I have never felt so validated in never having given up on Tumblr.
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ALTIT GETS WORSE!
"This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.
This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour."
So he artificially limited the number of tweets you can see per day with a "free" account.
Once you hit your limit, it stops you from loading the page. But it also doesn't know WHY it isn't loading, so it keeps TRYING.
Twitter is literally hitting itself in the face ten times per second per user.
This is so completely amateurish it's unbelievable. It's like putting your car in neutral and slamming your foot on the gas until your engine redlines and then wondering why it's making a horrible noise and a terrible smell but not going anywhere.
It gets worse
So I had to get nosy and do some research because It's never occurred to me that this kind of effect was possible in the 19th century (upon reading the origins I was like "Oh Shit That's what that is??").
Fabric is made up of basically two parts while being woven, weft (which goes side to side), and warp (which goes up and down).
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ALTThis dress is made of Shot Silk, so named because of how the weft bobbin of a different color is "shot through" the warp color while the fabric is being woven. The silk in the original post is probably "Dove silk", made of turquoise and magenta fibers which makes that striking iridescent grey color. It was popular all throughout the 18th century, especially in French fashions, and gained a popularity during the American Civil War (cotton production was disrupted and yielding smaller crops as the enslaved peoples involved with production of cotton were dealing with bigger fish to fry, like seeking freedom from slavery and trying not to die).
You might be more familiar with its use in cosplay spaces, specifically with One Disney Princess In Particular
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ALTThis fabric has so much potential in modern garment making, and I'm so shocked no one else has latched onto it for period pieces. Especially when we have documents suggesting that this technique has existed in Noble and Clergy circles since THE 700'S
Shot silk! What a concept!
yes! shot silk/changeable silk is so pretty. I see it fairly often in late 50s/early 60s party dresses, usually in really intense green/blue but sometimes in pink/orange or blue/purple.
This is what my university uses for the stoles of graduation gowns. Arts get blue-green, engineering gets red-orange, and science gets yellow-vomit
Also, shot silks had a great popularity during the late 1840's to 1850's. Of course shot silk was used before and after, but I focus more on Victorian era clothing.
thought too hard about MRI machines today and had this come to me in a vision
I love your vision, I love your message, and I want to add on. There is a much more common MRI safety fact that people really need to be aware of: radiofrequency burns.
Here's a poster from the U.S. FDA! In summary:
- Do not wear any street clothes into an MRI. That includes socks and underwear.
- Let the ordering doctor and technician know if you have any tattoos.
- Do not make skin-to-skin contact with yourself. No clasping your hands, crossing your legs, grasping your hips. Fat and particularly large patients, ask your technician for additional padding to insulate.
- Do not have a coiled call cord or have it touching you. The alert button should remain in your hand for easing pressing, but tell the technician if it's wrapped up or pressed against you.
- Press the alert button and let the technician know ASAP if you start feeling hot. If it's psychosomatic, you moving or trying to get out due to panic will negate the ability to take clear imaging. If it's somatic, that is a pain signal that you are burning. Either way, imaging should stop for readjustments.
I got singed from my last MRI due to an inexperienced technician. The sensation went from "huh, did they turn on a heater?" to "why do I feel like I'm being baked". It was kind of similar to the feeling of drinking alcohol or getting CT contrast. Not painful, but uncomfortable and bizarre.
Thankfully, things were very easily sorted after I spoke up. The sensation stopped immediately, and imaging proceeded smoothly after some quick adjustments. My burn was comparable to a mild sunburn (minus the radiation), and it was gone in a couple days. This is also the only time I've ever had this happen in an MRI.
In summary: be honest with your care providers, and communicate with them if something feels wrong.
I'm bringing this back for disability pride month. While I'm at it, I wanted to add: please remember that information like this is meant to prevent such injuries. It is not meant to send you into hypervigilance.
Yes, a lot of medical testing can be scary! Being scared is not just okay, it's extremely normal. Understanding your own healthcare as a patient is extremely important for your safety and care, though.
That's especially true in a post-pandemic medical system. Healthcare has been overtaxed across the globe. Patients and providers alike are going to feel the effects of that for years to come. Those of us who are extremely reliant on frequent healthcare feel it the most acutely. Asking questions, staying aware, and practicing self-advocacy are all important steps to ensure you get the care that you need.
Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP
(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)
An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:
IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:
HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:
First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
- Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
- Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
- In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
- In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
- In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
- Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
"No one can love you until you love yourself" is like the worst possible way of articulating "if you don't respect and value yourself, it's very easy to become attracted to people who don't treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful."
so THAT'S what it's supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.
