ElliMiku's World

[theonion]

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

[justarandomthingy]

Neuvinara

Literally started playing the game just for him 😭😭😭

I haven’t seen any aranara that looks like Neuvilette yet, so I figured I’ll try and create one.

[starryhoundbloo]

Shout out to my mom who explains my transition as "Having a daughterpillar turn into a Boyterfly". It doesn't erase the fact I was an adorable little girl, and also affirms my gender now. I love my mother.

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.

Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.

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[ellimiku]

Insanity

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

uh oh forgot to take the Pill That Makes Me Sane

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

lotta people in the notes also forgot to take the Pill That Makes You Sane...

[sleepyyys-art-n-stuff]

I read this as "The Pill That Makes You Santa" and had a long puzzled sit on what that would mean.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

TESTOSTERONE??????

[ellimiku]

I managed to take my evening meds in the morning. Wish me santanity.

[redstonedust]

I frequently forget that sauerkraut is typically seen as a German food since I grew up eating it on Pulaski Days and with the Polish side of my family. Am I going to hell.

yeah i had a conversation with god recently and it turns out xe doesnt really care about gay people or sex out of wedlock so right now the only thing that'll send you to eternal damnation is misidentifying regional varieties of fermented vegetables. sorry i dont make the rules.

[drizzles-in-paradise]

I honestly think that nonbinary people should be allowed to be mean* about our genders without getting shit for it more often.

*(Read: Assertive of our boundaries and stood firm on the fact that our identities are deserving of respect)

We should be allowed to make a sour face or take a cold tone with someone when they carelessly misgender us for the fifth time in a row despite multiple corrections. We should be allowed to complain about erasure and ask where our needs and experiences come into play when we hear people reinforcing binary normativity in their discussions of gender related issues. We should be allowed to be visibly/audibly angry with other trans people when they try to forcibly categorize us as fem or masc, or imply that our enbyness is a mere phase that will eventually lead to "real/full" (binary to binary) transition.

Nonbinary people should be allowed to take our identities seriously and expect others to do the same for us, regardless of whether or not we will come off as mean for doing so. Because quite frankly, upon seeing how exorsexist the world has become recently, I think we haven't been mean enough.

[ellimiku]

Yeah like for the most part I don't care anymore. If it's not my healthcare, living situation, education ect at stake I will be "mean". Just because you don't realize what you're doing is a microagression doesn't mean it isn't one. Respect is a two-way street and I am done being the designated victim.

[tinyuglyworld]

A Mongolian shrine on the outskirts of Urga, Mongolia. Autochrome by Stephane Passet, 1922

Scanned from The National Geographic Magazine: 1922

[ellimiku]

#transitiongoals

[pondwitch]

recently generated a dwarf fortress world and went to start an adventurer but the only options were human and elf. confused, i decided to investigate the history of the world through legends mode. i learned that

-dwarves went extinct towards the dawn of time -almost every character was a were-tapir -there was a blind forgotten beast named Gabe -a goblin who lived to be 3 years old was deemed by the game to be one of the most important people in this world’s history -several artifacts were made by a great necromancer who lived before the dawn of time who was also an actual giraffe -did i mention everyone was a fucking were-tapir

[ellimiku]

Do you happen to have the settings/seeds this sounds insanely cool Whelp this was 10 years ago whoopsie nvm

[pitchburgh]

saw someone trying to roast this guy on reddit but all the comments were just like "fuck off, that's based"

nature is healing

[ayeforscotland]

30 minutes on the stair master today. I salute and respect the women that live on those things, holy fuck.

[ellimiku]

Is it great for the glutes or sth? I usually stick to running, crosstrainer or maybe cycling. Also how similar/different is it compared to hiking upwards?

[ayeforscotland]

It can definitely target the glutes but it’s good for overall cardio. I’d take weights for a great arse over a cardio machine any day of the week.

You could wear a weighted vest or rucksack to make it more challenging.

I just like hiking/walking as cardio, and have recently learned to do the cardio you enjoy as opposed to rowing for 3km and hating every second of it.

[ellimiku]

yeah sticking to something you enjoy is the way!

[homunculus-argument]

idk who needs to hear this, but you can literally just microwave a banana. Part the peel a little bit at the blunt end and pop it to the microwave for 30 seconds, in order to obtain a warm banana.

[ellimiku]

I love making a cut (not all the way through) and putting black chocolate in it. Microwave for about 1 min. Is this not known in other places? It's spin on the chocolate banana grilled after hiking ect, but at home.

[ayeforscotland]

30 minutes on the stair master today. I salute and respect the women that live on those things, holy fuck.

[ellimiku]

Is it great for the glutes or sth? I usually stick to running, crosstrainer or maybe cycling. Also how similar/different is it compared to hiking upwards?

[samandriel]

my rooster doesn’t crow when the sun rises, he crows when he hears humans wake up, like you can literally just roll over in bed and he’s like “hoLY SHIT THAT’S A PEOPLE THE HUMAN ISAWAKE AHHH AHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

[samandriel]

the same rooster - god guys he’s so cute - he always lets hens eat treats first and won’t have any treats until they’ve had as much as they want, unless it’s a blueberry. shit, blueberries are like serious fucking business for Pharaoh. he’s a gentleman until the damn blueberries come out and then he don’t play no fuckin games

[samandriel]

in case you were wondering this is him

[dragongirlsweetie]

''i liked math until they added letters'' is so funny. math sucked ass until they added letters

[ellimiku]

Pro tip: When you run out of Latin letters, start using Greek ones. When you run out of Greek letters, don't use another alphabet tho. Start recycling them.

[levicatguy]

i think it's unfortunate that though games like the sims and the new tomodachi life are getting lauded for their lgbt representation (which is great and necessary, don't get me wrong), i haven't seen much discussion about how they severely lack any kind of disability representation. no wheelchairs or other mobility aids like canes or crutches, no amputee options. sims 4 only recently added blood glucose monitors and hearing aids in create-a-sim, but there's no gameplay functionality to go with them. i was trying to make a disabled oc in tomodachi life and i just think it sucks that lots of folks still can't make a character that truly represents them, even in 2026.

[walk-up-songs]

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

[walk-up-songs]

Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.

[walk-up-songs]

Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.

[walk-up-songs]

Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:

Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)

Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)

Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)

Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)

Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)

You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.

Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.

(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)

[acquitarte]

After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.

I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).

It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.