Hyperfixation Vampire

@gifevents | i understood that reference day 4. parody

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

gora means somthing along the lines of fair skinned, or outright white

pakoda or pakora is a fritter made with various vegtables in a gram flour batter and then fried

I will do my best... my favorite compression sock brands are wellow (these are the most comfortable by far) sockwell, and vim&vigr (those two have higher compression but aren't as comfortable)

for abdominal compression the most effective ones by far are supacore, which are very $$$. sign up for emails and wait for sales, sometimes certain colors will be deeply discounted, u gotta check in every so often to see. the most COMFORTABLE stuff is from jelliebend, although the material they use gets you really sweaty if you wear it out and it's hot. so that a consideration. i also have compression leggings from cean that I like, and they make shorts and an abdominal Tube thing that's a lot like the jelliebend one. i like jelliebend for being more accessible bc they're a very small company and frequently send out feedback forms to try and get opinions & insight about what type of products their customers would find most helpful and I like when ppl involve customers in product design like that when they're making stuff for sick & disabled people.

MY LORD?? there is no way I can follow you there!

(you deserve all of the desserts ever. Just. In general. Always fun to learn something new and hang {virtually} with you!)

FOR INSTAGRAM (and maybe other Meta networks in the future?)

Since this is Tumblr, this is more of a PSA. I posted this on Netherworld Post's instagram, threads, and Facebook account earlier.

Good to know if you run something elsewhere. There are plenty of people talking about it, but Meta certainly has not made any giant announcement that I have seen.

Email sign up is available at netherworldpost.com and emails will (very) likely be our primary source of contact (if not exclusive) when atticus gets back in August.

Email and… sigh, laugh, Tumblr, the system that seems to survive somehow everything.

Time to study small scale advertising?

anyway

be good

or don't

This is The Boy From Venus #4! Ty for reading. :D

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Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

Catch me tomorrow spinning at the Iowa State Fair! I'll have a whole display set up with various fibers and parts of the spinning process explained.

I specifically chose different wools for the sheep section to show off breed variation- long and lustrous bfl x teeswater, medium-in-most-ways cheviot, and ultrafine merino.

I'll also be spinning some fun dyed braids, one of which is the sparkly Honeygold Acres one I started last week.

I HIGHLY recommend the whole series but also you can use his library of "leads" to explore the Youtube Recycle Bin yourself and I've done that a lot and it's SO fun

The internet is so vast, much more expansive than algorithms will ever show you. This really reminds me of wandering around randomly on Google Earth. It's possible to experience so much of the world it's kind of mind boggling.

I've been keeping a collection of my favorite youtube recycle bin finds.

also there's at least more kinds of sports than I thought existed.

and also everywhere people are dancing. and they're usually not very good at it but that's okay

at the club in some eastern european country judging by the cyrillic text

guy in some kind of cosplay with a gas mask dancing

dance show, looks like students, cyrillic text again. pink panther theme? then party rockers in the house tonight?

guy plays drums on buckets and trashcans (interesting)

guy rapping but you cant hardly hear him because of wind blowing over the microphone. im amazed by the video quality being so good and the audio quality being so bad

brief ambience in a bar

dancing (pretty good)

on stage monologue in language i don't understand

more dancing

no idea what this is

furries dancing on the roof of a building to a furry related song

unfamiliar kind of music. I've never seen instruments like these before. there are poles you beat against the ground and pipes that you slap with a flat implement. it sounds really cool though.

disco music with a guy with a really bad wig

low quality video at a rave or something

driving terrifyingly thru snow somewhere in eastern europe i think

riding in a boat along a canal with dilapidated buildings with graffiti right up to the waters edge very interesting

truck sports somewhere in like, saudi arabia or nearby

Fish market. they are VERY fresh you can tell by the fact they're still flopping

riding a four wheeler in some kind of savanna like environment in the darkness

boat on a lush waterway nice ambience

Some kind of technology being demonstrated. would be really interested to learn what is being shown here

guys inside of a mine?

view out the window of a train near a gigantic city

unfamiliar sport where you hit eachother with sticks balancing on a beam

Guy walks under a bridge appears to be singing to himself the word "homeless"

early morning city ambience really vibey

another peaceful city ambience out a window

night time video out of the window in a city

oceanside city ambience

people in knight armor hitting each other with sticks

Pole dance routine by a dude dressed as a gladiator

Thunderstorm ambience in a city.

Beatboxing battle

Possibly a hotel or something? Backrooms vibes, empty and eerie.

Breakdancing, multiple boys show off their dancing. the breakdancing vids were some of the favorite stuff I found

pocket full of scam by "clowns against corruption"

A video of driving down a road in the darkness that was somehow captivating to view as a kind of short horror film because of the drawn out and distorted audio.

I don't think this pipe should be doing that.

Really cool dance routine called "Symbiosis"

A mascot bee at what looks like a child's birthday party dances to a song that seems...slightly inappropriate for a child's birthday party. definitely on e of my top 5 finds

Snow over apartments. IMMACULATE vibe.

Dance contest between Spider-Men

Unfamiliar music, not sure what he's saying but i love the enrgy

Captivating video of a machine that makes those plastic cartons blueberries come in. the SOUNDS it is so satsfying

POV of a person barely maintaining control of a bike as she rides it down a brick street, making noises of fear and apprehension

immaculate Backrooms vibe. I would love to find more like this.

Another breakdancing competition. My brother and i fascinatedly watched all nine minutes of this. One of my top finds

A beautiful cow investigates a shrine. love the energy of this video

Guy dressed as an egg or possibly the kool aid man silently flailing

A short film about a printer that tries to seduce a guy. Surprisingly well done

Indian rave

Chinese dance contest. Some similarities to breakdancing but not sure exactly what it is, seems like an eclectic mix.

I have no idea what kind of place this is. Maybe a casino? Looks almost like a pro wrestling outfit but he's playing a trumpet

military/police training? paintball? No idea what's going on here but I've found a number of vids like this

I am WILDLY impressed at how many bricks this person can balance on their head

I have this one saved as "no party like an Eastern European party." I have a lot of drunk people in my collection but these gotta be some of the drunkest

Booed at the slam poetry

But exploring the internet randomly, using these "leads" to find random videos, it is much more representative of the real world. You can see city streets, buildings, music and dances from everywhere, hear many different languages being spoken, and see all kinds of unfamiliar things that the algorithms would not have shown you.

I realize it is important to see them, to go against the propaganda that warps our minds.

If you are in USA TV and media will never ever show you the real everyday life of people in most countries of the world. but the internet in theory could have the power to unite everyone

It is also really striking how vast and unexplored the internet is. Did you know everything uploaded to Youtube was used to train AI models? All these fragments of real life and real art, languishing in obscurity, shoveled into the slop machine to make slop.

I mostly used "MVI [any four random digits]" as my lead when searching. It gives a lot of older (10+ years old) videos. It is a video camera of some kind.

There are so many dances in the world. So many! So many ways to dance. All over the world, everyone loves to dance, sing, and play music.