Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content

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Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content

frauleindrosselmeyer:

Do Not Link allows skeptics to ethically link to content we wish to criticize, without unintentionally promoting it.

So you know how when you criticise an article on a horrible site like the Daily Mail and link so people can see the original page, search engines see that as “someone is interested in this page,” and activity by people criticising the page looks just like activity by people liking it?  So the horrible site goes up the Google search results?  And the horrible site goes “whooo, lots of hits and links, guess that article was popular” and decides to create more horrible articles like it? 

When you’re linking to horrible sites, use DNL: from the user end it works like tinyurl or bit.ly, but it doesn’t give the website attention.

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fierceawakening:

I want villains who go against the stereotypical bullshit that “evil cannot love” or whatever.

I want villains who spend months in their creepy dark lab building the death ray with their best buddy and hug each other when the superweapon is finally complete.

I want villains who fall madly in love with the other evil prince or princess they married to consolidate their power.

I want villains who tell bedtime stories to the little clone they created to be the successor to their throne and order their minions to get the clone a cup of warm milk because she can’t sleep.

I want villains hanging out with their best friends and acting like dorks while they bowl with their enemies’ skulls.

I want villains who are both evil and real, and real people have friends and families and loved ones.

Hey Virgil I heard you were Enjolras in your school’s production of Les Mis? How did that go?

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askthetracybrothers:

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Virgil: I really had a blast! … Alan was a bit too young to understand that I wasn’t actually dead though

Scott: It took a while to console him

[I totally took this idea from a post I saw, I hope that’s okay! Let me know who it was and I’ll mention you!]

Edit: So apparently doyouheartheangrymen is to blame haha ;D

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captioned-vines:

melchiorgabor:

i went for a bike ride today and some ducks chose me as their mother i think??? not a good choice my peepin friends

[Baby ducks quaking]

Person recording: “ Oh, what are you doing, little duckies? I’m not your mama! No, no! No! [laughing] Oh my gosh, no! Go back to your mom! Oh gosh! Oh gosh! Oh no, what do I do!? Oh no! Oh god!”

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otakukeith:

spaceplasma:

The upper atmosphere of the Sun is dominated by plasma filled magnetic loops (coronal loops) whose temperature and pressure vary over a wide range. The appearance of coronal loops follows the emergence of magnetic flux, which is generated by dynamo processes inside the Sun. Emerging flux regions (EFRs) appear when magnetic flux bundles emerge from the solar interior through the photosphere and into the upper atmosphere (chromosphere and the corona). The characteristic feature of EFR is the Ω-shaped loops (created by the magnetic buoyancy/Parker instability), they appear as developing bipolar sunspots in magnetograms, and as arch filament systems in Hα. EFRs interact with pre-existing magnetic fields in the corona and produce small flares (plasma heating) and collimated plasma jets. The GIFs above show multiple energetic jets in three different wavelengths. The light has been colorized in red,
green and blue, corresponding to three coronal temperature regimes ranging from ~0.8Mk to 2MK. 

Image Credit: SDO/U. Aberystwyth

*Also Sprach Zarathustra plays*

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