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@amethyst-halo / amethyst-halo.tumblr.com

sketch/autumn - they/she - play owlboy

*makes a pinned post*

tinysketchii -> pudd1eshine -> amethyst-halo

sketch/autumn - they/she - 24 - neurodivergent and disabled

world's worst at replying to things i prolly won't see dms sorry aksjdjk i do see replies and asks most of the time though

i have ocd and talk abt it but i try to tag it as "sketch is ocd posting" so u can block if u need!!!

current focus is the trolls movies! here's a post with my au list

  • u are free to use my fanart as an icon with credit!
  • pls ask before using my art in videos/edits/etc!
  • pls do not repost my art!

other blogs u might see that i run: @bloomback-slink - my flight rising blog @kestrel-jadegiver - my wizard101 blog @tinyswitchii - my switch clips blog

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Making a new donation post, as my old one has stopped getting any notes.

Thanks to the generosity of two people who donated on my previous post, I currently have a grand total of $2.84 in my bank account after being rescued from having a large amount of money in the negatives.

I have a 15 dollar bill coming in at midnight that will take me back under and incur a $35 overdraft fee from my bank. I am disabled with zero income, and do not have another Dogsitting job to keep me afloat until May. Please, if anyone can help me cover this bill and maybe get some food and deodorant if I have extra, I will be forever in your debt.

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

actually a coworker of mine said something interesting about this. I was saying that I truly can’t help how easily I cry, and I hate when people assume I do it on purpose.

and he paused for a second and then said, “when you’ve been taught from a young age that crying is weak and you should train yourself never to cry for any reason, you assume that everyone else has trained themselves too, so anyone who cries has to be doing it on purpose. it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t true.”

listen we’re never gonna run out of ways the patriarchy hurts all of us.

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.

This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉

More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.

When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:

Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.

Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:

Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:

And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.

After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.

Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"

Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.

Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((

Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀

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