Having your own data can be incredibly useful and valuable, the trick is protecting that data so that nefarious actors can’t use it.

Link for those curious

The horrors persist, but so do we.

We can get through this if we fight like hell and work together.

I won’t go quietly into that good night, I’ll be kicking, screaming, clawing, and biting. And if I’m not alone then we have a chance to make sure that what comes to pass is a new dawn.

Edit: Also here’s a link to the artist’s etsy page for this sticker. NGL I wish they had an enamel pin for this one.

Given the origins of Luce, that would probably be one of their favorite fantasies.

I thought it was a fun image to share due to the characters mocking them.

Sometimes you can have hernias that you don’t notice (and don’t pose an immidiate health risk) until they get irritated or damaged. This can happen when a hernia is small(ish) and only contains fat from inside your abdomin.

These hernias can exist from when you were born as well. So you may never have had the tissue there to hold everything inside inside.

You can get these hernias fixed (and you should) but in a lot of cases (unless they get trapped intestine in them) they are considered “elective surgeries”. What this means is that unless they are actively hindering your life then your health insurance is likely to be a bastard about paying for it.

I unfortunately learned all of this from finding a small hernia because it got really painful after I got pneumonia a few years ago. We found 4 hernias but only 1 was causing pain so my insurance only covered the surgery for 1. So I’ve got 3 more that are just ticking time bombs.

10 years and counting

There’s so much bullshit in new cars that’s it’s infuriating, especially considering the cars call home with all kinds of privacy violating bullshit.

My Mini Factory is primarily where I get mine (if you want a list of users I primarily buy mine)

Cults3D is another place but they’re a lot more hit and miss on quality IMO

The best models are purchased models (in general) though MZ4250 on Printables models are free and also pretty high quality.

Personally I won’t pirate models of people in the 3D printing mini community as I want to support the creators in that space as they’re not giant megacorps.

Just 2 bros comparing shot composition, ain’t nothing weird about that.

If you get the lighting just right it’s called Rembrandt Lighting and it’ll really make it look nice

Luce the Pilgrim?

As far as I can tell yes

One of my friends sent this to me this morning and it was too funny not to share

One thing I would recommend though is if you have some hobbies try to find beginner friendly communities for those hobbies as they are usually super positive and helpful, and they’ll give you the chance to be that as well.

Personally I found helping people dive into the stuff I’m interested in was a massive boost to my mental health.

There’s just something wonderful about it that I really can’t explain.

They mostly turn into crabs in a bucket communities because the ones that stick around long term in those communities are usually the doomer types.

Or at least that was my experience with it years ago.

My best advice is to avoid those communities as I found they only made my mental health worse rather than better.

My phone switched to bedtime mode right as I opened this so it was in black and white and holy hell is it a mood that way

Color looks frightening too but black and white looks like something right out of an old monster film

And at this point I don’t trust Microsoft to not stuff them in there as a “last update for Windows 10”

Instructions unclear, I hear scritching and tapping.

I think the beetle is tapping out Yellow Submarine on my ear drum.

Ah that makes more sense

They probably horde that data like a Dragon hordes gold

Only 6 months? Honestly I’m surprised it’s so short of time frame.

Seemingly once a year my windows machine goes into an infinite loop of bluescreens. It’s because of my wireless/bluetooth card everytime.

Windows will update the driver during one of it’s bug updates, fail, then I have to go into safe mode and install the correct driver. Then it’s business as usual.

Windows doesn’t seem to care that I told it to never update my drivers, it’ll still do it once a year.

It’s definitely shitty and stressful a lot of the time that’s for sure…

The air is changing in the area (especially compared to when I was young) in a good way but the ones that have shitty views are getting more blood thirsty in how they talk. The youths are getting more progressive here, hell I was getting ice cream with a boyfriend a few months ago and we overheard some teens openly talking about being queer. When we were that young we wouldn’t have dared to do that fearing for our lives.

If shit does hit the fan (like we do fear) at least my friends and found family have plans for how to make it out the other side alive. And hopefully inspire others to continue the fight no matter the odds.

When I was young and discovering myself, my existence was illegal in my area and queer people in my area were still heavily persecuted.

I won’t go into details about the terrible things I’ve seen and experienced as I’m sure nobody here wants to hear it.

Laughing not to cry and all that you know?

Edit: I’m also not a fan of how you brought (and doubled down) on trying to make it a race thing.