Steampunk and Bells

stuff, stuff, and also stuff from an hug bard/trombone player that just wants to chill. | the name's Enoch, by the way! | profile picture by the awesome @captainrandomstranger18 | pronouns: he/him/they/them

[thulium]

[wizardsexmachine]

OOHHH FUUBLBLBLBLB

[anarchistmemedistro]

[toothbrushunicorn]

This should anger you.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[jenroses]

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

[sniperct]

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

[definitely-zen-browser]

#across all chromium browsers

THIS IS NOT JUST CHROME!!!

If you use Opera, Brave, Helium, Vivaldi, Arc, Yandex, or god forbid Edge, this affects you too!!!

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

[punk-squirrely-ghost]

Explain.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

try and tell me literally any one of these would not fit above a short story about two wholly random men from the MCU fingering each other, or possibly 12 chapters of one or more characters from a CW show being in high school while having a photogenic but terminal kind of cancer. try.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

ok so i want to say in hindsight i think i could probably have been clearer

[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops

[autisticadvocacy]

If you live in Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota, or Texas, we need you to take action to protect disability rights! ASAN’s plain language action alert explains what’s happening and how you can help. https://autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/take-action-to-protect-disability-rights/

If you don’t live in these states, share this post with someone who does!

[autisticadvocacy]

Update on Texas v Kennedy — advocates in Indiana convinced their state to drop out of this case!

Let’s keep going — if you live in Alaska, Montana, South Carolina, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, or Florida, take action to get your state to do the same! https://autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/take-action-to-protect-disability-rights/

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[depsidase]

[days-of-storm]

The issue is also the missing safety net. Neoliberal politics do not want to support anyone who is not paying their way in the world. There is no free living, as there is in Germany, for example, if you cannot work. There is no automatic health insurance if you are out of work and cannot pay for it. You will still get treated. You will still eat.

I'm not saying there isn't homelessness in Germany, but it's much easier to become homeless in a nation that only cares for people who actively contribute to creating wealth for the super rich.

[ayeforscotland]

In the midst of all this election stuff, I’ve just seen this, and so I must inflict it on all of you.

Idiots are taking photos of their hands, and uploading to ChatGPT for palm readings. Giving OpenAI your biometric data is quite the choice.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

shoutout to everyone

[thatswhatsushesaid]

this was going to be a very different text post before i pressed enter too soon, but you know what, nevermind. shout out to everyone. don't we all deserve it

[thatswhatsushesaid]

shoutout to everyone but especially to @plugnuts

[hisuizorua]

they call it amtrak because the trains am on the trak

[thestateonmtv]

So with voting do you cum when a person get bitten into or when a person is swallowed or does it depend on the moment

[beachdeath]

usually you just mark a ballot with a pen or you select the candidate you want on a screen. sometimes you hole punch the ballot though

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[vrtualseraph]

webcore blinkies

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is frutiger aero night