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flashback to when I got a little too gnc in my new profile pic, and my mom caught on that I had The Gender (which she was super supportive about, tbc), but didn't want to ask about it outright. so she started making up never-before-seen euphemisms
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Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!
Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.
Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.
Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:
Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)
Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)
Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)
Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)
Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)
You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.
Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.
(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)
After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.
I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).
It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.
Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.
One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence
A few comments asked me how the clothes in chapter 10 of my human Alastor x post-s2 demon Vox fic looked so I decided to draw a lil something
You can check it out here! :D
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I shall completely forget their outfits in future drawings lmao
I also am too attached to human Alastor’s sleeve garters and bishop sleeves and Vox with a half-buttoned shirt
would aiming for $1500 - $2000 for appliances and furniture be outrageously insane of me, or does that sound like it would make sense for a first time apartment where we have to acquire everything for the first time?
the closed mouth doesn't get fed, and even the mother forgets the child who doesn't speak up, soooo...lemme try my luck while i've bamboozled myself into feeling i'm worth it/deserve to have a nice home, before i second-guess and talk myself out of it and think i'm not worth the scum on the bottom of a bootlicker's gooch.
$0/$2,000 - P*yP*l - Ko-Fi
This is my first time living on my own (with a roommate) in a place that IS ours, not temporary, so we're building a life from scratch. The place is small, but we're gonna make it feel safe. Anything you can spare, for what I hope sincerely is the last time, will get us sorted and then Life (and Health) and Getting Better can follow from there.
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I also just wanted to say...thank you to everyone who's helped us finally come home, whether that's through reblogging my posts, or donating what you could, or even just smiling and wishing us well in your thoughts and prayers. I sincerely, truly, deeply appreciate each and every one of you, and I read and love every note attached to donations or left in tags. Thank you. I love you all so much. 🥹🩷
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now would be a really convenient time for a follower/enjoyer of my content to reveal themselves to be an ethical billionaire who wants to support my shenanigans (SHEnanigans?!) and finance my existence the way patrons of the arts used to do in the middle ages. maybe then i could even get back into making art! and charging for it! and sustaining myself! god, that'd be the dream.
i'm also really, REALLY good and unbelievably articulate when it comes to beta reading, sensitivity edits, giving feedback, etc. it's literally the ONE thing i know i'm basically a god at. so if you want your thing beta read or sensitivity edited (my specialty), or wanna refer me to someone who is willing to hire me, please do. i'm unbelievably talented at this skill, it's actually scary and preternaturally uncanny, and other pretentious words that sound like i leafed through a thesaurus.
Man, when you compare Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) to Les Misérables (1862) and realize just how deeply the June Rebellion and the February Revolution changed Victor Hugo and his relationship with power and poverty.
Like he really went from a 29yo writing “poor people have tiny little lives that come and go, but our beautiful physical manifestations of power live on despite them, how cool is that” to a 60yo writing “we should be willing to burn it all down just to save one child. There are bloodstains on our hands every day that another baby in our community starves, another man is enslaved by the law, another woman must sell herself for bread. Vive les abaissés - we must join them to build a better world for our children.”
WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING
Every time I see some variant of this headline going around I think we also need to address the additional important fact that in the first movie they did together after the whole Beatles incident they wrote in a kiss between their characters and Ridley Scott cut it because it was "too distracting".
I extremely extremely do not go here but I just wanted to confirm the kiss story was real and um
it was not just a kiss they were also improvising d/s humiliation kink shit. incredible.
the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form
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this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long
like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal
doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY
i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong
this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.
even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste.
The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.
I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.
https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/
Just gonna add that the IWW is still kicking and basically anyone who is not an employer can join.
Apparently Bernie has now proposed this.
I still hate his ass for 2016, but if he can pull it off that’d be cool.
Another option is the 4-day week. There has been a sizeable trial of the 4-day week in the UK, with really positive results. 61 companies involved, 92% of which said that they would continue with it, 18 permanently. 57% fall in employee turnover, 39% of employees said that they were less stressed, a majority said that it improved their work-life balance. In fact, it was so successful that the Conservative government threatened to sue Cambridgeshire County Council for taking part.
I suspect that the 4 day week and 6 hour day will suit different people. For an in-person role, one extra day without commuting will be more helpful than shorter shifts on the same number of days. For someone with care responsibilities, an extra 1 or 2 hours a day will be more useful. Flexibility is, by definition, not a one-size-fits-all solution.
Read the full results from the world's largest four-day week trial to date, offering a 'major breakthrough' for shorter working hours.
Tuula Lehtinen — Van Huysum VI (oil on canvas, 2023)
immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand
#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You
(courtesy of noknowshame)
like and rb to cause another abortion
oh my god and it's a Canada Goose so this is the equivalent of befriending a small demon
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