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The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.

THIS

"Why is pirating going back up?!"

This. This is why. People don't mind paying a high price for software if it's only the once, or every 4-5 years.

But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don't?

That's why people are pirating software.

It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).

However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available. 

Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.

My laptop just died. If it can't be fixed and I need to replace it, this post is gonna be a real life saver, because my family has been sharing an old version of Word that came with a limited number of lifetime licenses, and we're fresh out.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

Get LibreOffice. It's fully compatible with MS Office, but it's free and open source. You're welcome. :-)

Guinea Pigs Eating a Grass Field

this is so cute <3 <3

you should really watch the entire video before reblogging

Let’s make some color-changing botanical ink using grape hyacinth (muscari) flowers!

Ingredients:

Instructions:

** The ink will appear very purple, but when put to paper dries in varying shades of blue. If you want to experiment with color further, add an acid (lemon juice) to produce shades of pink, and a basic (baking soda) to make shades of green.

*** Because of the changing nature of the ink, what your painting/writing looks like will change over time! I have muscari paintings that started bright blue/purple but have faded to almost entirely green. Some have stayed blue. That's the fun of it!!

replaces your white elf with wyll

SAVE ME FROM MY SELF-DESTRUCTION, HOPELESS FOR YA | anoctivaga

Dorothy Lake Gregory - Moonlight Gossip (1921)

google search how to stop experiencing anticipatory grief when this world has taken so much from me already

went to scared.com and they said youre a regular. they said youve got prey animal rank.

got so high I got scared and had to get out of the car to calm down and a coyote immediately sprinted out of the underbrush and stalked towards me

i was like ok im a little too high and immediately there were beasts.

i must not stir the pot. stirring the pot is the notifications-killer. participation in the discourse is the little-death that brings total activity obliteration. i will face the bad opinions on the internet. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, i will turn the block button onto their source. where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. only i will remain.

the mining dwarfer seems to pick his axe at night

girl it's a single sentence

need you to be not so toughies on me.

i want to thank you both for turning my biggest wording fumble where i clumsily said mining dwarfer instead of dwarven miner into a post i chuckle at whenever it comes across my dash

hold on i'm busy i'll have to check what you said in a minute

finally read this. would not have reblogged!

David Hockney (1937), Pretty Tulips, 1970

everytime I've seen a recovering addict on this site post something about wishing there were more fun social spaces that weren't geared around substance use (including myself) I've seen them get called immature asexual anti-sex homophobes who need to grow up and get a grip. which is definitely cool and normal and a reasonable way to react to people talking about different accessibility needs.

I want to make it clear that I redacted "asexual" here because these people are usually just barely not saying the quiet part out loud, a large amount of this knee-jerk negative response to ideas about sober social spaces is 100% a holdover from tumblr's peak "ace discourse" days where exclusionists took hold of the idea that The Asexual Community wanted to abolish queer nightlife for being tooooo horny (to say nothing of the much longer and storied history of the intersections between various kinds of ableism and acephobia). just, I've gotten a few responses to this post that seem to think the redaction means I don't see this as related to acephobia, and that is completely untrue, I made this post specifically to draw that connection.

BIG ASS STURGEON

we have lost so much language to the horny. cant even order a coconut cream pie without hearing giggles. just the other day i was trying to get a job as a henchmen so i asked my friend if he could help me goon. laughed right into my fucking face he did