Honesty is Overrated

Parrish 20-something queer kid I've been here a while

[c86]

[gcgazette]

Károly Ferenczy 1862-1917 Bath in the Evening, 1908.

[wild-cabins]

Copenhagen Wilderness

[bae-guevara]

I fully believe the queen is dead and they just don’t wanna deal with a funeral before Christmas so they’re keeping her on ice (aka life support) till spring.

apparently the entire country has to do a 12 day long mourning and the BBC is legally banned from putting on any comedy show during that week AND they have to shut down the London stock exchange for one whole day... now I'm not saying they're weekends at Bernie's-ing that colonizer to keep the stock exchange open, but....

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

I think you're right

[lesbianshepard]

reading about sexual graffiti and sexuality in Ancient Rome for my paper and i gotta say “the grindstone fucks back.” is a hell of a way to end an article. 

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

In Shrek 2, the king tells his wife that he has an "old crusade wound acting up" implying the existence of both the catholic church and islam in the shrek universe

[utwo]

The Treehouses at HoneyTree Farm

Frediricksburg Texas

© HoneyTree Farm

[stiwfssr]

This porno didn’t fuck around

[practical---bitchcraft]

[yourdadsghoulfriend]

there’s… a lot to take in here…

[fineillsignup]

I was so flummoxed by this I had to learn more, so I took to Google, where I found this blog post by Dan Cardone, who was a grip on this film. Some highlights:

This was the first set I had been on that featured three directors, and hopefully the last. One director was there to primarily film the sex scenes, which he did effectively and economically. The other two directors handled what is called in porn-lingo ‘B-Roll’, i.e. everything non sexual. Which on this film was substantial. The plot for To The Last Man involves two ranches populated entirely by horny men who have random sex and feud over water, as they are in the middle of a crippling drought. Which is why we filmed in Arizona during thunderstorm season…

It’s amazing no one got killed, or seriously injured. There was horse riding, there were fight scenes of rocky escarpments, there were drownings. When the real guns and live ammunition came out for a scene I thought, “That’s it, I’m going back to the truck”.

Fortunately, one of the models was also a fully qualified nurse, so that saved money, time and also lives. Plus, he was sexy, so it was win/win.

[abysmallylost23]

[passivefan-deactivated20230702]

[wild-cabins]

Arden Wray

[whitepeopletwitter]

[minoritiesinpublishing]

When Animals Are Used as Stand-ins for Transgender Humans, People are Diminished | Essay

There are books that handle the question of gender identity in complex ways that allow people to remain human. We are continuing to move from rather straightforward books like I Am Jazz and I’m Not a Girl to more complex stories, such as Kyle Lukoff’s When Aidan Became a Brother, about how gender stereotypes are pushed on children, and My Rainbow, about a mother supporting her daughter by making brightly colored wigs. As Lukoff says, “Trans children and their peers deserve uncompromising representation, without the labor of having to parse strained metaphors filtered through a cis-centric model of pathologization.“  

[ikwt]

[hazy-october]

source

[ianmakmak]

Nature is beautiful

[ozumiiwizard-deactivated2021071]

Holy, holy, holy

[dutchster]

when it’s november 1st

[crazyaboutlefandoms]

Songs with the same bpm but played over different than original video tracks give me life

[angryschnauzer]

This really has the 2020 vibe huh

[dog-teeth]

badweird feelings

[chronicbrainfag]

not to be a communist on main but these are literally the modes of alienation under capitalism that marx described

[dog-teeth]

PLEASE be a communist on my posts its literally capitalism thats making me feel this way

[podencos]

I thought this was a joke but it’s not and I wish it were

[la-laborista-republiko]

Hell world

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Whoops I appear to have left my extremely powerful rare earth magnet on top of Amazon alexa

[afro-evolutionary-astrology]

Fear is knowing a new Alexa product is being developed.

Terror is knowing that it’s for landlords to control their units remotely, while being to see and hear everything in the rented space.

Horror is understanding that if a family is a few days late for rent/electricity/gas, this product will most likely cut off the services they may need to survive like WiFi access, stove/oven/microwave/fridge appliances having power, lights, medical devices that require electricity to function, etc.

[800-dick-pics]

deep horror is knowing that these devices will probably be set to unlock doors remotely allowing cops and abusers into the homes of marginalized people, these devices will probably have sensors to check how many people live in the home vs on the lease, probably will have some way or reporting that the residents are “breaking the lease” ie: loud music, having overnight guests, parties, or just people doing normal human shit and having it seen as a “violation”

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Hope is knowing these things have the network security equivalent of a sign that says "please do not hack me" over an open door.

[aceofaces20]

If your landlord ever tries to force you to use Alexa, and you have little to no technical or programming expertise, it’s time to make your very own Faraday cage.

“What is a Faraday cage?” you might ask. “How will it help me defeat Big Sister Alexa?”

Easy answer: a Faraday cage blocks EM waves. WiFi, the thing Alexa needs to do anything of use at all? That’s a type of EM wave.

I know, I know, “Faraday cage” sounds like it’ll take 47727372 hours with a welder, right? Wrong!

A simple Faraday cage that anyone can make is as easy as a cardboard box with as many layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil as you can stand to coat the box with. I usually do about 5 layers because that number is easy to remember, but if you’re paranoid or simply need more layers you are more than welcome to add as many layers as necessary to keep Alexa at bay. I think the average is about 4-6 layers.

Hilariously, I actually learned this technique from those crazy prepper types. Which, ironically, is why I know it works. (Not to mention I tested it myself by wrapping my phone in foil and seeing if my roommate could call or message me.)

If your landlord notices, they will not receive any warning or notification that you tampered with Alexa- because you didn’t. All they will notice is that they can’t communicate with that particular Alexa device (because it will be “offline”, aka not sending or receiving signals).

A box is also easily hideable in case of surprise visits from the landlord or anyone else who might report you to your landlord, accidentally or on purpose. Just pop the bitch out, restart it (or don’t, this just clears any other hitches from the system) and it should behave normally.

Additionally, most landlords have the general tech expertise of an orangutan with a headset, so technical hitches are relatively easy to handwave with a good ol’ “Fire is scary and Edison and Tesla were witches”. Basically, if they question you about why Alexa suddenly is or isn’t working, shrug and say that it must have suddenly either just gone out or come back (depending on the situation), but that you didn’t do anything to it because you don’t know anything about that sort of tech and that you didn’t want to mess with it out of fear you would break it.

Note: Remember, Big Sister is always listening! If you wish to put the bitch in a Faraday cage, remember not to discuss it where Big Sister can hear you!