Person with migraine aura today: Ow ow ow my head hurts and all I can see is TV static :(

Nineteenth century doctors describing migraine aura with the manic horror of a lovecraftian horror protagonist:

At first it looked just like the spot which you see after having looked at the sun or some bright object; I thought it might be an eyelash in the way, or something of that sort, but I was soon undeceived when it began to increase…

When it was in its height it seemed like a fortified town with bastions all round it, these bastions being coloured most gorgeously... All the interior of the fortification, so to speak, was boiling and rolling about in a most wonderful manner as if it was some thick liquid all alive. (Hubert Airy, 1856)

This is infuriating because every doctor who has ever described migraine auras to me has done such an abysmal job I genuinely thought something else was going on. it took me years to get properly diagnosed.

If someone had shown me THIS!!!!!

literally just the one on the left! exactly that!!!

this network sure can effect!

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 💀

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

Genuine People Personalities are Always A Mistake.

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

Underrated JRPG feature is when one party member uses some non-weapon object as a weapon, but you still upgrade your stats by buying weapons, so now every weapon shop in the world needs to carry parasols of increasing lethality

This post inspired by how Genis in Tales of Symphonia canonically uses a ball and cup toy (kendama) because he's a kid

But because everyone in the game also gets an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ancient Weapon, the game has to find a way to make an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ball and Cup Toy. You know. For evil children.

they should’ve never let me learn how to rom hack

Today I developed a newfound appreciation for the elliptical

PIDGE IF YOU SEE THIS WE NEED TO GET TWO TWIN ELLIPTICAL AND PUT THEM NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND DO THIS FOR REASONS.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…

my gods

I might actually exercise like a normal person

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.

(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)

A MUCH more accurate list of Tumblr faves over the years

At work there used to be a sign on a few things that would say like "if this bubbles, run for your life" and "if you hear thumping run for cover" and "bears can and will kill you" and really in general I wish the park service was more willing to say "you are not at home, you are not at disneyland, you can die here and you can die so badly your family will have to bury an empty casket because no one will risk their own life to collect your idiot corpse."

Okay so I'm a security guard, right

And part of why I like my job is cause I'm pretty good at deescalating conflicts without violence or police involvement

And that *might* be because my primary coping mechanism for stress is humor, and if the guy in the uniform isn't stressed out, usually nobody else is either

But anyhow today I witnessed a crime, which 911 had already been called for

And I'm telling the guy, you know, as he's running away, that nobody's gonna touch him, we don't do that here, I don't have any weapons and he can totally walk on out if he wants to

And he gives me this 'go-fuck-yourself" type answer, right? As you do

And I fucking

I fucking. Start danCING

I DONT KNOW WHY

I WAS JUST LIKE "aight guess I'll go fuck myself then, cheerio" AND START FUCKING DANCING

LIKE MY BRAIN WAS LIKE "Cool not being attacked, gotta keep the witnessed calm, gotta stay chill and breezy" AND THE PHYSICAL RESPONSE FOR THAT WAS TO SYART DOING THIS SASSY FUCKING JIG

I DIDNT EVEN REALIZR I WAS FDOUNG IT UNTIL SOMEONE POIU TED IT OUT AFTER

and it all ended fine and the dude is in custody and I get a call from my boss like "Yeah we're gonna need to send footage to police"

AND

FUCKING

THIS IS GOING TO BE SHOWN IN COURT SOMEWHERE

IM DOUNG A SRUPID LITTLE DANCE ON CAMERA AS THIS GUY LOSES HIS MIND AND ITS GONNA BE ON COURT SOMEWHERW

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING IVE WVER DONE

I HATE MYSELFD

The Panic Dance - Ghost Trick (2010)

FUCK

Today is the day I'm finally going to watch episode 2 of the star trek porn

My girl Uhura got a new hair cut

I fucking love the dialogue man

oh my god even the environmental set? girl the budget

This actually feels more high budget than the first one, incredible. I guess the first one was a critical success

Spock and Bones trapped in a prison togther....I've read fanfics about this....and now they're bickering....

they're going to interrogate them for "information"

way to throw spock under the bus bones! ughh

Bones all sad in the corner of the jail cell while the butterfly aliens interrogate Spock

not him going "fascinating" as they're sucking his dick??? literally totally ignoring them and just looking at their butterfly wings 😭😭😭

Bones is just gloomily sitting there and frowning in a corner watching them fuck? this is so sad

somebody come save bones please he's in a porn and he didn't even get to do any fucking

Chekov and Sulu!!!! Love that Chekov is doing the russian accent but why is Sulu british 😭

Chekov and Sulu caught Scotty having sex with Uhura instead of manning the transporter room. I can feel the silent judgement from their faces

Scotty was too busy thinking about sex and THATS why he sent Sulu and Chekov to the Oval office instead of the planet???😭 girl the plot??

well I guess it's now JFK and Marilyn Monroe porn

Sulu and Chekov are just hiding in the closet watching JFK and Marilyn fuck

CHEKOV YOU BITCH DONT MESS WITH THE TIMELINE!!!! he's going to tell JFK he's going to get shot omfg CHekov dont do it!!!! you're going to change history NOOOOO

alien queen lady is very enamored with Kirk and wants to make him a king to rule with her and conquer the galaxy together

ahh Kirk fucked her to get the launch codes to her rockets that makes so much sense. And now he's using the alien communicator (a silver dildo) to tell them to disarm and release the prisoners. what a tried and true star trek plot

and they're back on the ship trek happy ending yayyyyy

oh my fucking god?? The timeline got fixed because JFK did get shot in the head but just not by a sniper, Jackie caught him fucking Marilyn and shot JFK in the head?? 😭😭😭😭

this is so fucking funny

HELLO?? this is a PORN why is the dialogue SO fucking GOOD nothing as star trek as trying to shove the president of America into an episode

Well at least it wasn't Abraham Lincoln this time.

at last, the umineko nekomimi→furry redesign master post! shout out to the 5 people in the tags who really wanted to see more, here you go!!