((hey! Considering recent events, I need to clarify a few things!

I was afraid to say it before, but now?

It needs to be said.

To keep it short and sweet,))

I don’t support blmatsu, stalking, sexual content aimed towards minors, unsanitary behavior, noncon, dubcon, bestiality, or other harmful kinks.

“It’s just fiction” is not an excuse.

Regularizing these things in fiction leads to regularizing them in real life.

I know this very, very personally, spent a large chunk of my life enduring these things, fearing them day in and day out, and I do not wish to discuss the depth of it further.

This is a safe space for people who have dealt with trauma, and those who wish to stay away from unsafe material.

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earth-ruins:

pizzaalle:

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tikalgirl:

xdvisyrx:

Farewell online privacy

What happened?

Trump happened.

just get a VPN?

You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect. 

Let’s start with a simple test.
Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/
It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!

So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?

A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy. 

Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)

But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)

Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).  

Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey.  The ISP  still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US. 

I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.

There is still more danger! 
Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs

More about law 
The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):  

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)

There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better). 
You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries. 
If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program! 

I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.  

Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging. 

I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright. 

Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also,  there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)

Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)

This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.

EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research! 

I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi.
If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it. 

Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?

He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.

Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent. 

Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it. 

btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important. 

Don’t reblog this post to save a life.
Reblog this to protect an entire family!

@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?

If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first. 

inkwingart:

Keep this fucker off my fucking feed, they ship pedophilia and incest, regularly draw/write such art/fic, and they’re an apologist/will gaslight if you call them out on it. They’re literally like, “well if you don’t fucking donate $50 to x charity to prove that you’re against pedophilia and incest you obviously don’t really care and therefore your [legitimate] criticism of me is invalid.”

Keep this fucker off my feed. I don’t care what insightful life advice or whatever they have to offer. Plenty of other people on Tumblr, who don’t actively enjoy and defend “fictional” rape, have said the same, better.

intersex-education:

I would really appreciate it if people would spread this around! What YouTube is doing to LGBT+ videos and content creators is affecting intersex people, and, between the lack of intersex voices on the internet as a whole and the lack of people talking about intersex issues at all, this has a huge impact on what little we’ve been able to put out there.

One of the reasons we’ve been unable to create as much as other LGBT+ groups on the internet is because the stigma against us and how strong it is. What YouTube is doing is revoking the visibility we are getting and reinforcing the stigma that keeps us hiding.

The solution here is not as simple as turning off restricted mode. This sends a message to people that who they are is unfit to be seen, especially when done by such a huge, popular company whose tagline used to be “Broadcast Yourself”. And this still affects kids whoee parents won’t let them turn off restricted mode.

Please don’t just let this get 10 notes and disappear, please reblog this and make people aware. And, if you can, I encourage you to support intersex content creators on YouTube, including Emily Quinn (Intersexperiences), Pidgeon Pagonis, and Jenn Levine. You can find plenty of other good videos if you search “intersex” on YouTube.

Congratulations on your milestone! It looks like more and more people are discovering how wonderful you all are. If you don’t mind me asking, do you have any chat up lines you would use when you first meet someone that catches your eye?

There’s a lot of mock-modest cooing and handwaving when this one comes up, read by Totty with care.

“I actually don’t really like pickup lines,” Todomatsu admits sheepishly, Choromatsu and Ichimatsu nodding in agreement, “but we may as well give them something, right?” He hums for a moment before deciding on one: “Could you help me with my bootlaces? I don’t want to fall for anyone else!”

Jyuushimatsu jumps up with one right away. “Disneyland isn’t the happiest place in the world! It’s wherever you are!” He gets more “awwwww"s than Todomatsu does, but. It was cute.

Ichimatsu doesn’t look happy to be doing this. He frets for a second before remembering, "What about that one about a person being a nine, and me being the one they need? The number system is stupid, but I am an ‘ichi.’” He pauses. “And a one, it took a team to make me look presentable.”

Choromatsu worries even more. “But those never work! Why should we send bother with something so, well, ridiculous! Honestly, people who expect them to work are just–” Osomatsu hands him a note insistently. Choromatsu reads it, “Are you societal pressures and expectations? Because you get a rise out of me– Osomatsu!” Osomatsu ​is already in stitches on the floor, and he gets shoved over for his troubles. (It got the audience yelling, at least.)

“It would depend,” Karamatsu says, “on who I was speaking to! No matter what, every flower in the garden of my heart must be treated with equal care and respect, and the love of it all is in the details! With your username, I would say something like… ‘If the Trojan War began as a feud over a spectacular beauty, imagine what would happen if you went back in time!’” Pained groans, fannish cheers.

Osomatsu stands up again, posture proper, princely poise in place. He clears his throat, and speaks. “Nice pants, can I test the zipper?”

Dogpile on Oso? Dogpile on Oso.