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I was camping with my friend and told him "did you know succubus is a concatenation of 'I suck you bust' and the original myth was anti-oral sex?" after he finished laughing he said "now do incubus." I missed my chance to say "I would but you're too sleepy." and spent like an hour thinking up a fake etymology of 'incubus' but I couldn't think up anything good. :c

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Due to the gestures broadly and also my own mid life crisis I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my online presence and that my opsec has been uh, bad.

If someone had motivation and a few hours it would not be that difficult to tie a bunch of my accounts together and make a portfolio of things I’ve said that could get me in some serious trouble.

I know at some level there’s only so much I can do, but I want to at least do the things I can. The ones I’m most worried about are this site, Reddit, Discord, and TikTok. Anyone know of tools I can use to help scrub those?

Also opsec tips for how to be better in the future

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In an effort to scroll though less social media slop in my downtime at work I've set up a FreshRSS instance for myself. Only problem is I've got no idea what to put on here!

Throw some recommendations my way, I'm mostly looking for stuff to read, news and articles and the like but if you've got something you think is cool let me see it.

Also if any of you know how to get articles from a paywalled site into my rss feed lemme know, I'd like to get news from my city's paper but they paywall that shit after like 2 articles.

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Here's the context thread the quote is from: https://hexbear.net/post/4475762 (the line is from a comment, please don't bother the person who wrote the line).

I'm thinking, fascism has probably been stopped internally far more times than not? This quote is probably survivorship bias regarding a small number of particularly happenings. For the sake of the question, we'll define "fascism" to exclude things like Imperialism or lite-fascist things like liberalism, only because then the context thread would have been about leaving fascist countries for other fascist countries.

IDK I just felt like "fascism hasn't been stopped internally" needed some fact checking and revolutionary optimism.

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It was in the comments of a video called Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism.

For some reason I can't grip what the speaker is saying that well. But I can understand that the rich control what's done with more of the world's money, and they can choose to use it as a force to create worse conditions for those with less money. As well as later generations of their own family.

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Mine is that some people don't consider viruses alive. These people are fucking stupid because giruses exist as do virophages. Like yes unalive things literally hunting other unalive things totally makes sense.

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This shit is fire and I love all that sites shit.

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Can i just get another MMR vaccine and it'll be fine if i did get it? Early 2000's

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Through some weird military training accident I had an extreme burn on my back and this somehow led to me having to walk from Florida back to Chicago. This dream also included Brandon Herrera smoking out a cat with DMT.

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Impotent rage that dies down in a few or......because thats a lot of people living paycheque to paycheque

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Example - https://www.threads.net/@radicalgraffiti/post/DHZlChFzu95

Is there an addon or something that will allow a right-click?

I had to do this pain in the ass...

  1. Do a screen grab.
  2. Clean that up.
  3. Upload to google reverse image search
  4. Scroll down until I got a non-Zuck site.
  5. Visit that site.

Right-click doesn't work. And poking around in the source HTML is no good either. The src link in the image tag is enormous. I don't know what to do with it.


HTML


Edit 1

Oops. I forgot to say I have no accounts at any Zuck site.


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I'd still like a right-click solution to easily grab the largest size image but here's a way to grab a small image. There are sure a few ways to get the final point.

  • I right-clicked.
  • I clicked Inspect.
  • I then clicked the code not the image. And I got this...

  • Then I left clicked the image link to open it in a new tab.

https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/485477202_18183967303312348_4914598230195675619_n.webp?stp=dst-webp_s480x480&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6ImltYWdlX3VybGdlbi4xNDQweDE0MTIuc2RyLmY3NTc2MS5kZWZhdWx0X2ltYWdlIn0&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=104&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2QGWVbWsz-Jwz4hAK-DB3K3zRJSFNXrA_2xnoeP7IK0al3ZlS-shH7hIiiU0aWS3eNU&_nc_ohc=kSEPD_TtzC4Q7kNvgHiK8JC&_nc_gid=no1xneV67rFej0AY0DgLng&edm=APs17CUBAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzU5MjA2NTA3ODQ5NTQ3MzUyOQ%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&oh=00_AYGNTzz3170OrPlaxBNqtd0PDe3ztk4mLOS3gdWpcKdvXw&oe=67E3A7A5&_nc_sid=10d13b

AernaLingus's comment made me realize I missed that.

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honestly curious. Gonna turn 20 in may and even then, I still feel too young for anything

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Out of sheer laziness (too fkn lazy to bend over apparently) I just spent five minutes trying to pick up a damn pencil, instead of taking fifteen seconds to bend over and grab it.

I’ll never get those five minutes back. JFC.

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submitted 2 months ago by Zoift@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

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Spoiler

Its low metabolic rate may be linked to its generally folivorous diet and relatively small body mass. Lemurs exhibit behavioral adaptations to complement this trait, including sunning behaviors, hunched sitting, group huddling, and nest sharing, in order to reduce heat loss and conserve energy.

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It's been my mantra these past few years. When I meet a professional (or a capitalist), I just assume that they're gonna have bad opinions. And if I meet someone doing actual prole world, and possibly having some other life disadvantage, I just assume that they're probably decent and have an OK world view.

I notice myself bringing this philosophy into convos with the younger comrades, telling them to be careful of the beautiful posh people that pop into their lives. Also with organising, I'm trying to include and/or involve more poor people and exclude more useless professionals. It's not easy, and I'm not gonna brag and say that I found an easy way to do this, but it's a pretty main focus.

I get that Friedrich Engels rich boy types do exist, I'm not closed to the possibility of someone having comfort yet being decent. I'm sure that there are a few shitty poor people out there as well, but I assume that on average, the proles are gonna way kinder.

Sorry if this is poorly thought out or badly typed. I'm really burnt out from work atm.

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I really despise this country and I want out. The mask off descent in fascism cannot end well and I'd rather contribute my labor elsewhere (if I can help it).

I wanted to get some opinions on countries I should consider if I wanted to try to get citizenship or exist in for moderate stints of time. I've had Ireland, Vietnam, and China in mind initially. I'm partly asking due to a thread a while ago where someone was describing what Irish politics looks like nowadays and threw some cold water on that first idea. Preferably this place also not in a precarious position when the affects of climate change start kicking in.

Are there others I should keep in mind that would be vaguely socialist or at least not borderline evil?

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SpoilerIt's a yucca plant in the snow.

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I can't figure this shit out and I feel like a complete boomer. I'm logged in on mobile, I set a password for my account, but when I try to log in via desktop it wants me to make a new account and sign up with a phone number.

On desktop also it defaults to the 86 China area code, and I can't change it. But anyway it doesn't matter I already have an account.

All my attempts at finding a login page just default to the /explore URL and it just wants me to sign in with my phone number, which I can't enter because of the area code.

I hate this mobile shit god damnit lol I just want to look at cats

Edit: also I found this lol reddit-logo

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