CrimsonUnited

Das hier ist mein Blog für allen möglichen Schrott oder auch mal ernste Sachen.

[mloreley]

Donate to Help Griffin and Lindsay Keep Their Home, organized by Lindsay Bolin

Edited to add: Rather than make a new GoFundMe, we're using this one- it's the … Lindsay Bolin needs your support for Help Griffin and Linds

HEY so, fun story Jobs have continued to be elusive, and we're still struggling. Rather than start a new GoFundMe for the exact same circumstances, we decided to revive this one for another round. If you can chip in to helping us pay rent next month, it would be huge help for us right now. I know we're not the only ones dealing with this, but with me being disabled and on a limited income, and the roommate not able to secure a job (despite working every day to do so), we're desperate enough to try. As with everyone who posts these, if you can't donate that's totally understandable, but sharing also does wonders- you might not think so, but even if sharing once only reaches one other person, you never know how far down the chain it could go from there. That's why everyone says "Hey, sharing helps too!", and we're no exception to this. So, please, consider reblogging.

Thank you so much!

[zandergb]

[astromechapunk]

This is how it's done:

[eatalotofdirt]

And this is how you homage it:

[hopencyde-deactivated20250901]

[weirdlandtv]

Droodles by Roger Price (from his 1953 book). Droodles (a blend of “doodle”, “drawing”, “riddle”) are simple drawings with a witty, often absurd, caption. The first one, as some of you may know, was used by Frank Zappa for his 1982 album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. (Zappa, a fan of Price's work, lived just a few miles from the artist and personally sought permission to use the image.)

These come from the 1972 edition of the book.

[fillianore-moved]

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

[aymerictheblue]

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

[prismatic-bell]

Friend, I have news you're gonna love. Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Go forth. Be free.

[ophilosoraptoro]

Reblog to save a life... and someone's sanity

[mamoru]

the full schedule for summer games done quick 2025, benefitting doctors without borders, was just posted! it looks like the finale this year will be deltarune!

Check out the schedule for Summer Games Done Quick 2025!

games done quick is an organization that hosts charity events showcasing video games played with top-level skill. speedruns, challenge runs, randomizers, and knocking people's socks off by playing video games wrong for some fantastic causes. to date, GDQ has raised tens of MILLIONS of dollars (USD) for charity.

there are a bunch of great video game-themed prizes to win. summer games done quick raises money for a group called doctors without borders.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

from the doctors without borders website. money raised watching video games goes directly towards saving lives all over the world. SGDQ is their top fundraiser!

this is a really fun way to do a TON of good. summer games done quick 2025 will be held july 6 through july 13, with awesome stuff happening 24 hours a day, both in person in minneapolis and streaming online. literally 24/7!

Sign up for Summer Games Done Quick 2025 happening at Hilton Minneapolis Downtown! Registration period is 3/19/25 6:00 PM to 5/26/25 6:59 AM

in addition to the two main events of awesome games done quick (in the winter!) and summer games done quick (in the summer!) games done quick also has awesome programming alongside other smaller charity events year-round! if you like video games, check them out!

games done quick kicks ass! who else is fucking hype for SGDQ!!! which runs are you looking forward to?

[mamoru]

doctors without borders is doing life-saving work in gaza, sudan, dr congo, syria, ukraine, and in so many other places around the world in urgent need of medical care.

whether it be this post or any other post you might see or make, please consider spreading the word about summer games done quick 2025.

SGDQ is a fun way to save lives and make a real difference in the world.

SGDQ is the largest fundraising event for doctors without borders in the entire world.

[1dietcokeinacan]

“3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks”

[opinatus-papaver]

FINALLY, SOME GOOD QUALITY EXPLANATION OF WHY “I DONT LOOK LIKE I HAVE ADHD” BECAUSE ITS NOT REALLY CANT SIT STILL FOCUS NONE DISORDER ITS SOMETHING A WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLEX

[dysfunctionalfocus]

Actually yeah. I just reblogged this silently without any acknowledgement of it, but this is hones to god one of the best explanations I’ve seen.

[duplexide]

I don't know anything about YuGiOh but "Overworked" is the greatest card art they've ever done

[kaibutsu-kid]

Yeah that’s good but check out the original OCG art:

[joey-wheeler-official]

Me checking my inbox on tumblr dot com

[gallusrostromegalus]

[wanderingskyflower]

Damn this hit hard

[aquato-blog]

getting a note on a super old post

[estel-and-agape]

[possibly-emu]

reblog to slap op with some paper in the wind

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[athenadark]

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

[the-haiku-bot]

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[elfwreck]

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

[noswordinourlake]

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[beepbopitsgt]

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

[tenaflyviper]

He's throwing a tantrum about it, too.

I cannot wait until this man snaps.

[thefirstanomally]

Does he really think he can just...cancel a holiday?

[bugkrumch]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[s-lycopersicum]

[beepbopitsgt]

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

[tenaflyviper]

He's throwing a tantrum about it, too.

I cannot wait until this man snaps.

[thefirstanomally]

Does he really think he can just...cancel a holiday?

[bugkrumch]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[jenroses]

sound on, his voice is something else.

[saintbullart]

this feels like if all of humanity were to reset and humans had forgotten how everything worked and had to teach each other what things were. this is the Wall turorial

[lacefuneral]

[huntress1013]

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention