lecherous and licentious

my url is about radiation and centipedes. your local loveless poly aroallo woah, they're bisexual! i didn't know that! nonbinary, late 20s, just fucking chilling here's an about page. feel free to msg me whenever!

[miiilowo]

got a device that detects bigender radiation call that a guygirl counter

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[volcanows]

my friends keep trying to look in the mirror but i dont have mirrors in my car so i fixed it

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

2009

[communistkenobi]

not mengelecore ask here! just wanted to ask what you think about destructive book scanning. will be moving soon and i have some books i won't bring with me that also aren't available online. i'm tempted to scan them but i'm feeling a bit conflicted. they're old but not ancient and definitely not one-of-a-kind type books. classic dilemma for you.

I think there’s a common tendency to treat physical books as fetish objects (not in the sexual sense) that prevent people from learning from them in a lot of ways. Idk the process of scanning you’re describing, but if that’s how you want to archive them for future use then that’s cool 👍

This is tangential to your point but is related, which is that I think people are afraid to leave any trace of human interaction in books as a result of this. I very frequently write in, mark up, fold, bend, etc books I read (not borrowed ones though obviously) because it’s part of how I learn from them. I would encourage people to do that as well, even if you don’t think you have anything valuable/insightful/funny to say. They are for learning and learning happens in lots of different ways. I think getting into the habit of doing that helps demystify books as inherently sacred objects. I remember my brother borrowed my copy of Whipping Girl and laughed at a note I made where I just wrote “WRONG” next to a sentence I disagreed with. Just have funnnnnnn

[caffeinatedopossum]

(remembers) -1 hp (remembers) -1 hp (remembers) -1 hp (remember-

[philcollinsenjoyer]

explained to an 8 year old that once a fruit is ripe you only have so much time until it rots so you have to eat it soon and she said so i'll never be able to keep it perfect like this forever? no and there are about a million pieces of art for you unrelatedly

[viralfrog]

[chungledown-bimothy]

bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

[datasoong47]

[hobbular]

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

[nowlander]

[borbersk]

I’m not American, but if you’re someone who doesn’t have to worry about this, you should still be calling it out.

If you’re not disabled, tell them it’s illegal to ask if you are. Don’t tell them whether you are or not

If you’re white and conventionally attractive, still don’t share any pictures. Tell them they’re breaking the law

There is no such thing as “not my problem” here. If they break labour laws during interviewing, they’ll break them after you’re hired. You don’t want that job if they’re doing this, so you’re not missing out by calling them out

And if only disabled people call them out, then they’ll know who’s disabled by who calls them out. If everyone does it then they won’t know who is and who isn’t, and they won’t be able to ignore what you’re saying to them. Let’s get a little solidarity up in here, lads

[ursiday]

Earth

[mothecho]

They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[andmaybegayer]

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

[artisfox]

When the character who's a condensed version of the things that are Wrong With You is still a good person and deserves love and compassion

[segamascott]

[thoodleoo]

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

[thoodleoo]

catch me on the playground playing sacrifices