propalitet:

propalitet:

propalitet:

I feel sorry for children because they never had the experience of playing games or watching things for free. It’s why I think a lot of them don’t hate ads as much as people older then them do, they just accepted them as a necessary part of their reality and deal with it because the ads have always been there for them.

When I was 14 and started using wattpad it was still a shitty little fanficiton app and everything on that app was free. E v e r y t h i n g.

You only needed an account and you could download countless books and read them offline whenever you wanted. You could write offline and publish and edit whatever and whenever you wanted. There were no ads, no premium no money involved what so ever. It was the reason why I used it, I used to download (well save to my library) 200 fanfics before my summer vacation because I knew I wouldn’t have internet and I wanted to entertain myself, I wrote 7 books and published them for fun because I could write and save while offline and then publish them later if I wanted.

When I opened wattpad after a few years I was first met with “upgrade to premium to download and read unlimited books” and then I was met with an ad in between chapters. I didn’t continue I deleted my account and haven’t even wanted to download it again.

What capitalism and consumerism did in the last few years has had an affect on everything in such a way that cannot be explained unless you’ve seen the before. Because now you have these platforms crying and begging you not to use an ad blocker, but that means nothing to me because I know they can function without ads, because I’ve seen and experienced it. Which is why I do not understand people who pay for these things, but if I grew up in an environment where all of these things were already this obsessed with getting money maybe I wouldn’t complain either.

Tldr. children do not have spaces anymore where they’re not bombarded with ads and it’s sad because they were born into this.

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teaboot:

thememedaddy:

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

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wealdgirl:

let’s chew cud with mama

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punkiefart:

depsidase:

Leaf your leaves on the ground (no, seriously.) They provide so much for bugs, places to lay eggs places to hibernate. This comic does a great job at showing WHY we don’t see our little friends as often, because our systems and social expectations are anti-earth and anti-life. Don’t eradicate your friends (maybe just that one) let the leaves lay

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venusologist:

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woodentempest:

bestgirlsystem:

hallaking99:

also if u press the “esc” (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it won’t load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)

sallyyates:

Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said “no free articles” into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

100% TRUE

feelingbluepolitics:

If the site is particularly badly designed, you might just be able to delete the overlay itself. Right click > Inspect element and delete the line of HTML (it’ll be highlighted automatically)

hey kids there is a website called outline.com that will let you read from pretty much any news site with a paywall for free

outline.com is amazing - it hasn’t failed yet on any site that I’ve tried it on.

There’s a chrome extension and firefox extension.

All of these resources are incredible but don’t forget how fucked it is that we have to do this.

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mackthecheese:

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a-really-hot-caterpillar:

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is “if you can’t go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn’t in you, it’s in the last sentence.” and I’m mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you’re stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You’re stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it’s unreal

I don’t remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, “if you’re stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there”. It’s not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I’ve actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.

I recently resolved a point where I’d been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn’t work into the current one

HEY WRITER MUTUALS COME GET YOUR WRITER JUICE

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walks-the-ages:

AFP warns parents over rise in AI-generated child abuse material | Australian Federal Police

The AFP is urging parents and carers to have open and non-judgemental conversations with their children about the dangers and harms caused b

afp.gov.au

If you need another reason to hate generative AI and to never feed your families photos into it ..

socialistexan:

socialistexan:

Uhhhhhhhh that seems bad

RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

cbsnews.com

HELLO

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jeans-marrow:

Can we give it up for the one and only, Yasmin Benoit

As we were saying, you can’t fight aphobia without fighting terfs.

Her first response to JK + The Tweet under the cut

Keep reading

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