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pisshets

Why does criticizing shitty opinions somehow mean that you “can’t handle different opinions than your own” and you’re “attacking free speech”? like criticism /is/ free speech, it’s the exercise of it what the fuck is the deal with that?

enchainrain

It’s part of Stormfront’s forum invasion instructions, if I recall.

pisshets

Explain

enchainrain

Stormfront used to circulate a document through its forum membership, specifically its subforum for indoctrinating the membership of other websites, no clue if they still do. This was 2010 or so? It was a list of talking points, key phrases, strategies, and methods for invading other forums and bringing them around to a more receptive environment for their rhetoric.

It had instructions on how to make it look like there were a lot more people agreeing with you than there actually were, in order to make it seem as if the fight was already over and the website was only safe for white supremacists and fascists; on how to shut down dissenters of the new status quo, usually with spam or key phrases like the ones you mentioned; how to become a moderation staff member and who to target and how from there.

I’m not saying at all that they invented any of this chatter, that would be patently ridiculous. But I do think this activity had a huge effect on how it’s become a lot more common on the internet and especially with the sub-30 crowd. Stormfront has made no secret about how they’ve taken over 4chan, for example, which was the breeding ground and organization point for the “alt-right.” They didn’t just implement the rhetoric there, they taught it to others memetically.

4chan has a userbase that goes disturbingly young in many cases, so the kids that thought it was fresh six or seven years ago are young adults now. And those that were young adults then are now comfortably situated and camping out in more mainstream venues with these fringe ideas and fringe talking points, and from YouTube comment fields and Twitter diatribes and so on you see those Stormfront techniques passed knowingly or unknowingly to a much wider audience, who are willing to readily accept it as just how things are.

I don’t have a bird’s eye view of any of this. But every time I see those phrases from young people like me, I immediately remember that invasion document.

eshusplayground

*blink*

kiriamaya

Well. This certainly explains some things.

thesallowbeldam

So using ‘Muh Free Speech!’ to silence others free speech was a Neo-Nazi trick.

popularlesbian

Are u saying there was a time when 4chan wasn’t 100% white supremacists

orestian

yeah, at least around 2006-2007 they were a shitty minority that kept to themselves. Like, in 2008 when Obama was elected, the whole site autoplayed the victory music from Gurren Lagann and all posts were autocorrected to “ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER” for like, a day. After that, neonazis settled on 4chan as a target and the whole site gradually became more and more of a /pol/ cesspit.

pisshets

We should take back /pol/ from the nazis tbh

trashgender-garbabe-nova

This is why we don’t engage nazis. They don’t argue in good faith ever. It’s about force and visibility and shouting down opponents or deceiving the audience.

That’s why we beat the shit out of them instead. No chance for that snake tongue to work while your face is being bashed in.

vermiciousyid

Taking /pol/ back will fail. We fought hard back in 2008 to try to keep the neo-Nazis from taking over 4chan and just failed badly. The fight for reddit is following the same exact trajectory, and it pretty much lost, which is why I’ve written off the entire site at this point. Tumblr is bad, but they haven’t targeted it in the same way, partially because they’d get more pushback from the much less white userbase, but they do have outposts here.

titleknown

Well, this is existentuiially terrifying on multiple levels…

ramblingferret

Welp I had a bunch of randos show up on my twitter mentions. Sudenly this makes a lot more sense.

noctumsolis

During my time in the Socialist party I learnt something very interesting. See, members of the party were very much given to debate; talking was the first approach to everything. Trying to show Capitalists and conservatives through persuasion what we believed to be wrong and why.

Except when encountering fascists.

All the stories of triumph over fascists were through, lesser or greater, acts of violence.

I realised that it’s because you can’t reason with a fascist. They don’t listen, they see debate as a weapon. People who use debate as a tool for understanding will only be frustrated.

So if you meet a fascist, just punch them.

It’s better in the long run.

dirtydirtychai

Bringing this back to add that HuffPo has the entire 17 page Stormfront style guide: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_us_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2?m3a

From the article:

“The constant line-toeing and the deliberate muddying of intentions and meaning can have a dizzying effect, especially for media outlets that aren’t used to grappling with such bad actors. Anglin knows this, and he is doing everything in his power to exploit it.”

“Remember this style guide the next time an alt-righter says something so hammily outrageous that you begin to doubt its sincerity. This is by design. The Daily Stormer and other groups like it want you to be unsure if you should take them seriously. Andrew Anglin wants you to think he’s just a troll, that he’s spouting incendiary crap for no other reason than to get a rise out of you. Remember that the irony and the coy misdirection are all in service of tricking people into following him on his path toward a white supremacist state. This is what he believes.”

lady-feral

I wish there was a way to sticky this somehow

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tinybaphomet

fuckysuckybrigade

Legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito loved the Barbie movie (x)

mylanishadir

only-tiktoks

mylanishadir

nikosheba

A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?”

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard:
- What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up.

loupgawou

pathetic-gamer

me, an hour ago: "fuck, the stove is on! what do we do?" [immediately does all the wrong things]

PSA: What NOT to do when you smell gas

In this situation, we got home to a smell of gas throughout the house and discovered our gas stove was on without a flame. it was only a tiny stream, and everything turned out fine, but here's a brief list of everything we did wrong:

NOTE: this is for if you smell significant amounts of gas, not a blanket list for all possible gas situations. (If you aren't aware, the methane**/natural gas used in houses smells vaguely like sulfer, or rotten eggs - this is an additive, since it has no natural smell. It's a very recognizable smell, once you've smelled it once. It's not the same smell as gasoline.)

1. If your stove has an electrical/spark ignition, do NOT turn it off.

Spark ignitions often spark when turning on *and* off. Spark + Gas = Boom. Boom is bad. Avoid boom.

Instead, turn off the gas at the source, i.e. the physical valve at the meter. There may be a smaller valve near the stove. If you don't know where the shutoff is, the fire department will find it.

2. Do NOT turn on (or off) vents or fans.

In fact, don't flip any electrical switches - that includes lights, plugging in or unplugging appliances, etc. These cause sparks. Spark + Gas = Boom.

Also, don't start your car. obviously.

3. Do NOT open windows

counterintuitive, I know. This is mostly because you want to prioritize your exit, but it's also to keep the fumes from spreading outside, where you should be waiting for the ~professionals~ to come handle it.

4. DO take all people and pets outside.

Do this very first!! (one thing we actually did right - go us!)

This is obviously because you don't want to go boom, but you also don't want to suffocate. Gas is poison!

NOTE: the gas from your stove is probably methane (natural gas); carbon monoxide is what you get when methane burns, which is why your kitchen needs to be well-ventilated and the stove shouldn't be left burning for long periods of time, but the natural gas itself is *also* potentially deadly. Carbon monoxide detectors dont detect natural gas, so that's what the odorous additive is for.

Inhaling natural gas causes nausea, headaches, dizziness, and makes you just generally woozy, and eventually causes you to lose consciousness and potentially suffocate, just like carbon monoxide does. We don't want that.

5. DO call the fire department/emergency line

They'll check for other leaks, shut gas off if needed, then test for air quality and eventually clear your house for reentry. It takes like 1-2 hours for the gas to dissipate, generally.

Yay, you survived! Congrats!!

NOTE: if you find the stove has been left on with a flame, or it's on with no flame but you don't smell gas, then you should be safe to just open windows and turn on vents and fans to air it out.

idk, this was actually pretty scary, especially when we realized how much of our immediate response was wrong and could have turned a dangerous situation into a real disaster.

tl;dr: If you smell gas when you shouldn't be smelling gas, just get all the people and animals outside, shut off the gas line, and call the fire department or gas company. don't fuck around with gas. you're not overreacting, you're taking the proper safety measures.

**CORRECTED FROM ORIGINAL VERSION. Original said propane, but it's very much not propane, it's methane. too much Hank Hill on the brain, clearly.

coffee-in-wine-glasses

Yes to all of this! Additionally, if you had the misfortune to be living in a shitty rental house in **redacted**, you might just evacuate the house with your roommates, only to have the gas company guy come back out and say, with haunted eyes: “did you know that raw sewage is being pumped into your basement.”

And we also DID have a gas leak.

marisolinspades

As someone whose house almost exploded last year because of a leak in the line leading into my house, please pay attention to the above. This is very good information.

bigmammallama5

shanastoryteller

This buttery, chamomile tea-scented loaf is a sweet pop symphony, the Abba of cakes. A pot of flowery, just-brewed chamomile isn’t required for drinking with slices of this tender loaf but is strongly recommended. In life and in food, you always need balance: A sip or two of the grassy, herbal tea between bites of this cake counters the sweetness, as do freeze-dried strawberries, which lend tartness and a naturally pink hue to the lemony glaze. This everyday loaf will keep on the counter for 3 to 4 days; be sure the cut side is always well wrapped.

alexseanchai

is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription
will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

Ingredients
Yield: One 9-inch loaf

½ cup/115 grams unsalted butter
2 tablespoons/6 grams chamomile tea (from 4 to 6 tea bags), crushed fine if coarse
1 cup/240 milliliters whole milk
Nonstick cooking spray
1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar
½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
2 large eggs
1 large lemon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1½ cups/192 grams all-purpose flour
1 cup/124 grams confectioners’ sugar
½ cup/8 grams freeze-dried strawberries

Preparation

Step 1

In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon chamomile to a large mixing bowl. Pour the hot melted butter over the chamomile and stir. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour.
Step 2

Use the same saucepan (without washing it out) to bring the milk to a simmer over medium-high heat, keeping watch so it doesn’t boil over. Remove from the heat, and stir the remaining 1 tablespoon chamomile into the hot milk. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour.
Step 3

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with the nonstick cooking spray and line with parchment paper so the long sides of the pan have a couple of inches of overhang to make lifting the finished cake out easier.
Step 4

Add the sugar and salt to the bowl with the butter, and whisk until smooth and thick, about 1 minute. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, vigorously whisking to combine after each addition. Zest the lemon into the bowl; add the baking powder and vanilla, and whisk until incorporated. Add the flour and stream in the milk mixture while whisking continuously until no streaks of flour remain.
Step 5

Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake until a skewer or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean (a few crumbs are OK, but you should see no wet batter), 40 to 45 minutes. Cool in the pan on a rack for 30 minutes.
Step 6

While the cake cools, make the icing: Into a medium bowl, squeeze 2 tablespoons juice from the zested lemon, then add the confectioners’ sugar. Place the dehydrated strawberries in a fine-mesh sieve set over the bowl and, using your fingers, crush the brittle berries and press the red-pink powder through the sieve and into the sugar. (The more you do this, the redder your icing will be.) Whisk until smooth.
Step 7

If needed, run a knife along the edges of the cake to release it from the pan. Holding the 2 sides of overhanging parchment, lift the cake out and place it on a plate, cake stand or cutting board. Discard the parchment. Pour the icing over the cake, using a spoon to push the icing to the edges of the cake to encourage the icing to drip down the sides dramatically. Cool the cake completely and let the icing set.

sp-eedysp-special

We out here torrenting recipes now? Reblog

captain-lovelace

ms-demeanor

Have you been using the same email address and username on various platforms for twenty years?

Have you been using the same password for your accounts for twenty years?

If so, please do the following:

Go to HaveIBeenPwned.Com. In the search box, search your email address.

If the bottom of the page turns red, it means that your email is in at least one set of data from a breach.

2. Scroll down on the page to look at the breaches your email was in. I want you to look specifically for breaches that include passwords.

What this means is that your email address, which you have used as an account name for twenty years, and your password, which you have used across platforms for twenty years, are available for anyone on the web who wants to look. It’s pretty easy to go and find too!

This is how a LOT of identity theft and fraud happens these days.

Let’s say you created your LiveJournal account when you were fifteen. You used it a lot and by the time you were twenty the credentials you created for it were familiar and you plugged them in whenever you had to create an account. You plugged them in when you created a Facebook account. You plugged them in when you created a bank account. You plugged them in when you created the account that lets you see your lab results from your doctor’s office.

All that someone has to do to seriously fuck your life is to do the following:

Find your email and password in one of these lists.
Compare to other lists and see if the same information is present
Seek out the most common account types (gmail, facebook, yahoo, hotmail, icloud, amazon, and one of about five financial institutions)
Start entering your username and password
Literally, profit.

That’s all it takes. If you used the same username and password in two accounts in a breach, you probably used it elsewhere. Maybe you put an exclamation after the password, or entered your birth year, but those are pretty easy things to guess about and well worth it if someone can send themselves all the cash in your bank or order a shitload of giftcards from your amazon account.

And look: I know it ’s really easy to not take warnings about passwords seriously. I know that if you haven’t been screwed by this yet that it’s easy to think that your password is strong enough, that you’re going to get overlooked because you’ve got less than a hundred dollars to your name, that you’re not going to have a problem with this.

People re-use passwords all the time. They re-use passwords constantly. And a lot of people don’t understand that those passwords are freely available out on the internet.

Think about what would happen if someone locked you out of your primary email account and there was no way to get back in. You go to change your password on social media and what does it do? Sends a confirmation to your email, which you now don’t control. Is your primary email one of the ways that you get information from your bank? Is it how you log into and track orders from online resellers? How do you log in to the profile on your phone? Do you have a browser profile? Do you log in with your email address? Does your browser profile save your credit card numbers?

This is why we use password managers. This is the advantage to password managers. With a password manager there is ONE password you have to be very careful to keep safe (the password to your password manager) and all the other passwords are disposable. Did your email get revealed in the Tumblr breach? NBD, use your password manager to generate a new, unique password for your tumblr account, change it, and you’re good to go.

I know it seems like a giant pain in the ass to start using a password manager. I know it seems like a much bigger headache to log into a password manager and copy passwords than it is to type in the password that you KNOW. But I promise that using a password manager is a much smaller headache than freezing your credit so that people stop applying for credit cards in your name, or trying to start a brand new email from scratch when you get locked out of your old one, or tracking down all of the photos that someone could download from your cloud storage and making sure that they aren’t getting posted on revenge porn sites.

Bitwarden is a secure, open-source password manager that has a free option for individual users. It has apps available for iOS and Android, and extensions for Firefox (which is also supported in Firefox Mobile) and Chrome. It has an extremely comprehensive tutorial series to help you learn how to use it. If you’re thinking about signing up for a password manager but you’re not sure, I strongly recommend checking out some of those videos.

I also promise that using a password manager gets easier the more you use it. It’s a big hurdle to jump over when you’re getting started, but it gets easier pretty much immediately.

And this doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition. You can create an account with a password manager and just save one login to start. It’s actually easiest if you keep it low-key and just update your logins whenever you find yourself needing to log in to a site instead of trying to go through and do it all at once before you’re familiar with the program.

I’d recommend starting with at least two things: your primary email and your primary bank account. After that update any major online retailers you shop frequently and any social media that you use often.

A password manager is also a great place to store account recovery codes, answers to security questions, previous passwords, PINs, and secondary contact methods.

A lot of people worry that a password manager is an even bigger risk than just reusing passwords or creating memorable passwords or writing passwords down in a notebook because if a password manager is breached then all of that very important data is exposed. This is a reasonable thing to fear, and that’s why it’s important to be careful about what password manager you use.

This is why I recommend Bitwarden. Bitwarden uses a very secure encryption scheme and never stores any of your data in plaintext. If Bitwarden is breached and leaks data, all that will be leaked is gibberish. What you need to worry about to keep your password manager secure are the following:

Create a good, complicated, unique password for your password manager. This password DOES need to be memorable, so pick something that will be easy for you to remember. I like to use song lyrics and the year a song was released for this, so something like “Nggyu,Nglyd,Ngraady82” if we’re using “Never Gonna Give You Up” as an example.
Make sure that you have secure recovery methods for your password manager; save your recovery passphrase in a safe place (I have a notebook with info like this and software activation codes and so on that I keep in my sock drawer, as well as a password protected folder on my desktop)
Only log in to your password manager from devices that you use a pin or password to log into - if you aren’t doing that, at least make sure to set a short vault timeout, so that your password manager will log out after a set (short) period of time
Do not use the password for your password manager anywhere else
Do not tell anyone the password for your password manager
Make sure that your devices have good security and don’t allow people remote access to your computer or devices.

Basically YOU are the only way that someone can get into your password manager. Your password is the only thing that can unlock it, which means that A) you have to ensure that you won’t lose the password and B) you have to ensure that nobody else has access to the password. I know that first one sounds scary, but there are a LOT of ways to recover a Bitwarden account if you take the time to set them up. The second one is much simpler, and is the thing that is going to keep your password manager safe.

Anyway ILU please use a password manager.

ms-demeanor

This is actually a great question. You *SHOULD* be suspicious when presented with websites that ask you to enter your email or when given advice from randos on the internet.

One of the easiest things to do when you see a novel piece of information and you want a general background on it is to check wikipedia.

The wikipedia page does a pretty good job of explaining what it *does* and does suggest that a lot of people use it, but that’s not really enough info to know whether to trust something. So it is perfectly reasonable to do a search of your actual question: “Is haveibeenpwned safe?”

This is somewhat complicated, because various search engines are going to return various answers and it’s not like any of those answers are definitive either.

So, you know that “is haveibeenpwned safe” is a computer security question, so it’s worthwhile to see what security and computer focused people say about it. The Register, PCMag, ZDNet, and HowToGeek are all computer-focused resources; you can search “haveibeenpwned” on those sites and see what they say.

The Register describes it as ‘reliable,’ PC Mag says that it is very useful, ZDNet cites it as a source, and HowToGeek has a whole bunch of articles about the site, including updates on the project going open source and instructions on how to use it.

But you might not trust those sites either. You may want to ask a group of internet-savvy users users. It’s kind of a joke that you need to add “reddit” to the end of a query to get a good answer these days, but sometimes that’s an effective way of getting an answer!

You can also take into consideration the history of the site: It has been around for about 10 years now, and if it were dangerous or risky to use there would be a lot of articles out about it. But when you search “is haveibeenpwned dangerous?” pretty much every site agrees that it’s safe.

Information literacy has a lot in common across a lot of different fields, and one of the things that is true across the board is that you need to be able to identify good sources of information before you can feel secure discussing a topic. It is a VERY GOOD idea to question random tech advice that you stumble across on tumblr dot com because tumblr is not generally known as a good source of tech knowledge.

ms-demeanor

To the folks reccing other password managers in the notes: No. You are wrong. (mostly kidding, use what you want)

But no seriously the reason that I specifically described Bitwarden and linked to it and recommended their tutorials is because of the following reasons:

Extremely functional free tier version
Very usable and approachable for people who are not tech savvy compared to some other options
YOU CAN INSTALL IT ON AS MANY DEVICES AS YOU WANT

I’m kind of of the opinion that a password manager which you can only install on one device is useless. What if you need your password and you’re not at that device? What if your device falls into the ocean? What if you are sharing a vault with an elderly parent? No. Bad. Endless devices. Forever Devices. Logging In Through The Browser On Any Computer You See (don’t actually do that but there is a browser version and it kicks ass because *sometimes you have to use someone else’s device*). See A Smart Toaster, Install Bitwarden On It. Devices For Days.

There’s a serious reason for this - if someone frequently has to log in from a device that doesn’t have their manager installed, or if they frequently have to type complicated, pain-in-the-ass passwords from their computer to their phone or their phone to their computer then that person is either going to A) use their password manager less for accounts they use frequently or B) use less complicated passwords and both of those sort of defeat the purpose of using a password manager. So actually, there’s my pitch:

Bitwarden - It’s free and you can install it on whatever you want.

captain-lovelace

aleshakills

So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but don’t understand?

Don’t.

I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right, if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit and you wouldn’t even know it.

When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the surface level.

So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later. Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”

If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language. Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the op.

And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares, fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than looking good on a blog.

tinybaphomet

byojaku-moved

what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta

they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don't ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don't know and frankly it confuses me too.

EUROPEAN FILMS (sometimes includes west asian films?)
JAPANESE FILMS
CLASSIC FILMS (aka american and British films)
"MISC FILMS" (aka films from everywhere that isn't the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)

this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta

do-you-have-a-flag

oh heck yeah

ok.ru is always my go to for safer film finding and is great for hard to find gems

so just verifying for anyone hesitant that it’s an alright site to use and you can use it without logging in as long as you don’t mind either hitting skip on the login prompt regularly OR just fullscreen a video to avoid seeing it entirely.

Happy watching!

parlezvousladybug

pavlovadiplomacy

plaguedctr

some meanings cuz i saw someone ask for them

algiz rune - this was used in postwar germany as a symbol of the neo-nazi movement in place of the actual nazi symbols that were banned

88/HH - code for Heil Hitler a phrase used in the nazi salute. also used as a reference to the 88 precept, a manifesto written by white supremacist david lane

the black sun - this symbol originates in nazi germany and later utilized by neo-nazis and other far right movements.

celtic cross - it was used by nazis in norway in the 30s and 40s, and more recently it has been used by neo-nazis, klansmen, and other white supremacist groups. white nationalists use a version of the symbol with a square cross as opposed to the elongated cross

Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging - an afrikaner nationalist, neo-nazi, and white supremacist political party in south africa

i believe this one stands for völkisch equality (if im wrong correct me) - a concept within nazism which ascribed racial equality and full legal rights to people of german or related blood but deliberately excluded people outside this definition

odal rune - was the badge of the SS race and settlement main office, which was responsible for maintaining the racial purity. it was also the emblem of ethnic Germans and neo-nazis in nazi germany occupied territories and other neo-fascist groups

14 - from the fourteen words coined by david lane: "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"

Wolfsangel - a heraldic charge from germany and eastern france, which was inspired by medieval european wolf traps. widely adopted in nazi symbolism

Atomwaffen - Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi group that emerged in 2016

92 - not too sure about this but it could refer to the 92nd Infantry Division, correct me if im wrong

Totenkopf/SS death head - julius schreck, the leader of the stabswache (hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the totenkopf as the unit's insignia. this unit grew into the schutzstaffel (SS) which continued to use the totenkopf as insignia throughout its history

iron cross - a military decoration in the kingdom of prussia, and later in the german empire and nazi germany

Identity Evropa - an american neo-nazi and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In November 2020, the group disbanded.

18 - code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1 H = 8

iron guard - a romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927

arrow cross - the symbol of a far-right hungarist fascist political party the arrow cross party, led by ferenc szálasi,

unable to find any information regarding the rest of symbols, if anyone knows them please feel free to add

queeranarchism

small addition: the Algiz rune was not a post war alternative to nazi symbols, it was very much a popular nazi symbol during the war also, associated with health and life. See, for example, the nazi Health ministry’s logo:

the sanitation services of the Hitler Youth:

the badge of the nazi association ‘German Women’s Work’:

As with all these symbols: this symbol also has non-nazi uses and context is key. If you see this thing on a random person, maybe do a double take and look for other signs that they’re a nazi. If you see this thing on a person at a white lives matter demo? you don’t need to wonder what it means.

hazelnutgirl

This one is Patriot Front, a neo-nazi hate group that split from another group, Vanguard America, in 2017.

This is the symbol of the Iron Guard which combined fascism, nationalism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and antisemitism. The hate movement was wiped out during WWII but it was resurrected as a neo-nazi symbol and spread to the US in the 2010s

I couldn't find the upward arrows one but it's similar to the anarchist chaos symbol, I think that's unrelated tho. I did find a couple other labeled references:

Stay safe out there!

ghostigoo

damnselfly

quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.

shoren18

I’m just gonna put it out there that if someone’s freaking about something small, they’re really freaking out about something big that they’re trying to deal with, or something long term that’s been building up, and that little thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.

jdkaplonski

Needed this today.

animate-mush

People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.

ponygirl-izzy

there’s also just those of us who get angry/upset at small things, like those of us with autism or adhd. we experience emotional dysregulation, which means we are not sure how to properly handle our emotions, or experience them in different ways than others do. we don’t have built up stress or anger, but rather we genuinely are having that reaction to that small problem because we don’t know how to control our reactions like others.

transcyberism

steps to deal with someone having a Major Freakout over a Minor Thing:

Express genuine sympathy for their feelings. “This must be really upsetting, I’m so sorry this is happening” type statements - try not to sound like you’re just following a script; use compassionate language appropriate to your level of rapport with the person.
Ask them to help you understand what the problem is if it isn’t already clear, or if it seems like they need to vent about it. “What happened?” is enough - open-ended is good. Continue to reiterate expressions of sympathy as needed. Don’t over-probe if it seems like talking about it is overwhelming.
Offer to help them plan out solutions - again, keep this open-ended. “Do you think there’s anything we can do to fix it?” or a similar question works well - using “we” shows you’ll help and support if they need it without taking agency from them. If it’s not a problem that can be fixed, ask a question geared towards redirecting them towards coping (e.g. if you’re very close offer a hug, tell them that it’s okay to vent to you, perhaps gently encourage deep breaths if you can phrase that delicately) or other alternatives - “Is there maybe something else we can do instead?” etc.
Be prepared to take no for an answer. Offer to give them space if they need it. If they’re getting upset with you, go ahead and give them that space even if they don’t ask for it - “Okay, I’ll be over here if you need anything, just let me know.” Getting angry is a natural consequence of being upset - if they get angry at you, just take it as a sign they need time to cool off and re-approach later. Don’t hold it against them, but do remove yourself from the situation before you make it worse.
Re-approach once they’re calm and talk about what happened. Let them know you aren’t mad at them, even if they reacted poorly, and talk with them about a plan for if something like that happens in the future.

source: literally trained in de-escalation

ghostigoo

I really like this post. as someone who works in customer service, it can be really easy to just write off someone in this situation as “above my paygrade” to deal with, but it reminds me that

1. EVERYONE gets like this sometimes, for every kind of reason you can think of, everyone deserves that compassion.

2. Not everyone has someone in their lives to give them that.

3. Detailed instructions with how to put that knowledge to good use.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

(my go to for small crying children is to offer them a fun drink. can’t cry while sipping on a juice box :)

parlezvousladybug

william-shakespeare-official

Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston

Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.

Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

littlecityghost

Oh, I have additions!

A Misdummer Night Dream: Here’s the 2013 globe production (the one with The Kiss, you know it)

Romeo and Juliet: Here’s the one that was going to be a stage show and then lockdown happened so they filmed it! Stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley

parlezvousladybug

damnselfly

shoren18

I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.

jdkaplonski

Needed this today.

animate-mush

People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.

ponygirl-izzy

transcyberism

steps to deal with someone having a Major Freakout over a Minor Thing:

Express genuine sympathy for their feelings. “This must be really upsetting, I’m so sorry this is happening” type statements - try not to sound like you’re just following a script; use compassionate language appropriate to your level of rapport with the person.
Ask them to help you understand what the problem is if it isn’t already clear, or if it seems like they need to vent about it. “What happened?” is enough - open-ended is good. Continue to reiterate expressions of sympathy as needed. Don’t over-probe if it seems like talking about it is overwhelming.
Offer to help them plan out solutions - again, keep this open-ended. “Do you think there’s anything we can do to fix it?” or a similar question works well - using “we” shows you’ll help and support if they need it without taking agency from them. If it’s not a problem that can be fixed, ask a question geared towards redirecting them towards coping (e.g. if you’re very close offer a hug, tell them that it’s okay to vent to you, perhaps gently encourage deep breaths if you can phrase that delicately) or other alternatives - “Is there maybe something else we can do instead?” etc.
Be prepared to take no for an answer. Offer to give them space if they need it. If they’re getting upset with you, go ahead and give them that space even if they don’t ask for it - “Okay, I’ll be over here if you need anything, just let me know.” Getting angry is a natural consequence of being upset - if they get angry at you, just take it as a sign they need time to cool off and re-approach later. Don’t hold it against them, but do remove yourself from the situation before you make it worse.
Re-approach once they’re calm and talk about what happened. Let them know you aren’t mad at them, even if they reacted poorly, and talk with them about a plan for if something like that happens in the future.

source: literally trained in de-escalation