Ditch Ad Block Plus.

mal-luck:

jumpingjacktrash:

madamehardy:

annakie:

And now for an announcement from your friendly neighborhood IT worker.

If you use Ad Block Plus, you should uninstall it and download and install uBlock Origin immediately.  (There are Firefox versions of all the extensions I’ll talk about here, just google ‘em.  And some for IE, Edge and Opera.)

Ad Block Plus is now now only letting advertisers pay them to whitelist some ads, but is now letting advertisers pay them to put their own ads on websites INSTEAD of what you would normally see on that website.

Please remember that it’s possible to spread malware, including Crypotowall type malware, through ads on websites.  Yes, ads are how websites make most to all of their revenue, but until ads can be trusted to not destroy your machine, you should not view them if possible.

Please make sure you get uBlock Origin and not just uBlock. 

I also suggest installing a flash blocker like FlashControl.  This will keep flash from automatically loading on websites you visit.  Unfortunately, malware can be spread through just about any version of flash. Make sure you keep flash up to date, as well. FlashControl will be slightly disruptive to your browsing habits, but most things will load with just a single click.  You can always disable it on a website if it’s being too disruptive somewhere.

If you really want to protect your privacy, install Privacy Badger.  Privacy Badger will stop trackers / cookies from knowing who you are and where you’ve been on the internet.  It also can be slightly disruptive, so if a site isn’t working correctly, disable one or both of FlashControl and Privacy Badger.

Even if you don’t want to do FlashControl and Privacy Badger, PLEASE do yourself a favor and move to uBlock Origin.  Hope this helps!

Please read.   Ad Block has sold you out to the ad industry, and this is not an exaggeration.  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/adblock-plus-wants-serve-you-ads-wait-what-1581285

fact checked. yep, it’s for real. uninstalling asap.

RT did a story about it on The Know.

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RuPaul

transladyknight:

i-call-them-soolnds:

mithril-mercenary:

yourfaveisproblematic:

Claimed that the only difference between a trans* woman and a drag queen is “$25,000 and a good surgeon” 

“T****y, it’s ridiculous! It’s ridiculous!… I love the word “t****y”…And I hate the fact that he’s [Lance Bass] apologized. I wish he would have said, ‘F-you, you tr****y jerk!’“

”Of the ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which two straight men dress in drag in order to get jobs and which has been criticized by gay and transgender activists for mocking transgender women, RuPaul implores the activists: “Don’t take life so seriously… We live in a culture where everyone is offended by everything.”“

Claims the t word is not a slur aimed at trans* women

Quote: “I’ve been a t****y for 32 years. The word t****y has never just meant transsexual #TransvestiteHerstoryLesson “It’s not the word itself, but the intention behind the word “The absurdity! It’s as if Jay Z got offended by Kanye using the word “N*****”

Did a mini-challenge on RuPaul’s Drag Race titled “Female or She-Male” which was later edited out of the episode due to the controversy surrounding it. This also led to the end of the catchphrase “You’ve got She-Mail”

The catchphrase “You got She-Male” used on RuPaul’s Drag Race

Supports Shirley Q. Liquor who is known for doing blackface. Stating, “Critics who think that Shirley Q. Liquor is offensive are idiots. Listen, I’ve been discriminated against by everybody in the world: gay people, black people, whatever. I know discrimination, I know racism, I know it very intimately. She’s not racist, and if she were, she wouldn’t be on my new CD.” (x) (x)

Uses the term “serving fish” in reference to a drag queen that is very feminine, some say this is a referral to the scent of a vagina and can be considered gynophobic.

“Does the word ‘t****y’ bother me? No. I love the word ‘t****y.’ … It’s not the transexual community who’s saying that. These are fringe people who are looking for storylines to strengthen their identity as victims. That is what we are dealing with. It’s not the trans* community. ‘Cause most people who are trans* have been through hell and high water… But some people haven’t and they’ve used their victimhood to create a situation where, ‘No! You look at me! I want you to see me the way you’re supposed to see me!’ You know, if your idea of happiness has to do with someone else changing what they say, what they do, you are in for a fucking hard-ass road… I dance to the beat of a different drummer. I believe everybody — you can be whatever the hell you wanna be, I ain’t stopping you. But don’t you dare tell me what I can do or what I can’t — say or can’t do. It’s just words, like, ‘Yeah, you hurt me!’ Bitch, you need to get stronger. If you’re upset by something I said you have bigger problems than you think.”” - in an interview on WTF with Marc Maron in response to activists who have labeled RuPaul’s Drag Race as problematic

This is a feminist thesis on the topic of Rupaul and his show (x)

Can we just publicly burn Ru Paul already? Jerk needs to just stop…

yeah please spare me from any RuPaul worship, i’ve got no respect whatsoever for this transmisogynist scumbag

To anyone I’m mutuals with, posting fawning RuPaul content repeatedly is a good way to get me to unfollow

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“Bisexuals aren’t stigmatised”

nikkigroundedme:

himedevil:

choras-den:

With help from a bunch of lesbians from youtube:

  • “I think lesbians are smarter in a sense that we know what we want and we go for it, that’s why we’re gay”
  • “so if you’re at a party and you see the hottest girl there who turns out to be bisexual, whats your reaction?” “that’s really unfortunate”
  • “if she can make me laugh then I might be able to get past the fact that she had a dick in her mouth last week”
  • “if you’re with a lesbian then you know that they’re going to be going for you, for a woman, but if you’re with a bisexual…”

and a special mention for personal experience:

  • “I’ll have to keep a meter away from you tonight, otherwise you might make out with me haha”
  • “I wanted to tell you that you looked good last night but someone told me not because you might make out with me”

we constantly get told not to attend pride unless we’re in a same sex relationship, get degrading comments from both the gay community and straight people, are told we aren’t ‘queer enough’ and that because we can pass as straight we don’t deserve a place in LGBTQ+ spaces.

get fucked.

to add to this: if you’re a bisexual dude people are straight up not going to believe you’re not secretly gay/in the closet
bisexual girls are fetishized and bisexual guys are considered liars

Please support bisexuals/romantics. They deserve respect just like everybody else.

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Coming from a state champion baker:

shensation:

haberdashing:

leaper182:

meowjorie:

docholligay:

If y’all use a decent box mix and use melted butter instead of vegetable oil, an extra egg, and milk instead of water, no one can tell the difference. I sure as hell can’t. 

Also, if you add a little almond extract to vanilla cake, or a little coffee to chocolate cake, it sends it through the roof. 

This concludes me attempting to be helpful. 

yo I can vouch for this
I’ve done this for the last few cakes I’ve made and holy crap it makes suuuuch a difference
the cake is still fluffy, but it also seems more dense, and it doesn’t dry out
like at all
you can leave it uncovered on the counter all day after being cut into, and it won’t get all crusty and dry
this is an amazing way to take your cakes to the next level

Does this count as cake hacks?

cake: hacked

@rainydaycraftexplosion has been teaching me this for YEARS XD

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pervocracy:

bloodtohold:

*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade* 

hey….

nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.

 it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.

*leaves the way i came*

*stumbles artlessly through the bead curtain*

Remember however that “problematic” is not a homogenous category, and “everything is a little bit problematic” should not be used to elide the differences between media which maybe has some unfortunate implications if you think about it, and media which outright promotes hatred.  “It’s okay to enjoy your problematic fave” means very different things depending on whether the problematicity in question is a thoughtless comment in an interview from 2004, or multiple sexual assaults.

This isn’t necessarily to say that you should purge yourself of anything, even really bad things, but your critical relationship with it needs to acknowledge what the actual problems are, not just a vague sense of “yeah it’s problematic.”

*stumbles back out*

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