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HEY!

Back up your computer!

Go get the external drive you bought specifically for this purpose and then left in a drawer somewhere and RUN A FULL BACKUP.

There are lots of posts that make the rounds reminding us to sit up straight, stretch, drink water, refocus our eyes, take our meds, etc. But while this may not be about your health, it's still super-important.

Back up your whole-ass computer. If you can afford a second backup drive, buy one so that you have one SSD and one HDD, and back up to both of them (you can back up just the current important stuff to the SSD and let the HDD do the heavy-duty lifting).

Do not rely on 'the cloud' or the internet to keep jack shit.

AND BACK UP YOUR GMAIL AS WELL HOLY SHIT. The last thing you want is a catastrophic issue where literally every single thing you have in gmail is gone. It's happened. It happened to a friend of mine and basically her entire life was in there and now it's all gone. 20 years of it.

Reblog to save a life.

In case you’re still unclear on the difference.

“In 1881 the doctor overseeing President James Garfield’s recovery from a gunshot wound repeatedly probed the president’s wound with dirty instruments and his fingers, prompting assassin Charles Guiteau to plead not guilty of the murder by claiming, “The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.” But just four years later, germ theory was so widely accepted that the U.S. Army required medical officers to inspect their posts every month and report the results to the administration, and by 1886, disease rates were dropping. By 1889, the U.S. Army had written manuals for sanitary field hospitals, and the need to combat germs was so commonplace medical officers rarely mentioned it. And now, in 2025, the top health official in the United States, a man without degrees in either medicine or public health, appears to be rejecting germ theory and reshaping the nation’s medical system around his own dedication to a theory that was outdated well over a century ago”

— May 4, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson

The West Coast Avengers by Kevin Maguire (2024) in a fun homage to his iconic cover to Justice League #1 (1987)

Tony: here, hold this *hands Peter a wrench*

Peter: *now holding 17 wrenches* I think I'm gonna drop it

Tony: You're fine

*loud clang and crash*

Peter: I dropped it

Clint: *from the vents* 16! I repeat, he can hold 16 wrenches! Who had the bet for 16?

Tony: Damn it! You couldn't have held one more wrench, kid!?

Peter: ...what is going on?

Steve: *from upstairs* BUCKY WON! AGAIN!

Clint: DAMN YOU BARNES!

Tony: Thats 4 rounds Barnes has won now! How does he do it!?

Bucky: *from upstairs* I'M JUST A REALLY GOOD GUESSER

Clint: This is bullshit! He's cheating!

Peter: Not that I understand remotely what's going on... but how would he cheat?

Clint: Well I dont know that! If I knew how you could cheat at this bet dont ya think I'd have won by now!

Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.