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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

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>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

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>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

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>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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fastest reblog in the west

btoon-alba

Wally not knowing how to hug vs Julie loving giving hugs 🫂

This is not ship art Btw, they are just cute

equalistmako

every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt

damianmcgintleman

he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!

equalistmako

you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce i’d probably be bitter enough to steal christmas too

prokopetz

Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft - an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.

My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is the resulting breakup song.

snickerslizard

Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?

prokopetz

Yes.

iguanamouth

star-spangled-jackass

oh god theres art

tediousfeline

@altadude you know what must be done.

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lesbopsappho

ive been avoiding reblogging this honestly but just. What the fuck. What the fuck tumblr

magickspills

I apologize to all my followers for this

watfordwallflower

if i had to read this you do too

quinintheclouds

I have a hate-hate relationship with this

theepitomeofamess

………

anony-phangirl

Good grief… I’m sorry, but I can’t not reblog this…

broadwaytheanimatedseries

Tis the season bitches

theresneverenoughfandoms

DAMN IT WHY WOULD YOU BRING THIS BACK YOU HEATHEN

logan-exe

Why is this on my dash?

princeanxious

…..I’m.. Bothered? by the fact that I’m not bothered by this.

randomslasher

You’re not bothered?? I’m not only not bothered, I’m freaking invested. I’m having actual empathetic sadness for The Grinch. I want them to go into couple’s counseling. I want the “ten years later” when Tony visits Whoville on business and meets the reformed Grinch whose heart has grown 3 times its usual size. I want them to reminisce over a shared dinner of roast beast and wine, then spend a drunken night together, then realize that maybe things are different and people really do change. I want a 3-act story where there’s a long dark night of soul searching and the realization that maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance.

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Tis the season

g0at0ad

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

fox-bright

This meme is a MURDER ATTEMPT.

I am absolutely fucking serious. The original meme, without the big red denial, is someone's attempt to fucking kill people.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE of pennyroyal oil. Even Mother Earth News says there's no reason to use pennyroyal essential oil for ANYTHING, even topically or as a fragrance, for fuckssake! That should give you some idea about how dangerous it is!

Pennyroyal tea, plant matter in hot water, is a traditional abortifacient. It is *incredibly* dangerous, induces abortion by bringing the body close to organ failure (and frequently pushing the system right over the edge, because dosage is impossible to meter), but I would drink a gallon of it before I took a half-teaspoon of pennyroyal essential oil.

Two teaspoons, taken across 48 hours, has successfully killed someone.

Three teaspoons taken as a single dosage killed the consumer within THREE HOURS.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE! FOR PENNYROYAL OIL INTERNALLY! NONE!

The person who made this meme is PURPOSEFULLY, ACTIVELY, trying to get desperate people killed!

fuckingconversations

Pennyroyal oil contains pulegone, which is highly toxic, particularly to the liver. Ingestion can lead initially to gastrointestinal distress such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Later on, it can lead to failure of the liver and kidneys, resulting in bleeding, seizures, multiple organ failure, and death.

There is no antidote for pennyroyal oil poisoning.

- straight from poison control

neil-gaiman

In the hope that this saves someone’s life one day.

glitternightingale

So,,, out of Bruno’s prison friends which one is he? Truck Freak, crazy Ass, друг, or The Fighter?🤣🤣 pls tell me they’re all stereotypical.... I’m begging🥺

IDK Bruo just hangs out with these guys…

Feel free to give them personalities and/or expand some more on Bruno’s prison fam. 😂🧡🧡🧡

thecrazyashley-blog

Julieta had never stopped worrying about her brother, locked in the penitentiary for ten years, all over the death of a tank of an endangered species of fish. She understood they were critically endangered, but ten years was ridiculous, especially since she knew he hadn’t done it. But that was the reality. When he started writing about his…friends…she’d gone from worried to terrified that he’d finally lost his mind.

Guillermo at least made some sense. A former Navy Seal with the anchor tattoo and scars to match whom she’d actually met. He’d lost a brother in a housefire, and Bruno reminded him of the man. He was probably the one she sympathized with the most. He was serving ‘a quarter’ for vehicular homicide, a PTSD reaction from his time overseas. He had been friendly, and asked if she could please make some roscones to send to his daughter for her birthday. Of course she’d done it.

Bruno wrote about Crane the least. He was a card shark from Nevada and had committed more types of fraud than there were names for. The only reason he wasn’t dead was because he was both absolutely crazy and the resident fast talker. He’d helped half the guards with their taxes while swindling them blind, but because he could get anyone just about anything, no one messed with him. The fact that he’d acquired another charge for…dispatching a prisoner with his teeth the one time he’d been attacked might have also had something to do with it.

Toshi was a quiet man with a bowl cut who’d caught a life sentence in a bar fight. Bruno was insistent he didn’t deserve to be in there, and the more he wrote, the more he asked for certain things that even Crane couldn’t get, Julieta understood why. A sweet man who was slow, his teardrop tattoo was almost a joke, and he never should have been placed in jail. Unfortunately because he couldn’t help his size or his strength, he’d been deemed to dangerous by an incompetent judge and scooped up by the Triad as an inside enforcer because he didn’t ask questions. Bruno and Guillermo had been working for two years to teach him to read because he loved Bruno’s stories. In return, Bruno had been ensured protection.

Jethro, Bruno swore, was a kind man. He talked about his farm, and his trucks, and how much he missed mudding and fishing with his brother. That he’d killed that same brother didn’t seem to bother him. “Lost my head, but he’d have done the same if it was his wife.” He’d come from the country, and had a lenient judge, the crime an unfortunately common one in his area, and his wife still visited him with their five rambunctious kids. He was one of the few convicts in the GED program and Kitten Keepers at the same time. No one wanted to argue with a seven foot tall Cajun brawler. Bruno said he was terrified of his rats, but had gotten over it slowly as they worked to get their pets to get along, and he’d even helped Bruno hide his, considering the rats were considered pests. He was the one that had given Bruno that unsightly rata tattoo he was so obnoxiously proud of, having learned to do stick and pokes in his teen years, the wobbly evidence on his own arm, an undersized skull he’d done himself at age 13.

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Reblog this post to turn the previous user into a Creature

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amogus being put down

heliacal-paladin-deactivated202

Why are you a furry?

fleshdyke

what

heliacal-paladin-deactivated202

The hands. They're paws.

fleshdyke

you know what? i dedicate this doodle sheet to you, tumblr user heliacal-paladin. you’ve won

notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat

still couldn't resist leaving some claws in

fleshdyke

SHUT THE FUCK UP

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by the way if i see one mutual from this blog rbing my public execution like this im going to go insane

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maybe they're just vampire hands

fleshdyke

YOU CANT FUCKING DO THIS TO ME

promethiae

If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

this is a pathologic ass song

rosslynpaladin

The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Just saying.

fuckyeahnaturalphilosophy

Sea shanties are a gateway drug to work/labour songs of all kinds, labour songs always end up including union songs, and that’s how you end up extremely hardcore for organised labour.

And if people want more information, this particular song is called “The Chemical Worker’s Song (Process Man)”, written by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea.

Sea shanties and labour songs are an active tradition! Are you pissed? Sing about it.

trisshawkeye

The Chemical Worker’s Song is iconic (and in fact a longtime staple of UK LARP filk!) but while Great Big Sea did a cover of it, it was in fact written by Ron Angel in the UK, in 1964. Originally called the ICI Song, it referred to the grim working conditions in an Imperial Chemical Industries factory in north-east England.

beowulf22121

The lighting in this video takes it from great to awesome.

sally-mun

I have officially concluded that this woman is a siren. My evidence:

1) Outstanding vocal ability no mere mortal could hope to achieve 2) Haunting lyrics that speak to deep and depressing truths of the world 3) No way to prove she has legs 4) I feel so enchanted listening to her sing that I’d probably let her drown me

spiritsonic

Here’s a full version of The Chemical Worker’s Song, for anyone who’s curious

gwywnnydd

This whole song hits like a sledgehammer, but the stanza that sticks out to me lately is this one:

There’s overtime and bonus opportunities galore The young men like their money and they all come back for more But soon you’re knockin’ on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay with flesh and blood

bauliya

everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

bauliya

"it's medical malpractice" have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please

clodiuspulcher

Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years

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Anyway here’s a poem I wrote about my cat

After “Do not stand at my grave and weep”, author disputed:

Do not stand at your bowl and meow. I gave you food. It’s in there now. I feed you at the dawning light, I feed you at the fall of night. I feed you kibbles mixed with meat And wet food for a special treat. I feed you even though you scoff At all the food within your trough. I feed you and still yet you yell Like as a beast from deepest hell. Do not stand at your bowl and cry. I gave you food. You will not die.

thatadhdfeel

people with adhd after following a completely fucking unhinged impulse for short term satisfaction and negatively impacting their long term goals

professionalchaoticdumbass

reblogging this as im delaying my already overdue english essay

voidgremlin2electricboogaloo

reblogging this as im delaying my already fricked sleep schedule

ace-of-none

reblogging as my sketchbook lays open beside me as I choose to watch a cooking mama speedrun

motordyk

reblogging as the bird skeleton i found soaks in warm peroxide

aurosoulart

Star Orcas 🌠

this artwork was created to raise money for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation in honor of Orca Awareness Month and National Oceans Month! 🌊🐬

the orca family here is shown singing to one another to highlight the fascinating aspects of real-life killer whale communication - did you know that orcas, like humans, have different spoken dialects depending on their culture?

check out the Instagram post here for fun facts (and to donate! donations must be made through the mobile app only)

✨ reblogs are appreciated to help spread the word! thank you 🙏

aurosoulart

$19.70 of $100 raised so far! 100% of donations go to charity regardless of whether the goal is met

pigdemonart

【mistress of winds】

I dont have much to say except happy pride, here’s two silly little sapphic comics featuring the gal pals and some unovan gentlemen. 💛💙

Burgh’s sketch is based on Leyendecker’s work. Because of course.

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batman but with anatomically correct bat ears

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

if i may humbly elucidate:

chocolatemicenwhiskey

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@chocolatemicenwhiskey

Hope no one screams in those ears 😬

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@origami-trust

I took a screenshot of your tags before you fixed them >:D

Can you imagine a bat dressed, crazed man driving by just yelling “ECHOLOCATION!”

ritzy-biscuit

@jovialjuggernaut @stephalupagous @untilfurthern0tice HERE.

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this actually reminds me of when i was in second grade and it was snack time but we had been misbehaving so they gave us assigned seats on the rug and i had to sit next to this girl who’s snack was mangoes but i didn’t like her because she bullied me so i told the teacher that i was allergic to mangoes and i couldn’t sit next to her and my teacher was like “oh it doesn’t say anything about any food allergies on this paper right here you might have to update the school nurse on that” so i went to the school nurses office and she called my mom and my mom was like (and i genuinely have no idea why) but my mom was like “yeah sure she’s allergic to mangoes” so then the school had on paper that i was allergic to mangoes so at this point i was like in wayyy to deep so i just pretended to be allergic to mangoes for the next 5 years like i went full throttle into this lie i even came up with a backstory to explain how i found out i was allergic to mangoes it got to the point where even my parents just genuinely believed i was allergic to mangoes until one day when i was 12 i just came clean and explained the story to my parents and they where like “yeah that sounds like something you’d do” but anyway i never got to enjoy my new found mango freedom until about a year later when i was over at my friends house and they had mangoes and i was like “actually i haven’t had a mango in 6 years” and they where like “omg they’re so good you have to try some” so i did and they were sooooo good like i look exactly like the picture above i was gobbleing that shit up like cookie monster it was insane and anyway basically 20 minutes later i broke out in hives.

curiouscarnifex

What to Eat When You Know You Need Too But Just Can't Think About That Right Now

Do you have peanut butter or another nut butter? That + an apple + crackers covers protien, fat, and suger and gets you some plant matter. Even just a spoonful of peanut butter or your preferred alternative is better then nothing

Instant oatmeal, you can add dried fruit and/or peanut butter to add calories and protein which will fill you up longer

If you have veggies like carrots, broccoli, or cherry tomatoes throw them in a bowl and you can slowly snack on them. If you've got cheese and something like pepperettes congrats you now have a meal with most major bases covered

Instant ramen + an egg + any frozen veggies like peas or carrots. Just chuck the latter two in while you boil the water. Now you have something filling with veggies, carbs, and protein and it takes about the same amount of spoons and time as normal instant ramen

If solid food or the act of eating is an issue heat up some broth add any spices you'd like and stick it in a mug. If you've got the energy smoothies and shakes also work, if not meal replacement drinks can be a lifesaver

If you've got granola and yogurt then try the two together. The fat and protein in yogurt will give you more energy and keep you feeling full longer then milk

Haven't eaten in a long time and feel too gross to eat? Try drinking something sugary, your blood sugars probably nosedived and that causes nausea, dizzyness, and other unpleasant stuff that makes eating difficult, getting something sugary into you helps correct that and makes eating easier

In general if you find eating difficult anything with protien and fat will help you feel full longer, so if your struggling to eat try and go for foods with those because its going to lessen the shitty gross "I feel to hungry to eat" feeling that can happen. The most important thing though it to get food, any food is better then no food.