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circling back around to the issue of writers being expected to do all their own goddamn marketing via social media these days, because it completely nixes the possibility of writers being weird shut ins, off-putting eccentrics, or misanthropes. 80% of the literary canon was written by weird shut ins, off-putting eccentrics, and misanthropes. if you weed out everyone who’s the wrong kind of insane to maintain a twitter presence, who on earth is left

#pLEASE #/PLEASE/ #every time I think about having to market myself on social medias I want to cry #writers

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Felt that it’s important to share videos like this too.

#heckin' LOVE traditional dances my dudes!!!! #music and dancing brings us together #videos #Palestine #dances

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#LOVING THIS #this is what I wanna do whenever I eventually get a house #ecosystems #nature #videos

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'kids these days are weirdly scrupulous for no reason'. WRONG not for no reason. grew up on increasingly de-anonymized internet, being available to everyone all the time, data tracked, google sees all, digital panopticon, etc. less and less space to explore and form own opinions without judgment from broad public audience. lack of privacy can be deeply traumatic and cause intense paranoia, obsession with thought crimes, morality, etc. not good.

#bro for real though #my spike in Morality Paranoia can be directly correlated with my exposure to the spike in Morality Policing on the Internet #and the more I stepped away from the Internet the more that Paranoia chilled out #unplugging might do everyone some good sometimes #just ranting #morality

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Ah yes, the autistic experience of being more mature than your peers as a child/teen, and then less mature as an adult. The window of opportunity to relate is... not there

#bro........ #hit me where it rings why don't you #autism

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

#FOR REAL THOUGH #it's a curse #just ranting

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today is the rare trans day of visibility / easter crossover

reblog to crack an egg

#Happy Easter / Trans Visibility Day Crossover!! #Easter #Trans #Transgender Visibility Day

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#YA KNOW #honestly though #billionaires

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The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States

#I literally think about this every time they replace the street lamps with lights that shine thrice as bright #I was just driving home the other night and noticed how much more disgustingly bright those lights are #and it makes me SO depressed for this very reason #growing up in a desert the night sky was the one thing I loved more than anything nature could offer me #and I don't remember the last time I really got to see it #kill light pollution please I am BEGGING nobody needs street lamps THAT bright posted every two feet #light pollution #night sky #stars #just ranting

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must a fictional relationship be “healthy” or “functional”? is it not enough to simply watch two made up people destroy each other, hand in unlovable hand???

#it's fascinting to watch the general Tumblr concensus go from one extreme to the other on this subject #feels like the anti-unhealthy ship train just passed literally last year #now we're back to letting people just have fun with their dysfunctional ships #or not depending on who you ask lawl #anyway #MAYBE some people like to explore darker concepts and their own traumas through the safety of fiction!! #so that they know what NOT to do in real life!!!! #and MAYBE some people just like to make fictional characters dance for their own entertainment #while knowing fully well that it's not something they would ever do in real life!!!!! #wild concept I know #separating fiction from reality #just ranting #reblog if

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Google is going to start scraping all of their platforms to use for AI training. So, here are some alternatives for common Google tools!

Google Chrome -> Firefox

If you’re on tumblr, you’ve probably already been told this a thousand times. But FireFox is an open-source browser which is safe, fast and secure. Basically all other browsers are Chrome reskins. Try Firefox Profilemaker, Arkenfox and Librewolf! Alternatively, vanilla Firefox is alright, but get Ublock Origin, turn off pocket, and get Tabliss.

Google Search -> DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo very rarely tracks or stores your browsing data (though they have only been known to sell this info to Microsoft). Don’t use their browser; only their search engine. Domain visits in their browser get shared. Alternatively, you can also use Ecosia, which is a safe search engine that uses its income to plant trees! 🌲

Google Reverse Image Search -> Tineye

Tineye uses image identification tech rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks to find you the source of your image!

Gmail -> ProtonMail

All data stored on ProtonMail is encrypted, and it boasts self-destructing emails, text search, and a commitment to user privacy. Tutanota is also a good alternative!

Google Docs -> LibreOffice

LibreOffice is free and open-source software, which includes functions like writing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, formula editing and more.

Google Translate -> DeepL

DeepL is notable for its accuracy of translation, and is much better that Google Translate in this regard. It does cost money for unlimited usage, but it will let you translate 500,000 characters per month for free. If this is a dealbreaker, consider checking out the iTranslate app.

Google Forms -> ClickUp

ClickUp comes with a built-in form view, and also has a documents feature, which could make it a good option to take out two birds with one stone.

Google Drive -> Mega

Mega offers a better encryption method than Google Drive, which means it’s more secure.

YouTube -> PeerTube

YouTube is the most difficult to account for, because it has a functional monopoly on long-form video-sharing. That being said, PeerTube is open-source and decentralized. The Internet Archive also has a video section!

However, if you still want access to YouTube’s library, check out NewPipe and LibreTube! NewPipe scrapes YouTube’s API so you can watch YouTube videos without Google collecting your info. LibreTube does the same thing, but instead of using YouTube servers, it uses piped servers, so Google doesn’t even get your IP address. Both of these are free, don’t require sign-ins, and are open source!

Please feel free to drop your favorite alternatives to Google-owned products, too! And, if this topic interests you, consider checking out Glaze as well! It alters your artwork and photos so that it’s more difficult to use to train AI with! ⭐️

#heckin' monopolies making everything SUCH a chore to work around #for future reference #Google #or rather #Google alternatives

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you’re hearing it more and more

#I am SO over subscription based media #thank you #music #for future reference

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Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

#🥺🥺🥺🥺 #thank you

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

#🥺🥺🥺🥺 #I love him face so much #videos #cats #luck

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When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

#THANK you!! #I understand the need to see a Different kind of representation #but that doesn't mean This One Kind of representation is bad or unneeded or should stop happening #it's just not for you!! #move on to something else then #just ranting #representation

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The rent is too damn high!

#how the ACTUAL freak can ANYONE look at this and say there isn't an incredibly sick and disgusting problem #rent #income #comparisons #charts #videos

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a collection of motivational insights regarding content creation and creative hobbies

and of course the classic

#yes good #thank you #creating #art