The Severed Head of Medusa by artist Damien Hirst is made of a single piece of crystal glass that took three months to cool in an oven. This final product is the fifth attempt at molding the work from molten crystal; the first four cracked in the cooling process.
A customer came in today and said he wanted some flowers because he’s in trouble with his wife, but I could tell by the way he was smiling about it that he couldn’t wait to tell someone exactly why he’s in the doghouse.
“There’s two thing you gotta know. The first is that my neighbors are super religious and they’ve had their Christmas lights up for three months with hymns playing through the speakers. The second thing is that my wife loves those animatronic light-up deer.
“So my wife, she says ‘honey, will you put the deer out?’ And I’m like ‘yeah yeah.’ And then I see our neighbors out there with every tree lit up and their music blaring and I get an idea.
“I take the doe’s head off its hinges and I hang the body up in the tree with the head hanging down, then I find some red lights to have coming out of the body so it looks like there’s blood coming out of its neck. And then I put the two bucks next to her, looking up at the hanging body.”
A moment of silence where I can’t decide whether this guy is an inspiration or the worst husband ever.
“Anyways,that’s why I’m in the doghouse. You got any Christmas-y flowers?”
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
//as an app developer, yes to all this. As a voice from the shadows of Microsoft and big corp development and experience with tiny biz development and design, yes to all of this.
//If we WANT them to be the new Tumblr we have to support them in all ways including giving positive critical feedback. I will be getting a key and seeing what it’s about but even now I can tell you they are NOT ready for a mass exodus from Tumblr. It’s not bad at all becauae it costs BIG bucks to support these kind of numbers and that means if we believe in this service we have to support it.
That means not jumping on them if things are slow or features aren’t there. It means being patient and growing with them. It means throwing them some $$ if we can and feedback and support if we can’t.
Hey so @staff it’s really really shitty to flag as explicit a post about my gay uncle who died due to AIDS.
@staff this is unacceptable
Thank you. I didn’t even see a notification – I just came across it while I was scrolling through my blog to see if anything was flagged.
I’m honestly pretty upset about this. It’s also wild considering the history of the AIDS epidemic and how the US government censored PSAs about the epidemic to not mention gay men because it might be seen as endorsing “deviant” behavior. I’m not saying that’s why this was flagged, I’m just saying there’s relevant history here.
This is also an indication that random LGBTQ posts being blocked isn’t a fluke. This post doesn’t contain any word that could possibly be construed as sexual, like sex/sexual/sexuality. “Gay,” “orientation,” “HIV” or “AIDS” is probably flagged.
For the past 27 days, a small Protestant church in The Hague has been conducting round-the-clock religious services to protect an Armenian refugee family from deportation.
By law, police officers in The Netherlands are not allowed to enter places of worship during religious services. So, reverends from around the country have taken turns holding services at Bethel Church to prevent officials from arresting the Tamrazyan family, who have been in The Netherlands for nine years.
“By giving hospitality to this family, we could give them time and place to [demonstrate] to the secretary of state the … urgency of their situation,” Theo Hettema, chairman of the General Council of Protestant Ministers says.
The Breadbox 