#big fucking yikes

[elfgrove]

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

[juno-box]

sooooo the CEO of Tumblr & Wordpress is being sued on allegations of wage theft & human trafficking.

[a-spennumber1fan]

Just learned that there's such thing as a headmate market, where people sell fake alters. For real money. Man, what world do we live in, this is basically human trafficking for fake DID systems 💀💀💀💀

[blackerthings]

enjoying regular celeb shit on Tumblr and IG and then going to the all informative balanced platform that is Tik Tok and seeing that so many of them are genocide supporters / so much of our media consumption is tied back to the oppression of others

[koschei-the-ginger]

My friend just told me that Reiley, the guy representing Denmark in Eurovision, used to bully younger kids at his school, yikes

[gendercriminals]

It makes me sick to my stomach that my vaguely political blog with more followers feels safer then my main with less; simply because a couple people decided a few years ago their fun new hobby would be stalking a then fresh 18 year old

[shpeederman]

big fucking mood Jesus Christ

Israelis being extremely normal people because they are mad the Irish peace corps won't leave Southern Lebanon

[akiipockii]

me when my parents are deciding to turn off my Wi-Fi every day until I do everything on my schedule and they come home knowing full well they get off at like 5pm and I’m done with my list by 11am-12pm. I love it here.

[boofts]

you know shit is serious when i start using proper capitalization.

[hedonists]

I hoped that maybe they didn't have much of a choice but how many more times are you going to declare your love for a band full of abusers on your insta stories 🤢 didn't have to do all that

[casual-goober]

Note to Self:

Do not trust any thoughts that are negative the moment it is past 10-12. Thank you.

[tricksterbxtch]

the absolute nightmare I experienced the other day when I joined a discord server I'd seen on TT (my first mistake, don't worry, it gets worse) only to find it was

an all ages server

had unrestricted nsfw channels

was run by a fifteen year old

had members at least as young as THIRTEEN and there were in fact people OVER EIGHTEEN

I did not stay long enough to gather whether or not the adults and the teens were talking in the nsfw channels together, because I really didn't want to know

I've never hit leave server so fucking fast

[power-chords]

The thing about 12-step programs is that the basic model involves getting a bunch of vulnerable, impulsive nutsos together in a plausibly cult-y atmosphere where they're likely to have already burned a lot of social bridges. That it doesn't turn out to be a hotbed of abuse would be the more farfetched assumption.

[bunnnali]

@atom-ash

hey! first of all, you don’t know me at all, you don’t know what i believe or what i support. i could tell you i don’t support israel, and i don’t, but i shouldn’t have to, because you shouldnt feel the need to step on the toes of random strangers you find on tumblr to begin with. i dont need to justify myself to you or anyone else, especially when the crime in question is having empathy 😭 i am not “both sidesing” anything, i am protesting injustice. that does not mean i am blind to the injustices committed by israel.

“don’t support” is crazyyyy, i’m not a organization to boycott, i’m not even a celebrity, i’m a teenage girl on tumblr with less than 100 followers. like i’m kind of bewildered here by the audacity of this. the only thing i can think of that could even give you the idea i’m “both-sidesing” would be a post i reblogged saying it is important to have empathy for palestinians as well as affected israeli civilians. is it so insane to say you should feel bad for grieving families? are you so detached from your humanity that suffering only hurts you when its the “wrong people”? i dont understand the alternative youre offering here, did you want me to say “i hope all the remaining hostages are dead and their families suffer 😝” ?????? bc that doesnt sound very pro-palestine of you

hi jumblr! i made these little jewish lgbt pride frames to put around images and videos for funsies

edit: guys!! the backgrounds are transparent because these were made to go over images, for icons and edits and stuff :) the aromantic and asexual ones should be readable over a lighter background!

another edit: sorry about the misspelling of שלום on a few of these, idk what got into me bc id usually remember when to put final letters but 😭 check the reblogs for a fixed ver :)

[ladylannisterxo]

I haven't read Fire & Blood. I'll start with that. But, at the end of S1, I was curious and I spoiled myself on some of the details and what I do know is that what played out in the last 10 minutes of this episode is so far removed from how it played out on the page.

It was uncomfortable in the worst possible way. While I was expecting hysteria, bargaining, desperation, I received none of that. I have never seen a mother be so calm during the slaughter of her child. And while I understand that Helaena has never been overtly emotional, it didn't feel like I was watching her character at that moment, it was like it was someone else entirely. You could literally hear the sounds of him being murdered and she didn't even react, she just... left.

And then it ends with, "they killed the boy." "The" boy, not "my" boy. It was the most surreal experience and I can't seem to wrap my mind around this decision to change it up. I usually don't get too up in arms when changes are made from page to screen, but this just feels wrong.

I mean... if this was the premiere, how is the rest of the season going to play out? 😬

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

im sorry but "kill the villainess" (story by your april and art by haegi, included those because there wre Many similarly named stories lmao) is what ALL those other bitches THINK they are

the repeating pattern of all the men around her becoming obsessed with her not because of their Real relationship, but what they projected onto her- mirroring the common "heroine picks up 5 dudes nobly obsessed with her" trope in a much more realistic, gross way. the one guy who is Genuinely in love with her is a bit Obsessive with it but it still is genuine a result of her Actions, not whatever he made up in his own head

the way all the named characters, important or not, got a short and sweet (or. very Not sweet. the dressmakers story hit me with such powerful melancholy i had to put my phone down) backstory that explains who they are and why they act a certain way. down even to the "super supportive maid" all these stories have, who usually only get paired off with a spare man if theyre lucky, being revealed to being one of the most integral characters to the narrative

the Hints of lore but All of that lore doubling back to serve a purpose beyond a single relevant arc- maybe its just me but a lot of these generic female oriented fantasy novels love to drop a lot of keysmash-named lore dumps that arent rlly thought out that well. but here, for one example, jareds dragon killing story that helped the eris figure out the rules of causality coming back to be his karmic punishment? gold

and related to that, how they really went into the functionality of the fantasy world, how its real and not- milennia of history and legends and stories and people (awful as 90% of them seem to be lol) doomed to die, with medea dedicating her life to finding way to avert that? finding a new "author" within the story, a side character who before anyone else decided to change their own narrative by giving themselves a new name, changing fate before "eris" ever arrived?

helenas arc not being the now kinda overdone twists of "the perfect heroine from the story is actually a huge BITCH" or "the perfect heroine also transmigrated", but instead a woman who acted ignorant to survive learning that they may help you in the moment, but not forever, and finally Properly standing up for herself at the end

and to tie it all together, the premise itself. "eris" not wanting to just Accept her new life, not having a dramatically terrible life that one would want to escape, just a normal ho hum one with normal trauma and baggage anyone might have. addressing the "realities", as it were, of escapist fantasy- some people probably truly do want a whole new life, but 90% of people would end up desperately, achingly missing what they used to have

tldr kill the villianess feels like it stepped back, saw all the overused tropes of the genre good and bad, and decided it wanted to tackle them and tackle them well