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Happy Anniversary!

#cuteness #link click

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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

#crowning moment of funny

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#it probably has around 3 years now #poll

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Years and years ago, I read a book on cryptography that I picked up because it looked interesting--and it was!

But there was a side anecdote in there that stayed with me for more general purposes.

The author was describing a cryptography class that they had taken back in college where the professor was demonstrating the process of "reversibility", which is a principle that most codes depend on. Specifically, it should be easy to encode, and very hard to decode without the key--it is hard to reverse the process.

So he had an example code that he used for his class to demonstrate this, a variation on the Book Code, where the encoded text would be a series of phone numbers.

The key to the code was that phone books are sorted alphabetically, so you could encode the text easily--picking phone numbers from the appropriate alphabetical sections to use ahead of time would be easy. But since phone books were sorted alphabetically, not numerically, it would be nearly impossible to reverse the code without exhaustively searching the phone book for each string of numbers and seeing what name it was tied to.

Nowadays, defeating this would be child's play, given computerized databases, but back in the 80s and 90s, this would have been a good code... at least, until one of the students raised their hand and asked, "Why not just call the phone numbers and ask who lives there?"

The professor apparently was dumbfounded.

He had never considered that question. As a result, his cipher, which seemed to be nearly unbreakable to him, had such an obvious flaw, because he was the sort of person who could never coldcall someone to ask that sort of thing!

In the crypto book, the author went on to use this story as an example of why security systems should not be tested by the designer (because of course the security system is ready for everything they thought of, by definition), but for me, as a writer, it stuck with me for a different reason.

It's worth talking out your story plot with other people just to see if there's a "Why not just call the phone numbers?" obvious plot hole that you've missed, because of your singular perspective as a person. Especially if you're writing the sort of plot where you have people trying to outsmart each other.

#interesting

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it’s so lovely that chilchuck is both the girls’ bedtime stuffed teddy bear & he just puts up with it because he’s a girl dad first and a moody rogue second

#cuteness #dungeon meshi

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#2 #i can't break the habit #poll

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Sorry this is from the Annoying app but I do enjoy I can do cool time lapse things of my crochet

The pattern for this is out now on my Etsy btw if you wanna make yourself one

She's also available via Hobbii which gives 100% to designers so that's another swag option :^) it's also where i get all my yarn for my parasols, srsly cannot recommend Sultan enough

Another edit: I’ve made a Patreon if you want to support my designing endeavors. I have a lot of complicated clothing I want to grade the patterns for but it’s a lot of work so I needed some way to financially justify that. So yeah, if you like my work and want to chuck $3-$5 at my face every month to support it, that’s where you can do that

🌸🧶

#pretty #awesome #crafts

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today on neat hozier retweets: disappearing birds!

#awesome #interesting #birds

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

#crowning moment of funny #mob psycho 100

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Eowyn is finished, and my Lavender and LOTR series is officially a series!

Adapted from the patterns Celtic Spring and Celtic Winter by Marilyn Leavitt-Inblum

#awesome #pretty #crafts

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K so not to be dramatic or anything, but there's a free vintage French pattern book available on antiquepatternlibrary so if you like to crochet/weave/make pixel art/tie epic friendship bracelets don't walk- RUN.

It has scenes from aesop's fables! Cherubs doing things! Beheadings! Greek muses! Little farm people! Intricate floral pattern! Goth stained-glass window like patterns! Fun little corner pieces! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/C-TT008-180.htm

#interesting #tutorial #crafts

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always the better healer

#pretty #dungeon meshi

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Blupees

#cuteness

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do you ever wish you were a small frog with red boots who is enthusiastic about flowers

#cuteness #amigurumi

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Pro-tip to young trans guys:

If a stranger misgenders you, please please please do not ever utter the phrase, “I’m a man.” It sounds very unnatural and immediately sounds overly defensive.

My advice? Just look at the person like they’re an idiot and, in the deepest voice possible, say, “Uh. Alright, then.”

Just act as though they made a huge and obvious mistake, and don’t get flustered. If you’re comfortable with it, handle the situation with humor and say something like, “Man, I know I’ve got a babyface, but I didn’t think it was that bad.”

#interesting

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#i'm not even the tiniest bit curious to ever try #poll