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oh man i totally forgot about this picture, which I took from the front porch area of the yurt in summer of 2017 and it was So Goddamn Dramatic, one of those weather formation moments where you feel like you have to stand there until it fades-- anyway!


Also someone on Tumblr asked if you could embed photos from Google Photos and was it worth getting a Google account and honestly I have no idea, I've had an account since about '02 but I don't know about the photos. Let me try, as an experiment. I will tell you for certain, Flickr gives you a nice embed code with maybe some scripts and tracking shit in it but it's beautifully formatted so I don't mind. Google does not, they want you to just share an album they retain control over. But I copied the image location, and we'll see:

Here is a mirror selfie of my new glasses, which uncharacteristically for me I have not yet mentioned on any blogging platform!



Tentative answer is yes. Formatting is hideous. Not sure if image will be visible to others? It's an experiment. Please let me know whether my glasses are cute y/y?

robotmango: “why do we even need ao3/ why

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“why do we even need ao3/ why won’t they censor content i don’t like/ what’s that money going towards”

it’s going towards not arbitrarily deleting all your fucking blogs overnight because yahoo had a shareholders meeting, that’s what the fuck it’s going towards. if you don’t own it, they can yank the cord whenever they feel like it, for whatever reason, using whatever wobbly catch-all algorithm they want, and that is exactly what the fuck we’ve been telling you. “wellll i’m not a porn blog, it’s not going to affect me,” oh worm?? you sure?? this website is suddenly gonna be capable of censoring posted content with surgical precision? give ao3 ten bucks immediately and get real
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I am still deciding whether to spring for Flickr Pro as well. On my to-do list for holiday break is “see if Google has free photo storage and then decide if I’m willing to break down and finally get a Google account.”

So I went and looked at my Google account.

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 It does have photos, it’s been copying over all the photos off of my phone without me really… knowing it was doing that? I mean, I sort of knew. It keeps popping up notifications on my phone that it’s made me a special collage (and it’s like, all the paperwork I just took photos of) or that it’s edited my photo for me (the last one it did this with was the dead rat in my driveway; it had put a super-saturation filter over it so the blood was really bright, and I was like… thanks) and sometimes it makes me a movie with all the photos I’ve taken of my cat, only it can’t tell the difference between my cat and my sister’s cat so it makes me a “meow movie” of the two of them interchanged with cameos from my sister’s cat’s brother, so like. And it’s always like “Revisit Your Photos:” and has photos from last year on this day. I don’t know how to make it stop doing that and I’m not quite annoyed enough to do so, but it’s literally never made me anything nice.

So the thing I really need with photo storage, though, is the ability to host images so I can hotlink. So I made an experimental attempt at this over on Dreamwidth, since I don’t actually know? how to post images on Tumblr? without uploading them??? 

It works for me. Flickr does a great thing where you hit “share” and it offers you the ability to embed and pops up a lil dialog box thing where you pick the size you want it to be and it generates you an embed code, with a link to the original, and that’s fantastic and all, and it’s got a little script code in it that I haven’t quite worked out what it’s for but I expect it’s tracking. I don’t mind, so I just use their code.

Google’s “share” function is meant to send links to whole albums to people– and it’s nice that you can change the security level on those albums, and such, but. I don’t want that. 

So I right-clicked and opened just the image in a tab, and that gives me a really ugly image URL, but I can manually write an embed code myself, that’s not prohibitive, it’s just intimidating when I paste in the URL of the image and it’s like 10 lines long. Bonus, editing it in Dreamwidth’s HTML editor taught me how to manually put alt-text into HTML image tags so I’ll do that from now on.

But I don’t know if other people can see the embedded image, or if you have to be logged in as me to have access to it. I don’t know! So let me know!

ALso: @sugarspiceandcursewords where do i find you if Tumblr explodes??? Do I already have you somewhere else?? I have honestly lost track.
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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “wellll shit”

I am still deciding whether to spring for Flickr Pro as well. On my to-do list for holiday break is “see if Google has free photo storage and then decide if I’m willing to break down and finally get a Google account.”

So I went and looked at my Google account.

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Upshot as per feedback on DW is that the Google Photos hosted image is visible to… some people but not all. I am wondering what the difference is– perhaps it’s only visible to people with Google accounts who are logged-in in that browser? Perhaps it’s the above who are people who I have previously emailed??

At any rate, you can hotlink to Google Photos images but it won’t reliably work and you can’t troubleshoot it.

So i’m going to go ahead and buy Flickr Pro sometime in January if nobody buys it for me (it’s on a gift list I gave to family, too, I’m not *just* hoping an Internet Fairy stops by), because it does seem like the best option and I’ve got a lot of shit up there now anyway.

(The new limit for free users will be 1000 photos or videos, so it’s doable if you just need something to hold your memes; I need more than that, so.)
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nimmieamee:Me to my nipples: hey so we never clarified

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nimmieamee:

Me to my nipples: hey so we never clarified what you guys want to present as…I like…feel really bad that we never had that conversation…
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