pscentral event 09: comfort | comfort movie. ❤️

GONCHAROV (1973).

— dir. Martin Scorsese.

Must be time for the annual Goncharov film festival. Is it in Cannes this year?

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Alex Jones, the ultra-right-wing conspiracy-theorist, was forced to sell InfoWars in a bankruptcy lawsuit.

YES!!!!!!!!!!

I read that his lawyers are going to contest it saying that another group thought the sale was unfair and that the bidding was hidden so they couldn't see who was buying or some nonsense like that. I hope the judge tosses it out far and away if that is true.

If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

Anyway American trans friends, now's the time to put "be gay do crime" into practice and the first step is to get onto secure communication channels so you're not discussing details of what you're doing and how on the public internet.

Don’t put anything sensitive or incriminating on electronics ever. Don’t discuss things around microphones. Leave your phone at home when you go to an action. Take public transit if you can because your car can track you.

Use the internet to gather information, to organize meetings, to share resources, to stay calm in this fucking world. But don’t put anything incriminating on it.

This is me reminding people that Signal is a good end-to-end encrypted messaging system with auto-delete capabilities that have been reviewed by independent security groups and that uses a protocol designed by one of the best security people on the planet.

Telegram, WhatsApp, and FB Messenger are not.

Also, you might want to check out the TAILS project - if you need anonymity in places other than chat.

Nearly 14,000 mail ballots in Nevada have signature issues

Officials urge residents to use online tool to check if ballot was accepted

The total number of ballots — 13,906 — needing curing include 6,383 from registered nonpartisan or other voters, 4,026 from Democrats and 3,497 from Republicans.

The deadline for voters to cure their ballots is 5 p.m. Nov. 12, officials said. Ballots can be cured here.

The main issue they're having with young voters is that Nevada allows for voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the "signatures" are digital (the licensee types it into a form), so their hand-written signatures on their ballots don't match the KEYSTROKES that serve as signatures on their license.

It would be hilarious if it weren't so fucking infuriating.

Please share so Nevada folks see this and can cure their ballots and help people close to them do so!

signature verification is the dumbest fucking thing. it has never been actually particularly verified to work and it has very obvious false negatives.

The deadline to cure your ballot is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12

I know she conceded, but this may affect some of your local races if this applies to you.

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

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we fucking found them?

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

FUCKING THANK YOU.

they're burning ballots in the US now btw. in case you wanted to know where things are at.

Edit: to clarify, locations mentioned are Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. This news story does not involve Canada.

Yep. Add another one in Tacoma Washington on top of the other two.

*vibrating* it’s the cowboy witch poem it’s the cowboy witch poem it’s the cowboy witch poem

ive had this queued since february.

”I DO NOT WANT A FAKE COURTING! I WANT SOMETHING REAL!"

All of the Company can see the tears flowing out of their Hobbit’s eyes, and before any of them can react, he bolts out of the tent. Even Dwalin, in all of his years as a guard cannot stop him despite being right at the entrance of the tent. Each Dwarf is stunned as they can do nothing but watch their Hobbit run out.

After what seems to be about hours, but was probably nothing but a few minutes, Kili looks at his uncle and says, “You idiot.”

Crossposted from BlueSky!

Time to check your settings again folks!

My school didn't offer foreign language at all. The university where I lived didn't require a foreign language credit to get in either. That's some messed up stuff right there.

The Most Popular Grocery Store By State

by Dremarious

I'm not quite sure this is accurate. For example, Safeway and Albertson's merged. So, they are basically the same company. I believe Kroger owns Fry's. I know Kroger owns King Soopers as I used to order installs for their telco service back in the day. It would not surprise me if several more stores on that list were owned by the same company. Just a thought...

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

For general graphics: use GIMP For vector graphics: use Inkscape For drawing and illustration: use Krita For print and web publishing and design: use Penpot For PDF authoring: use LibreOffice For PDF reading and form filling: use Okular

All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.

Reblog for everyone

friends don't let friends use GIMP. use photopea

Red plastic Pizza Hut cups, United States, circa 1980's-1990's

I can still hear the distinctive sound they made when they clacked against your teeth.

You can still buy those.. and the semi transparent yellow ones, and the "clear" ones. Chef's store which used to be called Cash and Carry has those and the big pitchers used by pizza places for beer and soda. They don't cost a ton either.

The person next to me in the train station is eating dicks and it smells so damn good

Wait wait fuck goddamn, dicks is a burger brand, there is not a woman giving head right next to me, she is eating fries and I’m hungry for FRIES

I'd like a Dick's Deluxe, fries and a chocolate shake please...

Please reblog for a greater sample size. I’m having a convo with my mom about this.

I won't use it at all. Most store checkers are union. They get a semi decent wage, health insurance, and other benefits. I A) don't want them to lose their jobs because the customer is doing it for them, and B) If I am going to do a cashier's job, I want the pay and benefits. It's BS.

A Simple Trick for Fic Writers

Hey, if you're a fic writer and a character speaks in a different language, you don't just have to add the translation in the notes. Use the following HTML coding to add 'text on hover' to the word(s). If the reader is on a computer they can hover over the text to see the translation.

<div title="This is the text in the box!">This is the text that shows in your fic!</div>

Here are some examples from a fic on my AO3.

This coding here <div title="a fool, idiot (lit. emptyhead)">Eyn utreekov</div> will show this on hover.

This next example shows that you can add a lot of text. The formatting is the same as above.

PS: When doing this, there may be spacing issues, but you can edit the text through AO3's html or rich text editor. From there you can add italics (like I did), bold, etc, and fix any weird spacing issues. Just be careful not to delete the coding that you worked so hard on 😂