what, you egg? {stabs him}

[lowpolycas]

Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer

[sabertoothwalrus]

hell world hell world hell world

WHY DOES YOUR SOAP NEED INTERNET

[pftones3482]

Anyway this is your reminder to STOP BUYING SMART DEVICES THAT AREN’T NECESSARY.

Your soap does not need to connect to the internet. Your fridge does not need to be able to track the temperature in other countries. Your stove shouldn’t talk to you

This is not “technology bad” this is “these corporations are tracking you and your movements at ALL TIMES OF THE DAY.” They know your every move down to when you wash your hands after you take a shit. Alexa and Siri were the first introduction to this, and once people got used to them on their phones, they put them in their own little gadgets for your house.

And then they connected those gadgets to the lights. To the doors. To the window locks. To the thermostat.

You should be TERRIFIED at how many things are becoming “smart” these days. It’s yet another way for companies to sell to you, and, in a worst case scenario, it can be the thing that puts you in harms way.

Imagine you’re running a little late on your electric bill, and your fridge is a “smart” fridge. And because you’re running late on your payment they just….lock your fridge. Not shut the electricity off. Lock your fridge. Because fridges can now be locked remotely. You can no longer access your food until you pay them.

Cops want to know if you’ve been to any protests recently? They can track that handy dandy smart watch you decided to wear, even though you left your phone in the car. They can tell if you were home all day or lying.

Abusive partner or family member? They can shut off your support systems everywhere. Decide when you get to eat, if you do. Decide how hot or cold the house should be to make you suffer. Turn off the oven in the middle of you cooking dinner bc you upset them. Lock you in. Lock you out.

Your appliances, your LIFE, should not be surrounded by smart tech. Buy normal clocks. Get normal soap dispensers. Keep a pen and paper on the fridge to write down your grocery list. Set a manual timer for the oven. Wear a normal watch that only tells time. Get a step counter that clips to your belt.

Phone, laptop, TV. Those are the only things that make sense being “smart.” Everything else is one step closer to a dystopian novel that you don’t want to be in.

Your phone already tracks your every step. Don’t give every other thing in your life that ability.

[word-heap]

And here’s the thing! It’s not only something that can cause you problems if you’re late to pay bills or have abusive partners/family or are doing something the government may not take kindly to!

Let’s say, hypothetically, you do literally nothing. Well, turns out there’s a bug in the fridge software that sets the temperature to 60 degrees when it receives some unexpected input from your fridge app. Or the manufacturer pushes out an involuntary fridge update and now, while the update is downloading, sorry! your the fridge doesn’t open until the update is done.

And these are only the issues that affect you. Generally, Smart Device manufacturers do not think for even one second about the security of their devices. So, this means that hackers will see well known and publicized security holes that have been easily available for literal years but the manufacturer is simply too lazy to fix, use those holes to get into devices, and use those devices as bots to attack whoever they please (and, as a bonus, it look like it’s coming from your home!)

You’d think that this sounds like something out of a horror movie but this is the reality we live in RIGHT NOW. Many of the largest botnets (e.g. the Mirai botnet) in the world consist largely of compromised smart/IoT (internet of things) devices.

So uh just give it some thought before you buy the SmartChair3000 – it’s probably not as cool as it sounds :P

[ousia-poetica]

No one deserves depression and unhappiness. Evgeny Lushpin Fine Art

[ousia-poetica]

Don't worry if your life is in chaos, you are like the universe itself and its law of entropy. もの久保 on Pivix

[freesatoru-deactivated20220220]

please accept that satoru is a wonderful person who would quite literally put his life on the line for his students rather than a god-complex lunatic who only looks out for himself. some of you rly read jjk with ur asses and it shows

[ashstfu]

starting fights with everyone i meet in an attempt to squeeze in an enemies to lovers arc before valentine’s day

[lovej0ys-deactivated20240212]

sending girls the courage they need to kiss another girl in 2022

[tearlessrain]

listen people are starting to realize tumblr isn’t dead we all need to be as cringe as possible for the next few months, it’s vital to our survival

[ashstfu]

[ashstfu]

[ashstfu]

girls be like “i’m not gonna make it” and then make it

[pixelartpeach]

So my roommate doesn’t like swears. They make her uncomfortable, so when I send her memes, I do my best to censor out any swears in them so she can enjoy them as much as I do.

I was trying to send her this meme

So I went to censor it into the final form in MS paint

Simple process, just set the secondary color to black

Highlight

And cut

Then copy and paste edited meme.

Which I did.

Except.

I forgot to copy the whole meme

So my roommate, whom I love dearly, just got a notification on her phone that only said

[enki2]

[lovej0ys-deactivated20240212]

sending girls the courage they need to kiss another girl in 2022

[qalma-e-azadi]

pov: you're still stuck in the past, an era where the air was warmer, the wind more playful, an era where radios played love songs instead of warnings, an era where you wrote poetry for them instead of goodbyes, an era where you held their hands instead of bandaging them, an era where you slept in your mother's lap instead of crying on the dirt, an era where you hugged your father instead of burning his clothes, an era where you kissed their hand, an era where you ran and ran. but now? now you just wait. wait for history to repeat itself. wait for that era to come back again.

[tolstoysbike]

professors of hogwarts 🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♂️

Art by Vladislav Pantic

[sofyreneko]

ive been thinking about this a lot but the hogwarts houses arent chosen by the characteristics you have but the characteristics you value.

that’s why most children are in the house their parents are, because theyve been told and raised by their parents to value these characteristics. and thats also why you get people that get sorted in houses they dont share characteristics with. you get stuff like cowardly peter pettigrew in gryffindor, follower-like and dumb crabbe and goyle in slytherin, and the whole weasley family (who have different personalities) in gryffindor, etc.

in the books, you can see that despite being incredibly dumb, lockhart was in the ravenclaw house. ravenclaw values intelligence; and even though lockhart isnt intelligent we can see he values intelligence. he knows that being intelligent will get him a better life (like making him famous), so if he cant be intelligent himself he’ll fake it bc he knows the value of being smart.

even hermione mentions it at the end of the first book:

even though she is the smartest witch in her year, what she values the more is friendship and bravery, traits of the gryffindor house, where she was placed. you can see it in the way that wormtail admired james and sirius, two people who were brave.

and i think thats one of the reasons you can “ask” the hat to let you be in a specific house. harry could be an slytherin through and through (he shares many traits - he is smart, cunning, etc) but those are not the traits he values, and when he lets the hat know this is when he gets placed in gryffindor.

and you can see in all the books that courage, determination, nerve, chivalry are all traits that harry values in people.

sirius for example, in spite of being raised to value slytherin traits, he disliked his parents and their values even before hogwarts. he values selflessness, putting himself in a place of danger to protect his friends and not understanding how peter could be so selfish and tell the secret, and not the self preservation that slytherin values. therefore, he wasn’t put into that house despite being raised to value that.

you can put this logic to almost every character, if not all characters. draco malfoy, hagrid, remus lupin, any weasley, regulus black, luna lovegood, snape, etc

i think its really interesting, because it makes you share house with someone who you shares values with, so it makes it easier to be friends with i guess. also if you’re surrounded by people who you share beliefs with, and you’re expected to be those traits, it gives you the push to become the traits you value (take neville for example).