[ohgodohfuckohgeez]

Welp. Google's AI horseshit has arrived. And I'm not complying. They can pry my ID out of my cold dead hands. I will simply go elsewhere. Remember folks, DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR IDs. Do not comply. Resist, fight it, use other browsers or sources beyond youtube and google controlled services. Call them. Email them. Make noise. Fight back.

[mocrlbmutwwwptth]

I've been using Google as my main mail service since 2006, and every single account or service I've ever signed up for was made with that address. For a long time I thought it'd be impossible to divorce myself from Google.

It took less than 5 minutes to switch to a ProtonMail account, less than 2 hours to download and/or offload every byte of data from my Google account, and less than 3 days to change every single account or service I've ever signed up for to the new address.

As of today, the only single one I have that's still tied to it is YouTube. It's the only thing I'd lose access to if I deleted my Google acount entirely.

They really, really want you to believe that it's a hassle to switch to a different email system. But it's not. Most websites and/or services allow you to change the email address associated with it.

I've been using Google for almost 2 decades and it only took a few days to move everything. It's not a painful sacrifice; it's an easy change that, frankly, has absolutely been worth it.

[twilight-deviant]

Proton Shoutout

You can and should switch to a free, encrypted Proton email account. You also get all of the below perks. For free. There is no trick. It is paid for by the people with paying plans. I am one of them. The (completely functional) free tier is there to entice you into getting a paid account with even more perks. (It worked on me.) But there's no penalty or pressure for staying with the free account.

Also get your stuff off the google drive and put it on Proton's drive. It is encrypted. Only you with your password can access it. Not even Proton can see what you put in there.

[tzikeh]

Switch everything away from Google. It's easy and it's important. Read above, click the link for Proton, download your gmail and switch.

[dipsticky]

ive been here for eight years. what the fuck

[dipsticky]

this is the internet they took from us

[headspace-hotel]

If you choose to explore the YouTube Recycle Bin (youtuber KVN AUST has great videos explaining what that is) I strongly recommend using MVI + [any four random digits] as your "lead."

Each "lead" is based on the default filename given by the device that recorded or edited the video, so different leads give different types of results. The device that gives MVI + [any four random digits] is some kind of video camera that first became common in the late 00's. Whatever it was, it wasn't something that "everyone" has and uses constantly like a smartphone.

This lead gives a lot of videos that are over 10 years old and most of them are performances, competitions, something filmed for professional reasons or for an assignment, or something that was otherwise clearly memorable/significant to the person filming.

I have learned about more kinds of dances and musical instruments than I knew even existed. There are so many random clips of festivals, clubs and gatherings with music, dancing, and costumes.

It is a button you can hit for randomized examples of human artistic expression.

I cannot recommend doing this enough. It gives the same feeling as roaming around randomly on Google Earth. And it makes you realize how the entire internet is mostly tailored to show you only people that look and speak like you. The Youtube Recycle Bin shows you people and places from throughout the world.

[headspace-hotel]

curated list

Two guys having a beatboxing duel

combat sport where each combatant has a boxing glove and a padded sword or stick

guy in a sparkly outfit does a juggling trick where he rapidly switches his hats

Basketball on unicycles

fast and energizing drum music

i saved this one as "good music" sadly no info on what the artist is and seems to be a very small intimate venue

unfamiliar dance where you make right angles with your body

burlesque show? dude in gladiator costume dances with a sword and then pole dances

dance to drums with high kicks

music and dancing, harsh vocals and growling

several people dance to low, sludgy metal music

Multiple boys show off their breakdancing

At a table with an old guy playing banjo music

some kind of music with a keyboard

dancers with huge headdresses and jangly bells

I think I've learned that you can dance to literally any music and it's not important to be good at it.

[never-obsolete]

Grand Theft Auto Computer Gaming World - April 1998

[dipsticky]

does she want a man with a huge ass?

[dipsticky]

to have sex in the backseat? arent you stealing cars so you can sell them thus precluding the need for car sex? or does the car itself get her really horny? what are we doing here

[never-obsolete]

Grand Theft Auto Computer Gaming World - April 1998

[dipsticky]

does she want a man with a huge ass?

[everythingisahoax]

When you're ten years old and you find a copy of that 1981 issue of National Geographic devoted to the eruption of Mount Saint Helens and you get to the gatefold pictures of the entire North face of the mountain fucking exploding.

[tuulikki]

Happy Explosiversary, Mount Saint Helens

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

#top ten all-time diva moment

@damejoansutherland thank you for these perfect tags

[chrisflemingfleming]

BAD ROOMMATE

[bring-your-own-water]

I've been sitting on the finished top for this quilt for a couple weeks trying to decide how to quilt it. Finally decided but I've also gotten better at my fpp designs in those couple of weeks. There are so many changes I'd make now but I still really like this one as it is.

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

[what-is-this-worth]

This post is worth many different lengths pf copper wire, sorted from shortest to longest, left to right

[fontseeker]

Hi, the other day I bought The Muppet Show Book from a fair, after looking inside and realising it has something that appeals to me as someone in the middle of the venn diagram of being a muppet fan and an admirer of typefaces (much more of a circle than you might).

It gave each muppet and the occasional guest their own typeface!

I thought you might like this, too, including identifying what Letraset era fonts they went with.

There's a photo limit of 10 pictures, I will be back with more. Please let me know if I'm being annoying.

Kermit is in Art Gothic (1885) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont]:

Miss Piggy is in Sweetheart (1973 or earlier) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Sgt. Floyd Pepper is in Yagi Link Double (1968) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Dr. Teeth is in Benguiat Laurent (1968 or earlier) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use], with the Psychemat effect applied:

There's a clearer example of the same effect here.

Zoot is in ITC Neon (1970) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Janice is in Crayonette (1889) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Animal is in Shatter (1973) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont]:

Fozzie Bear is probably in Hoopla (1976 or earlier) [Fonts In Use], though I can't find a sample to make sure. So here's Scorpio (1968) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use], which is very similar:

Statler is in Interline (1876) [Fonts In Use]:

Waldorf is in a version of Interline with the pattern removed, but I don't know when that version was created.

Crazy Harry is in Burst Caps (1967 or earlier) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

[robertreich]

Why should we worry about people with insider information profiting in the stock market, futures markets, or even crypto-powered predictions markets? For one thing, it’s unfair. It hurts average investors while increasing the wealth of certain people who know, for example, what Trump is about to do (including Trump and members of his family). For another, such rigging erodes public confidence in market fairness, which ultimately destroys markets. Put simply, if the public believes the market is rigged in favor of privileged individuals, they may withdraw their investments. This is why the Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to police the market against insider trading. And why we should all be concerned that the top enforcement officer at the SEC abruptly resigned recently because the SEC’s chairman and other Republican appointees wouldn’t allow her to be more aggressive in pursuing charges of fraud and other misconduct against Trump’s inner circle? Friends, there’s a word for this. It’s called corruption.

[beanwood]

real life cartoon character

[unexpectedyarns]

I was watching this thinking "What is this guy the Weird Al of symphony?" Then him face

[batbetbitbotbut]

that's not a body that's a collection of limbs

[baddywronglegs]

This is quite some dedication to physical comedy for someone who spends so much of his time on stage on the wrong side of an accordion, an instrument I'd describe as "technically portable"

[trans-marvin]

The doors are closing

Train departing

Please hold on

A moodboard to commemorate the type one max <3

[dipsticky]

tumblr users actually need a patron saint of containment breaches. something that descends from heaven and boops you on the nose and you only have good responses and takes on your post please

[tofupixel]

capybara on a bike

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

'It means so much': Highway of Tears' family members unveil Pillar of Hope in Prince George | CBC News

Family members of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered along the Highway of Tears gathered in Prince George, B.

The family members of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered along the Highway of Tears in northern B.C. cried and held hands as a monument created in their honour was unveiled at Cottonwood Island Park in Prince George Friday morning. Called the Pillar of Hope, the monument commemorates the string of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women and girls along the 720-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert dating back to the 1960s. "It's a bittersweet moment," said Mary Teegee, executive director of Carrier Sekani Family Services, which led the project.

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