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occasionally subtle
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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we're not kids anymore.
Claire Keane
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Jules of Nature
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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@rauggra
My old person trait is that I think a website should work in a web browser and not try to open an app
My old person trait is I think video games should work without needing access to the Internet
My old person trait is that I think when I purchase a product, that it should be complete and functional and also that I should actually own it.
My old person trait is that I want to retire.
what if everything is intentional. what if dancing with your friends matters as much as picking up groceries. what if you put color in your hair and a stranger feels seen. what if someone makes soup for you. what if tears are sacred. what if it’s all love.
I'll take love in any format- not picky about JSON or any such crap ^_^
Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP
(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)
An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:
IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:
HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:
First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
I'm tired of soulless big evil corporations. Can some deity please cleanse the earth? Thanks in advance.
i survived a tuesday, and for what? wednesday? disgusting.
Dear Weekend,
Please come faster.
Sincerely,
Tired me.
Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it
Ibuprofen plissss
Like 'do your research' as these same nincompoops like to yell lmao
refseek.com
www.worldcat.org/
link.springer.com
http://bioline.org.br/
repec.org
science.gov
pdfdrive.com
Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!
Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.
Reblog to save a wallet.
big fan of media thats too homopobic to admit gay people exist yet nontheless operates with a homoerotic subtext so insane that none of the characters’ motivations make sense unless they carnally desire each other
RRR
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Free learning. Yes please.
One important thing to remember in life: Do not coddle men. Do not do their work for them. Do not perform uncredited labor for them, including intellectual labor. Do not bend over backwards to help them. Do not tell them they are good at things they are bad at. Do not smile at them when you don’t want to. Do not laugh at their terrible jokes or stroke their egos or let them think they are better than you when odds are good that they are almost definitely not. Do not even deal with men whose presence bothers you when you can get away from them/when you aren’t regularly forced to be near them for things like work. Do not include men in your life who don’t deserve to be in it any time that you can avoid it at all.
this post pairs well with this one:
Patriarchy is fueled by our politeness.
lmao there’s this barbie-branded typewriter toy that has undocumented encryption features
This is real! https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/11/29/barbie-electronic-typewriter-toys-contains-masc-cryptographic-capabilities-crypto/
If you stumble upon several Barbie-branded typewriters in the wild, you may want to snatch them up. With two or more you will be able to use capabilities built into these toys for sending and receiving cryptographic texts. The Crytpo Museum have a full write-up on the suitable models and their “4 built-in cipher modes.” But the story doesn’t stop there – there’s more, as tipped off by a FBI informant!
barbie is a fucking fbi informant guys check it out
Very ENIGMAtic…
“When the E-115 was adopted by Mattel as an addition to the Barbie™ product line, it was aimed mainly at girls with a minimum age of 5 years. For this reason the product was given a pink-and-purple case and the Barbie logo and image were printed on the body. As it was probably thought that secret writing would not appeal to girls, the coding/decoding facilities were omitted from the manual.“
more evidence that adult men have absolutely no idea what five-year-old girls are actually like
the generations to come will grow up using computers that resemble the touchscreens you order food at a deli from, no root access, not owned by them, only accessible via a few rigorously controlled and selected pathways allowed by the manufacturer, logging in will require a user profile with mandatory valid payment details which will be routinely used to access already extent functionality, their operations will be preempted while advertisements play, they will be taken to court if the electronic anti-tampering hardware is tripped. this will happen
they got us first with the phones, that they were eventually able to mostly lock us out of, or at least design the hardware and firmware in such a goofy fucked up incredibly secret way that there isn’t much you can do without 5 lifetimes of effort reasonably. they took root away, that has happened already, next will be the merging of your user with some network account with microsoft or whatever no longer being optional (google phones already do this), then no boot without network, then no boot without network and TLS connection with host “allowing” you to use it
windows 11 won’t boot on hardware lacking a “trusted security module” which is the fake name for a sealed chip that facilitates end-to-end DRM encryption a la HDCP, and that is when the concept of “local media” (mp3, mp4) will die, it will only come to you after payment, over the air, encrypted, or stored locally for a period of time with built in expiration a la video rental
i tell people this and it slowly happens and they’re all “i bet you’re soooooo proud of yourself for getting this right, must feel good” — it absolutely does not feel good, this was never an ego thing, they didn’t listen and when faced with reality they will won’t listen
i saw a kid writing code on his phone for a school assignment, man, what does that mean?
Prev, you're right, i reblogged this as-is, and OP isn't exploring the question of "so what do we do" (which is fine).
But i feel up to addressing that a little so I'll try. I see the same question on posts about other social ills, and honestly I think the answer is the same. Yes, revolution would be ideal.
But the term "revolution" is poorly-defined and distorted by narratives from pop culture, which both fail to understand the nature of revolutionary action and are ultimately funded by organizations that have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
"Revolution" isn't an event like an asteroid impact. It's more like an avalanche. Even an edict from a dictator is only imposed through the willing acquiescence of all their underlings.
A post like this one points out the problem, it shows us the tragedy of the moment. And then you read it and you think...huh, yeah, that does suck, I wish it were otherwise. And then maybe the next time you have a choice, you do something differently. You share the sentiment with the other people you know. Maybe they choose to do something differently.
Working with your neighborhood to organize small forms of mutual aid is the foundation for change. Opting out of digital walled gardens when you can, opting in to decentralized networks when you can is the foundation for change.
I can't stop Microsoft from trying to lock me in to their company store. The systems of global power are too big. What I can do - am doing - is to stay alert to where they're building walls. I can put sugar in the cement at the base of the wall in the place where the cameras can't see. Maybe someone else will be able to take a sledgehammer to that weak point next year. Maybe the year after that a whole crew will have sledgehammers and we can take out that part of the wall entirely.
That's still a pretty metaphorical answer to the question of "so what can we do", so let me say specifically the ways I try to resist the digital walled gardens.
Trying not to let my phone be my whole world - i have some physical notebooks where I take notes about stuff, i could switch to a physical calendar if it came down to it
For #reasons, I wanted to measure the temp and humidity at different points in my house every day for a few years. I bought *analog* gauges, not digital, and i record the values in a paper diary. This is both so I'm not dependent on something that requires a digital company to exist in five years and so I'm not dependent on batteries. It's also so i have a reason to walk into different parts of my house each day and actually view and acknowledge the changing seasonal environment, to start getting closer to my local ecology
I installed linux on one of my computers, both out of spite at Windows not allowing me to opt out of updates and also as a way to encourage myself to build my digital literacy - the laptop can dual boot into either windows or linux, if i must use windows for something, but it defaults to linux
This is probably the most pointless thing ive done, but when windows solicited my feedback on a thing, i actually sent it. I wrote out some huge paragraphs about how frustrating and paternalistic it is that they have removed my ability to manage certain features and settings. It's basically just me standing on a rock shaking my fist at the ocean, but I won't go silent into the night, as it were
There are other little things in my life. The specifics *aren't* important. My life is different from others'. But we *can* do things. Let's do things! Together!
Reblog if you didn’t hear about this on the news
About two dozen women marched in Kabul chanting "bread, work, freedom," "we want political participation" and "no to enslavement," just days
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban security forces opened fire over the heads of women who staged a rare protest in Kabul on Saturday — a violent crackdown coming just two days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the group sweeping to power in Afghanistan.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
About two dozen women marched down a main street of Kabul chanting "bread, work, freedom," "we want political participation" and "no to enslavement."
The protesters unfurled a large banner announcing the anniversary of the Taliban's resumption of power as a day of solidarity with Afghan women. They also demanded the international community step up to help them.
"It was important because it's nearly the first anniversary of the Taliban rule and we wanted to say that we don't consent to this government," said one young woman who spoke to NPR after the protest. She requested anonymity so she couldn't be identified by Taliban authorities.
"After a year of this government, there is no change in the situation. We are showing that we won't stay silent," she said. "It's important to show the world that Afghans don't accept this. We will stand against injustice."
As the women marched, Taliban security forces began grabbing the phones and cameras of Afghan journalists and male international correspondents. They grabbed the phone of a boy on a bicycle who tried to take a photo.
Then, in what appeared to be a coordinated move, they opened fire in the air above the protesters, quickly dispersing them. Taliban security forces have used live fire to disperse protests in the past. But the fire this time was unusually intense: Multiple gunmen fired rapidly in the air, leaving bullet casings strewn across the street.
Several reporters were detained, and at least three remain in custody.
The return of the Taliban to power ended four decades of conflict and has largely made the country secure. But they have dramatically curbed women's rights, preventing most girls from attending secondary school, banning women from traveling alone and making it difficult for them to work.
They've also cracked down on those criticizing their rule, which has chiefly been women demanding their equal rights.
Meanwhile, sanctions have paralyzed the economyand plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis with many Afghans going hungry. Major aid groups and human rights organizations have pleaded with the international community not to forget the plight of ordinary Afghans, and to allow commerce and trade to continue.
I think so much about the food people ate pre-Columbian exchange. Huge parts of cuisine extremely important on both sides of the pond just didn't exist.
You've probably heard a little about what was brought over from the New World, corn, potatoes, cocoa, cassava, peanuts, chili peppers, avocadoes, cranberries, pumpkins, and the like. Imagine cooking without chili! Without potatoes! Modern Indian cuisine contains enormous amounts of potatoes and we just didn't have those for the vast majority of history. The best of the nightshades all on one contiguous hunk of land. Hell, tomatoes! Almost forgot about those.
But we don't often look at what the Old World had. Wheat! Barley! Rice! A profusion of incredible grains, really, the finest poaceae has to offer. Carrots! Tons of rosaceous plants like apples and cherries and pears and peaches and apricots! Grapes! Soy and Bamboo! Okra and watermelon! All these things were simply never found in the Americas. The grains one is the wildest for me, the variety of grains available across Eurasia and Africa was truly astounding.
You know what binds together the food of all cultures across the world? Onions. Onions are fucking everywhere. There's probably onions growing near you right now. Allium Gang Unite.
Our diets are more similar now than ever and that is messed up
Concept: me, spending time with my closest friends. We’re all in the kitchen while I’m cooking dinner, my apartment is cozy and it smells delicious. It’s raining outside and we’re all laughing, with no stress.
Because I keep getting messages from people who didn’t google it.
classics
Never forget to reblog
the secret to life is to always use more spinach and less rice than you think you’ll need
the second secret to life is that fresh air warm sun and a cup of tea will make your problems small enough to start handling
the third secret to life is that violence sometimes really is the answer
