Ist'Tyrr Adult/NB/Gangrel

Take back your despot, I'll keep the love.

[glittter-vamp]

Some great important moments from the Olympics 🥇🥈🥉

Via Feminist News on IG

[alasse-earfalas]

Critical PSA for anyone with Android devices!

I got the following email this morning:

Basically Google is rolling out the ability to track you via your android devices even when you're offline and you have to manually opt out of it. Many android devices no longer come with a wired headphone jack, so if you have Bluetooth headphones or a keyboard or anything, your location will be tracked and stored by your device unless you opt out of this.

I tried using the link they gave me in the email to opt out of it, but it didn't really seem to do anything. So I looked up how to opt out and found the following steps, which worked for my phone:

Opting out from the Find My Device network is as simple as tapping a toggle in your phone's settings. 1. On your Android device, go to Settings. 2. Tap the Google setting. 3. Tap the Find My Device setting. 4. Tap the toggle to off next to "Use Find My Device." 5. Confirm with pin, pattern, or biometrics. That's it. Your device is no longer participating in the Find My Device network. To rejoin, just flip the toggle back on.

Please reblog to spread awareness. My husband has the same phone as me and he didn't get any emails about this.

[boomstab-papa]

Yep, I just got this on my account, too. It gave me THREE DAYS to opt out before they turned it on. So like. Thanks for the fucking advance warning.

And yeah, the link "to opt out" took me to this screen, which DOESN'T ACTUALLY OPT YOU OUT:

Note how Google is still tracking the location of your device WHEN IT'S ONLINE

You HAVE to follow the instructions above to ACTUALLY turn it off, on ALL YOUR DEVICES INDIVIDUALLY

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[wilwheaton]

this fucking guy

[explorerrowan]

That's the thing, they know they're in the minority, so when the common people rise against them, they think they're the underdogs fighting against the "tyranny of the majority." They never consider why the common people rise against billionaires, fascists, cult leaders, and the like. All they know is that there are more of us than there are of them, and they think that makes them "the underdogs" even though they've literally always had power and wealth.

[lemondropsandchimney]

As I'm getting older, I'm starting to lose my understanding of love. Love used to be more simple and understandable, but now my head cannot really picture it clearly.

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

-Clarice Lispector

[depsidase]

[waterhobbit]

Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

[antifainternational]

August 10 - Some of the planned anti-fascist demos across the UK:

Newcastle Belfast Penzance Hull Reading Cardiff Carlisle Liverpool Norwich

[thememedaddy]

[antifainternational]

August 7, 7PM, UK - Refugees welcome! – Stop the far right, defend asylum support centres!

Fascists have told their terrorist supporters to ‘mask-up’ and attack immigration lawyers. We will not let them succeed in their plans. Counter-protests to defend the targeted asylum support services have been called for Wednesday 7th August across the UK at 7pm. Let’s make these protests massive!

Check the images or the link for more info. The counter-protests are in the following cities/towns: North Finchley Southend-on-sea Liverpool Northampton Cheadle Portsmouth Aldershot Waltham Forest Brighton Oxford Birmingham Paisley

Get as many people together as you can and come out to defend our communities! Stop the far-right! Refugees welcome!

[feral-ballad]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]

[elizabethsinclair]

- love elizabeth s.

[elizabethsinclair]

love elizabeth s.

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[antivangoth]

GameInformer has shut down without previous notice. All of their online articles are inaccessible, including the Dragon Age: The Veilguard ones.

Thankfully they're archived in The Wayback Machine! Here are all of them.

edit: i ended up saving them manually on drive as well in text format. here's the post!