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Currently reading: House of Leaves. Mark Z Danielewski

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mama a girl behind YOU 💜

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Wally drawing I made with crayons I was sent😛

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STOP SPEEDRUNNING MY TOWER YOU INGRATES

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cant wait for fnaf movie #5

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Mark's never ending feud with Helpy 🔪

Twitter: X

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Yall hear Vanessa hits Mangle with her car in FNAF 2

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storm watching

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missionary so i can look deep into his soul and ask if he hates me

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I absolutely should NOT be arguing with this person, but I find the weaponization of crowd numbers kind of fascinating- as a person who organizes events and DOES use those numbers for a purpose.

"Your (small city) pride had 'hundreds' of attendees? The Taco Truck festival had TENS OF THOUSANDS."

Some key points that pointed out to him- Taco Fest was held in a much larger city (900k to our 34k), on a larger plot of land (35 acre park to our mid-sized parking lot), with a longer showtime (three days to our three hours.) It's somewhat ridiculous to compare the two.

"People from the small city go to the big city all the time. Surely people from the big city must come to your small city- if they were interested. But they weren't interested, which is why your pride was a failure."

Somewhat an admission that you're not from a small city, but also that you've never organized a community event before.

There is something to be said about crowd estimates as an insult, but it has to be in the context what the expected crowd size was vs the outcome. We expected 400, we got 500- success! It's unreasonable to compare our little pride to the big city pride, which draws crowds that are 20x the population of our city. We were not expecting 700k people, so 500 people is not an insult.

It might be a different story if we were expecting 400 attendees, but instead got 100 attendees and 300 protesters. Thats a different message.

So when people say 'very low attendance, little interest,' its very Trumpish.

And this is also why I took a ton of photos- so I could show what 500 people in a tiny parking lot looks like.

But.

Low attendance does not stop community pride events. We'd put on pride festivals if the expected attendance was one five-person polycule and their nervous bichon frise.

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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

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Caption From @ essenceofblackculture on instagram:

Kristi Williams

@kristi_williams_black_history, a Black woman whose aunt survived the Tulsa Massacre, saw Oklahoma trying to silence Black history-and answered with action. She started "Black History Saturdays," free community classes to teach what the schools won't.

Now the room is full, the lessons are real, and the legacy lives on. end caption

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This is a heroic feat that shouldn’t be needed. But because it is, a hero emerged.

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Spite can be a incredible motivator

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.