Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

Btw, if you want to experience the offline version of khux/dr but didn't get it before it was pulled from the app store, the internet archive has a playable version you can download.

It takes a biiit of work but it's not too complicated and I can guarantee it works 👍

Ya know, we tell the fancops to go to fanfiction.net and stop using ao3 if they hate it so much, but like, they would never survive there! I haven’t gone on in probably almost a decade, but there aren’t really tags, and really no warnings. You get the title and the summary. You will get jumpscared by stuff you don’t want to see. Ao3 is a fucking oasis compared to ff.net (or god forbid, Wattpad), but they’re too entitled to see it. Ao3 has such an extensive tagging and warning system. It’s honestly really impressive. And they have filters. Filters. You can exclude the stuff you hate!!! No one is forcing you to read any of this!!! You can mute and block people on ao3 now too!! If you’re seeing all this stuff you hate but aren’t using the tools available to you just so you can throw a fit, that’s your own fucking problem. Quit making it everyone else’s.

As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.

FIRST:

The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:

It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).

Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).

Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:

ALT

No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).

The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.

Bonus:

Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)

Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)

How to disable the AI in firefox (still the only browser that lets you do this permanently) (Windows Report, 2025)

environmental storytelling

"this movie doesn't hold up bcos of dated special effects :(" to you, maybe. i would clap at a bat on a string

I need everyone to stop thinking they can't be late to the party.

That series came out 10 years ago but a random edit has intrigued you? Watch it. That film is 30 years old? Watch it. That album thats decades years old? Listen to it. The books - read them!

You never know where inspiration/clarity/literal brain rewiring shit is going to come from. Media has no expiration date.

Inktober day 18. DEAL

i miss them

if i took a women's scholarship and then transitioned during college would that count as swindling

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

saw a silly shirt and immediately thought of him 🥹