Early in the Spring

 

[earlyinthespring]

Will probably delete soon because digital clean-up of stuff I no longer use. If anyone is still hanging around here who wants to keep in touch, pm!

[brucebocchi]

this is 100% why i never fucked with that “normcore” nonsense and why i’m still extremely self-conscious about what i wear and how my clothes fit, even after my weight loss. wearing “normal” clothes only becomes “fashion” when it’s on skinny attractive people and once it’s on a fat person it’s suddenly the trappings of the tacky and the unwashed poors. fuck out of here. you can make anything look good.

[lauramakabresku]

Adam and Eve

[earlyinthespring]

I’m listening to music I listened to ten years ago and I miss sharing personal shit with strangers online. And nude artsy self-portraits. I miss not being so self-conscious and I miss the old internet. Things have changed so much. I’m such a melancholic being. I miss a lot of the genuine contact I had with so many people. Talking about so many personal things. I feel like I don’t share anymore. With anyone. I seem to have become afraid of sharing. And the internet situation just doesn’t accomodate it as much as it used to. It has all become so swift, no depth, and yet feeling so permanent. Those MSN conversations I had for hours on end. Actually going online to purposefully chat with people. Not chatting in between having too many browser windows open and also doing a ton of other stuff at the same time. (Also not worrying about the shit you posted online.) It is al so scattered now. Is this growing older? Is it just me? I almost feel estranged from myself. You learn so much about yourself in conversation with others.

[batteredshoes]

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.— James 5:1-6

[arythusa]

At first I thought this was an angry Tumblr post but then it turned out to be the Literal Bible and it got 1000x better

[serpents-fr]

i thought op was a witch and was cursing rich people and i got so into it

[whitepeopletwitter]

[mortalvoid-deactivated20210411]

sometimes I forget how withdrawn and separate from the world and reality I actually am, and always have been. 

[poupon]

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind (tumblr safe version)

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

This is it… this is the height of what memes and memetic culture can do and the purpose they can serve, and why it’s so important to have this freedom of expression and exchange. Protest, reference, the instant connection of ideas, heavy weighted messages conveyed by the simplest of means. This image speaks volumes about the state of internet politics right now, and it does so by omitting the most important and recognizable part of itself.

[plaidadder]

Also, look at the quality here and the effort the artist put into making Truth’s erasure so disturbingly seamless. 

[libraford]

(she escaped)

[almightynature]

The Faroe Islands. 

For more nature photos visit http://almightynature.tumblr.com 

Source: Unknown

[convexly]

untitled by matt.bower on Flickr.

[covid-69]

I really don’t understand anyone who still posts selfies at this point like. we’re all fully aware that the feds are monitoring us and using our photos to build a surprise database that will help them later it’s just not fucking worth it anymore 

[pickledangel]

Human brain: security culture

Monkey brain: validation nice

[lyravelocity]

I will Not be cockblocked by spy nimrod fucks

[ms-demeanor]

I haven’t ever really talked about this before but I’d like to introduce a concept that I’m going to call “security nihilism.”

Here’s the deal: You’re already burned.

It’s over! There’s no going back! Your face is in a database and your DNA is in a database and your social profile is in a database and there’s nothing you can do about it. Even if you didn’t put it there somebody else did. Congrats, we’re all fucked!

Facebook builds shadow profiles on people who don’t have accounts. Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Your cousin signed up for Ancestry and your brother did 23&Me.

So what can you do about it? Essentially nothing. So there’s no point in panicking.

You know what you have to do if you want some kind of privacy? Start leaving your phone at home randomly. Or at work randomly. People don’t think about the fact that their cell phone’s location data (which is constantly tracking even if you don’t enable location data for apps) is a more effective way of tracking them than anything they post online and it’s *real* easy to get a warrant for that data. And if you suddenly ditch your phone for the first time in several months it’s suspicious as FUCK.

Automated license plate readers track your drive. Do you commute? Do you drive the same way every day? Why the sudden change to your routine? What were you doing that you needed to park your car and wander away suddenly? What are you hiding?

Complaining about people posting selfies when companies are compiling DNA databases sharing them with the FBI is like blaming ocean pollution on people using plastic straws when about half of plastic ocean trash is abandoned fishing equipment.

Do you use gmail? You’re fucked.

Do you have a bank account? You’re fucked.

Do you use public transportation? You’re fucked.

Do you go to school? You’re fucked.

Do you have a job? You’re fucked.

I had to track down a guy who didn’t have facebook or social media profiles, didn’t have a listing in the phonebook, didn’t have a linkedin. I started with his first and last name and ended with his supervisor’s phone number, a ten year history of his income, and his home address. I got to it through his son’s little league team.

And I’m fucking J. Random Nobody. I don’t even have shiny databases full of tracking data.

So you’re already burned. There’s no going back, we passed the tipping point. Even if you threw out your computer and shut down all your accounts and smashed your cell phone and lived in the woods there’d be video of you walking out of town for the last time and satellite images of wherever you ended up setting up camp.

I was never going to be able to hide from the cameras on the streets and the data in my cell phone and the scanners that look at the license plate of my car and the information that my school sold about my age and income and interests. So fuck it. Share a selfie.

[fyi the secret to actual opsec is to trust no one and to have no discernible patterns - being in a facial recognition database doesn’t matter if you make a point of not showing your face when you’re doing whatever you’re doing that you want to keep quiet; your goal isn’t to evade the facial recognition software as you’re on the run from the government, your goal is to never even show up on their radar]

[fieldbears]

Sorry folks, all of this is right. Getting judgmental at other people’s selfies and masking it as an opsec fail is just ignorant :D

[zahnegott-lives]

jack off in front of your webcam while holding a sign that says “fuck u fed”

[wilwheaton]

This really took a turn at the end.

[conceptualsolitude]

concept: we wake up one day and nature has grown decades overnight. we can’t remember where the roads used to be. in some places the trees are so tall and thick we can barely see sky. the grass hasn’t been mowed in years. how quiet everything is now

[my-little-world-of-sunlight]

[immaplatypus]

oh, hello there new follower! very nice to meet you

??? okay that’s weird, and they followed one after the other. maybe the same person has two viking blogs? but why would a viking blog be following m–

w h a t

[immaplatypus]

OKAY WHAT THE HECK I WAS WONDERING WHY THIS SIMPLE ASK GOT SO MANY NOTES AND THEN

THERE ARE MORE

W H Y  A R E  T H E R E  M O R E

[stalker-among-the-stars]

Are these the new porn bots? Viking Bots?

[officialearthbound-deactivated2]

GIMMIE THE VIKING BOTS

[youtubeandsatan]

reblog in 15 seconds or you will never be followed by a blessed viking bot

[angelswithdreams]

i honestly believe human beings are not meant to live like this. we are meant to live in loving communities and be around nature every day and grow our own food and create art and not work day and night until we die. this longing for another life is not human nature, it’s a symptom of modern society.

[puckish-agent-of-change]

shout out to all the kids who aren’t good at what they’re passionate about, and who aren’t passionate about what they’re good at

[tiinatormanenphotography]

Sunrise mood.  

July 2015, Syöte, Finland. 

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