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Men, Women, and Willows: my issues with Obsession
TRIGGER WARNING discussion of intimate-partner sexual and emotional abuse, self-harm, suicide, killing, horror, supernatural possession MAJOR SPOILERS for Obsession (2026), Carrie (1976), The Hunger (1983), Alien 3 (1992) In this review / short essay I will interpret the movie using concepts from cisheteronormative psychoanalysis. As a trans* nonbinary lesbian I am fully aware of the…
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Debloating and deGoogling with ADB
Since the very dawn of Android, there have been many tools used to tinker with its code to gain full control of your own smartphone. From root privileges to custom roms, most methods require a decent amount of dexterity and knowledge of the way Android works, and they are often not available for all devices.…
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A (not so) short guide to digital piracy
Novels, essays, academic papers, movies, series, games, music and so on and so forth. The vastness of human creations in knowledge, sciences and arts is gatekept by the harsh laws of the market, and if you wanna tap into it you have to pay. And not the authors, no, you have to pay the companies.…
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Hello world!
Now that every single major social media has been completely shittified by either surveillance capitalism, lobbied lawmakers, LLMs and/or the people who are either indifferent or enthusiastic about the first three things, maybe I have the perfect excuse to abandon the frenetic routine of microblogging and start focusing on something that may be less satisfying…