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I am not here. I am not far away.

[chewbacca]

“I wish the rain would stop, just once.”

Brandon Lee (1965 - 1993) as Eric Draven in The Crow (1994)

[glorianas]

manhattan, new york city, february 20th, 2019

[tylerposey]

Ricky Whittle photographed by Corey Nickols (2019)

[sunfish-apologist]

Wow hozier really out there making me want to be in love and decompose

[tabloidsores]

There is nothing that embodies all my favorite things in a character design more than

[tabloidsores]

I look at this guy and go “well he’s just going to cast spells huh”

[jamesrhodey]

In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. On his head was a crown of berries and red leaves, for the autumn was come again.

[sutexii]

Reincarnation of a moon goddess + her big werewolf gf :^)

[glumshoe]

tarantulas are good pets if you want an animal that spends 90% of its time lurking ominously in the mouth of a cave and 10% of its time doing some weird unfathomable goofy shit in the corner for no reason

[lovefastlosdavey]

Cloak & Dagger

[foundcarcosa]

wild that the two people named Peterson that I can’t seem to stop hearing about lately truly couldn’t be any more different from each other

[comrade-peterson]

“Right place… right moment! General Motors was a sponsor of the first season of Brave Wilderness and was kind enough to loan us a Chevy Tahoe for production in Arizona during the summer of 2014. While out shooting some fun sponsor photography, we caught this perfect moment with the camera… The focus is a bit blurry, but man is that cool!“ (x)

[medievalswords]

i cant believe people dislike marie kondo. how can you see someone suggest you thank items that helped you before you get rid of them and not think theyre a genius

[astrolocherry]

Combat Zones ♂

Mars in the 1st - a battle against their own self-imposed limitations, the continuous desire to ‘start afresh’ and ‘burn bridges’ but it doesnt come very easy when the skills are not there to begin with an develop on the run

Mars in the 2nd - a battle against their own self-worth that can reach such low-points that produce and reveal a substantial amount of anger toward themselves and a tendency to push their own body

Mars in the 3rd - a battle inside their own head, a cerebral combat field where the enemy is taunting and tormenting their thoughts, their biggest opponent is also their greatest ally in a constant fight for peace and quiet within the mind

Mars in the 4th - a battle against the conditioning of their past and liberating the private battles and ailments they have carried with them by rising above the prison of self-victimisation, they have to re-evaluate their belief of failing and re-write the story from their standpoint as the resilient victor 

Mars in the 5th - how much poison and pain is spiked with their pleasure? the creative and destructive energies pulsate around the body like their blood is melting, the desire to win can be highly intense and possibly surface from a repressed part of themselves that has never felt good enough

Mars in the 6th - a war can wage on their own mind and body, an obsessive and highly pressurised mental and physical style of operation that they also like to push to and beyond the limit, they can adopt extreme dietary, exercise, or work regimes 

Mars in the 7th - a battle against the shadows, defensive personalities, and complexes that old lovers and relationships have left inside of them and integrated as part of the identity by the inner child who never felt really loved

Mars in the 8th - a battle against wills, a fight against the intensity of the inner forces that can take hostage of person and operate like a ‘quasi-will’ and act out protective, destructive, defensive, and coping mechanisms that the individual is surrendering or has surrendered their own free will over to

Mars in the 9th - a battle against the conditioning of their own belief systems and a possible viewpoint that the world is a deviant or deceptive place, that a loving God does not exist to allow this suffering or God is one of judgement and punishment, atheism can be a defence against the profound spiritual sensitivity and perception that burns inside

Mars in the 10th - a battle against their past and future selves and the history that has conditioned a conflict between their own aspirations and the expectations of other people, but the world is on their side as a support squad for the underdog

Mars in the 11th - a battle against the reclusive idealist who is too discontent, anguished, or dissatisfied with the world as is, and may fight against their own strong desires for human connections in a self-isolating and futile form of personal protest 

Mars in the 12th - a battle against the development and ultimate exposure of their sensitivities and surrendering the sense of only feeling safe when in solitude or receiving very intimate affection, the liberation of realising the fighter inside - the one that has overcome more than anyone knows

Cherry 

[rubyvroom]

I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

Week 6: Blocking them all

Writer tries to use the internet without relying on Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Apple. Writer struggles. A lot. Not because she can’t stop googling things, but because Google is integrated with everything, and anything it isn’t is hooked into is partnered with at least one of the other four. 

For an example, she details the long process of figuring out how to send a large file without relying on the Google iCloud or Amazon Web Services:

My Gmail alternatives—ProtonMail and Riseup—tell me the file is too large; they tap out at 25 MB. Google Drive and Dropbox aren’t options, Dropbox because it’s hosted by Amazon’s AWS and relies on Google for sign-in. Other file-sharing sites also rely on the tech giants for web hosting services.

…O’Brien directs me first to Send.Firefox.com, an encrypted file-sharing service operated by Mozilla. But… it uses the Google Cloud, so it won’t load. O’Brien then sends me to Share.Riseup.net, a file-sharing service from the same radical tech collective that is hosting my personal email, but it only works for files up to 50 MB.

O’Brien’s last suggestion is Onionshare, a tool for sharing files privately via the “dark web,” i.e. the part of the web that’s not crawled by Google and requires the Tor browser to get to. I know this one actually. My friend Micah Lee, a technologist for the Intercept, made it. Unfortunately, when I go to Onionshare.org to download it, the website won’t load. 

“Hah, yes,” emails Micah when I ask about it. “Right now it’s hosted by AWS.”

The troubling implications of tech monopolies on our private data are discussed, as well as potential solutions that don’t sound very appealing at all:

An uncomfortable idea I keep coming up against this week is that, if we want to get away from monopolies and surveillance economies, we might need to rethink the assumption that everything on the internet should be free.

So when I try to create a fourth folder in ProtonMail to organize my email and it tells me that I need to upgrade from a free to a premium account to do so, I decide to fork over 48 euros (about $50) for the year. In return, I get a 5 GB email account that doesn’t have its contents scanned and monetized.

However, I’m well aware that not everyone has $50 dollars to spare for something that they can easily get for “free,” so if that’s the way things go, the rich will have privacy online and the poor (and most vulnerable) will have their data exploited.

[rage-is-my-fire]

Here are links to all the parts of the Goodbye Big Five series: 1. Life Without the Tech Giants 2. I tried to Block Amazon from My Life. It Was Impossible 3. I Cut Facebook Out of My Life. Surprisingly, I Missed It 4. I Cut Google Out of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything 5. I Cut Microsoft Out of My Life–or So I Thought 6. I Cut Apple Out of My Life. It Was Devastating 7. I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell 8. Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here’s How*

*Written by a different author than the first 7 parts.

[foundcarcosa]

botmancy 25.2.2019

[meyhew]

not to get Controversial but perhaps its time people stopped treating celebrities like some sort of commodity. they’re not a trophy you can wave around after getting a selfie. they’re human beings, they dont owe you a damn thing except for the art they create that you willingly choose to pay for. stop camping outside airports to see them when they’re getting off of long flights. stop expecting them to hang around and take photos with you. stop expecting things they never promised you, things they dont owe you. stop being an asshole, realize that they’re human beings, and start treating them as such.

[stammsternenstaub]

Life doesn’t end at 23. 30 isn’t old. Fetishising youth as the ultimate desirable characteristic in a person is actively harmful to both young and old people. Some of us lost our teenage years to abuse and recovery, and can only begin living when we’re at a different life stage.  Literally knock it off, the lot of you.