each other. Makes the streets safer, gives people a network to help each other out when they’re in need, and
• Tool libraries, repair cafés and co-ops for people to trade skills and avoid just throwing out things that still have life in them. Doing stuff through the public library is a wonderful way to start.
• I’ll say it again, localize production! Mostly food, but everything else as much as possible.
• Housing First - and seize homes that are kept empty for long periods by real estate companies and rental managers who just don’t want to fill them below the “luxury” price point.
• Ban “for customers only” restrooms. Just give people a safe place to go, or to get water, take their meds, or whatever else. This and housing first are immediate necessary measures against the housing crisis in most big cities. Related - gyms and pools should be publicly funded and open to everyone.
• Neighborhood-scale electric grids. Again, decentralized production is more resistant to disaster, but not every single house is suitable for rooftop solar, and it doesn’t have to be. A lot of people install a solar rig and end up selling excess power back to the grid.
• A broad switch to sodium batteries over lithium- a “green revolution” that’s built on resource extraction and exploiting colonized countries ain’t shit.
• (Kill capitalist imperialism, but we knew that already.)
• Lower rise apartment developments, capped at like 4 floors. More than that actually starts to have an adverse effect on mental health as well as aforementioned community building.
• Multi use zoning. Dismantle the infinite suburb where you have to drive 20 minutes for gas and groceries. Bring back the corner stores.
• About those bioswales and greenspaces: even where city policies require developers to make space for them, most of the time they throw down some crabgrass sod and call it a day. Require them to design with hardy native and naturalized plants that can thrive
• Single stream recycling, as available as trash is now. And actually DO the recycling, not just ship it overseas. There’s already a plastic recycling system that doesn’t even require you to sort it by type and dissolves instead of melting it (which releases a lot of toxic particulates). There are species of bacteria, fungi and even insects that can break down plastics too. Anything that’s not being recirculated and used should be broken down.
• Also sexy: municipal composting, free compost and mulch, I’ve seen this in such disparate places as San Francisco and my suburban Georgia county. County extension services everywhere offer a ton of resources that are woefully underused.

More and better plant knowledge

Mortality rates for urban trees are super high. This could be fixed with simple education such as: don’t plant trees too close to buildings, don’t pile up mulch around the base of the tree, pick NATIVE species, pick only hardy pioneer species for stressful areas like parking lots, and avoid damaging the trees with weed whackers and lawn mowers. Give trees lots of space of dirt around them so water can soak in and reach their roots.

For smaller green areas, do native flowers and grasses, a good mix of them. And know their qualities and ways so they can be somewhere they are happy

For example relevant to Eastern USA- Purple Coneflower loves harsh, hot environments with poor soil, so put it on the edge of a pavement. There are also tons of flowers that grow specifically in rocks and gravel, so they would love that area bordering the concrete walkway that kills the lawn grass.

Flat-out ban pesticide use in lawns. That stuff hurts our health and our water supply and our ecosystems.

Also WIGGLE THE STREAMS. Straightening out the wiggly streams into straight drainage ditches means they hold less water. Imagine a pipe that is bent and wiggled stretched across an area a certain distance wide. Now imagine a perfectly straight pipe stretching across the same distance. NOW imagine stretching out the wiggled pipe so it’s straight. It’s much longer than the straight pipe now, so you can see how it holds more water.

Thinking about those egg tubes

For those confused in the notes, these are mostly sold to restaurants. Egg salad and egg garnish in retaurant food needs to look attractive; ever notice how if you get a salad in a lot of these places, the pieces are always perfect slices with white on the outside and yolk in the middle? Most of a sliced egg doesn't look like that because of the shape that the egg and yolk is, so if they were just boiling and slicing eggs, they'd have to throw out more than half the egg if they wanted their slices to look nice.

These tubes are just made of normal eggs but boiled together in along tube shape. This way the whole thing looks pretty except the ends. That's more egg per egg! They also store and transport easier than separate eggs, and because they're sold precooked they save a lot of boiling and egg peeling time in the kitchen and result in a far more consistent product, cooked to perfection. Slicing up a big egg tube is much faster and produces better results than the kitchen staff having to boil and peel eggs themselves each time.

TIL about tube eggs. :)

#how#ill look it up later#but hows egg become tube im confused

The egg tube factories have a machine for it but you can do it at home like this:

• separate a bunch of eggs into whites and yolks
• get a long tube of some kind that's as wide as you want your egg tube to be. You can use a food safe bit of pipe for this.
• Get a stick or a rod or something that's as thick as you want your yolk to be. You can use a skinnier tube for this if you want.
• Block off the bottom of your egg white tube and stand it upright in a pot of water. You might need to weigh it down or hold it in place with something. Put your yolk stick inside the tube, running up the middle of it.
• Pour your egg whites in the outer tube. This will give you a tube of egg whites with a stick running up the middle. The egg whites should not go above the water level; if they do, add more water to the pot.
• Bring the water in the pot to the boil. Cook the egg whites.
• When the egg whites are cooked, carefully remove your stick from the middle. You will now have a long pipe-shaped egg white with a hole running through the middle.
• Break up your yolks and mix them together. Pour them into the long hole.
• Wait for the yolks to cook, then remove the tube of egg. Let it cool down. You can put it in the fridge if you want.
• When the egg is cool, carefully unblock the bottom of the tube and slide it out. You should now have a Long Egg.

I love this, because it blames @neil-gaiman for not writing a fourth season while a) season 3 hasn't even been greenlit yet b) there are STRIKES because everyone is UNDERPAYING THE EMPLOYEES OF THE INDUSTRY and c) this is an article you would usually read when season 3 is wrapping up. Not when there are maybe 30 pages of script.

Love it. Let's blame Neil Gaiman. Let's focus on that. Let's mourn a never gonna happen season 4, when we might never see the third season on the screen acted by the most wholesome actor duo I have ever witnessed in my life. Priorities.

Pay your writers. Pay your actors. Pay the people that make art, because life is miserable without art and we could all use a little less misery.

Funnily enough that part only incenses me on behalf of others, what makes me TRULY angry is that they think we're this stupid. I know that news will ALWAYS twist the numbers and words, because life is not black and white, and they need to streamline ideas to make them digestable. I get that.

But this is ridiculous. They're trying to distract people. They're trying to make people forget the reason why season 3 might never happen, and plant the idea in our head that it's the writers fault.

If you're going to manipulate us, be smart about it.

a league of their own being cancelled after being renewed is so fucking heart breaking.

but if they think we're gonna be mad at the wag/aftra for fighting for their right and not at them for taking it as an opportunity, Amazon is clearly wrong and stupider than i thought.

tumblr staff have...

• allowed false flags of 100% sfw posts made by transfem users (and blacklisted trans-adjacent tags)
• taken away basic accessibility features in an effort to tiktok-ify tumblr
• pushed tumblr live, a feature users actively dislike which is mostly unused and overrun by spambots, that also collects all of your data
• allowed ads that can literally kill people via flashing / strobing lights, even if the person had it filtered, despite user complaints, with the ceo even saying people with epilepsy should "just buy ad free" in response to concern over potential death or serious injury from such ads

STOP GIVING THEM MONEY! stop trying to make crab day or whatever else happen. paying for stuff from the shop is rewarding them for ignoring the userbase continuously and doing things the majority don't want, even if the things they're doing and allowing can cause actual deaths. staff shouldn't be praised and get profit for ignoring their users in exchange for trying to turn tumblr into twitter 2 ft. tiktok. at this point i don't even care for "staff are people 🥺 be nice" arguments, because even when people are being very polite in feedback, they're perfectly fine ignoring it in exchange for implementing changes nobody wants or asked for, all because new users may like it more (and forget anyone who's used the site for years, apparently).

leave bad reviews. don't buy things from the shop. send feedback, even if they never reply. email them and @ the staff, send asks to the wip blog. don't just blindly buy into "we need to support the site, buy xyz shop product", they don't deserve more money for giving a worse product.

Aside from the fact of how delusional sex workers are- have you ever seen the comment section of an ex porn star?

Ex porn stars will be trying to post about their new careers and interests and the comment section is literally never ending mockery, disgust, hatred and sexual harassment. Especially if you exited the industry while still young.

For the older porn stars who fucked on camera till they were basically senior citizens- they kinda have a soft spot for them. Although they continue to humiliate and post clips of them being face banged or whatever under their Thanksgiving greetings.

Cultivating a large male audience who is only present for your naked body is the most temporary, worthless and toxic type of social media presence.