tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.

things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well… but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they’re small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying “how is any of this helpful, I want a digital file…” here’s the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you’re doing gangbusters. You’re cooking with gas. You’re thinking with portals. You’ve won the internet.

Congratulations, you can “pirate”* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you’re not downloading in the traditional sense. You’re streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It’s exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

*Is this piracy? No. Well- it’s time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.

OP, dropping surprising knowledge from across time and space:

How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

Reblog to literally save a life

whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”

This is important, even if it doesn’t work with your blog theme REBLOG IT!!!!

Women need to know this, not all of us have ever been told what we need to look out for!

texas chainsaw yassacre

Hot take but not really. The line between strict and abusive is barely there and most “strict” parents are hopping back and forth at lightening speed.

My teenage friends with strict parents would be like “my family removed my door as a punishment” hey…….that’s not normal.

I deleted this post because people have the most vile responses to this subject. There are truly people in this world who are like “my strict parents beat the shit out of me and never allowed me any privacy or boundaries growing up and it was great! I loved it and you fucking pussies want to accuse any parents of being abusive when they set down a rule lol!” which is so incredibly sad and only serves to prove my point, it’s also how cycles of abuse continue. I can’t hear it. I can’t hear it anymore.

I was abused as a child, my parents were not what would be considered “strict” but they did punitive things like force me to sleep on a mattress on the floor as punishment. My father made my childhood home an unsafe scary place. He broke the door to my bedroom in a violent rage. He screamed at 13 year old me for periods of 30+ minutes, threatened suicide to 14 year old me when I told him I didn’t want to live near him. I babysat him when he was drunk. I listened to him overshare details about his sex life, how much he hated my mother, things no kid should ever hear. It took me a long time to realize what he did was abuse. None of this was provoked by me. I was his emotional punching bag because his love life was a mess, he’d been cheating on my mom and she wanted a divorce and he couldn’t stand it. I blocked out a lot of it because to me it was normal, I am still remembering things and realizing how fucked up it was in retrospect. In the moment I thought it was normal but now I am comfortable saying I was abused. It triggers me when I see people speaking about their abuse and framing it through a justifiable lens because that was me. Because I was afraid of saying I’d been abused because I didn’t think I had been “abused enough”.

Your parent should have provided for your needs, your parents should have never used physical, verbal or sexual violence against you, your were entitled to a home that made you feel safe, you were entitled to privacy. People disagree that children deserve to have their needs met, not be be abused and not grow up scared. That is something that is perfectly reasonable and the fact there are people who disagree is insane.

ngl idc whether or not strict parenting inherently qualifies as "abusive" or not, i have no tolerance for it because it's necessarily hostile to children's autonomy and conditions people, while they are children, to emotionally invest in their own subjugation and resent others for their relative freedom or courage to resist authority. i don't care for the concept of "abuse" here, being a notion that parental authority was applied "wrongly" bc it then implies that there is a "right" way (or ways) to imply parental authority. parental authority *is* the problem here, and yes, it certainly enables "abuse" by removing any recourse children have for treatment that "reasonable people" would consider harmful, but it goes further than that

strict parenting/celebration of parental authority, as mentioned above, stems from an authoritarian mindset that distrusts human autonomy and trains people to willingly submit to forms of control which they secretly detest as adults. there is a direct link between strict parenting and endorsement for prisons, police brutality, and all the other cruel institutions of the state, because they were taught that those who get out of line deserve their treatment, no matter what that "line" is

additionally it equates "care" with "control", bolstering a social order which makes "needing help/care" a condition for losing autonomy. not only does this systemically oppress the elderly and disabled people in addition to children, it discourages people who need help from seeking it, sabotages the help they are getting

addicts and mentally ill people must trade in their autonomy in order to improve their situations, which only reproduces the core problems in their lives in the first place. not only are they at risk from "abuse" in treatment, it intensifies the lack of control underlying their conditions, and shoves them into treatment models which may contradict their own desires as to how to deal with their symptoms or substance use, leaving them fighting their own desires as conditions of recovery and setting themselves up for relapse

one might object that children need rules, authority, and discipline to learn how to behave and the consequences of their actions. leaving aside the issue of what "proper behavior" means, do you actually need control to teach someone the consequences of their actions? would it really be appropriate to impose "rules, authority, and discipline" on a peer, your equal, to teach them consequences? would that even be effective, or would it backfire because they detest such treatment and just leave? then ask yourself, if children had a choice to leave their parents and still have their basic needs met, if they were not forcibly returned by law enforcement, would they put up with strict parenting styles? is it a necessity for children to be subject to control, or is it inability to imagine otherwise? or is it simply about control for its own sake?

tl;dr: what is objectively "abusive" is irrelevant, strict parenting is detestable bc it's an authoritarian practice that contributes to authoritarian beliefs and authoritarian societies

Just like I said. Illegal adoption.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/immigrant-mom-loses-effort-regain-son-us-parents/story?id=16803067

Here are the thieves btw:

im actually physically ill

Keep this post alive so that when CARLOS is old enough he’ll know these KIDNAPPERS stole him from his MOTHER!

Guatemalan mom: “Please help me my son was taken from me”

Those two assholes: “Lol finders keepers bitch lmao”

Carlos was taken from his mom, Encarnacion Bail Romero after she was arrested during a work raid. Her words, “Nobody could help me because I don’t speak English,” are still resonating deeply within me. This child was kidnapped from a loving mother, and she went to hell and backwards trying to get him back, and a judge literally told her she had no rights to her own child.

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1010399759088193536

Completely unfit parents can get their children back like it’s nothing and this poor woman who loves her child and just wants him with her again cannot? How is this not human trafficking/kidnapping? 

Also:

The judge said the biological mother had no rights to even see her child, according to the mother’s lawyer.

Asked if the Mosers would allow Bail Romero to see the child, the Mosers’ attorney, Joseph Hensley, said the couple was “not willing to comment on that at this time.” source

reminder that many children are funneled specifically to Christian families and communities for the same reasons they always have: destroy culture, stack votes, add bodies to communities that otherwise wouldn’t hold majorities. it is literal, actual trafficking.

This is a part of genocide.  Removing the children from their parents, who generally desperately love and want to raise them, and placing them with white American families is a way to erase their culture from existence without the ugliness of directly killing children.  But it’s still ugly, and it cares nothing for the actual welfare of the child.

Another way in which the US is already like the Handmaid’s Tale

Im scheduling this post for 2023 , so Carlos will be old enough to know about his past when he finds this post…

TUMBLR PLEASE I WAS TRYING TO SHOW THIS

you can click on this button once daily to help palestine and support other causes in the middle east for free. it takes literally 5 seconds and could help save lives so please take the time to click and share this link.

Tumblr Code.

This is an absolute tumblr relic. I feel like an archaeologist right now. This is incredible that this is on my dash.

date of origin: 2nd of july, 2012.

writers:

I know theres a lot of writers following me and this is some solid advice folks

^^^This!

Also, may I add:

i want that quill

All these lil details make SUCH a difference

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

yeah i use this pro gamer technique called "hitting every single button frantically with my little raccoon hands until something happens" you probably wouldn't get it it's really advanced

Don't get sucked into the "if they really cared I wouldn't have to say something" spiral. No matter how close you are with someone, it's unfair to expect them to know things you haven't actually communicated.

Signal boosting for my fellow pannies out there❤️❤️

oh man, the fake flag is so fucking ugly, muted colors just like the boring personality of whoever created it

ok not to be That Person but please, please rb. its incredibly important for us pan folk that our flag doesnt get erased

Sometimes I hyperfocus so hard on something, I forget I’m a person until someone interacts with me. I feel like some wild animal seeing a human being for the first time. I’m like “oh yeah I’m supposed to speak and stuff”

Me: *doing something for hours on end without stopping*

Someone: Hey, are you there? I was just wondering if you’d like to-

Me:

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im fucking trembling in anger right now

Ma'Khia Bryant, a 15 year old Black girl, was fucking murdered by a cop in Columbus, Ohio, after calling the police for help because she was being jumped by another group of teenage girls, she had a knife on her that she had for self-defense and the fucker rolled up and shot her 4 times, apparently without telling her to drop the knife according to bystanders, and this happened roughly 20 minutes before Chauvin's verdict in court for the murder of George Floyd

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther fucking quoting MLK to us roughly an hour after the murder, called 15 year old Ma'Khia a "young woman" who "tragically lost her life" long after news broke about her

For people unaware about Columbus, the CPD is one of the deadliest police departments in the country, and has a track record of murders and assaults on POC, particularly Black people, Including the murder of Andre Hill last December and maced Rep. Joyce Beatty and City Council President Hardin at a BLM protest last summer

Some information and links I compiled because there's no point to me clogging the dash if no one is reading.

Former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges of 2nd-degree unintentional murder, 3rd-degree murder, and 2nd charge manslaughter. A reminder that this is not justice, but accountability. It should always be like this, but there are millions of other cases in which the perpetrator of a black person's death has gone scot-free.

To the nonblack people anywhere on any site, here is a reminder. Please tag your posts with antiblackness or police brutality. Please do not go and aggravate your black friends over cases like this, or 'congratulate' them. This is also not the time for a trivializing trending twitter tag, and the fight is still not over - Breanna Taylor, Daunte Wright, Emerald Black and others still need support. Keep Darnella Frazier in your thoughts (the black woman who recorded the video of Derek Chauvin and George Floyd) as she's likely in high danger.

Posts like this and this need to stop. I'm not gonna try and explain how rude it is and how ignorant it is to be doing that especially right now, all of you need to check yourself. Below are some links.

official Gianna Floyd gofundme link (donations are currently paused)

George Floyd Memorial Fund (paypal)

ColorOfChange petition for Breanna Taylor

Donate to Breanna Taylor's Family (gofundme)

Masterpost to support the late Daunte Wright and his family

-> Daunte Wright Memorial Fund (gofundme)

-> Bail Relief Fund

"Being held accountable does not mean Justice is served."

-> a reminder to all, especially nonblack people

-> to the nonblack people celebrating

-> Black Lives Matter, Still Matter, and Will Always Matter

-> stop making jokes about trauma that is both fresh and not yours

Here are a few more links to help some other Black people out

legalize marijuana and release all those withheld in prison

help Lydia Knowles move out

Donate to Kayin Taylor

Help 3 Trans Black Teens move - 180/6,500

Help this Single Black Father of 2 take care of his family's needs