About 2 months ago, I stumbled onto child pornographers on tumblr. It came up on my dash and I couldn’t believe it. I immediately unfollowed the user and reported the blog to Tumblr itself.
They emailed me that they had received the report and were working on it. I communicated with them on a daily basis asking why the blog was still up and what they were doing. It was almost TWO WEEKS before anything was done about it.
Im not surprised this is happening, and I’ve lost quite a lot of faith in the site. I run two blogs right now, this one, and @Somecutething which has now been flagged as NSFW. Which doesn’t make any sense because it’s a cute animal blog.
What doesn’t make any sense to me is HOW DOES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY GO UNNOTICED BY @staff FOR SO LONG!?!? Tumblr has let those kids down. Tumblr fucked up and needs to know they fucked up. I’m glad Apple and the iOS store took a stand.
If I find anything, ANYTHING with Child pornography on it I’m not relying on Tumblr Staff anymore to take it down, I will report it straight to NCMEC or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They’ll actually make sure that something is done.
Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home. The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”
If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese. Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.
Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)
Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.
From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.
the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.
volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.
so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.
of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.
it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.
I appreciate how, as our understanding of dinosaur anatomy becomes more refined, we simultaneously have improved the anatomy of our fantasy creatures that are often inspired by them.
Especially since the more anatomically accurate stuff usually looks so much better than our older ideas?
Like, what we used to think looked like this:
We now understand looked like this:
And what we once thought was shaped like this:
Turned out to be shaped like this
All of these olderideas of big, heavy reptiles kind of share the same anatomy problems:
And now that we’ve become more thoughtful about their anatomy, our fantasy creatures– even the ones that still wouldn’t technically make sense– still look so much more pleasing to the eye as a result.
It’s awesome how the closer to correct anatomy we get, the “prettier” things seem to look.
This. So much this. The closer they are to actual anatomical features, the more natural they look and thus both richer in detail and approachable as animals rather than amorphous blobs with sticky legs.
And now we found out dinosaurs are not related to reptiles but related to BIRDS and actually had feathers.
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