deehellcat:

picturesque-about-it:

eclecticmasterpiece:

fallen-angel-nightshade:

huffylemon:

If you had shown me this site in 2005 I would have asked you if had checked your virus software lately, because this looks like a bad one. I would have clicked away so fast it would give you whiplash. Looking at these sites now, I have to convince myself that they aren’t virus laden sites and fight against the pavlovian urge to just navigate away.

I navigate away anyways because fuck them, there’s usually a better site (though they are dwindling quickly). I still can’t get over how the internet “as intended” today looks like a malware ridden fever dream from 20 years ago. This is every story I’ve ever read about an empire that used to be great and has now fallen into turmoil.

Beloveds, there is a wonderful website that gets rid of all that crap<3

OOOOH.

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asyncmeow:

girls.

rb if you agree

crashstanding:

Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

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themythicalcodfish:

google-searchhistory-official:

reblogging SPECIFICALLY for the End Note which is widely applicable

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not-gurecat:

propalitet:

propalitet:

So these tourists came to a city with a bunch of “tourists go home” “tourists not welcome” graffiti and instead of idk maybe looking into why locals want tourists gone they film the grafiti, post it on tiktok with a caption “wow i feel so welcome” and like comments like these

And then they’re suprised when locals tell them to fuck off

I’m pretty sure the the video was filmed in barcelona (not 100 % because i can’t find it atm) but there are countless people in the comments explaining to this person that locals literally cannot live in their houses because of airbnb and other stupid shit made for tourists. Did the creator acknowledge these comments? No.

#yes the graffiti is in barcelona!#and the comments are full of people saying to suck it up and that we need their money because ‘we dont live a comfortable life’#the video just went right over peoples head and they genuinely didnt understand#that the housing market is severely fucked up in places like bcn#like genuinely the comments in that video make me want to nuke northern europe#other comments include our stunning ‘20% youth unemployment rate’ and how we need their money#when the ppl in service jobs (especially hospitality ones) in tourist heavy areas are severely underpayed and overexploited#and another brilliant comment saying how we have nothing to offer the world except for our sunshine and how again ‘you need our money’#so quite literally northern europeans especially british people can rot in hell when they treat us like their fucking playground

exactly! @minglana​

The funny thing is that they don’t want to grasp that people can’t live in the majority of Barcelona and surrounding cities and towns LITERALLY.

In the really touristy parts of Barcelona (half the city) there is no housing market because there are no homes in the market because everything is fucking Airbnb. If you don’t live in Barcelona, but you live in the surrounding areas the little housing options there are inaccessible if you are a resident because it can cost over 300k-400k in places like Hospitalet del Llobregat (5-6 years ago the majority of housing in the city was 200k or less unless you went to specific parts with luxury flats).

People can’t live in Barcelona because there are no grocery shops or essential shops to have a normal life. When I was young and up to my teenage years (I’m only 25 btw) Barcelona was known by the small multi-generational business and artisans. If you needed something you went to X store that was in X place, and you knew it was good because your grandma used to go there when she was young (the thing being food, clothes, furniture, anything you could imagine). Nowadays all these small business have disappeared (I know some of them are barely surviving but when I talk to them all of them are saying that they don’t know how much longer they can stay) and in their place a bunch of souvenir shops that sell sevillanas (from Andalusia), tango (from Argentina), mariachi hats (from Mexico) and Son Goku T-shirts have opened thus making that the few people who lived there unable to subside (you need food and this type of things).

Starting in May and up till October you can barely go to the city centre and surrounding areas (where all the official buildings are, the majority of offices, etc) because of the tourists. They are literally EVERYWHERE. You can’t catch the metro because it is full of tourists, you can’t catch the bus because it’s full of tourists, you need to add 10-15min (or more) to your commute because tourists will be in the streets and are going to block the fucking way and won’t let you walk.

Tourists are simply rude and uncivil. You can’t grasp how rude they are. I haven’t been treated worse than how tourists treated me. They pee on the streets in the middle of the day, they drink and vomit everywhere they are, they go nude in the street even by schools playgrounds, they do drugs, they are in the way. ALWAYS. They have 0 spacial awareness or something because they will stop in the middle of a busy street and cars will try to go around them. You will lose your train because a tourist was in the tall and didn’t let you walk by or let you help them. You will be late to work/school because tourists will stop in the middle of the street and didn’t let you pass (and if you dare to tell them something or even worse, touch them, be ready for an altercation). Be ready to be treated like garbage, be ready to be treated as if you are barely human, be ready for tourist trashing your shop/restaurant/place because “españa.sangria.fiesta” and because they are too lazy to parent they children. Be ready to have the laws of your city changed because tourists can’t act in public and now hotels don’t have balconies, windows don’t open or there are no pools. If they are renting a flat (Airbnb type of thing) be ready for constant fights, police calls, not being able to sleep, garbage “falling from the sky” (the tourists flat)…

What some people don’t seem to grasp is that the tourist issue is not a new thing, maybe the tourists are finding out NOW because for them we were like the monkey exhibit at the zoo but in 2015, Barcelona mayor was elected because her opposition to what the tourism have done to the city. People have been done with tourists destroying the city for so long that 10 years ago it was what made political parties win elections. Maybe those tourists should reflect in the way the act or how they treat someone else’s home instead of crying because people are fed up with them.

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stinalotte:

I just read a couple fics and spread kudos and comments like a fairy spreads glitter, not expecting any answers because it’s not about the answers. The oldest fic I commented on was from 2011. Not five minutes later, I had a reply from the author in my inbox. Twelve years after they posted, and they were happy and giddy because I commented.

Cherish and nourish your writers, fandom. Feed them comments and kudos and reblogs and love.

Originally posted by askspnbbverse

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james-ingo-actual:

anarcho-gunman-g17:

bloodied-wolf:

Reblog to enthusiastically thank Gustave

Ignore to make Gustave sad :-(

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queeranarchism:

queeranarchism:

This is a question I received today. It was about a young person who had no means to travel to places where there were anarchist communities and such. I’m not answering the question publicly to protect the identity of the question-asker, but wanted to republish my answer here, so others could also contribute stuff:

Hi there. First of: so cool that you found your way to anarchism so early in life. Many of us take decades of unlearning stuff before we open our minds to anarchism. Yay! :)

Second, and I know this probably isn’t exactly the answer you were looking for: taking some time to get to a point where you can do very meaningful stuff is fine. Learning new stuff and having fun with friends and figuring out who you are is kind of what being young is for. You don’t have to be a ‘productive’ anarchist.

If you do want to start doing anarchism, the world that you can impact is mostly the world very close to you. Look at your school for example: is there a students union bringing together the power of the pupils? (if not, could you help start one?) Is there a racist curriculum that needs changing? Is there a lack of gender neutral bathrooms? Do the students have access to real sex education, birth control and safe sex tools, including material that meets the needs of lgbti+ students?

In the same way, you could look around your neighborhood and social circle and see what could be better. Remember that small things matter. Helping elderly people take out their garbage is doing an anarchism. Reaching out to a teen who seems lonely and depressed is doing an anarchism.

If you do decide to target something bigger, you have very little power as a minor. It is an oppressed position. However, you have one asset: adults think idealism in other adults is irritating, but idealism in young people is cute and inspirational. That’s why Greta Thunberg got such a platform while thousands of adult activists didn’t: she could be the inspirational child because she had no power. That sucks but you can use that strategically. If a minor starts a campaign to remove anti-homelessness spikes or to reduce water consumption by replacing lawns with local plants, they’re going to have an easier time getting positive press aboutn that than an adult would.

That’s a few thoughts. I hope they’re helpful. To close, I wanna say again: it’s fine to just be you for now. It is fine to just hang out or make art or prank your friends or have crushes or play in a band or meet really cool dogs. You don’t owe the world more than that right now.

#like cool and all but how the fuck do I campaign for gender neutral restrooms or sex education or whatever? how do you do that? #it’s not like I can go up to the principal and be like yeah I bleed through my pants whenever I’m on my period bc I’m trans #and too terrified to go to the bathroom can you fix that #ok maybe I could but I’m not going to bc I’m not out and also have anxiety #and it’s not like he’d listen so

Hi. It’s normal not to know all of this stuff. I could have explained this more, sorry about that. So, there’s a couple of ways you could go about it:

Idea 1: Get a few friends together and start a group. If this is an option for you, it is always the best one. Activism is hard but it gets much easier if you’re together. One way for closeted kids to be active together is in an LGBT+straight Alliance because you can always claim to be in the group as a straight ally. But it can also be a broader Inclusivity group or Accessibility group or a Students Union. Then you make a list of some of the things you need, choose the first one you’re going to work on and write a letter together. Have the cis people in the group, who are not directly impacted by this issue, deliver the letter and defend it. You can also forward the letter to the school newspaper or even to local newspapers.

Idea 2: No friends or too anxious? Start a fake group. Make an email address for your fake group and send a letter with the name of your fake group. You can also forward the letter to the school newspaper or even to local newspapers. Think about how you will hide your identity. For example: don’t use the email address on your school account and don’t forward messages to your school account.

Idea 3: Sow the seeds of inspiration. Search the internet for texts that have already been written by LGBT+ groups about the importance of gender neutral bathrooms in school. Email them around through your fake group or print them and spread them. On tables, in library books, and of course in places where teachers will see them. If teachers have a physical mail box to hand in papers, send all of them this material.

Idea 4: Explain your situation to a progressive teacher and ask them to put forward the idea without mentioning your name. Admittedly, there is some risk involved in this one. You have to think well about who to trust. But teachers have ways within the system that you do not, so it’s worth considering.

Idea 5: Touch people with art. Make a story or comic or poem or song about how fucking hard this is for you and distribute it anonymously.

Idea 6: … I’m out of ideas for now. Maybe people in the notes can reply with more ideas?

Now, let me be real for a bit: yes, every possible option here still have sub-steps to figure out that I did not explain and I can not explain all of them because they differ from school to school and from person to person. And yes, every possible option is stressful. Activism pretty much always is.

If you’re not ready for any of this, that’s not your fault. The fact that you are in a situation that requires stressful complicated actions to fix is not your fault. Adults should have made a world that is safer for you. Adults are letting you down every day by not creating that safer world for you. It is not fair.

That is kind of a fact of activism. Even for us adults, it’s always stressful. One way or another, we’re always putting a bit of our physical safety and our mental health at risk to fix problems we didn’t create. None of it is ever fair. Which is exactly why I stressed the fact that it’s okay to not to do any of that as a minor. You don’t have to shoulder all that responsibility and weight.

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kawaiimunism:

tanadrin:

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo

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