you just got press crow'd. reblog to instantly press crow your friends

These guys are fun alright?!

Though I think in the end, Poptart I mean Lil Leo would resort to calling Medium Leo Big Sprout, or Bean Stalk, something around there but not entirely just a sprout :)

Hey Ghost, it's a Server Reference Update

Read Chapter 3 here!

For the @tmnt-crossover-polls !

AAAHHHH THERE THEY AREEEEE Hfdhkfjh I remember seeing this on discord, I love it so much fhgkdhfgk

Death comes for everyone—some sooner than others. Some more abrupt than others. The ones who are left behind remember their passing. Today, Michelangelo observes the death anniversary of a loved one for the first time.

meant to be propaganda for the tmntaucompetition polls, but since they're no longer being continued, i'm posting the chapter now!

I’m sure all you Tumblr users have heard by now about the changes being made to Tumblr’s ecosystem so that the site can make more money. And I’m sure most of you are as uneasy as I am or, in fact, are angry about the proposed changes.

The reason they need to make more money is simple: Tumblr is $30 million USD in debt.

For this site to run and for them to pay employees, the site needs to generate revenue.

This place maybe a hellsite but it’s our hellsite. We are still here because we actually like it here. Besides, the other social media sites are crashing or will crash soon. Where else would we go?

Now, I did some research. There are at least 300 million users and over 500 million blogs. One of the cheapest things to buy on the Tumblr store is the crab package you can gift to another blog, which is $3 USD.

If each and everyone of us buys a crab package, we get to keep Tumblr alive and kicking. @oracleoutlook suggested that we make a holiday of it on July 29th. It seems to have resonated with people. Others have also asked for that to extend to August 5th, as some people don’t get paid til the beginning of the month.

Many people have already agreed to celebrate July 29th as Crab Day, a day of posting crab memes and gifting crabs to other users. And if you cannot afford to buy crabs, that is a-okay! Participate in the crab memes. Who would pass up the chance to make and reblog memes about crabs, after all?

This hellsite is ours. Let us remind them of that.

I don't have the words to explain how @intotheelliwoods 2 Arms Left au makes me feel

Ell, you don't understand how attached I became to these funky little guys. I cried at Monday's comic and have wanted to make something ever since

This came to me about half-way through the week and I've put basically everything on the backburner until I could finish this lol

Song: Say It (Itte) -English Cover- by Will Stetson

we need a fictional wheelchair user who does all the unrealistic bullshit cars and motorcycles do in fiction. i wanna see a wheelchair do the akira slide. i need a high speed chase with a nitro-fuelled wheelchair where the character out-maneuvers cop cars. does anyone understand me

quick rad and nini doodle @debb987 @amevello-blue

He’s leading his much larger little brother around and he will in fact fight anyone if they give him pickles

Part 5!

Yeah, Leo has a hoodie:) He rarely wears it because his prosthetic doesn't fit through the sleeve.

But in the twin tradition, if Donny has a hoodie, Leo should have one too. It’s dark blue btw hehe

Part 1

KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"

I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.

Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)

But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.

I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:

• What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)

• Also, what you say on there? Is now...
• Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
• Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
• Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
• Sell / share this "content" with other businesses

• Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.
• And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)

I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)

They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.

So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.

(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)

Keep reading

Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.

There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.

This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.

What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:

• Tech that can regenerate my old meat legs.
• Robot legs that work just like meat legs and are functionally just meat legs but robot
• Literally anything that would mean I don't have to use a wheelchair.
• If I do need to use a wheelchair, make it fly or able to "walk me" upstairs

What I actually want:

• Prosthetic covers that can change colour because I'm too indecisive to pick one colour/pattern for the next 5+ years.
• A leg that I can turn off (seriously, my above knee prosthetic has no off switch... just... why?)
• A leg that won't have to get refitted every time I gain or loose weight.
• A wheelchair that I can teleport to me and legs I can teleport away when I'm too tierd to keep walking. And vice versa.
• In that same vein, legs I can teleport on instead of having to fiddle around with the sockets for half an hour.
• Prosthetic feet that don't require me to wear shoes. F*ck shoes.
• Actually accessible architecture, which means when I do want to use my wheelchair, it's not an issue.
• Prosthetic legs with dragon-claw feet instead of boring human feet or just digigrade prosthetics that are just as functional as normal human-shaped ones.
• A manual wheelchair with the option to lift my seat up like those scissor-lift things so I'm not eye-level with everyone's butt on public transport/so I can reach the top shelf by myself.
• A prosthetic foot that lights up when it hits the ground like those children's shoes.

Casey Junior AU where he was sent to the past but Mikey accidentally sent him a little too far and when junior arrives at the lair to warn the hamatos of the invasion, he’s greeted by 4 turtle tots

I’m definitely gonna do this AU once I get the motivation, it’ll literally just be Junior having to be a big brother to the baby turtles

WHEEEEZE SORRY I WILL DELETE IT LATER IT JUST REMINDED ME OF IT AND OH GOD I WANT TO SEE IT PLEASE

DO NOT DELETE THIS MASTERPIECE

What a weird rob- huh??

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