Iceland is fucking bizarre my name change made the news
Like just @ me at this point I’m literally the only person in iceland (and very possibly the world) who has the first name Lauf
(Article title reads “Lauf and Birningur in group of new names in the name register”)
No one lives here so now two of our biggest news outlets are vagueing about me lmao
Hmm you’re right. Correction: two of our biggest media outlets are talking about me specifically because they are obsessed with me
This morning I showed up to work and my boss was like “congratulations :))” and I was kinda confused so asked her on what and she said “your name, I heard about it on the radio”
So far I have counted two online articles and apparently the radio is also talking about my name change so I’ll keep you guys updated when I’m on national tv or something
With a little legwork we can make more people on Tumblr see this than the entire population of Iceland.
Have you no love for him?
Updated for tumblr news formatting
It’s not <3 but that’s ok
It has now been a year and two days since my legal name change and in one more day this post will reach its one year anniversaty as well :) crazy how time just flies by
happy namebirthday my lad :]
Laufniversary
Yes, happy laufniversary but what in God’s name is wrong with that pig?
Well he actually looks like this now and everyone hates it
so yeah that fire in Lahaina, Maui? That was what indigenous activists were trying to prevent. That is why Land Back movements wants indigenous people to be the stewards of the land that was once theirs. Not kick out white people and settlers. But to prevent shit like that where a bunch of tourists/settlers won’t destroy the planet in their ruthless pursuit of productivity and profit. So yeah, think on that.
People are asking how was this white people fault?
Power lines, in Hawaii they are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard, keep catching on fire because they forget to turn off their shitty electricity. So when they eventually topple over, white people forgot to cut the Guinea grass planted by colonizers 200 years to feed cows which changed Lahaina from a a swampland to the fucking tinderbox that it is today.
But hey, grass is grass and no need to mow an invasive species, right colonizers? Oh shit, that global warming that these fucking oil companies spent decades telling us wasn’t real is real and that dried up the land in Maui?
Now motherfuckers are trying to buy land off of the indigenous people in Maui because colonizers just love having part time homes, right?
But yay let’s celebrate the fucking billionaires who own homes in Lahaina because they are donating. Nope, no fucking correlation there right?
Indigenous Hawaiians have been saying how tourism is killing their islands for over a decade yet you fucking assholes keep mentioning how Tourism is the point of Hawaii as if that culture wasn’t just about living instead of living for profit.
They don’t want you there but you fuckheads insist of making it your timeshare goal. So yeah. It’s absolutely settler’s fault that this shit happening.
how do conservatives think talking to children works? if a four year old came up to me and said “i’m a cat!!” i would say “really? what makes you a cat?” and they’d say some shit like “i have claws >:)” and i’d be like “oh wow, you do have claws. but wait, i thought cats had pointed ears!” and they’d say “they DO!!!” and then i’d pull up a picture of an elf and ask “is THIS a cat?” and they’d yell “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
u wouldn’t say “fucking hell, Emily, get it together. this is the real world”
Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn’t know it because the term won’t be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.
Sumerian Healer:*saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You’re cursed by desert demons.
actually we have recorded texts of sumerian warriors describing symptoms that closely match ptsd, and the diagnoses was not desert demons, but rather “Those dudes you killed are still attacking you with their ghosts because you killed them”
Mrs. Westenra employs two different harmful gendered expectations at once:
Lucy, an upper-class woman, is assumed to be too fragile to be treated like an adult. Then, add in a chronic condition that makes people around her treat her even more like a child.
Mina, a working class woman who is the same age, is expected to take on the burden of everyone’s emotions and secrets. Because of her background, she is assumed to be more mature and capable.
Both of these things are harmful. Lucy is missing important information about her own family. Mina is doing way too much emotional labor while still being worried sick about Jonathan.
my favorite trope in books is when the words are alphabetical and have their definitions listed
omg so true
also, when they are writ·ten with dots be·tween syll·a·bles
Fun fact, the dots don’t actually represent syllable breaks, but the breaks where you’re supposed to cut off a word of it’s too long to fit at the end of a line. You know that dash thing, like “sedimen-
got fully locked out of youtube for Using Adblocker crimes today (got a pop-up saying I’d be locked out after 3 videos and then the video player locked down) and after some experimentation discovered that switching to my old YouTube profile that wasn’t created via a Google account has bypassed it.
i DON’T know if this has anything to do w the origins of the account or if it’s just that they’re not rolling the new features out to all accounts at once and I’ve found a loophole so ig we’ll see how long this works for!!
this is what i’ve learned so far:
it initially presents as a dismissable popup saying that adblockers will shortly no longer be allowed & then after a while you get the ‘three more videos and the player will be blocked’ message followed by the player locking down.
YouTube is rolling out the new measures gradually so if you haven’t had any issues it’s likely to be bcos it hasn’t hit your account yet; comments along the lines of 'i used this browser + adblock combo’ are therefore not very helpful.
if using uBlock you seem to be able to bypass it by logging out but this does have the downside of having to use YouTube logged out. it apparently also works in private browsing mode.
I posted the above workaround in a reddit thread on the subject and someone else confirmed that making a new account worked for them.
I’m HOPING that someone will come up with a permanent workaround before it hits my old account but given how aggressive this seems to be I’m afraid this might be the thing that makes me finally bite the bullet and switch to spotify :(
switching over to my old account HAS broken my recommendations but less so than logging out altogether so could be worse!!
ok further research conducted, the following adblockers are defo detected:
ublock origin
adblock plus
total adblock
according to comments seen on reddit the following can also trip it:
enhancer for youtube
vivaldi built in adblocker
i am currently having success with an extension called adlock. this list has some more I haven’t tried.
