The Here And Now

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2zHdrxu at December 06, 2018 at 08:46AM

Let me see if I can copy it here with the images so other people can see it. 

To frustrated Python anon, follow the Occam’s razor: check if you’re making smaller mistakes like those I have mentioned before presuming the issue is right at the start with this. 

Full credit to nonnie whose generosity is celebrated on Dec 5th of every year: 

Written by: A dummy
For: Dummies
Disclaimer: I don’t know Python. I don’t know coding. I don’t know what paths are and why people have to use them. I can only tell you what works for me and my two other friends I have shown, but I cannot answer your deep questions. I sorry.

Step 1: Check your storage space, folks.

I cannot stress this enough. If you don’t have enough storage space, then if you have a big blog, it won’t be able to finish downloading. A very quick and dirty cheat that I have is that I know a friend of mine with a 16k+ posts on their blog and the whole blog backing up takes a whole 24Gb of space, so if you have more or less posts, you can just check your storage and semi-calculate how much it’s gonna cost in terms of memory

Step 2: Go to this link
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2712/
Download the file titled “Windows x86 MSI installer” and install it, preferably in the same folder you are gonna put your back up blog(s) into 

Make note of the spot where your new python folder (after installation) is located. To see the address, press the top bar once.

Step 3: Go to this link:
https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/zipball/master
It should automatically download for you. Unzip the file in the same folder you would like your future backup blog(s) to be in (At this step it should also contain the Python folder)

Go to the folder title Bbolli-something something and like before, make note of the address, this time, I would recommend also copy the address (Ctrl+C or just the traditional left click, copy)

Step 4: Go to Control Panel, and search for “Advanced system settings”

Click it, a table will pop up, then click “Environment variables”, scroll down the “System variables” until you find a Variable titled “Path”, select it and then press Edit.

There are two case scenarios
1/ This ‘Path’ is empty, in which case, please go ahead and paste your copied address of the Bbolli-something folder, following by a semi-colon ( ; ) (No space in between) and then remember the Python folder address? Copy paste that too, pasting it directly after the semi-colon (Again, no space between the letter and the semi colon) 

 2/ The second scenario is that this ‘Path’ is not empty. This happens to me and many others, in which case, you simply press edit, ignore whatever is written in that path, type in a semi-colon ( ;) then following immediately by the Bbolli-something address, and then another semi colon, and the python folder address. Click OK and then just turn the Environmental Variables off.

Step 5: Open your system search and type in “Command Prompt"and press enter (Hacker voice “I’m in.”)

And the rest was already covered in the other guides (but if you need it I can copy it here). 

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December 06, 2018 at 08:46AM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2EgS2zk at December 05, 2018 at 08:35PM

thebibliosphere:

datmusictho:

thebibliosphere:

m-in-a-moonrock:

thebibliosphere:

I actually feel sorry for the likely unpaid intern sitting at tumblr HQ dealing with all our bullshit and snark while those actually in charge watch the world burn from a safe distance and blame it on us damn kids not buying more products. Because ultimately this is what this about. Verizon needs to make money from Tumblr, and Verizon can’t make money cause Apple says “no adult content” and Apple has a stranglehold on the app market.

The fact that a lot of us use tumblr to host our own services and products as independent creators, often as our only source of income, is irrelevant to them. The fact that to many of us this is our community is meaningless to them. We’re acceptable collateral damage to furthering corporate greed and that’s the fucking tea on that.

Also to the hypothetical unpaid intern: leave, sweety. You can do better, and you’re worth so much more.

I thought Apple removed the app because of the CP though ? 

Not that I don’t think Apple is evil or don’t have a stranglehold on the market, but if the removal was specifically because of the pedophilia then that was a more than fair decision. Come to think of it, if it was because of all the porn bots it was also pretty fair. Tumblr should have gotten its shit together way earlier about that and if the whole “no adult content” thing is wholly their decisions then this mess is on them for not being able to manage their own website, panicking when there’s finally some consequences and deciding that trying to ban all “adult content” instead of dealing with the actual problem is the way to go

 (so yeah hypothetical intern might want to find a better, not completely incompetent place of work)

The CP is what forced them to roll out changes quicker, but otherwise this NSFW ban has been in the planning for quite some time. They were always planning to do this.

That whole “oh we rolled back the filtering system” that happened a while ago cause the algorithm was bullshit? Was them testing it to see a) how well it worked but also b) how we’d react.

But because, and this is all through the grapevine stuff and “anon sources” who were willing to talk to Vox (source), Verizon haven’t been putting any money into Tumblr since they bought it, the engineers that run the site have been jumping ship left right and center for better gigs (without being offered any reason to stay), so there’s been increasingly fewer staff to maintain or make changes, so the filter is still bullshit, still broken, and the site is only going to break further as time goes on cause no money is going into maintaining the basic infrastructure. So it doesn’t just seem like things are broken and no one is fixing it, things actually are breaking down, and there’s not enough people with the know how to fix it.

Tumblr is like the house built on sinking sand at this point. It just so also happens to be built on top of a tire fire as well, and the “discovery” of a CP circuit was just the thing that made them go “oh shit oh god oh shit” when Apple finally got sick of their shit and pulled the app. (And Apple is notorious for not allowing apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic” or for trying to muscle them out of site out of mind (source)(source)(source) so to the people in the notes going “uuuh they allow snapchat???”, yeah, for now. It also likely has different age restrictions and details in their ToS compared to the android one, where the rules about apps are a lot more lax, something which Steve Jobs himself was snarky about (source).)

Jesus Christ I’m so mad at myself for not knowing about any of this until now

Don’t be! The facts are only just now starting to emerge as people are becoming willing to speak out and talk, but also, some of these things are well hidden!!

Big companies pay big money for you to never know these things about them, they scrub their google returns clean so that most of the time all you will ever find are positive results. Most people didn’t even know that Yahoo had been acquired by Verizon until recently. Some people still don’t.

Misinformation is how chaos thrives, and chaos can often be capitalized on provided it’s a carefully curated kind. All of this?—laughable as it is to say, was planned. Poorly planned, and even more poorly executed, but premeditated all the same. As is anything that is done by a corporate company.

This is why things like Net Neutrality did and do matter. This is why telecommunication companies developing a monopoly over the Internet was a bad idea. This is why so many of us have been freaking out while others call us tin foil hatters go “ugh come on guys, it’s not a big deal” because it does matter! The small things matter! Because the small things eventually make up the whole and sometimes the whole turns out to be a big steaming pile of mass censorship in favor of profit. And that’s a Problem.

So don’t be mad at yourself. Not when it’s time to get mad at them.

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December 05, 2018 at 08:35PM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2RDLJsk at December 05, 2018 at 05:32PM

Python backs up the post entirely even if it’s under a read more, and when you view it you’ll see it in its entirety without a cut. 

The drafts are not included. Likes can be added using a flag, but drafts as far as I know aren’t covered. 

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December 05, 2018 at 05:32PM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2BRRMnI at December 05, 2018 at 01:54PM

rihennalately:

Rihanna playing dress up in a Zac Posen Gown

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December 05, 2018 at 01:54PM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2R56igG at October 23, 2018 at 09:40AM

Pick a Hill Worth Dying On, America:

This is our hill. Let’s climb it together.

“Whatever hill is worth dying on for you in this life, take it now.

Affirm life, speak truth, defend the vulnerable, call out injustices—and gladly brave the criticisms and the wounds you sustain in doing it, knowing that they are a small price to pay for the nation that could be if you speak—or will be if you do not.

Chances are you won’t actually be called to die for these cause and these people, but when you do leave this planet you will have lived for them. That in itself will be a beautiful legacy.

If you aren’t finding your voice right now, don’t bother worrying about it later.

You won’t have one much longer.

Ascend the hill.”

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October 23, 2018 at 09:40AM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2OujBXL on July 31, 2018 at 10:28AM

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Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2yXvjXd at June 27, 2018 at 10:00AM

A Physician in South Texas on an Unnerving Encounter with an Eight-Year-Old Boy in Immigration Detention:

Saturday June 30, join a rally in your city: https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org/

“‘Well, he won’t be reunited with his parents unless he behaves.’ “

"“The boy had been in custody for over a month. One of his guardians told me that he had been ‘acting out’ and threatening to harm himself, by jumping from his bed. This man told me, ‘I’m his clinician,’ but he was definitely not a doctor. I don’t know if he’s a social worker, a medical assistant, a housekeeper. I have no clue. But he obviously had been granted some sort of authority in regard to assessing children and determining what their needs are. He wouldn’t provide basic background. I couldn’t find out any information because he would say, ‘I’m not at liberty to tell you that’ and ‘You don’t need to know that,’ even though a lot of my questions were relevant to taking care of the child. I was asking things like ‘Where are his parents?’

“I asked the clinician, ‘When is this child going to be reunited with his parents?’ He was evasive. First it was ‘Oh, well, we don’t know.’ And then it was ‘Well, he won’t be reunited with his parents unless he behaves.’ The lack of compassion was scary, and it didn’t seem like there was really a plan.

“This boy seemed devastated—quiet and withdrawn. He barely spoke. I asked if he needed a hug. I kneeled down in front of the recliner, and this kid just threw himself into my arms and didn’t let go. He cried and I cried. And to think he’s been in a facility for a month without a hug, away from his parents, and scared, and not knowing when he’ll see them again or if he’ll see them again. While I held him, I heard the men standing behind me muttering that I was ‘rewarding his bad behavior.’ Thankfully, it was in English, so I don’t think the boy understood what they were saying, but it just revealed their attitudes toward these kids.”

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June 27, 2018 at 10:00AM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2KhOPBT at June 25, 2018 at 08:00AM

Family Separation Is the Essence of Trumpism:

Rally next Saturday June 30: https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org/

“It is not an accident that these three defenses—1. the policy does not exist, 2. the children are better off under the policy, and 3. the policy is required by law—are contradictory. The heart of Trumpism is both cruelty and denial. The administration and its supporters valorize cruelty against outsiders even while denying that such cruelty is taking place.

The policy of shattering families and the cacophony of conservative voices defending it are the fruits of a campaign of dehumanization that began when Drumpf announced his candidacy for president, declaring that Mexico was sending rapists and drug dealers to migrate illegally to the United States. Drumpf’s advocates have said that his generalizations about religious and ethnic minorities apply only to some members of those communities—but as president, Drumpf has used fears of terrorism and criminality among the few to justify persecuting the many. Only some Muslims may be terrorists, but that “some” justifies barring as many as possible from the country. Only some immigrants are MS-13 “animals,” but that “some” justifies caging all unauthorized immigrants.

Dehumanizing “some” dehumanizes the whole. This has been Drumpf’s strategy from the beginning. It has been an essential element of the most shameful episodes in American history, a list to which the Drumpf administration’s policy of detaining children to frighten their parents must now be added.”

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June 25, 2018 at 08:00AM

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2Kf3XNb at June 23, 2018 at 03:00PM

“My mommy says she’ll come pick me up as quickly as possible”:

Action next Saturday June 30, 2018. There will be thousands of smaller rallies all across the US:  Families Belong Together rally

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Their breaths drag between each sob like they can’t get enough air. They manage just two words, over and over: “Papá” and “Mami.”

ProPublica obtained audio of children who were just separated from their parents, some as young as 4, none older than 10. They sob for almost eight minutes. In between the moans of the child next to her, Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid, 6, tries to get an official’s attention, whimpering:

At least can I go with my aunt? I want her to come. I want my aunt to come so she can take me to my house. I have her number. Are you going to call my aunt so that when I’m done eating, she can pick me up? I have her number memorized. 34 72 … My mommy says that I’ll go with my aunt and that she’ll come to pick me up there as quickly as possible.

Since October 1, 2017, at least 2,700 children have been taken from their parents. The vast majority were separated after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero tolerance policy to criminally prosecute every adult who enters the country without documentation.

Sending parents to federal prison or to detention centers means separating them from their children — including parents who have proven parentage and are seeking asylum — and this past week, the country saw where those children were being sent.

Photographs of hundreds of children in cages with foil sheets for blankets sparked such a public outcry that on Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order replacing his administration’s policy with a new one.

Now, instead of detaining children in separate facilities away from their parents, the administration plans to hold families in detention together — indefinitely.

That is not required by a single statue or court ruling. Nor does the Trump administration appear to have a plan for how to reunite parents and children who have already been separated from each other — or an answer to critics who point out that the Flores settlement agreement prohibits holding migrant children in custody for more than 20 days.

All Trump’s order does is replace a policy to detain immigrant children in separate centers from their parents with a policy to detain them together.

It will still unacceptably criminalize – and traumatize – children in prison-like facilities.

And it will dangerously prolong their incarceration.

“Perhaps the plan all along was to do a thing so egregious that, when you stop doing it, you still get to do what you wanted to do all along,” tweeted activist Brittany PacknettWednesday. “Detain entire families. Indefinitely. In camps. And call it humane.”

We’re glad Trump backed down from his morally repugnant, indefensible policy of separating children from their families and imprisoning them in cages.

But his new executive order comes from the same anti-immigrant wellspring that led him to demonize immigrants as “criminals” or “animals” who “infest” our country. And it taps into a history that includes the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, splitting up enslaved families at auction, and Native American settlement schools that took children away from their parents.

Immigration law is not what’s changed since the Obama and Bush administrations. What has changed — drastically — is who is interpreting it.

We’re fighting back. When administration officials tried early this week to deny family separation was happening, we knew they were lying: our Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative is representing detained immigrants right now who include parents who’ve been separated from their children at ports of entry.

On June 30, we’re national partners in the Families Belong Together rally, when people around the country will come together in recognition of the fact that incarcerating entire families is not the solution to family separation.

The Trump administration has chosen to promote an extreme anti-immigrant agenda that is inhumane, morally reprehensible and completely unnecessary. This executive order is not a fix.

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June 23, 2018 at 03:00PM

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2mOBPWN on January 18, 2018 at 12:00PM

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“Since there is a possibly Trump may attempt to fire the Special Prosecutor or senior investigators over the Christmas break, please sign up to be alerted to the closest MoveOn.Org demonstration that will take place in your city.  And if you cannot attend, please boost the signal for those who can.

https://www.trumpisnotabovethelaw.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/search/

To share this message, please copy and paste.

PS. If you are traveling for the holidays, consider signing up at your travel destination as well

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2CyRAY7 on December 18, 2017 at 08:00AM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2jU5UmX on December 14, 2017 at 12:00PM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2Cmn04K on December 14, 2017 at 08:46AM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2nXF1TE on December 13, 2017 at 11:34AM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2C17bzw on December 13, 2017 at 08:08AM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2BszA1d on December 01, 2017 at 11:32PM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2lQQ8wR on November 04, 2017 at 09:00AM

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 If you work and cannot make personal calls during working hours  or are just phone shy, you can can send up to 5 free faxes to your Congress person using FaxZero. It is as easy as clicking on a link. 

Page here: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2wBAWnW on October 05, 2017 at 11:07PM

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2wORqgN on September 25, 2017 at 05:08PM

Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson Sep 24

25/ You think he's attacking North Korea in his tweets? No—he's trying to terrorize *you*. The NFL? You. Segments of America? No—all of us.

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2xg1UTw on September 19, 2017 at 10:30PM

“Friend posted this one. I haven’t heard anything more recent or accurate. So, default mode: CALL! 

They are just one vote shy of repealing the ACA. If any of these Senators represent you, call them NOW. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. 

if you have family or friends in these states, ask them to call. Or use Resist Bot to fax their Senators.  Text RESIST to 50409 

McCain 202-224-2235 (AZ)

Murkowski 202-224-6665 (AK)

Collins 202-224-2523 (Maine)

Portman 202-224-3353 (Ohio)

Capito 202-224-6472 (West Virginia)

Alexander 202-224-4944 (TN) 

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2fdA99k at September 17, 2017 at 10:59AM
The GOP is attempting to shove through the affordable care act repeal in the next two weeks. They are close to succeeding. Call your Senators now.

#GrahamCassidy ends #ACA pre-ex condition protections, defunds @PPact, charges older Americans 5x more & takes away vital benefits

Call your Senators 866-426-2631 #SaveMedicaid #VoteNo

To quote one mother of a disabled child: “ Because pro-life means fighting tooth and nail for every life, the broken and the whole, to be as full and meaningful and rich as possible.”

@aliranger29’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/aliranger29/status/908838780823592960?s=09

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