The Darkest Knight

[yesornopolls]

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 16, 2025

[batch-official]

Time for a post that doesn't comply with the gimmick...

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

You should do this.

[digitaldiscipline]

Firefox users, when you right-click to copy a URL, it will give you the option to "copy clean link" which does what prev describes for you automatically. 10/10.

[victusinveritas]

[queencalicoanne]

I'm going to add to this with advice for any teacher running into this situation.

Ask to borrow the kid's computer for a second, and use the AI. Pick a word, then pick a letter that is not in that word. Ask chatGPT how many times that letter appears in said word. (Avoid "how many Ns in Mayonnaise" because that went viral and got trained out.) Hell, give ChatGPT multiple tries. Ask it to demonstrate each time that letter appears in a word.

Let the entire class witness chatGPT fail. Because it cannot count. It cannot spell. It cannot think. Please put your lesson plans aside for a class and use it as a learning opportunity.

To add to your arsenal for educating these kids, please look into the concept of AI hallucination. AI cannot perceive things and has no ability to think critically, which means it cannot tell what's real and what's not. Really drill into these kids that they are better off asking advice from a toddler.

I used the characterAI bot instead of chatGPT in this case, but chatGPT has the same issues, because neither bot is capable of thinking about what it's saying.

[duizelig-deactivated20221027]

[bane-of-technology]

[cate-geo]

[strictlyfavorites]

[depravedlittlewhitegirl]

Sure, or…..we don’t wanna get shot by a bunch of trigger-happy proud boy types?

[papabear9]

You'd think that someone living with that much irrational fear would appreciate the right to defend themselves more. 🤔

[depravedlittlewhitegirl]

“Irrational fear”

[tumbirbothotties]

Believing that everyone who legally carries a firearm for defensive purposes is one of these "Proud Boy" clowns is like believing that all Christians are like the Westboro Baptist Church.

You're judging the immense majority of the world based on a mere fraction of a fraction of a percent of it.

[depravedlittlewhitegirl]

Sadly the vast majority of Americans who boast about firearms don’t have them for defense or security. They have them because they’re addicted to firepower. And it’s gross.

[jedimasterwindu]

I do carry most days, but it’s concealed and it’s not from a mindset of fear but an understanding that many of the people who want to do me harm are people like the proud boys (I am black.) and the most effective way to respond to an incident like that is with swift and overwhelming amount of violence. But every time I carry I know that reaching for that weapon is the last thing I am going to do in any situation and descalation is always the first step (unless weapons are already drawn/shots fired.) I also know that I am taking into my self the responsibility to protect those people around me in those situations.

I am also aware that as we get closer to the election the people looking to assure trumps victory will get more violent (and no matter how the election goes the violence is most likely going to spike in November. So I am prepared for that.

TLDR: I carry to be capable of protecting people from the people who do fetishize and crave the power a firearm gives them

[black-culture]

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever been on tumblr before December 17 2018?

[too-haught-haught-damn]

[greelin]

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

[meilintheempressofdreams]

Reblog for unexpected $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[symbolblue]

uhh did i forget how time works or was the first post in december 2018 and the second in august 2018

[greetings-inferiors]

Reblog for time travelling $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[kortzite]

[elementaldeityoffood]

[elfwreck]

[skyinide]

[afronerdism]

This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

[thepioden]

[fozmeadows]

I AM WHEEZING

[skyinide]

PLEASE STOP REBLOGGING THIS OMFG

[tamamita]

Nah, because God pretty much commands Muslims to break various Islamic rules for the sake of survival, lest it be to harm someone who is innocent. To avoid consuming pork despite your life hanging on it, is haraam.

There is also Taqiyya, which is a tactic Shi'a Muslims have used throughout centuries to survive. The idea behind Taqiyya is for Shi'as to hide their religion with the purpose of protecting their own lives against any form of oppression or life-threatening circumstances. Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula practiced this form of dissimulation during the reconquista.

There is no penance for doing any of these things, since the situation is understandable.

[adorablegorilla]

There's a similar concept in Judaism! I don't remember the name of it (I did not retain much from Hebrew school) but it's the same idea of "preserving life takes precedence over adherence to scripture"

[tamamita]

[tamamita]

Calling 2000 years of persecution against the Jewish people a "trend" is kind of a weird thing to say, also the Reconquista, follow by the Spanish inquisition was led by the Catholic Church, not a bunch of USAmerican cultists.

[cryptotheism]

"Did Spanish Catholics in 1492 do something problematic?"

[jedimasterwindu]

One things that’s super wild about the reconquista and the subsequent Inquisition is a really clear example of the “Christians were oppressed because we were not in power” mindset that the evangelicals have perfected in the modern day.

The Muslim leaders of the Iberian peninsula did not oppress Catholics or Jews in the time they were in charge. Alhambra was a multi faith prayer space for example. But outside of the Muslim controlled area the catholic rulers of the northern peninsula screamed about how it was their god given right to save the land from the oppressive and barbarous Moors. People thought that the Muslims were forcibly oppressing or converting people under their rule.

(They did not nor did they really want people to convert. Non-Muslims paid a small tax for not being Muslim and were generally allowed to worship as they desired. And most Muslim governments in Iberia and North Africa depended on that tax revenue so they generally did not encourage conversion or paid only lip service to the concept. )

But to Christians the the very fact that they were not in charge was oppression and look at America today where the evangelicals scream about how Christian’s are oppressed not because of oppression but because they are unable to oppress others.

Now the Catholic Church in general has turned down the heat on a lot of this thought process and it’s funny because you see people who share this evangelical mindset and claim to be Catholic but then whine about how “Liberal” the church is these days. (These people are a lot of times only Catholic for the Templar aesthetic and not for the actual doctrine of Catholicism.)

[enbywerewolf]

I just never put these in one post

[vaspider]

Holy fuck this is so real

[jedimasterwindu]

One thing people don’t understand about weight loss is that if you want to keep it off you need to make sure that you are eating enough calories to support your body’s needs. If you restrict calories and work out, yes your body is going to burn off the reserves but as soon as you start eating more again you body immediately stores everything instead of burning it because it’s not sure when it will get this perceived surplus of calories again so it need to hang on to it to use later.

This is why body builders and athletes seem to be eating all the time. You need the right number of calories, and almost every major diet under represents that amount.

[beemovieerotica]

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

[beemovieerotica]

[florencemachines]

Pride and Prejudice (2005) + tumblr posts (part 1)

[themaarika]

[imovedimovedimovedimoved-deacti]

Do any of you know about that one painting with Aphrodite being born out of lava with a black swan by her side or did i completely hallucinate that? Been searching for a while but i can’t find it for shit.

[thecavenest]

I tried googling that description but no luck either, anyone might know what painting this might be (or if it does exist? cause it sounds sick lol)

[semicolonthefifth]

It took a bit of googling magic, but I think I’ve found it.

This is “Kindled” by Laura K. Cannon, which is part of her portfolio that can be found here: http://navate.com/2wk6im1sartc92iwza7il07bxq2mk5

Is this what you were looking for? @sakyubaso

[tiffanygladiator]

I’m in love.

[nothisacrayon]

Y'all I’m-

[tftftdrwggjhuftguugufuh-deactiv]

the original artist states:

“This went kinda viral on tumblr and people are arguing whether it’s a painting of Aphrodite. It’s not. If she must be a goddess, I think she’d be Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire.

But it doesn’t depict anyone specifically. After some soul-searching I realize that, while I wasn’t thinking about it at the time, it’s a painting about battling depression. I live with MDD so the idea of emerging from the depths is a powerful thing for me.

Is she being born from the lava, or is she climbing out of Hell? I think it’s both.”

so. not Aphrodite, but someone beautiful nonetheless

[hymnsofheresy]

apparently europeans have the impression that US Americans never learn the metric system.

[hymnsofheresy]

like our science curriculum from day one is entirely done in the metric system. we just don't use metric in our day to day lives.

[hymnsofheresy]

yeah actually we kinda just do it for the bit :)

[hymnsofheresy]

I have had people try to gently and kindly explain to me the workings of the metric system, as if Americans are having trouble with the concept of a base ten system. like no. we get it. we were taught this when we were like eight. it's just that like. we don't really wanna do it that way. for the bit.

[hyper-dorphin]

It’s like formal and informal tense.

[jedimasterwindu]

What’s really funny is how America tried to transition completely but a mix of pig-headed stubbornness and anti-communist hysteria kept it from happening.

[sandmandaddy69]

[sexygaywizard]

look at my orb boy

[pukicho]

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh

[pukicho]

I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff

no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that

Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.

[pukicho]

Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?

doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them

[pukicho]

You will die in 7 days

[hokuto-ju-no-ken]

It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right

Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I

[kolbye]

You could if you weren’t a fucking coward

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[raevenlywrites]

Art by coolfrogdude together at last

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: a comic illustrating the above thread as if it was happening in a theater. The users are mostly shaped like their icons, pukicho is a pikachu and hokuto-ju-no-ken is a gengar. The last panel is gengar looks back where a speech bubble comes out of the crowd to say, “you could if you weren’t a fucking coward.” /end]

[azzy-the-christian-furry-deacti]

I can’t believe I’m actually seeing this post

[beardedmrbean]

Magic of tumblr,

[athelind]

I am morally obligated to add the YouTube video whenever this thread crosses my dash

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I’ve seen this thread more than a few times. But this is the first time I’ve seen this video. So thank you for your service.

[flamier]

eeeeee