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depression again? alright

1. get up

2. drink water

3. eat something

4. shower

5. what do you need to get done this week?

ycoil

still thinking about that time i was at the airport and the spinny machine tagged my cock with a hitbox & i walked right up to the tsa guy with drunk conviction and before he could say anything i was like "ready to touch my penis boy?" and he got so defensive and scared but either way he still had to get down on his knees in front of me to— oh god and the nervous gulp he exhibited

spiderfuckersworld

he was HORNY

ycoil

he was not, i was sexually harassing him bad

#kinda hot. sorry

boobieteriat

Hi I hope this isn't coming from too out of the blue! I lost your blog after you remade but your posts on getting access to american library resources was really cool and I wish I'd found it when I was still back in Pakistan. Ever since I moved here I've been amazed at how much more access to literature and stuff there is so the first thing I did was get all the stuff I couldn't pirate back in PK.

I just scanned and uploaded the one book I seriously wanted and couldn't get back in the day. I really badly want to do more, especially because my taste in books was very difficult to fulfill back then. I was just wondering since it seems you have the following for this stuff, whether you know of any communities / discord servers / groups of other readers from the global south revolving around sharing less accessible/not so easy to pirate texts. I would've gone crazy for something like that back in the day.

I have a list of other books I'm planning to buy and upload but I thought if something like that already exists I'd love to be part of it and.. I am just kind of lost on where to look. I thought asking you might help. and also if you published my ask maybe other likeminded people could find me about something like this too.

Thanks for taking the time to read this :)

First and foremost, I want to thank you for contributing to making books more accessible to people everywhere.

Second, you can upload books to Z-Library and Library Genesis if you have registered accounts over there. However, I strongly advise you to clean the scans and remove all metadata first. This step is crucial to prevent you, the scanner, from being tracked by copyright enforcers. Of course, use VPN etc.

Third, make sure to thoroughly search whether the books you intend to scan have already been digitized. This will help you avoid wasting time and effort. I understand that scanning is no easy task, as I have done it myself.

Finally, avoid bragging or advertising your actions. Bragging is how many pirates have been caught...there are snitches everywhere. Keep this in mind, and I wish you the best of luck!!

boobieteriat

Some of the best science fiction and fantasy coming out of the continent.

Looking for some of the best science fiction and fantasy coming out of Africa right now? Here's a list of recommendations from Wole Talabi, Lauren Beukes and T.L. Huchu, from their 2024 Glasgow Worldcon panel "Through an African Lens".

The list

Rosewater - Tade Thompson

Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor

Mermaid Fillet - Mia Arderne

Dazzling - Chikodili Emelumadu

The First Murder On Mars - Sam Wilson

The Theory of Flight - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Triangulum - Masande Ntshanga

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan

Ghostroots - 'Pemi Aguda

Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala (ed)

Zoo City - Lauren Beukes

The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu

Drinking from Graveyard Wells - Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

Digging Stars - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Glory - Noviolet Bulawayo

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi

Intruders - Mohale Mashigo

AfroSF - Ivor Hartmann (ed)

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - Alistair Mackay

Azotus the Kingdom - Shadreck Chikoti

Dazzling - Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ

Online, they also suggest The African Books Collective, the Sauutiverse, and AfricanSFS.

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nyancrimew

i do bootleg cybersecurity for protesters and im both inspired by you and exhausted by how little is known about cybersecurity. i am not an expert or a hacker, i just like helping and having the 2 brain cells required not to discuss legal activities on INSTAGRAM

the point of this question is: how do you push people uninterested in tech/security to care more about not getting doxxed and charged? what can i do to help them? i did some basic scraping and showed one person how easily i could find all her info from her insta and that scared her into being better. but i dont have the time to do that for everyone

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveil

this site from the EFF has some really great and easy to follow opsec input, especially for protestors and activists (it even attempts to not be just US specific)

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dirhwangdaseul

Exclusive: "If anything happens to me, the BBC is responsible."

Abdullah al-Yazuri, the 13-year-old narrator of Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, speaks to MEE after the BBC pulled the documentary.

"I worked for nine months, and it was all wiped."

Exclusive: Narrator of pulled BBC Gaza documentary speaks out.

In his first interview with Middle East Eye, Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone's 13-year-old narrator Abdullah al-Yazuri speaks out after the BBC removed the documentary.

link to the documentary left in the comments

@el-shab-hussein @vague-humanoid

queselevaaser

anyone with twitter mind sharing an openable link, please? If it was pulled and it's free now, I'd love to work on translating it so it can better make the rounds locally

dirhwangdaseul

and another link then.

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terribly frustrated by people who seemingly only started freaking out about trump & had zero interest in "politics" before. we're not even in the usa and there's nazis at home actively making life awful for your neighbors man can you make yourself useful for 5 seconds. god damn it

#i don't know. obviously complaining about it online helps very little. and i know breaking out of that bubble of comfort can take a push.#still.#can you fucking do something concrete now instead of whining about how people didn't vote democrat across the ocean

communistkenobi

you know when I first read Cesaire’s line about how Hitler resides in the heart of every European I was broadly on board with that, like it’s a polemical generalisation but I can definitely get behind it. like any honest Marxist I love me some historical generalisations. and so at first I took it as a very cutting metaphor to describe the general political disposition that comes from living in the colonial centre of the earth. And then you read European history - does not especially matter the country, group, or time period - and realise he is making an empirical claim, there is no hyperbole involved, he is just straight up factually correct

sissa-arrows

And the reason you thought it was a generalization is precisely because the other “Hitler” did stop to the “Arabs of Algeria, the 'c******' of India, and the 'n******' of Africa." So they are barely mentioned in History.

The gas chambers? Invented by France and used against Haitian and Algerians long before WW2 and it was used after. And AFTER ww2 the French actually renamed a school in Algiers after the guy who used them massively in Algeria and to these days there’s streets, schools and even a statue of said guy in France. (Algerians obviously changed the name of the school in favor of the name of an Algerian man who resisted against Bugeaud)

And that’s just one example.

plsreadarealbook

This is really interesting and something I have never heard of. Do you have some books or articles that explain in it more depth? I've only heard of gas chambers built for Haitians in the 19th century, not Algerians throughout. I actually don't know who this other Hitler is referring to. I'm American so I don't know so much about European or North African history.

Thanks.

sissa-arrows

It was the “enfumades” the French used very similar methods in Algeria as they did in Haiti. They would put people (whole villages including the children, women, elderly and livestock) in caves and block the exist and then start a fire so the people inside the caves would suffocate and die from the gas and smoke. Sometimes the livestock would panic and animals like oxen would trample to death some of the people suffocating. Bugeaud didn’t start it but he was very prolific.

Later during the Algerian war of liberation, AFTER WW2, AFTER signing and creating international laws and all, the French did it again using different gas and more modern methods. They also used concentration camps but called them “regrouping villages” so it didn’t sound too much like the Nazis.

I could go on with what they did on May 8th 1945, or how Maurice Papon was judged for selling out Jews to the Nazis but never for committing against Algerians what is considered to be the bloodiest repression against a peaceful protest in modern European history.

The proof that white Europeans don’t hate Hitler for what he did but for doing it against white men, like Césaire said in Discourse on colonialism, is the way the Romanis people were treated. More than half of the European Romani population was slaughtered by the Nazis in the same camps as Jewish people (depending on the country it goes from 25% to 90% of the Romani population). But when the Nuremberg trials happened they were denied any reparations on the basis that according to the court “they weren’t persecuted based on race but based on their criminal activities”.

Anyway I’m rambling at this point… sorry.

Unfortunately all the articles and reading I have specifically about the enfumades are in French so I’m not sure I can help. But for ressources on French colonial crimes in Algeria there’s some my pined post if you want. (Also you should look up into Western Sahara as well known as the last colony of Africa)

(I tried to find some ressources in English while typing this and I found a calendar of French colonial crimes. About 113 pages… it’s going to be an interesting read. At first glance Algeria and Haiti are the ones the most mentioned which isn’t surprising)

plsreadarealbook

This is amazing. Thank you so much! I have a lot to learn about this.

sissa-arrows

Found the book “A history of violence in the early Algerian colony” yesterday and I read it. It mentions Bugeaud and his crimes as well as French crimes in Algeria in general and the book is in English.

It’s available here on archive.org

(To any Algerian who will read the book know that it’s a hard read so if you choose to read it you might wanna do like me and keep in mind that the simple fact that you exist is the proof that despite all the horrors and pain inflicted on our ancestors, those who wanted all of us dead failed. It makes the reading easier.)

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This training focuses on the basics of cop watching during instances of police harassment and violence. The goals of this training are to qu

This training focuses on the basics of cop watching during instances of police harassment and violence. The goals of this training are to quickly train the average person in basic cop watching laws, methods and safety considerations and to promote cop watching as a method of bystander intervention. The workshop will utilize historical context, small and large group discussions, and role-playing to better equip workshop attendees to cop watch in their daily lives.

anarchblr

Updated link

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nixcraft

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

caroline-vibecheck

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

alluringapex

There's a way to remove it~

Go into the power shell

then paste in:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1

like this

Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

Stop the OS from pulling up web results when you just want files and apps.

venonomnomicon

incase anyone didnt know there's some great free software to handle disabling windows bloatware without needing to mess with the command line

With the freeware O&O ShutUp10++, unwanted Windows 10 and 11 features can be disabled and the transfer of sensitive personal data onto Micro

O&O AppBuster gives you the control back over your Windows again! Now you decide which apps you want on your computer.

these are a mandatory part of every windows install for me. been using them for years and it's such a lifesaver

foxofninetales

Because this has mostly been talked about with Windows 11, heads-up that this installed itself on every Windows 10 computer in our house with this week's update.

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this world disgusts me. i wish i was dead

syn4k

burning text gif maker

heart locket gif maker

minecraft advancement maker

minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome

mmelete

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i really wish i was dead

strange moods. i have been ignorant and that has had negative effects on other people. unpleasant to reckon with.

the lack of a public/private space division online is unfortunate. i would benefit from a private space to safely talk through my guilt and whatever else without making it the problem of people it doesn't need to be a problem of. hm.

#well what i would really benefit from is a therapy contact with an understanding of global capitalist & imperialist exploitation. etc.#something like that. i dunno

god damn it's all so bad all the time!!!!!!!

this world and this country have forced me too to be culpable of genocide and i wish i was dead about it

#i can't die. too many people to take care of.#but god it would be a relief