sillysongwithlarry

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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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“caught in the crossfire” is crazy work when it’s your own reporter and it’s a video where you can just watch the cop aim directly at her and shoot her completely 100% on purpose with your own two eyes

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guys. please

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IG @amazinggardenideas

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I'm putting a leather cover on my thread book to make it more durable, and debating a layer of board between the paper and leather for extra rigidity.

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buying him time

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Grasses in the wind.

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Hi! Could you give me some sex toy advice? I have recently learned that my dildo I've been using for years now is made of PVC, which is not a body safe material! also the paint/coating of some sort is chipping off my vibrator which can't be good either. So I think it's time for some new ones. Obviously Adam and Eve can't be trusted to not sell shit that leaks chemicals into my coochie so do you have any websites you recommend for good quality but cheap sex toys? Also like. im worried that I've ultra fucked up by using an unsafe toy and I dont know what to do now besides quietly have anxiety about it. Thanks sorry

hi anon,

sorry about the loss of your reliable old toys, but I'm glad you're moving on to better and more body-safe things!

I'm also going to be frank with you: sometimes good quality means spending a little more money. sex toys are not something that I can in good conscience recommend skimping on. spending money on a toy that will last longer and NOT bleed phthalates into your body is an investment worth making, both in yourself and in the retailers you buy from.

some recommendations I will drop here, from sex toy sellers I personally dig and/or have heard good things about:

Spectrum Boutique

Smitten Kitten

Kreature Toys for you monster/alien fuckers out there

Babeland

Early to Bed

Feelmore

The Pleasure Garden

I also recommend doing a little browsing of your own over at Super Smash Cache if you're looking for ideas. they own more sex toys than anyone I know and LOVE writing reviews, so you're sure to find some inspiration there!

OH also hey. listen. sex toys made of PVC aren't awesome but they're also not, like, immediately radioactively lethal dangerous. unless you're experiencing any painful or unusual symptoms around your vulva or vagina, I promise it's okay to relax about it and just jot that down as something silly you did before you knew better. like when I used to eat sand as a kid.

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted