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@lough-ness
there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too
posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search
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helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury
another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that
finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)
this has been your friendly neighborhood haver of 19* tattoos (assorted sizes and placements)
*not totally sure here. bad at counting
Can I just emphasize that not everyone reading this has yet encountered the information that injuries require food, hydration, and sleep? I think the way many people associate rest and injury is that you rest the injury itself to avoid making it worse, but overlook that the healing process itself requires rest regardless of if not-rest directly injures it further.
Also exercise is a form of controlled injury so that as your body heals it heals stronger. You also need food-hydration-rest for strength and cardiovascular improvements after exercise.
ditto on the injury. look up “tattoo flu”, the trauma on my body had me down for the next like two days
irish coworker: *is back from a month in italy*
me: the weather must have been great, you're looking so tanned!
irish coworker: *stares down at his arms, which are a shade of eggshell white i associate with tasteful wedding table settings* i suppose i am!
welsh coworker: *enters room* wow, youre looking so tanned!
ghanaian coworker: *looks around like hes on the truman show*
ra ra rasputin is objectively the funniest song ever written it's like "rasputin was an advisor to the romanovs and honestly he was a bit of a power-hungry conman (oof)... but you're not here for a history lesson! you want to know how much he fucked, don't you? well i'll tell you: he fucked. he fucked often and severely."
and it's a banger
I've recently learned that escaping enshitification is actually really easy. When I was younger I would use FOSS (free and open source software) because I usually couldn't afford anything else. Back then the paid options were usually significantly better than the unpaid options so when I finally got money I started using the paid stuff and completely forgot that Foss existed.
If you don't know why Foss is awesome its not just that its free. Open source software has a huge set of advantages. Most software is proprietary meaning that its code cannot be viewed by other people. Open source softwares code can be viewed by everyone and people can contribute their own code to make it better. Open source is often more secure than proprietary because more people have more eyes on it and more people have contributed to it's security. Its also easy to know how much privacy you have with every software because you can read the code. No more "trust me bro I'm not harvesting and selling your data" you know if they are collecting and selling because the code is publicly available.
In the last two months I have been switching almost completely to Foss. I was worried at first because when I stopped using Foss over 10 years ago the average Foss software was genuinely worse than the paid proprietary alternative. Thankfully things have really come full circle. 90℅ of the software I have tried in the last 2 months works better than the proprietary alternative and is 100℅ less obnoxious.
So here is a list of every Foss software I have tried and recommend. There is way more than this available. This list is just what I have used and like personally. Anyone can feel free to add and we can turn it into a master list. Please just take these as a place to start and do your own research to see if these softwares will work for your use case before you fully ditch your proprietary software.
Operating systems
Graphene os: android alt. Security and privacy focused. The most secure and private smartphone currently available.
Linux mint: easy to use linux, 100℅ better than windows.
Pop!: The Linux distro you should use if you have nividia hardware and want to play games using said hardware. Very intuitive and easy to use.
Kubuntu: Ubuntu Linux with KDE desktop. This is the linux distro one I am currently using and I don't have any plans to jump ship again. Better than windows and better than Mac. The companion app for your phone makes life soooo easy. Its pretty and easy to customize to a ridiculously granular level. No fucking notes.
Kindle jailbreak- ko reader: use jailbreak to free your kindle from the tyranny of the bezos. It will download ko reader which is a Foss OS that has every fucking feature you always wished kindle had and let's you read whatever the fuck you want, and have whatever the screensaver you want (no more ads!). Soooo fuck amazon and use this. I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.
Linux FOSS: (some available on windows and android as well)
Calibre: Foss desktop eBook library. Packed with features. You will want to use this with koreader to make managing your kindle easy.
Manuscript: skrivner alt. Does absolutely everything I need.
Bitwarden: password manager (use a keepass fork if you want self hosted)
Next cloud: private google drive and cloud alternative that you can self host if you want but it's not required. App available
Proton VPN: to the best of my knowledge it is the only Foss no log VPN you can get. You can pay for higher speeds. App available
Quad9dns: free encrypted DNS provider. App available.
News software:
Use any Foss RSS reader and for the love of god stop getting news from social media. Take control of your feed!
Apps (I only know for android)
Fdroid: great app store to find Foss android apps and download them.
Antennapod: you can get all of your podcasts fetched to one feature rich app via RSS feed. No need to rely on spotify or music steaming services.
Openreads: it's good reads but private and 100℅ stored locally. No amazon, no social media aspect, it just tracks your reading, you can import your good reads but if you want to import from storygraph you have to make a good reads burner account, import to good reads, then import to openreads. The menus Navigation on this one is a bit cumbersome but honestly good reads app is worse.
Newpipe: YouTube frontend that let's you have YouTube subscriptions, watch YouTube in the background, and blocks all ads, without logging in to YouTube. You will want to use this one with a VPN set to Canada (or any other country) so YouTube doesn't keep blocking it in order to force you to sign in. But even with that extra step its worth it for the privacy and the lack of ads.
Proton mail: one of 2 more private gmail alts. But you should note that email cannot be 100℅ anonymous or private.
I think that's it. There are still a lot software varieties I am slowly finding.
LibreOffice is a FOSS Office suite that can handle word docs, spreadsheets, presentations and databases.
I know people get mad at the name, and I understand why, but straight-up I've been using GIMP for 15 years and it's a good solid art program made under the GNU program. It's worth a look.
I know there was at least one fork of that; I don't know if there still is, but if there is then I want to know about it, Glimpse stopped working a while back and there's something that will be a hassle to make happen in Krita—which I'm otherwise very pleased with—that I know for a fact I could do easily in Glimpse (by following a tutorial written for what Glimpse forked off of)
I've been using PopOS for literally years and I love it. I would warn new users to download 22.04 for the time being (as of April 2026). The recently released version 24.04 has their new desktop environment (COSMIC) and imho it's still a bit buggy and doesn't work as smoothly. Definitely use the old version if you're new to the OS, and new to Linux particularly. I'm sure COSMIC will improve, especially since updates happen so regularly, but I'd give it several months before trying it.
Also if you've never tried Linux before, I greatly recommend trying it out first. Making a live boot USB is standard for installing, and you can run the OS from that USB before installing it and get a handle for how it runs.
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haven’t drawn in so long mygod i’m rusty
I know the CR fandom famously has a lot of people who do not handle change well but like, the thing is, while I don't think that's a great character trait to have it's fine if you stop watching a show because it no longer appeals to you. It's just that like...all the reasons given are so transparently dumb. "It no longer feels like friends in a room!" ok well it simultaneously never was just friends in a room, and also it is still friends in a room. "The magic is gone" is it or are you just upset that the cast doesn't take questions from Twitter any more. "It's so corporate" the G&S era was EASILY the most corporate and I've talked before about how equating lack of polish with authenticity/earnestness sucks (and major corporations use that expectation to be like No, we're REAL, hence like, basically all Sponsored Content, but I digress). "Why are we leaving Exandria but still using the same name" because we're telling a story that couldn't be told in Exandria, because it's nice to let a new GM make their own world, and because the show is called Critical Role not Exandria Adventures. Like on some level a lot of it just feels resentful that the cast is no longer forced to clear their schedules on a Thursday night every week (even though that's been true for over half of Critical Role's run now) and that in the course of 11+ years they have come up with new ideas, and it's like, it's fine if it's no longer what you want! But like...even admitting "I don't really like change" is far preferable to this need to find some reason why your dislike for change is something more than just that.
I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.
Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.
At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.
One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.
That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days
you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question
But then you wouldnt have known about the moose
if i may request again... a mumbo of the jumbo variety?
I had to switch to magma so sorry for the poor quality o7 He wants to show you his goose !
ragebaiting lemonade stand owner with one simple order
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Nightwing is about to burst
What have you done, Jason?
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.
The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.
I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.
"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"
i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.
therefore, the Default Object is:
beautiful
makes a horrendous sound
smells absolutely awful
is very fragile
tastes delicious
and i still cannot think of anything that matches this
behold, the default object!
DEFAULT OBJECT FOUND
They should create a shonen with women
All women. I want all that bullshit about the power of friendship shouted by a overpowered girl main character. Homoerotic rivalry between women that aren’t about a guy they both like. Women who hit hard other women. Deadbeat mothers who abandon their family in search of something and stay at home dad that die tragically when their daughter is young and daughters who hate their deabeat mom for leaving them or look up to her and want to become like her. I think the deadbeat mom and the dead dad should be a staple of shonen with women.
I’ll allow three guys but they have to fulfill these roles
- Healer
- Guy whose power is being hot/bewitching people with his look
- Guy who’s like 67 but he’s really vain so he uses his power to look either 20ish or like a kid
sometimes writing appreciation posts about Joe Hills feels like I'm shouting out Joe for normalising doing above the bare minimum and it feels a little sad that finding someone who is committed to never going below the bare minimum is such a treat online nowadays. Like yeah let's celebrate artists who pay their staff a fair wage and look into the ethics of merch and sponsorships before committing to it. Let's celebrate artists who work to share knowledge and make artmaking accessible. Let's celebrate artists who are fierce about guarding their communities from bad actors and who speak up for trans rights and against many forms of bigotry. Let's celebrate artists who will abandon their stream the moment there's a worrying noise in the room where their child is playing. let's celebrate artists who take great effort to give credit for the work and ideas of others, who take the time to thank people for their contributions to a project, who learn about their colleagues' goals and projects. Like yeah of course that's all great, but it shouldn't be so special to get all at once. It should be the norm and it's sad that it's not
he's quoting hamilton pre-hamilton
devestating news for you
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My ideal Star Wars movie would be a nature documentary of cute space critters narrated by the robot from Rogue One, who clearly knows nothing about nature and is making the descriptions up as he goes along.
This is a tauntaun. It is very stupid. This is why it keeps trying to lick my carapace, perhaps in search of salt. I cannot comprehend why it thinks I contain such a mineral.
As you can see, it has tiny arms for no reason whatsoever. It uses them mainly to punch annoying protocol droids, or so I have convinced C-3PO. As you cannot see, it smells disgusting. Luckily, I am able to turn off my olfactory receptors. This is yet another reason organics should seek to imitate droids more closely.
In most circumstances, the tauntaun is utterly useless. Here on Hoth, it is useful for transportation, but only because various hydraulic fluids freeze in these condition. I have suggested rendering the tauntauns down into tallow and testing the result as a substitute, but my suggestion has been rejected as “pointless” and “evidence that he’s taking the salt licking thing far too seriously.”
To summarize, this is a terrible animal.
This is what Willem Defoe was writing on his detective pad
