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Two thoughts: (1) I understand the sink one and I get the toilet one but what is the other one? Is... he he just standing there watching. That. That's weird. (2) The toilet one looks like a flamingo cyborg experiment that escaped from the lab, hopping slowly down the corridor on one leg.

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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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Well. Haha. Does not describe me because you see *I* have a *system*

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

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what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

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hey do you wanna play doomed exploration together. it wont go like last time

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it makes me so furious when i want to know about a specific ass species of animal and theres only like 6 existing photos of it. like im actually going to pass away if humanity as a whole doesnt release more pied butterfly bat images

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Artist, researcher, and botanist Chriss Cass and his giant water lilies.

Shot on medium format CineStill 400Dynamic and Kodak Portra 160 in São Paulo, Brazil. May 2025.

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I don't even go here but you know what? based

might have to become a furry. wasn't interested before but my brain just spit out the worst fursona and i feel obligated to manifest it into existence. (she's a husky racefaking as a wolf for social media clout)

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The most dramatic moment during my Camp Counseling career at an all girls camp was when a girl got a letter from a friend saying that Zac Efron had died and one of her bunkmates ran out of the cabin and shouted “ZAC EFRON IS DEAD!!!!!” and the camp immediately fell into chaos girls were crying in the middle of camp and running around spreading the news everyone was yelling and the counselors had to look up wether or not Zac Efron was dead (this is a wireless camp so the girls couldn’t access the internet and check for themselves) and then get out a megaphone and be like “ZAC EFRON IS NOT DEAD PLEASE REMAIN CALM” outside of all the cabins it was insanity. 

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Might make a case for Mel in the classy grown up lady category? Because she lacks a televised origin story, it's hard to judge where she is in life beyond the Doctor but I always got the sense that she was somewhat grounded beyond him. I've only seen NuWho up through the first Ncuti Gatwa Christmas special so I'm not sure what else they did with her there other than establishing her as an orphan. Then again, her exit in Dragonfire makes little to no sense if that's the case. Then again, her exit in Dragonfire makes little to no sense periodt, to the point that the revised canon in The New Adventures that the Doctor somehow mentally influenced her to depart was preferable to what we saw on TV.

when it comes to female dr who companions on the other hand i think there are broadly speaking 3 categories:

The regular degular companion: typically a young woman in her 20s. in some way disaffected and with unfulfilled potential. generally from contemporary earth but not necessarily. Romana and Leela are in this category in spite of not coming from earth. Donna and Ace are in this category even tho they're way out of the age range. interestingly i think the earliest example of this is actually Polly who i think would slot right in with the nuwho companions in terms of vibes.

The doctor's granddaughter: plucky teenage girl who has an especially close relationship with the Doctor. around 16 years of age. usually has a love of destruction and unshakeable belief in her own abilities tho there is some variety in terms of personality. Victoria is in this category even tho she doesn't have the usual personality type. Nyssa MIGHT belog here rather than with the regular degulars? I'm unsure.

The classy grown up lady: typically over 30 years of age. what differentiates her from the regular degulars is that she has some kind of fulfilling career and is generally in a good place. the Doctor is A cool thing in her life but not the best or most important thing she's got going on. sadly as far as TV who is concerned I think this is probably the rarest type of female companion? the only classic who examples are Barbara and Liz (maybe Sara Kingdom? I'm undecided). arguably Donna moves into this category as of her second run on the show.

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Forgetting this queen??

These were my favorite because the labels had enough white space on them for me to (I can't believe I'm typing this onto the internet) *draw the Doctor Who logo at the far left* before carefully inscribing the names of the 2 90-minute serials I would record onto the tape from Maryland Public Television. (At EP, natch.)

Been working with VHS; here’s some 80s/90s aesthetic for ya.

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no i don't want you to redirect me to your app i want to look at recipe

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huh

So, fun fact about the skinned FurReal pony - I got the ID wrong, but only because Smores and Butterscotch's necks are semi-fixed in position, and I didn't think to google if the image I had of Butterscotch was mirrored.

The skinned horse IS Butterscotch, not Smores, but all of that's besides the point.

The reason I'm making this post is that y'all need to know that they skinned Butterscotch to turn her into a flamethrower