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use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
*If* my wage keeps up pace with inflation (historically not the case in the US for multiple decades), and I save 11% of my income every month until I'm 67 and never have an emergency at all that requires that money before I'm 60 (also unlikely given my family history and my current social circle), I can *maybe* retire at 67 and live an extremely budgeted life where I never travel and I only live in the cheapest housing. I also can't depend on the Social Security system helping out at all, because it's been slated to run out of savings by 2035 for years now, and it's gonna have to reduce benefits and taper them off starting then unless the federal government starts putting more money into it consistently and immediately (also unlikely given the priorities current administration). Saving up for a decent-ish retirement with a 401k would require me to save 25% of my income each month for the rest of my working life on my own, and hope that the stock market doesn't tank and make me lose money from that fund. I'm just never going to get to retire whatsoever, even if I budget hard and try my very best.
I don’t know how to tell you this but having an extremely budgeted life at 67 is better than being homeless and disabled, you don’t have to actually quit ur job to benefit from retirement funds, if you’re based in a first world country you are not going to face Societal Collapse™ and COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE US EXIST! this dommerist fear mongering is self-obsessed, ahistoric, and dangerous. people have survived through shit you cannot imagine and will never confront for you to throw up your hands. most retirement funds internationally have compound interest, which really adds up over decades.
sorry gonna add some US specific info bc i had a straight up horrifying conversation with a 35 year old the other day who should have known better.
if you are in the US and contribute money to a pension fund/especially to a 401k, go log in and ENSURE the money is not just sitting there collecting minor interest. it is in your best interest to make sure it is in the market. yes. even if the stock market crashes tomorrow. we are talking about periods of time measured in decades, at which point your savings absolutely will have grown past the rate of inflation, often outpacing it by close to triple that rate. (US inflation usually holds around 2.5%, while the S&P 500's annual rate of return has, on average, been 10.13% since 1957. 10.13 - 2.5 > 0. you also dont have to invest only in the US -- you can choose funds that are global, or even excluding the US.)
nothing is guaranteed ever in life, but there are bets you would be dumb not to make.
Let us say that you are 45, you want to retire at 67, you put your money into an extremely conservative fund with a predictable 5% interest, you make $12,000 a year and save 10% of your income ($100 a month) and start with $1000 in the fund.
In that time you would have *saved* $27,400 and you have $23,590 built in interest. Is $50k enough to survive on for retirement? Absolutely not. Will it keep you more housed and fed and cared for than $27,400? YES.
Let us say that you are 35 and you are just letting your money from your 401K sit at a low interest of 1.5%; you are saving for 32 years to retire at 67, you start with $1000 and you save 10% of your income (same as above, $1200 a year).
In that time you have saved $39,400 and gained $11,500 in interest. Is that better than not saving? Yes. Is it going to be enough to survive on for retirement? Absolutely not.
Now, let's say that you're doing everything exactly the same as the 35 year old in the above example except you put your money into an index fund with a very modest return of 7%.
THAT'S A LOT FUCKING BETTER. You've still saved $39,400 but the interest is now $112K. THAT'S MUCH BETTER.
Now: same example - you start with $1000, you make $12,000 a year and put $1200 a year into your 401k, you invest in a fund with an average over time of 7%, but you are 25 and you are saving 42 years to retire at 67.
You have only saved about $11k more, but you have collected over a quarter million dollars in interest. Is $320k enough to survive on? Well, let's say you expect to live to 87, almost 20 years after retirement. You get $16,000 a year, which is more than you were making during your working years in this example.
Now. Let's say you're 25 and you're broke as fuck, you don't have a thousand dollars a month income, you don't have a hundred dollars a month to put in the fund. What happens if you just do twenty dollars a month with no padding up front at 7% interest for 42 years?
You ended up with more than the 45 year old who saved for 22 years at 5% interest, more than the 35 year old who saved for 32 years at 1.5% interest by saving at a rate of $240 a year.
Now, let's say you're thirty, you're making $35k a year, you are going to be saving for 37 years, and we'll still be cautious and say you're getting 9% interest. You're contributing about 5% of your income, $145 a month, paid directly to your 401K automatically from your paycheck, before it ever hits your bank account, because that's what "pay yourself first" means.
You retire with half a million dollars.
Let's say you get a tax return every year, and you take $300 of that tax return and put it in your retirement account.
Let's say you're 25, like the person up there who is convinced they won't ever be able to retire, and you have 47 years to save. You figure out a way to save $50 a month for retirement and you put $200 of your annual tax return into your 401k, which has a 9% yield:
I am begging/pleading: PUT SOME FUCKING MONEY INTO YOUR 401K AND INVEST IT IN AN INDEX FUND THAT IS SYNCED TO THE YEAR YOU PLAN TO RETIRE.
THIS IS NOT LIKE THE BOOMERS SAYING YOU COULD BUY A HOUSE IF NOT FOR THE AVOCADO TOAST, THIS IS PLANNING FOR LATE LIFE HOUSING AND CARE FOR THE COST OF ONE FAST FOOD MEAL, SPOTIFY, NETFLIX, AND GOING TO THE LIBRARY INSTEAD OF THE MOVIES OR THE BOOKSTORE.
You already don't do any of those things? Cool, this is about 1/8th what you can make selling plasma per month put into a retirement fund to make sure you aren't homeless when you're older.
I am a big believer in mutual aid and not trusting the government. You know what's going to enable you to help more people later in life? If you don't have to rely on your younger family members to support you in your old age. If you make 35k a year (which you might not now, but may in 5 years) 5% of your income means having the means to continue helping your family, and helping your community, and not relying on community resources that other people might need because you put your oxygen mask on first.
I know fifty bucks a month is hard. I know twenty bucks a month is hard. But it's not as hard as leaving your home when you can't afford it at 70 or becoming a walmart greeter at 75 would be.
Also "Social security is going to run out of money" is a pretty egregious oversimplification; if no changes are made by 2035 social security beneficiaries will only receive 83% of the benefit that they would have if it had been fully funded. Here's how a financial advisor describes that (while advising that you invest for retirement):
It's likely that Social Security will be around when you retire. However, you may not receive the full benefit offered to current retirees. The Social Security Administration's 2024 annual report found that the program is likely to be able to pay 100% of the current benefits through 2035. After that, retirees would receive 83% of their scheduled benefits.
What could that look like? As of January 2025, the average Social Security payout is $1,976 per month. If you were to receive 83% of that, it would drop to $1,640 per month.
Being an anarchocommunist does not absolve you of the responsibility to do some planning for the future. I know you want to give to every support post that comes across your dash and that is something that you should plan for and budget for. And you should plan to treat your own retirement savings as though you are a 70 year old writing a post on tumblr to try to raise money for rent
Part of recognizing that a better world is possible is recognizing that you have to have some agency in making that better world and nobody wants to do a revolution with people who don't have the ability to do basic math or plan for the future.
Save for retirement now so that the money people would have used to support you can go to strike funds, or can provide dental care for low income families, or can be used to provide housing for someone who wasn't able to work, or who DID have some disaster that wiped out all their savings.
And then fuck it if you want, plan on dying at 80 (or using less of your income annually after retirement) when you retire and give fifty grand to someone to put a down payment on a house or to pay for two years of rent for a family that needs help.
I'm in my late 30s now and I deeply regret not setting up better savings in my 20s or early 30s because it's *HARD* to catch up. If you're young, and you're reading this, and you have twenty dollars a month that you can put into a 401K I am speaking directly to you. Don't be me. Be smarter than I was. Please please please please just invest and provide a stable senior situation for yourself, or at least do what you can to make that situation more stable.
and by the way you can open a Roth IRA account (as long as you have a W2 form) if you’re an immigrant and it will still be there for you if you leave the US and don’t contribute to it, collecting interest.
I've never had a job that offered 401k. Any tips for those who are like me? How about folks (like me) who, when employed, make so little that we're in the red at the end of every pay period regardless of budgeting and thus cannot afford to set aside money every pay period?
Look into creating an IRA - Individual Retirement Accounts are not connected with your workplace and can be set up through your bank or through a brokerage; if you are able to join a credit union, look into getting an IRA set up through the credit union. The disadvantage of an IRA (or 401k) is that you will be penalized for withdrawals if you take them too early.
Look into zero cost high yield savings accounts; they exist and will net you more interest than a regular savings account even if it's less interest than you might get with a retirement account. Do this with a bank that is not your bank, don't keep a debit card for the bank with your HYSA - you do not want to treat this as a spending account. A major advantage of HYSAs is that they are liquid; if you need to get the money out you can, and you aren't going to be fined or taxed for it (CDs and other very stable investment tools are extremely low risk but they tie your money up for a set period of time and they may have a higher minimum amount than you can afford - most HYSAs don't have these limitations). Another advantage of both of these kinds of accounts (and a 401K) is that if you don't add to it there's no downside. If you lose your job or you switch to a job that doesn't pay enough to contribute the money doesn't go away.
Do not, if you can avoid it in any way, use a credit card or payday loan to make up for the shortfall if you're in the red at the end of the month. Doing so is costing you more money and it becomes a cycle that traps you in debt; you run up the credit card because you're broke, the interest charges go up because the balance is higher, you pay the same amount as before because that's what you could afford, the amount you pay doesn't go as far to pay down the principle because you're paying down interest, you stay in the red at the end of the next month, you borrow (via credit card or loan), your interest charges go up because the balance goes up, etc.
If you are *already* in that situation, don't prioritize saving at 7% interest, prioritize paying down whatever debt has the highest interest as fast as you possibly can. There's no reason to focus on getting a 7% gain on $20 when you're paying 24% interest on $20 on your credit card.
This is, basically, the situation that I was in until literally last month. I made up for the shortfall by selling blood and put all the money that I made selling blood onto my credit card to pay it down. It was debt that collected as the result of a medical emergency with my spouse after years of having been tremendously underpaid by my boss. (And all of that would have been MUCH better if I didn't have stupid 'I'm a college student and I'm using my credit card to treat my friends to dinner' debt sitting around on that card in the first place).
Also check out r/personalfinance, r/povertyfinance, and r/beermoney. The first one is a good resource for learning the basics of how money works, the second one puts a lot of the information from the first one into the context of people who are struggling financially, and the third is a place to find possible ways of earning extra income. And if you're in the US or someplace that it's legal, consider visiting r/plassing and seeing if selling plasma is something that's an available option. I don't recommend that lightly, and I don't recommend doing it for a long time, but selling plasma can dig you out of a hole if you need to pay down debt to find solid financial ground. (It's one of the things that I've been doing, and it's as grim as it seems)
But also don't let yourself get into the mindset that what's happening now is what's going to be happening forever. Look for different work. Look for ways to build your skills. Look for side gigs. Look for state rebates. You are probably not going to be in the exact same financial state forever, opportunities for improvement will likely come along, and you should have plans in place to take advantage of those opportunities AND how to take care of the money if you are able to make a positive change or happen into a windfall.
Actually, genuinely, some advice for people who have never earned enough to put away for retirement:
If you DO get a job that allows you to save, don't let the "I can't really save/a retirement account doesn't really matter/I'm to young to have to worry about retirement funds" mindset keep you from earning money.
Someday you might be at an office signing intake paperwork and looking at the 401k matching and going "I don't understand this so I'm just going to sign the paper and make no changes because it's freaking me out" and That's probably how the 35 year old described up above got fucked.
Learn about this ahead of time so that even if you are not currently able to do this stuff, you will be ready to do so if you are presented with the opportunity.
They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before
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I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.
IN SHORT
Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.
When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using
his dyslexia;
his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and
a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,
as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.
When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there.
THE TAKEAWAYS
1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain;
2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and
3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again.
THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)
Sunday night, December 22nd 2024, I noticed an influx in visitors to my fic You & Me & Holiday Wine. When I searched the title online, hoping to find out where they came from, a new listing popped up (third one down, no less):
This listing is still up today, by the way, though now when you follow the link to word-stream, it just brings you to the main site. (Also, to be clear, this was not the cause for the influx of traffic to my fic; word-stream did not link back to the original work anywhere.)
I followed the link to word-stream, where to my horror Y&M&HW was listed in its entirety—though, beyond the first half of the first chapter, behind a paywall—along with a link promising to take me—through an app downloadable on the Apple Store—to an AI-narrated audiobook version. When I searched word-stream itself for my ao3 handle I found both of my multi-chapter fics were listed this way:
Because the tags on my fics (which included genres* and characters, but never the original IPs**) weren’t working, I put ‘Kara Danvers’ into the search bar and discovered that many more supercorp fics (Supergirl TV fandom, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor pairing) were listed.
I went looking online for any mention of word-stream and AI plagiarism (the covers—as well as the ridiculously inflated number of reviews and ratings—made it immediately obvious that AI fuckery was involved), but found almost nothing: only one single Reddit post had been made, and it received (at that time) only a handful of upvotes and no advice.
I decided to make a tumblr post to bring the supercorp fandom up to speed about the theft. I draw as well as write for fandom and I’ve only ever had to deal with art theft—which has a clear set of steps to take depending on where said art was reposted—and I was at a loss regarding where to start in this situation.
After my post went up I remembered Project Copy Knight, which is worth commending for the work they’ve done to get fic stolen from AO3 taken down from monetized AI 'audiobook’ YouTube accounts. I reached out to @echoekhi, asking if they’d heard of this site and whether they could advise me on how to get our works taken down.
While waiting for a reply I looked into Copy Knight’s methods and decided to contact OTW’s legal department:
And then I went to bed.
By morning, tumblr friends @makicarn and @fazedlight as well as a very helpful tumblr anon had seen my post and done some very productive sleuthing:
@echoekhi had also gotten back to me, advising me, as expected, to contact the OTW. So I decided to sit tight until I got a response from them.
That response came only an hour or so later:
Which was 100% understandable, but still disappointing—I doubted a handful of individual takedown requests would accomplish much, and I wasn’t eager to share my given name and personal information with Cliff Weitzman himself, which is unavoidable if you want to file a DMCA.
I decided to take it to Reddit, hoping it would gain traction in the wider fanfic community, considering so many fandoms were affected. My Reddit posts (with the updates at the bottom as they were emerging) can be found here and here.
A helpful Reddit user posted a guide on how users could go about filing a DMCA against word-stream here (to wobbly-at-best results)
A different helpful Reddit user signed up to access insight into word-streams pricing. Comment is here.
Smells unbelievably scammy, right? In addition to those audacious prices—though in all fairness any amount of money would be audacious considering every work listed is accessible elsewhere for free—my dyscalculia is screaming silently at the sight of that completely unnecessary amount of intentionally obscured numbers.
Speaking of which! As soon as the post on r/AO3—and, as a result, my original tumblr post—began taking off properly, sometime around 1 pm, jumpscare! A notification that a tumblr account named @cliffweitzman had commented on my post, and I got a bit mad about the gist of his message :
Fortunately he caught plenty of flack in the comments from other users (truly you should check out the comment section, it is extremely gratifying and people are making tremendously good points), in response to which, of course, he first tried to both reiterate and renegotiate his point in a second, longer comment (which I didn’t screenshot in time so I’m sorry for the crappy notification email formatting):
which he then proceeded to also post to Reddit (this is another Reddit user’s screenshot, I didn’t see it at all, the notifications were moving too fast for me to follow by then)
... where he got a roughly equal amount of righteously furious replies. (Check downthread, they're still there, all the way at the bottom.)
After which Cliff went ahead & deleted his messages altogether.
It’s not entirely clear whether his account was suspended by Reddit soon after or whether he deleted it himself, but considering his tumblr account is still intact, I assume it’s the former. He made a handful of sock puppet accounts to play around with for a while, both on Reddit and Tumblr, only one of which I have a screenshot of, but since they all say roughly the same thing, you’re not missing much:
And then word-stream started throwing a DNS error.
That lasted for a good number of hours, which was unfortunately right around the time that a lot of authors first heard about the situation and started asking me individually how to find out whether their work was stolen too. I do not have that information and I am unclear on the perimeters Weitzman set for his AI scraper, so this is all conjecture: it LOOKS like the fics that were lifted had three things in common:
They were completed works;
They had over several thousand kudos on AO3; and
They were written by authors who had actively posted or updated work over the past year.
If anyone knows more about these perimeters or has info that counters my observation, please let me know!
I finally thought to check/alert evil Twitter during this time, and found out that the news was doing the rounds there already. I made a quick thread summarizing everything that had happened just in case. You can find it here.
I went to Bluesky too, where fandom was doing all the heavy lifting for me already, so I just reskeeted, as you do, and carried on.
Sometime in the very early evening, word-stream went back up—but the fan fiction category was nowhere to be seen. Tentative joy and celebration!***
That’s when several users—the ones who had signed up for accounts to gain intel and had accessed their own fics that way—reported that their work could still be accessed through their history. Relevant Reddit post here.
Sooo—
We’re obviously not done. The fanwork that was stolen by Weitzman may be inaccessible through his website right now, but they aren’t actually gone. And the fact that Weitzman wasn’t willing to get rid of them altogether means he still has plans for them.
This was my final edit on my Reddit post before turning off notifications, and it's pretty much where my head will be at for at least the foreseeable future:
Please feel free to add info in the comments, make your own posts, take whatever action you want to take to protect your work. I only beg you—seriously, I’m on my knees here—to not give up like I saw a handful of people express the urge to do. Keep sharing your creative work and remain vigilant and stay active to make sure we can continue to do so freely. Visit your favorite fics, and the ones you’ve kept in your ‘marked for later’ lists but never made time to read, and leave kudos, leave comments, support your fandom creatives, celebrate podficcers and support AO3. We created this place and it’s our responsibility to keep it alive and thriving for as long as we possibly can.
Also FUCK generative AI. It has NO place in fandom spaces.
THE 'SMALL' PRINT (some of it in all caps):
*Weitzman knew what he was doing and can NOT claim ignorance. One, it’s pretty basic kindergarten stuff that you don’t steal some other kid’s art project and present it as your own only to act surprised when they protest and then tell the victim that they should have told you sooner that they didn’t want their project stolen. And two, he was very careful never to list the IPs these fanworks were based on, so it’s clear he was at least familiar enough with the legalities to not get himself in hot water with corporate lawyers. Fucking over fans, though, he figured he could get away with that.
**A note about the AI that Weitzman used to steal our work: it’s even greasier than it looks at first glance. It’s not just the method he used to lift works off AO3 and then regurgitate onto his own website and app. Looking beyond the untold horrors of his AI-generated cover ‘art’, in many cases these covers attempt to depict something from the fics in question that can’t be gleaned from their summaries alone. In addition, my fics (and I assume the others, as well) were listed with generated genres; tags that did not appear anywhere in or on my fic on AO3 and were sometimes scarily accurate and sometimes way off the mark. I remember You & Me & Holiday Wine had ‘found family’ (100% correct, but not tagged by me as such) and I believe The Shape of Soup was listed as, among others, ‘enemies to friends to lovers’ and ‘love triangle’ (both wildly inaccurate). Even worse, not all the fic listed (as authors on Reddit pointed out) came with their original summaries at all. Often the entire summary was AI-generated. All of these things make it very clear that it was an all-encompassing scrape—not only were our fics stolen, they were also fed word-for-word into the AI Weitzman used and then analyzed to suit Weitzman’s needs. This means our work was literally fed to this AI to basically do with whatever its other users want, including (one assumes) text generation.
***Fan fiction appears to have been made (largely) inaccessible on word-stream at this time, but I’m hearing from several authors that their original, independently published work, which is listed at places like Kindle Unlimited, DOES still appear in word-stream’s search engine. This obviously hurts writers, especially independent ones, who depend on these works for income and, as a rule, don’t have a huge budget or a legal team with oceans of time to fight these battles for them. If you consider yourself an author in the broader sense, beyond merely existing online as a fandom author, beyond concerns that your own work is immediately at risk, DO NOT STOP MAKING NOISE ABOUT THIS.
PLEASE check my later versions of this post via my main page to make sure you have the latest version of this post before you reblog. All the information I’ve been able to gather is in my reblogs below, and it's frustrating to see the old version getting passed around, sending people on wild goose chases.
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.
works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.
for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff:
It seems like there’s this cycle of republicans making the economy bad and then people get tired of the republicans and elect a democrat and the democrat inherits a bad economy and then they sort of fix it somewhat and then people are like hey the economy is bad it was better during the Republican administration and then they elect a Republican who inherits a better economy from the democrat while he’s trashing it and then people are like hey he’s trashing the economy and then they elect a democrat who inherits a bad economy and fixes it somewhat and then people are like hey the economy was better when there was a Republican and then they elect a Republican who trashes the sort of better economy he inherited from the democrat and so on and so forth like forever I guess
Let’s be clear. I want the democrats to be better. They suck at a lot of stuff. They’ve done some stupid things. But Biden and the democrats stopped us from falling into a literal economic depression. They did some stuff that frickin worked. But the economy was better during the trump administration (because of the economy he inherited from the Obama administration) so let’s reelect that idiot what could go wrong surely his proposed tariffs won’t affect the prices that much in a country with a smaller manufacturing sector than it used to have that imports most of its consumer goods
Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt
Attend drag shows
Don't skip any of your classes
Read and buy history books
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cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/
Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)
More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)
Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/
A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/
Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16
I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?
(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)
For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.
what i use:
potplayer for capturing frames
photoshop cs6 (can find it for free here or in other links on the tag)
qbittorrent
torrenting sites (this, this, eventually this)
sharpening action
arial rounded mt bold for subtitles
assuming you know how to torrent, if possible download what you want to gif in 1080p or the highest possible resolution etc etc
frames
open video in potplayer, go to the moment you want to gif and go back a couple frames (10-20) from when you want your gif to start (i usually just spam press D a bunch) (to see which key you have to press to go back on frames, right click > jump (to) > previous frame
now press CTRL+G or open frame capturing through right click > video > video capture > capture consecutive images...
my settings for capturing frames
(important to turn off subtitles before doing this or they'll be captured on the image too)
the folders i save it to -> i created a bunch of frame folders that i fill up since the way frames load in my photoshop require me to load an entire folder into it. so i capture an entire gifset's frames into one folder and then load up the entire thing
press 'start' on the consecutive image capturer, then start playing the video (best to mute it since the video might start playing slower), wait until the part you want to gif is over and stop the video, press CTRL+G again to stop the capturing
2. photoshop
depending on your photoshop you can either 'load files into stack...', which opens up a folder and you can manually choose which frames you want to load, or 'load multiple dicom files..." (what i have to do), where you select an entire folder to load its contents into photoshop
once you do either of those things, you got this
now click 'create frame animation' on the bottom
now we click on the three bars and 'make frames from layers'
!! if you loaded up frames with 'load frames into stack...' at this point you also have to click 'reverse frames' since they load in reverse order with this method for some reason
now we got our frames on a timeline and delete anything you dont want in your gif. if you have frames for multiple gifs on the timeline, go to image > duplicate and duplicate for however many gifs you got and delete the unnecessary frames from each one
crop tool, type in dimensions up top (in accordance with tumblr's dimension graph, so if you want a wide gif like the one on the top of this post keep it 540px). i usually crop my gifs to between 540x400 and 540x500. once centered on how you want to crop, press enter or double click on the image to crop
press ALT+CTRL+I or go to image > image size... to resize
open the actions tab if you don't have it already open, go to 'load actions...' and find where you saved the sharpening action you downloaded from the top of this post
i only use "all in one (sharper)" and "convert to animation (frames)", but unchecked the "canvas size" option on the latter one since we resized the gif ourselves
select 'select all layers current layer' on the action (the other steps we already did) and press play
our gif frames will turn into a group so now go to "convert to animation (frames)" and press play again
this will pop up at the end, leave it at 0.05 (maybe 0.06 if the gif is going too fast)
if we were to export the gif now it would look like this
now comes the coloring, which is personal preference. the reason i chose hannibal for this gifset is to show the white balance tool that works great in tinted scenes
open a 'levels' layer and selected the bottom eyedropper. then click it on a place on the gif that should be white but isn't (i clicked on hannibal's shirt collar). the gif coloring will change accordingly
then pick the top eyedropper and click on anything that should be black but isn't (you can click on multiple places and see how the color changes, keep trying until you find one that looks good)
the coloring difference with just those two clicks
and then the coloring is up to you, i usually just add more levels layers and color balance
here's all of the layers i applied to color this
VERY IMPORTANT to get into the habit of selecting those two thingies on each layer you apply (on the subtitle text layer select all three) so that the coloring stays the same on all frames
difference
+ subtitles settings using the text tool
shadow and stroke to make your subtitles readable
saving the gif. click ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+S or go to file > save for web... here are my settings
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Hi everyone ! It’s another masterlist, this time dedicated to PHOTOSHOP DOWNLOAD. On this list, you’ll find links to different versions of photoshop. Keep in mind that I didn’t test them, I only checked if the download link was still up.
WINDOW
@iniziare
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 2022 (V23.0.0.36)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2018 (VERSION: 19.1.6)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC (V21.0)
@birdysources
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2017
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 EXTENDED / TWO ( the one i use. )
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5 EXTENDED
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2018
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That means you can filter it out!*
To filter it from your account, and never see any of it again, follow these steps.
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I've just added this to my AO3 and you can also copy one line of the blocklist above and replace the tag data with any other tags you don't ever want to see. Just remember to put a comma at the end of all but the last line and make sure all tag words are separated with the %20 that's in the original.
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