you know you probably shouldn’t have so much p

you know you probably shouldn’t have so much personal information on your blog. 26 western usa

[trashhands]

sink yr teeth into me or whatever

[softwaring]

On December 10, 1997, Julia Butterfly Hill climbed a 1500-year-old redwood tree she named Luna, to protect the tree from logging. She stayed for 738 days, only climbing down on December 18th 1999 after the tree and surrounding area were granted protection. (Source)

[mikebento]

Real life D&D druid.

[streetwiseangel]

I literally just deleted like 15k emails. how have I been living like this

[streetwiseangel]

some people think I’m cis

some people think I’m trans

but really I’m just everyone’s friends :)

[nevver]

Tadashige Nishida

[elbiotipo]

Israel has long abandoned any pretense of peace process or negotiation with Palestine. Most of the world, except for the US and its allies, recognizes Palestine as a legitimate, independent state. For Israel, all Palestinians are criminals that must be expelled or imprisoned such as in Gaza. Israel has repeatedly ignored any kind of international negotiation for peace, brutalized Palestinians in ways that are crimes against humanity, kept on annexing land that belonged to the legitimate Palestinian state and expelling and brutalizing them, not even hiding the Israeli intention to erradicate the Palestinian nation from the face of the earth, or keeping them under Apartheid vassallage. For the Palestinians, the war did not start today, they have been living in a war zone for decades. These events should be not a surprise to anyone.

[streetwiseangel]

when everything we own is digital, there will be no possibility of media resale value. not from a consumer standpoint anyway. no vinyls and cds to sell at vintage markets and yard sales. a lot of the time you can’t even inherit saved data from loved ones when they pass, not without claiming ownership to an entirely separate account. and I’m sure that won’t last either.

eventually they’ll work into the terms & conditions an agreement that your data will be “released” (sold) upon your death, or you can opt to use another service that the company also owns but in exchange for “free” service, they inject malware straight into your brain as you use it.

spotify, netflix, amazon, they’ll own your data and nothing you listened to or watched or read will be remembered. you will inevitably have a lapse in subscription due to the socioeconomic collapse occurring all around us, and your data will be gone when you finally rejoin.

and still we shrug and make conversation like “yeah that sucksssss but have you seen that new show with my gay blorbos 🫢”

[streetwiseangel]

cloud based storage kills me I actually hate it a lot

[streetwiseangel]

when it takes u way longer to get dressed for an interview than the interview itself lasts……..

[streetwiseangel]

gonna start a thrift store for fat bitches if I see a SINGLE medium garment I will shit

[streetwiseangel]

fast but not consistent

[feypact]

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

[soracities]

Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

[genderwizard]

[streetwiseangel]

talk to everyone say nothing

[streetwiseangel]

I’m like rotting to the core bc I’m so full of sadness but complaining feels pointless

[heterorealism]

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