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Me to me when I repeat past mistakes when I know better

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hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

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tonight i swore a blood oath to the minimum wage workers at my local subway

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They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

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tumblr friendships are hard to maintain like im sorry i know i havent talked to you in 5 months but you’re still super rad and i still consider us friends im just dumb

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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I love uninstalling shit. Get out of my computer.

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hello new ppl

welcome to theinternetarchive, where i document my journey scrolling through archive.org. it's my favorite pastime.

here are some helpful links:

FREE FILMS AVAILABLE ON THE ARCHIVE (LETTERBOXD LIST [with all/updating links])

+ subtitle extension info in case you need them and they're not included

how to get print disabled access (to be able to borrow the books public rights have been revoked from)

ways to search on the internet archive

subscribe to GAZE: A Newsletter About Film theory (free)

PSA tag sorting for dates is: century if pre-1900 (i.e. 1700s, 1500s) and decade if post 1900 (20s, 00s, 90s, etc.) there's three decade exceptions (1910s, 2010s, 2020s).

popular tags:

photography

paintings

objects

magazines

more niche tags i love:

bee ottinger <- documented the la lesbian house c. 1971-3.

california <- photographers don seimens, shuck chan, california labor school students, merton doss

book of hours

cats

poetry

archive links to some great films:

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

cries and whispers (1972) dir. ingmar bergman

carnival of souls (1962) dir. herk harvey

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roeg

ringu (1998) dir. hideo nakata

the white ribbon (2009) dir. michael heneke

okay enjoy your time :P

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for anyone in the UK, needing to access discord and unable or unwilling to provide an ID:

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

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

use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of 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 instead of google drive

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms

use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).

use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

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, ecosia, or ocean hero 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 thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta 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 project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks

use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio

use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs

use mastodon instead of twitter

use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)

use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop

use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers

use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices

learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)

use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)

use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite

use google takeout to export the data on your google account

use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library

remove paywalls with removepaywalls

install the open-source adblocker ublock origin

install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos

use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks

learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school

edit photos with photopea

edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf

download music with doubledouble

take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian

for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)

change your OS to linux

changelog:

removed ground news (uses AI to summarize articles)

removed unroll.me (sells your data)

removed proton mail and drive (AI assistant feature, claims of CEO Andy Yen supporting Trump, please DM if you have proof I can add here)

removed NCH suite (only has very basic free features, puts watermark on anything saved)

notes:

this post blew up while I wasn’t looking (the end of my semester was hellish, and i recently came back from a 3-week family vacation). thanks so much for all the suggestions! <3

i included Ecosia because of their financial transparency. It’s physically impossible that they plant a tree for every search, but their profits still go towards projects including reforestation and solar energy. i view their actions as a net-positive

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: june 14th 2025

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photo: ElI Bond

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me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.