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I'm gonna make a post with all of the 'stick figure violence' adjacent images I have. if anyone knows any similar ones I'm missing PLEASE SEND ME THEM. I have an unhealthy obsession with them.
my collection
hey guys
I've been making some of my own that are free to snatch
Plus some more I haven't seen here yet
Saving these for later use <3
Some of mine that aren't here :)
Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.
If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.
Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.
If the gemini.google.com/extensions page takes you to gemini.google.com/app, (“app” without the “s”) you can navigate there with the following steps:
Click the hamburger menu at the top left:
Click “Settings & help” in the left sidebar:
Click “Apps”:
Once you're there, you might need to scroll down to find the toggles.
Bonus step: disable Smart Features
There are "Smart Features" for most Google products, which accesses your data and uses AI to "improve" your experience. You can turn it off on any Google product, but I'll just share the steps for Gmail.
On your Gmail homepage, click the Settings icon in the top right, then "See all settings":
Search (Ctrl+F for Windows, Cmd+F for Mac) for the word "workspace". Under "Google Workspace smart features", click the "Manage Workspace smart feature settings" button:
Turn off both toggles, then press Save. It should now be turned off for all services across your Google account.
there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart
She's on YouTube too! For non-Instagram using friends:
I love her, she's great. Her recipes are friendly for both physical and/or intellectual disabilities. And her 5-year-old helps her cook. 🥰
Link to her YouTube channel:
Celebrating the intersection of food and culture, travel tales, social commentary, grieving out loud. 🇳🇬/🇺🇸 👰🏽🧒🏽👧🏽👩🏽💼⚖️ Paid Collaboration
shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply
"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post
"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior
"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares
"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.
"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all
".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity
this is prime proof that this ENTIRE WEBSITE is autistic because nowhere else would a no tags post that's just an informative list about slang get this much traction.
anyway more addittions
“30-50 wild hogs” for someone making ABSURD excuses for violence.
“what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” for how do you know that without being a part of it.
“anyone in this thread smoke weed” for the shit you people are saying is so off topic this might as well be a general discussion forum
“dogs are boys and cats are girls” for ooh ur mindset did not grow past 4th grade, huh
“color theory in a childrens hospital” for bending over backwards to not agree that YEA, that thing Came Off Weird
“you are a tar pit” for someone finding any reason to respond with outrage.
“is the __ in the room with us right now?” for I Don’t Think That’s Real.
“bean soup? im allergic to beans!” for ik this doesn’t work for you, but that’s not a flaw. not everything can be for you.
“people irl: hey man hows it going” for this will Never Matter irl
"why are you buying clothes at the soup store?" is also a valid substitute for "bean soup? i'm allergic to beans!"
if you like crafting and also free things, might i suggest the antique pattern library?
it’s a not for profit that’s gathering books, patterns, and other materials related to crafting that are out of copyright (or getting permission from copyright holders in some cases) in order to share them online. they scan items, clean them up, then make everything available for free!
free things are great, especially when you’re just starting to get into something. like oh, i’m supposed to spend money on this hobby i just picked up 20 minutes ago???
the first time i ended up on the site, i seriously spent hours just trawling through everything. there’s the usual suspects like knitting, crochet, embroidery, but there’s also woodwork, calligraphy, and books on things like how to mount and frame pictures. with cross stitch patterns, they also make modern charts with the dmc colour codes available.
links to their webbed site and instagram:
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/
https://www.instagram.com/theantiquepatternlibrary/
behold, a glorious cat cross stitch pattern (link goes to antique pattern library page):
[image id: Multicolour charted cross stitch design of a cat sitting on a red pillow with tassels, holding a green ball]
Yeen mom is the best mom
baby is like "i kiss u" and mom is like "i kiss u MORE" which definitely transcends species
How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox
*deep, calming breath* On the plus side, the steps at that link were very clear and easy to follow.
Important note: Definitely do Method Two. Method One will make the chat feature invisible, but it may pop up again; Method Two will make it go away entirely.
genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital
Share the knowledge
Okay, here we go! I'm gonna try and put this in order from least to most technical knowledge required. I'm not responsible if you accidentally create SkyNet etc.
Level 1: browser extensions
This one is basically impossible to get wrong, or at least to get wrong badly enough that it causes any problems.
Get Firefox, or a Firefox fork like Waterfox. If you use a fork, make sure it's one that will let you use add-ons. On a PC, pretty much any Firefox fork will take add-ons, but on mobile devices, many don't. Iceraven is one that does.
Get the add-ons uBlock Origin, YouTube Sponsorblock (if you use YouTube), and FBCleaner (if you use Facebook).
uBlock Origin comes with a built-in list of filters to block ads and trackers, but you can add your own filters to block any specific element of a website you don't like. You know those goddamn floating frames on fandom.com sites that block half the screen? Now you can zap 'em.
Sponsorblock uses crowdsourced timestamps to automatically skip sponsor spots and self-promotion in YouTube videos. Never listen to anyone say "hit like and subscribe" or "Raid Shadow Legends" again.
FBCleaner hides all content from your feed except posts from people, groups, and pages you've actually chosen to follow.
Level 2: leaving enshittified services
The software that's become standard over the years in a lot of fields is steadily selling more of your data, showing you more ads, and pushing you to buy more expensive subscriptions. Time to tell them to get fucked.
Dump Adobe apps for Affinity or Krita. Drop Microsoft for LibreOffice. Change your default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo or Qwant. Use OpenStreetMaps instead of Google or Apple Maps.
Level 3: network-level DNS fuckery
DNS, or Domain Name Service, is the thing that tells your computer where www.website.com is actually located. By hacking your network's DNS you can force it to tell your devices that ad-hosting domains don't exist at all. Some of the steps on this one can get pretty technical, but because you're doing all the difficult stuff on a dedicated device, you can't really fuck up anything that seriously.
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi (a cheap older one like a model 3B will work just fine for this purpose), and follow a guide like this one to get it set up running AdGuard Home. AdGuard, like uBlock, has built-in filter lists, but you can also add your own if there are specific domains you want to block.
Once it's up and running, you'll need to change the DNS settings on your router to point to your AdGuard service. This is different for every router but will always start with logging into the admin panel with a password printed on a little sticker somewhere on the router.
With that done, every time a device on your home network looks for ads.website.com, it'll get back a message that says "sorry, can't find it", so it won't be able to load any ads.
Level 4: Android-specific DNS fuckery
Because AdGuard runs on your home network, it can't block ads on your phone when you're away from home - and what's worse, your phone will sometimes remember the addresses it got when you were out and about, and ads will get past your AdGuard wall even when you're home.
To avoid this, get AdAway for DNS-based ad-blocking directly on your phone. The easy, but less seamless, way of using AdAway is the "local VPN mode", which doesn't require you to do any mucking about with your phone's operating system.
Level 5: automated media piracy
The best way to stop seeing ads on all your streaming services is to stop using streaming services. There are loads of ways to do this, but the best ones involve setting up what's called an "arr stack" (Google that for setup guides) along with nzbget and a usenet account. Most of the time you'll want to set this stuff up on a dedicated device - an old laptop gathering dust in the closet is a great option, or you can grab something used from a charity shop or a local electronics recycler.
The great thing about usenet is that unlike with torrents, you don't have to do any sharing from your computer, so you're in a lot less legal jeopardy - legally speaking, distributing pirated content is waaayyy more serious than accessing it. I pay about £3 a month for a secure, high-bandwidth usenet service.
Once you start getting your own collection of media on your own computer, use the open-source media library manager Jellyfin to browse and play things from basically any device.
Oh, and don't be a dick. Pirate all you want from big corporations, but please pay independent small-time creators for their work.
Level 6: fucking with Android
Android phones are a lot more locked-down than they used to be, but depending on the device you own you can still do a lot of messing around under the hood. Note that if you get something wrong while doing this, there is always the possibility that it will turn your device into a paperweight.
Before you buy a device, check where it sits on the Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame. Once you've bought it, check the xda-developer forums for guides on how to unlock it and "root" it (gain admin access) with Magisk.
Once Magisk is installed, you can add modules to do all sorts of cool stuff, including using AdAway in "root mode" which makes it basically invisible.
You can also install YouTube ReVanced, which will do all the ad- and sponsor blocking stuff we took care of in your Windows browser a few paragraphs ago. Be careful: there are a lot of fake sites out there pretending they're associated with the ReVanced project which might be injecting malware into their downloads. This Reddit post has the official instructions and links.
Also, try out the modded version of Facebook from APKmoddone, which will block most of the same shit as the FBcleaner add-on from earlier. There's always a possibility that modified apps like this are doing something dodgy, but I've never had any issues with this one personally.
Level 7: fucking with Windows
This one is scary because it can seriously fuck up your shit if something goes wrong, but some really cool people have actually made it very simple to strip all the bloat, ads, and spyware out of Windows. The tool I use is ReviOS. Start reading at https://www.revi.cc/docs. Basically, you'll need to download a tool called AME Wizard and the ReviOS "playbook" that tells AME what to do. Read the documentation before you do any of this.
Level 8: switching to Linux
I'm not going to pretend this is an option for everyone. Half the software I use on a weekly basis isn't available on Linux. But if you can switch? Do it. These days, Ubuntu - one of the most popular flavours of Linux - is built with people switching from Windows in mind, and a lot of things will be pretty intuitive. It also has great documentation and a huge community you can go to for help if you're confused about stuff.
And that, friends, is a comprehensive approach to banishing the demons of capitalism from your home!
how tf did they even get that pic wow
decentralize and clean up your life!!!
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
last updated: march 18th 2025
i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.
so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.
hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.
past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you
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we fucking found them?
Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:
"Smooth edges of screen fonts"
My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.
Y'all.
I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.
Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:
Then you'll see this:
TURN IT ALL OFF.
I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.
My computer is so quiet and reasonably-temperatured now and I barely notice a difference in utility, why is windows like this
maybe I can even play computer games again
The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.
10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.
Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")
The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.
i'm gonna make a midnight treat does anyone want my recipe for warm milk & honey while I'm at it lol
it usually zonks me out but I'm not very sugar sensitive so ymmv
Fantastic
You'll need:
A microwave safe mug, milk of any kind, honey, vanilla extract, and either a little whisk or a fork
First, pour just enough honey to cover the very bottom of your mug (like, at most a tablespoon). Add a splash (quarter teaspoon or less) of vanilla extract and as much cinnamon as your heart wants.
Then pour in juuuust a little bit of milk. Like a third of the cup. Whisk as best you can but it'll be sticky, so we're gonna microwave it for 30 seconds to get everything to stir up.
This will keep the cinnamon from floating around on top at the end, which isn't as fun to drink.
Now add the rest of your milk, and microwave for one minute. Test your temp and go from there in 15 second bursts, although I usually do mine for two minutes total here. Stir between bursts.
And ta-da! It's very comforting. I find it helps me sleep and also it smells real nice.
Enjoy!!
I feel at this point that it’s important to tell you all that when I was first trying to figure this out my goal was creme de la creme a la edgar
Oh I'm sorry C: you've only got 6GB free? Only six fucking gig? We used to boot the OS off fucking floppy drives but I'm so so sorry that six entire gigabytes of free space isn't enough for you you poor starving thing. You've been experiencing worse and worse memory issues for months and now you're freezing and crashing every few minutes because why, you just can't make 6 gig work? Grow the fuck up.
On the plus side having to hard reboot my computer every 5 minutes is finally convincing me to (very very slowly through multiple reboots) back up my files and switch this machine over to Linux like I've been meaning to do for a good couple of years now
I'll just move some of this junk onto an old external and --
OH COME ON
Computer's on Ubuntu now with plenty of space on its nice clean hard drives. If this doesn't solve the freezing and crashing issues then I'm going to have to peel him open and start replacing his organs.
Downside: now I have to go hunting for all the add-ons and stuff to make my computer experience how I like it again. This is a horrible use of screen space and I forgot that every website has stupid fucking popups and stuff in the corners.
Computer of theseus
Every home computer should be a Computer of Theseus. Right to repair, fuck yeah.
When I was dealing with a similar issue I saw a lot of people reporting issues with windows filling up their hard drives by creating log files and temp files and whatnot that just keep bloating in size forever when they absolutely should not be doing that. It's apparently a pretty common problem.
I managed to find a fix for myself, but I'm definitely coming closer and closer to following in your footsteps and doing the work to get Linux set up.
Common distributions of Linux aren't all that much work; if you're a casual user like me then Ubuntu's not any harder to install and work with than Windows is. You install it and you go, same as Windows. But installing any operating system on a computer is mildly annoying because you've got to download your programs and install your ad blockers and sign into all your "keep me signed in" stuff again. I use like four programs and four websites so my main problem is reinstalling all my favourite Steam games.
That's really good to know!
Gives a solid starting point of making sure I have a list of all the programs that will need re-installing/replacing. (and various backups made) That's a project I can slowly chip away at until I've got a weekend where my brain feels like doing fiddly busy-work, and I've got plenty of reading to catch up on while stuff installs.
The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is. It's like of you go to a Spider-Man fan and say "where should I get started with Spider-Man media?" and they give you a complex timeline of several decades' worth of comics and how they interrelate to each other and warn you about all the crossover events in other heroes' stories and give you advice on tracking down digital versions of the particularly rare comics when really like. You can just watch a random Spider-Man cartoon and it's fine.
If you want to develop software in a hyperoptimised workflow then choosing a really specific Linux distribution and carefully choosing what to install and jury rigging some stuff is probably important. If, like me, you just want to fuck around on the internet, play computer games, and use basic word processing and image editing programs, Ubuntu or Mint or any of the other big distros will work fine for you right out of the box and it won't matter all that much which one you pick.
My mother uses a Linux desktop just fine and she doesn’t use computers.
The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is.
Please, if you are new to Linux, please stick to the beginner friendly distros like Ubuntu (I dont like the current version), Fedora (I dont know shit about Fedora) and Mint (FAVORITE). If someone says Arch, Kali, or something else, don't listen to them. Don't try to prove that you're such a cool nerd with computers that you could compile your own kernel. Please, if you are NEW to Linux, please take a distribution that is MEANT for you.
Another advantage of the really popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint is that thousands and thousands of other regular people are also using them, so if you do run into a weird problem, someone else has already run into it and had it explained to them in very simple words on the forums where you can very easily find it. If you pick some cool fringe super-efficient distro that only nine people are using and six of them built it, any problem you have is not getting solved.
Ubuntu and Mint are incredibly casual friendly (I've got Mint on one of my laptops and from memory I don't remember ever having to use the command line on it even once). If you can use Windows or Mac, then you can use Mint, they run exactly the same for a casual user.
Can confirm as a new Mint user it's been exactly as easy as if not easier than windows to deal with
I don't think I needed to do any terminal based bullshit to get basic web browsing/media/etc stuff working.
The straw that broke the camel's back in my case was that I could change the audio balance after a windows update unless I went into the registry and did some regedit stuff and added values there.
In linux it's just a goddamn slider on the audio settings page.
Also, with any major mainstream Linux distro (like Mint), you will get 99% of your software for free by opening the software manager, clicking a couple of buttons, and waiting a minute or three while it downloads and installs it for you.
i dont know how to do anything, how do you trade mint for windows in the first place
You can download it from the website!
https://linuxmint.com/
You will need to put it on something external (a CD drive or a flash drive or something) in order to install it. Assuming you have a modern computer (and probably don't have a CD drive), then the easiest way is to boot it from a flash drive. Most people have a billion flash drives lying around but if you've moved on from flash drives, you can pick them up cheap at any electronics store or even the supermarket. (Once you're done installing Mint, you can use the flash drive for other things. If you're too young to have used flash drives, they are very small external hard drives that you can put files on and plug into your computer to read the files. You might use your phone or a cloud service to do this; we used to do it with flash drives).
If you're a millennial who used to pirate games and stuff, you're already familiar with image booting. If it's new to you, do not panic.
After you have downloaded the iso from the website, Make the bootable USB with these instructions.
Boot Linux with these instructions.
Don't panic. You're going to see some new words and do some unfamiliar things but remember: it is impossible to fuck this up. If you somehow mess up making the USB, you can format the USB and try again. If you somehow fuck up the installation, you can reinstall without breaking anything. So long as you don't go randomly fucking around in the BIOS (DO NOT go randomly fucking around in the BIOS), you cannot break anything.
This will destroy everything you have on Windows (unless you keep both OSs which is a bit more complicated). Replacing your operating system is like getting a totally new computer. All of your Windows stuff will be gone. Save all of your files somewhere else first the same way you would if you were going to throw out your computer.
This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week
me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig
me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back
Murderbot meets ART (who knew transports could be smart enough to be MEAN)
This is such a brilliant rendering of ART "greeting" Murderbot when they first met. And Murderbot's terror, written on its face.
Thank you sm!! And on one hand i feel i go a little ham on how espressive Murderbot is, but on the other hand with how much it says "my face must have done something" and the other characters clearly react to its' nonverbal cues, i fully believe our secunit is an unreliable narrator about it's own expressions 😂
The beginning of All Systems Red is probably the fastest I've ever been hooked by a book, the first line alone got me pretty good but the whole first chapter has stuck in my head- the visuals, the timing and pacing of each line, every time I've relistened/reread it (too many times to admit) it I can see it so vividly so finally drew them to release them from my head
(I've already realized I feel I made Secunit too tall and long in these but releasing them before I say I'm going to redraw it all again)
This is fantastic! It definitely doesn't need redrawing either, it's before Art made Murderbot shorter.
There we go, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
