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I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

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War is such a vile, pointless thing that it sounds like it should be pure fiction. like wdym all these young men are murdering people whose names they’ll never know. Wdym they’re all going to watch their friends die and the government will just replace them like they mean nothing? And people call it “serving your country”. Wdym the government can just lie about strangers and force random people to go murder them?

Wdym thousands of men, women, children, babies, cats, dogs, and wildlife die faceless and nameless in their own homes and then a rich man who doesn’t even speak their language calls it nothing more than a “warning” to their leader. And it doesn’t even matter because casualties of war are nothing to anyone’s government except an excuse to kill more innocents. What do you mean thousands upon thousands of innocent human beings are starved, tortured, and bombed for crimes they never committed and somehow powerless civilians in other countries are the only people who care.

Nobody wins a war. There are no sides in war. There are only dead people and rich people. Don’t pretend it is any different than that.

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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.

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Can’t wait to go buy some Halloween trinkets

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saw this cute post and now I'm not going on reddit for the rest of the day. quit while you're ahead

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Cum is the 5th humor and brother, I'm about to start acting hilarious

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happy three years baby come home the kids miss you

happy one year to this video that absolutely altered my brain chemistry in an irreversible way

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I was on a panel at Monsterotica and one of the questions was, "what was your introduction to monsterfucking?" I have no filter so I admitted that I self-shipped with the Ninja Turtles when I was ten or eleven. then they asked which one I would pick.

your honor, I held up my book about four werewolf brothers all railing the same girl 😭

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friday 13 you know what that means

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my beautiful wife, severe thunderstorm warning, is texting me 😌😚😍😍

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

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this IS an eddie munson joke through and through

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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic