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[jessiarts]

Hey, PSA:

On your phone, go to Settings> Security and Privacy> Privacy> Other Privacy Settings> Ads> Delete Advertising ID

Then go back to Other Privacy Settings> Google location history> Turn off Location History &/or Turn-on Auto-Delete (you can set a time period of how long to keep it)

Then, staying on Other Privacy Settings, go to ’+ See all activity controls’> Web & App activity> Turn off (you can also turn-on Auto-Delete for here too) Then Scroll down to Personalized ads> My Ad Center> Turn Off Personalized Ads.

Google has no business knowing/storing everything you do online, and knowing/storing where you go everyday. Turn it off.

These instructions are for an Android phone, IOS might be different. If you have IOS or another operating system feel free to add on with your own map to where they’ve buried these settings in your phone to help others.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

iOS:

Settings -> privacy -> apple advertising -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iCloud analytics -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iPhone analytics -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> tracking -> ‘allow apps to request to track’ -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> location services -> customise per app. Most you can set to ‘never’. Some will need ‘while using’.

And even for those apps, you can turn off ‘precise location’.

[bonni]

Bon it might just be the weed i’m smoking but wtf is goncharov my dash is COVERED IN IT and i… My brain is breaking

LMAO it's basically a movie that a collection of people on here have (and are, currently) inventing out of thin air. The original meme was this:

it's originally from like a year ago, but it's seen a popularity resurgence in the past few weeks (I remember seeing a post from @calidotgov about it that got a fair amount of attention, thats around when people started talking about it again). So yesterday @beelzeebub made this fake poster:

which gave people a basic cast of characters to work with, so now we're all just making up lore for this imaginary movie. that's what I've gathered anyway

[thatdisasterauthor]

Every few years I remember that the Alternative Limb Project exists and get blown away once more by their work.

This one is half hyper-realistic, and half swapable sections based on the woman's personality, moods, and spirituality.

This one comes with a DRONE and has control panels in the wrist and forearm, as well as a flashlight and laser pointer.

This one is older, from 2012, but I still love it. Shiny shiny.

This one has a WORKING CUCKOO CLOCK IN THE KNEE. A WORKING. CUCKOO CLOCK.

Another older one, this one with realistic snake.

This is a two part one, dedicated to railway workers/builders/passengers who lost limbs. The limbs can be hooked together to allow the little train to travel between them.

This one is a literal swiss army knife arm, full of survival supplies.

Just. GAH. They are all so neat.

The project was started by Sophie de Oliveira Barata and you really have to check out her work: https://thealternativelimbproject.com/

[susceptible-to-propaganda]

Being the oldest child is a lot of pressure. But being the oldest daughter with a younger sister is just being a caretaker, friend, guard, example, matchmaker, cage, biggest fan, mother, protector, adversary, schemer, comforter, test subject, villain, father, rough draft, pioneer, editor, tutor, provider, embarassment, first to fail, selfish, opposite, competitor, refuge, only one who understands, martyr, ruin

[creativenicocorner]

The Runaway’s Gamble

☞ What kid doesn’t occasionally fantasize, and threaten, to runaway from home?

In which, while running away, Young Sam learns a few lessons from a few other known runaways

Rated: Teen and Up

[burnsopale]

 I am deeply intrigued by Sir Terry Pratchett’s master/pet kink. I choked on my cereal when Gaspode told Angua that Carrot was now her “master”, and if he called her she’d have to choice but to go to him. Didn’t expect Pratchett to be horny on main. It’s ballsy. Mad respect.

And he didn’t just repeat it in Jingo, having her say the same thing plainly to Vimes, but by using dog-imagery with Vimes as well (Everyone is somebody’s dog, Vetinari’s terrier etc), he links the concepts, and so Vimes’ relationship with the Patrician becomes kinky as well. The coming and going on command also has a parallel; Vimes thinks twice (once in Feet of Clay when Vetinari dismisses him from his bedside, and once in the Prince’s tent in Jingo) that Vetinari can turn him on and off like a switch.

There is also, a little more tenuously, the characterisation of the guild dogs as dogs who are always afraid that they are “bad dogs” deep inside, and Vimes’ similar feeling that he’s just a “collection of bad habits”. But I’ll have to read Fifth Elephant and beyond to see if that connection gets stronger or weaker.

Didn’t expect you to go there, Sir Terry, but I’m into it.

[mirror-of-too-many-books-deacti]

You know, I’m finding Angua a very interesting character because she isn’t very likable, compared to the other Discworld ladies? She’s always “unreasonably” angry, she starts growling before people can do anything to hurt her, and she’s pretty prejudiced (just like her male colleagues), instead of being kind and accepting.

But it makes sense when you know more of her and her backstory. Everyone hates werewolves. Of course Angua is always aggressively defensive, like she’s ready to bite someone. And despite all the jokes about people kidnapping Angua in the first Watch books, it’s hard to realize how dangerous werewolves can be until you see Wolfgang and Uberwald–and those are Angua’s family and home. So even being critical about her heritage tells her the same as everyone else. Imagine having to deal with that kind of inner conflict on a daily basis.

To outsiders, she’s a monster. If she stays with the other werewolves, she’s a monster.

Angua’s life must literally revolve around being scared, both of herself and what other people might do to her because she’s a werewolf. And this also make a lot of sense of her arguments with Carrot? The problem isn’t him being “too nice”, it’s that just because he has nothing against werewolves, he acts like this prejudice doesn’t exist, while Angua is hyperaware of what it means to be a werewolf, and she isn’t happy about it.

[burnsopale]

"And I bet you can’t run away from him. Not really. He’s your master." The darkness was more silent. Gaspode thought he heard movement. “He wants you to come back. The thing is, if he finds you, that’s it. He’ll speak, and you’ll have to obey.”

-Terry Pratchett, Men at arms

(Gaspode is talking to Angua about Carrot)

Sometimes I feel a little embarrassed that I'm writing pet kink fic in the Discworld fandom, but then I remember that Pratchett did it first.

[n3cropants]

i just realized vimes and angua are that meme about dads who don't want dogs

dad: *said he didn't want the damn werewolf*

dad and the werewolf:

[thornaelle]

Angua von Uberwald, Ankh-Morpork City Watch captain and w—

This was orignally for that "six fanarts" meme that was popular like two years ago but this was the only one I ever got even close to finishing. It's been languishing needing a few finishing touches for some time, and I finally got around to making them. Angua has long been a favourite character of mine so I was happy to see her among the suggestions I got!

[discworldquotes]

“They’d reached the alley alongside the University that had been known informally as Scholars’ Entry for so many centuries that this was now on a nameplate at one end. A couple of student wizards went past. The unofficial entrance to the University has always been known only to students. What most students failed to remember was that the senior members of the faculty had also been students once, and also liked to get out and about after the official shutting of the gates. This naturally led to a certain amount of embarrassment and diplomacy on dark evenings. Carrot and Angua waited patiently as a few more students climbed over, followed by the Dean.”

— Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[famousinthatanonymousway]

sketch dump of Feet of Clay! a tiny bit of blood tw under the cut

Keep reading

[steampunktendencies]

Pegasus, part of Maurice Feely’s collection, recently posted in our Facebook group.

join us on telegram https://t.me/steampunktendencies

[natalieironside]

Taxonomy is fucked up. You start out at "This is how our animal friends are classified and how they're related to each other :)" and then you dip one inch below the surface and you get "There's definitely no such thing as a fish and there might be no such thing as a reptile"

[kaumnyakte]

rows of mint

an even-toed ungulate

an animal

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog if you are a trans cyborg, you support trans cyborgs, or you just really hate Laura Ingraham

[hiveswap]

LETS FUCKING GO

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The right’s ideas on what the left are doing are always so much cooler than what the left are actually doing. We should start inviting these people to meetings. Get the ideas flowing.

[secifosseluce]

quick, tell me the weirdest compliment you’ve ever gotten. my doctor told me i have impeccable eardrums 

[drakatzen]

my dentist once told me (in an appreciative tone) that i have huge neanderthal-like canine teeth

[secifosseluce]

oh i AM losing my mind over this 

[78nanosieverts]

I have frequently had doctors complain to me that I have tiny ear canals and like

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that information besides apologize for providing a subpar patient experience?

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

When I had surgery, the anesthesiologist had me open up my mouth so they could “see what they were working with” when they intubated me and they were like “oh nice, lots of room! [assistant] come look!” And the assistant came to look down my throat and was like “nice” 😂

[yidquotes]

My wife, when we were first dating, told me I reminded her of a walrus, you know, a really pretty one.

[physticuffs]

a dancer once told me i had beautiful achilles tendons. (they are v long, i think. i have always been able to squat with my feet flat on the floor with no practice, which is unusual for americans.)

my doctor told me that my blood pressure is excellent, like yes i’m young and healthy but i have blood pressure out of a medical textbook, and i told my mom that and my mom said oh yes, you have genetically perfect blood pressure. you inherited it from my side of the family.

[despazito]

A mortician told me my skintone is so pale I’d be a pain in the ass to embalm

[eusociality]

A yoga instructor complimented me on having “stretchy hips” - I’m not overall flexible I just apparently accidentally trained myself to be a master of all hip opening yoga poses by sitting in the weirdest ways possible at home.

[ehlbee]

My sonographer exclaimed that I have “the cutest little uterus” while giving me an ultrasound.

[pastrygeckos]

I once went to a doctor for hip pain, she proceeded to lay me down and stretch my legs all kinds of ways, going “wow you’re so flexible, I guess you’re fine”. I’m hypermobile.

[followthebluebell]

I have excellent veins. “Very juicy,” said the nice totally-not-a-vampire nurse taking my blood for a hormonal panel.

[pangur-and-grim]

a hairdresser once got legitimately aggrieved with me because my hair follicles are densely packed (as though if she frowned hard enough I’d relent and space them out properly?)

[drferox]

Obstetrician said I had ‘an extremely functional pancreas, even under challenge’ which I guess was a pleasant surprise.

[toxeh]

When I got my septum pierced, the guy doing it said I had a perfect septum and perfectly aligned nostrils. “Like you have model nostrils. Like you have the kind of nose I would have loved to have trained on. It’s perfect.” (It was small but it actually kinda made me feel really good about myself?????

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

creep on the subway absolutely sloshed at 2 o’clock in the afternoon told me “I like your legs. they look STRONG, they’re footballers legs… they’re almost a bit freakish like”

thanks???????????????????

[orangejulii]

A creepy customer at work told me I have nice elbows.  I was taken off guard and replied, “Well, that’s a new one.”  He said, “Shut up you know you have nice elbows!”

[scary-numbers]

a regular at my old restaurant (who was drunk at the time) told me I had an air of leadership about me, “like a czar”

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

wow okay you win this post @bruhgender

[thebusylilbird]

last time I went to the ophtalmologist I had to do a dilated-pupil fundus examination, and during it the doctor said those exact words: “wow your retina is really gorgeous ! I know this means nothing to you but for me it’s beautiful, I’m happy to see it !” 

[lustful-kingly-deactivated20240]

An older nurse once told me that I had marble like skin while stroking my arm. I was about 15? :)

[gimb]