You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I’m glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don’t ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don’t ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3
i’m begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here’s a quick HOW TO:
1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online
2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the “Complaint” links
3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the ‘find’ function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don’t post its url on social media)
4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you’re looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)
In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)
you can also download the media in question (look for a “download” button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)
if the “Complaint” links are not visible for you:
Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn’t track your data!)
Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints–and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled “DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google” featuring the media you’re looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).
personally, i’m a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.
^^^^what they said. I’m surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google’s flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your
2026 UPDATE:
just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it’s easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!
President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.
Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message on Sunday, three European officials familiar with the matter said on Monday.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” according to the message, which was first published by PBS.
In the message, Mr. Trump also questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland, saying, “There are no written documents,” and adding, “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you!”
Greenland has been part of the Danish Kingdom for more than 300 years, and world leaders have condemned Mr. Trump’s insistence that the United States take over the territory, a giant icebound island in the Arctic region.
Mr. Store said in a statement that Mr. Trump’s text message was a response to a message that Mr. Store sent to Mr. Trump on Sunday asking to speak to him about the crisis over Greenland and about Mr. Trump’s threat of using tariffs to pressure Denmark into selling Greenland to the United States, which Denmark has refused to do.
“As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have on several occasions clearly explained to Trump what is well known, namely that it is an independent Nobel Committee, and not the Norwegian government, that awards the prize,” Mr. Store said.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly challenged Denmark’s claims to Greenland, but in decades-old agreements that the United States has signed with Denmark, the United States has explicitly recognized that Greenland is part of the Danish Kingdom.
While reading McCartney Legacy Vol. 2 (Kozinn/Sinclair) I noticed this title among a list of demos John recorded in the late 70s, one I wasn’t familiar with before:
Demos to roll off the Lennon production line during this period included ‘Real Love, “Now and Then, 'Free as a Bird, "What Ever Happened To?’ and ’She Is a Friend of Dorothy’s.
I had a dig around and found the demo on youtube:
Lyrics:
Come to the underground Sure know her way around TV pretty elegant Art deco decadent Hot lips and no shame All fun and no game She is a friend of Dorothy’s She is a friend of A friend of Dorothy’s(she shows it) A friend of Dorothy’s(yes I know it) A friend of Dorothy’s(who’s allways she?) Whoever she is? Queen of the discotheques Sheik of Arabesque France jeans and nasty boots Red hair and yellow roots Frederick’s of Hollywood Forty second and bloody good She is a friend of Dorothy’s She is a friend indeed A friend of Dorothy’s(yes I know it) A friend of Dorothy’s(she shows it) A friend of Dorothy’s(who’s allways she?) Whoever she is? Trust in God and she will provide She keep you satisfied So long babe! Keep dancing! She is a friend of Dorothy’s, She’s a friend
I would LOVE to have seen rock critics try to explain that one away if it had been released.
This is amazing, and I’m embarrassed to admit something I never considered.
The public restroom is almost inarguably THE WORST possible place to ever have to ‘feel your way’!
[Video shows a woman with a white cane pointing to a braille sign outside of a bathroom that includes a map. We zoom in on the sign while she taps parts of it and says,
I’m at a Guide Dog center here in Australia. This is a legend, a tactile and Braille map of the bathroom, right outside the door.
We zoom back out while she continues, with large hand gestures,
Do you want to know what the hardest part of my day is, as a blind person? 'Cause it’s probably not what you expect. It’s not the fact that I can’t drive, though it’s not ideal. It is the fact that public bathrooms are all designed differently. Do you know how stressful it is, when I have to pee in public on my own? My boyfriend leaves me at the door of the women’s room, and I have to walk into the great unknown. Is there going to be a line? Where in line am I supposed to stand? When I find the toilet - well, first off, when I’m with my guide dog I need the accessible stall, so I have to feel my way to the big stall. Then, when I get there, hopefully it’s open. If not, I stand. I wait. I get in. I have to find where is the toilet paper? Where is the toilet? I have to hope to God it’s clean 'cause I can’t see it. Then I have to find the flusher - is it a pull, is it automatic - who knows? Then I have to find my way to the sinks. Where is the soap? Where is the dryer?
She turns back to tap excitedly on the sign.
Hello! We have found the solution.
She starts telling us what the sign says as her fingers skim over it.
So, up here it says 'female and ambulatory toilet map’, and then it tells me 'A-T’ means it’s the 'ambulatory’, which means it’s the larger accessible stall. ’T’ means 'toilet’. Um, down here we have, like, ’D’ means 'dryer’.
She moves down to the map, showing us the location of the three stalls along the back wall.
So then I go here, and I know that this stall would be the one that my guide dog and I would use - 'cause it’s the 'A-T’, the bigger stall. Next to it, the two ones to the right are both normal sized toilets.
She goes back to the top left corner of the map to follow the left wall towards the front of the room. Halfway, she gets to,
Down here we have ’D’, so this means it’s the dryer for drying my hands.
She continues down, and at the front of the room takes turns tapping two squares for 'B’, and one between them for ’S’.
We have ’S’ and 'B’, which means I now know: if I’m at the sinks, the soap is in between the two basins.
We zoom back out, but then she remembers something, so we go back to look at the opening at the bottom right of the map.
I want this! … Ooh! And I know, look, here I walk in the door, so I immediately orient myself: toilets are right in front, I would go far left. Right next to the door is gonna be my sinks.
We zoom back out so she can finish,
Like, this, this is a game changer! This is a game changer. I want these everywhere. This is my plea. My next campaign. How to make toileting more accessible to everyone.
We all get sad that insects aren’t at least dog size and octopuses only live in the ocean and there are no air jellyfish or visibly ambulatory plants and all the giant sea lizards are gone but sometimes you gotta just tell yourself some lifeforms are special *because* they’re tiny or they’re far away or they helped build the world we have now. We’re just the weird ones for being terrestrial macrofauna, and it’s pretty special that we evolved brains capable of marveling at things at all.
“I’m sad because I’ll never see a quetzalcoatlus” consider: you live alongside pelicans and flamingos! Really sit and think about unbelievably strange a filter feeding bird is, and how lucky we are to be around them!
think about the fact that you and everyone you know gets to live at the same time as the blue whale, *the* single largest animal that has ever lived, water or land.
it’s always funny to me when people are shocked that more expensive eggs still come from factory farms and not chickens roaming in a field. it would be impossible for a company to produce eggs at the same rate as factory farms WITHOUT factory farming…if it’s able to be restocked in a grocery store regularly, it probably comes from a factory farm
something something the prevalence of “crunchy” rich people in the first world being shocked by the reality of food processing and production has to do with how they’re entirely disconnected from the production aspect of the products they’re buying. the world you want to exist never has!
I never had the chance to post this back when I was in college but here, have this raeda art from all the way back!! I figured this is the perfect place to post my old queers. I should draw them again, my art changed a lot since then
