Rhea

Yeap

[catchymemes]

[makahitaki]

[walk-up-songs]

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!!!

[walk-up-songs]

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.

[walk-up-songs]

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.

[walk-up-songs]

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.)

[acquitarte]

After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.

I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).

It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.

[dontcallmebymyusername]

Does this count as finding a walrus at your door?

[baddywronglegs]

Absolutely, and definitely less surprising than a fairy

[mintyepic]

normal conversation with my roommate

[omegaverse]

velcro is kinda crazy if u think about it

[omegaverse]

sorry guys im bored as fuck

[dogpuppy]

[cryptotheism]

Poppers? Like jalapeño poppers??

Yeah sure

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

This insane update from Neocities

[poolsofchrome]

Nine point eight meters per second squared

[syrenki]

possible career paths for me:

1. matching pearls in pairs for earrings

2. msn butterfly

that's it probably

[seabeck]

Redhead russulas

[valtsv]

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

[valtsv]

by talos this cant be happening

[architectureofdoom]

Pylons in Glomfjord, Norway, 1917

[thefernhands]

If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

My friend is embarrassed and thinks she’s the only one and I said id prove her wrong.

[b-a-c-u]

House of Culture of the Trade Unions,

Iași, Romania, built 1962.

Architect: Ilie Costinescu and Cristian Constantinescu.

Engineer: Anatolie Mihul

Facade bas-reliefs: Iftimie Bârleanu

(c) BACU

[clairidryl-deactivated20180621]

Boober from Fraggle bridges the gap between Butch lesbians and femme gay men

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Sorry, all fraggles are Cisgendered Heterosexual Men.

[clairidryl-deactivated20180621]

Explain this then

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

This is why I love the Fraggle Rock fandom. It’s always quicken its feet to shut shup hewn a bigot, or as. Sone fandots have neiar prodlems, but Fraggle Rock fadom har snear grelet togather.

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Ironic. You sayd I’m a “bigot” but the only won shup it is “gay men” “lebian” but whenst heterosexual  Fraggle Rock fadem suddenly graab dip pip…

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

That shust the ting, though.

The to reconize that Fraggle Rock sips; not only that, but when sips b, it can shush to the childe that “gay” winn had with the Fraggles.

Pus, what’s the dil and the stuck? Thear tubs of straight pap pop zip on TV; movies, the one tine “gay” yon hadan shuter tel it? Fraggle Rock, of all thinks?

Thist the poblem with Tumblr, non it and toxic hexic on the blogs.

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Asci a paint but tit knost what I’m gibbing indo.

Haffing on “gay” “lebesan” sned right to the geepotine but when heterosexual gits mits fun of Tumblr al haugh and jock. So… who cagg if it sips or not? Fraggle Rock for chibren a Tumblr ajenda b sip one way or another.

Call me toxic all you want - at least I bibpt phibbt.

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

me: Fraggle Rock sinter rilling kids’ show and it’s harning delly to sip Tumblr sunk about it. Let gay peple hollor rut.

you: NO!!!!! THUST CAN’T INFANE MY STRAIGHT FRAGGLE ROCK HOPILY… AAAAAARRRGGGGHHH!!! I’M SO SCAFFING HEFFING SIT DOP I’M GO SEEK SPIT ON TUMBLR ABON IT!

Droned… are you seraieous?

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Typigal Tumblr ageuement. I pat forf my pint yag you stewman me. Fif – You gow what? Donn debapping bith SJWs. Fraggle Rock are heterosexual. Had fan in fanbasy.

[natalieironside]

There should be blood-sacrifices to the great sun god Belanus at Pride

[natalieironside]

"Should kink be allowed at Pride?" Druids should be allowed to read the future in the entrails of slain men at Pride