#Browsing History

[rry2k]

[thewoundedfallenangel]

when you want to use incognito mode for something you don't want in your browsing history but you forget to open incognito and that thing you wanted for incognito is now in your history and you have to shamefully erase it out of there when you're done

[evadingreallife]

Me, browsing on my phone: *opens tab*, *opens tab*, *opens tab*

My phone, in tears, about to collapse:

Me: *opens tab #341*

[queen-of-outlaws]

PSA for anyone who still likes Chrome and wants to keep using it:

Just go to: chrome://settings/adPrivacy

and turn all the settings off.

PSA

[news4nose]

Hotspot history is a list of your past Wi-Fi connections on your phone. You should delete it to keep your internet activity private and secure. 

The person who owns the WiFi network, ISP, has the ability to see what you search for and the websites you visit, even if you use incognito mode. Additionally, the owner of the router can find this information in the router logs. 

[powerpcinside]

4t2 Rusty Elliette & Victoria Suits

I put these in the same post because they come from the same set, found here. As with most outfits I do these days, I only did a subset of the swatches, but I did use the same colors for both sets. However... I did do them for different age groups (sorry).

Rusty Elliette Suit: TF-EF, all appropriate morphs, 12 swatches. DOWNLOAD

Rusty Victoria Suit: AU-EU, elders use adult mesh, all appropriate morphs, 12 swatches. DOWNLOAD

[ninyard]

very nicely asking for more jean tweets

inspired by the tl

[rry2k]

gordon i will give you. five dollars

F. Five dollars for what?? Goddamn…happy meal..???

Don't forget the happy meal toy broo-

Nyeh nyeah nyeh nyeh.

blehhh

[ducktracy]

i’ve been dabbling in multiple Animal Crossing games again and, so, it is time for me to update my bullying compilation

[marzipanandminutiae]

I figure you might know this: is there any connection between historic poisonous makeup / skin cream, and the tendency of modern skin whitening creams to have high heavy metal levels? Like, one paper suggested that the high mercury levels of black US women are explicable by (illegally imported) creams and not e.g. pollution. Does mercury/ lead / arsenic actually improve skin somehow, or is it a contaminant, or what?!

Yikes! I always feel awful for people who are subject to those pressures- for light-skinned women, we're told to set ourselves up for cancer by tanning, and dark-skinned women are pressed to use poisonous bleaching creams. It's not the SAME pressure, since one has the weight of systemic racism behind it, of course. I just find it interesting (in a sad way) that no matter what skin tone you have, someone wants you to harm yourself to change it.

That said, I don't know much about skin-bleaching agents in the past (besides lemon juice for getting rid of freckles, which is a great way to badly sunburn yourself). Venetian ceruse and other white lead "foundations" were basically just a translucent white paint, not a skin product. The lead was only to get the white color. They were also not as commonly used- at least in the 16th century and later -as people often think today. The dangers were pretty well-known, if not fully understood, to the point where the 1760 death of unpopular socialite Maria Gunning was blamed on white lead makeup. A story which is still widely believed, even though I found no solid evidence for it being anything but slander.

The arsenic thing came from an 1851 scientific paper by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, in which he described Alpine peasants slowly acclimating themselves to larger and larger doses of arsenic over years. He speculated that the lovely complexions of women and girls in these villages might be due to arsenic-eating, though by what mechanism is unclear- long-term arsenic exposure actually darkens the skin, something Europeans at the time would not have held in high regard. Still, the beauty industry picked this up and unscrupulous companies began selling arsenic "complexion wafers," which made pretty much every skincare claim under the sun: they were good for acne, freckles, redness, roughness, oily skin, wrinkles...you name it. Of course, the fact that these companies were so unscrupulous probably saved women who believed the claims of "safe dosage" on the packaging- an 1893 study of one popular brand, in the Boston Journal of Health, found that the wafers contained nearly undetectable amounts of arsenic or none at all. That's just one brand, but it's not hard to imagine others doing likewise.

I know less about mercury in skincare/beauty products because you don't hear about it as much, but I did find evidence that it's been used in bleaching creams as far back as the early 20th century (again, targeting mostly women of color). Also that the use of cinnabar in some rouge preparations, in ancient Rome and Iberia, may have caused some mercury poisoning.

So yeah. Less related to the lead and arsenic history, but it seems mercury bleaching creams have at least a 100-year legacy. Horrifying.

[fruitybookworm]

just looked through a list specifically described as "dark academia books with an LGBTQ+ POV character" and tell me why the secret history is on there..

listen. i will never not be a queer richard papen truther, that man was down bad for henry winter and i will die on that hill, BUT IF SOMEONE RECOMMENDED THAT BOOK TO ME WITH THE PROMISE OF A QUEER MC ?? I'D BE PISSED.

[blairdiggory]

Heyyyyyy, my parents are super passionate about an organization called the Alabaster Jar Project that helps victims of human trafficking integrate back into society. They're centered in San Diego, which is a hot spot for trafficking, so they all do as much as they can, but they're always looking for funding opportunities.

Harrah's Casino in SoCal is hosting a voting contest for several charities, and the winners get a BIG cash donation ($50,000!). The Alabaster Jar Project has been chosen to participate in it, and we REALLY need people to vote for it!

We'd super appreciate you voting for the Alabaster Jar Project in this fundraising campaign.

You don't need an account! You can vote right on the page, and the Alabaster Jar Project is the first option.

Link here

Thanks for helping us!! :)

[bisexualjonahsimms]

temperance brennan music special interest !!!!!!!!

[magnusthemes]

so life update i presented at some conference in salt lake city over thanksgiving break and absolutely bullied tf out of my PI so in retaliation he said hey while you cook up some new ideas for your next research why not you not only help completely redo the lab website but also completely redo the website for our machine learning data repo

now fast forward a few weeks i am now back in sg on vacation and my PI is still none the wiser about where my web design magic coding skills came from aka magnusthemes but if anyone wonders where i've been for the past few months when i promised new themes this is the answer