The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924
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whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible
happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate
The Rings of Saturn - July 30th, 1995.
“Saturn’s spectacular system of bright rings has been the subject of study and wonder since Galileo first turned his telescope on the ringed planet in 1610. To Galileo, the blurry image produced by his small telescope was confusing. Saturn appeared to him to have “ear-like” appendages which he thought might be large moons. Eventually, larger telescopes revealed the incredible truth - Saturn was surrounded by bright rings. The image above, made by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, further reveals the intricate structure of the ring system. The image has been computer enhanced and color-coded to bring out the subtle details.”
recently discovered my chickens consider me their bodyguard. if they’re screaming about something moving in the weeds, they wait for me to come out, quiet down, and then cluck until I go over to the offending area and look around it to reassure them there’s nothing in there. once I do that, they’re cool as cucumbers
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oh this is evil
What is that?
discord is adding parental surveillance. as nerdskii's tags pointed out its a ridiculous measure that doesnt help anyone because apps like Signal exist for actual illegal/sketchy activity and this just hurts lgbt teens looking for somewhere to be themselves and have resources especially with conservative parents
I use android. this is my secure folder, which was built into my phone. it has a customize option, so I've made it look like some bland fitness app. when you open it, it asks you to enter a password or unlock it in any other way you've set it to unlock before it lets you in
inside of this folder is like a 2nd phone almost, I can hide apps in here or have different accounts on apps I've already installed. I have a separate discord and tumblr inside of my secure folder (which I moved this blog to recently)
there are similar third party apps, usually disguised as a calculator that you set a certain number or calculation as the password to unlock. that's a lot more inconspicuous if opened, but also more well known, and parents might be looking out for any suspicious calculator apps
also, be careful what 3rd party apps you download, especially when it's concerning things like your accounts and data! make sure you're downloading something safe and secure
this isn't foolproof, depending on how far your parents are going to track you. if they've installed anything or had you install anything on your phone or computer, or had the chance while you weren't there, be careful for spyware. some apps report how long you look at each app, or can record sound from your phone on demand
also important: a good VPN can secure what you're looking at from the router, which parents may be able to access information from, but this also isn't guaranteed to work if the parental controls are set to block VPNs
another one, if your parents are tracking your location but not your app usage: download a GPS spoofer. you don't necessarily need to root your phone for this, as long as it's supported in developer settings. a lot of them are branded as tools for pokemon go, which can be helpful for plausible deniability
parents reading this: these are things I've learned from constantly having my shit taken and looked through as a teen. you aren't protecting your kids, you're ruining any chance of them trusting you with anything. if something goes wrong, you're going to be the last person they tell, because someone who goes to these lengths to see any little thing isn't going to be chill when something actually bad happens if this is how you act when literally nothing is happening
HOW TO HELP MAKE GOOD OMENS SEASON 3
(it needs to be greenlit by Amazon)
- rewatch S2 over and over (from start to end, have it playing in the background, it especially counts in the first 14/28 days)
- introduce new people to Good Omens, have them watching S1+S2
- write to Amazon that you want S3 and for them to negotiate with writers and actors on strike
Brother just came back from GalaxyCon with THIS: from the hands of Terry matalas himself, offered bc brother said if be jealous since I couldn't be there!
Gonna frame it and hang it on my nerd wall like they're beloved ancestors or something.
Love how when I look up "discernment" I get a bunch of Christian sites lol what the fresh fuck.
Google, so if anyone knows of any better ones that are, you know, actually committed to ethical info distribution, please let me know.
I looked for "discernment spirituality" on DuckDuckGo and ALSO came up with a bunch of Christian shit...
But to be frank I'm not sure if DuckDuckGo is more ethical. I use it for its privacy
Tbh, I'm sure none of them are because of how absurd money has gotten in the business-to-business tech sector.
Search engines are free because they sell data. At least, I assume they do. This is a disgusting practice to begin with, but now it's gotten to the point where they HAVE to do this in order to offer a free digital platform to the population that's actually large and well-maintained.
Search engines are getting extra junky though because of SEO practices, which is just a fancy way of saying "cheating the search engines, but making a business out of it."
(Unrelated to search engines but related to economics: I'm thinking the reason why no one's got any damn money anymore is because the data-market is siphoning it all into off-shores accounts in TROVES per second.
It's a trickle-up economy, and I'm fucking worried.)
Have you tried marginalia search? It's an odd search engine but extremely good at finding lost internet content and digitised archives!
I got 1890s lace patterns from it, surely you can find interesting stuff as well
Reblogging this for the enrichment that is intrigue.
Solitude
Great Plains, Nebraska
photo Andrew Moore
Absolutely Not.
Agoraphobia
I’m not agoraphobic. I just hate Nebraska.
I’m not either but that pictures just… Inspires it…
You and I have very different experiences of this, I think.
Because I hate it. I hate going back to that entire region. Every time I have to even so much as pass through, it’s torture. Hell, for me, is that place.
But I miss it, too. I want to stand out there and see nothing and nobody for hundreds of miles. I want to look out on the stubbled fields where there was once wheat, or soy, or corn, in the dead of winter. I want to see that lone tree that some farmer decided should still stand there, for no apparent reason but to let you see how empty the rest of it is.
I want to spend hours walking along those painfully straight dirt roads - one mile West, one mile South, one mile back East - under a merciless blue sky that’s half the world. Nothing but ground and a sky that will swallow up every dream you ever had and give nothing at all back.
I do want to stand there, outside of town, where you can feel a wind that started 500 miles away and will go another 500 before it meets anything it gives a damn about at all.
But I hate it too, and I don’t want to ever even think about going back, or seeing those places again.
That sounds absolutely horrid, thank you, I hate it.
I'm very much a creature of vertical landscape; Florida was way too flat, even with the skyscrapers and palm trees, and Raleigh is only a little better. I want mountains, at least to one side of me, and if there's that damn much sky it better be over ocean.
