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A few years ago I had a phase of being REALLY into digital privacy, using tor, duckduckgo, etc before suffering some burnout because I was trying to be 100% secure. So I'm by no means a expert I'm just relaying experience.

The culture of a lot of left leaning and "fandommy" sites (tumblr, twitter, etc) tends to fear/dislike (or just not know about) a lot of the IT stuff used by people into online privacy because they asscoiate it with "techbros". ESPECIALLY anything even remotely involving cryptocurrency. But if Trump is going to start censoring things and making morning after pills harder to get now might be a VERY good time for Americans to get into online privacy and how to avoid being tracked as well as avoiding censorship. Perhaps even some crypto to buy things discretly (or perhaps if ICE agents start caring about cash?) and because many activists groups also take donations in crypto. Never dealt with crypto myself but from what I know Monero was designed to be more untracable than Bitcoin. Don't know how succesfull that is though. Definetly get into privacy in general though.

I'll leave some useful links to get started. Words of advice:

Don't install a fuckton of privacy extensions on your browser, your unique combination of extensions will give your browser a unique fingerprint. Instead read up on and pick a few commonly used ones.

The BIGGEST annoyance for me was acedemic/proffesional settings because noone wants to switch over to some software they never heard off for one group project. Personally I use some normie software for exclusivly proffesional purposes with NO other information on me and do my actual browsing/leisure computer use more privatly.

https://www.privacytools.io/os: General software/browser/etc recomendations.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/: Test how private your browser is.

https://www.torproject.org/: THE gold standard for privacy focused browsers. Also obscures ip. Might not always be practical. Has the disadvantage of being notoriously slow and is blocked by some services/websites to avoid people bypassing ip bans and whatnot. Probably don't use this as your everyday browser but if you ever need to look up anything without censorship use tor.

https://tails.net/: Install a portable mini operating system on a usb stick to browse privately from any computer.

https://www.eff.org/ Electronic frontier foundations website.

https://mastodon.social/explore Don't have experience with it myself. But open source social media that should be much harder to censor.

Tumblr probably won't like me talking too directly about this because of ties to piracy but for people interested in banned books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library should be an interesting read...

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i need to find some kind of litmus test over wether or not a character is likely to be a fatphobic stereotype because some of you don't know shit

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one of the funniest misunderstandings that happened on xiaohongshu was chinese people saying a phrase that ended up translated as 'i want to suck your pussy.' and they had to clarify, no, we're complimenting your cats.

it wasn't really clear to me what the phrase was supposed to mean until someone described it as 'absorb the cat into your body.' ah yes. thats a desire i can understand

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💙🤍💗

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a long time ago i watched a tik tok from an older trans woman, in her 60’s or 70’s. someone had commented on another video of hers asking “why don’t we ever see trans men from your generation? why aren’t they involved in activism?” and her response was “because a lot of them died.” she told stories abt the trans men she knew who committed suicide rather than be married off and forced to live as a woman, or died from medical neglect or botched abortions. “they would be here if they could, but they can’t because the world failed them.”

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genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

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I hope Phoenix and Edgeworth become canon but it’s like 20% offensive. I hope it comes off like it was written by a gen xer who was trying to be supportive but did not do their research. I hope they become so extremely stereotypical (a la Jean Armstrong) that it circles back around to being iconique. I hope Maya calls someone a metrosexual again. She should call someone a fairy too. I hope they give Apollo another backstory where he was childhood friends with a character called Eaton Cox

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^what he said

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there’s going to be a lot of horses here I do not apologize. the unstable stable if you will

I am TwiDash’s #1 fan you will see them a lot from me :3

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cis people will say “I found out I’m having a baby girl at my anatomy scan and I’m experiencing gender disappointment” but be mad when you say “who knows? maybe you’ll end up with a son anyway”

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Weird tip for arguing with conservatives: don’t swear. Our language culture right now is in a weird place where swearing means different things to different generations/subcultures: to younger people and people left of center, it shows intensity of feeling and therefore honesty, while to older people and those right of center it communicates a lack of control (since they are by their nature taboo) and therefore makes you seem unreliable and uncertain.

(Conservative bro culture is a bit of an outlier here because they will absolutely swear at you, but they’re doing this on purpose to show their aggression and it still has the same effect when you swear back at them.)

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Ibuki is actually so fun to draw I aspire to have even half of her swag one day

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art trade with my buddy @solitomatonic YAY