Tag: ugh

Oh my. I started off not so pleased about this thunderstorm rolling in because the patio floodwaters had managed to go down some since yesterday! And soaking the ground some more really isn’t going to help the drainage again. (Besides directly adding to the lake. Rain doesn’t drain too well back there normally.)

But, Feist has also gotten scared enough of thunder that she’s hiding back behind the washing machine and crying pitifully at me again. She’s 12 or 13 now, and that’s only started happening within the past 6 months or so; no idea why. The cat has always been kind of timid and even more easily startled than me, but still.

At least she’s unlikely to do like Max did one time, shoving his 55 lb. Staffie carcass in back there during a storm–and managing to knock the boiler fill valve open in the process. Pretty soon water was leaking out of the actual boiler on the wall, and yeah we needed a new one before long. What a surprise.

Feist probably isn’t strong enough to do that–and fits into the space enough better– but she did use the bathroom back behind there the last time she holed up thanks to thunder 😳 With the machine in the kitchen British styley, even better.

I mean, I’m not happy that she’s that upset at all, and really wish I could do something to help besides talk to her in a reassuring way. But I’m also not looking forward to maybe needing to get it cleaned up back there again, with nobody else here to help.

(And yes, I am smelling cat pee now, before even finishing the post.)

Gross porn blogs:

aegipan-omnicorn:

sciencesideanswers:

back-that-sass-up:

alkjira:

hollowedskin:

undead-trans-lesbian:

elliesaurus-rex:

What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!

The bots are using tumblr to scam Google.

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

source.

hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!

FINALLY AN EXPLANATION

#block all porn bot blogs because they also steal your selfies and write captions underneath

Awesome Tumblr porn-blog SEO techniques explained

I was thinking about this post, today, and trying to remember where I’d gotten this notion – ‘twas one of the first things I’d read on Tumbr, when I first joined.

I’ve also used this as rationale for blocking more than porn sites, btw.  I’ve also blocked “Health and athletic” blogs, and one blog that seemed to be linked to a wedding photographer… both areas that I, an ace/aro, disabled, bookworm, have no interest in.

Porn simply does not interest me. But fraudulent advertising pisses me off.

alarajrogers:

betweenthebinaries:

trashgender-neurotica:

quetiapine400:

here’s the thing: trump is not mentally ill and his behavior isn’t indicative of mental illness–it’s indicative of white supremacy

so no there’s no point in pop psychologists diagnosing him for clickbait articles and for people to make snappy tweets and posts about his sanity

it’s not funny and it does nothing but reinforce the stigma around mental illness and perpetuate the belief that mentally ill people are inherently dangerous and abusive

He’s not mentally ill, he’s just got a fucked up ideology. It’s not the same.

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The evidence actually suggests both. He’s extremely narcissistic, might be suffering the onset of dementia… and also a white supremacist asshole. They aren’t exclusive.

Exactly. These are very different things. It’s certainly a big problem the way some people prefer to conflate them in extremely ableist ways, and try to put terrible abusive behavior off on someone’s presumed mental health difficulties. But, being largely separate issues doesn’t make them mutually exclusive.

It’s also totally possible for already abusive-acting people to lose some inhibitions with dementia, which can be a very bad situation all around. I’ve seen that happen up close. That also wouldn’t even be a thing if they were not abusive going in.

Dementia doesn’t make a decent person suddenly turn into a horrible jerk, any more than drinking magically turns them aggressive. The loss of inhibitions can unmask some things they were able to cover up better before, and make existing manipulative behavior look much less smooth.

Trump has kept up a public reputation as an impressive level of bigoted jerk at least since the ‘80s. (From the NYT: 1973 | Meet Donald Trump. Involving the first discrimination suit against him.) The style may have changed some, and appallingly so has his level of influence.

But, the man has never come across as anything but a bigoted asshole. Regardless of anything else that might or might not be going on with him now.