I love when people try to gotcha me on my stance that all sports should be gender integrated with "even American football???" because I can instantly come back with "oh lmao, no, I don't think ANYONE should play American football at all, it's way too dangerous" like nice try but I know no amount of testosterone is going to protect you from the profound, life ruining health issues caused by getting repeated severe concussions over the course of several years. No one should play this sport.
Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, theyâre pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted
Meanwhile thereâs always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and weâve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said itâs fine
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.
stop tagging your heated rivalry bullshit with âgame changerâ im tryna look at gifsets of anna garcia beating up demi adejuyigbe while josh rueben fucks a sam reich mannequin in a baby carrier.
Can we still make and post Rise content until then? YES! As long as we flood the internet with as many posts as possible on August 15 and 16. Make sure to stockpile and then release all your posts into the wild!
What else can I do that would help Riseâs chances? Stream the movie and the show on those two days. Having the viewership suddenly increase on Paramount and Netflix would also greatly increase its chances! ALSO! Like and support as much Rise content/posts on that day! Every little bit counts! Even if you canât draw, write, or create, you can ALWAYS like, reblog, retweet, and share!
What else can I do? Sign the petitions below if you havenât already! AND! Spam the petitions on those days, draw Nickelodeonâs attention to them.
I know Zee is currently taking a break so i'm going to reblog this with something I just found out and hope that it gets to everyone doing open the floodgates this year.
I was getting all the tags together to use on my posts that I've got drafted and trying to find out which ones would be best for TikTok since a ton of people use TikTok and any little bit helps.
Zee's post was originally made in Nov of 2025, which was when Brian Robbins was CEO of Nickelodeon. He stepped down in Jan 2026 and is no longer associated with Nick or Paramount.
The hierarchy got a little messy in the past couple of years so I may still have information wrong (Let me know if I am wrong, all the info I could find was hella confusing)
The hierarchy currently is:
TMNT is owned by Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon is owned by Paramount
And now Paramount has merged with SkyDance Studios
Like I said, it got messy, but what I could find to address Open the Floodgate posts to would now be:
Paramount (Went with the streaming account for the ones I could)
Tumblr: @ Paramountpictures
Twitter: @ Paramountplus
Instagram: @ Paramountplus
Tiktok: @ Paramountplus
David Ellison (Current CEO of Skydance)
Tumblr: N/A
Twitter: N/A
Instagram: @ Davidellisonskydance
Tiktok: N/A
Alec Botnick (Current president of Nickelodeon Animation Studio's) and George Cheeks (Chair of TV media paramount) Do not have any socials to tag
Most of the people that have been tagged in the OG post have changed their socials since the management change/merger.
(If anyone thinks that someone/a company should not be tagged during the event, please let me know)
Hashtags for TikTok (You only get 5 but you can rotate these) :
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
pokemon type strengths/weaknesses are soooo unintuitive and it's fucking my whole mnemonic system. like bug types are good against grass and psychic, which both make sense because bugs love being in the grass and they have nothing to fear from psychics because a mindreader is no match for the pure nature of a bug mind. and they're also good against dark which again, makes sense because bugs love the dark. dark is under rocks, which is famously a place to find bugs. but they're weak against rock types, suggesting that when they're under rocks it's maybe more of an oppressive situation than a chill one. but then again I hang out in houses voluntarily but would still be pretty weak against an alive house deciding to kick my ass, because that's a totally different kind of dynamic. much to think about.
STOP telling me when people are typing. it's bad enough i have to figure out how not to interrupt people in verbal conversations and now we're doing it in WRITING????
Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.
Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.
There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.
i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.
I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case
I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought âwhy do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,â so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? Itâs alright if you canât because apparently I fuckin couldnât either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you donât need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like letâs say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said âthereâs gonna come a time, probably when youâre a teenager, where youâre gonna think, âI feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I havenât needed it in years.â and youâre gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess whatâs gonna happen then? Youâre gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and youâre gonna be dying again, and weâre gonna have to find you another liver. So donât do that.â And I said âwhy the fuck would anyone do that?â and he said âpeople are stupid.â
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or donât wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think âugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?â and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid