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[nick-nellson]

Beauty and the Beast (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise

[divorcedwife]

studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be

[nerdie-faerie]

Getting food poisoning from the food at your job has gotta be a new low

[nerdie-faerie]

Actually being accused by your job as having just been hungover from the football and using food poisoning as a cover is probably lower

[berrytart]

okay yeah i do think your filler is off putting and your botox makes you rigid and strange to look at

[kayevelyn]

Whenever I think about the word “queer” I’m always hit with: wow queer is just such a good word, because it captures everything I’m feeling so succinctly. Cause you see, I’ve identified as bisexual ever since I was a freshman in high school, right at the beginning of the whole “LGBTQAIALPHABETSOUPJOKE” when it was just GLBT as options so I really had no other choice but to be bisexual (and also I love the flag), but really if I think about it, I don’t actually give a shit about gender when it comes to sexual attraction so pansexual is “technically” more correct but like… I’ve been bisexual for so long at this point (and again… the flag….), and honestly if you really wanna break it down to like sexual attraction I don’t even find someone sexually attractive unless they’re like truly special you know? So celebrities crush make no sense to me. Finding out people honest to god had “hall passes” picked out ma’am and or sir and or you there, in what world would I want to fuck a random ass celebrity I don’t know— and so like, you can understand how I really ACTUALLY connect with the ace community at the end of the day…

And this doesn’t even BEGIN to touch the gender of it all - see aforementioned “I don’t really give a shit about gender” and just apply it to everything related to me and not just who I find attractive because at the end of the day we all can be holes or pegs at our leisure and…

You see why I like the word queer so much?

Happy pride 🌈🥰

P.S. the queer pride flag IS cute

[analogdelight]

i think you should have to come out as cis or straight. stop assuming it's the default and everything else is a deviation.

[analogdelight]

you can reblog this btw. make cis people feel uncomfortable about assuming they are "normal" and we are "other". make straight people feel uncomfortable assuming they are "regular" and we are "deviant".

[nerdie-faerie]

Getting food poisoning from the food at your job has gotta be a new low

[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.

[meatdiaz]

absolutely hate it when the pleasurable activity procrastination hits. i’m going to do something fun that brings me joy but not yet. yeah, not yet. not yet. maybe i shouldn’t do it at all, it’s not that fun

[royalfig]

Do you think that as a black man the doctor thought about Martha ? when he cried in dot and bubble or when he spoke about feeling home in the story and the engine, do you think he thought of Martha and how he treated her and the biases he’d picked up from being a white man on earth for so long

Do you think he ever considered going back to her and apologising, having a level conversation with her, understanding her

[nerdie-faerie]

So I guess I graduated......

[saltoncity]

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

[animentality]

[assiraphales]

I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive

[dwgif]

Doctor Who The Parting of the Ways | 1.13

[alarrylarrie]

Babe, wake up. A (different) US senator died.