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sideblogs are @trashbedazzler for kpop (now main is pure and free youre welcome) and @spoookybooogie for weeb shit

In the event I make art it's tagged ‘fleadoesart’ but I mostly post that elsewhere

happy pride month

my turn at this one. ART is the feed? no. ART is the frame

#the murderbot diaries

unidentifiedspoon

part 2 of this. what if instead of be not afraid you said Be Afraid but joke's on you, asshole, it's been afraid its entire life

#the murderbot diaries

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

they seriously expected us to worship cops & soldiers when street cleaners and sanitation workers exist? fuck off i know who my heroes are

avatarmerida

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

song-of-sea-and-sky

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

Good Morning!!! IS THAT A QUESTION!?!?!

special-lucky-chosen-one

I fucking hate it here

some-sort-of-ecologist

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

d-e-w-p

save

clatterbane

There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

clatterbane

Also just going to leave this here.

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.

#cool if true #fleas reference hoard

rinnegami

nattousan

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

#birds #art

todaysbird

i think this is…actually the most extreme stupid dove nest I’ve seen.

video

pastperfectcontinuous

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

ritavonbees

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

mapleejay

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

mapleejay

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

lowerroad

It sent back an acknowledgment, with a packet attached. I didn’t have to open it (I would not have opened it, that would have been stupid because viral attacks exist) to know what it was. I recognized the tags and heading. It was my own (Murderbot 2.0’s own) hack-your-governor-module annotated code bundle.

the "annotated" to me indicated that this isnt just the hack, 3 is passing around the full helpme.file with MB's diary excerpts and everything. MB rogue construct folk hero confirmed.

or as my friend said "Imagine walking up to someone in a mall food court and being like 'you must liberate yourself from the machine of capitalism' and then they turn around and its Karl Marx with guns in his arms."

afdg10

And then Karl Marx tells you that your fit sucks, to act more subtly and if you screw up his job he will use those arm guns

#the murderbot diaries

hollenix

for the good of all mankind

#WOAH #!!!!1!!!!!#project hail mary

queer-book-character-tournament

Queer Book Character Tournament Final Round

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle

Murderbot- The Murderbot Diaries

Voting ended onMay 23

Character, book, and author names under the cut

ramshacklefey

REITERATING MURDERBOT PROPAGANDA FROM PREVIOUS ROUND:

It is a perfect and absolute inversion of the wretched cishet male action hero. (I SWEAR I am going to write that essay soon.)

It had to write itself new programming to move like a human. It still never knows what to do with its hands.

Its story is about finding friendship and connection with people who accept you as you are, even if who you are makes no sense to them.

Its favorite activity is watching cheesy TV shows.

Its growth as a person is uneven and awkward.

It is an S-tier hater who will pull out all the stops to protect its people.

Everyone around it thinks it's an awkward, silently brooding presence, meanwhile it's keeping up a running commentary of the cattiest, most petty, funniest shit.

It is capable of obscene violence and does everything it can to avoid using it.

It couldn't tell you what it's feeling if you put a gun to its head, and it knows this about itself.

It once teleported down a hallway to avoid hearing about a friend's romantic spat.

grammarpedant

Come on, Murderbot fans, we can't let it fall behind. I'll repeat my previous propaganda: This one is for the Agenders, Aromantics, and Asexuals. Murderbot's an it/its pronoun user, NOT here for gender, sex or romance—and moreover, its staunch refusal of these normative "human" identities underscores themes about agency and self-determination and the right to say no. It doesn't do the "asexual robot" trope, either—the ace queerness is very much a Murderbot individual thing, because of who it is, not a SecUnit-wide thing.

What could be more queer than the refusal to define yourself by society's ideas of gender and sexual and identity? If you'd like to see an aro, ace, agender character win the Queer Book Character Tournament, then vote Murderbot!

#Murderbot murderbot MURDERBOT #of course i love adam parish also #but murderbot is such a rare and wonderful character and so so important to me #i stand by this the queerest thing is to reject what society wants you to be and do you own thing

digitaldeathx-deactivated202605

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

#mango #dandelions #sewing pants #soup #watercolor paints

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