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A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
if you have downloaded 7zip recently or are about to download, check and make sure youre getting the real one,
floating . like an idiot
And now a Warrior to go with the previous magician
Been getting into making pixel art lately, it's a lot of fun!
I'm glad she's in there, and we're out here
Fanart of a Christmas Event in the Impstation SS14 server, which explains all the context you'll ever need
The Bisexual flag is officially 25 years old today 🥳 💗💜💙 (December 5th, 2023)
happy birthday to this gorgeous flag!! remember that bisexuality has never excluded trans and nonbinary people and has never had any restrictions on preferences to genders :))
Happy birthday, bi flag and your explicit representation of bisexuality as an inclusive and expansive way to experience attraction!
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customi
It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).
Microsoft wants to put AI everywhere on your PC, but you can take back control.
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:
No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).
Tired of Microsoft pushing ads throughout Windows 11? Here are the settings you can tweak to turn them off and reclaim some privacy.
The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.
Bonus:
Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)
Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)
How to disable the AI in firefox (still the only browser that lets you do this permanently) (Windows Report, 2025)
never shouldve smoked that shit, now i’m on the july 17th 1995 cover of newsweek
Happy 30th birthday bisexuality
Anything That Moves 1996 issue #10 cover
If you've ever trusted me on something, trust that I am linking you a GoFundMe I want you to donate to. Please carve out enough space in your budget to donate.
A Cry from the Rubble: A Family Torn Apart by War … ghada alanqar needs your support for Rising from the Ashes: Ghada’s Journey o
you know this is an important cause, so I'm asking you personally to share and donate to the one I am posting.
if you follow me because i am funny, or i share things you like, or youre a fan of me for other things i do, then please send your money here the same way you would if you wanted to buy me a cup of coffee.
I second this. I have been communicating with this family since December--these are some of the kindest, most resilient, most beautiful people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. One day, I hope to meet them in person.
With your help, the Al-Anqar campaign has risen from 23% in December to 90%--but so much more is needed, even after the campaign target is reached. This funding is the lifeline of 14 people, including 6 children under the age of 10 and 2 people over the age of 50.
Thank you for your continued support of this campaign. Let's keep going.
big day today
queued for the next wednesday the 12th
happy wednesday the 12th everyone
Drawing requests
I'd like to draw some requests... (not able to do commissions atm)
Send an ask with a drawing request/idea for me
I enjoy drawing: creatures furries taurs symbols nature objects places artifacts etc
Tips gratefully accepted if I drew your request but it's not necessary! (my ko-fi) I would also really appreciate any donations you can make to a fundraiser on gazafunds.
Whimsical Thing
"today I will draw something with a long torso" - 100% of the thought going into this
i'd never actually read the instruction manual for Rogue (which you can find mirrored in html form here). the game that all those other games say they're like, you know. and it turns out it opens with this first-person narration that takes every aspect of the game - the randomization on death, the name entry field, the dungeon, the bestiary - completely at face value. it weaves them all together into this brief but poignant passage about someone possessed by a consuming and painful obsession that has killed them again and again, cursed to live but for everything they know to become strange, divorced from its own context, until they can't even remember their own name.
Long before I forgot the warmth of the noonday sun or the refreshing coolness of the evening breeze, I forgot my name. Call me what you will. I am the Rogue.
that shit is what an entire genre is built on! the knowledge that you, as a player, develop of Rogue's whims of procedural generation, represents the titular Rogue's suffering as discrete dungeon chunks from countless lifetimes spent in darkness and strife reorder entirely around them. the mechanics were so raw and new that the devs had to justify it, and the way they did so beats the hell out of most stories you get with roguelikes these days - or just straight up cobbles the shoes that these newer ones walk in for their whole narratives. i didn't even know Rogue had a story before today!
anyway i've been writing this novel series called Treatise on the Peregrine Phoenix, in which Fujiwara no Mokou from the Touhou series of bullet curtain games for windows arrives in Qud, the setting of traditional roguelike Caves of Qud, roughly 5 years after the end of the main questline, because she's desperately looking for her counterpart in eternity. why do i bring this up? oh, no reason
couple replies/tags on that scott mccloud post about his essays being trite or oversaturated in comics education (being at this point over 30 years old) and while I get where that's coming from I also can't help but wonder; has anyone done it better since?
I find research and actual meaningful discussion on comics as a medium difficult to find so maybe I'm just ignorant of more recent development in the field. but at the same time, if mcclouds work is "oversaturated" in comics education/discussion then I feel that says more about how much insightful discussion has advanced in the time since
oh! i actually know about this lol. i'm a comic artist. i also did my master's thesis on queer YA comics & my dissertation is about trans comics & zines, my program is The Comic Studies Program (English at University of Florida, where Donald Ault started ImageTexT, which iirc was the first or one of the first journals solely dedicated to comic studies in the United States-- Ault was a seminal figure in the field). unfortunately comic studies is one of few things i know very very well, specifically, to caveat, in a USamerican context, but thats also the context where I'd say McCloud is considered "oversaturated."
the thing about mccloud is like. ok. it's more that he's an incredibly visible figure because his work is actually accessible to the general public. And I think because he has a really approachable way of doing analysis, he's a really easy touchpoint. This isn't a criticism! There's a reason Understanding Comics remains a seminal text. because he was one of the first guys to even try to define the formal structures of a comic, as opposed to awkwardly grafting it onto literary analysis or visual analysis that didnt take into consideration the actual interplay between image & text & panel & page. People are gonna continue to build on his definitions, thats the nature of the thing.
but I personally disagree with many things McCloud writes! For example, he tries to contend that hieroglyphics among other things are an early prototype of comics (I am slightly oversimplifying). That's an ahistorical argument designed to make comics seem more historically important than they are, frankly. This is a trap a lot of comics studies falls into: we are still, even in 2024, so desperate to make comics seem ""legitimate"" as a form academics get really caught up on trying to bend back and imbue comics with some sort of long history that simply doesnt exist and ignores the material conditions that gave rise to comics as a specific art form that does a specific kind of work.
I have other qualms but I realize this post is about who else has offered anything to the convo, which is a fair thing- part of the reason McCloud's work is oversaturated is because he's very accessible, he writes for a general audience. That said if folks are interested I do recommend:
Thierry Groensteen, who like McCloud is interested in the sequence of images in his analysis - I don't fully endorse everything he writes either but he's an interesting figure who is also pretty often cited
Bart Beaty - particularly Comics vs Art and Frederic Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture. He's a bit cynical and again, I dont fully agree with everything he says but I do think he gives some of the most cogent critiques of comic studies as an academic discipline!
If you're looking only for discussion of comics Form, Ramzi Fawaz and Darieck Scott do some interesting work with comics & queer theory; Elisabeth El Refaie has a wonderful book on autobiographical comics and their conventions; Harriet Earle does great work on how comics can be used depict trauma through their form (her essay "Comics and the Chronotope" is an all time fave of mine); "How To Read Nancy" is a more approachable, general audience text that pulls apart a single strip of Nancy in more ways than you'd think possible.
tumblr mobile wont let me end this bullet point list but finally I'd add ImageTexT is open access, meaning the articles are all up for free, so that's twenty odd years of available comic studies from a very wide range of writers including non-academic writers!
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comic Scholarship is also open access online!
Non-open access journals that are comics-specific you can probably get through a library or. Other means: Image & Narrative, International Journal of Comic Art, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Studies in Comics, Sequential Art Narrative in Education
There's also like one million Comic Studies Reader books. Like throw a rock and you'll hit one. They're usually nice cross sections of what sorts of ideas people are working with in the field, and again, fairly easy to obtain through a library or "library"
what I wish people would understand about fundraising for gaza is that while everyone is desperate and I would never say not to fundraise for or donate to individual families-- I currently fundraise to support multiple friends' families-- the overwhelming narrative I see on Tumblr that the best and most ethical thing you can do is send money to individuals and there is no option for anything else is so so incredibly damaging and inadvertently lends support to the marginalization and distrust of any remaining communal social infrastructure. the sameer project, which you should donate to, talks about this in a recent video they put out. the situation in gaza is unimaginable and everyone is in need of a huge level of support, and yet this fundraising discourse by well-meaning people in the west that donating money to individuals is the only moral way reproduces societal divides wherein resources are directed to people who speak English, who have relationships with people outside of gaza, and who have internet access while hundreds of thousands are left behind.
there ARE non-ngo locally based grassroots initiatives working to meet those needs however they can, and your small donation goes a lot further with them because they are able to buy food/water/supplies in bulk at a reduced price and reach more people with less money. again I'm not saying people shouldn't fundraise for individuals because these initiatives are so limited and many people cannot access them -- but as an example, the group I fundraise with is currently serving people fleeing north gaza who are starving and have nothing, and when we fundraise enough to do cash aid distribution there's so much need that our partners can only distribute 100-200 per large family. and then I go online and see people who have absolutely no understanding of this context at all exclusively working towards raising tens of thousands for just a few people when evacuations haven't been possible for months. it's good to do whatever you can but please consider how this narrative being reproduced among westerners trying to help that there are no other options has the potential to damage groups working towards equity and wider reach however is still possible
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
bigger link to get more eyes on it