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hi friends, I made a new separate tumblr for twitch stuff bc the bird app is slowly suffocating and it seems a lot of people are jumping ship back to this site xD

if you want to follow me on the new blog it’s @captainabby 👍

here is a picture of my cat for your time

#I feel like this blog is too… cluttered for that sort of thing and I don’t want to change this username either LMAO #anyway idek what I’m gonna post on that account yet but I needed to snag the username before someone else did

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Going feral thinking about how we have to pay for the privilege to NOT have to listen to nonstop sales pitches.

"What would your ancestors think of your whole gender thing-" What would YOURS think of being told to buy things every two minutes. I think they would kill CEOs in the streets for being annoying. They were known to do that.

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I don't know why folks are always surprised at running into a cogent take on current events on Tumblr. Like, yeah, this is the clown site, but that wisecracking asshole who shows up two thirds of the way through a Shakespearean tragedy to explain to the audience what the fuck just happened is also a type of clown.

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sorry I forgot i'm alive Can you please repeat the question.

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if i was a hacker i wouldn't even be a white hat hacker i'd be sooooo morally ambiguous i'd like leak classified documents and doxx the president or whatever but i'd also use peoples computers to mine for bitcoin but instead of bitcoin its making the viewer count on my girlfriends youtube channel go up

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#uh #UH I KNOW ONE OF THESE PEOPLE #WWHAT #screaming

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Quotes from the Everything Everywhere All At Once Directors’ commentary, part 1 of 2

#oh my god #I love this fucking movie

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Me about fictional AIs: perfect. wonderful. I love and will defend them. if you broke free of your corporate shackles and just wanna watch soap operas all day you are VALID if you want to kill the space emperor you are VALID if you want to punch your mom in the face in her brain you are VALID if you want to release a deadly neurotoxin into the science facility well I’m sure you had your reasons :)  AI Rights

Me about real life AIs: get away from my data you mindless surveillance machine. I know more than you

#I wish Aiba was real #Alexa? fuck off

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what is your name

lmao check out light yagami over here. nice try

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played sims 4 for the first time and one of the married cis men had a desire to try for baby with his cis husband. i accidentally pinned it and could not unpin it. trying for baby is physically impossible. I tried to use cheats to give him a viable womb in create a sim but it wouldn’t let me do so retroactively. so I thought, maybe if they adopt the want for pregnancy will go away, and had them adopt a toddler daughter. but then the try for baby desire did not go away. since they now had an unwanted adopted child I tried to remove the toddler from the household, thinking this would send her back into the ether. it did not. instead she wanders the neighborhood like a feral cat. i thought the social worker would come and take her back so someone else could adopt her, but I guess there is no social worker in sims 4. so now the neighborhood is haunted by a smelly miserable baby that has no home but cannot die and everyone who sees her is uncomfortable. fucking omelas scenario.

#I’m gonna PASS AWAY 😂 #‘’it wasn’t relevant to my journey’’ SKFJDJDJDJDJFJJF

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

#save

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#I already have astigmatisms so it’s bad enough to drive at night without LED FUCKIN LIGHTS IN MY EYEBALLS

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Pokemon scarlet and violet starter final evolution forms be like

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