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ben | he/him/sometimes they | i meant for this to be a fandom blog but it turned into pretty much everything but fandom

[campyvillain]

i see it so i See it I see Thart with me EyeBals

when i see it i Look at it Put my eyes on it with My sightballs I look with my look balls and see It so in front of me

i see it with my eyedbarls

[dragonwhispr]

Visit Original Link

[escuerzoresucitado]

shooo

[mistbjorn]

[sparklywaistcoat]

FYI Meta now allows your Insta photos to be mined for AI without your consent unless you opt out.

[mewochy]

dizzy cat

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

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Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

[earthlydelight0]

(Huge green dragonfly lands on my head the way a songbird would land on a princesses finger)

[humiliationvictim]

Minecraft caves are so dark bro…

[videolottery]

Hey so it’s come to my attention that this account is stealing my posts from like 2 years ago? Super odd behavior. Why are you trying to engagement farm on tumblr?

[humiliationvictim]

Not everyone can easily come up with ideas for things to post every day

[longshrimp]

then just don't??

[humiliationvictim]

you obviously dont have 100+ followers and need to keep them happy

[videolottery]

i didnt realize the situation you were in and i apologize for the callout

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Had a dream last night where I was a sapient vein of copper in a copper mine so we're just gonna. Scoot on past whatever the fuck that was.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So there's a gas leak in my house and I need the pipes replaced with copper.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

New pipes are working out great and I no longer dream of being sapient copper.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[cabinetduo]

watching fandom get more and more multicultural as people drop shame and embrace the beauty of projection and the truth that whiteness (white Americaness even) isnt the default is so fucking beautiful

[proteusolm]

for hire: hard working pebsi peeling crew of 3.

[suspiriously]

i hate it here man. whatever. vote blue no matter who. nothing matters anymore. let’s all hold hands and jump into a pit

[sailatina3]

Notice the tumblr badges

[segamascott]

[eviethekiwi]

disappears into the fog with a gay little run that pisses you off

[ectoimp]

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[andmaybegayer]

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

[ms-demeanor]

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"thought crimes aren't real, it's your actions that matter" and "your mindset informs how you treat others, so you should try not to have a shitty one" are another pair of things that are both true btw

[penguicorns-are-cool]

[socialistexan]

Not getting a ton of reporting in US news, but the Trump administration is going after donors to Palestine, including going as far as international extradition under the guide of "counterterrorism"

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[sforzzz]

im gonna make it big someday just you watch

[sforzzz]

*goes back to jerkin it*

[sforzzz]

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