Midromiel

Gosh I hate grind culture. My little sister just started medical school and all of her orientation leaders are like “you absolutely cannot have a life WHATsoever you WILL have to give up EVERYTHING besides this program say GOODBYE to your hobbies and relationships” and now she’s calling me feeling guilty for running and going to the grocery store and that’s just WRONG! And that is exactly what I was told starting law school as well, and rejecting that mentality was the best thing I ever did but it was so hard not to buy into. Anyway if any of you are in an intense academic program PLEASE take time to sleep and eat and exercise and maintain your relationships and keep up your hobbies! you are not a robot who exists solely to study and I promise that living a life and staying physically and mentally healthy is not going to make you fail

Workaholism is not just a “millennial quirk”, it’s a very real psychological problem that should not be normalized and praised. Diligence and self-realization? Awesome!!! Working so much you forget to eat, sleep and socialize? Not okay under any circumstances.

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

When Russia sends you nudes

#what the fuck happened here

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

reblog it, because Russia can´t

Thanks Obama 

Wtf

When Russia makes this post illegal

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now

What the-

I haven’t seen this in about 4 years. I’m glad it’s back.

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

They are feeling more empowered so keep a watchful eye on who is around you.

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These funds buy vehicles for the evacuation of the wounded, thermal imagers, body armor and everything else our defenders need to survive.

Why you should NOT donate to the Red Cross

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I found someone special on my walk 💚 My first one, during my birth month too!

For luck because I need it right now

trans rights are human rights dammit!!!!!

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

bonus it ALSO fills that dopamine hit of in-person shopping. “oh I didn’t go in looking for this but hmm, I’m tempted… I can’t resist… oh ho ho I have made some irresponsible decisions at the library today [carrying my stack of ten random books]” and then it doesn’t even matter if you don’t like them because a) free b) you’re gonna give them back anyway

Librarian here! Please please please please PLEASE do this! We don’t have any way to know if you read them, and we don’t care! We’re happy to see those books go out because that helps our stats. And that affects how much money we can get.

So grab that silly paperback romance, and maybe this new YA fantasy, oh and check for the new movies too! And don’t forget to check Libby and hoopla for music and ebooks and e-audio.

I am not taking a risk

Not risking it pals

U know what I want potato of luck

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

I'm not risking anything after the week I've had

I won't ignore...

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

Holy shit

Just in time for Valentine’s Day... 💔 

Ready to break up with Google?

So are we!

We’ve rounded up a bunch of privacy-centric alternatives for everything Google.

Check out the full list over on the blog!

- The Ellipsus Team xo

there's an everpresent misconception that not only do you NEED dysphoria to be trans, but that dysphoria is this constant, everpresent, obvious thing that you can't possibly miss. Both are wrong. Not only do you not need dysphoria, but dysphoria can be far more subtle. it can blend into the background of your life like a mains hum, always there but never perceptible. Especially when it creeps up slow and never gets too intense. That mild discomfort, that feel of your own ugliness despite everyone else complimenting your looks? That's a form of dysphoria. Think of it like the parable of the frog in a pot of water. You might be the frog in the pot that slowly warms up, never noticing the ever growing dysphoric feelings even as your body genderizes wrong. that's how it was for us. Our dysphoria was subtle. So subtle that we didn't realize it was anything unusual, that it wasn't just us being 'weird'. We thought it was just part of who we were, and transitioned anyway when we realized you don't need dysphoria to be trans, you just need to want to transition. To believe you'd be better off as another gender. You might even discover you had dysphoria all along like we did. You might not. Doesn't make you any less trans, any less valid, than someone with he most intense dysphoria. As an addendum, it's also worth noting that not all dysphorias are gender dysphoria.

My gif-making skills are rusty, but I MADE A THING 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever

i think it’s partially because, especially in today’s algorithm-heavy world, “tailor-made-for-you content” is something you’ve already filled the niche of? i mean, i love lord of the rings, so a lot of people think i’ll really like game of thrones, but i’ve already got lotr filling that niche of fantasy/adventure. i love learning about sharks, so a lot of people think i’ll really like jellyfish too, but i’ve already got sharks filling the niche of animal biology. things you see in passing, though, are more likely to stand out when they’re not filling a niche. catching glimpse of a random movie poster will pique your interest more than forcing yourself to sit down with a movie someone told you to watch because they know you like a similar movie. as nice as that recommended movie might be, it’s not coming around authentically and i feel like sometimes, your brain goes “eh, my past hyperfixation is better” and just moves on without any impression.

Beautiful Street Art in Hollywood. Walk of shame. By the way .....FUCK DONALD TRUMP!

I wonder the price of replacement of the star.

Remember when people kept pissing on it?

You have to pay to put your star on the walk of fame. I believe you have to pay for replacements too.

yes- reminder its not an award of any prestege the requirements are someone nominates you and you shell out for the spot literally anyone who can do those two things can be on the walk of fame, its not something you earn or get voted onto the only merit is ‘i have cash and an ego’

its not something you earn or get voted onto the only merit is ‘i have cash and an ego’ 

I was not aware of this cringiest of facts.

it’s been two years, but i think that an icon like her deserves to be known about by more people.

her name was freddie oversteegen and she, at the age of fourteen, along with her older sister truus who was 16 and their friend johanna “hannie” schaft who was 19, was a part of the netherlands most famous all female resistance cell which was dedicated to fighting the nazis and dutch traitors.

among other things, they are known to have blown up bridges and railroads, smuggled jewish children from concentration camps and, as the tweet mentions, seducing nazis and then shooting them with guns that they had hidden in their bike baskets. freddie is quoted as having said that they “had to do it.” and that it was a “necessary evil, killing those who betrayed good people.”

though freddie and her sister truus were both lucky and survived the war, hannie schaft wasn’t. at the age of 24, hannie was caught and around three weeks later was executed by nazis, only 18 days before the netherlands were eventually liberated. she was shot with one only wounding her, and, before the final shot, hannie is quoted as having told the executioners: ik schiet beter, which translates to “i shoot better.”

though she didn’t survive, hannie is recognized as a national icon and a face of the dutch resistance, with her story even being retold in a movie from 1981 called “the girl with the red hair.” along with this, truus also founded the national hannie schaft foundation in 1992, on which freddie served as a board member.

freddie, at the time of her death, was 92 years old and the last surviving member of the resistance cell, with truus having died two years earlier at the age of 92.

though these women and all that they did played an important part in the dutch resistance, they are often overlooked in history outside of the netherlands. it’s important that they are remembered and that their work to save people isn’t forgotten. it’s incredible what they did, especially given how young they were, and they deserve more recognition than what they’ve gotten.

“I shoot better” Holy shit an icon

In 1967 Truus was recognized as “righteous among the nations”, a title given to non-Jews who risked their life to save Jews during the Holocaust.