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🕯️ 🕯️ JR3 🕯️ 🕯️

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we're running out of time to fuck it we ball....

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prints | instagram | facebook

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open RP

“Hey~”

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Cold weather enjoyer FREAKS when they’re shivering and tensed up and can’t feel their toes and their face hurts and

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hello i’m hoziest and this is my song i’m already in church

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today is video games’s birthday.

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I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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i am just so excited about yellowjackets my god.

a friend and i had this huge discussion over the summer about lord of the flies and how some people tried to make a one-to-one adaptation of lord of the flies, just with girls instead, and about how that doesn’t work fundamentally because of how linked lord of the flies is to masculinity. like i don’t really subscribe to the interpretation of lord of the flies where it’s about the evil that lies in the heart of humanity. i’m not interested in the question of whether human nature is evil or good fundamentally. but i think lord of the flies is interesting as an examination of what raising young boys to go to war, and romanticizing violence to do so (that’s what was happening at the historical time it was written and honestly we still do a lot of this stuff) would do to them. to me lord of the flies is about the results of what society teaches children to do, and gender is actually super important to the story. so if it was an adaptation where they just changed the gender of the kids, it wouldn’t work at all anymore, cuz young girls at the time, and even now, are raised with different expectations and encouraged behavior. that’s not to say there wouldn’t be violence and chaos. it just wouldn’t be able to be the same story.

but the friend and i agreed that it would be interesting to do a different story entirely examining what it would be like for a group of girls to be alone in the wilderness. well it existed the whole time i just didn’t realize it! and i’m so thrilled about it. i’ve only seen the first episode so maybe the lord of the flies comparison is really not accurate, maybe the premise changes or it is thematically looking at something different. but i am so excited to see what this show has to say. i actually can’t wait.

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Hhhate it when people on my side of an argument are making bad points. You’re literally right why are you being stupid about it

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This Thanksgiving National Day of Mourning, please consider donating to:

The Native American Rights Fund

Native Wellness Institute

Warrior Women Project

Sitting Bull College

First Nations COVID-19 Response Fund

The Redhawk Native American Art Council

Partnership With Native Americans

First Nations Development Institute

Native American Heritage Association

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

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As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

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so i’ve started yellowjackets. i am so sorry for how unchill i’m going to be about this.