Murderbot my beloved 💜💜💜

🖤🖤💜💜

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Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

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Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.

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Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.

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Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:

Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)

Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)

Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)

Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)

Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)

You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.

Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.

(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)

[baratheonpilled]

lyonel + textposts

[ohmylul]

LOL.

[unidentifiablelifeform]

India Coal Generation Growth Stalls Amid Solar and Wind Advancements | Nicolas Fulghum posted on the topic | LinkedIn

India will not be the next China for coal generation. Here's why: India's GDP per capita reached $10,000 in 2025. China was roughly at the

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[cotton-glass]

Rocky has a mother of pearl inlay on one of his back legs!!

Source

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

[mayflower-uwu]

“Look here pal, I know my religion, and this ain’t it. Whatever this guy is, they’re clearly from your version of things. Mind coming over to help fix things up?”

[xekstrin]

#not my covenant not my malefactor

(Tags via @cicadianrhythm )

[idgabuck]

He looks so ethereal here….like god…..

[sketchupnfries]

Some sketches from tonight's drawing livestream! Had another wonderful time talking with y'all

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[icantspellthings]

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

[televisionenjoyer]

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

[audliminal]

Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!

[salarta]

Gonna sign language at you in a very southern accent

[inthewaytoamultilinguallife]

Sign languages also comes with accents, you can easily watch people sign and tell the difference

You get different sign language accents, you get regional accents, and you even get "second language speaker accent"

[vv0812]

I think that Simon should be strong enough to carry some eridians (benefits of facing a god and having survive or something), and this also gives him the ability to carry and throw pebbles around.

This leads to the fact that when Grace, with the help of Rocky to chaperone, finally takes a school trip inside the dome, the curious pebbles approach Simon, because he doesn't visit the classroom a lot and he stays for such a short time that he is a mystery for the pebbles. Simon, not quite knowing how to entertain them, simply starts juggling with them.

In my mind he is doing the juggling single armed, because he would always be an amputee in my eyes, but those are details.

The pebbles are having the time of their lifes; Simon is happy of making the pebbles giggling while he can exercise his reflects; Rocky is horrofied, but he also kinda of wants to know how it feels to be a juggling ball; Grace is having a heart attack.

Grace: Simon! Leave those pebbles in the ground in this instant!

Simon surprised by Grace's authoritarian and angry voice leaves the pebbles in the ground, where Rocky make sure to check than they aren't hurt.

Grace, crossing his arms and looking at Simon: You are in time out.

Simon, who had never been treated like a child before: Time out?

Grace, getting red of anger: Yes! Time out!

And Simon who is not sure why he is obeying Grace orders, but sure that he has to, ends having to stand looking to one of the big rocks in the beach while he reflect in his actions and why they were wrong.

The pebbles, who have already know the suffering of been in time out, give Simon small pats in his feet and legs as a consolation, and promise him that they can still play after his punishement is finish, that they will wait for him, to which Simon nods determinate.

Grace is so moved by the little act of camaraderie than ends reducing 10 minutes from Simon's time out.

[idgabuck]

Simon has the energy of an uncle who grabs the younger kids and throws them in the air and catches them and it gives Grace a fucking heart attack each time.

[alx33]

heyyyyy tumblr my first post

absolutely obssesed with these two

[p0lar-v0id]

As someone who is aroace, I too would make an exception for a bloody fishy Markiplier if I too was the only other known human in space.

[zestyhuh019]

I think the fact that there’s a band where Ryan Gosling sings with Zach Shields (also feat. the silverlake conservatory of music children’s choir) and it’s genuinely such good music despite only having one album is an untapped resource in the phm fandom and animatic makers and literally ANYBODY. HOW MANY PEOPLE NNOW ABOUT THIS PLEASE TELL ME PEOPLE KNOW. The band is Dead Man’s Bones and the album has the same title

Especially considering that some of the songs have romantic undertones cough cough sniff I choking I choke and die PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE

lyrics from some of the songs as I die from asphyxiation:

“I won’t go whistling by your grave - If you don’t go whistling in my mind” (song: Dead Hearts)

“A page full of je t’aimes for you - I know I should have said it more” (Dead Hearts)

“We're flesh and bone when we're all alone - But together, forever, we'll live” this part is a sample I think but still (Werewolf Heart)

“When I think about you - Flowers grow out of my grave” (Flowers Grow Out of My Grave)

“I wish that we were magic - So we wouldn't be so young and tragic - And tragic - And tragic” (Young & Tragic)

the entire song tilted Paper Ships. The entire thing.

p much all the songs are short and sweet but soooo good my god the instrumentals I’m dying over here

The whole album is just so spooky and cool and a love letter to the Supernatural and things out of this world and I love it so much bc it means so much to me when I have music that I can perfectly imagine with a character bc it is THEIR voice. It is gold to me.

(Yes I am aware this album isn’t like super niche or anything lol I just got very excited and wanted to share my screams)

while we’re at it also listen to this OTHER song sung by Ryan called ‘WAKE’

another random thing I keep having thoughts and can’t press post the Dead Man’s Bones yt channel has a bunch of like 15-16 yr old videos and it has so much of Ryan just being silly and it’s nice bc I always see the Ryan gosling compilations of him being him and I think this is also another missed opportunity. Also there’s a documentary of the band. Can you tell how excited I am.

I am falling down such a rabbit hole finding all these old videos of just. Ryan going off so hard bro like he’s everywhere and he sounds amazing. Amaze amaze amaze.

[cherrycapillary]

Marki- I mean Simon from Iron Lung says Happy Pride!!!

[drowseebee]

Hi guys this is my first time ever in tumblr and I’m shoving this out into the void

It’s by no means good , I did it very quickly because it made me heehee haha in my brain . Hope h enjoy 🤍

[prime-bean-bowl]

I love the idea of grace and Simon getting down and messy, just full-on making out and rocky just barging in interrupting them. "Rocky heard Simon and grace make strange sounds. Are you hurt?" Grace is just in complete shock and embarrassed sputtering on about rocky can't eavesdrop and spy through the walls and rocky saying he was just concerned about his friend then Simon just grabs grace and pulls him closer and just says "we were preforming traditional human mating ritual" grace looks like he's about to explode with embarrassment and rocky just shuffle around in his little ball like "oh... sorry... rocky will leave now"

[pezzeroni]

Y'know, I'm a real big fan of Simon having freaky Eldritch abilities after he gets out of the Iron Lung. Like... he went through all that and doesn't even get Peter Parker strength or like. Cool night vision?

Favorite concept of this is Simon actually gaining the eel's ability (whether because he just has it from the blood, or stole it when he killed it) to mess with people's heads.

In Simon's case, he wouldn't be interested in toying with people, or sending people horrible unfathomable hell visions. However, accidentally giving Grace a horrible vision of what he saw in the Iron Lung? Even worse, dragging Grace into his dream or PTSD vision as a horrified passenger, who can't help, can only watch Simon struggle in the blood and hug him like they're the only people alive after? Yeah

This is completely an accident of course, Simon wouldn't do that shit on purpose, but he wouldn't know how to control his freaky Eldritch bullshit mutations.

Anyway big fan of whatever that is ^