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HALT! Do you have sensory issues? Overwhelmed by sound in a messy environment? Desperately wanting to write that essay/fanfiction but your ADHD is getting on the way? In need of atmospheric sound for your tabletop game??

Please let me introduce you to MyNoise.net - a lifesaver on all aspects.

Mynoise provides an incredible index of noise machine generators with personalizing sliders to suit your every taste.

Missing the sound of a lively coffee shop during the pandemic? They have that. That specific, calming noise of a public park in a peaceful afternoon? they have that. Rain sounds? City sounds? Want to fuck around and listen to some uninterrupted Gregorian chants? They have that also!

According to the website:

“myNoise generators cover the whole audible frequency range, from 20Hz to 20kHz, over 10 color-coded sliders. Through a simple but accurate calibration process, all myNoise generators can be shaped to your personal hearing thresholds and compensate for your audio equipment and listening environment deficiencies, including the presence and nature of background noise. Calibration is unique to this website, and makes calibrated noise machines stand out from regular white noise machines. During the calibration process, we are able to measure your personal hearing levels, and adapt our noises accordingly. If you are suffering from age-related hearing, you’ll be surprised to hear frequencies you thought were lost.”

And that’s not all. When I say ‘incredible’ I really mean it; I’ve found myself using the website on multiple occasions, for work, creative and stress-related issues, and the variety of machines provided cannot be overstated. You’ve got animal noises, nature soundscapes, street sounds, meditation aids, melody-based lullabies, magical soundscapes, medieval ambiance, situation specific sounds, white noise generators– and a lot more!!! They even have noise to block out IRL sounds you don’t want to hear.

Just take a brief look at what the index page provides:

There’s something for EVERYONE. And it’s all for free! It’s been for free for years, and it is the creator’s wish that it remains accessible to everyone who might need this kind of aid in life. I am using it to write this post right now. Though if you read some of the above index, you may have noticed that the support for the website has been very low lately.

Which brings me to the reason I’m making this post. Mynoise is curated and maintained by a single person:

Please check out the Mynoise Index for yourself, donate if you can, and tell your friends who might be interested ♡

I love MyNoise. It helps me survive in my busy shared office. I’m a monthly subscriber, and $5 a month seems like a pittance for what MyNoise provides. If you can’t afford to subscribe or donate, do not worry, it is still free. It is beautiful. It is my friend. You might like it too. 

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dingdongyouarewrong:

mycroftrh:

dingdongyouarewrong:

man y’all remember when the avengers movie came out and everyone headcanoned that all the avengers would live together in the tower and had all these cute posts about various fun ways they could interact and then the movies literally never had any of them even be friends

I want to state, for the record, that “all the avengers would live together in the tower” wasn’t collective headcanon, it was canon. The very last scene of Avengers (2012), the one they left us on, is Tony redesigning the tower, designing a living area for each Avenger. That was, canonically, what was supposed to happen, in canon, and they just changed their minds and decided to… not. For whatever goldarn reason.

GHHFDGJHFDS THATS EVEN FUNNIER WHY IS MARVEL LIKE THIS

I liked Iron Man. I loved Avengers. I adored The Winter Soldier. I quit watching the films after that, because all the trailers I saw just seemed full of the kind of petty, nasty drama I actively flee from in real life. I don’t like soap operas, either.

I was 100% ready for Avengers Tower Team hijinks. Super lost opportunity there, Marvel.

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razziecat:

greenjudy:

thoodleoo:

• indiana jones and tomb that had already been looted by robbers in the 19th century
  
• indiana jones and pottery fragment #1478
• indiana jones and the site discovered under somebody’s house so there was no way to actually dig it
• indiana jones and the famous treasure that actually turned out to be an ancient chamber pot
• indiana jones and the temple of maybe three damaged columns
• indiana jones and the intro to archaeology class that didn’t give a shit and just wanted to pass for the gen ed credit

where is the film OP

How about “Indiana Jones and the artifacts that have to be studied in place in no more than three months, after which they will be buried once again so the new superhighway (or supermarket) can be finished.”

“Indiana Jones and the Buddhist Ruins of Mes Aynak, Which Must Be Demolished In 18 Months So Chinese Copper Interests Are Not Interfered With”

8-<

armeleia:

titleknown:

ayeforscotland:

Facts.

For context: This guy was the co-creator of Dogecoin.

Basically yeah. There’s also the fact that crypto is like, inextricably tied to industries like weapons trafficking and human trafficking… and other things where people do not want to be tracked. Why would you want to dip your toes in that pool?

New technology can make the world a better place, but not when decoupled from its inherent politics or societal consequences.

armeleia:

askshivanulegacy:

onhiro-reblogs:

araceil:

living-force:

elfwreck:

dancinbutterfly:

levynite:

Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.

You know that 400K yall were so fucking mad about OTW raising?

Yeah, its gonna pay for the travel expenses and court costs that the legal team at AO3/OTW when they protect your shit from getting C&Ded.

DO NOT DELETE YOUR STUFF! IF YOU GET CONTACTED BY DISNEY - GO TO THE ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS , CONTACT THEIR LEGAL ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT! ASK FOR HELP!!

THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE IS *WHY* *THEY* *EXIST*

Note that Disney would have one Hell of a time serving C&Ds to authors at AO3 - because there is no “contact author” option other than leaving a comment.

They’d have to contact the SITE, which is to say, the Organization for Transformative Works, to deliver a C&D order or a DMCA takedown order.

And the OTW is not going to remove fics because someone sent a letter that says “actually those characters belong to me and you can’t use them that way.” The OTW was created to FIGHT that kind of claim. They are ready. 

Don’t delete your fics out of fear. WE OWN THE SERVERS. They can’t threaten the hosts into deleting anything.

And if Disney thought they had a strong legal case against fanfic, they’d’ve shut down the archive a decade ago, when it was penniless and unknown, instead of waiting until it had won several battles in Congress and got worldwide acclaim for a Hugo Award.

This is important!

This is why we say you aren’t allowed Patreon and Ko-Fi links on AO3. Because it gives these parasites their legal back door to fuck your shit up.

Reblogging it for that last point. We can do this because it’s free. Don’t be an asshole and have the fact that you are charging people to write about another organization’s intellectual property out in the open because you can ruin it for everybody.

This mostly good stuff but writers should be able to get support via Patreon and Ko-fi just as much as other artists, many of which do fanworks too and “charge people to draw another org’s IP.”

You can pay artists to draw your fandom pairings. You can donate to these artists to help them create more content.

You need to be able to do the same for writers and a writer asking for the same respect as a visual artist is not an asshole move. The answer is to build ways to accommodate it, not shut it down.

The point, though, is not to put your Ko-fi and Patreon links ON AO3 because doing so ENDANGERS AO3, which serves millions. Put it on your Twitter, put it on your Tumblr, put it on your insta, put it on your website, whatever - just keep it off AO3.

(…which is also just polite because they’re the hosts and they aren’t making money off of your content.)

What @armeleia said.

Feels like we need more basic clarity about AO3, why it exists, how it works, and how to protect it–and ourselves. 

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