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[dreamsy990]

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

[dreamsy990]

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

[dreamsy990]

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem

what common file types are

some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)

how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private

how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)

what a cookie actually is

internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl

basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)

common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)

how to not get a virus while pirating something

what a temporary email is and when to use one

red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)

what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls

[dreamsy990]

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous

a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps

a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)

some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself

[ceruleanheaven]

all that and i havent killed myself yet i must really love this stupid fucking life

[bleachblondephil]

companies only wanting palatable and censored queer content for their partnerships is so depressing. bitch you could have had dan and phil.

[lena-oleanderson]

transgender jesus poem (working title) some explanations below the cut

this is very much a work in progress but if i only posted fully finished poems here, i'd post twice a year.

anyway i was reading about the resurrection some time ago, and how there's some debate over the nature of the resurrected body of christ - as in is it the same body that died and was buried and then rose up, or is it a new, transformed body, the way paul talks about the spiritual body as opposed to the natural body (you know, the one that's put on immortality and incorruptibility and whatnot). as i understood it, the debate is mostly whether jesus gets his spiritual body at the resurrection or at the ascension. and i guess the how exactly did this body change debate made me think abt the trans experience and then i read about the transfiguration, where jesus takes a few apostles up a mountain and glows divinely, and that, too, is a kind of bodily change, if temporary. and i guess luke 24 is one of my favourite bits of the bible because the guy has just fully risen from the dead and while everyone is like hey what the fuck we like. saw you die. you're not a ghost, are you? jesus is like relax, it's me. look at my hands. touch me. you got anything to eat here? and then they get him some broiled fish

and i don't view transition as a kind of death, personally, but it is often a kind of resurrection still. it's a change - but when i hold my friends' hands, i know it's still us, and we are not dead, we are alive. and we're going to get something to eat.

[hornet-enthusiast]

It’s offensive that i can’t shadow dash through buzzsaws. What do you mean that i, when i am but a shadow of the void cutting through the fabric of space, will still get hurt by a big spinning metal?

[umthisisafillertitle]

I have beaten Celeste... it is time for Path of Pain.

[umthisisafillertitle]

Attempt 1: I thought my progress would be saved if I saved and exited the game. 2.5 hours, solid 2/3s of the way through. I later found out that it was not saved. Surprisingly easy though.

Attempt 2: 5 hours, most of which being near the end of the path, as the difficulty is set to hell in comparison to the beginning, apparently. Made it to the guards. Immediately paused the game and reminded myself of my strategy to spam spells (with my 3 extra soul containers completely filled up) and kill one guard at a time. Unpaused the game, promptly ran out of soul and died. Restarted at bench in white palace.

I think I'm starting to see why it is called the Path of Pain.

[stupiderat]

His Guiding Star

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The inspo image:

[awesome-cookies-and-cream]

I keep saying I don't mind if gero ends up with the other girls because thats how good the other girls were written personality and compatability-wise.

But thats a lie. I really want kinosaki as end game

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

this one goes out to all the bitches with sad forever disorder!!!

HELL YES the woods are lonely dark and deep! but sometimes there's moss! even in the fucked up sad forever woods! and we! love! moss!!!

[albrecht-duerers-apocalypse]

when you’re so busy you don’t really have time to be mentally ill, and then everything is finally over so you get to realize all over again how shitty life is

[deeptrospection]

[the-travelling-observer]

I know some people, maybe a few, maybe none, will come across this post, amidst scrolling their dashes to numb the constant pain they're in. Maybe they're doing it while already wondering what the point of it all is anymore. If there was any point in the first place.

And I get that. This world is so deeply, deeply cruel, dark and messed up. And so many of us feel so alone, so frightened, so battered that even drawing another breath and existing for another second feels like agony, never mind getting up again.

And I want to tell you that it's ok. It's ok to be afraid, to feel weak and powerless, to beg for release from the heavy, terrible duty of being alive and keeping going, when no one has come to save you so far for so long. Maybe you already believe yourself beyond saving anyway.

You're right, you're so right. No one deserves this. You don't deserve this. This shouldn't have happened to you, it's terrible and unjust that it happened to you. No one should ask this of you. No one has the right to.

But, dear stranger, dear friend and reader, I want you to remember, just as I did, that there were those who came before you, that there are those who will come after you.

And because of that, you are never truly alone, not ever.

Because you're carrying the torch of those who came before you, those who suffered and fought like you did. Their lives were full of the same horrors and indignities as yours, and many likely died without peace, but we can choose not to forget them. Even though we do not know their names or their stories, we can choose to honour them and their lives... By fighting to draw another breath. By lying there and resting and recovering our strength.

And maybe one day, just one day, we can sit up again. Just for a little bit. Then for a while longer. Then even longer. Until eventually we can stand up again.

Not for ourselves, no. But just so we may one day outlast the evil of this world, and live the lives they would've wanted to live. To enjoy the peace and safety and justice and contentment they didn't get to have. We survive, so we may one day live and find joy. For them.

I know so many of us still struggle to do it for ourselves. So do it for those who are gone. And do it for the wombats, the funny little dudes with square poop. Do it for the magnolia trees, who outlived all the beetle species who once pollinated them. Do it for the stray kitties nobody is feeding, for the bee populations that are disappearing but still keep going. Do it for Mary Oliver's wild geese, do it for the sweet little field mice sleeping in their tiny burrows, unaware of the world that is burning down around them. Do it for the truly innocent and good of this world, because they share this place with us, and they deserve better from us.

And do it for the Holocaust survivors, the Japanese bombing survivors, the Agent Orange survivors. The old and fading who weep in their sickbeds and deathbeds thinking they are leaving behind an unfeeling world that is restarting their tragedies anew, inflicting it on the new generations. Do it so they won't believe they struggled and lived for nothing.

I am not asking you to fight. We are not heroes. We are tired, we are broken, we are frightened and we do not have the power and conviction to save the day by ourselves. For some of us, the best we can do is be meat shields and punching bags for the powerful, the evil and the abusive.

But even so, even if all we can do right now is lie there and absorb the blows, we're still holding the line, for those behind us. For those who will come after us.

Our suffering is not beautiful. It is gruesome. But our survival is. Our defiance is. Our love for this world we live in, for every small, weak thing in it that can't protect itself, that is beautiful as fuck. And no one gets to ever tell you otherwise.

So live. Keep living. Keep breathing. Your existence is resistance. It is a threat, to them, because as long as you exist, that means it's not over yet.

Your wilful kindness, your stubborn humanity, your demanding words, your presence, your fool's hope, these are your weapons. You are not over yet.

Fighter, healer, lover, scholar, artist, teacher, child, neighbour, friend, underdog. You are not over yet.

[bi-halobearer]

samantha shannon writing the priory of the orange tree:

[tofusofus]

priory of the orange tree:

[vegathenorthstar]

i started reading the priory of the orange tree and every loth pov is literally this i’m crying

[stephexmachina]

proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up

[stephexmachina]

will they won't they (end this farce). there's only one bed (but for some reason they don't really want to share it). out of context eavesdropping (that paints the relationship in a better light than it deserves). chasing after them to stop them getting on that plane (and stopping them from finally being free)

[stephexmachina]

nobody understands my vision i don't mean any old story where a relationship fails and it's tragic or w/e i mean a story where the intention is for the audience to root for it failing the same way u root for it succeeding in a romance. & when the relationship finally implodes at the climax of the story it's all very cathartic & everybody cheers.

[stephexmachina]

like have u never wanted a fictional couple to break up so badly it hurt?

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I don't need the chatgpt random algorithm to write emails for me because I already have a custom and 100% flawless algorithm called "writing the exact same three emails with the names changed"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

#1: "hi [landlord], hope you're doing well! [apartment thing] is [broken/a problem]. we need it [fixed/replaced/handled] by [date]. let us know when you'll send someone over so we can be here to let them in. thanks so much, [op]"

#2: "hi [professor], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, I'm [sick/stuck at work/dead] and won't be able to submit [assignment] by [due date]. could I please have an extension? if not, is there anything else I could do to make up this credit? thanks so much, [op]"

#3: "hi [customer service person], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, [product] [didn't arrive/is broken/wrong color/gave me a rash/poisoned my crops] and I'd like to receive a [refund/replacement]. here is the documentation of the order and photos of [broken thing/wrong thing/my rash/dead crops]. thanks so much, [op]"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

"but op I work in an office I have to write way more emails than you" well that's your fault for working in an office i got nothing to do with that

[perpetualsarcasmmachine]

Writing an email is so easy and I will tell you how it's done. This is the advice is for everyone with an email job, but you can apply it to normal human interaction.

The FIRST SENTENCE is the thing you want the recipient to do. Do not make them guess.

I want to let you know about ... (This email is to inform someone of something not to ask them to do anything)

Could you please do ... (This is a request. You want them to do something).

I'm looking into x and wondering if you can help me (this is also a request but for information instead of an action).

People do not want to read an email and even if they do read it, most people are skimming and not interested. Tell them what you want first, then provide context or other information (when you need a thing is often key). If the email is informational, you can even add "you don't need to do anything, this is just to keep you informed!" People will appreciate not having to figure out what you want from them.

If you can't articulate what you want the recipient to do with the message, you are not ready to email them. I read too many emails where I have no idea what the person wants from me.

Put the most important thing first and everyone will be impressed! AI cannot do this for you because it can't tell what's important! Only you know that, which is why you must write your own emails.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

to everyone who wants help with emails: go through the notes of this post. there are ideas I've never thought of and plenty of scripts for all kinds of situations/jobs