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

If you're doing something you don't want your government to know about, turn off you phone and leave it at home. Print out a paper map if you must.

Seriously, deleting an ad ID is insufficient. Your phone can even be tracked if it's off!

Simply do not bring the "see your location at all times" device to places where you could be persecuted for going. No even if you think you know how to turn that functionality off. I promise you don't know enough about how to actually turn off every possible avenue through which this could happen, because the advice of everybody who does is "hahaha, no just leave the phone at home".

Seeing a post that you know a mutual will like and reblogging it to add enrichment to their dash like giving a tiger in a zoo a cardboard box

Thanks

huh i didn’t realise that was an actual thing

You didn’t?

My dude

It is Such a Thing

I’m so excited to introduce you to it

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!

That little girl is going places

I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit. But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

Much of the ocean is a desert

You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.

Also AOC literally has a degree in economics. So anyone saying their highschool education gave them more economics knowledge than her really needs to rethink themselves.

Your whiteness does not actually create expertise.

they really thought they were cooking when they said they have the economics knowledge equivalent to a US high schooler

SHREK 2 (2004)

I’m only just realizing thst the “Catnip” is likely planted. Look st the movement of the cops hand in the second gif. Looks more like he’s passing it from hand to hand

In the second gifset you can even see the bag underneath the armour so yeah its v much planted

dont play defense

Joe Kavik, Inuit artist, Bird, ND

Stone

couldn't help it, that thing is So Shaped

If y’all don’t know, Lilly Wachowski is one of the Wachowski sisters, the women who directed and wrote the matrix, the movie that the whole “red pill, blue pill” thing comes from. Both sisters are trans women.

Both sisters are also horribly racist ❤️

Both Wachowski siblings also did NOT write the matrix....they stole the Matrix story from a black woman named Sophia Stewart who actually sued Warner Bros, the Wachowkskis, and Paramount for stealing it. Nobody gives a shit if Lily or her colonizing sister feelings are hurt about shit they didn’t even originate or write in the first place.

Hey, I've seen a bunch of people share this who have no idea it's BS.

Don't get scammed.

Don't spread hoaxes and myths.

This "the Wachowski Sisters stole the Matrix" thing is based on a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2004. The judges explanation of dismissal is nearly 60 pages detailing each claim and Sophia Stewart was never awarded copyright ownership of these franchises and never won any element of the case. It isn't an ongoing lawsuit and the story is often used by folks as a fundraising scam.

The same story was going around when I was in highschool more than 10 years ago, nearly word for word I swear, just change the most recent/upcoming court dates. If I found what was circulating back then it wouldn't surprise me if the reference numbers were the same.

The above image looks like its giving references, but is it? In which court were these actions filed by the plaintiff? How is anybody supposed to check this?

This is simply not true. It takes advantage of the fact that the intellectual property of poc is routinely stolen, it takes advantage of a community that wants justice for that, and it creates a climate of doubt... there is real work being stolen, but this isn't it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sophia-stewart-matrix-lawsuit/

https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/22/inside-the-billion-dollar-matrix-lawsuit-one-of-the-internets-most-pervasive-hoaxes/

https://blackexcellence.com/sophia-stewart/

https://everything-pr.com/urban-legends-busted-sophia-stewart/

Seriously... this scam is spreading so fast. I've seen 4 people I follow reblog it today! I don't don't know how many since I wrote the above response.

Fact check!! Maybe spread this instead.

It really doesn't take long to fact check. But here are some links to make that easy.

This Sophia Stewart scam seems to be picking up traction again so I'll share this again.

THE WAY SHE POSED AFTERWARDS HFKFBDK

My artistic rendition:

I love it when animals have clearly figured out how to tell a joke.

[tumblr] is a beautiful website where all kinds of people come to diversify their echolalia

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

If corals get stressed they die, so if I was coral I would be dead 

what do coral even get stressed about

Current events

I sea.

guys, i work at an aquarium and my coworkers and i have literally laughed at this for three days straight. everytime we pass each other we whisper “current events” and crack up. our customers think we are nuts.

gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor