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No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

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This is how ppl talk in Brave New World when they're trying to be open-minded with us outsider savages.

youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,

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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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Okay so this is a bit of fun inspired by a conversation with @sootyships, about mando eating utensils while out in the field. It's based on old interlocking utensils from the swedish army, except with chopsticks because of noodle reasons. Something to clip to your belt or pack during travel. The tube is the fancy option, stuffing it in a pocket is another

Is this a lot for what could techincally be called a shitpost? Yes, yes it is Have a nice day!

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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I had a silly idea for all you Mando'a linguists: The Dangerous Book for Boys/Daring Book for Girls reimagined in Mando'a for the ade to learn basic skills plus some games, songs, and history.

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The rise of anti-intellectualism has been crazy to witness especially bc people aren’t putting the pieces together. Like more and more I’m seeing average every day people saying things like an education and even literacy are not necessary to earn a living. Meanwhile those in power are absolutely sending their children to the best schools and ensuring that they will receive accredited degrees. The people who hold economic, legal and social power are educated; why would you want to lock yourself out of being able to participate in those spaces? If knowledge was so useless, why do those in power not want you have it while they hoard it for themselves and their children?

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I'm finding myself getting REALLY into Star Wars food, and I'm currently pondering Star Wars rations.

So you know that scene in The Force Awakens with the polystarch portion bread and the vegmeat? You know, this scene:

The polystarch portion bread has a satisfactory recipe in the Star Wars: Black Spire Outpost cookbook, but I have never once found a good recipe for vegmeat (the flat green things Rey is frying in the background). Which got me thinking: how could we replicate the look of the product on screen, the cooking method, and get a good flavor AND high-protein nutritional profile?

I have an idea: sicillian panella, but modified to make it Star Wars. Sicillian panella are a sort of chickpea flour fritter that starts off on the same idea as a burmese tofu: bean flour or ground soaked beans blended into a paste and cooked down, then allowed to set. Then fried.

We would have to do three things to modify this. First, add ingredients for flavor. Second, something for the color. We could go with spirulina, spinach- the possibilities are endless. Then we need this to somehow fry up without needing added fat, so we'll need to somehow add in or coat the surface with some kind of fat that will soak into the cooked product. I may take a page out of Impossible Meat's playbook and blend in some coconut oil.

Thoughts?

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if you feel like you're always getting talked over, or if you feel like you're always accidentally interrupting people, you should consider looking into some of the linguistics research about conversation style and turn-taking. lingthusiasm podcast has a great episode called "how to rebalance a lopsided conversation" that goes over some of this research in a really accessible way; Deborah Tannen's book You just don't understand is an early book¹ that's aimed at general audiences on the same topic.

the thing is, when there's conflict in how a conversation flows, often what's going on is a mismatch in norms or expectations -- not that one person is necessarily acting "wrong" and the other person is "right." the mismatches in norms/expectations can and do align with existing power structures in society, but being more aware of them can really help you as an individual trying to navigate them.

you can train your brain for more linguistic awareness! start listening for pauses, intakes of breath, or back-channeling that's meant to support, not interrupt. try it out!

¹ I am linking to the wikipedia page for the book rather than a link to buy the book because it's kind of outdated and the criticism section on the wiki page is pretty reasonable. If you do read this book, be prepared for uhhhh period-typical gender essentialism that, to my knowledge, Tannen has not particularly updated her views on in the intervening time. But it is an influential and important book, just read it skeptically imo

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So here's an important thing to note:

Karen Traviss writing in that Mandos, and later Clones, enjoyed spicy foods? That was from her lived experiences in the Iraq war.

I have family that fought in that war, and you know what happened to all of them? Whether or not they liked spicy food before the war, they came home with a taste for Tobasco sauce. See, as it turns out, repetitive rations get boring and downright unpalatable very fast. Even the good, fresh stuff on base gets old. So what do you do? You learn to make it interesting.

It starts with ketchup on your eggs and grits. Ranch on pizza (just like the kiddos at school). And then that isn't enough, so what comes next? Hot sauce.

Military people and hot sauce go hand in hand, my friends. I think by the time we get a couple of years into the Clone Wars, the clones have all developed a taste for "whatever it takes to make me feel something," a la the Mandalorian way.

I generally don't mind clones adopting parts of Mando culture. The spicy food thing though... bro the budgeting people on Kamino were NOT signing off on tons of Mandalorian ingredients for a millions-strong army of ultra-hungry speed-growing boys. Those men were raised on ration bars and nutrient slop and meals seasoned with nothing but atmosphere. They wouldn't make it past round two on Hot Ones. (Also maybe stay away from foods that can temporarily fuck up your digestive tract if you're a soldier lol)

Let's have some clone culture that isn't a carbon copy of whatever that vanishingly small bunch of Mandalorian trainers might have practiced on Kamino. I like to think that the clones are excellent at making mild dishes out of whatever can be hunted or foraged in the wild, heavy on herbs and ingredients they pickled or dried themselves. They love convenience!! They make jerky out of anything and whatever cannot be jerkyfied just goes in a jar. Everything can become a preserve snack if you're creative. And let there be different types of clone cuisine depending on where they're stationed and what local foods they can take inspiration from!! So many cool possibilities!!