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Your Tumblr dad, 40's, he/him. Super proud of you for making your Dash your own! NOTE: Everything here reflects ONLY my opinions, beliefs, etc. I don't speak for my employer, or any other group I ally with in non-internet life. Anything posted here should be read as satire-- even the stuff based on work or other real world experience. Thanks.

[lifehacksthatwork]

Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it'll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I'd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn't read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can't for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You'll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It's genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

[onceuponatimetheworldwasround]

by Nancy Spero

[cheladoll]

1971 letter from artist Nancy Spero to art critic Lucy Lippard

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[nobrashfestivity]

I'm not that mean but it's so tempting to create an archive of the worst Internet poetry. Some of it is ASTOUNDING

[pawn-dreams-games]

Remind me and I'll gift you my letters, journals, and personal effects. Fuck dude you'd be busy for eons digitizing my dumb shit

[victusinveritas]

Like this sort of thing? Follow sluttyprimarysource on Threads and think about reading Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson.

[cuppydogshane]

the unstoppable force is tonguing the immovable object and it seems to be enjoying the experience

[pawn-dreams-games]

Honestly good for them. I really hoped they would end up together.

[fuckmaster-unlimited]

i want to watch a movie that sucks bad with no redeeming qualities does anyone have any recommendations

[timebender13]

In no particular order:

Oz the Great and Powerful

Suicide Squad

The Last Airbender

Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas

War of the Worlds (2025)

[pawn-dreams-games]

Our Drawings

Major Payne

[capnsoapy]

people will have double-digit opinions on kink discourse and still manage to not know what BDSM stands for

[play-now-my-lord]

big dick super mario

[capnsoapy]

big dick super mario

[excited-by-indulgence]

Please, PLEASE if you ever see me reblog or like anything posted by a minor, or if you see a minor reblogging my content? TELL ME. Ask, anon, message, public post with me tagged, I don’t care. I try my best, and I think I do a damn good job, to engage in kink responsibly. But if I somehow make a mistake, I’d much rather be informed and upset about my own actions than risk continuing any kind of interaction with someone who is underage.

Please reblog if you’d want that too.

[fluentisonus]

remember in p.e. when they'd take a bunch of insecure teenagers & be like "today we're going to play basketball" and then not teach you how to play basketball. and then put you in a group with guys who were obsessed with basketball and would get mad at you for not knowing how to play basketball. why did they do that

[pawn-dreams-games]

I must have missed the Adolescent Boys Union (Local 1998) meeting where we voted to switch basketball in for baseball as the Most Important Thing Ever and handed out "Oh so he's actually good at this" skill point upgrades and feat chain progressions.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[gloomy--eden]

Good morning!!

I was deleted overnight! Someone reported my account (thanks to whoever that was). Please help me find my mutuals!

I've put in an appeal and hope to get my blog back!! ✨️

[excited-by-indulgence]

God I am on the fucking WARPATH today.

For your blocking convenience

[excited-by-indulgence]

If I disappear in the next 48 hours, it’s because he sicced his young and impressionable followers on me. 🙄

[women-who-do-sci-fi-and-fantasy]

Jenny Agutter and Jane Seymour at Disneyland, Florida, 1985

[princesssarisa]

Where did your first name come from?

I was named after one of my parents

I was named after a dead relative or family friend

I was named after a living relative or family friend

I was named after a religious figure

I was named after a historical figure

I was named after a fictional character

I was named after a place

My parents just chose a name they liked

Other

Voting ended onJul 13

Having been named after a character in The Great Gatsby by my English-major dad, I thought I would ask about this.

[pawn-dreams-games]

ALLEGEDLY my dad had a friend called MyName, but that is literally the only reason this person ever shows up in the lore. So idk.

My middle name was my Uncle's. He'd died like 2 years before I came along, and as the first kid since that/the last for half a decade more that was bound to happen

[macbethz]

Maybe I have to start making yuppie fetish art. Maybe I need to be the change I want to see in the world.

[pawn-dreams-games]

See now not in a horny way but what is that?

Perrier bottles full of cash with Reagan's face on the label?