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Mal | She/Her | Queer | Indian | This blog is a hot mess of my hyperfixations and I'm sorry to all my followers | Avatar is by @buckybarsn & header is a photo taken by me :D

[lesbianlandry]

[sunriseverse]

can’t go wrong with pining while fucking as a trope. truly it has it all. pining. awkward sexual situations. weapons grade insecurity for all parties involved. the desperation as they inevitably fall further and further while hating themselves for being unable to stick to the contract of no strings attached. etc. you understand

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Why the hell would you replace a step with a mirror? I was so disoriented, I thought it was missing a stair at first, and then I realized it was the sky.

[yesornopolls]

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 16, 2025

[batch-official]

Time for a post that doesn't comply with the gimmick...

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

You should do this.

[digitaldiscipline]

Firefox users, when you right-click to copy a URL, it will give you the option to "copy clean link" which does what prev describes for you automatically. 10/10.

[mik-mania]

im so fucking stubborn

[invader-bean]

michael what the fuck.

[mik-mania]

no its one of my fancy pencils :)

the end cap comes off :)

[mik-mania]

oh lard

[mik-mania]

my son he is sick he has every disease

[mik-mania]

we are nearing peak deviancy

[mik-mania]

happy back-to-school day

[mik-mania]

im so clever that its sickening

[mik-mania]

if i breathe wrong i'll lose him

[mik-mania]

it got too small for the clip. luckily i realized this eraser has the perfect holes

[mik-mania]

at what point does this stop being a pencil

[leahelizabeth89]

Tags via @mik-mania

[professionalowl]

it is of course easier to performatively ban children from social media than to do things like "actually challenge and regulate the abusive tactics tech companies use to extract people's data and money via social media" but if we did the second thing we wouldn't have any excuse to force people to use digital ID :(

[gatheringbones]

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline Davis. The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, editor Joan Nestle, 1992

[“Piri, a black stud, remembers how the police used to harass her for dressing like a man: “I’ve had the police walk up to me and say, “Get out of the car.” I’m drivin’. They say, “Get out of the car,” and I get out. And they say “What kind of shoes you got on? You got on men’s shoes?” And I say, “No, I got on women’s shoes.” I got on some basket-weave women’s shoes. And he say, “Well, you damn lucky.” ‘Cause everything else I had on were men's— shirt, pants. At that time, when they pick you up, if you didn’t have two garments that belong to a woman, you could go to jail…. and the same thing with a man. They call it male impersonation or female impersonation and they’d take you downtown. It would really just be an inconvenience… It would give them the opportunity to whack the shit out of you.“ All our narrators mention this law— although some say it required three pieces of female clothing, not two, and we have been unable to confirm the existence of such a law— and were clever at getting around it while maintaining their masculine image. However, the police used such statutes to harass black lesbians more than whites.”]

[medieval-melody]

"All 3 Hollanders had been in the audience for that one, which had been exciting for Ilya. He had never had so many people he loved at one of his games before."

- The Long Game, Chapter 37

I haven't stopped thinking about this for weeks.

Ilya Rosanov was 29 years old at this moment. He had been in the NHL for 11 seasons, won awards, been to the Olympics, and been playing hockey for 25 years.

But this was the first time he had multiple people in attendance and it was ONLY 3 PEOPLE.

It's a devastating and realistic view of what it's like to grow up without family.

Now everyone go give Ilya a hug cuz my man deserves it.

[riikzo]

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[geekysteven]

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

[headspace-hotel]

Seems legit

[headspace-hotel]

we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

[headspace-hotel]

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

[peat-moss-and-starlight]

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

[aggressivefrog]

[zuccnini]

[oc] Gummy worm hat

[northshorewave]

Handing the Google executive currently chained in my basement a piece of paper that reads "Shall I end your torture?" with one checkbox that reads "No" and another that reads "Maybe later."

[georgedontdothat]

To-cat-ata in B by sympawnies

[kimije]

I wanted someone to play it as soon as I saw it and they delivered

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/