They did it again
Oh, cool! I love the behind-the-scenes stuff. If you’ve never seen the original (this version is narrower so you miss a lot that was going on) it’s here:
THANK YOU
I think the true measure of a person’s character is this: in a game with a character creater, do you:
A) just use the default
B) recreate yourself
C) recreate a popular character
D) make your oc
E) just make whatever looks the coolest/prettiest
F) monster factory that shit
hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys
heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:
to list what they attempt to track:
- unique identifier
- os version
- device brand
- charging status
- device total memory
- first name
- gps coordinates
- screen density
- app version
- device orientation
- headphone status
- rotation data
- network connection type
- city
- available internal storage
- device language
- os build number
- accelerometer data
- network carrier
- available device memory
- last name
- postal code
- email address
- gender
- system volume
- timezone
- app name
- country
- state
- screen resolution
- cookies
- device model
- birthday
- android advertising id
please for the love of God, dont download threads.
addendum: threads is so bad that it's literally banned in All Of Europe because it violates the GDPR, aka General Data Protection Regulation.
Another drawing that I made for my artbook, the Style of Loish! Looking back I can really tell that I created a lot of the artwork for that book in the summer, because so many of them are about swimming. Also, do NOT try this at home, kids 😠
libby app guide
aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.
disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.
one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.
two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.
three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.
four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.
five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)
anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!
Reblogging again to say that you do not need Kindle, the app or the device, to read ebooks on Libby!! You can read any book you borrow WITHIN the Libby app, and you can change the font and dark/light mode for accessibility too.
please be aware the libby app does NOT let you read or listen offline so the app itself is unusable for me for actual reading unfortunately! you guys who have access to the internet steadily can use it but be aware. you can't use it on a plane, for example, but if you download to kindle you can.
You should actually be able to use libby app offline (for those allergic to kindle like I am lmao). You just have to change your download permissions in settings. The web browser version of libby is online only though.
Go to Settings > Change Download Rules > toggle to “Everything” (and recommended to “Download only on Wi-fi” if you are worried about your data)
Then Settings > Read Books With… > Libby, so that it downloads to the correct app. You should be able to change your preferences on the main page by clicking the cloud icon to see where you’ve downloaded it too.
Graphics glitch makes for entertaining weather report…🔊 🔊
Animorphs into myself
Pero buatefack
You can do that?!!
So apparently, if you sign up for Threads and later decide to delete it, it will also nuke your Instagram account.
Source: Techcrunch.com
Think carefully before creating a Threads account (or anywhere else, really).
UM. whut.
@cleolinda did you see this?
I did—I can’t remember if I reblogged this specifically, but some other posters and I had a conversation on one of my posts about how you can, at least, delete the app off your phone. But the way Threads works—and honestly, when I thought back, I realized that I already knew this—is that it’s using your Instagram account to log into the Threads site. Your Instagram account IS your Threads account.
I am not deeply attached to my Instagram; I mostly use it to lurk, and I have an alt. If I have to delete the whole thing down the line, I will. Don’t get on Threads without considering that.
It's worse than that. The poor people probably don't even register in the equation at all (and if they did it was probably just on an actuarial level). They reasoned that the real estate value of the buildings was lower than the cost involved in renovating to protect them (the buildings). This isn't fat cat villains twirling their mustaches, this is the operative logic of capital at work. Which is worse!
FYI there is a GoFundMe that's active right now to help give aid to the indigenous farmworkers who live there:
What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030
Reblog to help forward the cause of science or something, honestly I'm just curious to know how old everyone is.
oh. Oh no. You're all babies.
Come on fellow middle-agers
call me half life scientist the way i'm fascinated by those peculiar markings
now what is all this.
his cousin ^
the penice family line...
Peculiar markings
seeing everyone just mindlessly sign up for threads despite all the clear warning signs feels like I’m living in Sailor Moon or a magical girl anime episode where the Monster of the Day just set up shop over night and their product is literally draining your lifeforce for the Dark Kingdom but people keep going there