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anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

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these are funny but i am yet to see one actually use Old English. this isn't Old English. the linguistics student in me is dying every time i see one of these and im like omgg Old English i vaguely know Old English and then it's not Old English. please someone make one that actually uses Old English. help me.

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NEW ESSAY: anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future

there is still time

cover art: @punkitt-is-here

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monogamous people who get defensive or outright combative when polyamory is brought up could probably stand to be told that they could actually change their perspectives somewhat if they put in actual effort. i do not have any more patience for people who are too comfortable in the thought that the ideas they've been fed about exclusivity and commitment all their life are somehow uniquely theirs, nor do i have patience for the handful of trite remarks they make about polyamory in attempts to feel clever about taking one of the most lukewarm stances in existence on something

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pictures from an old SA thread. someone's basement zone tour...

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There is this Wikipedia article that lists out the meanings of many flowers, which is incredibly helpful as you don't have to spend a long time searching for specific floral symbolism.

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A tutorial on a (bit cheating) way of creating fictional maps.

Open your editing software (RECOMMENDING Krita, since it's free and it's very good).

Step 1: Google "X country silhouette" and copy it.

Paste it onto the canvas.

Step 2: Separate the silhouette from the background you copied with it! You can do that by using magic wand selection tool or by making a gradient map with black on 49,9% and transparent on 50% on the slider.

Step 3: Repeat several times with numerous countries and/or islands, cities, municipalities, communes, continents et cetera.

Step 4: Combine, mesh, stretch, rotate, mirror - go ham, make it work.

Step 5: Erase and add.

Step 6: Have your map outline ready, copy/paste it several times in the same doc on different layers and edit in different ways like biomes, kingdoms, mountains and other.

Step Mountains+: To figure out mountains, make another layer on the doc and do something like this:

-and then in every polygon you add an arrow.

Where arrows meet or transfer onto continents, add mountains.

Color the sea with a couple layers of depth and you're done :D

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reading the collected letters of shirley jackson and this is from a letter to her agent while she was working on the haunting of hill house

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so true! she was also thirty two years old when she commited suicide by crashing a stolen car into a tree <3

eleanor vance was thirty two years old when she came to hill house. your life is not over in your twenties!

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

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the breach is a big deal, and you probably should change your passwords, but it's also notable that the leak contains password hashes, not plain-text passwords. this means that the leaked passwords are encrypted (by a pretty strong algorithm in this case), so unless you used a very short or very common password, there's no need to panic about the passwords

change your passwords if you had an internetarchive account

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Gendrule

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One of my more outwardly baffling autistic traits is that often I will fully know that you're being sarcastic or joking & I'll just keep talking. I'll respond to it in earnest thinking I'm continuing the bit but I do it too flatly and everybody knows I'm autistic so they'll stop and be like hey that was a joke & I'm like I know

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its been like 3 weeks since i read it but i still cant stop thinking about how much robinson crusoe fucking sucks both as a book and as a character