Manic Pixie Dream Barn Cat

[my0clonic-jerk]

[cardassiangoodreads]

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

[kaijuno]

[gamechangershow]

[shalrath]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[quinn-of-aebradore]

@flashhwing EXCELLENT catch, oh my fucking god XD

[existennialmemes]

It's important to remember that Luigi Mangione is being framed for murder. The "evidence" they have on him is absolute clown shoes absurd.

They're trying to win this by swaying public opinion. That's why they're doing movie deals about it and staging ridiculous photo ops.

They're gonna try to give this kid the death penalty to cover up for their own gross incompetence and in the hopes that they scare the working class out of trying to fight back.

Please don't help them do this by using his name as a synonym for political assassinations. Please do not perpetuate the idea that he's guilty.

[deramin2]

The person who committed that assassination is the Claims Adjuster. They have not proved in a court of law beyond a doubt that Luigi Mangione is the Claims Adjuster, and it is your civic duty to consider people innocent until proven guilty. Fairness or justice inherent to the Justice System aside, none of that matters if people won't even respect presumed innocence in the first place. It's a keystone holding up every other debate.

The cops were fucking embarrassing themselves in a manhunt where it was abundantly clear that they had lost their guy. And then they suddenly nab this guy at a McDonald's who suddenly got sloppy and it just so happens they found every bit of evidence they needed while they were alone with his bag with no one to corroborate the search. That is genuinely some of the most obviously staged that evidence has ever been in a high profile trial, and that's saying something. They worked harder and were less sloppy while persecuting the Black Panthers.

Everything they've done since has been a massive violation of Luigi's rights, and one of which should reasonably get the entire trial thrown out. And yet even people who claim to support The Claims Adjuster and Luigi and claim to be abolitionists are just wholesale buying and repeating the cops story. Do not. Don't let them get away with it. Whatever legal or social precedent they're allowed to set here will be used against everyone else the cops want to use as a pawn.

Do not do the cops' work for them. If you want to talk about the murderer, talk about The Claims Adjuster, but stop talking like we know it was Luigi. We don't.

[dogspouse]

so, i have an opportunity to interview a trans man who has had phalloplasty about his experience, for a zine that im hoping will help dispel some of the more common myths and misconceptions about phallo and lower surgery. i want to collect questions from people that i can give him to answer. so, what questions about phalloplasty would you like answered by someone who's had phallo?

don't be worried about asking anything dumb or 'obvious', if you don't know something, asking is the best way to get an answer!

you can reply to this post, or send me an ask. feel free to send it on anon, too! if you'd like to leave a name or initial associated with your question, go for it!

edit: and if you're cis and see this and have questions or things you've always been curious about, you should ask too! even if it's just "how do they make a penis?"

[aropride]

youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,

[insomniac-arrest]

You can survive almost anything through the right combination of:

Bitching and moaning

Hater-ology

Doing a goofy little bit about it

Having a buddy say "that's so fucked up" at intermittent points (you can also be your own buddy)

Destroying the cursed amulet you carry everywhere, why do you even have that thing

[permanenteclipse]

Autistic trauma is so devastating and yet so corny. You'll be doing everything perfectly normal in public but someone will sneer at you and you'll spend an hour agonizing over yourself like "fuck what if no one told me it was Don't Wear Yellow Thursday"

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there are people in the notes of the teacher crush poll just casually confessing to some of the most psychologically fascinating shit imaginable like it's completely normal to say. got somebody in there saying they never had a crush on a teacher because they automatically hate literally any woman old enough to be their mother. hello.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and then you have this person casually dropping something that the devil himself would not be able to beat out of me

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

me: haha did you guys ever have a crush on a teacher

the denizens of tumblr's abyssopelagic zone: I am about to say something that will make the corpse of Sigmund Freud get up and start krumping

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#what the fuck does krumping mean#i gotta look that up#i looked it up. what. what point are you trying to make with that

so glad you asked, the point I'm trying to make is that if he could hear this shit Sigmund Freud would get out of his grave and start krumping

[animentality]

[foldingfittedsheets]

I really hate when one of the cats comes to cuddle and then starts having a bath on me. There’s whiskers in my face and the overwhelming smell of cat saliva and lots of disruptive movement and gross wet sounds.

I know why they do it. We’re buddies. They feel safe with me and trust me to watch their back. But I haaaaate it.

One day my beloved said, “If I could turn into a little cat I’d have a bath on you.”

I looked at them in disbelief, “You know I hate that.”

“But you’d let me. Because you love me.”

I glared and pretended that in a hypothetical world in which they could turn into a little cat I’d be heartless enough to deny them having a licky wash right next to my goddamn face. But we both knew I’d let them. Because I love them.

[aorryn47]

I wouldn't do it right in your face. I'm not a monster.

Licking myself right in front of your salad.

[foldingfittedsheets]

My sweet precious darling baby, you abso-fucking-lutely would do it right in my face.

I know you. I’ve been in love with you for nine years.

You would have all the best intentions and then when you were in a little cat body you would realize that the funniest possible course of action would be licking your entire body right in my face and I’d only stop you when you got to your butthole. But you’d be grateful because even as a cat I don’t think you’d want to lick that.

[lizardho]

The peacock’s less respectable sister, the lentilcunt.

[lizardho]

Another instance of me just grossly misinterpreting things was when I was 12 and I had my first Worthiness Interview (my inner Rogerian therapist is crying in utter despair at that name btw) and because Mormons are fucking juvenile slopfarts who can never just say things clearly, I totally did not realize that when the guy giving me the fucking interview asked “Do you…um, haha, I mean, do you, ya know?...Um, like, ya know, engage in self-gratification?” that he meant “Hey, you jorkin’ it?” and I interpreted that as “Do you do things that make you feel good?” And I was like “Yeah, all the time!” Because of course I do! I eat food I like, I play fun video games, I spend time with my siblings, I watch T.V., I have friends I talk to at school, I am near-constantly self-gratifying. And because this little nut weasel was too chickeshit to just Say The Fucking Thing he thought that I had just confessed to The Sin Second to Murder and immediately says “Hahah, hey, that’s OK, a lot of people do that! But God doesn’t want us to, because it’s wrong to do that, so you need to stop to be temple worthy.” And my gender dysphoric ass did NOT know what masturbating was and so I fully thought he was saying “Don’t do things that are fun!” and I believed him, because a) Why would he lie? And b) The scriptures SAY that the natural man is an enemy to God, AND and c) I kept getting told that when shit was hard and unpleasant because of my faith that it was good. That God was happy when I stayed faithful and suffered immensely, because that was The Right Thing To Do. So I went from 12-15 years old feeling guilty any time I did ANYTHING I liked before we got a new guy doing the interviews who wasn’t a coward and could ask the question directly and I was like “No” and he was like “Cool, any questions for me?” and I said, “Yeah, what happened to the self-gratification question?” and he said “Oh, that means masturbating.” And internally I was screaming and crying and pissing and shitting and throwing up because NO THE FUCK IT DOES NOT mean that. And I had been saying “yes” to that for years when I didn’t even know what masturbating was because I thought Jesus hated it when I was happy.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

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

[bigmann-mclargehuge]

Share the knowledge

[dragon-in-a-fez]

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!

[enriquemzn262]

[transgenderer]

what the fuck

[argumate]

sweet, might base an agricultural civilisation on this river, hope it behaves itself

[theaudientvoid]

[argumate]

might just fuck around and find out

[andmaybegayer]

Diversity win! This river has ADHD

[crazy-pages]

Nile: You would not believe how long term you have to mismanage agriculture on my banks to start experiencing soil depletion. I will always be here for you Egypt.

Huang He: *kicks in the door* FUCK YOUR DYNASTY IT'S FAMINE TIME!!!

[theprofessional-amateur]

I took two semesters of Chinese history in college. The first thing the professor started with was “getting to know the rivers, Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers. You need to know them because they will play very important roles in the history of China. The Yangtze has been crucial to trade, movement, culture and more. The Yellow river, the Yellow River can’t be trusted as you will repeatedly see.”

[theprofessional-amateur]

If you got stuck on a question during a test or whatever you could start with “the Yellow river jumped the banks causing instability and chaos that quickly spread” and would be correct more times than you would be incorrect.

[im-adrienne-deactivated20260216]

I love geographical chats when it completely devolves into dragging a landform.

[kittiesarecuter]

[guerrillatech]

[persephinae]

Oooo that's a good idea

[iwilleatyourenglish]

kosher, too!

truly halal and kosher slaughter and preparation REQUIRE safety inspections.

[augustdementhe]

I was planning on reducing my meat intake regardless of administration, but thankfully I have several halal places near me for when I want flesh.

[teaboot]

it’s like there’s a reason rules exist around food being clean and acceptable for consumption