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the cool thing about having friends is you can just write them a letter. and the thing about letters is you might feel like you have to craft a whole heartfelt thing and get intimidated by it, but actually it doesnt even have to say much of anything. you can just write "hello sweaty." because the thing about friends is theyll receive your letter & be like "yippeeeee a letter." & it will make you feel elderly in a cool way

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

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I love your Kirby!!!!!!!!!!

friend kirby

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the most waterparks per capita in the country! (click for quality, id under cut)

id: a vintage postcard illustration style design, the background is an image of the green bank telescope in a field with a cloudy blue sky it has an oil paint texture, the text says Slide into and the Slippery City! in script font with a white drop shadow above and below the main larger text that says KEPLER, the back outline is muted robin's egg blue and the bottom outline is orange with gray halftone, each letter is filled with a different image: the K is a snow covered mountain with trees, E is a pine tree in the mountains, P is a waterpark slide and pool, L is a road curving through the autumn woods, E is a large wooden lodge in the forest, and R is a road curving into the horizon of trees, the entire image has a grain overlay end id.

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wow taz amnesty is so cool... i wish west virginia was real 😔

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my husband has this image saved for whenever i grow distant

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Head Archivist Hatsune Miku design. one could even say the world is hers

thanks OP for the idea,, I'll see if I'll get to the other Fears

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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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car crap for @bastardnoodle

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beanbag chair psychology

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fight

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God IS a middle schooler and we ARE a science project except he does know we exist and has very mixed feelings about the whole ordeal

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happy birthday karkat!