They ATE this cover of “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac!!! 🙌🏿

Grandfather

A simple tune

always flowing from these old lips

carrying a secret wisdom

a knowledge of the world around us

an untapped potential to understand 

a lifetime of discovery

that can attribute to a lifetime

of infinite greatness

the simple whistle 

that idly shows contentedness

and experience

your tunes have inspired my mind

and for that I can never give thanks enough

your stories

experiences

have all told me of things I should do

places I should go 

people I should meet

in this brief relapse from darkness we call a lifetime

Dearest Grandfather

Won’t you whistle for me?

For I love to hear the tune.

Tiny fingers gracefully pluck at strings

In the sunny morning the faerie sings

Her harp creating a waterfall of noise

Bouncing across her sharp voice

She sings a sad song in perfect tune

Her voice is crisp like the morning air

She pierces the wood with her sweet, solemn cries

The tears in her eyes glistening like diamonds in the light

The forest shakes off the night and awakes

Trees, moaning in response

Lending their sorrow to her 

The lark adding his dischordinate song

They sang a lament that few know

Fields of their family laid low

By the children they once held close

Children of nature

Once taught to love their mother

To treat the land as a brother

And care for it 

As it had for them

But they are greedy

Taking more than is needed

Exhausting what was given to them

Forgetting the mercy

They were once given

Destroying the woodlands

The safe places

The sacred places

Where they once played in the dirt

Now they pave it

And it worsens still

The magic that was once held in the dirt

In the flora and fauna

Even in the air

Is fading

The mother that breathed it into us

Is breathing her last

And her every breath is a gasp

As they gouge into her

Scarring her deeper than they can see

Slowly tearing away each piece

That they once praised

As the song came to an end

The very earth sighed

Rain fell as the mother cried

Not for her pain

But for her children

Remembering how kind they once were

Wondering where she went wrong

When they stopped listening

And then fell again to sleep

Preserving her strength for the next crime her children committed

To her now frail, sickly body

The faerie laid down her harp and felt the magic drift away

Her very breath replaced by the smoke of the machines 

To which humans now prayed

Her last thought was not of anger

Nor grief

For her own demise

Merely pity

For her long lost brothers

As they built up their cities

Only to become their tombs

Weird how opening spotify in a web browser with a decent ad blocker allows you to skip ads just like would happen if you had premium. Sure hope no one takes advantage of that.

Sure hope nobody modifies the hosts file in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc to block Spotify ads in the app…

PSST! HERE’S A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO BLOCK SPOTIFY ON WINDOWS!

aw man I sure hope nobody learns to do that

that’s so messed up that people would do that

in fact, let’s spread it everywhere so everyone knows not to do that

and everyone knows exactly what to do so that they don’t do that

foolproof plan

The party is all half human  half other races looking for their shared human parent.

Change your url op

Human Bard when he sees his gaggle of bastards stumbling into the tavern:

Fuck, yeah.

UM EXCUSE ME THOS E ARE FUCKING PIXELS HOW

Seize the Day was a calendar program made by in 1994 by Buena Vista software. It features graphics that at the time, were revolutionary because of the way they handled color cycling. These images were static bitmaps, but by changing color values, they appear animated. What is also impressive about these images is that they had full day night cycles built in, rendered also through color cycling. A few years ago, a html5 version was made. A copy was uncovered online and there is a way to use the program through DOSbox. As well, one of the original programmers for the project, Iam Gilman, has thought of the idea of remaking it, open sourced, for modern machines.

thanks for writing a more elaborate explanation. i’ve seen these pictures be spread like wildfire without mention of the technology behind it.

here’s a fantastic idea: how about Cards Against Humanity buys Tumblr??

@nyamafriend @mackie-winchester @saltybambootrash guys look

i emailed them and-

:))

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Oh my fucking god

Amazing!

Now this I can get behind

PlEASE CAH MAKE THIS A REALITY

Spirit Board

PSA

theres a new product by verzion called “hum” that allows your parents to track your car and places you go, if your parents are controlling like mine please check under your steering wheel to make sure that they havent installed this

here is what it looks like installed:

you can read more about it here, and here- this excerpt sums up what information Hum will send: 

“a car’s owner will be able to get notified on their phone when the vehicle leaves a pre-determined area or drives faster than a set speed… [Hum] will enable location tracking and a driving log, which measures travel times, engine idle times, and average speeds.” 

People in abusive relationships, please check your cars.

DO NOT TRY TO UNPLUG IT BY YOURSELF!

To add to this nightmare, I’ve just heard of a thing called ForceField where people get to monitor and block internet sites that you’re going on if they don’t approve.

It tells the user what sites/apps you’re going on, for how long you’re on them, and WHERE YOU ARE ON AN UPDATING MAP.

So you know if you’re in an abusive household and use sites like tumblr to escape and talk to friends, you could be cut off from that.

They say “it’s not spyware” but it sure sounds controlling and creepy to me.

signalboost

God. Fuck. That’s scary.

Life 360 is another tracker. My parents have used it on me, not allowing me to delete it from my phone, and sometimes even demanding selfies to prove I was where the map said. (As if I’d go anywhere without my phone)

SpectorPro is another one. Afaik it can’t track location, but it takes screenshots roughly every 20sec to allow the installer to watch a video of your computer activity. It also tracks all keystrokes, so passwords aren’t safe, and records any website you visit + the duration. It’s incredibly creepy and a huge violation of privacy, and was one of the cornerstones of my abuse as a kid.

even if you’re not in an abusive relationship/family, please spread this because you might have just saved someone’s life

Making children live in a nightmarish panopticon is not parenting