you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this
lots of people are reblogging this and tagging it #piracy—i should clarify, this is not piracy! ripping DVDs and CDs to have your own copy is fully legal, because it’s your legal right to do what you will with your property individually. it only becomes illegal if you then distribute that file on the internet.
How you can help Palestine while being a minor/child
If you’re someone who does not earn money or cannot donate because you’re a child and you’re under the care of a guardian but still want to help the suffering Palestinians this is a list that can help you
Educate yourself! I cannot stress how important this is. Stay up to date with the latest news and learn about the history of Palestine so you do not get confused by propaganda
Boost posts about Palestine and spread awareness! Share posts about Palestine [make sure to fact check] and talk to your families and friends to do the same (it’s understandable if you cannot talk about these things with your family and friends though)
Do not engage with zionists! Troll bots are becoming more and more common and engaging with them will only benefit them. Ignore and move on. The world stands with Palestine and we do not need to prove that.
Save evidence! The governments WILL DENY the genocide they are committing and will try their best to remove evidence from all social media platforms. Save videos, articles, and pictures so that you have a strong evidence base to present when the time comes.
Show your solidarity! Put a watermelon in your bio, wear red green black and white colours, put a Palestinian flag on your schoolbag. Every little thing counts.
Boycott! Avoid McDonald’s, Starbucks and other companies that support israel. Ask your parents to eat somewhere else if they suggest McDonald’s, and ask your friends to choose a different cafe if they go to starbucks.
I will add links and update this list when I think of more. Add anything else you think should be included in the reblogs
Just a note tho that I’m not a fan of any donations going to third parties. I’d prefer if your donation match went to reputable sources like PCRF, UNRWA, eSIMs etc etc just to minimize any possible fraud (a lot of scam has been going around lately). Otherwise I really love the idea of donation matches & would love to support anyone who’d like to do one 🤍
Today I had to get a private patdown by two TSA agents because my incontinence pad set off their screening devices
Out trans people have talked a lot about how the screening devices stigmatize trans and intersex people, when they work by comparing the body being examined to the “normal” male or “normal” female body. But there’s also something to be said about the way that that “normal” body is presumed able bodied and neurotypical. My ear defenders have to come off before I go through. People with mobility aids and prosthetics have to either leave their aids or be subjected to a full body pat down. When they ask “do you have any metal in your body?” They are asking about medical devices; the system is designed on the assumption that people lack metal implants or bone replacements. Anything that deviates from the cisgender, not intersex, and abled norm is seen as an aberration, and our bodies are treated as a threat and as public curiosities
“i dont dislike taylor swift as a person, i just think her music is not that good” well i hate her as well. why the fuck am i biking everywhere and taking trains and walking two hours if she produces two tons of co2 emissions for a 15min flight. fuck her
wildest part of the folger’s incest commercial is still when the brother mentions coming back from west africa and says “ahh, real coffee”
Ok as a brasillian I do have to add, usually the coffee from the farms that are the best get exported and the local market gets the not as good ones. If we want to buy the good ones we have to buy them from the imported section even if it came from here
Imperialism babyyy
My cousin lived in Ghana for a while and always asked for us to send chocolate from the US because she said the chocolate they had in Ghana was expensive by local standards, and always waxy in texture and not actually very chocolatey in flavor. Ghana’s top export is cocoa.
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KID WROTE “MPREG VORTEX” ON THEIR DOODLE PAD AT LUNCH CLUB
I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT AWAY
ANOTHER KID MUST HAVE SMELLED MY HORROR
ASKED “MS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS”
SAMANTHA YOU ARE THIRTEEN WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS
@too-many-muses I went full on startled prey mode 😭 I froze, shook my head way too quickly and then started aggressively cleaning the whiteboard lmaooo
don’t you fucking DARE I cannot go down in history as the omegaverse teacher
I know for a fact that they think tumblr is dead as they have told me I look like used to have tumblr before it disappeared lmao
My kid and I were listening to something (can’t remember what) and something came up that was innocent in context and would only register as worthy of note if you know about the Omegaverse and we both flinched
Which is the more horrifying?
Knowing your teenager is aware of the Omegaverse
Or being a teenager and knowing your parent is aware of the omegaverse
Anyway both of us died a little inside as we realised the other one knew
It’s come up a few times since then but purely in a “yes we both know what this is and we are not discussing it further” kinda of way
Anyway I feel your pain a little bit OP but also you totally outed yourself with that reaction
See as a teacher myself, this is when you get very calm and blunt with them.
“Teacher do you know what omegaverse is?”
“Yep! It came out as a trope when i was a bit older than you and I’ve read some of it.”
*stunned silence*
“And I also know its not a school topic so we are putting it away. Back to math.”
Kids are eager to see adults freaked out by inappropriate things or confused about a modern fad.
When you show them that adults are just as much a part of things as they are, they lose all their power.
WERE ANY OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PHYSICAL REACTION TO HOT PEOPLE??? LIKE HEARTRATE RISES AND ALL THAT. THAT’S REAL??
I’ve been dramatically exaggerating my reactions to hot people for YEARS because I thought that was what everyone did. For COMEDIC EFFECT. are you telling me all the squealing and people getting flustered and those ‘not to be a lesbian but oh my god’ tags were Not A Joke
At least dinosaurs. Are real
A small collection. Happy ace week you guys
the only person in the world who’s ever made me feel like this is my beloved (and that’s EVERY DAY)
✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll’s conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨
some ppl on this post are commenting about hating people like this or thinking im making fun of them well no. i am these people. go watch the mutilator (1984).
“killing” a process means to end the function that does it
“a child” is a process created by another process
so what the message means is “stop the program VLC or stop the sub program of it that causes the problem”
Thank you technology side of tumblr :3
You’re welcome. That’ll be one (1) child sacrifice, please.
That’s not the only funny processs names we have
Orphan - a child process whose parent process has ended
Zombie - a child process that finished but still has an entry in the process table because it’s waiting for it’s parent process to read its exit status so the parent knows if it finished successfully, after which it’s removed from the process table (this is called “reaping”)
hey i wanted to reblog because not only is there this bullshit but i found out it gets worse because the senator also asks Chew (who is the CEO of TikTok btw) about his thoughts on what happened at Tiananmen Square:
In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it’d stopped to give people rain. Then it’d stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that’s why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren’t meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
they didn’t include the part immediately after where the senator asks chew about Tiannenmen Square and what happened there like it’s some solid code that chinese ppl can’t say anything about the massacre so if he was secretly chinese he’d have to deny it. it’s mccarthyism 2.0 which is just elected officials believing q-anon crap.
creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*
8 year old me: but what if there was a good and nice one :0
there’s no age limit for this
youre right…………..
me at 8: but what if you gave it a hug?
me at 31: but what if you gave it a hug?
The neurodivergent reaction to bad and mean creatures: but what if someone loved this unlovable thing? Maybe it would be possible for me, also a strange and burdensome and unlovable thing, to be loved as well?
2023 was a year when many people around the world woke up to the fact that US-backed Israel is a terrorist state that commits genocide and slaughters thousands of children, and that the US keeps supplying it with weapons despite claiming to have moral superiority to judge Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
plain text: 2023 was a year when many people around the world woke up to the fact that US-backed Israel is a terrorist state that commits genocide and slaughters thousands of children, and that the US keeps supplying it with weapons despite claiming to have moral superiority to judge Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. /end plain text
Hey you. Yeah you. Tired? Been scrolling a moment? Put down your phone for a moment. Go kill your enemy with a rock. Just go, you can find the rock along the way. Put your phone down now and take off running into the night. Don’t worry about dressing warmly or finding the way. Just start running and let your heart lead you to that dumb cocksucker who’s about to get their stupid fucking skull caved in by whatever boulder you stumble across first. Go, beat that ugly mug with a fist-sized piece of granite until they’re unidentifiable by dental record. It’s so easy to get caught up in doom scrolling social media and I wanted to tell you to take a break and go kill your enemy or enemies by hitting them in the head with rocks. Maybe taste the juices that come out but that’s like optional and all, just go start whacking.
You, a fool, when characters state different or contradictory things about backstory events or how the world works: This is a plot hole!
Me, wise, enlightened: Not so, neophyte. Have you considered all the exhaustive possibilities in which one of these characters simply has no idea what they are talking about, or better yet, is a fucking liar?
A life sized crochet Sinosauropteryx prima complete with pico-feathering in as scientifically-accurate of a pattern and color as I possibly could. I had to read some literature to get it right but I think this is one of the best projects I’ve ever made. What do I name her? 2-L 7Up bottle for scale
I’ve been working on her since September. The entire base was crocheted in this mustard I had a million skeins of. She didn’t even use up one
I love her so much she’s gonna sit above my TV in the living room for now until we move and I can have a Designated Spot for her <3
Her mouth can open and close and I purposefully put her in a laying-down position so that she can lay on surfaces well. 4 toes on each foot and 3 fingers on each hand :)
Oh, this is really neat, this is the same thing they did in Sh! The Octopus in 1937 to do this transformation scene. In black & white, the color of your light can hide makeup, then all you have to do is flip the color, and the audience just sees the difference in the light levels, but cannot see the color shift. The quick explanation for why this works is the blue makeup absorbs red light, looking very dark when only red light is present, but also looks about the same as relatively fair skin when only blue light is present. Same goes for the colors the other way.
Ahh, I think that they had this in one of the early Jekyll and Hyde adaptations as well. :)
Twilight Zone used this trick too, in The Howling Man, where this guy morphs into the Devil.
And again in Long Live Walter Jameson, where this guy loses his artificial youth
I think the first time it was used was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1931.
the sexiest man alive should just be some dude. like, “this year the sexiest man alive is this jacked dude who works at Home Depot!! He’s hot and he’s forklift certified!!”
I still think a genocide takes the #1 spot on the tragedy list, but the auto-captions are in the Top 5 after that for sure.
sim kern is easily, EASILY one of my all-time favorite activists and educators on tiktok. cannot recommend enough that people follow them on whatever platforms you use. they’ve been centering palestine in their work for years and educating on real antisemitism the whole time. any time i catch myself feeling hopeless, they’re a great reminder of the kind of world we can and should strive for.
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