One Must Imagine Sisyphus Getting His Money Up And His Pussy Up

got a major pest problem this year actually

remember those who could not make it to today. honor their memory. live for them.

this year, more than ever. remember those who have perished. live for them. live for yourself. existence is resistance

had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

being someone’s loser boyfriend would legit be so gender affirming for me. i was meant to be a guy who sucks

The Takeout

Everything Tastes Worse Than It Used To

You've heard of shrinkflation, but what about skimpflation?

YEP. Not surprised in the least.

Skimpflation is a nice word for it.

The basic gist for those that can't click the link right now, is that nope, you're NOT nuts, they really are cutting bits out of recipes and, mostly, replacing it with more water!

It's like great depression household rationing and stretching but at the manufacturer's level. And the price is going UP, not down.

quite literally the only day you can rb this the last one was 2005

i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

Your daily reminder you can download a FREE copy of Stone Butch Blues off of Leslie Feinberg’s website