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@cottoncandy-swabs

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Heya! Welcome to my blog!

I go by a few names and pronoun sets! The preferred ones will be highlighted!

Copper, Candy, Cotton, Nill, Ace, Orange, Marit

They/them, he/him, she/her, it/its, flame/flames, swab/swabs, umb/umbre, none

I draw, on occasion I write, and I'm trying to get some ask blogs running for the summer! I like JSaB, Hollow Knight, NitW, Earthbound, Shovel Knight, Minecraft, FNaF, and Cookie Run. I am willing to talk about most things though, and some have been left off for other's convenience.

Feel free to ask questions and invite me to things! If I can, I will try to help!

Under the cut: DNI, blacklist (and tag), whitelist, and refs.

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Hey, I'm gonna be moving blogs. I won't be deleting this one, but I'm gonna be using a different account. I'm gonna be DMing people for a while, so don't worry if you weren't told yet, alright?

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I am going to log off of tumblr. I will see you all in a few hours.

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witch-apologist

This is the kind of treatment schizo-affective people get, even when they're perfectly capable of reasoning and taking care of themselves. Remember that next time you use the word "psychotic" to describe someone you deem to be unhinged or evil. Remember that when its someone you know who suffers from it. This man found out she was schizophrenic and IMMEDIATELY tried to groom her for conservatorship, for total control of her life and relationships. She's LUCKY he told on himself so fucking quickly because many people play their cards CLOSE to their chest and slowly drive you crazy till there's a big explosion that they can use in court. This is why it matters so much that you LISTEN to us.

#*writes that down*
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cantdewwrite

Yes we should be worried! What happened to Japanese Americans in World War II. What happened to Afghan Americans or anyone even remotely middle eastern looking after 9-11. The Russians have nothing to do with what Putin is doing. In fact they are being jailed and shot for protesting the invasion.

You cannot blame the people for what their government does. I mean you saw Trump right?

#if this happens again we should just overthrow the government at this point#we should make a new system or figure out how to do communism right or something#gods#tw politics#sunny do not look
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haunted-meat

So this seems dumb…and it is…but it’s dumb with a purpose. I can almost guarantee you the exact line of reasoning that gets NASA engineers to 100.

Ok, first of all assume the worst and assume she needs the max amount of tampons possible for all days. Now lets count it up.

7 days? Better be safe and make it 10.

3 tampons a day at worst? Better be safe and make it 5.

So that gives us 50 tampons. Ok. Double it.

And that’s how you get 100.

It’s ridiculous, but NASA has a culture of “overengineer absolutely everything to do with human safety, and then design around it” which is actually pretty cool.

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signoraviolettavalery

Listen, I know this gets made fun of so much, but like I am a woman who has periods and I have absolutely no idea how many tampons a woman requires in a week. I use primarily pads. But these men, at the least, ASKED her instead of making unfounded assumptions.

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talvin-muircastle

Which would you rather be:

A. The NASA Director Who Sent Too Many?

B. The NASA Director Who Didn’t Send Enough?

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eleni-anz

Ummm byee

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snumblesaurus

So I kind of hate that Putin is trying to restrict the flow of information into Russia so that he can control the narrative, so for my Russian friends, here is my guide on

How to get around internet censorship and maintain internet privacy

This will be an extremely long post 😅

Priorities

  • Download the Tor Browser
  • This will hopefully help you access the internet regardless of Russian government bans. It’s a little slow, but better than nothing. It hides your IP address from the internet, so it’s kind of like using a VPN. A very basic summary of how Tor works: your internet traffic is routed through several “nodes”. The Entry Node, can see your IP address but has no idea what data you’re sending, and this goes through several middle nodes, until it reaches the Exit Node. The Exit Node can see what data you’re sending, but it can’t see your IP address so it doesn’t know WHO sent it. That’s why it’s a good idea to do nothing identifying when using the Tor Browser, like writing personal information. Here’s a blog post with more detailed information about the Tor Browser.
  • Get a VPN
  • VPNs are often used to get around government internet restrictions. Russia will probably not be able to do much about it. However, not all VPNs are created equal. Nearly all of the free VPNs are a scam that turn around and sell your data, so free VPNs are not secure. The only exception to this is ProtonVPN which has a free tier, but it’s very slow. Basically the only good VPN is one you pay for. When choosing a VPN, be aware of where the company is based, because if a VPN company is based in the USA, it will have to comply USA privacy laws. So choose a VPN based in a country that has good privacy laws. A great one is Mullvad VPN, which is based in Sweden. But for the purposes of Russia, just making sure your VPN is not Russian or in a country sympathetic to Russia is probably good enough.

Alternative Front-Ends A frontend is the the part of a website which the user interacts with directly. To browse the contents of websites, you usually have to visit them. However, many people have made alternative privacy-respecting frontends to popular websites that allow you to see the site’s content without actually visiting the website. This helps avoid tracking, data-collection, and even countries’ attempts to ban websites. Twitter is banned in Russia right now, but using all an alternative frontend to Twitter works (according to my Russian friend).

Google Translate

Imgur

Instagram

Medium

Reddit

TikTok

Twitter

Wikipedia

YouTube

YouTube Music

If anyone knows of one of these for Tumblr please let me know. I found this site called Tumgir but it looks sketchy and unlike the rest of the ones I listed, it’s not open-source. So visit with caution, but I’m mentioning it because it might be better than nothing.

There are also these browser extensions that automatically redirect site links to the available alternatives:

Mozilla Firefox

  • LibRedirect - Redirects YouTube, YT Music, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Imgur, Reddit, Wikipedia, Medium, etc.

Google Chrome

  • Privacy Redirect - Redirects Google Maps, Google Search, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, Youtube.

iPhone (iOS 15+) Safari

  • Privacy Redirect - Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Google Translate, Google maps, Google Search, Medium

Android

  • UntrackMe - Google Maps, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube

Messaging / Communication

Matrix is a federated and decentralized End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) messaging with many platforms, the most popular of which is Element. It’s like Discord, but worse. It’s getting better over time though! You can even use a a throwaway email to sign-up.

If you’re Russian you likely already know about Telegram, but MAKE SURE you’re aware that only Secret Chats are End-to-End Encrypted. So don’t say anything that would get you in trouble outside of a Secret Chat.

End Notes

China is way better at internet censorship. They’ve had years to build the infrastructure to control the flow of information online. And yet, the Chinese people still manage to “climb the wall” and find ways around this. Russia is new to this game and doesn’t have the resources China does. So I really doubt it’ll be that hard to get around their attempts to block websites. Have faith! And feel free to DM me for more info cause this post just scratches the surface for things you can do tbh.