h a u n t e d

Late 1900s

[ashiqui]

today, i want to live.

ellen bass, the thing is / you won’t be alone (2022), dir. goran stolevski (x) / kait rokowski, a good day / @alecstasy (x) / mary oliver, spring / joseph lorusso / hernan bas, the start of something new / marie howe, what the living do / andrea gibson, birthday  / @helenfrankenthaler / jan pieter foppen, blue kitchen / e.e. cummings, etcetera / @wealthy.loser on ig (x) / ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous / @oamul (x) / @oamul (x) / l.m. montgomery, anne of green gables / @seizethehistory (x) / john singer sargent, the black brook / ask polly: 19/10/2013 / malcolm liepke, in her arms / mary oliver, invitation / ellen bass, the thing is

[youmakemenotwannadie]

[achillesinhighheels]

[perfectfeelings]

[catgirlforeskin]

The nicest thing you can say about one serving an imperial military is that she is thoughtless. Many are actively bloodthirsty, they're enlisting to kill and brutalize and rape en masse, that is the function of US military bases. But in plenty of cases, she lacks the cognizance even for that, she enlists never having thought about the world and her place in it, simply because it is the path of least resistance to earn a bigger slice of colonial spoils and to avoid the shame of a retail job.

This was true when the draft was in place and is truer now. Reading memoirs from Americans deployed to Vietnam, Iraq, and elsewhere is truly sobering. Just deeply uncaring, incurious people, who then get to ruin countless lives overseas because of it

[mioxenoblade]

🍜🍥🍜

[ghost-mantis]

[stuft]

[naamahdarling]

Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.” It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.

[warpcoreejector]

Personally I hope that knob goes to 11 and stays there.

[dragonheartftherpays]

“Dials can’t have only 2 positions” is also missing the point. Even if it doesn’t have only 2 positions, the point stands that getting less of/farther away from “raging feminist” requires getting more of/closer to “complicit in my own dehumanization.” You should always be at 0% having to be complicit in your own dehumanization.

[dykeleftinhotcar]

it's kind of like we live in medieval times cause everything is mid and evil

[huffylemon]

[lovrito]

i feel like tumblr users are the only ones who don’t use ai. everyone else would fuck chatgpt if they could

[runcibility]

[aphony-cree]

Most Fuckable Computer Tool

Spellcheck

Copy/Paste

Clippy

AI

Voting ended onMar 10

[msilverstar]

Gosh, there's a clear leader. I don't know why I chose it, we are all so strange

[user-300]

she copy on my text 'til I paste

[paper-wounds]

— Tony Kushner, Angels in America

[apocryphics]

yeah

[catgirlforeskin]

Genuine question regarding your most recent post. What's the plan when it comes to complex manufacturing? Specialized tools and medicine and the like? Surely there won't be enough people in one place to take on every job necessary to mantain that sort of production. Not everyone will want to do the labor necessary to keep things working so there has to be some system in place to make sure it all gets done.

I don't get why you think that, without the policemaid's gun pressed into their backs, every doctor, engineer, train conductor, cargo ship captain, and everyone else who makes complex manufacturing and distribution possible would quit, and no one would fill those shoes. That long-distance supply chains and organization can only exist with the threat of violence.

Our current profit-driven overproductive, overconsumptive, overextractive mode of capitalist production hinging on planned obsolencense will need doing away with, of course. No more can the global south be worked to death and bled of necessities to produce luxuries for the imperial core. All should be for all and all should have self-determination in how they work and live.

If there are industries that are unpleasant to work in, let those who work in them determine how they should be restructured. If it is still unpleasant, then it can be divided up so that everyone can do her minimal part, and if truly everyone refuses to do a kind of work, that it isn't worth having, then who am I to tell them otherwise, if I too refuse to do such work?

My previous post is about open-source programming, already demonstrates how people globally cooperate freely and without incentive to perform technically complex work. I personally know tons of people who, while having full-time jobs, perform difficult volunteer work.

There is so much good being done in the world despite all the existing structures that limit it, imagine how much good we could all do with a society organized more rationally, more compassionately. If can give examples of theory and historical experiments to look into if you wish to learn more.

Believing that having such without violently-enforced hierarchy is impossible is little different than the Christian believing that moral good without the threat of hell is impossible.

[catgirlforeskin]

I wonder if these types understand how this sort of thing sounds. Of course work should be interest-based, people should be able to freely associate and pursue together the kind of work they want to do to make the kinds of things they want to exist.

If you want something to exist and no one else is making it, go make it yourself and try finding like-minded people to assist.

The alternative is that instead of everyone getting to pursue her interests, you have a ruling class who compels others to pursue its interests, which is what we already have in most domains and it's why most things made are terrible, it's what drives "enshittification." There is not a third option.

I don't want to sound dramatic, but it's an immature, selfish, evil way to order the world. I hope you enjoy your windows 11 broken spyware and your copyright law.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[commandtower-solring-go]

There are a lot of really dog shit things in the world of tech that can be solved with a bit of time, some stubborn googling and maybe some special hardware and piracy is only the tip of the iceberg. 

Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind. 

Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy. 

Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy. 

My point is, any walls that capitalist technology presents you with will be a false one. And one already broken by a dedicated community of interesting people working hard for free to break down that wall.

[buckskinblues]

kids these days will be all “be gay do crime” and dont even know how to watch a cartoon without paying for it smh

[thedreadvampy]

IN FAIRNESS

piracy was definitely leagues easier a decade or so ago when thepiratebay was functional, megaupload was still running, and YouTube and Google made only the most cursory attempts to block copyright content. like let’s not pretend that the internet hasn’t got a lot more corporatised in the past decade or so. piracy is still possible and you can and should do it but it’s a LOT harder to do safely and reliably than it was.

[thebroccoligoblin]

^thank u

[theoutcastrogue]

Sorry, this is all wrong.

1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.

2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.

3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)

4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.

5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.

6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.

7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.

8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.

To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:

ARE people less versed in piracy? Are they really? Or is it simply that 20 years ago, internet users were computer geeks by definition, whereas now everyone’s online? Perhaps the percentage of skilled pirates in the general population remains more or less the same, and the only thing that’s dropped is the percentage of skilled pirates to total internet users. I can’t be sure without statistical evidence, but it’s a possibility.

[pulchrabelle]

You can literally google “watch _____ free online” and find most movies but the third result just download Adblock or popup blocker and you’re golden it truly couldn’t be easier

[chickenmcnuggies]

I’ve been meaning to make a piracy masterpost for awhile and what better time than now?

Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.

GAMES:

Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.

NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc

nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.

Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.

Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.

Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.

Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.

Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.

Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.

Books:

Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format

Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.

Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.

IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.

audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.

Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.

5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.

Books on learning various languages.

Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.      

Headspace sleep audio.

Various books and manuals.

Streaming:

ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.

tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.

Yes movies: Movies

Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies

aniwatcher: Anime

animedao: Anime

Computer software:

getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.

Other:

the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.

1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.

ThePirateBay: The classic.

Recorded broadway musicals. Verying quality.

[unyanizedcatboys]

Finally someone actually posted links instead of just bitching or saying “it’s easy”

[zoanzon]

Ok just want to plug the eye a bit more considering I lost a few hours in their yesterday.

the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.

And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…

They have it all.

If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.

Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!

As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…

But goddamn you can lose an afternoon just going through all the stuff they have.

[bigbadowlet]

The subreddit r/freemediaheckyeah is a great resource and their index: https://fmhy.net/ has A LOT of stuff with a pretty straightforward UI. Its got free resources for pretty much anything you could want on the internet, both fully legal and dubiously legal.

Welcome

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

[i-might-be-vanny]

@isuggestalibraryofthings

[isuggestalibraryofallthings]

i have a suggestion

[isuggesteatingtherich]

me too

[ms-demeanor]

I just want to point out that most inkjet printers these days come with/require ink subscriptions and you can’t fix it by jiggling a gear because they use a chip in the cartridge to tell it when to stop working (and to force you to use branded cartridges) HOWEVER laserjet printers *do not* have this issue and are better about accepting 3rd party cartridges. They also last a long time and the printers are easier to fix and don’t end up with the clogged nozzle problem that inkjet printers have. (They are more expensive to purchase and the cartridges are more expensive but you get a *lot* out of them)

If you’re looking for a printer that sucks less, you may want to look for a used/refurbished laserjet and if you’re looking for a printer and it says it comes with a year long ink subscription, no you aren’t, fuck that printer, don’t buy that printer.

[anthony-samaniego]

crats

[dungeonlust]

Art by • Riccardo Latina