idk m8. just kinda here

We'll always have more work to do.

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[mysharona1987]

[kittensnax]

you won't begin to believe how much I pace my house going "I like dry food! I like playing with shoelaces!" like I spiritually am this cat

[sr-roto]

audio On 😂😂😂

[eversoslightlybitter]

Peer-reviewed tags

[victusinveritas]

[mirakurutaimu]

for some real context rather than screenshots of other social media sites here's an article by the player in question covering the event

[whereintheworldisauniqueusername]

Every Guilty Gear Strive character asks themselves WWGD (What Would Goku Do) before they pull off a combo

[mr-deep-downer]

Load bearing goku

[hedgiihog]

i hate living in seasoning city

[hedgiihog]

btw this was based on all of these. is there a name for this type of image bc they’re my favorite thing

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[marinella-ela]

[sulusparkles]

@todaysbird what kind of bird is this??

[todaysbird]

the wonderful Anhinga, also known as the snakebird (I can’t imagine why)

[stamenpistil]

“The state came to massacre, it wasn’t a [police] operation. They came directly to kill, to take lives,” one woman in Penha Complex told the AFP news agency.

“There are people who have been executed, many of them shot in the back of the head, shot in the back. This cannot be considered public safety,” said 36-year-old resident and activist Raul Santiago.

Brazil’s Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is “horrified” by the scale of fatalities and surprised that such an operation went ahead without prior knowledge of the federal government.

(source 1) (source 2) (source 3)

[stamenpistil]

Adding my own previous tags:

I’d sincerely appreciate it if non-Brazilians reblogged this. Media outlets all over the world (and especially in my homeland) will try to sweep this under the rug but the horror has spread nationwide. We call it chacina for a reason.

It would be of great help if other countries and their citizens held Brazilian politicians/figures of authority accountable. Or, at least, acknowledge very publicly that there's an ongoing effort by the Brazilian police force to exterminate black and brown people, especially in Rio.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Google has once again force-enabled AI into everyone. Get rid of that shit by:

Go to your Gmail account.

Choose "See all settings."

Scroll down under the "General" tab until you see "Google Workspace smart features."

Select "Manage Workspace smart feature settings."

Toggle off both "smart features in Google Workplace" and "smart features in other Google products." This will not remove the stupid Gemini button, but it should disable it.

Source

[rowan-tarragon-and-sage]

If you have more than one Gmail account on your app, you have to do this for all account indiviudally. You go to settings→[nnn]@gmail→manage workspace smart features

(This is according to my Android app)

[postalpacalypticllamas]

There's actually two different AI settings to turn off for Gmail. There are the settings that are under 'Google Workplace Smart features', and there's an additional one above it just called 'Smart Features'.

Turning off the settings under the 'Google Workplace Smart Features' doesn't seem to affect your inbox. But if you turn off that top 'Smart Features' option, you can no longer use the different inbox categories that Gmail would default sort emails to.

With Smart Features enabled:

With Smart Features Disabled:

It's really shitty that they've tied those inbox categories into the AI stuff. I turned Smart Features off, and now my phone is being inundated with notifications for a lot of the emails that would have gone in those categories. Previously, I would only get notifications for emails that end up in the main inbox when my notification settings were set to 'All'.

There is a way to create your own sorting labels (like the one I'd been using for Dracula Daily in the screenshot above), but they don't quite work the same way as the inbox categories. If you create a label, you'll be able to view only the emails you set to be categorized underneath it, but those emails will still show up underneath the main inbox, too.

Say you create a new 'Social' label for social media notifications to replace the Social category Inbox. If you click the 'Social' label, you would see all the emails that are filtered to go there, in addition to those same emails showing up in the main inbox. With the inbox categories enabled (and now AI features too), you would only see social emails in the Social inbox, and they would not show up under the main inbox, nor would you get notifications for them by default.

If you do want to go the label route and create your own, here's a link on how to do so. It can be done using a computer or through the Apple apps, but it won't work in the Android app (which makes zero sense to me).

To organize your emails into categories like “Work,” “Family,” or “To-Do,” you can create labels in Gmail. Labels are different from folders

There might be a way to play with the app notification settings so they're more filtered, but from what I see initially, it's not promising.

If you were relying on 'Important First' sorting for your inbox or 'High Priority Only' for notification settings, those are disabled when the AI feature is disabled as well.

(I can edit this later to add alt ids to the images when I'm not on my phone)

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Thank you so much for this detailed addition, this change has been pretty enraging. The inbox categories had nothing to do with AI, but they've combined them to make your experience worse for no reason.

[femmenietzsche]

i think my cat just accidentally sent you an anonymous ask, sorry

No, not that I saw.

[femmenietzsche]

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Right, that’s pretty much what I’ve been saying.

[theindefinitearticle]

We are alienating the worker from the product on levels never before seen

[animentality]

[queen-mihai]

Reblogging to refill my container of spite

[salmonandsoup]

peer approved tags. do not let this shit slide.

[arrenkae]

Having lived through Russia's descent into a totalitarian dictatorship hellscape it currently is, I can't tell you how many times I thought "okay, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY people are going to just accept this, surely NOW everyone will rise up and overthrow these fuckers" and GUESS WHAT

People will simply get used to it. They will continue buying into propaganda no matter how ridiculous it gets, clinging to whatever shreds of normalcy and comfort they have left in hopes that at least those won't get taken away. There is no magical tipping point. Either you act now, or nobody will.

[arrenkae]

Seems like a good time to repost this because reading all the news from the US I am experiencing SO MUCH deja vu

It's insanely surreal how fast and easy it is to have all your freedoms taken away one by one

All while people are just mostly acting confused and refuse to believe that it will be THAT easy

"Yeah it sucks that they are censoring LGBT content but there's no way they will start arresting people just for being gay, right?" WRONG

"Yeah it sucks that they are restricting access to some websites, but there's no way they will ban all social media, right?" WRONG

"Yeah it sucks that certain things can't be said on TV now but there's no way they will come to your house and arrest you for privately criticizing the president, right?" WRONG WRONG WRONG

They will do all of this and more

And you keep clinging to this hope that despite all the craziness, despite all the evil and corrupt people in power, there are still limits; there are still those integral, unshakable values our modern society is built on, and those evil and corrupt people may try to find their way around them, but there's no way they can just break it all down, right?

This is a lie. Laws can be changed. Constitution can be changed. Checks and balances can be ignored. History can be rewritten. Voting can be rigged. Opposition can be disposed of. Money can buy anything. And what you see as a flawed but mostly free country can descent into a totalitarian hellhole in a matter of a few years.

And no, despite everything, US is not there yet. It's well on its way, of course. But with all the doomerism on the internet, I'm afraid that a lot of progressive americans already believe that their country is The Worst and if the things are already so bad, it can't get that much worse, right? WRONG AGAIN. Please don't forget about the freedoms you still have. Do whatever you can to protect them. Be EXTREMELY careful about what you post on the internet. Get a VPN. And hang in there, I guess.