Big Head Bastards

Knowledge and the ability to learn should be free.
Learning is often better with beer.

[The Succubus Queen and the Holy Sword @TwinTailsGAME1]

Yes, they're all heavy on purpose. Yes, I think it's hot. No, I don't recommend looking at the replies.

[Big Head Bastards @BastardsBig]

@YouTube WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE ADS IN THE GODDAMNED OF MY FUCKIN TIME SEARCH BAR!? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE REASONING FOR KEEPING ME FROM FINDING A SPECIFIC SPOT IN A VIDEO!?

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

The 5-Step Flock Cancellation Starter Pack™

✔️ FOIA Template

Force your city to produce contracts, invoices, hit rates, false positives. I already drafted the template.

https://t.co/wc37lguFB9

✔️ 8 Ways to Legally Take Down Flock

Legal pressure points. Bureaucratic chokeholds. Policy judo. Use their own paperwork against them.

https://t.co/3lUcMuAYDh

✔️ Expose Illegal & Unsafe Flock Installations

Most Flock cameras are installed wrong. Cities routinely violate federal and local safety standards when they install these things. Also zoning violations, ADA obstructions, even poles on private property.

https://t.co/zyloHYX6pX

✔️ Rate/Review Businesses Using Flock

If they want to spy on the public, the public gets to review the experience. Incentives work. Speak up.

https://t.co/isUkEuyP2P

✔️ 5 Flock Watchdog Sites

Crowdsourced intel on deployments, failures, misreads, abuses, and the cities already backing out.

https://t.co/e6FKGYumnr

Surveillance only works when you stay quiet.
Flock dies when we start asking real questions.

[Haus of Decline @hausofdecline]

My general rule for feeling mentally well is understanding that the more I judge others negatively, the more I anticipate negative judgement from others. Practicing kindness and leniency and forgiveness has no guarantee of reciprocation, but it puts you in a better state of mind.

[shitposter homosexuel @anthonyyylp]

les Grecs ont inventé le sexe

et c'est les Romains qui se sont aperçus qu'on pouvait y rajouter des femmes

[Anarchist 💣Federation ❤️🖤 @AnarchistFed]

Concerned about creeps creeping on you with 'smart' glasses ?

Nearby Glasses - a free app by sociologist Yves Jeanrenaud will use Bluetooth to alert you to any nearby surveillance glasses.

Available on App Store and Play Store.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Project Crimson Thread is about to seal the fate of the Jordan Valley, cutting it off from the rest of the West Bank.

This may be the most important development happening in the region right now, and it is flying completely under the radar.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

[CR1337 @CR1337]

100 days until every Android app developer must register with Google before their software can be installed on any device, and it doesn't matter if it's happening via the PlayStore or not.

Android was supposed open to anyone, to enable people to install whatever apps they wanted.

However, it is 2026 & we are talking about Google, after all, a company that wants to dictate what software you can run on your phone that you paid for!

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

This is bone chilling. Unless there is a cultural movement to re-sensitize our society to basic values of liberty, freedom from repression of all kinds, human flourishing, equality of all people, and the need to care for one another, we will walk off a civilizational cliff. An opposition party that routinely accepts the premises of this corrupt violence will hold our hands as we fall.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

There is a GitHub repo that activates Windows for free.

It has 178,783 stars.

GitHub is owned by Microsoft.

Microsoft has not taken it down.

For six years.

The repo is called Microsoft Activation Scripts. It is run by a group called massgravel. No real names. No company. No address. Just a blog at https://t.co/AyjTLJNzFm and 7,311 followers.

It activates Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11.
It activates Office 2010 through Office 2024.
It activates Office LTSC 2024.
It activates Project and Visio.
Four different methods. One of them activates Windows permanently.

Here is what Microsoft charges for what this repo does for free.

Windows 11 Pro: 199.99 dollars.
Windows 11 Home: 139 dollars.
Office Home and Business 2024: 249.99 dollars.
Microsoft 365 Family: 129.99 dollars a year. Forever.
Microsoft 365 Personal: 99.99 dollars a year. Forever.

The repo: zero. One command. Forever.

Microsoft raised the 365 Family price from 99.99 to 129.99 dollars in 2025. They said it was for Copilot.

Microsoft raises Business prices again on July 1, 2026.

The repo went up zero dollars in 2025.
The repo will go up zero dollars in 2026.
The repo will go up zero dollars forever.

Last commit: one week ago.

License: GPL-3.0.

178,783 stars. Hosted on Microsoft. Activates Microsoft. For free.

Do not install it.

(Link in the comments)

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Commercial VPNs route your traffic through shared IP addresses. thousands of users on the same IP. those IPs are public, known, and listed. The government can block them the same way Netflix blocks them, one IP list. done.

A self-hosted VPN is different.

Your server. your IP. nobody else's traffic on it. there is no list to add it to. the government would have to identify and block your specific home address or VPS individually. that is not scalable. that is not what mass VPN bans do.

here's how to build one in under 10 minutes.

you need:
— a $5/month VPS (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr — any will work)
— Docker installed
— 10 minutes

step 1: get a VPS. pick any provider. Ubuntu 22.04. the cheapest plan works.

step 2: install Docker on it.
curl -fsSL https://get[.]docker[.]com | sh

step 3: run WG-Easy. one command:
docker run -d \
--name wg-easy \
-e WG_HOST=YOUR_SERVER_IP \
-e PASSWORD=your_password \
-p 51820:51820/udp \
-p 51821:51821/tcp \
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
--cap-add=SYS_MODULE \
--sysctl="net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" \
--restart unless-stopped \
ghcr[.]io/wg-easy/wg-easy

step 4: open your browser. go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:51821. log in. click "new client." download the config. import it into the WireGuard app on your phone or laptop.

that's it. you now have a private VPN that:
— nobody else uses
— isn't on any blocklist
— costs $5 a month
— logs nothing unless you tell it to
— uses modern cryptography the NSA currently cannot break

WireGuard is built into the Linux kernel. 4,000 lines of code. fully audited. faster than OpenVPN. no configuration mistakes that accidentally weaken your encryption.

They cannot ban your server.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Google Chrome is killing ad blockers. for good. June 30.

Chrome 150 drops on June 30. Chrome 151 follows in July. Together, they remove the last technical loopholes keeping uBlock Origin and other legacy ad blockers alive. After that, gone.

Google's official reason: security and technical debt.

Google's other reason: $239.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2025.

they didn't say that part out loud.

now here's the detail that should make everyone furious:

CISA, the US government's own cybersecurity agency, recommends ad blockers as a defense against malvertising. That's malware distributed through legitimate ad networks. drive-by downloads. malicious redirects. real attacks that have compromised real systems.

CISA says: Use an ad blocker.
Google says: not in Chrome anymore.

Manifest V3 the new system replacing the old one caps how many filter rules an extension can use and removes real-time blocking. uBlock Origin Lite, the replacement, is materially weaker. it cannot fight evolving ad delivery systems the way the original could.

Microsoft Edge: following Chrome. same change.
Opera: same.
Firefox: keeping full support.
Brave: has its own built-in blocker that bypasses the whole framework.

Google controls 65% of the browser market; they just decided what a billion people are allowed to block.

The company that makes money from ads is the company that decides which ad blockers work.

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

So if you say “fuck this cop” twitter/X locks your comments and won’t let you unlock?

[Yugopnik @Yugopnik]

I’M BACK, baby. My @ still hasn’t changed, but I’ve managed to claw my account back from these crypto scammer freaks. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way.
It’s ridiculous that X has been gutted to the point where I had to threaten GDPR action just to get a real (lovely) human to help me recover my account. Capitalism and “efficiency,” huh.

What’s more interesting is this: 100% of the accounts my hackers tried to use my profile to compromise were pro-Palestinian voices.

They didn’t go after the much bigger “mainstream” accounts that follow me - only leftists and anti-Zionists. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about how targeted this was.

I lost like 5000 people from this hack so please retweet this so they know i’m not a crypto dealer lady anymore.

[zayden @pemilo123]

Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific

[The Empire Files @EmpireFiles]

There are hundreds of mock cities for Spec Ops to train for urban combat. The reason they are using your towns is because they are training for you.

[Stephen Stone - PhD Tricknologist @Stephen19718352]

People don’t realize how ubiquitous drinking used to be. Like most men used to drink every day. It was not uncommon for laborers to have a shot of whiskey to start the day. Taking a couple nips before a big meeting or speech was normal. Wine with dinner and an after dinner digestion drink was common.

There are certainly people who are just born addicts and would drink themselves to death under any circumstance, at any historical time, in any culture. But now that it’s been almost a decade since I last drank, and I’ve spent probably too much time studying both addiction and historical culture, I am fully convinced that our current culture is not only characterizing non-problematic drinking as “alcoholic,” but the culture itself is making people drink alcoholically.

Historically, outside of certain Protestant denominations that strongly discouraged, if not outright prohibited it, there wasn’t much fuss about drinking in general, but more obvious, frequent drunkenness.

Now, true drunkenness is permitted, but only in very specific contexts by specific age groups. The striking difference is that casual drinking (not to drunkenness) is also confined to very specific contexts. Lunch drinking, of even a beer or a glass of wine, is virtually non-existent in contemporary American culture. If your coworker at a major corporation ordered a beer at lunch, it would be shocking. The old shot of whiskey to start the day would immediately be interpreted as alcoholism.

There is something about the current culture around alcohol that I believe is literally driving people to a weird version of alcoholism. We are increasingly making it taboo and then compounding our interpretation of the behavior and I think people are subconsciously fulfilling the belief that’s been implanted. Even normal casual drinkers are seemingly constantly feeling the need to examine and prove that they are not alcoholics, where they never even would have considered it 60 years ago.

The new crew of health podcasters are making it even worse by making normal people feel like a single beer is going to “ruin their sleep” and destroy their health.