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I'm tired and want to eat, other blog is homecooked-dnd she/her 23

[keepthedelta]

possibly the best ever piece of american sports journalism

[theprofessional-amateur]

"This morning, we posted NBC anchor Mary Carillo's 2004 rant about badminton because we had never seen it before and we wanted to share it with the world. Carillo just wrote an email to us, explaining how that monologue made it on the air:

"Can't believe that thing's still around. I was hosting a morning show in Athens that covered a lot of badminton—some table tennis too, but badminton, I'd been assured, was going to be "the curling of the Summer Games." (!) There was no script for that rant—just a little dead time—but it got some chuckles and a head shake from my producer. It was a pretty loose show—I'd already explained a team handball's size by comparing it against various members of the melon family, and when I found out that equestrian horses were listed as "equipment" I did a rant on the fact that horses needed passports to get into the country and dramatically produced one, so surely they needed an identity upgrade..

"That sort of nonsense got me a hosting gig on Torino's Olympic Ice show, which is still one of my all-time favorite scams. Don't know if it's still kicking around, but maybe my salute to Guido The Zamboni Guy is still out there from that wackadoodle show..

"Don't know how I stay employed,carillo

Mary Carillo is cool as hell. Also, someone please bring us her salute to Guido the Zamboni Guy.

Link to Deadspin article

Her salute to Guido the Zamboni Guy at the Torino Olympics

[theragamuffininitiative]

Source:

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Among the many reasons I am clawing my life back from Google.

[puppyprincesshalo]

Hi! We are a trans disabled system stuck in an abusive home with no source of income currently.

We need help surviving this place. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. Trying to pick up small things wherever we can but grocery money from our parents isn’t consistent and we have 18 cents in our account rn.

Any bit helps. Please if you can donate or share. We are barely making it through every day right now. We want to survive this place.

$app || ko-fi

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

it's more than two months now i've been out of work on injury and the workman's comp is only a percentage of my wage, so the longer this goes on i'm falling further behind. i'm still waiting to hear from insurance about seeing the next doctor, and i'm not sure how i'm gonna buy groceries this week & also make rent next week. i'm sorry to be doing this so often but i need a hand. anything helps♥️

$0/$650

@orbis3 on vmo

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[crystalline-fox-girl]

Hey y'all, I had to have an emergency tooth extraction today. I haven't gotten the bill yet, but knowing that I still have to pay for an implant to replace the now missing premolar, I know I don't have enough to cover all the medical costs. I'd really appreciate some help if you can give it, so here's a link to my ko-fi. Please feel free to reblog/share, and thank you 💜

Support CorundumCore

Support CorundumCore

[biorante]

For the first time ever, every Godzilla film, from 1954 to 2004, has their catalogue of English subtitles preserved in full*.

Starting this project back in 2019, I wanted to help ensure accessibility and accurate viewings of these films, while also preserving the efforts of distributors, translators, and fans, who have helped to bring this franchise to the masses.

This undertaking has evolved many of times, with multiple attempts with starting from scratch. For this final iteration, I realised it was best to leave these scripts in their original form - including any errors left in, alongside the inclusion of fan efforts.

In total, there is around 130 subtitle tracks that have been carefully OCR'd and/or processed. Given the sheer number, I have suffered fatigue many a times from this, and would like to give my apologies in causing any delays. Future updates will include more SFX titles, but for now, a rest is much needed.

Many thanks to everyone who helped out.

*Distributed releases.

[ladyaldhelm]

HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI in GMAIL:

Open Gmail in your browser

Click on the Gear Icon ⚙️ in the upper right

In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNCHECK THE BOX. It is about halfway down.

Then, right below that is Google Workspace smart features. Click on the "Manage Workspace Smart Features" and make sure both toggles are OFF

[thesoldiersminute]

Near Dark 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow

[skyberia]

here's a list of programs/sites/whatever that were helpful to me when i was moving away from using spotify & back to downloading music:

soulseek - peer to peer downloading program, has most music you'd want. there's "rules" to it though and the UI is a little confusing, but you can figure it out. there's tutorials. i believe in you

cobalt.tools, ytiz.xyz, yt-dlp - mp3 downloaders, for the songs that you can't find on soulseek

musicbee - music player, extremely customiseable. reminds me of when i used itunes back in the day. has a lot of good features, including syncing music over to your phone

lastfm & listenbrainz - sites that keep track of your listening stats. i'd recommend this even if you still choose to use a music streaming service

syncedlyrics - cmd thing that gets you timed song lyrics, like the ones spotify has. there's no UI but it's easy enough to use. just grab the lyrics and timestamps it spits out and paste it into musicbee

music presence - program that shows what song you're listening to in your discord status, in case you use discord and enjoy the thought of other people seeing what you're listening to, which i do for some reason

i'm not going to lie to you and say that switching away from spotify/streaming services is an effortless task, it took me half a whole day of nonstop Work to get all my music downloaded and sorted out, but i will say that it was worth it!! and you should do it 👍 if you want to

[sevenjetc]

Spotifymate - not 100% reliable, but very helpful in downloading songs from your spotify lists to your mp3 folder.

MusicBrainz Picard - named after Starfleet's esteemed bald man, a program for all your tagging and renaming needs.

Mp3Tag - fewer features than Picard, but a bit easier to use. I like it especially for mass renaming of the tracks. Offers 3 days free without registration, and it counts only the days when you use it. Usually, one afternoon of using it gets you sorted out.

[runcibility]

As a much-superior alternative to Spotifymate, take a look at casualOnTheSpot. It will grab entire public playlists, albums, or artists. It does have some bugs, but persistently retrying when it starts having issues, or re-running your query will almost always work.

[liminalbeauty]

Holy crap.

[artphobos]

WELP, that ends my account.

[thelittlenoctua]

Qobuz is the most ethical alternative to spotify and even tidal (tidal is just pandora radio in a different font; you can't curate playlists, which i absolutely fucking hate, but you can curate playlists on qobuz, and the royalties they pay to their artists are far larger than spotify) that i've been able to find, thanks to this post on instagram by singer-songwriter laura burhenn. the post also lists other alternatives, including tidal, but qobuz is by far the best of the lot. they even have a free feature called soundiiz where you can transfer all of your playlists from spotify to qobuz!

[liminalbeauty]

Worth a reblog for this great info.

[vacationbiblestudy]

Sam Vimes: I am unworthy of love

Sybil Ramkin: I will tend to this pathetic creature for the rest of my life

[worrywrite]

Sybil Ramkin: the disgruntled man of action and honor is an endangered species of rare pedigree which my mother always hoped I would find. I must care for and nurture this stray to preserve his species. He will require a steadfast caregiver, friends, and plenty of enrichment. I should ask my friend Havelock for help with this as he is more familiar with this particular species than I am.

[almondandaldebaran]

i will crossbreed this fine creature with my bloodline ^^

[cheaphalloweencostume]

if you like kung fu hyper violence and downright stunning fight choreography, i was just at the american premier of The Furious and i was kinda gasping every 30 seconds

[cheaphalloweencostume]

fuck with this NOW

[boyburning]

[writtenoffantihero]

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

This is just another form of censorship, control of what we can/can't see and engage with, and another means of getting our private information.

[monarchofmonsters]

Alternative forks of AOSP (Android Open-Source Project) which are not maintained by Google and will not be affected by this:

LineageOS (I use this one)

Graphene OS

Functionally they are virtually identical to stock Android. Android began as an open-source project, and these versions are built off of that.

Fuck Google.

[worstgirleva]

the average genderswap manga made by a self-described cishet man is more sympathetic to trans women than the average western cartoon made a tme queer person

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[aces-and-anime]

Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation

(Review 2)

[json-derulo]

this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime

[wedding-funeral-waitress]

JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I'm not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.