A Beggar, A Mongrel, A Boy With No Shoes

Still here? Have a few useful links!

- A 2023 post with misc resources [link]

- Anarchist Audiobooks for free [link] [link]

- Blinkie Wiki [link]

- Lupinus' Vampire's Nest [link]

- Decentralize your internet experience [link]

- Free home workouts [link] [link]

- Free sewing patterns [link]

- Live Radio from anywhere on the globe [link] [link]

- Misc text/meme generators [link]

- Thunder's OC Toolkit [link]

- Various good advice threads [link] [link]

- "Want to learn something new?" thread [link]

- Your cool older cousin's playlist [link]

- "Pirating is BAD" [link]

- Movie websites [link]

- Please learn housekeeping skills [link]

- Useful websites/links for rentry, bundlrs, gfx etc [link]

- Free PDFs for TTRPGs [link]

- You should learn about computers, actually [link]

- A comprehensive, straight forward guide to building an extensive music library for free [link]

- A list of Google alternatives [link]

- WriterofthePrompts Ultimate Ask Masterlist [link]

- Do’s and Don'ts of Designing for Accessibility [link]

- Dealing with the worst case scenario [link]

- Things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught [link]

- Emulate so many games on your browser [link]

i think he looks pretty in neon/cyberpunk colours teehee

Favorite horror movie characters 601/♾️

internalised misogyny is not:

being a trans man

being non-binary

just not being a woman

being masculine

enjoying yaoi

engaging in yaoi

dating men

liking men

Friends, in case some of you, like me, are published authors or illustrators or creators of any kind, and you are still using any Google service (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Classroom), please consider deleting all your material from Drive and moving it to external harddisks or something similar before it turns into a catastrophic problem like mangaka Masahiro Itosugi just experienced:

I really hope this comes as no surprise to all of you and you were already taking precautions about it, but I know for a fact that 100% of my colleagues in the academic field back their papers and their books up on Drive, and that most of our institutional email addresses and some essential tools (for example Gmeet, that we are required to use for remote teaching or to record conferences) are based on Google Workspace (including crucial stuff like uni department documents, scientific journal archives, publicly funded projects contracts and so on).

Now they could be flagged for copyright infringment and lose access to their entire accounts for uploading back up copies of THEIR OWN work on Drive, because AI systems are apparently unable to recognise the legitimate owner of copyrighted material (or they have been intentionally set up to not recognise it so that tech corps can steal people's work).

The complete automation of the scraping-scanning-banning process, that Google has now delegated entirely to unchecked AI, with no human review, is coming for us quicker than I thought, and while there may be some things that I fear we can't disentangle from this mess anymore (I'm thinking of Gmail specifically), we can still pull our work from Drive before it's too late.

I'm not sure how to properly tag this, but if you know people who may need this warning, please help them understand how serious things are becoming.