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If nothing else, I can at least mention being in the phandom since literally the day Mystery Meat premiered in the USA. I was three months and change away from my 12th birthday, and the premise just HOOKED me from the promos, so I made sure I was free that April 3rd and ran inside when it started.

Two years later, I was thrilled to finally be the same age (14) as my favorite superhero!

As I sit here, three months and change away from my 32nd birthday, it warms my heart that the phandom has mirrored Danny himself: alive and dead, funny and horrific, innocent and oh-so-jaded.

much love to danno okay gotta actually do my work now bye

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Happy Danno Day!

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OH SHIT IT'S THE THIRD

gah I'm at WORK so I don't have anything prePAAARED

I don't even have access to the celebratory version of my avatar oh WAIT YES I DO I POSTED IT okay I can at least do that

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YES MY BADGE DREAM HAS BEEN ACHIEVED

@they-bite was #1,000 for me :D

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hey people here's the ultimate boop guide!! (in case ur confused)

to boop people, just go to either the home/explore page and scroll until you find someone with a boop button next to their name like this ↓

just click that and u booped someone!!

(some people opted out so not everyone has that option)

(also, it doesn't matter if the person is following you, your moot, etc,, u can just boop a random stranger!)

you can also boop yourself by going to your own blog and click the boop button on top of a post that you made/reblogged !

(also gives you this pop-up lol)

you can also view someone's blog and then boop them with this button !

last but not least we have the super boop !!

find any boop button, hover over it for a few seconds, then it should do a spinning animation; then click it and if it gives u this pop-up that means it worked :3

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me booping my moots on tumblr circa march/april 2024

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me: boops a mutual once

them:

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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!

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Something small that stood out to me about Barbie is how, when talking to the construction bros, she very bluntly said “I don’t have a vagina. And he doesn’t have a penis.”

Like?

No need to say “pussy” or “dick” or any euphemism or nervousness around it. They’re body parts, like arms and toes and whatnot.

Perfect.

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Guess what arrived today!

…did I get my copy really early or something? Haven’t seen much posting about it, even under spoiler tags.

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A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

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AHHH I have been here for so lonnnggg

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 07/22/2011 6:27:10 AM.

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New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.