When I Was 17 My Appendix Ruptured Because I Thought I Was Just Having Period Cramps And Didn’t Go

“the game” is a sleeper agent activation phrase for anyone who was in middle school between 2006 and 2009 and apparently ppl any younger than that are blissfully unaware of the psychological warfare of the game

DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome? Research. You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects. Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals - A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books - Like the above, but for ebooks. Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press - Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more. Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana - Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America - American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive - In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free! And legal! They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries - Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections - American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library - London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access - Science things! Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen - Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access - Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this. Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

he even has the hip strings too omfg

THIS IS BRILLIANT.

I know we all think it's funny that Facebook and Instagram are down but I think it should be noted that these large-scale cyber attacks are most likely the result of people trying to bury information that was uncovered in the Pandora papers yesterday

This twitter trending summarizes it quite well. This is the biggest undercover investigation since the Panama papers and it covers the same premise. It uncovered large quantities of unreported wealth and spending by the richest people in the world. The cyber attacks against these large social media and communication apps are most likely an attempt to divert attention away from this. For more information look at the articles I linked below:

ICIJ

Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak - ICIJ

The Pandora Papers reveal the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone els

BBC News

A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak - BBC News

A massive leak of documents reveal hidden wealth, tax avoidance and in some cases, money laundering.

Ummm byee

TW: death, child death, mass murder, corpses (they're blurred)

More info: https://bit.ly/3R9h7OI

Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because they’re designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset – heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you don’t even need the screwdriver, unless you’re performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement.

Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable.