PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

I use LibreOffice. It's wonderful.

A reminder!

Worth noting, this is actually more Nazi than the swastika itself, which has significance to Buddhists, Hindus, Slavs, Balts, and others that massively predate its appropriation by facists.

This thing, by contrast, has only one meaning.

Nazis have appropriated Norse/Viking culture to the EXTREMES, even to the point of making up an entire Nazi "runic" alphabet and permanently changing how many people perceive Nordic creation myths.

Definitely do research into symbols or letters that claim to have originated from the Vikings, as "the black sun" unfortunately isn't a unique case.

There are plenty of videos and articles out there that break down the differences between actual Runic languages/symbols and appropriated Nazi shit, thankfully.

Cops vs. Poets

I dont reblog generally but wanted to draw attention to what a fabulously original blog oldshowbiz is.

If you are into this sort of thing, you won't see things you've seen before

Night ✨Gown

Just want to paint all the translucent things~

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It's finally autumn in California and the leaves are turning red~

I just want to snuggle up with my huskies so I drew San with her two wolves

This is sort of a repaint of my earlier fanart.

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The justice system is inherently anti-black.

Kalief was suspected. Not charged. Never had a trial. He ended up committing suicide. The saddest story.

The system spent hundreds of thousands of dollars incarcerating Kalief when they just could have used the money to help him.

Homophobes argue in bad faith.

Gop flat out admitting they don’t want young people to vote, tho.

They are even acknowledging she isn’t telling anyone how to vote.

Just telling them to vote makes her bad.

Encouraging people to vote, without even telling them who to vote for, is considered "far left".

Well, there's some good news here. They're openly admitting to what they're afraid of. They're afraid of a high voter turnout, because they know that they lose whenever that happens.

Republicans consistently lose elections with high turnout.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Yeah, irrelevant political party, please pick a fight with Taylor Swift and her fanbase of empowered women. Go. Do it. I dare you. I double dog dare you.

u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit

i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall

Shout out to my mutual who is into f1