anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am

There's kindness all around you. You just have to look for it on a small scale. Look around you and realize how much is going on in your village/town/city.

There may be people who fix broken electronics for free in the monthly repair cafe. Someone runs an animal shelter. An elderly woman reads to children after school. A young man translates goverment forms and helps immigrants with the bureaucracy.

There are many small acts of kindness everywhere. Remind yourself of their beauty and participate in them. A simple, genuine smile directed at a stranger is a good starting point.

And one more thing: social media and the media in general don't pay much attention to kindness because it doesn't sell. Rage and anger sells and keeps you longer on their website or app and engaged with the topic.

Getting a weird little hobby is actually so important bc it opens your eyes up to the world. You start crocheting or knitting, and now you see scarves and sweaters differently. You try identifying plants, now you’re seeing opposite and alternate leaf pattern. Bird watching? Every chirp draws attention and interest.

Get into weird little hobbies.

Critical PSA for anyone with Android devices!

I got the following email this morning:

Basically Google is rolling out the ability to track you via your android devices even when you're offline and you have to manually opt out of it. Many android devices no longer come with a wired headphone jack, so if you have Bluetooth headphones or a keyboard or anything, your location will be tracked and stored by your device unless you opt out of this.

I tried using the link they gave me in the email to opt out of it, but it didn't really seem to do anything. So I looked up how to opt out and found the following steps, which worked for my phone:

Please reblog to spread awareness. My husband has the same phone as me and he didn't get any emails about this.

Yep, I just got this on my account, too. It gave me THREE DAYS to opt out before they turned it on. So like. Thanks for the fucking advance warning.

And yeah, the link "to opt out" took me to this screen, which DOESN'T ACTUALLY OPT YOU OUT:

Note how Google is still tracking the location of your device WHEN IT'S ONLINE

You HAVE to follow the instructions above to ACTUALLY turn it off, on ALL YOUR DEVICES INDIVIDUALLY

— Unknown

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[ID: #this is literally it. this has psychological support. #time as we perceive it "slows down" during new and/or challenging experiences #because our brains are encoding more details about the experience. more data = larger file size = a "longer" memory #hence time "slowing down" during highly stressful events. in fight/flight/freeze we take in A LOT of detail that we otherwise wouldn't #and one of the reasons childhood and adolescence feel so long in retrospect is because we were having novel experiences all the time! #the older we get the less "new" everything is #UNLESS we make an effort to continue learning and growing and trying new things whenever we can. #it's not only good for you but your life will literally feel longer. time will literally feel slower. #anyway i just think it's neat. :^) #psych #tags. End ID]

This is your reminder that you are brilliant.

Your voice and writing style is unique and is unlike any other author/writer. Stop comparing your work to other artists.

There is only one YOU!

Only YOU can write your WIP the way it is supposed to be written. No one can replicate what you’re capable of.

you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

- Simone Weil

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."

- Vincent van Gogh

the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.

A sign every artist and crafter should have on their site and window.

When I get my site up and running I’m putting this on the Commission/Payment page.

Shit, this sign should be hung in any business that provides a service to others.

I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

when you walk in and they have this on their wall

you know the panties hit the floor