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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

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I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

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I hope everyone is aware Dev Patel has a movie in theaters right now where he guts a bunch of Hindutva fascists with an army of hijra to a heavy metal soundtrack about killing rapists ok good thanks

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Not to be a hopeless romantic, but was anyone going to tell us that 2023 was the year scientists were able to visualize quantum-entangled particles for the first time and they literally look like yin and yang??

Full article published in Nature Photonics here, though I read a lay reader friendly explanation here!

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Britney Spears’s hair is such a powerful symbol in her memoir, and you can’t even attribute the genesis of that symbol to Sam Lansky (her probable ghostwriter) because it’s something she has physically wielded since the infamous hair-shaving incident. In the memoir she writes about being “mad with grief” because Kfed had taken her children, babies at the time, away from her, and she was very conscious of men finding long hair sexy, of her awareness that the same people who wanted her to be “pretty” and “good” were the same people who’d been objectifying her since she was a teenager while simultaneously claiming that she was corrupting the youth with the same sexualized image she was projecting. Her hair was the one thing she could take away from the audience, paparazzi, team and family that saw her body as public property. During Britney’s residency in Vegas, during which she was under conservatorship and forced to perform for other people’s profit, she was so acutely aware of how she was expected to move her hair (a tight wig at the time) that her small act of rebellion was to keep every hair on that suffocating wig in place. During the conservatorship, one of the only people to encourage Britney and talk to her like a human deserving of agency was a hairdresser…word got out to her father and that hairdresser was promptly fired. That bottle-blond hair represents so much, it’s a throughline in her career/captivity/freedom…

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i keep quoting this theirs actual tears in my eyes

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CHAPPELL ROAN photographed in Columbus, OH by @luxxienne on March 22, 2024 (x)

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been rewatching Steven Universe again recently I've missed them...

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Just Rose

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Please please please go see Monkey Man! It’s a fun, passionate and brutal film obviously made with a ton of love.

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he gets it he really does

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in monkey man when dev patel makes the final confrontation he asks "do you know my mother's name? do you know any of their names?" and that's when it hit me...his character has no name and we've gone the entire movie without him ever identifying himself that way. when you give up a part of yourself for a righteous cause, losing his name so he can fully embody hanuman...yeah this movie is so good

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— you can just tell they had the most fun time filming monkey man too. dev patel the multitalented and gorgeous man that you are.

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"blessings from my mother."

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Dev Patel on the transgender representation, including the hijra community, in Monkey Man (2024).

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it’s always the ones perpetuating the cycle of violence that tells you to break it. baba shakti telling the kid he should break the cycle, only when it spares him, like a coward afraid of death. fuck you, he can break the cycle tomorrow, you had his mum killed.

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my analysis of Monkey Man is that it will be taught in film schools