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PSA: DO NOT USE FAKE EMAIL ADDRESSES TO SIGN UP FOR ACCOUNTS

If you want to sign up for an account on a social networking site and do not want it associated with your real/main email address for any reason, MAKE A NEW, ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESS THAT YOU CONTROL, and use that one.

Lately, someone has been using my email address to sign up for social networking accounts (like Instagram, Skype, etc). I’m pretty sure the person doing this is using my address as a throwaway because he’s just typing something simple into the “email” box. That’s what I get for having an address that is just *surname* at gmail.

However.

You should only ever sign up for any account using an email address that you control because:

1) IT’S REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING TO GET THESE ACCOUNT NOTIFICATIONS FOR SITES I’VE NEVER SIGNED UP FOR.

but, more importantly:

2) THE METHOD FOR PASSWORD RETRIEVAL ON ALMOST EVERY WEBSITE IS TIED DIRECTLY TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. EVEN IF YOU ARE 100% SURE YOU WILL NEVER NEED TO RETRIEVE YOUR PASSWORD, USING SOMEONE ELSE’S EMAIL IS SENDING THEM A DIRECT INVITATION AND THE ABILITY TO STEAL YOUR ACCOUNT.

THIS MEANS ACCESS TO LITERALLY EVERY PIECE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE IN THE ACCOUNT.

CONTACTS. PHONE NUMBERS. OTHER EMAIL ADDRESSES. PICTURES. LOCATION INFORMATION. ETC.

This is a REALLY. REALLY. BAD PRACTICE. This is a POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

This person is lucky that they are using MY email address, since the only thing I am doing is telling sites to remove my email, trying to get a message to them to STOP DOING THIS, and/or closing the accounts. This is because even though I am sometimes an asshole, I’m not actually fucking evil.

But there are A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SENDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO, NO MATTER HOW LITTLE AND INSIGNIFICANT YOU THINK IT IS.

Based on what has ended up in my inbox with this person’s name on it, I have reason to believe that they are a teen and probably a minor. This scares the shit out of me. I worry about him. I am not saying “everyone! be afraid of the internet” because I don’t believe that. But having been a teen online, I can say that it’s important to be aware of what information you’re giving to others, and why. Just like anywhere else, there are predators online.

Be smart. Stay safe. NEVER. EVER. EVER. send ANY account details to an email address that you do not control.

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PSA for Switch owners

The latest 11.0 update means that Google Analytics is a thing on the switch and turned on. What that means is that Nintendo has a deal with Google to share with them your data for advertisement purposes.

To turn it off

go to the eShop

go to your profile where your funds and account info is

go down to the bottom of the page

there you will see “Google Analytics Preferences”

select the Change

select “Don’t Share”

Please spread the word. Really shitty of Nintendo to just quietly start allowing Google to spy on users for advertising.

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I honestly kept hearing rizzler and confusing the word with the Onceler from the Lorax movie, and was like Jesus that movie came out forever ago, are people still horny for that dude? But his name was, in fact, not the Rizzler.

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Reposting to add a 2024 pic of Finn hanging out in his dog bed with his best friend Samhain the cat.

Since I'm awake at ass o'clock AM almost exactly 7 years later as a result of this same dog, here's Finn as an 8-9 month old puppy trying to reenact the dog version of "What do you have?" "A KNIFE!" "NO!!!!!"

He ate that couch, by the way.

I love this dog, but oh boy. He is extremely a handful, and although he has mellowed on the household destruction, he's still a neurotic weirdo, which was not helped when we lost Rey the Extremely Potato Lab last year.

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We stan a true love triangle.

I need you all to understand that Kirk didn’t reach out to wake Spock, Spock reached out to him.

Meanwhile McCoy is so happy and mad he’s apoplectic, and they’ve only been reunited for a minute.

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Alas, but I only feel like writing about the end of the world now, for some reason.

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today in "google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened", i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:

there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date "feb 8 2024" is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.

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Does anyone actually think about just one thing at once, linearly? Is that even possible? Is the multitrack thought actually unusual? Why am I awake at 2am?

There's a cool idea for some OCs in here somewhere...

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i get into a horrific car accident while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs in the passenger seat. at the hospital, the surgeons cannot sort out which chunks of meat are me and which are not, so I end up with several meatballs sewn into my guts. despite this I make a full recovery, and they elect not to remove the meatballs because quote 'they seem comfy in there.' i go on the talk show circuit and become moderately famous as The Meatballs Woman. when i die i am buried under a gravestone with meatballs carved on it. in the year 2438, a grad student from what is now Cambodia who is studying the late pre-collapse American Empire writes her thesis on this, concluding that I probably never existed and was a conflation of several real stories and urban legends. years later, a pop-history book wildly misinterprets this and several other things, arguing for the existence of a historic American religious pantheon including figures like The Meatballs Woman, Florida Man, Emperor Norton, etc. this book sells bizarrely well and inspires a new neo-pagan movement, which in turn leads to a weird shipping community, resulting in a small but vibrant scene of ABO fics featuring me and MrBeast (who in this context has been interpreted as a god of excess and trickery)

this chilling scenario is only one of the multiple reasons I am going to attempt to not crash my car today

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My husband is sighing loudly because I didn't know caterpillars dissolve first. LOOK. I DIDNT STUDY INSECTS.

how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

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Hey good news. Good news. We hemmed and hawed so long about the situation with the Omelas hole that the kid in the Omelas hole is now the Adult in the Omelas hole. Still suffering exactly as much, but they've lost the charisma bump that a kid gets just from being a kid so the sense of moral urgency is pretty, you know, I mean it's still bad, but like, whatever, you know. It's some middle aged guy having a real bad day, alright, that's not that exceptional. Get over it buddy

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Absolutely adore shit like this.

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Ah, that feel when a stranger has peeled my skull open and looked inside.

Yeah, the non-response to all my short fiction demoralized the hell out of me, especially for a story that I spent something like 13 months obsessing in a dark cavern of an apartment over before I finished it and then like. Idk. Maybe 5 people read it and 2 liked it.

the fear of sharing your work not because you're worried people will hate it or mock it or think it's terrible...but instead that it will elicit nothing from them. that it will be unremarkable. that it won't matter to anyone but you

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the real reason howl kept his castle moving was tax evasion

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Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.