a story that took place one winter...

🎶✨When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers  🎶✨ Thank you for the tag Carson, @padmedala. I’ve been liking Tears For Fears lately too. I’ll also look at my On Repeat Spotify playlist because that’s a smart idea. 1. Temporary Fix by One Direction

2. Judas by Lady Gaga (not me screaming to Bad Romance on the radio today)

3. I Don’t Love You by MCR

4. Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift

5. Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles

never ending song by conan gray (i know it just released yesterday but it’s SO good)

bags by clairo

stoned at the nail salon by lorde

in my mind by lyn lapid

serotonin by girl in red

no pressure tags: @your-least-favourite-favourite @mx-yippeee

@felinecryptid @qamrology @a-mess-of-a-person @silentspacebee

California Dreamin’ by The Beach Boys

Payphone by Maroon 5

Rolling In The Deep by Adele

Youngblood by 5SOS

Absolute Territory by Ken Ashcorp

Put a Little Love on Me by Niall Horan

If We Have Each Other by Alec Benjamin

Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara

Looking at Me by Sabrina Carpenter

Can’t Help Falling in Love specifically the Pentatonix and Tommee Profitt covers

No pressure:

nobody- mitski

2. you’ll understand when you’re older- lovejoy

3. 2econd 2ight 2eer- will wood

4. A&W- lana del ray

5. painkiller- beach bunny

Michael in the Bathroom from Be More Chill the Musical

Hits Different by Taylor Swift

off-chance by Chloe Ament

Trains by Chloe Ament

I Want To Be With You by Chloe Moriondo

1. Oblivion - Grimes

2. Believe E.S.P - Deerhoof

3. Meddle - Little Boots

4. Not Allowed - TV Girl

5. Devil Town - Cavetown

formidable cool - wolf alice

ash in the sun - vundabar

drink - destroy boys

sing over me - holden laurence

warsaw - lovejoy

1) DON’T PLAY - turnstile

2) honey - AFTERxCLASS

3) my type - saint motel

4) nobody - crane wives

5) easy - daisy the great

1) Cardiac Arrest - Bad Suns

2) Exeunt - The Oh Hellos

3) April to Death - Flower Face

4) Choreomania - Florence + The Machine

5) Hollywood - Jukebox the Ghost

1) Constellation - The Oh Hellos

2) A Sadness Runs Through Him - The Hoosiers

3) Villian - Teniwoha, flower

4) Stray Italian Greyhound - Vienna Teng

5) Thus Always to Tyrants - The Oh Hellos

1. idol—yoasobi

2. telecaster b-boy —surii

3. call boy — syudou

4. kilmaa (and shama!) — nilfruits

5. darling —keina suda

1. Kokomo, IN -Japanese breakfast

2. Why are sundays so depressing - the strokes

3. Birds don’t sing - tv girl

4. secret door - arctic monkeys

5. Apple cider - beabadoobee

Tags: @pgshuichi @carnival-of-carnage @notsosw3et @pomeg-juice-and-rinds @itzrayla @magnetothemagnificent @proonv @localvoidcat

A = autism

M = medical malpractice

Pics!

Part 2/2

This was a short story originally written by @batneko ! You can read the original post here: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

Thank you for reading ☺️

How to get around internet censorship and maintain internet privacy

This will be an extremely long post 😅

Priorities

Download the Tor Browser

This will hopefully help you access the internet regardless of Russian government bans. It’s a little slow, but better than nothing. It hides your IP address from the internet, so it’s kind of like using a VPN. A very basic summary of how Tor works: your internet traffic is routed through several “nodes”. The Entry Node, can see your IP address but has no idea what data you’re sending, and this goes through several middle nodes, until it reaches the Exit Node. The Exit Node can see what data you’re sending, but it can’t see your IP address so it doesn’t know WHO sent it. That’s why it’s a good idea to do nothing identifying when using the Tor Browser, like writing personal information. Here’s a blog post with more detailed information about the Tor Browser.

Get a VPN

VPNs are often used to get around government internet restrictions. Russia will probably not be able to do much about it. However, not all VPNs are created equal. Nearly all of the free VPNs are a scam that turn around and sell your data, so free VPNs are not secure. The only exception to this is ProtonVPN which has a free tier, but it’s very slow. Basically the only good VPN is one you pay for. When choosing a VPN, be aware of where the company is based, because if a VPN company is based in the USA, it will have to comply USA privacy laws. So choose a VPN based in a country that has good privacy laws. A great one is Mullvad VPN, which is based in Sweden. But for the purposes of Russia, just making sure your VPN is not Russian or in a country sympathetic to Russia is probably good enough.

Alternative Front-Ends A frontend is the the part of a website which the user interacts with directly. To browse the contents of websites, you usually have to visit them. However, many people have made alternative privacy-respecting frontends to popular websites that allow you to see the site’s content without actually visiting the website. This helps avoid tracking, data-collection, and even countries’ attempts to ban websites. Twitter is banned in Russia right now, but using all an alternative frontend to Twitter works (according to my Russian friend).

Google Translate

Lingva Translate / Instances

SimplyTranslate / Instances

some instances allow you to choose to translate with several other services (such as DeepL)

Imgur

Rimgo / Instances

Instagram

Bibliogram / Instances

Medium

Scribe / Instance

Reddit

Libreddit / Instances

Teddit / Instances

TikTok

ProxiTok / Instance

Twitter

Nitter / Instances

Wikipedia

Wikiless / Instances

YouTube

Invidious / Instances

Piped / Instances

YouTube Music

Beatbump / Instance

If anyone knows of one of these for Tumblr please let me know. I found this site called Tumgir but it looks sketchy and unlike the rest of the ones I listed, it’s not open-source. So visit with caution, but I’m mentioning it because it might be better than nothing.

There are also these browser extensions that automatically redirect site links to the available alternatives:

Mozilla Firefox

LibRedirect - Redirects YouTube, YT Music, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Imgur, Reddit, Wikipedia, Medium, etc.

Google Chrome

Privacy Redirect - Redirects Google Maps, Google Search, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, Youtube.

iPhone (iOS 15+) Safari

Privacy Redirect - Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Google Translate, Google maps, Google Search, Medium

Android

UntrackMe - Google Maps, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube

Messaging / Communication

Matrix is a federated and decentralized End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) messaging with many platforms, the most popular of which is Element. It’s like Discord, but worse. It’s getting better over time though! You can even use a a throwaway email to sign-up.

If you’re Russian you likely already know about Telegram, but MAKE SURE you’re aware that only Secret Chats are End-to-End Encrypted. So don’t say anything that would get you in trouble outside of a Secret Chat.

End Notes

"the CEO doesnt want to run that kind of website" Excuse, shouldnt have bought the 'go nuts show nuts whatever' website if thats the case. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to follow the TOS of the appstores we're hosted on" Excuse item one, no you dont, item two, you have since those days implimented infrastructure that would allow pornography and sex work on this platform Without violating TOS of any applicable app store. APPEAL DENIED

"we own the site we get to make the rules" Incorrect, this site has only ever made profit when the users willed it. we collectively own the site as a hive mind and no legal change in ownership will change that. APPEAL DENIED