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praying mantis

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So many are emerging, claiming that they wish to be the new figurehead to replace the Croaker. In my opinion as Lord of Clowns, there is only one correct answer here. A true test of courage, faith, and public image. The pinnacle of glorious democracy.

I propose an election.

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its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

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This is your daily reminder to keep bugging Youtube about their AI Verification Bot until they give up and scrap the plan. Whether it's through Email, or clogging up their phoneline with calls, keep pressuring them.

If it's working against the Credit Card companies, it's sure as shit gonna work against them too. We shouldn't have to give our faces and IDs to Youtube because some parents are too fucking stupid to look after their kids.

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incredible scenes in josh johnson's yt comments

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GUYS WE FOUND IT

it's from the Seattle show😭

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

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Would you do it? 🌑👈

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REBLOG THIS POST TO SPREAD AWARENESS!

This isn’t just about protecting the kids anymore, it’s about invading their privacy and limiting their freedom. Spread awareness to everyone and hope that this doesn’t go forward.

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gentle reminder that “gay panic” is not a cutesy way of describing a gay character freaking out over another character or their sexuality. gay panic is a legal defense tactic used in the US until very recently to get homophobes out of facing consequences for killing or assaulting queer people. it is neither cute nor funny.

if you didn’t know this, that’s ok, now you do! proceed accordingly.

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how to not own a song

Before you start:

Download Firefox

Install an adblocker addon

Also install a popup-blocker addon

Restart your windows pc (restart, not shut down and start new)

look the song up on youtube, the video does NOT matter, only the audio quality (no blips, although, they will make you feel things, so, your decision).

copy the link via "share" button

go to convert2mp3.club (popup and ad warning)

put the video link into the text field and press enter

press the "download audio" button

press the "download" button Firefox comes up with

save on a directory of your choice on your device

Congrats, you now do not own a song, but have it at hand anyway.

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so, new spotify update.

(pt : so, new spotify update.)

[id 1/ a screenshot of spotify on a grey background. text reads, in bold, "There's a monthly limit on lyrics". text under in grey reads, "Every time you tap "Show lyrics", it will count towards your limit. To get full access to lyrics, switch to Spotify Premium." A button in green reads, "Show lyrics", and under it, another button reads "Dismiss." /end id]

[id 2/ a screenshot of spotify on a slate grey background. Text reads above, "Lyrics preview". more text under, in bold, reads, "I've earned myself a reputation / That my bark is much worse than my bite / But I keep snapping at Goliath's hands / With all of my tiny might / There are no stones at my disposal". at the last line, it fades, and a box reads, "You've hit your lyrics limit for this month." a button under in white reads, "Learn more." /end id]

(screenshots courtesy of @thatweirdqueer , my boyfriend <3)

my boyfriend came across this message after clicking show lyrics once. they're forcing a limit on looking up lyrics to a song in their own app, and we need to talk about it.

at this point, spotify premium has been so forced onto us, that spotify is practically not even a free app. if you skip one too many songs, you have to listen to five or more ads. the dislike and like features they've implemented do nothing. everyday i boot up spotify, it flashes a larger than life ad with a button so small i can barely see it, just to dismiss myself. it tracks if you've bought premium to market these ads to you to guilt you into getting it back. you can't even download songs from it without premium. it's a barely functioning free app with everything locked behind a paywall.

if you want good lyrics for free, without having to pay a corporation for them, id recommend azlyrics, lyrictranslate, and searching the music artists channel. azlyrics doesn't have every song, which is a guaranteed, but its extremely easy to navigate, doesn't have many ads, and lays its lyrics out in a manner thats extremely easy to read. lyricstranslate has lyrics translated from many different languages, and can even translate songs into other languages on a whim. its run by people who can translate them, and is free to modify if you find a mistake. searching up the song on the artists channel (NOT the youtube owned topic) can help wield results as to what the lyrics are. one such example of this is femtanyl, who writes all of their lyrics in the descriptions of their videos.

adding onto this, if you'd like to download videos for free, whether it be mp4 or mp3, id recommend searching youtube to mp3 in an incognito tab! (id recommend this because some sites send you to rather sketchy websites sadly. they are efficient, you just have to ensure what you download is what you want. plus, it keeps it out of your search history if you share a browser with someone!) its easy, just copy the link of the video you want and paste it into the box. then, choose what file format you want it to be downloaded in, click convert, and now you have your own file downloaded for free. i've used this method for years now, and it hasn't failed me.

in conclusion, FUCK capitalism, DELETE spotify, and USE ALTERNATIVES.

-badger

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Does anyone have suggestions for music apps that are good and also not Spotify ? I don't want to fund their AI murder drones. I'm switching to YouTube music for right now but Google isn't exactly the most ethical company in the universe either. Do I just get an mp3 player and accept that it's a pirates life for me?

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btw because i havent said this enough in the past

but fuck spotify, they lock basic functionality (like BEING ABLE TO CHOOSE WHICH SONG IS PLAYING) behind their overpriced subscription service, they pay artists jack shit, and they're one of the first to bend the knee to the fucking OSA

fuck spotify

either pirate ur shit, buy it on bandcamp to actually support the artist in any meaningful amount, or buy CDs

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YOU CAN BE A GUY EVEN IF NO ONE SEES YOU AS ONE

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they are barring wikipedia. they are barring spotify. they are barring important news - both national news and world news. they are barring mental health forums and LGBTQ related things and so much more. this is not about protecting children, it has never been about protecting children.

the online safety act is an insane privacy breach, and if that does not scare you then you need to think harder about it. it is going to end up in a massive data leak - all the information is getting collected by random third party systems. can we trust them? no. can we even hold them accountable? no. because the government couldn’t even make their own system to do these age checks.

and i hear you - it is important that kids don’t see porn. but even if all this was about protecting kids, it’s sloppy and useless. it’s easy (for now) to get around with a vpn and the only thing the act doing is censoring things that it shouldnt. if the government wanted to protect kids, they would do something concrete about it - they would be putting more funding into education, for example.

of course the policy isnt called “national surveillance”. they’re not going to call it that. everything will be hidden behind things that people want.

so email your MP, and tell other people that this is WAY more than blocking porn from children - this is the first step towards national surveillance.

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