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Passport Photo Series London-based visual artist Max Siedentopf recruited a cast of friends and strangers to sit for passport photos. Above the shoulders the participants are straight-faced and rigid, yet below they are balancing full wine glasses along their arms, taped to a wall, or even on fire.

kringeshame

all-hail-mono-onion

the photographer hero we didn’t know we needed

depresseddeadpoetinactive-deact

This is the funniest thing ever

snailina

cute date idea:

we got to the botanical gardens. i point at all the plants i like. u point at all the plants u like

80slesbiab

Kate McKinnon getting her hair pulled by a pornstar Nina Hartley

philosophical-wanton

I actually love this so much 😂

lesmoans

i will ALWAYS love this,, kate is adorable

teenagepics

apolloette

Went to the farmer’s market yesterday. Hadn’t gone out in over a year. Guy selling mushrooms asked how I was doing. I panicked and did an awkward little shimmy dance at him. He wordlessly did it back. Can’t stop thinking about this interaction

afloweroutofstone

inrainbows-deactivated20211029

soup is now what bacon and pizza were in the 2010's. frogs are the new owls, mushrooms are the new succulents.

chillyfeetsteak

bog era

elodieunderglass

Patch notes

nucleosynthetic-deactivated2021

first time i saw this on the tl i scrolled uncomfortably like uh oh this is somebodys work being shared w/o permission this is wrong but i just now actually read it and LMFAOFOAO

marinella-ela

dracenathe6th

That's a crinoid! Also called sealily or hairstar (at least in german) . They are like an evolutionary step between starfish and sea urchin. There are so many different types of these! It's so cool!

dr-archeville

Oooh

ayellowbirds

to look upon this, and know it is Animal. That it is nearer to us, in spite of everything, than a mushroom, or a plant.

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024

that is a demon

kineticpenguin

The contrast between the Japanese and Spanish courses on Duolingo is a bit frustrating, because of the level of polish between the two is pretty stark. It’s like

Spanish: Speak this out loud to check your pronunciation! Good! Next… Okay, that was the wrong gender, let’s break that down! There you go!

Japanese: Wrong. Why? Fucking guess, asshole.

hexpress

i dont think there should be any level of Polish in either of these language courses, no?

kineticpenguin

gownegirl

CRUELLA 2021 | dir. Craig Gillespie

sirensorisons

didyoudrinkmygingerale-deactiva

Language is far more than a tool for communication. It is a tool for thinking.

Bermudéz, J. L. Cognitive Science. (via tealingual)

padawan-historian

🗣 DIVERSITY IS NOT SAMENESS.

linguisten

“Monolingualism and insularity still seem to be professionally acceptable in some circles in Britain, witness the following comment in a review of the translation into English of a linguistics textbook by the German linguist, Dieter Wunderlich, in the (British) Journal of Linguistics: ‘Cambridge University Press is to be commended for taking the trouble to commission a translation of a foreign book on linguistics, and it is to be hoped that more such ventures will make it easier for British readers to find out what their colleagues on the Continent are doing. (Sampson 1980:168) It is difficult to imagine the reverse - a Continental scholar waiting for books from the USA, Britain, or Germany to be translated into Danish, German, etc., in order to find out what their colleagues are doing.”

— Robert Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, 1992

saxifraga-x-urbium

https://mamot.fr/@setthemfree/106014810050613790

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

sugar-and-spite

For alternatives.

Firefox remains best in show in the category of “browsers that won’t do this bullshit.” It’s got a long, long history of trust, a sizable userbase, and a decent amount of privacy built in, with more extensions and customization options than you’ll ever need. However, note that it can sometimes perform slowly, especially with a lot of tabs open.

Opera is a slightly lesser-known browser, and my personal main browser for day-to-day use. It has a built-in VPN (though this can be slow at times), adblocker, and anti-tracking tools, with more available via extensions. Opera’s userbase is slightly smaller, so overall less extensions are available than Firefox, and (in my experience) it generally needs a few settings to be tweaked on first startup to make it comfortable to use (notably, the keyboard shortcuts are different from chrome/firefox).

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that also has (at least) a mobile browser (for Android devices). I’m not honestly sure if they have a desktop or Apple version, but the mobile browser provides many similar safety features to Opera. I find Opera more convenient for casual browsing, but if you’re very conscious of online security, DuckDuckGo might be the way to go.

Microsoft Edge exists. Don’t use it.

Please do yourself a favor and stop using Chrome!

bamboozled-bumblefuck

Ecosia isn’t Chrome based, right? that’s what ive been using, for the trees, and it says it doesn’t save your history but i wanted to check

notimetosayhellogoodbye

I’m afraid so. And based on many other Chrome based browser scandals, I don’t trust it.

bamboozled-bumblefuck

dammit. ill download firefox then :/ thanks for letting me know

edit: how do you actually download it

edit edit: wHY does it send me to GOOGLE, IMMEDIATELY upon downloading it????? like i have the app and it says “firefox browser” and it’s talking all about how secure it is etc but the little rainbow G icon is right next to the actual browser and theres a link right to Google on the firefox homepage how do i stop that

satan-666s-stuff

So from my understanding Firefox uses Google but it blocks all the trackers

bamboozled-bumblefuck

that makes sense! ty!! i ended up changing the default browser to duckduckgo anyway (and deleted google and amazon off of the browser options anyway) but i appreciate it!!! (im afraid this all becomes null and void with me using only gmail as all of my email accs but there’s not much i can really do anything about that. hopefully firefox will block gmail from seeing my searches through the gmail account i used to sign in :///)

shelikesmysparkles

I’d recommend Protonmail, as a substitute for gmail. It’s a Swiss based end-to-end encrypted email service that is expanding to Proton-calander and Proton-drive with their paid version. Their ProtonVPN also has a free version with limited locations. They also have apps for both android and apple.

To boost Firefox, I’d add-on-

Facebook Container- isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies.

HTTPS Everywhere- Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically discovers trackers based on their behavior.

Privacy Possum monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies.

uBlock Origin is not an “ad blocker”, it’s a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – no more opening a different browser just to check your work email! Here is a quick video showing you how it works. Under the hood, it separates website storage into tab-specific Containers. Cookies downloaded by one Container are not available to other Containers. With the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension, you can…

Sign in to two different accounts on the same site. For example, you could sign in to work email and home email in two different Container tabs.

Keep different kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band)

Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example, you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)

Enhancer for YouTube™- Built to get the most out of YouTube, this extension comes packed with all sorts of features that allow you, among other things, to manage ads as you wish, control the playback speed and the volume level with the mouse wheel, automate repetitive tasks such as selecting the appropriate playback quality, configure dozens of keyboard shortcuts to control YouTube like a pro, and much more.

Decentraleyes- Protects you against tracking through “free”, centralized, content delivery.

Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services.

Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin (recommended), Adblock Plus, et al.

Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.

Bitwarden- A secure and free password manager for all of your devices. Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices.

Several of these also have companion versions in Firefox mobile.

If you are interested in other trustworthy add-ons, this icon shows that the add-on is an editorially curated extension that meet the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience. Firefox staff, along with community participation, selects each extension and manually reviews them for security and policy compliance before they receive Recommended status.