#but mostly just That's Not Internet Safe

[somecunttookmyurl]

the internet is not more dangerous now than it was in 1999 because "gore and porn" or whatever. if anything there's less of it now (at least, less of it cropping up randomly. much of the mainstream internet is far more sanitised bc Will Nobody Think Of The Advertisers)

parental controls / restricting access has never worked and never will fucking work because there are ways around literally everything - and kids will find them. kids worked their way around it in the early 00s when it was harder and more techy to do that i promise they can do it now actually - or like.......... literally other kids will just show them stuff. this may shock some among us, but kids share things in fact. if everyone in class except little timmy has an ipad do you think little timmy is staying off of the internet outside of the home? please.

the actual issue is the fact that at some point we stopped giving a shit about internet safety and privacy. i'm gonna say it that's mostly the fault of facebook normalising putting your shit out there but i digress. it's easier to groom and manipulate people - kids and adults - online than ever before because people simply stopped caring about not being an idiot online

#should a 6 year old have an ipad and the ability to be online 24/7? #i mean no there's like. no reason they need that they're 6 #but i had internet at home from the age of 7 back in the 90s #i also had internet safety #milennials: the generation around at Just The Right Time to actually use the internet properly #older people mostly at large in general just didn't really get it #then after us the internet became so normal we stopped teaching kids how to use it safely for. reasons??? idk #i literally had internet safety classes in school and now kids have carrds or whatever the fuck

[publicuniversalenemy]

it was gonna be a weird night regardless but hot damn. that was a Night for Sure

#basicaly i got tickets for a lil pre-halloween misfits tribute show bc yippe! fun yk? #as i dicovered a couple days after i made that purcahse #the venue was the fucking hard rock cafe #which couldnt be More Lame tbh but yk? #i already had the ticket and it would get me outta the house at least right? #so i was planning to have a silly lil tropical margarita just to make danzig roll in his future grave #but uhhhhh. plans Changed <3 #basically iiiii ended up drunksitting n drinking a mediocre strawberry lemonade instead #imm not gonna put all her shit Out Here on the internet even tho there is a less-than-zero percent chance that it could be connected to her #but yeah she now has the honor of being easily the most intoxicated (n still mostly conscious/functional) person ive ever been around #like hey it was nice to have a distraction from feeling Very Out Of Place #but i woulda Preferred that to not have stemmed from the 'oh holy shit this person is vulnerable i gotta Keep Them Safe' instinct #girl i hope you got home safe fr <3 #anwyas. i go sleep now bai!!! #whatever the fuck #alcohol /

[radicalrobotz]

btw i dont think i talked abt it much but the other name i was considering going by was ethan. idk lol

#theres been very little names i feel any connection to its a miracle i ever settled on lou but i think that was just pure chance #ethan came in similar terms so ig it would explain why it stuck in my head a while #tho i never like. tried it out cuz ive been called lou for so long itd feel weird and i dont Not like being called lou still #and i feel like ppl are more used to callin me lou n e way #maybe lou can just be my online name mostly or middle i dunnoo #it technically was an online name until i figured out the gender thing sort of #and didnt rlly come up w a new one cuz the internets the only place where i can. yknow be a guy #and lou feels like a safe could-be-either name right #i dunno i think im rambling a little #oh right yeah and i thought of ethan bc of my fcking pokemon fixation dskjhkghkj

[ryderdire]

thinking about that one time I posted about going to an rally organized by STUDENTS at my shcool. In support of Pro-Choice stuff, out of all the werid anti life retrotic that got thrown around in my notes and the notes going “uhuh r/thathappened” comments what discouraged me the most where the notes going off on me about how I didn’t do “enough” and how it hardly mattered and wasn’t going to change anything. And what that says about how the internet views it.

Looking back I remember feeling so ashamed of myself that I even brought it up or that I wasn’ t doing “more” and how it made me not want to get involved again because the only ways i could where small and “didn’t matter “ because of an situation out of my control that I was (AND STILL AM IN BY THE WAY) in. How people thought it was appropriate to chastise me for not doing enough because of that.

Oh and by the way when I made that post I was 16. So yeah great job guys /sarcasm

#And then because of that I turned down several oppturinties to get Involved again. #I mean there’s other reassons. My parents are still werid about that stuff and it would mean risking having to deal with their bullshit. #It would’ve meant putting myself at risk at either lying to my parents forever or dealing with their abuse for no reason #fuck everyone who came to my personal post about that and got mad at me for not doing enough fuck off I was 16 #okay to rb #honestly I think that’s there’s a discussion here about how we treat young people trying to get involved in actvism but I’m pissed off righ #now and also sleepy as all hell so not now #my situation has improved greatly since then but part of that was because I got so good at not rocking the boat as they say #I’m safe and stuff dw but at the time I just didn’t know for sure if I was? kinda ? like. my parents might have gotten upset #and cut off all internet access and friendship access if they decided I was to rebellious so you know #now that’s just straight up not an issue (mostly because I was almost never rebellious) #and am now 18 therefore theve chilled because it would look bad if they didn’t #this is kinda a bunch of jumbled together thoughts #I might expand or like make a better post later #the first draft of this was unreadable my bad It’s late and I didn’t sleep last night

[chainreh]

btw i bought the cd for cover tracks vol. 8 and id be willing to share the google drive folder with the mp3s over dm/discord

#d4dj #tbh i mostly got it bc i wanted the internet overdose cover lol #ik i don't have many digglers following me but id figure id throw it out there #(over dm just to be safe)

[oatbugs]

past 5 days. hmm

#spent it all w my gf. it was nice :) #we did the margiela shirt kiss pattern on her ysl shirt . spent like a significant amt of this time kissing her #literally @ppl w vertical labrets w chains attached. do u know the power u hold. also a bunch of other stuff happened i dont wanna #share too much bc theyre nice private moments but anyway we r both like. dying a bit bc #im leaving in less than 1 week and i may just literally never come back bc of the political situation there #like you have to accept risk of. death. etc. and i literally had to tell her to like not say she loves me not be affectionate etc until #over text until i explicitly tell her to bc ik its safe since im going somewhere where gay ppl are killed for the funsies #but theres a chance i wont get to tell her that at all and also that i will have such horrible Internet #connection that i wont be able to talk to her for a while. anyway we needed to have this convo bc i didnt want her to like #be unaware of certain things bc that would be unfair but also i didnt want her to worry which i think #shes very worried but mostly its like. why now of all times in the world this is so unfair #like i feel like not seeing nor talking much for a month or so is bound to not be very good for us . idk im worried #anyway the past few days were good #[chroma blue]

[girlvinland]

Does anyone else feel just completely overwhelmed sometimes bc of just. How much information we take in every day? Like esp on the internet and having so much access to phone/computer/etc. Recently I feel like it’s just been so much it makes me feel extremely stressed out just, there’s so much social media where people are talking 24/7 and getting enraged and having discourse and then there’s so much news and most of it’s negative and just so much so much of everything I feel like I’m losing my mind sometimes.

#by bug #idk it’s never really affected me as bad as it has lately #it’s just the sheer amount of ‘content’ and talking and ads and just. everything it feels sometimes like you can’t escape it #I don’t know it’s just really stressing me out tonight for some reason #🥲 #i feel like I really need a break from social media (like outside of tumblr tbh bc tumblr is kind of my safe haven) #i greatly decreased the amount of social media I use but it’s STILL overwhelming #I cut out IG #wasn’t on Twitter got one to like art but I check it like once a week #have FB mostly for family #I use YT as tv basically but idk maybe I shouldn’t #this is the only place I really am active bc I like it but the ads are getting annoying too #sometimes discord feels like a lot too #bc there are so many servers and I mute them but just watching the notifs pile up is like #😫 #idk man I’m just tired #i miss when the internet wasn’t 100% capitalism and outrage at all times #I think I used to enjoy it more when it was more about actually connecting to others and less about trying to sell us product #or making us paranoid over shit #how can anyone stay positive and healthy surrounded by it so much

[13eyond13]

Good luck with the hurricane op! o7

I hope this actually posts, or doesnt post twice (because I have been trying and failing to answer you) but thank you so much 😘😘😘 I am safe but the neighbourhood is in shambles and the storm is still raging and the power is still out... my phone will probably die after today but I'll try to post again when I can

#thats my back yard #so many big beautiful trees laid to waste #sometimes falling on houses fences and cars #luckily ours fell as safely as they could have #there was a firetruck parked down the road just a minute ago #luckily everyone i know in it has checked in as safe so far #and im in an ok place with good support and shelter #its mostly the things like no electricity or internet or safe driving or the damage happening thats been bad #p

[gingerbreadmonsters]

[eyes narrow]

#i have a..... thing.... about fanworks being referred to as 'content' #which i've talked about here before but not extensively #i worry that calling fanworks 'content' comes at the cost of appreciating those works for what they actually are #(i.e. labours of love - the passionate creations of individuals made for the purpose of expressing love for an idea) #instead the term 'content' suggests a certain flattening of that experience - ignorance of the effort and dedication that they require #and a pushing aside of the joy that fanworks contain - in favour of a faceless assembly line of dopamine for a distant audience #it's why i try to never refer to fanworks as 'content' - or to the people who make them as 'content creators' #i feel that it's somewhat disrespectful #obviously that is a personal opinion and you are by no means obligated to agree or to do the same #but..... hmm. #as someone who writes fanfiction on the internet #and who pours quite a significant amount of time and energy and emotion and effort and sometimes money into it #i would like to think that the things that i have made are more than just the reconstituted pulp that 'content' suggests #i would like to think that the things i make are more than the sum of their parts - that they are more than just text on a screen to you #that the joy and life and passion that i give in them - the excitement and the hurt and the rawness - come across in some way #that they are still there and can be recognised for what they are - love #this is a mostly meaningless spiel that you are welcome to ignore #but that being said i would encourage you to think more carefully and critically about how you approach the word 'content' #i think it is more telling than you realise #love you all and stay safe out there 💕💕 #ginger rambles

[king-sassy08]

Google search queer summer wedding outfits

[Skinny white lesbian in a suit saying 'my friend who is nb said I look good']

[Skinny white person w beard in a skirt]

[Skinny white person w nail polish]

[Token skinny black person in a suit]

Where are the fat people and where are the brown people and WHY is everyone in six layers for a summer wedding

#jay jabbers #just SO krunk ab only skinny people and esp skinny WHITE people being the concievable vision of nb or gender conforming or #'indescribable gender' #like. the internet glorifies anglos as the beauty standard and skinny esp??? #im not saying theyre EVIL or anything so dont get that from this #im SAYING that the way social media and internet capitalism consumerism etc is evil because #they purpisely force THESE folks into the spotlight like LOOK GAZE UPON THEM THESE ARE WHAT U SHOULD LOOK LIKE!!! #like. not enough representation i guess. cause i sure as shit dont feel represented by a middle class white person who faces significantly #less discrimination than i do solely based on the color of their skin no matter how conservative the area is #like??? theres a dude in the klan here whose brother is gay. HES SAFE #but im brown. so im automatically in the sus list. #idk #!!! #jay fucking rambles i guess #nb #queer #nonbinary #mostly #fashion

[ruckis--rookie]

Anyway a FB group rejected me and I’m finna complain about it.  Wasn’t going to originally but I literally cannot access the supposed comment they left on one of my posts so I can’t even begin to tell what’s wrong or justify what it is I posted??? Mainly went back to look cuz I don’t want any accusations put on me BUT! sigh.

I say that cuz I looked at the reason they rejected my request and it was “did not accept community guildines” so I looked through the guidelines.  Guess what!  Nothing I’ve posted goes against the guidelines and as far as I know there was no “I accept these terms button” sooo??? wtf

the reason I know nothing I posted goes against the guidelines is cuz I scrolled back through every single one of my posts. not even a joke. to see if I could spot the comment.  If groups can somehow block you that sucks cuz I mean. It did say the comment was made for hours ago from when I saw it, but at the same time I’m not hunched over FB 24/7 and I can’t even access the comment through settings and there’s nothing on it that would be preventing me from seeing said comment I think :/ Can an entire FB group block you?  Idk how FB works maybe they just deleted it.

anyways don’t do drugs unless they’re prescribed kids, stay off facebook unless you need to call your mom or other family member over the age of 35

#ruckis rants #until further notice private FB Group of 100k+ members“That Sir Is a Frog” is hax. #if this is about me quote on quote handling a frog wrong in one of my photos thats bs #cuz most of the lil shits I took pictures of were rescues and were well in the way of a bigger danger than my human hands #that and I was not holdeng them wrong I was holding them in a way they didn't hop out of my hands #just long enough for me to put them somewhere safe #so that they dont. oh you know. take a four foot plunge face first into the ground which would hurt them more #frogs arent the most graceful hoppers #my own gf can attest to me being extra careful with small animals bcuz I dont wanna hurt em #she has straight up seen me shaking a bit after I put them down simply cuz I was worried about them #at the same time some mfs seem to think their bones are made out of leaf paper. ya'll wtf #they're frogs not gnats #the person who is scared of handling small animals for more than a minute #has more of a grasp than you on just how much a frog can take #ruckis rants ruckis rants #ough ough ough I'm angry can you tell #mostly due to the fact that I can't see what they're accusing me of doing wrong #I really want to say some not so family friendly things but the internet aint the place for that

[neganium]

augh I tried to draw earlier but wasn't really feeling it? now suddenly after I've already closed the program so that I could maybe play a game for a bit the urge to draw is back. I might even want to do some studies, however that works; what the actual hell??

#it is so ANNOYING #I Do really want to get better at certain things tho. desperately want my blorbos to look how I actually want them to #when putting them to paper (or whatever I'm drawing in/on) #also the anxiety over interacting with a specific stranger on the internet has kicked back in super hard #there are certain things that I don't actually mind that much if people do them; if they meet some certain criteria: #1) don't be a creep about it (pretty broad definition but I'm mostly talking about people who still crush on child/teen characters- #as a grown-ass adult) #2) do it Away From Me (very easy to facilitate this one honestly; one can kind of just block blogs if they make them uncomfortable- #I mean honestly I've blocked perfectly innocuous blogs for things as simple as takes I disagree with #or for just. Annoying Me. not even directly either; sometimes I just find people annoying and That Is Okay) #not everything is like. a moral/ethical judgement and I can get past things as long as I very deliberately ignore it #most people have sideblogs or whatever for these kinds of things anyways; so it's neater and easier to categorize squicks and shit #the thing is. I don't always know if it is something innocuous or Not without asking directly. and that's generally seen as Rude lmao #it's kind of agonizing trying to determine whether a person is doing something that makes me uncomfy but can (probably) safely ignore #or if they're actually genuinely into gross and heinous shit lmao

[niennanir]

Listen to your elders

So last week I posted abut the importance of downloading your fic. And then three days later AO3 went down for 24 hours. No one was more weirded out by this than I was. But while y’all were acting like the library at Alexandria was on fire I was reading my download fic and editing chapter eight of Buck, Rogers, and the 21st Century. And also thinking about what I could do to be helpful when the crisis was actually over.

So first off, I’m going to repeat that if you’re going to bookmark a fic, you really need to also download the fic and back it up in a safe place. I just do it automatically now and it’s a good habit to get into.

But let’s talk about some other scenarios. Last October I lost power for over a week after hurricane Ian. Apart from not having internet or A/C I did find plenty to do, I collect books so I had plenty to read, but maybe, unlike me, your favorite comfort reads aren’t sitting on a bookshelf. So let’s do something about that, shall we?

In olden times many long years ago around 1995 we printed off a lot of fic. It was mostly SOP to print a fic you planned to reread and stick it in a three ring binder. And that’s totally valid today too, but you can also make a very nice paperback with a minimum amount of skill and materials.

Let’s start with the download; Go to Ao3 and select your fic, we’ll be working with one of mine. This method works best with one shots, long fic tends to need a more complicated approach. Get yourself an HTML download

Open up the HTML download and select all then copy paste into any word processor. Set the page to landscape and two columns, then change the font to something you find easy to read, this is your book, no judgement. This is all you have to do for layout but I like to play a little bit. I move all the meta, summary, notes to the end and pick out a fun font for the title: 

No time like the present to do a quick proofread. Congratulations, you’ve just created your first typeset. On to the fun part.

Now you’re going to need some materials:  8.5x11in paper ruler one sheet of 12x12 medium card stock (60-80lb) scissors pencil pen or fine tip marker sheet of wax paper white glue two binder clips 2 heavy books or 1 brick butter knife

You’ll also need a printer, if you’re in the US there is almost a 100% chance your local library has a printer you can use if you don’t have your own. None of these materials are expensive and you can literally use cheap copy paper and Elmers glue.

Print your text block, one page per side. Fold the first page in half so that the blank side is inside and the printed side out:

use the butter knife to crease the edge. Repeat on all the sheets. When you’ve finished, stack them up with the raw edge on the left and the folded edge on the right. I used standard copy paper, because you’re only printing on one side there’s no bleed to worry about. Take the text block and line everything up. Use the binder clips to hold the raw edge in place.

Wrap the text block in the wax paper so that the raw edge and binder clips are facing out. I’m going to use my home built book press but you don’t need one, a brick or a couple of books or anything else heavy will work fine.

Once the text block is anchored down, take off he binder clips and get out the glue.

You can use a brush but you don’t need one, smear some glue on that raw edge.

Go make a margarita, watch The Mandalorian, call your mother. Don’t come back for at least an hour

In an hour smear some more glue on there and shift your brick forward so that the whole book is covered. This keeps the paper from warping. While glue part 2 is drying we’ll do the cover. Get out your 12x12 cardstock

Mark the cardstock off at 8.5 inches and cut it. Measure in 5.5 inches from the left and put in a score line with the butter knife (the back edge not the sharp edge)

Carefully fold the score line, this is your front cover. You have some options for the cover title, you can use a cutting machine like a cricut if you have one, you can print out a title on the computer and use carbon paper to transfer the text to the cardstock. I was in a mood so I just freehanded that beoch. Pencil first then in pen.

Take your text block out from under your brick. Line it up against the score mark and mark the second score on the other side of the spine

Fold the score and glue the textblock into the cover at the spine. Once the glue dries up mark the back cover with the pencil and then trim the back cover to fit with your scissors.

Voila:

I’m going to put this baby on the shelf next to the Silmarillion.

The whole process, not counting drying time, took less than an hour.

If you want to make a book of a longer fic, I recommend Renegade Publishing, they have a ton of resources for fan-binders. 

#fanbinding #fanfiction #Nir paperback

[skyeateyourdonuts]

i love finding a youtube video about a topic i know nothing of and watching the video to hear about someone who discovered smth, did some research, and decided to compile what they had to tell an audience about it. thats so fun!! tell me what u learned and i will have a head start in learning about it before i do my own research <3

... what i Dont love about watching these videos is scrolling through the comments to see shit like "u didnt mention..." wherein the video maker certainly Did mention u just wanted to correct them OR "well ur wrong about all of this bc My life was..." followed by "this was more enlightening than the whole video" even tho the og commenter talked about smth completely unrelated.

idk why this happens on smaller content creators or esp smaller female-presenting content creators but it has Got to stop. just bc they dont "rank" the topic (yes im talking to u plainlydifficult 😡) theyre "educating" (i use this lightly) the audience about does not mean theyre not a person and it def doesnt mean theyre someone u should just click on to stomp on. id also go as far to say lots of smaller content creators who do historical or scientific topics do better at showing their resources and the facts as is than bigger accounts on yt that claim to be historically or scientifically accurate.

okay im rlly mad about this. stop shitting on people who actually put work and effort into topics and concepts theyre intrigued by and interested in and thus wanna share what they found in a neatly compiled video. watch ur non sourced videos about serious topics somewhere else

#im like. RLLY MAD #i kinda. shouldnt be? but i cant help it #its the fucking internet and obvs people are dicks in yt comments #i just needed to at least spill these thoughts out of me so they dont plague me #if u have the ability to be nice on the internet then be nice first #and if u dont like the way a person covers a topic then thats fine!! GO AWAY #u dont have to watch it for any specific reason and ESP NOT if u have a baseline hatred #that makes the info u consume on a video u hate just from the thumbnail all clouded in bias!!!! #protect urself from the plague of bias by CLICKING THE FUCK OFF #not that were all safe from bias but yeah uknow #tbh i mostly just dont want good researchers to be discouraged #they have things they like to look up and cover all the details of with compassion for the real ppl involved #i think thats beautiful and so so good esp bc learning!! is fucking fun when ur passionate #so yeah #😠stop #gata

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Filming people without their consent is a massive issue of not only privacy but ableism that's been going on for many years.

It started out with filming more visibly disabled people, like high support needs autistic people having meltdowns in public and (especially fat) disabled people literally just using mobility aids, but once that was deemed less acceptable it moved to other things. Filming people acting "weird" in public. Eating weird foods. Falling asleep in weird places. Wearing weird things. Stimming. You get the idea. It's no longer safe to be visibly weird in public and that's an issue for a lot of disabled people. I recently had to lay down on the floor of a department store because I had an ME crash while out shopping. Not only did I have to worry about the normal things like people coming up to ask me if I'm ok, I also had to worry about some video of me at my lowest point, when I'm suffering immensely, being shared around as "haha look at this weird bitch on the floor". It's upsetting. It's scary.

And then there's fakeclaiming. A fun trend where people will film us in public to "prove" there's some kind of huge epidemic of people faking disability. Spoiler alert: there is not. Most of the time the people they film are real disabled people who don't fit into the expected mold for disability, usually service dog teams or people who use mobility aids who don't "look sick". And you would think this trend would be some kind of abled nonsense, but it's not. It's often other disabled people doing the fakeclaiming. Yes, there are some times when it's obvious a service dog isn't trained properly, but other than that, it's damn near impossible to tell if someone is faking a disability, and you're much more likely to target a disabled person than a faker. I'd love to say this trend was new, but it's been going on since the days of "the people of walmart" where many of the people posted were fat mobility aid users, always with the assumption that they used it because they were too fat or lazy to move on their own. In fact, the image of a fat person in a mobility cart has become almost synonymous with "lazy". It's one of the things that drove me to get my own expensive power wheelchair, to avoid the judgmental stares in the grocery store when I was just trying to exist, to avoid the fear of public shame. Even now when I stand up from my chair to walk to the bathroom stall or reach something on a high shelf, I watch the corners of my vision for that telltale phone in the air. I feel like I'm never safe from the judgemental eye of the internet, even when I'm logged off, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels that way.

Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram, these places are all great for disabled people, especially those of us without access to the outside world. But it's also become a source of great anxiety for anyone who's uncontrollably "weird", mostly disabled people. Leave us alone, I'm begging you, we just want to go to the fucking grocery store in peace and safety.

Tl;dr

Stop filming people for "acting weird" or "faking a disability" in public. It's ableist, it's invasive, it's creepy, and it's humiliating. People don't exist in public for your amusement and especially not disabled people. You don't know who is disabled and who isn't no matter how many disabled people you've known or how sure you are that the person is faking.

#actually disabled #madpunk #cripplepunk #spoonie #chronically ill #ableism tw #been meaning to write this up and the last post I rbed reminded me

[robotpussy]

ppl keep saying the internet in the 90s/2000s was trash because it was full of nonsense but atleast there were WEBSITES.... all that's left online is social media and shopping and even the social media does nothing but advertise to you you can barely play any games in browser, especially mini games now they all want you to download the game because they're all longform and 1GB or above, no ask jeeves no yahoo answers no places for kids to hang out all day apart from like. Roblox (which you have to install..... and neopets is used by 20 yr olds no kids are playing on neopets) blogs now being mostly video based instead of written, phones being ppls primary source of entertainment so you are constantly being asked to download a app, Adobe flash gone so any flash based sites are gone and not even way back machine can bring them back unless u get a flash emulator

THE INTERNET IS DEAD AND BORING!

*turning off reblogs because the point isn't that everybody should just make a neocities, when as long as the internet exists, web development will always be here.

the point is the internet is increasingly becoming another pawn for monetisation and in turn is removing safe spaces for vulnerable groups of people, making things more inaccessible and is making the internet completely unusable. SHUT UP ABOUT NEOCITIES!!!!! I was just commenting on how most users of the internet aren't looking to start writing html because their experiences are getting worse the user isn't the problem it's literally these big companies that need to change

#text #THE 1GB OR ABOVE IS A EXAGGERATION!!!! i know!