Vulgar is a conlang (constructed/fictional language) generator created to help literally generate a language for you. No, really. No tricks, and it’s super simple to use. It’s my favourite tool right now for writing fantasy, even as someone who loves creating his own languages, it’s an amazing starting point.
Want a random conlang, straight away, with no prep or fuss? Just visit http://vulgarlang.com/index.html and click “Generate New Conlang”… and that’s it. Scroll down and through your brand new, generated, completely original conlang.
If you’re a little more advanced in terms of conlanging and want to specify IP phonemes to be used, you can add them too, but even with no knowledge of linguistics you can create a language at the click of your fingers.
This version of Vulgar is completely free, sure…. but! the guy who created it has not only made an amazing thing (which I repeat, is absolutely free at it’s most basic point), but is also planning on updating it more and more!
Under the “Buy” tab on the Vulgar website, he links to his email, where you can offer to pay for the full version of Vulgar, which is a total steal right now at a sale price of only nineteen dollars. Considering professional conlangers and linguists could charge you, like, a metric fuck ton of money for the same data you’re getting here for just nineteen, that’s a major steal.
Not to mention, buying the alpha build now gives you free access to all of it’s updated versions, which I can guarantee are just going to get better and better! I’ve already bought it and I adore it, and this is a tool the likes of which we in the conlang community have never seen in such an awesome way.
Please consider helping Vulgar out, because the creator is a damn genius
someone created a random generator that creates randomized inspirational quotes overlaid on random images in a soothing fashion and each and every image is comic gold
it’s pretty much the best thing ever and here are some of my favorites so far
so good
I’m getting this one made into a motivational poster for my home office
I feel like I should make a post about this because it’s not something that’s very well-known, and that Americans in particular may need to know about given the uncertain state of our healthcare system at the moment. I’ve wanted to write this out for a while, It’s kind of a long post, so sorry about that!
If you have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, you’ll owe the hospital a lot of money. (I got into a car wreck and broke my ankle and my arm. My hospital bill was around $20,000)
You’ll also owe the ambulance provider, if you need one. (My ambulance bill was about $800)
You may get separate bills from the anesthesiologist or surgeon. (My anesthesiologist bill was $1,700)
You may need follow-up appointments. (My orthopedic surgeon billed me for the appointments and his surgery together and it was about $1,000)
You’ve also got to pay for medical equipment you need afterward, like crutches or a walking boot. (Mine cost about $75)
Altogether, I ended up with almost $24,000 in medical debt from one car accident. That’s a really scary number for someone like me who makes $10/hr at a 12 hour a week job.
I got my debt down to $1075 by making some phone calls and submitting some paperwork.
The first thing I did was contact the hospital. They don’t make it easy to find, but many hospitals (perhaps most hospitals?) have financial assistance programs for people who can’t afford medical bills. I don’t make a lot of money, and I have bills to pay, so they were able to help me. I called the billing department and asked if they had any assistance programs for low income people who can’t pay their bills. I had to call multiple times, and I got transferred in circles by people who didn’t know what I was talking about. Finally, I got an appointment with someone in “Eligibility Services” (I don’t know what other hospitals call it, if it’s something different). I had to bring my pay stubs and copies of all of my bills. When I got to the hospital for the appointment, nobody knew what I was talking about so I had to wander a little to find where I needed to go. I spoke with the guy in Eligibility Services, and I waited for a decision on how much of the bill they would forgive. A month later, I got a call telling me it was totally forgiven.
I did the same thing for my ambulance bill and my anesthesiologist, but the process was a LOT easier. I just had to mail some paperwork and it was totally forgiven.
I didn’t bother with the medical equipment suppliers, since the bills came from separate companies and I didn’t feel like going through the process twice for $75. I was assured at the hospital that they had similar programs for debt forgiveness, so I could have probably avoided paying that too.
The only thing I couldn’t get taken care of was the surgeon/follow-up appointment cost, but they were able to put me on a no-interest payment plan.
Medical debt is scary because it’s something that can come from stuff that’s already really scary. I didn’t need the burden of $24,000 in debt on top of trying to get around on a crutch with a broken arm (it’s not easy, believe me!).. but I can’t imagine what it would be like with a bigger debt or a more severe medical emergency. I see lots of people in even worse trouble than I was in, both financially and medically. Please know that there are options for you when that GoFundMe doesn’t do enough. Even if your income is higher than mine, it’s worth a shot even for partial debt forgiveness.
I am about 900% sure there are people who don`the know this.
tumblr servant is a godsend with a lot of useful functions but my primary use for it is this
so let’s say you’re a big fan of transformers so obviously you don’t want to blacklist #transformers, and you’ve got this cool friend kyle, but every single time kyle posts or reblogs something about transformers it’s just… it’s garbage. it’s a Bad Post. he has bad opinions and he should feel bad. you know that it’s petty shit but it irritates you every time you see one of his bad, bad transformers posts. but most of what he posts is awesome! you don’t wanna unfollow his ass! so you make a tumblr servant instead and even if he doesn’t tag shit about shit, if the word ‘transformers’ is in the post at all you will never see it. peace is restored on your dash. you are free.
you can also do a lot of other shit like dim posts or highlight posts or give you notifications etc etc etc but i mostly just hide Bad Fandom Opinions because i’m petty
So if you lived in a society where you had to secure your communication in order to be yourself around others, here are the apps that could help you do that.
Signal let’s you securely text and make phone calls.
Onion Browser allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail.
Duck Duck Go isn’t super secure but it won’t record your searches like Google.
ProtonMail is a email client that lets you email other secure email accounts.
Periscope allows you to stream live video.
Semaphor is there so you can securely make group chat rooms.
American privacy laws allow you to use these all. So that’s pretty cool.
Because we’re currently living in the prologue of a cyberpunk dystopian novel, imma reblog this.
3. Hit Ctrl+Shift+J to open the chrome javascript console
4. Now paste in everything you copied before, but don’t hit enter
5. Now copy the whole list of blogs you want to block (make sure they are separated by spaces ex: ‘blog1 blog2 blog3)
6. Now go back to your blog settings and hit enter in the console, and paste the list in to the popup box and hit ok
7. Now wait a moment, and then refresh the page, now you should have all of those blogs blocked
Y’all, this is a super good thing, and a really good reference for those who have lists of TERFs, aphobic blogs, and/or antisemitic people they’re blocking or meant to block but ugh it’s so much work.
3. Hit F12 (unless you have Firebug installed – then use Ctrl+Shift+Q, and navigate to Console tab) to open the Firefox ‘Inspect Element’ window and the Console
Note: F12 works on Chrome as well
4. Click on the Console tab, and paste in everything you copied before and hit enter (do not put list in this code)
5. A pop-up window appears, titled “Blogs to block”, with a space to enter text and an ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ button below (pictured below)
6. Paste the list of blogs you wish to block into this space, remembering to ensure blog names are separated by spaces
7. Now hit ok, wait about 5 seconds, and refresh your page. These blogs are now blocked!
Sorry to tag you all again but I just went through and figured out the process for Firefox and as vaspider said above, you are all well-suited for signal boosting
Happy to work this out for other browsers too, just thought Mozilla was best to do quickly! 🙂
Where the fuck was this last night when I had to manually block like 200 people from a sideblog
unfortunately the links on this post are broken, which is why i’ve been digging around for alternatives. having said that i sympathize, that woulda been a huge pain in the ass. when i made this blog i think the first thing i did was re-block a lot of people. it took many hours, stretched across multiple days
now that i have the /concept/ of a script being a thing, though, im never doing that again. if i find another thing that works, i’ll be sure to post it.
I can confirm that tumblr batch block works, but it took an hour for the script to block about 500 blogs, so keep in mind that one is slow going, though still better than a manual run.
sorry, i know this is somewhat unrelated but i assume anyone with the need to mass block people might also be interested in knowing that apparently even if you change your tumblr url, anyone who’s liked posts made by your old url will see your posts they’ve liked with your new url attached. (maybe this is common knowledge, but it definitely wasn’t to me until recently and i want to be sure people know about it)
not to get mad nerdy but I just discovered tabletopaudio.com and I’m fuckin losing it
this person (people?) goes about making 10 minute long loopable ambient noise tracks for every imaginable setting (docks, taverns, forests, airships, spaceships, office buildings, sewers, EVERYTHING) and has over a hundred tracks to offer, and on top of that if none of them suit you there’s a huge feature called soundpad where you can mix and match from their set of hundreds of individual sound effects and music clips to make your own ambient background track
holy shit dudes
I did a little further reading on his about and the guy running this is just a dad with two kids who like playing tabletops with him and he had the composition and musical training to start making soundtracks for his games then decided to spread that to the world for absolutely free, he even welcomes you to use his tracks in your works (podcasts, videos etc) and is open to being hired for custom tracks
OK HECKERS HERE’S THE DEAL, YOU NEED A THING ON A SHIRT FOR A COSTUME AND YOU DON’T WANT TO HECK IT UP. YOU WANT A PICTURE PERFECT EASY PEASY CHEAP-BUTT SHIRT FOR HECKA CHEAP. LOOK NO FURTHER, YOU AWESOME PIECE OF GARBAGE.
THIS PLACE IS LIKE HECKIN HEAVEN FOR COSPLAYERS. I WORK AT THE SAINT LOUIS LOCATION AND HOT DANG KIDS IT’S LIKE CHRISTMAS FOR COSPLAYERS 24/7. CHECK THIS JUNK OUT.
YOU SEE THAT? BAM. $15.99. CHEAPER THAN DIRT. YOU WANT IT FAST? WE CAN DO THIS JUNK IN OUR SLEEP YO. 24 HOUR TURNAROUND. YEAH. ONE DAY. IT TAKES ONE DAY. THAT’S IT. JUST ONE. A DAY YOU COULD BE USING TO PUT YOUR COSTUME TOGETHER WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT PAINTING A GOSH DANG SHIRT.
YOU WANT A CHARACTER LOGO ON A SWEATSHIRT? WE CAN DO THAT. YOU WANT YOUR FANART ON A HOODIE? WE GOT THAT. YOU WANT NIC CAGE’S FACE ON A SHIRT AND SOME SCALEMATE BOXERS? WE CAN DO IT HELLA FAST LIKE YOU NEVER EVEN SEEN.
WE GOT MORE THAN JUST SHIRTS TOO, OH YES. WE GOT SO MUCH MORE. YOU WANT A HOODIE OR A SWEATSHIRT OF A FREAKIN APRON? LET’S HOOK YOU UP. YOU WANT A TOWEL WITH YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS FACE ON IT SO YOU CAN WIPE YOUR FACE ONTO THEIR FACE? WE CAN DO THAT.
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