SpottedCrows

Eyy this is Mo and welcome to my blog full of dumb humor, anime and stuff.

[anxietyproblem]

[theonion]

[anxietyproblem]

[on-a-lucky-tide]

PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.

[on-a-lucky-tide]

@thevaguestoffeeling You're absolutely right.

If you are part of a vulnerable group - LGBT+, ethnic minority, women, religious minority, teen, anyone - do not think they won't hand your DMs to a government looking to persecute you. Yes, including feckin' Tumblr.

[mothkisserx]

i figured this was common knowledge, but in case you don't know - NO social media messaging service like this is safe to discuss such things. i've heard signal is good and i know it has a great reputation, but never ever ever trust a company to not hand over your data and DMs in a heartbeat

[days-of-storm]

Both Google Gemini and Siri now have free access to ALL of your apps, no matter whether they use encryption. You were not informed of this, but it apparently came with a recent update. Toggle those motherfuckers off!

[zoanzon]

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If you use Signal, Discord, or any other messaging app and you DON'T want Google or Apple monitoring/reading/learning from your messages, follow these steps.

Android:

1) Open google app

2) Tap your profile photo

3) Settings

4) Google Assistant

5) "Your apps"

6) Choose the app (e.g, Signal)

7) Toggle "let your assistant learn from this app" off

iPhone

1) Settings

2) Apps

3) Choose the app (e.g, Signal)

4) Toggle Apple intelligence or Siri settings to off ("learn from this app")

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And yeah, can confirm on android: went and checked and google assistant - which I don't ever use - was plugged into all my apps. Well, no more.

Additionally, for android users (I don't have an iPhone so no clue what to do on that side), after going through Assistant->Your Apps, back out and do Assistant->Your Data in the Assistant. See what else it's wired into (web & app activity, if it's in your contact info, if it's in your YouTube history) and especially follow up on the 'personalized ads' bit down at the bottom.

Fuck you panopticon, I'm gonna keep poking you in the eye with a stick every opportunity I get!

[thegenderal]

the thing i have discovered about being an adult is that every week you will have to spend 100 dollars.

[legislacerator]

nowhere else on the internet can you get content like this

[boobieteriat]

"Hellen Keller is not real" is a right wing propaganda. It's literally something that was pushed by eugenistic tiktokers two years ago at least because they don't believe disabled people like Hellen Keller can do anything for themselves.

[filenesdebasement]

someone tagged this 'no she was not a fraud and there have been other cases of deafblind people communicating'

There are entire established DeafBlind communities! There is a DeafBlind language, Protactile. There are DeafBlind people on the internet around you.

Here is a video I really liked about Protactile.

The essay "Against Access" by John Lee Clark, who is DeafBlind, goes around tumblr sometimes.

I don't want anyone to think Helen Keller is like, some mystical rare outlier, either!!!

[sacred-portal]

[downwithneocolonialism]

[ophidahlia]

Federal troops were called against 13,000 miners.Three battles that led to the biggest armed insurrection since the Civil War. 

 Ask yourself why you were never taught this in school. 

[a-method-in-it]

Although there were planes used against the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain, it is not true that this was the first time planes were used to drop bombs on American soil against Americans. 

The Battle of Blair Mountain took place in August and September of 1921. Just a few months prior to that, on May 31 and June 1, planes were also used to help destroy the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous black neighborhood nicknamed The Black Wall Street. At least 39 people died during the event, which is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds were wounded, and 6,000 black people lost their homes. 

Both of these events were hugely important moments in American history. 

Ask yourself why neither was taught to you in school. Also ask your local school board. 

[hymneminium]

Not that there's anything wrong with having something wrong with you

[probablyautistic-definitleygay]

[j4gm]

big fan of "one william" as a quantity. keep it up

[dovecote]

It makes me think of the mysterious Williamcoin I received in the mail recently.

[dovecote]

Behold, One William.

[j4gm]

holy shit, you found it. one william dollar.

[dovecote]

So, very unfortunate news. I actually received a follow up in the mail, too.

Forbidden Williamcoin

[paradise-sys]

hey wanna know a secret

Read more

[swagdinner]

yeah what is it

[paradise-sys]

its behind the read more button

[swagdinner]

nothin there

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

[izzy-mccalla]

rip mythbusters you would've loved destroying cybertrucks

[busket]

"im tired of living through major historical events" is now "dear lord please let me witness a high profile political assassination in the next 1-2 years. amen"

[guerrillatech]

[junglejim4322]