Why do I boil myself like a lobster in the shower, but I hate the heat and overheat easily out of the shower
ah I have done Much Autistic Thinking about this and have come to the conclusion that it is because when you are boiling yourself like a lobster in the shower, you are in control of how boiled you get. but when it is a HOT DAY and you are In Your Clothes and Such, you are Not in control of how lobster-fied you become.
the feeling of lack of control during your warming-uppiness makes it negative. the fact that you are wearing Clobes that you want to stay Not Damp from your boiled state makes you go “No!!!!!!! I do Not wish to be Boiled right now!!!!” and u get Not Joyous.
however when you are blissfully aware of the fact that you are In the Waters and you can Control the Heats of the Waters to make you just the right amount of As Hot As The Sun, it is perfectly fine and pleasant.
it may also have something to do with your circulation idk
Antler engraving found in Lortet Cave in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France. It was carved from a reindeer antler and shows a group of reindeer crossing a river or lake full of swimming salmon. Dating to the Magdalenian period, approximately 17,000-12,000 years ago.
I’ve been trying to work out a new
system for speculative fiction genres because the sci-fi/fantasy binary we have
is so incredibly uninformative and I’m concluding that there IS no good way to
categorize books without the system becoming so overly complex that you’ll end
up shorthanding it in unhelpful ways anyway.
My
dislike of the sci-fi/fantasy binary, on a practical/functional level, stems
from several things.
the
binary seemingly excludes the VERY large category of stories that have a clear
deviation from our reality but it’s something that can’t easily be shunted to
sci-fi or fantasy. For example: stories that deal with life after death.
Stories that focus around a fairly localized “unrealistic” thing happening
e.g. a character is born with the memories of a dead pop star or something, or
twin sisters share a telepathic connection. Any story where it’s kept ambiguous
to what extent the “fantastical” thing is “real” or in the narrator’s
mind, such as A Monster Calls or We are the Ants. Really any story that deals
with something “unproven” but that doesn’t really “alter” our
reality: e.g. if a character meets Bigfoot but everything else in the world is
the same. Shit like the movie Groundhog Day.
the
fact that many technologies in sci-fi are no more plausible than the things
magic can do, and very little of what’s considered “sci-fi” actually is
informed heavily by science. teleportation, FTL travel, time travel, etc. are
usually supported by absolute bullshit technobabble. In practice there is no
difference from fantasy except the commonly associated tropes. They are very
rarely fundamentally different. Not that this is a problem with sci-fi, not all sci-fi has to be hard sci-fi. But it’s a serious problem when you try to separate sci-fi from fantasy in an
honest way.
the
fact that any degree of honesty about the above two things makes
the “fantasy” category so vast that it’s basically useless because easily
80% of all stories that are popular, especially in the area of movies are
fantasy.
Alt-history
being such a glorious hot mess of a category with stuff ranging from standard “alternate
timeline where x happened instead of y” to “wwI but there are genetically engineered
flying whales and star-wars-esque steampunk walkers” and dinosaurs and dragons
and shit. (This is not a complaint. Alt-history writers need to proceed just as they have been doing.)
the
absurd fact that dystopia is lumped under sci-fi when dystopia does not, by
definition, have to be sci-fi at all, and other weird bullshit in the
categorization system
But
actually coming up with an alternative is incredibly difficult because there
are simply so many possible variations on what speculative fiction can be that
getting anywhere close to accuracy involves getting so complex your system
isn’t functional.
I
do really strongly feel that these genres need to be done away with though,
because
1)
they
actually say almost nothing about a story by definition
2)
the
only reason why knowing a story is “fantasy” tells you anything about it is
that our perception of “fantasy” is super limited for no good reason.
There
isn’t anything literally, actually, functionally different between fantasy in general
and sci-fi in general outside of a pile of tropes that are tied to the genres for
no good reason and that have become identifying marks of the genres for no good
reason. The actual dividing line is 99% just what we’ve become conditioned to
accept in terms of tropes.
There’s
an absurd amount of tropes and world-building concepts that have absolutely no
practical reason why they couldn’t work together, but are just not ever
combined in stories because they’re associated with different genres or subgenres
within sci-fi and fantasy.
I’m
going to make a list of what I feel are glaring examples of this:
the
fact that monarchies are incredibly rare in dystopian novels, and democracies,
pseudo-democracies, or even elections are incredibly rare in fantasy
the
fact that no book I can think of has the concept of FTL travel via magic, and
time travel via magic is basically just something writers throw in to keep a tv
show going in the 4th or 5th season instead of having
been a thoughtfully done piece of worldbuilding. Very little fantasy bothers
messing with interplanetary travel. Which is sad.
similarly magic systems are rarely designed with more modern scientific knowledge e.g. DNA in mind. plenty of magic systems that are based on “four elements” or “alchemy” but relatively few that borrow from ideas, disproved or not, about the way the world works that are more recent than like aristotle
no
elves, dwarves, orcs, werewolves, vampires, or any “mythological” creature in sci-fi
or space operas ever, when there is no better reason for them to be in a
world with no contact with or relation to Earth than on another planet. There are incredibly legitimate reasons vampires or dwarves might be found on an alien planet. Please
no gods in sci-fi like there are in many, many fantasy novels because I guess high tech and gods are mutually exclusive somehow.
Sci-fi putting actual effort into speculative biology and cool alien designs while fantasy just rips shamelessly off decontextualized mythology and medieval bestiaries
Dragons
and zombies have bucked this to a limited degree and I have no idea why. I
think with dragons it might be because of Dragonriders of Pern
The
fact that dystopias HAVE to be a future Earth and can’t be in an alternate
world like in fantasy
This
is getting much better, but up until recently: fantasy is almost always
pre-industrial revolution and most of the time pre-gunpowder weapons
“Paranormal”
stories where the “fantastical” is focused around ghosts, witchcraft and stuff
are basically always based on Earth
There
are basically no non-earth literary worlds (that are unconnected to earth by space
travel) that I can think of with “future” or speculative technology and magic
and/or common fantasy tropes. I can’t think of one atomic age fantasy world
Post-apocalyptic
fairy tale retellings do not exist as far as I know and I want them to.
Also,
just the expectations of level of “seriousness”/darkness for each genre are sometimes
annoyingly prohibitive. e.g. post-apocalyptic stories are virtually always incredibly
dark and gritty and the reasons are understandable but also it would be nice to
see a lighthearted, adventurous romp through the irradiated wasteland, killing
mutated monsters and stuff
Corollary
to the above: the commonality of “epic” scale fantasy relative to smaller
scale, more “slice-of-life” stuff. There’s literally no reason why you can’t
write a cute series about a halfling running a magical bake shop
Corollary to the corollary: steampunk and urban fantasy skewing “less serious” for some reason
if there is any good reason for gigantic ensemble casts in fantasy, which I don’t know if there is, but if there is one you could have them in any speculative genre right
shapeshifters being largely a fantasy-romance trope when they’re really cool and should be used in all types of fantasy
Cryptids, vampires and werewolves, and elves, dwarves, orcs, etc. occupying totally different niches within fantasy for no reason. Bigfoot is a fantasy race now. You’re welcome. There’s also no reason why you can’t have vampires instead of elves.
look, fantasy races are often a devastating kitchen sink of different cultures anyway so you might as WELL have elves AND bigfoot
hey. good luck with everything, okay? [cutting the rope connecting your boat to the dock] just good luck. [starts pushing your boat further towards the stream] just have a good luck out there
My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem’, they look back at me, clear message.
What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me… the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet”
“Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.
My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem’, they look back at me, clear message.
What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me… the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet”
“Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.
When we think of conversion therapy, we usually think of right-wing religious groups trying to “cure” people of queerness. Some asexual people encounter this type of conversion therapy. Most encounter something different—less religious and more medicalized.
Medicalized conversion therapy often involves treating asexuality (or feelings of low/no sexual interest) as the result of hormone imbalances, trauma, or mental health issues. Treating asexuality as a medical issue is a form of conversion therapy.
wish youtube was more of a cultural thing in the world and era of breaking bad. i desperately need videos of jesse bailing on his board and doing off rhythm drum covers of his fave simple plan songs that pull in a solid 12 views each and a comment thats like “lolz gay” that gets jesse genuinely heated in the replies. a personal website isnt enough, i needed him to have a youtube channel with a flaming skull as an icon and a playlist of family guy funniest moments
if you care about palestinians, then i am begging you to not be antisemitic in your activism on their behalf. it does not help them. by making the diaspora less safe for jews, you support the argument that israel is the only guarantee for jewish safety. if anything it is a boon to the israeli right.
you should aim to make the world a better place and not a worse one. you should be strategic.
Also, Palestinian activists have *literally* been calling out antisemitism and telling “allies” no to do that shit.
You’re actively harmful when you hate Jews more than you support Palestinians.
“Antizionism isn’t antisemitism”
No shit, but it can be. Learn how to criticize Israel without being antisemitic, you lazy fucks. Jews manage to do it all the time.
I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who’d like to say a few words instead.
A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with “I’m an engineer. i’m not a poet or a politician. I don’t… do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i’m just going to tell you about the street I grew up on.”
And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.
All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.
so, today we, russian queers, may become “extremists” by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don’t know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about “gay propaganda” and transgender people, now I’m just numb. I don’t want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.
OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:
You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)
BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES
You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable
THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION
And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.
ok children gather ‘round because all of these kindof have the same answer and I am way too passionate about this subject and the history behind it that I physically cannot remain silent about it
So if you were a 90’s kid like me, you grew up with this film on VHS. if you were also like me, then you probably remember it very differently from how it was released recently both in blu-ray and on streamer formats and probably were freaking out thinking this was some kind of mandela effect for years: and THIS IS BECAUSE. THERE IS A CRUCIAL SCENE MISSING. AND LITERALLY I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. THE TWO MINUTES CUT KINDOF CHANGE THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF THE WHOLE MOVIE??? and allow me to explain why.
That video above it the Deleted Song “When Love is Gone” was ONLY EVER featured on the VHS release of The Muppet Christmas Carol that came out through the 90’s. Why? because initially, some uppity disney executive market tested it and went “kids are gonna get antsy with that and not like it” so they cut it then for the theatrical release, but then Brian Henson (director, son of JIM) somehow managed to get it into the VHS cut of the film. Kinda went rogue about it if memory serves. Now, as a child, this was kindof… a huge part of the movie for me? like I remember listening to it and crying a bit as a kid because this one song is just… so emotional? like seriously. other than the fact that it’s being sung by Meredith Braun (who at one point played Eponine in Les Mis, and you gotta have some SERIOUS pipes to do that) AND Michael Cain, and it’s a love song in a way, like it’s very clear that she still cares for Ebenezer but she recognizes that her love for him is different than his love for her and she has to leave him, meanwhile THE MAN IS BEHIND HER CRYING AND SHE DOESN’T EVEN SEE HIM AND CLEARLY IT’S THE BIGGEST REGRET HE HAS And honestly? That’s a HUGE part of what made it stand out for me as a child. Like. The muppets themselves were all fun and good but then you have this song for a second… and it really feels true to the dickensian spirit guiding the whole film, and it’s what’s made it to me the most true to form adaptation of his yet. It’s phenomenal. And this dumbass disney exec said “it’s too adult emotional for the kids” (an argument that always has and will always continue to be completely fucking stupid).
So then what happened? why didn’t they put it in the DVD and Blu Ray releases that have come out throughout the years? Well, literally DISNEY LOST THE FOOTAGE. APPARENTLY. so when they went to restore it and reformat it for those releases AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY for the streamer release, it was literally missing. and Brian Henson has been asking them to look for YEARS. FINALLY they found it back in 2020, and then only last year did they upload the fully restored version that you see me ranting and raving about.
“But Egg”, you ask, “why does this matter? What does this small 2 minute sequence change about this movie SO MUCH that it merits a huge ass post about it that is making people confused?”
Because let me tell you friends. Belle does not seem very significant and kindof pointless to flashback to without that song. It’s like ok. she’s there. She tells Ebenezer she’s breaking up with him. and then… THE MUPPETS CRY ABOUT IT??? and that’s it. That’s all you get. you don’t get any of the sense of how deeply this affected this guy- the LITERAL PROTAGONIST THAT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT. And it’s all because, again, say it with me folks: the dipshit disney executive said “It’s Too Emotional For Children”.
Not ONLY that. But THIS SONG IS LITERALLY THE REPRISE THEY SING AT THE END OF THE FILM. WHICH. LET ME TELL YOU. IT’S FUCKING WEIRD FOR THAT TO LITERALLY COME OUT OF NOWHERE COMPLETELY LEFT FIELD AS A NEW SONG AT THE END. Like it makes no sense. ok sappy sentimental “the love we found” all right. BUT REMEMBER. THE ORIGINAL LYRIC IS “LOVE IS GONE”. IT’S SYMMETRY. IT’S POETRY. IT’S FUCKING VITAL. An the movie is good as it is but literally trust me this makes it infinitely better when you see it as a whole. Please. Just trust me on this. Thank you and goodnight.
The Mouse… lost something that would make It money? WTF. (eyeroll)
(Disclosure: I have taken the Mouse’s money and in return for it did good work that I’m still pleased with, in a universe I’d loved since childhood; so, as we say around here, “sorry, Not Sorry.” Yet all the people I was working with at Disney in the late 80s were well aware of the Rodent’s more greedy-and-grasping qualities. “They didn’t get so rich by overpaying their writers,” was one theme that made the rounds a lot.)
Anyway; I can’t imagine this movie without that song. The pain is necessary for the full joy later. Seek out the full version if you can.
ETA for European viewers (and maybe others, who knows): On Disney+, the “Extras” page for “The Muppet Christmas Carol” now explicitly offers both the excised song (as a standalone) and the version with the excised song.
just a friendly reminder that you don’t deserve pain. sometimes we think we deserve to be hurt and sad, but that’s not true. there is no reason to hold on to our pain or justify it. we shouldn’t be hard on ourselves. we are worth healing.
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
Google ran(barely ran but whatever) on my god damn wii. I HATE THE TECH INDUSTRY!!! everything is just getting more and more bloated and unoptimized for the sake of features I don’t even use. fucking stop adding shit and make the stuff you have actually god damn work
An order of reclusive monks moved deep into the chthonic depths of the underworld to better commune with the primordial darkness and discover secret knowledge therein. In the years since they have changed, permanently altered by the knowledge they have gained.
They’re called Deep Friars.
and you should see what they can do to a turkey
So at the monastery fundraising fish&chips cookout…
Dude approaches one of the brothers: “so, you’re the fish friar?”
“The fear of being fat is the fear of joining an underclass that you have so readily dismissed, looked down on, looked past, or found yourself grateful not to be a part of. It is a fear of being seen as slothful, gluttonous, greedy, unambitious, unwanted, and, worst of all, unlovable. Fat has largely been weaponized by straight-size people — the very people it seems to hurt most deeply. And ultimately, thin people are terrified of being treated the way they have so often seen fat people treated or even the way they’ve treated fat people themselves. In that way, thinness isn’t just a matter of health or beauty or happiness. It is a cultural structure of power and dominance.”
pro insider tips for black friday from a retail worker
stay home
stay home
stay home
stay home
stay home
stay home
stay home
dont even think about going to a store
The sales, especially as of late, literally are not worth it. If there is one, ita a pittance of a sale or the store has been raising the proce and just ‘dropped’ it back to normal, or they slapped a sale sign over the normal price. Sometimes they just ship in lower quality goods specifically to sell on BF and say they’re on 'sale’.
But, too many people are still under the impression BF sales are 'amazing’. It’s literally not worth risking your safety for 10% off some cheap TV that’s tonnage break in three months.
Also if people stop going to BF sales company’s will stop forcing, and yes it is forcing when you will be fired if you do not show up, employees to work on Thanksgiving.
It is literally not a joke or an exaggeration that stores raise prices leading up to Black Friday only to put them “on sale” by literally just giving you the regular price.
At Walmart they also will scam you at the register by offering a Walmart Warranty for literally every fucking gods damn thing imaginable that you do not need and if the object does, break guess what? it won’t fucking help anyways. Don’t fucking fall for it.
I be scrolling thru my front page and then sometimes some depraved shit like “chain me up in the basement and fill my belly like a water balloon” pops up between “I love trains” and “haha dog sniffs you”
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don’t know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn’t even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went “aw yiss time to do a theft” and I was like “I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?”
Anyway I’m gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it’s fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn’t heard of the gutenberg project! It’s been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it’s such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that’s just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here’s a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here’s a 1920 movie adaptation of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I’m so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let’s keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can’t handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it’s a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there’s a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it’s a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
Also don’t think a book is old because it’s in the public domain
lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons
because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death
Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it’s always worth checking because you can save a fortune
and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it
Also don’t think a
book is old because it’s in
the public domain
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and
Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn’t renewed, and
Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.
(Don’t go looking for things in that third category unless you’ve studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like “weird little newsletters” and “self-published booklets” and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)
There’s also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It’s weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)
There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of “hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE.”
Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there’s many open source texts available in a number of languages.
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I don’t think you all grasp the depth of the finale and the show as whole: Loki used to be a side chracter who was killed off several times and often used only as a comic relief, and now he’s one of the most important character in the whole mcu… His character arc is incredible, one of the best in the whole mcu.
And all some of you seems to care about is that your ship didn’t become canon. Are you kidding me?!
it’s not about the ships;it’s about when Loki wins,he still loses.
he didn’t want to be alone he wanted to have his friends but in order to save them he had to sacrifice himself and lose them all;so yeah it was beautiful and i’m proud of him but this wasn’t the happy ending that Loki deserved after a decade of loneliness ,that’s why were sad;at least that’s why i’m sad; the ship is just another reason among many
it’s not always about “who’s on top of it all now, wow cool” , sometimes you just want that character to crack a smile
i’m not saying the ending was bad,it was an awesome charcter arc,but let people feel what they feel
it’s not about the
ships;it’s about when Loki
wins,he still loses.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
we only use the quietest of potatoes to make our famous “hush browns” 🤫
I open my tumblr app and read this post, and I let it wash over me like the gentle tide. I know that when I die, this post, like the sweetest of sea foams, will be there to take me lovingly into the depths.
New copy link without site tracking feature: removes the tracking at the end of urls usually that end with “?=[long ass string of numbers or info on your browser or how you clikced the link]” previously an optional feature of ublock origin to remove it as you go to sites, but now you can also copy links as well
New “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” option in privacy settings. Websites have no obligation to do this, except under GDPR which is most sites. adds a bit to your fingerprintability, however if everyone turns this on it will work better for everyone.
Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites.
you can set “cookiebanners.service.mode” to 2 to automatically refuse cookies and have them stop asking you about it. While it’s also an optional feature of ublock origin, this might work better
Firefox has enabled URL Tracking Protection by default in private windows for all users in Germany. Firefox will remove non-essential URL query parameters that are often used to track users across the web.
Not sure how to turn this on in settings (this is also an optional ublock feature, these don’t hurt to stack) but once again removes the tracking at the end of urls telling you how the link was shared and how you got there
Firefox cares about your privacy and is making the internet a safer place from corporations. Do your part and download it today
okay picture this; i go back in time and find a victorian orphan child. do i blow his mind? do i break his brain? NO!!! i give him warm soft clothes and a hug. he gets me wizard high off what would commonly be used to treat a minor cough in that era. we both eventually contract a deadly illness and then i bring him to the future where we get easily cured of our ailment. i buy him a happy meal afterwards. he’s my good son now. love you son.
counterargument: the things this victorian orphan has been eating out of trash would make modern gut flora flee your body in streams. he can now digest rocks and crude oil.
Ok I’m literally putting a bounty in a good lineart/inking resource/class/tutorial/book whatever. You find me a inking thing that FINALLY makes my inking better and I will give you $100 USD. I’m not kidding. I’m so tired.
I want pretty lines. I want something that looks unified. I want stuff that looks like manga. I get so upset when I’m trying to ink something, I’ve literally had meltdowns about it.
Anyway, please reblog. So many artists can ink, they must LEARN somehow. HOW.
using “drugs” as a moral category will have people saying shit like “adderall isn’t a drug because i don’t feel any effects from it except the effects i feel, which are why i take it”
“For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people.”
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there’s still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the “clean eating” variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn’t sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about “health” then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
New copy link without site tracking feature: removes the tracking at the end of urls usually that end with “?=[long ass string of numbers or info on your browser or how you clikced the link]” previously an optional feature of ublock origin to remove it as you go to sites, but now you can also copy links as well
New “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” option in privacy settings. Websites have no obligation to do this, except under GDPR which is most sites. adds a bit to your fingerprintability, however if everyone turns this on it will work better for everyone.
Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites.
you can set “cookiebanners.service.mode” to 2 to automatically refuse cookies and have them stop asking you about it. While it’s also an optional feature of ublock origin, this might work better
Firefox has enabled URL Tracking Protection by default in private windows for all users in Germany. Firefox will remove non-essential URL query parameters that are often used to track users across the web.
Not sure how to turn this on in settings (this is also an optional ublock feature, these don’t hurt to stack) but once again removes the tracking at the end of urls telling you how the link was shared and how you got there
Firefox cares about your privacy and is making the internet a safer place from corporations. Do your part and download it today
i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain
the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.
I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.
I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)
Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.
I love being fully unaware of YouTuber drama and which channels are “popular.” My first reaction at the start of that section was “who the hell is James Somerton”
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