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Flint, they/them, 26, Here is where I’ll shitpost and probably talk about Fandom shit #customized is my personal tag

[cryptotheism]

You deny your weapon it's amazing digital purpose

[themainspoon]

There's so many horror games about having to try to weed out and deal with inhuman imposters, but I want one where the script is flipped. You are something inhuman, you are an imposter, and if you want to survive you have to blend into a world that is trying to hunt you down and destroy you. You aren't human, but you must masquerade as one and infiltrate their world, or you will die.

[themainspoon]

I actually think we need to start inverting more Horror premises/tropes.

Like "You have to venture into the scary insane asylum!" VS "You're a patient who was admitted by force to an asylum, and you are very clearly in real danger, but everyone is pretending that you're just deluded, and are essentially leaving you to die because they don't really see you as a person."

I feel like there's a lot of Horror tropes built off of the fear of the other, when in reality it's actually often the other who is in danger. Maybe we could start recognising that more.

[themainspoon]

Interesting how the first half of the post has picked up popularity while the second part, which perhaps clarifies the idea of the original post, hasn't.

It's been interesting to see what media people are recommending based on the first post alone. A lot of recommendations for games/franchises like World of Darkness, Carrion, Kill All Humans, Among Us, etc. It's interesting because these are games that put you into the shoes of the violent other that has to infiltrate, without actually challenging the idea that the other is a threat. They actually parrot the ideas of the other as violent.

Funnily enough, the people recommending the comedy game Octodad understand the post much better than most of the people recommending horror media. A few mentions of Am I Nima, which isn't finished yet but does look like it could be what I am describing, so brownie points to the people recommending that.

But everyone saying stuff like "This is just being Trans/Autistic/Etc" really gets it, like really really gets it. Horror always communicates the fears and anxieties of the people who create it, this post was basically: "What if instead of communicating the fear of the other, we communicated the fears of the others, which are actually vastly more legitimate than the dominant groups fear of the other. We should recognise that it is overwhelmingly the others who are the ones who actually suffer and die, all for the perceived "saftey" and "comfort" of the dominant group."

This idea is about transphobia, it is about ableism, about anti-imigrant rhetoric and white supremacy, about queerphobia, it's about all of it. It is horror from the perspective of minority groups. It is the twisting of a trope built upon reactionary fears and narratives in order to critique them, it is a direct allegory for all those experiences you are describing.

Overall, it's just interesting to see who gets it and who doesn't.

[customizablecharacter]

I FEEL LIKE I AM ACTIVELY ENGAGING WITH SHIT NOT IN A FUN WAY ANYMORE. I HAVE TO CHECK FOR ARTIFACTS IN THE BACKGROUND OR IF THE WORDS DONT MAKE SENSE OR IF THE PERSON’S TEETH ARE INCONSISTENT

WHAT HAPPENED TO JUST DOING A LITTLE SLIGHTLY SHITTY VOICEOVER SONG

OR, THE HEAVENS FORBID, ENGAGING WITH ANOTHER CREATOR GETTING SOMETHING MADE

I DON’T CARE IF YOU WROTE THE LYRICS AND FED YOUR HEART INTO THE MACHINE

I DON’T CARE IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO ANYTHING CREATIVE

I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care

I KNOW I AM APART OF THE FUNNEL SUCKING UP THE INTERNET CONTENT AT FUCKING THREE IN THE MORNING. I KNOW I CAN JUST LOG OFF AND SEE THE REAL WORLD. BUT THATS NOT WHAT I’M MAD ABOUT

BUT THERE ISN’T ANY JOY IN MAKING SHIT ANYMORE ITS ALL FOR MONEY

MIGHT AS WELL HAVE THE ROBOT DO IT SINCE YOU DONT CARE

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE MAKING VINES FOR FUN

WHERE ARE ALL THE SHITTY MIC’D UKULELE PLAYERS

WHERE IS ALL THE POORLY DRAWN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG FAN ART

WHERE DID IT GO

why won’t it come back

Thanks for witnessing my ai-slop crash out. If anyone tries any pro-ai bullshit arguments with me, I will assume your biggest aspirations in life is to be a big honking butthole. Just a wet weeping ass. Soggy and woefully unappealing. Tragic

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

bee in my bonnet

[heartof-diamond]

just one bee?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

just the one bee, but believe me we are BOTH in distress about the situation

[mcgravin]

"Well, one of us is going to have to change."

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*sighs* I will, she pulls it off with too much swagger

[allaquapetal1]

I like this post have an isopod.

This is the white out isopod!

They are a morph of porcellio scaber also known as the common rough woodlouse. The morph is caused by albinism in the species with some specimens yellowing as they age!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh delicious! *grabs a yummy crunchy handful*

[customizablecharacter]

[customizablecharacter]

Mad at staff for a lot but I’m not mad at this

[customizablecharacter]

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[customizablecharacter]

Maybe this is a privileged take; but, it’s fucking awful how social media puts the end of the world on you. What are you doing? Why aren’t you doing more? Have you heard of this? Why aren’t you informed? Why aren’t you out there? You aren’t doing enough.

And like, you could list the reasons. You could defend yourself in every comment section. Every video you post could begin and end with the one thing you did. You could have done a lot and be met with: and what about the other thing? Your algorithm gives you one more thing to be enraged at. You are served, liked, followed, and shared another cause for you to worry about.

You look up at the left hand corner of your phone. Your coworker is 27 minutes late to her shift. You call her again. No answer. She has kids. She, like everyone else here, needs this job. You worry about her because she’s nice.

She shows up, covered in a flurry of snow, eyes puffy, and exhausted. She apologizes profusely for being late. Her car broke down a mile away, her kid broke her phone charger last night. She was so upset and frustrated she ripped out her hair extensions. You see how scared she is in this moment that she is going to loose her job.

Wordlessly you take her to the bathroom. You try and fail to help her put her hair extensions back in. You grab a wet paper towel and tell her to press it against her eyes to get the redness down. You don’t care about any customers outside as you both sit down on the floor. It takes you twenty minutes to use the little comb from her purse to get her hair into an acceptable state. She says thank you. She says she is sorry for crashing out. You tell her it happens, life happens. You use your shift manager’s code and override her clock-in time to when her shift started. You are okay with being fired over this.

You get back on your phone. You feel like you aren’t doing enough.

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[assortedinsanities]

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.

[about-faces]

[alex51324]

reblogging for Black History Month!

[blackgreenandblue]

Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places forms that never were and never could be writhe for the impatience of the few who never saw what could have been. In the black water with the sun shining at midnight, those fruit shall come ripe and in the darkness of that which is golden shall split open to reveal the revelation of the fatal softness in the earth. The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear, but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields, or out to sea or in the very air, all shall come to revelation, and to revel, in the knowledge of the strangling fruit—and the hand of the sinner shall rejoice, for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead cannot forgive. And there shall be in the planting in the shadows a grace and a mercy from which shall blossom dark flowers, and their teeth shall devour and sustain and herald the passing of an age. That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated it shall walk the world in the bliss of not-knowing. And then there shall be a fire that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you that remains.

[wacosinker]

We as humanity “are now the disappointment of the hopes of the ages. . . What a catastrophe in heaven and on earth! In the face of such a picture we may well grow humble again. It is true that modern man is a culmination, but tomorrow he will be surpassed. He is indeed the end-product of age-old development, but he is at the same time the worst conceivable disappointment of the hopes of mankind. The modern man is conscious of this. He has seen how beneficent are science, technology and organization, but also how catastrophic . . .”

C. G. Jung

[customizablecharacter]

More like Castle Carrying a Torch AMIRITE *tomato tomato tomato*

[customizablecharacter]

Thimble already making me cry *fucking the dance floor up so sadly*

[theoddbun]

does a back flip into insanity. oc x canon time

[customizablecharacter]

Fully accepting this is his off-screen wife.

[targetedknowledge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11

Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11

You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.

[sevastiel]

HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!

For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.

If done correctly, it'll look like this.

While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.

Integrated search will have you going to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!

To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings

And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!

Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.

If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)

In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.

Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.

This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.

If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.

One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7

(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)

and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.

It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.

Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.

GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!

[hunter-rodrigez]

I would like to once again recommend to you all Winero Tweaker, a free program that lets you adjust a bunch of windows settings with a single click instead of digging through 30 different setting screens and registry entries.

There's well over a hundred settings, here's just a few of them:

(sorry the classic taskbar option no longer works with current windows 11 version)

Fair warning: This is a powerful tool which means it can also do some damage if you don't know what you're doing, but every setting comes with an extensive explanation, as you can see in the Ads and unwanted apps screenshot.

This tool will even turn windows 11 from a bloated mess into a (more or less, this tool isn't magic) usable operating system.

[manga-and-stuff]

Some tech advice for you all from my personal blog. I figured the more people see this the better, and I got a lot more followers on this blog.

[eepyart]

character commission for @gwuggywuggy 💕

[mens-rights-activia]

[customizablecharacter]

Damn, I cannot wait to say, “Anal Bead numbers,” at my next family gathering.

[customizablecharacter]

Things I Want to See in Bridgerton S4 Having Not Read the Books

Benedict talking openly about being bisexual with his love interest.

Eloise gets a glimpse of her love interest for next season.

Francesca is gay on screen

Anthony doesn’t show up even once. (Certified hater sorry not sorry )

Gregory and Hyacinth get in the Most Trouble

Featherington Sisters competing on who’s got the best baby.

Dowager Lady Bridgerton gets her garden tended to.

Lady Danbury roasts the ever living god out of at least three people in the same scene.

The Queen and Penelope dance. (The most unrealistic one, but could you IMAGINE)

Someone dies on screen.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

[docker-official]

And before I get all the reblogs saying "just move to Linux" some of us can't! So here is a script to make this pile of dung just a little less smelly.

[tailsos-official]

👆👆👆

[certified-anti-microsoft-posts]

Tools for the future, a really big towel to wipe up that annoying smear on every piece of software that we have to squint through!

Take control of your computer and your life!