Mouse hopping on a piano

awwwww

a-wait, what?

aww

word of this right down in my

tired, tired bones.

never got to live as a teenage girl.

never got to live as a young woman.

thats what we call neo nazis and shitty conservative bros? or at least its what we used to call them? why are ppl calling themselves "chuds" affectionately now

what is happening

when you call yourself and your friends "chuds"

YOU

ARE

CALLING

YOURSELF

A

ok story time

i was on the phone with my friend when the cops knocked at his door, cuffed him and interrogated him because his (at the time) girlfriend called a wellness check on him. i heard the whole thing because he had kept his phone close by.

she ended up calling 4 more of these and had him put in a psychiatric ward for a month just because she thought he was acting out of character. she broke up with him while he was in there, while i went to visit him every other day and we eventually found out that she was delusional and having religious epiphanies and was calling me an evil witch who was casting spells on her...

anyway long story short, cops are men with guns and they are not equipped for mental health stuff. don't call them if you think someone is struggling

ok story time

i was on the phone with my friend when the cops knocked at his door, cuffed him and interrogated him because his (at the time) girlfriend called a wellness check on him. i heard the whole thing because he had kept his phone close by.

she ended up calling 4 more of these and had him put in a psychiatric ward for a month just because she thought he was acting out of character. she broke up with him while he was in there, while i went to visit him every other day and we eventually found out that she was delusional and having religious epiphanies and was calling me an evil witch who was casting spells on her...

anyway long story short, cops are men with guns and they are not equipped for mental health stuff. don't call them if you think someone is struggling

The dog in question:

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

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