if you have an android phone get newpipe

thank me later.

newpipe is:

• YouTube without ads
• YouTube with downloads (you can even download the audio by itself!)
• YouTube with subscriptions and playlists without logging in
• completely free.

this is not sponsored newpipe just absolutely fucks

newpipe also has a grade A privacy rating on tosdr.org, in contrast to youtube’s grade C

It works with Soundcloud and Bandcamp too holy shit

also, it supports picture-in-picture playing and background playing both when the app isn't in focus and with your screen off. it truly fucks

in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

scale as in „to climb“ comes from the latin scala, for ladder.

scale as in the measuring device comes from the old norse skal, for a drinking vessel sometimes used as a weighing device

scale as in the dermal plating on the skin of some fish and reptiles comes from the old french escale, for shell or husk.

Three languages enter, one language leaves.

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

nobody is coming to save you. get up

o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

\o/ <- woohoo!

<o> <- EXTREME STRESS, LIKE "OH FUCK OH SHIT" STRESS

orz <- the person is on their hands and knees, on the floor, god what happened to them

OTL <- same, but we are now closer to them (mb softly pat their back or something)

or2 <- the person is still on their hands and knees but they've got a fat ass now

Can people please fucking stop making "haha, Floridians are all poor stupid crackheads" jokes?

If we're poor, it's because our state government cares more about the rich tourists in the coastal high-rises than the average citizen, and the cost of living won't stop rising no matter how hard the people scream for relief.

If we're uneducated, it's because our state government is gutting education left and right, and turning it into a battleground in the white supremacist culture war.

If we're addicts, it's because we have no social safety net and self-medication is all we can turn to.

Every Florida Man headline is about a real human being, usually one under extreme duress and with absolutely no social resources to fall back on.

I hope none of you ever have to see a loved one--or yourself--represented as little more than a "Florida Man" joke, when the truth of the situation is that you were scared, starving, and vulnerable to state violence and asshole reporters who would rather pursue a viral headline than respect the dignity of a human being in crisis.

I dunno, asshole, maybe you'd hear more of the stories of Floridians fighting against this shit if the national media didn't sensationalize Florida Man stories as nothing but a joke and ignore the rest of Florida news.

Fucking bold as hell of you to assume we aren't doing these things and getting kneecapped by the gerrymandering, police brutality, and criminalization of protestors.

Jackass.

I mean yes but also Florida had a brain-drain problem long before the education wars. Simultaneous wealth-magnet and brain-drain is a unique combo.

Me: "Stop stereotyping Floridians as stupid; we are being held hostage by a draconian state government, and our weird news stories get over-sensationalized by the media."

Everyone, immediately, for some fucking reason: "Have you considered that Floridians are just stupid and always have been?"

#hey remember that time florida voted to reinstate voters rights to felons and the state just ignored it

You know, now that I think about it, I don't think I ever saw anyone outside of Florida talking about that story?

So for those not in the know, back in 2018, just under 65% of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to former prisoners. Sixty-five fucking percent of voters.

This happened after years of activism, and months and months and months in which countless volunteers went out collecting petition signatures and handing out literature. There was a summer in which I was pretty reliably approached by activists handing out petition forms nearly every time I left the house to run errands. They would hang out at convenience stores, grocery stores, city parks, the library, pretty much anywhere they wouldn't get chased off.

All that effort and all that activism got sixty-five percent of voters to support voting rights restoration for convicted felons.

So what happened?

In 2019, Ron DeSantis signed SB 7066 into law, which requires all convicted felons to fully pay off "all fines and fees" associated with their conviction before being eligible for voting rights restoration.

Sixty-five percent of voting Floridians wanted convicted felons to get their voting rights back, and in one fucking bill, Ron DeSantis overruled it and pushed through a modern-day poll tax. To this day, there is no clear system in place, and countless people have been penalized for "voting illegally" even after sixty-five percent of Florida voters supported no-strings-attached voter rights restoration.

But sure. Floridians are all stupid crackheads who don't know how to organize. It definitely has nothing to do with the fascists in office.

Sources: [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]

To all the bigots on my Instagram who were soooo salty about my pride month post, here's something extra gay I drew just for them <3

The more bigot comments I get, the more gay art I'm going to draw~

Love & Peace!

Blank version to enjoy without the hate~