I Dont Live In A Area That Freezes Over But I Find This Immensely Useful 

Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

I hate that its true #flute #flutist #butwhyisitathing

saving this for inspiration purposes 

Short Hair- Mulan Soundtrack

Danny Phantom X Corpse Party Crossover Idea

Ok, ok,ok just hear me out. As I was looking through my fandom shit and thinking up weird stuff my brain says what if Heavenly Host was a lair in the ghost zone that could get humans and ghosts. For example the humans die like in the first game where if they die in the closed spaces they never existed 

buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, with ghosts if they steal something from the ghost [exp. Embers Guitar, Walkers Jacket or Hat, One of Wolf’s Claws, etc.] then the ghost is weakened or trapped there or something to that extent.

IVE LITERALLY ALREADY BEEN ON THE DAMN AURORA BUT AS SOON AS I GO TO FIX THE REACTOR I CANT FIND THE ENTRANCE AND SUDDENLY WE HAVE A FUCKING VISITOR KAFJLKDJF LKDSLKF

ok so ive been playing slime rancher and i hadnt finished before i had to see spoilers ( im fine with them as long as im looking for them, and for sr i was)

and so the ending really got me ill explain more below the cut cause 

spoilers

when i started playing i noticed casey immediately and thought oh my person still talking to me (didnt realize they were and ex at first i thought either significant other or best friend ya know) so seeing they werent together kinda threw me off. like as i continued playing i waited for the emails and stuff and as i said in the beginning oh this is my person, so it kinda got me that they werent together and i was not ready for the heartbreak ive wrought upon myself asjkdjfsalkf i wanna cry and it feels really random wtf 

also forgive my lack of capitals and punctuation this actually really got to me 

this is amazing lol

Num Num Cat TikTok Chain

the prettiest face

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)