#source linked in reblog

[reluctanthurricane]

[folklorespring]

RESOURCES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT UKRAINE IN ENGLISH:

1. News and articles

Hromadske

Kyiv Independent

Ukraïner

2. Twitter

Writings from the war

United24

Ukraine Explainers

Ukrainian Art History

Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Military

ukrartarchive

Alice Zhuravel

Тетяна Denford

Oriannalyla

ліна

Mariya Dekhtyaruk

3. Instagram

Libkos (war photography)

rafaelyaghobzadeh (war photography)

mariankushnir (war photography)

marikinoo (illustrator)

olga.shtonda (illustrator)

polusunya (illustrator)

4. Videos (subtitles)

One day of evacuation with combat medics

Testimonies of tortures and sexual assault done by russians

How village in Kherson region lived under occupation

"Winter on Fire" documentary

Mariupol before and after

Tragedy of Nova Kakhovka dam

City of Izium after deoccupation

Entire village that was held in a basement for a month by russians

Life near the frontline in Zaporizhzhia region

Vovchansk after heavy russian shelling

"20 Days in Mariupol" documentary

5. TikTok

qirimlia

yewleea

thatolgagirl

showmedasha

ukraineisus

new4andy (all of the above accounts are educational, this one funny)

6. Other

National Museum of Holodomor Genocide (Holodomor and Digital History sections on a website have a lot of sources to learn about Holodomor)

Izolyatsia Must Speak (information about torture chamber in the russian-occupied Donetsk)

War Stories from Ukraine

Virtual museum of destruction in Kyiv region

Chytomo (about books and publishing)

Free translated books

Old khata project (photography project about rural architecture)

[sunshineandlyrics]

Louis helping bros to get dates ..

🫶🏼 Louis being featured in the dating app profiles of random guys x x

[sergle]

I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question. and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost. Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half." All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon

[gorehoundhammett]

this is what I mean by filled out.

from Seoul 2006.

[statementlou]

🎧

[tatzelwyrm]

That was my final scenes with him. And so when it was a cut and it’s like, "okay, that’s it", Cameron and I, we were both kinda speechless. We just hugged and the waterworks came and we talked about working together as we did, because now we’re talking about from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to the next journey where we’re doing this [going our separate ways] and what we’re doing in our lives as Cameron Monaghan and Debra Wilson.

Debra Wilson on Cere's death and being cried on by Cameron Monaghan.

[musashi]

i am begging the other leftists on my fucking dash to stop reblogging anti-voting stuff until the election is over. there are so many doomers on this website who do not have the critical thinking skills to fucking use their brains and tons of them will be genuinely swayed by what they see online.

for the love of god, queue it for after november 5th. queue all your criticism for then. unleash the fucking beast after the election is over. but it is so fucking irresponsible to be reblogging that shit now.

[asanjou]

technically this one was finns idea

X

[vetuhoh]

🎵 In the Big Brother house! 🎵

[anemone-ships]

˚✧₊⁎ i've participated in quite a few of these, so now it's my turn!!

reblog with an f/o and i will assign them a tea!! feel free to tell me a little about them as well if you like so i can make a more specific choice, otherwise i'll choose based on vibes!!

example: lavender, chamomile, valerian & passionflower (good for sleep!) 🤭

pro.ship dni

[one-shared-braincell]

Changbin: I eat 15 apples for breakfast then drive myself to the hospital just to watch the doctors get blasted backward into the drywall bc they cant withstand my aura

[dilsdesigns]

my cyber monday sale is finally live! get any of these pins for 30% off until 11:59pm ast on friday!

[cienie-isengardu]

MK1 Behind the scenes AU - Masterpost for #1-52

As my project already reached 50+ parts, it seems I hit the limit(?) of links allowed in the notes. It was a useful way to keep a track of the story for me, and hopefully to all those that enjoyed the series so far. So from now on, while posting the new AU’s parts, I will redirect fans (and myself)  to this master post for the earliest pieces, so in advance, sorry for the inconvenience :)

The main tag for my project is: "mk1 behind the scenes au". This AU is also posted on my ao3 if anyone would like to have the whole series in one place.

[Cage’s Mansion]

[Waiting for Liu Kang]

[Special Bonus]

[Grandmaster’s commentary]

[Climbing scene]

[Madam Bo’s Inn]

[Cage’s Mansion 2 (fire extinguisher)]

[Medic]

[Shang Tsung’s sad face]

[Smoke’s Fall]

[Scenography (1)]

[Scenography (2)]

[Show off!]

[Favorite brother]

[Climbing on the wall (nonsense)]

[Tomas’ commentary]

[Perfectly fine]

[Sexy, sexy man~♪]

[Brothers between filming - Scenography(3)]

[Wrong team!]

[Since when you two are friends?!]

[I like being evil sorcerer more]

[I forgot my line, sorry!]

[Read the script Kuai!]

[Get. Lost.]

[Dating]

[Permission]

[Why date a punk like him…]

[Panic (Mom is visiting)]

[Decapitation then]

[Deep in trouble (Mom is visiting #2)]

[Cultural differences (paid leave)]

[Why date a punk like him… (Lin Kuei Mom)]

[Why date a punk like him… (General Shao)]

[Stop closing your eyes!]

[There is never a god around when you need one]

[(Over)protective brothers, p. 1 - upset Tomas]

[(Over)protective brothers, p. 2 - Control your anger]

[(Over)protective brothers, p. 3 - the perfect solution]

[A mother knows best, p.1]

[A mother knows best, p.2]

[Good at multitasking]

[One moron to save]

[(Over)protective brothers, p. 4 - BUT ARE YOU SURE?]

[It’s bad enough there is three Shang Tsungs + BONUS]

[Tolerate, maybe]

[Losers. I’m Lin Kuei + bonus]

[Shao learns about Paid Leave (p. 1)]

[Not paid enough for this nonsense…]

[Brothers between filming (4)]

[Brothers between filming (5) - the last ice cream]

[Why Liu Kang always must omit me?]

Fake dating subplot: “Get. Lost.”, “Dating”, “Permission”, “Why date a punk like him”, “Panic (Mom is visiting)”, “Deep in trouble (Mom is visiting #2)”, “Why date a punk like him… (Lin Kuei Mom)”, “Why date a punk like him… (General Shao)”, “There is never a god around when you need one”, “ A mother knows best, p.1”, “ A mother knows best, p.2”, “Good at multitasking“, “One moron to save” & "It’s bad enough there is three Shang Tsungs + BONUS”

[maypop-the-dragon]

PSA: Free Software

Reading this may really save your time, privacy, and money! Reblog or share to spread awareness!

Folks often use software that’s expensive and sometimes even inferior because they don’t know there are alternatives. So to those unfamiliar: basically, free and open-source (FOSS) or "libre" software is free to use and anyone can access the original code to make their own version or work on fixing problems.

That does not mean anyone can randomly add a virus and give it to everyone—any respectable libre project has checks in place to make sure changes to the official version are good! Libre software is typically developed by communities who really care about the quality of the software as a goal in itself.

There are libre alternatives to many well-known programs that do everything an average user needs (find out more under the cut!) for free with no DRM, license keys, or subscriptions.

Using libre software when possible is an easy way to fight against and free yourself from corporate greed while actually being more convenient in many cases! If you need an app to do something, perhaps try searching online for things like:

foss [whatever it is]

libre [whatever it is]

open source [whatever it is]

Feel free to recommend more libre software in the tags, replies, comments, or whatever you freaks like to do!

Some Libre Software I Personally Enjoy…

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an office suite, much like Microsoft Office. It includes equivalents for apps like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, which can view and edit files created for those apps.

I can't say I've used it much myself yet. I do not personally like using office software except when I have to for school.

OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is, as the name suggests, a video editing program. It has industry-standard features like splicing, layering, transitions, and greenscreen.

I've only made one video with it so far, but I'm already very happy with it. I had already paid for a video editor (Cyberlink PowerDirector Pro), but I needed to reinstall it and I didn't remember how. Out of desperation, I searched up "FOSS video editor" and I'm so glad I did. There's no launcher, there's no promotion of other apps and asset packs—it's just a video editor with a normal installer.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editor, much like Photoshop. Originally created for Linux but also available for Windows and MacOS, it provides plenty of functionality for editing images. It is a bit unintuitive to learn at first, though.

I've used it to create and modify images for years, including logos, really bad traceover art, and Minecraft textures. It doesn't have certain advanced tech like AI paint-in, but it has served my purposes well and it might just work for yours!

(Be sure to go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Colors. I have no idea why that's not enabled by default.)

Audacity

Audacity is an audio editing program. It can record, load, splice, and layer audio files and apply effects to them.

Audacity is another program I've used for a long time. It is not designed to compose music, but it is great for podcasts, simple edits, and loading legacy MS Paint to hear cool noises.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file manager and archive tool. It supports many archive types including ZIP, RAR, TAR, and its own format, 7Z. It can view and modify the contents of archives, encrypt and decrypt archives, and all that good stuff.

Personally, I use 7-Zip to look inside JAR files for Minecraft reasons. I must admit that its UI is ugly.

Firefox

Firefox is an internet browser, much like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari. While browsers are free, many of them include tracking or other anti-consumer practices. For example, Google plans to release an update to Chromium (the base that most browsers are built from these days) that makes ad blockers less effective by removing the APIs they currently rely on.

Aside from fighting monopolies, benefits include: support for animated themes (the one in the picture is Purple Night Theme), good ad blockers forever, an (albeit hidden) compact UI option (available on about:config), and a cute fox icon.

uBlock Origin

As far as I know, uBlock Origin is one of the best ad blockers there is.

I was on a sketchy website with my brother, and he was using Opera GX's ad blocker. Much of the time when he clicked on anything, it would take us to a random sponsored page. I suggested that he try uBlock Origin, and with uBlock Origin, that didn't happen anymore.

Linux

Linux is a kernel, but the term is often used to refer to operating systems (much like Windows or MacOS) built on it. There are many different Linux-based operating systems (or "distros") to choose from, but apps made for Linux usually work on most popular distros. You can also use many normally Windows-only apps on Linux through compatibility layers like WINE.

I don't have all four of these, so the images are from Wikipedia. I tried to show a variety of Linux distros made for different kinds of users.

If you want to replace your operating system, I recommend being very careful because you can end up breaking things. Many computer manufacturers don't care about supporting Linux, meaning that things may not work (Nvidia graphic cards notoriously have issues on Linux, for example).

Personally, I tried installing Pop!_OS on a laptop, and the sound output mysteriously doesn't work. I may try switching to Arch Linux, since it is extremely customizable and I might be able to experiment until I find a configuration where the audio works.

Many Linux distros offer "Live USB" functionality, which works as both a demo and an installer. You should thoroughly test your distro on a Live USB session before you actually install it to be absolutely sure that everything works. Even if it seems fine, you should probably look into dual-booting with your existing operating system, just in case you need it for some reason.

Happy computering!

[glitteringstardust]

siiiigh i saw a board i thought was cool and then the caption was just "credits to all gifmakers" 😔 when will the suffering end