I can shake-a my fanny, I can shake-a my can

I like laughing, reading, dancing, drawing, I believe Unicorns shoot rainbows out of their asses and I'll undress for you if you have the voice and accent of one Ewan McGregor. I'm easily pleased, what can I say? Disclaimer: This is a trash blog. Mutli-fandom and just plain trash. Expect to be disappointed. I once became obsessed with the kpop dude. SHINee sideblog here. GRYFFINDOR: shieldsword88 { POTTERMORE SORTED }

[tributary]

i wish the default anti-AI argument wasn’t the environmental one, which is often overstated. i promise there are better arguments against it

[tributary]

but don’t take it from me

Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re Looking at the Wrong Culprit.

An expert on environmental policy measured every drop of water he used during months of heavy AI work. The findings reveal we may be worryin

paywall-free: https://archive.ph/AuTtR

[tributary]

like i very much get the impulse. one query to chatGPT = X amount of water feels tangible even if the math isn’t quite right. and there are environmental impacts of AI — but to make that your main case, you need to compare it to the environmental impacts of, say, lawns and golf courses and the electronics we already use everyday. see how that back-of-the-napkin math comes out.

a lot of people won’t be moved by environmental arguments anyways, but they might consider labor impacts/data privacy/more powerful scams and cyberattacks/i can keep going do you want me to keep going

[wednesday-d]

like, i get this, for the most part, but i sincerely do not know one single person in real life who will be moved because of personal privacy concerns over environmental harm. no one really cares about their personal data because "we're not doing anything wrong or illegal anyway" T_T

[taigacryptid]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

[decamarks]

AFTER NEARLY 19 YEARS OF THIS STUPID WEBSITE

[addamii]

Harrow and Nona my girls forever. Close ups and notes under the cut

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

I LOVE this drawing of Harrow/Nona because it's the one time I've seen the book description so well followed:

Nona thought she was gorgeous. She had a thin, complicated face, and a mouth too easily unhappy and too easily discontented; but she had nice white teeth in a smile that looked sad no matter how happy she was, and arched black brows like she always wanted to ask someone a question.

I have thought a lot about Harrow having a mouth that looks sad no matter is she's smiling.

[prideknights]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

[visenyaism]

j'adore le franglish content le code switching c'est tellement fun je sautille from a language to another like a gazelle et toi aussi tant que tu voudras :)

OUAIS baby we are so fucking back. franglais est parfait parce que americans get mad AND it sends evil psychic vibes à l’académie française. The phrase “qu’est-ce qu’y’all doing aujourd’hui” came out of my mouth this evening and i think that might be the pinnacle of human language. i love being annoying

[turnabout]

“qu’est-ce qu’y’all doing aujourd’hui” is gonna stay with me for a minute.

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

the mining dwarfer seems to pick his axe at night

[lonestatus]

girl it's a single sentence

[charlottan]

need you to be not so toughies on me.

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

i want to thank you both for turning my biggest wording fumble where i clumsily said mining dwarfer instead of dwarven miner into a post i chuckle at whenever it comes across my dash

[lonestatus]

hold on i'm busy i'll have to check what you said in a minute

[charlottan]

finally read this. would not have reblogged!

[frenzyarts]

I’m a magician in the sheets 😏 *pulls a rabbit out of my pussy*

[give-grian-rights]

-Mary Toft, 1726

[the-dumb-smart-friend]

Hold on I need to look something up

[the-dumb-smart-friend]

What

[give-grian-rights]

yeah. sorry

[illivar]

Why is this the truest thing I’ve ever seen and just on some random TikTok comment?

[unexplained-events]

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

[m3n4c3v35537]

Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”

[der-ewige-retard]

[dillusion-art]

[...] Harrow looked back at Gideon, and Gideon's eyes, as they always did, startled her: their deep, chromatic amber, the startling hot gold of freshly-brewed tea.  She winked.

ig: d.ill.usion

[victusinveritas]

[hmantegazzi]

Obviously, this doesn't apply to military coups, which are very evident when happening, but there's a reason why most authoritarian regimes today don't start with a coup: it's much easier to get a firm hold of power by starting inconspicuously and growing from there.

In fact, many authoritarian regimes start growing years before the people on top of them reach power, with little incremental measures and laws to allow external influences to control politics, to curb legitimate citizen dissent, and to give more power and discretionality to the police and the armed forces. You might be living in one of those right now.

[autistic-af]

I am always blown away by the mental disconnect between rich people and the rest of us.

I work for a doctor. He pulls in $70,000-$90,000 a month before tax. After tax, he's still $200,000+ a year.

I earn $52,000 a year.

Yet his wife will still talk to me and say "oh, we're not rich." She drives a Porsche. She wears Carla Zampatti. They live in a new townhouse that cost well over a million.

So, when she gives me recommendations on things to buy and I tell her I can barely afford Kmart, she seems genuinely perplexed.

They are NOT bad people. I've worked for them for 12 years now. They are good people with good hearts. But they no longer connect with reality on level and it's absolutely mindboggling.

[autistic-af]

And I think a large part of this is that rich people compare themselves to other rich people, not to the regular people.

He doesn't earn as much as a surgeon. He doesn't own a mansion or a helicopter (both of which I know a couple of surgeons own).

In comparison, they aren't as rich.

They were once poor, 25 years ago when he was starting to become a doctor. But that memory is skewed now. Or perhaps they always aimed for the Porsche and the month long holidays in Scotland so the journey meant something else.

But, holy shit, when she shows me something on sale that's still out of my price range, I feel that gap. And I don't envy her. I don't want a Porsche.

I just want to actually afford Kmart without saving up for it.

[autistic-af]

And since there seems to be some belief that I earn a huge amount, that is AUD.

It's $34,000USD, rounded up.

[feralwizardbun]

And yet, horrifyingly, she's kind of right.

Like yeah, the surgeon is unfathomably wealthy compared to someone who struggles to meet their basic needs... but he's fundamentally still working class. He gets his money from his labor, not by virtue of merely owning something.

Does the surgeon make more than he "deserves"? Maybe. Even if he's a plastic surgeon, I can still squint and kind of see how it makes sense for him to get paid that much. However, I do know that people who get their wealth by merely owning things absolutely don't deserve it.

And like, the important thing is that it's a difference in kind... but the difference in scale is absurd too. If her husband worked since Egyptians first started writing on papyrus, and didn't spend any money, he'd still have less than what Jeff Bezos makes in a week. The pay ratio between Bezos and the surgeon is 60,000x greater than the pay ratio between the surgeon and you... and he literally doesn't do anything besides own companies. Bezos literally does less work than you.

[autistic-af]

I don't like this fact at all.

[i-am-dulaman]

That last point is an important point to make. There is a big difference between those who are paid large amounts of money for their work and those who make 1000x more simply by ownership of capital.

When i think of who in society probably deserve to be paid the most? I'd say neurosurgeons. It requires a huge amount of skill, dedication, and study. 8+ years of medical school. Many more years of training. But the higher end of neurosurgeon salaries is just under $1 million a year.

Yes that is a lot of money and you can debate if its too much or too little for their work, but the point is they are arguably ~the most highly skilled and intelligent workers in the world~ (qualities that neoliberals say are the most important in society) and yet they are still paid pennies on the dollar compared to capital owners.

[fruitblush]

im suffering from a horrendous disease called being in your 20s

[wednesday-d]

the cure is called turning 30

[greelin]

we are on like covid variant #100037 and rsv/flu/pneumonia cases are rising and people will show up unmasked and be like “yeah i’ve been sick for days :/” like. ok. Get the fuck away from me then? why are you out here breathing on everything. the very least you could be doing is masking. NOT hacking into open air every two seconds.

[greelin]

i feel genuinely insane for getting annoyed whenever people just cough into their hands and touch shit or directly cough into the air but it’s like. that’s bad. right. that is rude. that is not something you should be doing. above the age of three. can we acknowledge this. Hello

[wednesday-d]

i was on the bus yesterday and there was this guy fucking wiping his nose with his fingers every ten seconds. then he got up, casual as you please, and touched literally EVERYTHING he could with that hand. i nearly had an aneurism

[thealogie]

The thing about Timmy Chalamet is that he’s truly a great actor and he even has good taste in projects and he’s not even overexposed when you calibrate for how overexposed all that group of 25-30 year old big stars are……however something is still off. any time he gets cast in something it feels like that movie instantly turns into a parody of a movie. I cannot explain this

[corporatelobotomy]

[darkdumbass]

Between the lines

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