it's time....

this year has made me so fucking sensitive. pompeii by bastille, a song i barely like, came on the radio and it made me CRY

you know what bastille......when i close my eyes....it DOES almost feel like nothing’s changed at all ...

how AM i gonna be an optimist about this?

i’ve been trying to hold back but. i gotta see what bill and ted fanfic is like. i gotta do it

this literally sounds like a line from the movie what the hell

this fic is actually GOOD i’ve never been more angry in my LIFE

i’m so mad and you should be too

listen i’m trying to stop clogging everyone’s dash with this nonsense but this is honestly the best line i have ever read in a fanfic in my entire LIFE i’m laughing so hard

i don’t know how i expected it to end to be honest

the sheer amount of people who think this is about bill clinton and ted cruz is frankly funnier than any post i have ever made on this hellsite and that’s all i have to say about that

WHEN I SHOW UP 2 THA FUNCTION UNANNOUNCED 

certified iconic post

Can never handle the beauty of Washu

Gandalf the Grey by John Howe

This radio ad for a local club’s annual Pole-A-Thon is geniunely the funniest thing I’ve heard in memory

we got a girl that can climb with her teeth

Gah-gah-gah-gah-gah right up that pole

mgs1 abs were more detailed than the faces

if hozier was 5’10 with short hair hed be nothing

How dare u assume hozier is tied to a physical form

U dont get to transcend physical form just by singing indie music

If you people listened to king crimson your heads would explode

I appreciate that so many cultures individually looked at a lizard and thought what if he was big as hell and had powers

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

unfortunately, on this platonic male outing at outback steakhouse, my partner has ordered a “blooming onion”, transforming this once casual affair into a romantic tryst

I dont know what emotion this gives me but im feeling it violently

Me Gongaga Monday

Have a happy and healthy Me Gongaga Monday

are kids with inground pools still calling themselves feral on here

Bayonetta: *eating spaghetti*

God, like, literally God, from the Bible, appearing from the sky and destroying Bayonetta’s house: [UNINTELLIGIBLE]

Bayonetta, flying on a shard of her roof: man what the fuck

DID HE MAKE IT??

he makes it

THANK FUCKING GOD