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Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023
Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!
Sejda - Free online PDF editor.
Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and itâll give you recipe ideas.
Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.
Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. Iâd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.
12ft â Hate paywalls? Try this site out.
Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.
TOS/DR - Terms of service, didnât read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.
OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but canât for the life of you remember the actual word.
My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. Youâll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.
Project Gutenberg â Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.
Ninite â New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.
PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.
Unchecky â Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.
Sci-Hub â Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if itâs not here, try the next link in our list.
LibGen â Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.
Zotero â A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.
Car Complaints â Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.
CamelCamelCamel â Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.
Have I Been Pawned â Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if youâve ever a victim of a breach.
I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.
Radio Garden â Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.
Just The Recipe â Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.
Tineye â An Amazing reverse image search tool.
My 90s TV â Simulates 90âs TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.
Foto Forensics â Free image analysis tools.
Old Games Download â A repository of games from the 90âs and early 2000âs. Get your fix of nostalgia here.
Online OCR â Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.
Remove Background â An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.
Twoseven â Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.
Terms of Service, Didnât Read â Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.
Coolors â Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.
This To That â Need to glue two things together? Thisâll help.
Photopea â A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.
BitWarden â Free open source password manager.
Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. Itâs genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.
Atlas Obscura â Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.
ID Ransomware â Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasnât been cracked yet.
Way Back Machine â The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.
Rome2Rio â Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.
Splitter â Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.
myNoise â Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.
DeepL â Best language translation tool on the web.
Forvo â Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.
For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.
one of the most important lessons I have learned is the importance of stopping and learning when to stop. specifically, I mean when to stop doing an activity you typically enjoy, because it has stopped being fun. even if it normally is fun, and you want it to be fun again, it can be really important to stop when it actually stops being fun. try again later instead. make a conscious effort to stop for now.
a lot of fun activities are as much of escapism as they are entertainment by their own right. something you do when you want to have fun. but you can not always force more fun. and trying to force there to be more fun when things have stopped being fun can make there be less fun in the long term. you might start to associate the fun thing with bad feelings, frustration, and having a bad time. which is not ideal for something that should be fun.
sometimes keeping an activity fun in the long run means stopping while you are ahead. keep fun things fun. stop when you stop having fun. trying to force fun can make there be way less fun. and that is no fun!
ancient humans were also just some guy, if you got a baby from 60,000 BC and raised him in the 21st century heâd just be another teen boy named logan who tech decks off your arm
this boy from tom bjĂśrklundâs art WOULD own a minecraft creeper plushy
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok ok ok Iâm so sorry but I HAVE to talk about this
thereâs something so loving about what tom bjĂśrklund does and just- fuck Iâm foaming at the mouth here
facial reconstruction isnât a new concept (see the Kennewick Man/Patrick Stewart incident) but itâs difficult to find people that are truly good at it! genuinely there is a big gap in this field because there just arenât a lot of people who do it professionally!
facial reconstruction, especially from bone or bone fragments, is such a fascinating intersection of art and science, and a tremendous amount of care is put into determining what these people might have looked like.
with that said, itâs VERY easy to screw it up
configuring muscle attachments and fat distribution is genuinely *very* difficult to do, and when you do it badly, you get this (pictured above). by adding too much muscle, they gave this 600 year old man a VERY interesting jawline (notice that the bottom of the chin doesnât match up with the bone at all!) and they *really* made him look older than he was. would you believe me if I said that he was estimated to only be 46 years old?
basically Iâm just REALLY excited about Tom BjĂśrklundâs art because itâs amazing work, just from an anthropology perspective
just look at this!!!
facial reconstructions arenât just an artsy thing that you can just say âoh, thatâs cool!â to
by giving these people faces, even if they arenât always accurate, we open the doors for the average person to connect with the past at a very human level. sure, looking at bones is cool, but looking at art of someone that lived thousands of years ago is *incredible*
looking at a picture of a boy that lived thousands of years ago and thinking âyeah, he wouldâve loved Minecraftâ is EXACTLY the reaction that these pieces are meant to elicit

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Just saw a tweet like "REAL libraries check for quality!" as some kinda gotcha at AO3?? But I'm a librarian, so... heads up that "quality checks," AKA "weeding" or "pulling," means looking for damaged books or ones that haven't circulated in a few years to clear up shelf space. We don't Quality Check for if the library books have nontoxic romance or good grammar. :U I assure you every library in your area has absolute ABOMINATIONS of bad storytelling as well as your favorite pop lit.
Also books that we bare our teeth at every time we see them on the shelf and quietly chant to ourselves "freedom of information access is more important than the fact that I hate you, freedom of information access is more important than the fact that I hate you - "
Like we have 1.7 million+ items in our collection do you think that a staff of 50 actually has time to even physically page thru or run thru every one of them? If every single staff member were only taking one hour to look through every single book or other collection piece (movies, games, whatever) (which: an hour would NOT be enough even to look at every single part of most of them, but okay fine, an hour), that's still 1.7 million hours divided between 50 people. That's 34K work hours, which at 35 hours a week is more than 971 weeks, aka and that's with all of us doing nothing else, at all.
That would be 18 years just to give each single solitary book an hour, reviewing full time, 35 hours a week, with 50 staff only doing that. And we're a small, single-branch library.
Don't be silly.
Also also (forgive my tangent, OP) it is as a librarian/information-services professional, honestly, that I will cut you over AO3. As a pure end-user/fan/etc are there things about it that are not my favourite/I wish were different? Yeah, sure.
As a public-facing information professional whose education and preferred career path involves the impossibilities of classification and cataloguing and subject-heading and "community-led collection and program development" and all that shit that is also what everyone at AO3 has to do daily for like millions larger community than I do, I will throw down right here and right now, man. You could literally not pay me enough to take leadership role in a community-led collection for our fuckheaded fan community, I know us way too well. We are worse to deal with than a municipal community, we are literally everything you could point out about the most fractious possible arts community with everyone absolutely sure that their preferred way of doing things is the obvious mass will of the community (while being diametrically opposed to the way that an entire other huge chunk of the community wants) - you could not PAY ME, and it's mostly being done out of love, for free, on a budget a fraction the size of what my (small, municipal) library works with.
Good grief.
Also... âreal libraries check for qualityâ is kinda ignoring the first damn word of the site. Itâs not just a library, itâs an archive. Archives donât âcheck for qualityâ unless itâs in the service of preservation. (And if youâre thinking âyeah but anyone can just go read AO3, itâs not like a real archiveâ buddy do I ever have news for you about the vast majority of ârealâ archives.)
So true. SO true.
Letâs talk about something called the âsunk cost fallacyâ.
Say that youâve bought a concert ticket for $50 for a band that you donât know that well. Half an hour into the show, you realize that you donât actually enjoy the music and you arenât having a good time - instead of leaving the concert to go do something else, however, you sit through the remaining hours of the concert because you donât want to âwasteâ the cost of the ticket.Â
Congratulations, youâve just fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy.
The âsunk cost fallacyâ is something that all humans are prone to when we make decisions. Simply put, itâs the human tendency to consider past costs when we make choices, even when those costs are no longer relevant. When youâre deciding whether or not to stay at that concert you arenât enjoying, you will likely consider the cost of the ticket when youâre making your decision - for instance, youâd probably be a lot more willing to leave a $5 concert that you arenât enjoying than a $50 concert that you arenât enjoying. But taking the cost of the ticket into account at all is a mistake.Â
When youâre making a rational decision, the only thing that matters is the future. Time, effort and money that youâre spent up until that point no longer matter - it doesnât make sense to consider them, because no matter what you decide, you canât actually get them back. They are âsunkâ costs. If you decide to stay at that concert, you are out $50 and youâll have a mediocre evening. If you decide to go leave and do something more fun, you are out $50 and youâll have a better evening. No matter what you choose, you have lost $50 - but choosing to leave the concert means that you havenât also spent an evening doing something you donât like.
The sunk cost fallacy is sometimes also described as âthrowing good money after badâ - people will waste additional time, resources and effort simply to justify the fact that theyâve already wasted time, resources and effort, even if it leaves them worse off overall.Â
Common examples of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life include:
refusing to get rid of clothes that donât fit or that you never wear because they were expensive
going to an event that you no longer want to go to because you already bought the ticketÂ
spending more and more money on repairing a car or computer (or something else that depreciates in value over time) instead of buying a new one because you donât want to waste the money you put into earlier repairs
continuing to watch a movie or TV show you arenât enjoying anymore because youâve already watched part of itÂ
finishing a plate of food that youâre not enjoying or are too full to enjoy, because you donât want to waste it
refusing to get rid of unused, unwanted or broken items in your home because the items were expensive
Perhaps the most damaging example of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life, however, is relationships.Â
People often use the length of a relationship to justify staying in it. Youâve probably heard this logic - you may even have used it yourself: âI canât break up with him or the two years we spent together will be for nothing.â
âIf I leave her, it will mean I wasted the five years I spent with her.â
The reality, though, is that staying in a mediocre relationship doesnât âgive you backâ the time youâve already invested in that relationship. It just makes the relationship longer. If you stay in a bad relationship for five more years to avoid âwastingâ the first two, you havenât actually made those first two years worthwhile - youâve simply spent seven years of your life in a bad relationship. Thereâs nothing we can do to recover time and effort (and in most cases, money) that weâve already spent. But we can forgive ourselves, and we can stop letting our past mistakes continue to define our futures.Â
To put it in Marie Kondoâs words, those things have served their purpose to you, even if their only purpose was to teach you that you do not like that thing. That ticket has now taught you that you do not like this type of band/concert, and leaving the concert is not a waste of that ticket because the ticket has already served its purpose to you. Donât hold onto things solely out of guilt, because their purpose in your life is over now, and holding onto them will not bring you joy.
hello new D&D movie fans who are writing fic! weâre glad youâre here. as a semi experienced D&D player I feel the need to make a PSA. to wit: while they may appear to be viable options, the Grease spell, and by extension the Oil of Slipperiness, generate enough grease to cover ten square feet or an entire humanoid. this is too much grease! unmanageable and unsexy quantities of grease. âcanât get anything done because weâre sliding around too muchâ quantities of grease. please opt for mundane lubricants. thank you for your time
I feel like I now have a need to read a scene where they try to use it for that and end up greasy piles of uncontrolled laughter. Possibly with a follow up scene of foraging for something more appropriate. With bonus points for either an embarrassing conversation in a shop or a sequence of wilderness-foraging and processing of ingredients.
There is something mystical in the feel of this shot, like watching someone being lead out of the underworld.
I'm so happy that Cave Rock down at Sumner is open again, it's the first time I've seen it accessible since the quakes more than a decade ago. I tried taking a number of photos in and around it while we were there but most of them suffered from me needing to know more about what I'm doing to make them work. Something to work towards :)
Taken March 2023
The dark volcanic rocks down at Sumner make for dramatic photos against the sea and sky. Even more so when I managed to get the timing right on having waves hitting them and throwing up spray.
Although I'm not practiced enough yet to have the knack of catching the waves and keeping the horizon straight and not defaulting to middle-of-photo horizon. Oh well. That will come with time and practice.

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I didn't position this amazing clump of colours and shapes but I can't guarantee no other human didn't, yet it could have been pushed together by the tide. I couldn't resist the combination of colours and textures for taking a photo.
the dehumanization of high-risk people at almost year 3 of the pandemic is so enormously scary and painful.
âhigh risk people will protect themselvesâ how? did you think about that? are we able to go grocery shopping? are we able to see loved ones? are we able to access lifesaving medical appointments? no! you refuse to protect us!
âI think youâre taking covid too seriouslyâ I donât want to die! I donât want to die! Iâm a human, too, and I donât want to die! Look at me â Iâm a human!
[Image description: Photograph of a melting iceberg taken from above. White pieces of ice of varying sizes of all different shapes float ove
"Abled entitlement ensures your risk assessment will always be, 'if I get sick, I will be able to recover OK. My family will be OK. My children will be OK.'  Never, 'Will they be OK? Will their children be OK? Will their family be OK? Will everyone they might also interact with be OK?' Never, 'Could this harm their neighborhood? Their state? Their country? Their continent?' Shielded by your abled privileged bravado of 'it wonât happen to me.' Never, 'Who might I be exposing? I might be OK, but someone else may not.'
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Abled supremacy means that many of you mistakenly think that if you do get COVID and if you end up with long COVID, that the state will take care of you or that your community will. You believe this because you do not know about the lived reality of disability in this country. [...] Our government does not care about the disabled people that already exist.
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You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism. You love your queer, BIPOC, working class, abolitionist, anti-racist, feminist, immigrant communities, but never seem to remember that disabled people exist in these and every community.
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When you talk to me about racial justice or housing justice or healing justice or gender justice, who exactly are you talking about? Whose justice are you fighting for? Because it never seems to include disabled people or if it does, it is only in theory, not practice; only to make yourself look better. Or it is only when disabled people are in the room or when we initiate the conversation.
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I need you to not only say that you are in solidarity with disabled people or that you value disability justice; I need you to practice it. I need you to engage in the hard conversations with fellow abled people about vaccines and boosters, masks and canceling indoor in-person gatherings, unnecessary travel and work. Many disabled people have been doing this labor because we do not have a choice.
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This pandemic will create millions more disabled people with chronic illnesses. Are we ready for what is coming next? Are we prepared for how many more disabled people with chronic health conditions there will be? Are we ready for how that will and should necessarily shift our movements and political work? Or are we going to continue to shut out disability and disabled people from movements and communities? Are we going to continue to not include ableism and abled supremacy in our liberation work?
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Interdependence asks us to imagine new ways forward with intention and soulful commitment to each other. We need you. We need all of us. There is no getting out of this pandemic alone. There is no stopping the spread or pushing our government, schools and businesses to do more, alone. We need each other. We need each other. We need each other."
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Good Omens Parody premieres May 10 on YouTube.com/Hillywood
There. An actual date.
Of the parody. But stillâŚ.
so i have a mildly popular âreblog and put in in the tagsâ post going around and its. very clear how many people donât know how to interact with a tumblr post
so, first of all, tumblrâs culture has changed a lot in the past couple years. thereâs a genuine community effort to not start any drama, and ironically a lot of the current hostility is an effort to keep things calm. thereâs also a change in how people interact with posts, so if you havenât been here in a while please skip down to the tags/replies/reblog with text section.
for newcomers: you should be reblogging posts about as liberally as you would like something on twitter. if you only like stuff, people will think you are rude/a bot. youâve probably heard people talk about âcultivating your dash,â and thats because this platform is 100% centered around your dashboard. trending matters less, unfollowing and blocking in order to shape your dash into itâs best form is widely accepted, the majority of the content youâll find and interact with will be because of your dash, and the only way to put things on your dash is to reblog them. tumblr users are deeply distrustful of algorithms and have largely turned off the âsee posts your friends have likedâ function (i recommend you also turn of the various algorithms in settings â general settings â dashboard preferences).
so, once youâve reblogged a post, thereâs three ways to add content to it. the tags, replies, and reblogging with text. all of them have different connotations
the tags: an inside voice. originally they were meant for organizing your blog (and theyâre still used for this), but theyâve also morphed into a way to share thoughts that arenât funny/insightful enough for non-followers to be interested in. when in doubt, put your comment in the tags
replies: basically talking to your friends in class. your followers have no way of finding your replies (they donât pop up on the dash, nobody gets notified except for the original poster) so chances are, only the person who made the post is gonna see your comment. itâs for quick one-offs that youâre okay with other people overhearing, but really is only made for one person. theyâre like a public dm
reblog with text: an outside voice. youâre getting up on a stage in town square and entertaining people. make sure itâs funny or insightfulâ bottom line, add something new to the conversation. you should use this the least
general rules of thumb:Â
when in doubt, reblog. people will judge you if your blog is only personal posts and you only interact with other content by liking it. Â
the only things people will judge you for reblogging are personal vent posts. leave a like to give a little virtual hug
if a post is asking about your personality/opinions (i.e: tell me whatâs the last tv show you watched, that kind of thing) put it in the tagsÂ
also if you see a nice edit, gifset, or art, reblog and say something nice in the tags! itâs that nice sweet spot of common enough that no one will notice but uncommon enough to make the artistâs day
Finally real advice for new users. This is a solid guide for how to make the transition from Twitter to Tumblr.
In particular, artists need you to reblog. A reblog helps them get seen. A like doesnât help them at all.
And I would like to add image descriptions and audio/video transcriptions can really help increase reblogs. Please remember to make your posts as accessible as possible.
We moved this piece of driftwood into the water and watched as it got pushed around by the waves. While I have my favourites I also like the way the photos change from one to the next. It almost tempts to me write a kids story about a small snake having an adventure at the seaside.
Taken March 2023

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Sometimes driftwood forms amazing shapes, to me this one is a squid trying to get back into the water. I have other photos of the waves lapping it but I particularly love the combination of shadow and reflection in this shot.
Taken March 2023
When Heather and I went to the beach the sand was strewn with this amazingly bright green seaweed, pulled into shapes by the retreating tide, which you can also see in the comet tails on the air-holes from small critters.
Taken Mar 2023