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[loth-catgirl]

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[writenor]

Now that I have a big girl job, my goal in life is to work my way up to a management position where I sit at a desk 80% of the time, wear super cute business attire (w/ heels), and run a meeting every once in a while.

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 11x01 "Mrs McGinty's Dead"

[djarin]

6K FOLLOWER CELEBRATION: TOP 3 VOTED MOVIES ↳ 2. Barbie (2023) — 43.4% (insp.)

[producedbyarca]

I think it’s really insulting that westerners talk about communism. y'all had it too good and now y'all are being spoiled little brats. let me talk to you about the women and men executed and how their bodies were thrown out of trains and the basic food being rationed so harshly that we actually started black markets for fucking sugar and oil and let me talk to you about how they used to spy on everyone, we had mikes in our homes, how they made kids rat on each other and how controlled the education was. lights went out at 7. my parents used to study by a candle. everything. was. controlled. everyone. was. oppressed.

[saintjoan]

# DESTROY TUMBLR’S UNAPOLOGETIC ROMANTICISING OF COMMUNISM 2K15 TBH

[alchemistique]

#the fastest way to make me lose all respect for you is if you’re one of the tumblr shitbabies who romanticizes communism #my grandfather was the only member of his family who survived the russian revolution #he hid in the family crypt and had to listen to the sounds of the bolsheviks slaughtering his whole family #women and children too #all shot execution style because they owned a tiny farm in what is now ukraine #the members of his extended family were all sent to gulags and we only know they were even there because we found records of their deaths #so don’t fucking come in here with your pop communism nonsense #not when my family has suffered under it #not when the families of millions #billions of people #have suffered for something you think is a cute and edgy way to rebel #go fuck yourselves honestly you ignorant pieces of shit #i consider myself a socialist but there is a huge fucking difference between socialist policies as implemented today in sweden etc. #and the utter living horror that was life under communism #stay classy tumblr 

[emeraldboreas-deactivated201809]

A good friend of mine has some stories, man. Her family fled the USSR with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

[saint-ambrosef]

My grandfather’s family had to flee communism twice. The first was the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, where they were kicked out of their home and country because they were “White Russians” (a wealthy class, not even nobility). They would have been killed had they stayed.

They fled to Italy. Not too long later, they were kicked out of there too by the rise of Italian Communism. “Italy is only for Italians,” they said. And so they fled again. Eventually they settled in Louisiana.

My grandmother’s family were Jewish Russians. They fled the USSR because the oppressive regime was destroying their life, their family. My great-grandfather arrived in New York harbor at age seven, with his father, waiting for the rest of their family to come over so they could start fresh.

I think OP put it best: “y'all had it too good and now y'all are being spoiled little brats.” None of these neo-commies actually understand the horrors that the implementation of communism brings because they’ve never been personally affected by it, because they’re ideologists who never consider the outcome of the execution. They want a utopia.

They’re sheltered.

[sunder-the-gold]

They live in the greatest nations that Earth has ever seen, live lives wealthier than all of the kings of old, and they feel oppressed because the public and private education program has taught them to hate their own countries and long for a utopia that no one can prove is possible.

[rayyzcosmos]

no one hurt them eldest daughters more than their own fathers

[eldestchild1456]

Has anyone else ever felt weird when your hair wasn’t up in a bun or ponytail? I’ve realized now that for me it’s because having my hair down meant being feminine, and being feminine is being vulnerable. I’ve never felt confident in my femininity and maybe that’s why I’d always try so hard to hide it…like dressing more tomboyish and never wearing my hair down.

[thezenangel]

a beginners guide to pilates

🎀 what is pilates?

pilates is a form of strength training exercise that focuses on low to medium impact movements to improve muscle tone, stability, endurance, and mobility. pilates also focuses more on the smaller muscles of the body compared to traditional strength or weight training.

🎀 benefits of pilates

including the benefits that exercise generally brings, pilates:

improves mind-body connection and body control

improves active flexibility and mobility

works the core, improving stability

improves coordination and balance

reduces mental and physical stress

works muscles that can be neglected in our daily lives

treats and prevents body pain, including menstrual pain

teaches you how to pair your breath with your body

keeps the joints healthy without putting pressure on them

🎀 where to start

while you can absolutely start with studio or reformer classes, you can also do pilates routines on youtube! i recommend move with nicole and dansique fitness. if you want to get your cardio in as well, i absolutely recommend eleni fit. her workouts are some of the best i’ve ever tried!

🎀 personal tips

keep your core in mind. core strength is a major benefit of pilates because each movement requires at least a mild amount of core work to keep your body stable, so do your best to keep the engagement throughout.

start slow. pilates movements can take a while to fully understand and it can take a while to build the mind-body connection, so don’t push yourself too far in the beginning. your coordination will improve over time!

don’t underestimate it! while the movements are generally slower than other types of exercise, you will work your muscles just as much and in a way they may not have been worked before. sometimes i even find pilates more difficult than hiit or weights!

[kissbylu]

spring mood board

[rozentias-deactivated20240103]

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

[charaznablescanontoyota]

cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.

[montyshistoryblog]

I'm incredibly fucking disappointed at the bootlickers in the comments claiming that the IA steals from small creators. Eliminating a valuable research, academic and cultural resource because you've bought into the fiction that "potential sales" are lost sales is exactly what these big corporations want. You aren't saving small creators by swatting down a non-profit, you're allowing ginormous publishing monopolies to consolidate even further while they smile a snake's smile over independent creators.

[llyfrenfys]

The Internet Archive is absolutely vital for my work and research. Without it, a good chunk of Welsh LGBTQ+ history would be inaccessible. The Welsh books hosted on IA are indexed and searchable, meaning any Welsh LGBTQ+ terminology can be searched for. Otherwise, me sitting down to read every. single. Welsh book ever published *just in case* it contains one of the terms in my data is an impossible task (Welsh books have been published since 1546) . In fact, this is something I refer to in my methodology for this very reason.

I'm also broke as hell rn but when I get the chance I'm gonna donate. Without IA, you can kiss goodbye to a *massive* chunk of academia. My lecturers use IA. So not just like, undergrads and PhD students, but seasoned academics will lose access to a major resource if IA stopped existing.

The argument of "potential sales lost" also makes no sense from an author's perspective. Published authors are usually paid an advance before publication. After that point, they would have to sell an obscene amount of books to qualify for extra pay from those sales, so many authors are unbothered by someone reading their book for free. Libraries allow people to read books for free and IA is essentially one giant library. It even has a feature where if you're reading a book and "check it out" for an hour, no-one else can read the book your reading until the time runs out. Just like a normal library. Potential sales lost to the company is just like when companies claim to have lost millions at a start of the year when they haven't actually lost any money at all. They just didn't earn as much money as they were predicting.

IA provides a vital service and we should be fighting to ensure it isn't lost.

[castlescrumblingdown]

Seconding all of the above -- Since the IA lost its case, I've noticed a number of books have rapidly become inaccessible for me. The negative impact this has had on my work can't be overstated, as I've been left without a crucial resource for my research. I don't believe there's a single article I've written that hasn't been impacted by this, with me often having to scrambling to get access to sources that are rare and/or our of print. I have the advantage of a well-stocked uni library that is good at ILLs, but this is a taste of what's going to come if this isn't resolved in the Archive's favor.

[sophjuly]

at the end of the day what's even the point of being a corporate girlie if i can't type out a cunty little email on a white Blackberry Bold 9700 with the clickity clacks of the keyboard punctuating every syllable of my rage

[ethniee]

Gryffindor Headcanons / Aesthetics

GRYFFINDOR:

Orange and red sweaters and hot apple cider in the middle of winter

Going off the trails skiing and getting lost. (Ski patrol always keeps an eye out for the kids in red and gold scarfs because they always seem to be the ones that end up stuck in the middle of nowhere with concussions).

Warm patchwork quilts, blazing fireplaces and laughing with all your friends as you share stories and pass around the sugar cookies and popcorn

Singing loud, obnoxious songs in the halls. Musically inclined Gryffindors try to teach the others how to sing better.

Impromptu races entirely for the thrill of it

Rough housing with big dogs

Massive debates with anyone who challenges what they believe is the truth and the right thing to do

Will not hesitate to punch you in the nose and be absolutely terrifying if you pick on someone

Dumping salt and pepper on everything and being too proud to admit it when they add too much

Quidditch celebrations. Sneaking around the castle at night to put up all the decorations.

Teaming up with the Hufflepuffs to raid the kitchens is a nightly occurrence

Driving down an open road with the windows down, the radio on as loud as it will go and not a care in the world

Climbing on top of the Hogwarts train and sitting on it for half the ride until they get caught

New Gryffindors in absolute awe as the older ones show off tricks on their brooms

Cliff jumping!!!

Gryffindors lead by taking charge. They are loud and boisterous leaders that command attention.

The most likely house (as a whole) to seek praise and recognition. They thrive on appreciation of their achievements and want to be noticed.

Gryffindors don't care about rules - they care about right and wrong, black and white. If it's the right thing to do, they will do it regardless of the rules. If the rules align with their views, they will support them to the end. Rules that don't thereby don't deserve to be followed.

Extroverted Gryffindors dragging their introverted buddies out of the tower whenever they can

Kings and Queens of loud singing in the shower

Probably have a yardstick duct taped to the top of their tower so Gryffindor tower is taller than Ravenclaw tower

Fully commit to Senior / Seventh-year pranks

Insanely competitive (this contributes to the massive rivalry with Slytherin. Neither house is willing to back down)

Get very salty when they lose

Monopoly gets heated

Falling asleep on the floor next to the common room fire because it's so cozy

Will tell people to be quiet and then be loud

Show off on playgrounds like no tomorrow

"Because I feel/felt like it" champions

[allthingseurope]

Strahov Library, Prague

[official-german-translationen]

Ah ja, die Québec-Region, oder wie ich es nenne, CanCanada

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