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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

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Hot take: Perturabo should, in fact, Come Back in 40k. He just doesn't do anything. Instead, he chills out and plays with his minis. Like every so often there's this big build up to a Chaos character getting to meet Perturabo The Daemon Primarch, and then instead of a major plot beat he tells them to either play a round or fuck off. Yes, I know this already happened with Honsou, I am saying that it should happen more often. I think it would be great if in the middle of all the sturm und drang of 40k, with everything getting ratcheted up a notch, there's just this one very important and powerful dude who has zero interest in getting involved. He just chills and plays with his minis. He's out of the Long War. He's free.

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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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Unmute !

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One must always pay the cheese tax

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does the 69 button have a name or are we all calling it the 69 button.

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thank you tumblr user amongussexgif

Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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.That Judge Judy Pussy grip insane. You be calling her Judith on the second stroke.

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Teto Pear!

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A crossover of Spy x Family and Batman I made by photoshopping different panels together. I hope you enjoy

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i had the same hoodie! everyone said it was cringe and also they were all wrong

I've wanted one of these hoodies since I was like 15

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it's like their own @the-frightening-ghoul

I’ve discovered my new favorite gimmick account on twitter lmao

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You ever see a word in english that's half silent vowels and half mispronounced, because every time I do I think to myself

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He's in fucking heaven.

But not for long.

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happy birthday to Hannah Smith

too much news about musicians dying and stuff. they need to start reporting celebrity births for a change