seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

Does Firefox not count for anything?

about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.

Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.

Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.

PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.

Look.

Look.

I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just

There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just

I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)

or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and

firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.

Wanna be a hacker? Firefox.

Wanna use instagram on desktop? Firefox.

Wanna be a killer researcher? Firefox.

Wanna properly credit artists? Firefox.

Wanna read a whole shitload of books? Firefox.

Wanna make video responses to shitlord youtubers?

Wanna shoot cat lasers at bugs?

Wanna use youtube as a music streaming service?

FIREFOX.

I just love firefox okay.

this!!!

if you want to keep your privacy under control and use open-source software even more, you should absolutely consider installing Linux as your operating system! nearly all of the Linux distributions are completely free and open-source and pretty much none of them have rampant advertising like Windows. i use kde neon personally and i absolutely recommend it!

Well I don't love this.

I’m not going back out in the world until there’s a vaccine. 

I read this last night and it kept me up

Reblogging because of the very important info at the end of the article - if you experience symptoms of a stroke, seek help IMMEDIATELY because even large strokes are treatable, but time is of the essence.

I just grabbed this from Google because the article didn't have any easy info on stroke identification. Remember the basics:

F- face, is it under control?

A - arms, can you raise them both at the same time?

S - speech, can you talk or are you slurring?

T - time is of the essence, go to a hospital IMMEDIATELY

This is scary stuff. Stay informed lovelies.

you’re sitting across from me in a shitty diner in anywhere, america, and i watch you pour too much creamer in your coffee and i think “i love you.” you look up, catching me staring, and for a moment i think i’m brave enough to say it, but i take too long and the moment passes. i take the balled up straw wraper and flick it at you, pretending that was my plan all along. you laugh. i never want to go another day without hearing that laugh. i think i will have all the time in the world to say it.

op are you okay

yes im married to her now

this is the kind of quality content I expect from the internet

so how long does the shutdown go on before people just walk away and get new jobs?

oh yeah the US government shutdown huh

self care is being gay

I get a lot of questions from  people who want to teach their kids environmental stewardship and my advice is to get them passionate about the nature around them. Distant wildlife is exciting and cool! It can teach them to appreciate, but I find it rarely teaches them to value.

Value and respect come from recognizing your place in nature and your ability to both help and hurt.

Go outside and just move some rocks and let them hold some worms. Let them get muddy. If they squash a bug, ask them why. Tell them the bugs live here too.

This sounds silly, but it’s tried and true. Each time I’ve seen a kid smash a bug, I say “why did you feel that bug wasn’t allowed to be alive?” Never in an accusing tone, never judgmental. Ask them gently, honestly. They might be dismissive and bashful at first, but if you ask them again, if you say “I like bugs, and I think it’s good that they are alive,” they start to think. You can see it happen. You can see them begin to consider life they’ve probably been told before doesn’t mater.

Tell them what you like about bugs. If you’re afraid of bugs, tell them that too. tell them “I find them a little scary, but this is why they’re still good.” Tell them they don’t have to like something for it to have value. Tell them even the things they don’t like have value.

Every time a child says they’re afraid of bugs, or dirt, we go outside, and I find a worm (most people react best to them because they don’t have a bunch of little legs), and I hold it and tell them some simple little facts. I ask them if they want to hold it. They almost always do. It’s okay if they don’t want to. Never force the interaction. It’s vital to form positive experiences and associations.

I wipe some mud on my hands. I ask them if they want some mud on their hands. If they do, I give them some mud. I tell them what worms are doing down their in the ground, which anyone can learn on google to share.

We move rocks and find beetles and spiders. They’re delicate, so we don’t pick them up. We watch them. I ask them what they imagine beetles think about all day, and they always make me laugh with their ideas. I tell them “maybe, maybe that’s what beetles think about.” Let them imagine.

Look up the birds where you live. Yes, even the “boring” ones like pigeons and sparrows. Talk about what the eat, where they go at night to sleep. Ask them where they think birds sleep. In beds like us? They’ll usually tell you no, in trees! Kids want to teach as much as they want to learn.

We talk about grass and trees. We talk about what makes the world alive. Their young minds change and make new decisions about how they want to exist in the world.

One day, if all goes well, value and respect grow into a sense of responsibility and obligation.

Do this again and again.

A final thought:

If a child asks, and you don’t know, tell them “let’s find out together.” Search on your phone. 

You don’t have to know much yourself to teach stewardship. You only have to know and teach that it’s important to be curious, and above all, to root your curiosity in kindness.

i don’t like my country but i’m very protective of the wellbeing of the people in it

and by people i mean all people. the definition of a person has zero to do with citizenship status

America is not her politicians, she’s her people.

You don’t like the government, but you are protective of the country.

I like my country’s people, I don’t like its institutions and if given the opportunity would deposit all the politicians in a wood chipper

Bug, help me be more like you

the true genderfluid icon

set is complete

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Engaging in psychic battle

Do y’all know where the phrase “eat the rich” comes from or do you just repeat it cause you heard it elsewhere?

It’s not a bad thing, I just saw someone say “we never said who would eat the rich” and realized a lot of y’all might not have heard the full quote

It’s from Rousseau and it’s “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich"

And, well, there’s a lot of people with nothing to eat…

The poor cried,

"We are starving. There is no more bread, and we have nothing to eat."

The rich man said,

"Not my problem you don't work for your bread,"

as if he did not snatch away the grain by his own greedy hands and create filling bread for his own overflowing mouth.

The poor cried,

"We are dying. There is no more medicine, and we're all ill."

The rich man said,

"Not my problem you don't take care of yourselves,"

as if he did not buy all the medicine and raise prices so high

the gods themselves would not

be able to reach.

The poor people

stopped crying,

and the rich man was satisfied...

Until they came knocking at his door one night;

their faces were sunken,

their flesh decaying,

their eyes sightless.

They were monsters

of the rich man's

own making.

As they devoured his flesh,

the rich man cried,

"Please, spare me!"

The ravenous zombies said,

"Not our fault

you fattened yourself

for slaughter."

Holy fucking shit

“too much garlic” is a myth other flavors invented so that we’d care about them

I was always taught that god influenced wars to make the people he wanted to win, he influenced movements such as the civil rights movement and women’s movement, becuase these things wouldn’t succeed without divine backing. With that said, how come the gay movement is suceeding if it’s “evil”?

The Flu That Dare Not Speak Its Name

YouTube has partially lifted the ban on saying the word “coronavirus“.

Can we appreciate the fucked-up-ness of the situation?

Google demonetises videos that reference political issues, sex, violence, and tragic events. Google also has these “fake news“ boxes that link to authoritative sources like snopes or Wikipedia.

And these mechanisms both got triggered by people saying “coronavirus“ in videos. In Februrary, that was not a big deal, bit for the last three weeks, it kind of has been. YouTubers tried to explain why they were not filming in the studio, or tried to talk about their daily life in isolation.

And YouTube demonetised them for saying “coronavirus”, and then said they are not censoring anything per se.

So YouTubers said “Due to current events I cannot talk about, I am recording this video at home.“ As long as you don’t say “coronavirus“ you can briefly allude to the coronavirus.

And that had the effect of perpetuating the idea that YouTube is censoring information about the coronavirus, even in completely unrelated videos. I have heard a baking YouTuber, a woodworking YouTuber, a game developer YouTuber, and a let’s player all mention that you can’t say “coronavirus“ on YouTube, in a way that makes a bigger deal out of the whole situation. One of them called it “Lord Voldemort“.

I don’t even know if uttering “coronavirus“ once will get people demonetised. I guess it was a meme among YouTubers, and it survived because Google aren’t telling us how the demonetisation algorithm actually works.

I suspect the reason they are changing course now is that basically every current event and everyone’s life is somehow connected to the novel coronavirus, unless you’re North Sentinelese. If they kept going like this, they’d probably run out of videos to show ads on.

somewhere in the recent D&D videos I’ve uploaded, I say COVID-19 only to be reminded by another player that we’ll be demonetized if I say that

(followed immediately by “we’re not monetized anyway, fuck it”)

In my other videos, I interview people about projects they’re working on, including talking about estimated time of completion for physical things. what am I supposed to do, just go “will the Late Unpleasantness cause delays?”*

more topically, one of the askreddit TTS channels that ends up in my feed has a recent video with “C*VID-19″ in the title, but I don’t know if that change is from them or the original thread.

*i mean, i do call it the late unpleasantness, but that’s me being a dork, not me trying to stay monetized.

I don’t think it’s just Youtuber’s affected. I think I saw an article that while traffic to news sites is up, advertising revenue is down because brands don’t want placement near negative content, such as coronavirus news.

You’d think some company would be willing to like, advertise that they’re supporting getting this vital information to you in a time of crisis, and doing their part to help us all get through this, etc.

Not just YouTubers are affected. But YouTube handled this in the worst possible way. They censored it by drawing attention to the censorship, by making people who would not have minded at all constantly mentioned that you can’t say “coronavirus“.

Imagine news anchors on TV saying “you know what I mean, but I can’t say it or advertisers would get mad“.

and, like … it’s one of those on-the-nose censorship things that are virtually guaranteed to not even get anything going into the direction of what youtube wanted to achieve with this?

everybody, even the most casual of watchers, had found out about youtube censoring their creators like that. there were major news sites reporting on it, and, I believe, even print news would have a few lines about it somewhere.

everybody started saying “you-know-what” or other euphemisms like … immediately. it didn’t even take a day I believe. those who wanted to spread misinformation about it continued to do so, as their viewers didn’t care either way. the smaller ones weren’t monetized to begin with.

or maybe that was their goal? it kinda makes sense … they get to publicly say they did some token compensation in times of crisis without needing to actually change anything or having to relinquish much of their advertising income.

it’s the censor who gets bribed every time they let something through telling their superiors “these people are just too good, slipping stuff by me even though I am working the hardest I can censoring everything!!”

huh I only use YouTube as a music player so I didn’t hear they were censoring coronavirus, that’s absolutely wild

I think I spoke too soon about this:

According to the Guadrian:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/08/british-news-outlets-could-fail-due-to-coronavirus-ad-blocking

So on TV it’s even worse, except there’s actually humans in the loop so you can’t even allude to the thing?

government pressuring companies to run ads on coronavirus stories so that news outlets don’t fail, because they provide a service vital to society that can’t possibly be funded any other way, what a well-designed system.

I suppose like other politically connected industries the private owners can keep the profits in the good times and the rest of us can bail them out in the bad times.