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as a dostoyevsky fan i first discovered bsd by being very confused whenever i saw pretty anime boys in the crime and punishment tag, so now i’m using bsd to discover more classic literature, and you can too!
this is my personal list straight from my phone notes app, of the most significant works mentioned in the series. italized titles are those that i really couldn’t find an english translation of but they’re there for completeness (if you’ve found one please comment!)
i’ve also got links to the french text of all works that are originally in french, because i read french and as said this list is just adapted from my personal notes hahaha
special shoutout goes to @bsd-bibliophile and their website from where i got many of the links, especially the works of the japanese authors, as well as the bsd recommended reading list ❤️
links are pdfs unless otherwise specified
the armed detective agency:
the port mafia:
the guild:
the rats in the house of the dead:
the decay of angels:
the hunting dogs:
special division for unusual powers:
order of the clock tower:
dark era:
55 minutes:
fifteen + storm bringer:
gaiden:
dead apple:
chapter titles and other references:
this is all the main works i could find, but naturally bsd is chock-full of literature references so please feel free to add to this list if you have anything! again i have to direct you to bsd-bibliophile’s online library for more complete resources and relevant authors that are not directly mentioned in bsd + a bunch of other useful content, i swear that page is one of my most-visited websites hahaha
other great resources for free books that have entered the public domain, where i got most of the links to the western book on this list:
happy reading!
my mom makes background stories for all of her animal crossing villagers and she has, inexplicably, determined that pietro had a wife who died mysteriously. so she put a tombstone outside his house because he “moves her body with him from island to island”. i asked her to elaborate. she will not.
i just asked if she thinks he killed his wife. the answer: “I don’t know. I just know he loved her very much. He loved her very much. Maybe a little too much. I don’t know.”
go girl give us nothing
If you’re buying Apple shit in the 2020s you totally deserve the ripoff that you get
The fucking option that includes an Ethernet port just puts it on the external power supply, like it’s a fucking MacBook.
People keep saying that this is how computer adaptability works and comparing it to the decrease in the lack of CD-ROM drives and Floppy Disk readers.
But this is completely different! And do you want to know why? Because, previous changes were consumer led. They came AFTER the technology had run its course, had viable alternatives, and didn’t force a majority of customers to adapt for profit. Also, Apple is lying. This isn’t innovation, it’s a purposeful manipulation of the market that makes physical ownership of content more difficult.
The Floppy Disk wasn’t just abandoned. It was replaced by CD-ROM in the 90s as a more portable & less expensive alternative. And even then, CDs had existed for more than a decade before computer manufacturers made the permanent switch in 2003. And despite the switch, the production of the floppy disks themselves continued until 2011. By the time floppy disks truly faded from production, most ppl didn’t even own one. And when CD-ROM became “obsolete,” they weren’t ripped from the market and even today it’s fairly easy to find readers that are cheap and/or included with desktops or laptops.
But here’s the thing? CD’s aren’t obsolete. Neither are DVDs, USB, and Ethernet and SDs. Not really. What is there to replace them? You could say cloud, streaming, etc. But those aren’t actually replacements, they are just different forms of consuming materials. And a majority of consumers will be inconvenienced without those things. Like how would you even connect a wired mechanical keyboard? That’s not adaptation, it’s inconveniencing consumers until they get used to it.
But it’s more than inconvenience. What all of these exclusions do is get rid of physical data. It slowly ostracizes consumers from the very concept of physical data and that is incredibly dangerous. All softwares, ad-ons, recordings, and medias being relegated to downloadable accessibility makes these things harder to pirate or share. It also encourages monopolies as it makes smaller, independent production and sharing much more difficult. It also makes the distribution of softwares tied to research & employment more easily controlled by corporations rather than people. And most of all, it takes away consumer control of the things that they use.
Like even PlayStation did this with the PS5? Do you really think not having a physical drive is an innovation? With physical games you can reuse, share, and save. I can play Spider-Man, give to my cousin, and then let any friend borrow it. And unless I bought the physical game online, neither google or Amazon can add that to their algorithmic perception of me. But without that…you have content strictly defined on individual basis and algorithms.
It’s just that all of the growing exclusions aren’t adapting. They are willful manipulations for the sake of changing how large scale consumers ingage with technology and the internet.
The headphone jack was not obsolete. It was purposefully left out to sway the market towards $100 Bluetooth. Physical gaming disk drives aren’t growing obsolete. They are being purposefully phased out so that the consumer begins to rely on individual downloads and algorithm rather than sharing and saving. And USB/Ethernet/SD/HDMI are not obsolete either. They are just being ignored so as to get consumers to change their perception of tech and accessibility. As if having a computer that’s only compatible with apple tech that’s less than 5 years old is reasonable. As if any use of physical content is a paid luxury rather than the standard
The headphone jack one definitely pissed me off. Until my promotion, I was a webcast producer. My phone allowed me to test encoders and videoconferencing equipment as an alternative to setting up a room full of equipment–in minutes instead of hours. That’s gone.
A dongle doesn’t really replace it. It’s an extra cost for something that’s going to be lost. Something extra to carry around that was already integrated in the device before. And it’s impossible to do that kind of testing wirelessly. My phone became a lot less useful as a tool when they forced that downgrade.
And embedded batteries? All the arguments for it are just propaganda. Battery problems are still one of the most likely issues to affect your phone. It was as easy to address as changing a light bulb, and nearly as cheap.
They wanted to change it to make repair more expensive. It’s now a specialized part that costs more, and you need to pay for a technician (either up front, or long term through a service contract) to do it. A fix that would take you seconds now takes hours without access to your device. That’s not better–they only made the change because there’s more money to be made by inconveniencing you.
Subscription model software is meant to ensure you never own it. They’ve rebranded it, but you’re just leasing products now. Even the phone you own; you buy it, and they treat you like you’re leasing it.
Google updated their phones to remove your ability to control ringer volume with the volume keys. (Some manufacturers didn’t allow it. Thanks, Samsung) This is literally a bait and switch: you buy a product with one set of features, and get a product with a lesser feature set. You can’t even roll back to fix it because that can break the device.
Our legislators and consumer protection agencies are just plain incompetent. They’re allowing tech companies to get away with practices that were already illegal; they’re too lazy to understand the tech, so companies get away with it. Largely because their refusal to levy fines and prosecute means you have to sue–and that’s more expensive than replacing the product with another subpar product.
And look at wireless service. Consumers were so stupid when they welcomed the end of contracts. “Phones are cheaper now!” Except the price to consumers blew up. New flagship phone every 2 years was $1, plus $20 for activation. Now it’s $12 less per month–you can’t even lease a flagship phone at that price, let alone own it.
And don’t forget tiered data. The most successful scam AT&T and Verizon ever pulled. Unlimited data doesn’t cost them anything more than the lower tiers; data costs less than a penny per GB. The actual costs to the carriers between the lowest tier and unlimited data is negligible. Tiered data should be illegal.
And data caps. WTF even is the deal with that? There are no real capacity issues. It’s just an excuse to charge more for less service.
Shout out to “smart” appliances which only exist to create expensive to repair proprietary parts.
Apple has been a leader in the realm of shady business practices, but it really is the status quo in the tech industry.
flea museum
I’m losing my mind
Original post can be found here.
Gentiles are encouraged to read all the way through and reblog.
[Transcript: screenshots from an Instagram story. Posted by ilansawolstein
Slide 1: White text on black background. White star of David in the corner. In all caps: “Why is it so Scary to be a Jew Right Now”
Slide 2: White background with a large Venn diagram. Top text reads: “There is hate coming from all sides right now and no one is even trying to hide it”
Below this text is a four circle Venn diagram.
Top Circle: “Nation of Islam: Louis Farrakhan and his followers who call us “satanic termites””
Left Circle: “Far Left: Anti-Zionists believe we’re all racist imperialists and blame us for the Israeli government”
Right Circle: “Far Right: White supremacists are “racist” against us (even though Judaism is not a race)”
Bottom Circle: ““Mainstream Antisemitism: your everyday bigot Holocaust deniers. “Jews control the world”“
The middle overlap between all four circles reads: “have openly said they want me dead” and the other overlaps repeat this same message but broken up to a couple of words per overlap.
Slide 3: White background with a bar graph. Top text reads: “We are grossly outnumbered" Text continues down the right side: “The combined IG followings of 5 of the most vocal celebrities spreading dangerous antisemitism this month outnumber the total US Jewish population by OVER 7 to 1. (Stephen Jackson, Desean Jackson, Ice Cube, Nick Cannon, Diddy). Ice Cube and Diddy alone have each spread antisemitism to more followers than there are Jews in the ENTIRE WORLD. We literally can’t do this alone.”
The bar graph to the left of the text compares the Instagram followings of the above celebrities (in red) with the world Jewish population (in grey).
Left column: “Four [sic] Vocal Celebrity Instagram Followings
Stephen Jackson 89.3K
Desean Jackson 1.4 mil
Nick Cannon 4.9 million
Ice Cube 17.8 million
Diddy 17.1 million”
(The column continues to the top of the slide, with Diddy’s follow count presumably running over the top)
Right column: “Entire World Jewish Population
Total US Jews 5.7 million
Jews of the Rest of the World 9 million
Total: 14.7 million”
(This column reaches less than half of the visible left column)
Slide 4: large red number and smaller white text on the red background.
“2107 hate crimes against Jews reported by the ADL in 2009. The highest # of hate crimes since they started recording in 1979.”
Slide 5: White background with two pie charts. Top Text reads: “Jews make up just 2% of the U.S. population...” Bottom text reads: “...But were victims of 57.8% of all religion-based hate crimes in 2018. (The next highest is anti-Islam at 14.5%)”
The pie charts are black with copper slices
Top chart: compares total US population with Jewish population using statistic above. “Jews” is a tiny tiny sliver of the larger “Rest of US Population”
Bottom chart: compares hate crime percentages from above. “Hate Crimes Against Jews” takes up more than half of the chart compared to “All Other Religion Based Hate Crimes”
Slide 6: Title is white text black background, rest is white background. Title reads: “If it’s such a big deal why aren’t more people talking about it?”
1. “They’re scared.
For non-Jews, vocalizing support of Jewish people feels vulnerable and unsafe. What will people think of me? Will it look like I’m taking away from another movement? Will it change how people perceive me politically? Will people think I don’t care about Palestinians?
For Jews, standing up for ourselves is vulnerable and unsafe. Will people believe me? Will my coworkers judge me? Will people equate me with the Israeli government? Will I lose friends, respect? Will people see me differently? Will people think I’m taking away from another movement? Will people think I’m being dramatic?
2. They don’t want to.
A lot of non-Jews don’t want to talk about it because it doesn’t effect them. Others don’t want to talk about it because they believe what they’re hearing is “the truth”. And some, frankly, just don’t care.
For Jews, talking about it can feel like a lost cause -- “They’ve hated us for thousands of years and are going to hate us anyways so why bother”. For others, it is simply too painful.”
Slide 7: Black background. Large white text reads “Honestly, I don’t want to talk about it either. But if I don’t call out antisemitism, who will? Sadly I am afraid to know the answer to that question. And that is exactly why it’s so scary to be a Jew right now.”
Slide 8: Red background. White text in quotation marks reads: “If we’re going to be outraged by injustice, let’s be outraged by injustice against anyone. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”
Slide 9: Red background. White title text reads “ What Can You Do?”
“Non-Jews: We’re not asking for much. Call it out. Make it clear you stand against all hate. Believe us. Be open to learning, growing, and questioning what you’ve been taught.
Jews: Speak up. While you’re standing up for everyone else, don’t forget to stand up for yourself. Very few others are.”
\end ID]
like imagine thor finding out humans can survive a 15,000 ft fall if their parachute malfunctions but if they hit their head at a certain angle a few foot fall can kill them
bruce: ppl can die from getting scratched by a rusty nail but there was also a guy who amputated his own arm with a pocket knife after being trapped by a boulder for six days
thor:
bruce, who had just finished explaining That Time in college when he was super drunk and fell down three flights of stairs without sustaining any injury: that was around the time my aunt died from scrapping her hand on a rusty nail bc her tetanus shot wasn’t up to date
thor:
Bruce: Humans have been observed to flip a car to the side by themselves to save someone who’s trapped underneath.
Bruce, 1 minute later: Thor, can you help me? This flower pot is so heavy.
Thor:
BAT RAVE ACTIVATE
ǝʇɐʌᴉʇɔɐ ǝʌɐɹ ʇɐq
‘Krakatoa, a 75-pound, 7.5-foot long Komodo Dragon, celebrates his eighth birthday with fellow eight-year-olds from R.B. Hunt Elementary School at his enclosure at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park in St. Augustine, Fla. The children sang Happy Birthday to the large lizard as he was presented with a meat cake topped with mice.’
with other eight year olds
I’ve reblogged this picture before, and it never hit me up until this…
But someone walked into work that morning, clocked in, and was told it was their job to go put the birthday hat on the Komodo Dragon.
dude i bet they fucken FOUGHT for the privilege of putting that hat on that dragon
hallmark channel please hire me to write more time-travel romances:
no-nonsense modern businesswoman who is secretly falling for this odd but kind stranger: dinner was so delicious! wow... i wish my last boyfriend had ever cooked for me even once. by the way, what was in the pie?
brave yet gentle time-displaced knight: squirrels, of course
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brave yet gentle time-displaced nobleman of some sort: the miasmas in this... newest of york are indeed foul. here, i have studded half an orange with cloves, hold it against thy nose, that you may not inhale any spirits of pestilence
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no-nonsense modern businesswoman's mildly confused dad: so, you follow politics at all?
brave yet gentle time-displaced weaver's apprentice: the empress maud is a pretender and usurper, i pray king stephen's forces will break the siege by michelmas
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no-nonsense modern businesswoman, etcetera: what are all these children doing in my house
brave yet gentle time-displaced prince: these are my new pages. i have given them each a loaf of bread and a pallet of straw in the basement. [snaps fingers] you, boy! a cup of watered wine!
delighted ten-year-old who is skipping school, dressed in old drapes as an approximation of medieval livery: yes sir right away sir!!
#okay op these all sound brilliant but if my time travelling knight turned out to be a stephen supporte r#i'd just leave him there in the snow
Somebody beat me to it. Like I'd ever fall in time-crossed love with a Stephen supporter.
i just, from the bottom of my heart, want to thank all of you-- so very many of you-- who took time out of your busy lives to express Correct opinions on The Anarchy. which for the record ended around 1153. you are unbelievably magnificent nerds and i salute every one of you
you are all my people, bless you
fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data
Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.
Ooh I know this one!
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE
Always be a good friend
Why hasn’t this been done before?
These ten ducklings were found orphaned and they were brought to a pet duck called Stella who had just hatched nine of her own two weeks prior. She immediately claimed the ten as her own.
via @thesassyducks instagram
she released those babies like a ramen flavour packet
I was helping a friend out earlier but then realized I could also share a few small tips on how to shop for groceries on a budget with u guys too!
Also to mention:
You can find bags of rice for 99¢ and also usually LENTILS!
You just boil those! And adding seasoning/salt/butter while they boil makes all the difference and its a very CHEAP AND FILLING meal that I have lived off of for a while!!
Chicken is also (usually) a very cheap meat that you can slow cook/bake/broil with lots of flavor and then throw in to even cheaper things, like cup ramen to up the nutritional value (and yumminess) of the meal! You can also then save the left over chicken and make chicken salad/soup!
Also you have NO IDEA how flavorful a veggie can get after its roasted! Beets, while more expensive, are VERY good for you and are sooo delicious when roasted with salt pepper and garlic and a little olive oil! Cheaper alternative can be yams, equally delicious!
I can tell you from experience that eating fresh vegetables lentils and rice is probably the cheapest and most sustainable diet to have while on a strict budget!
tl;dr
LENTILS! RICE! ROASTED ROOT VEGGIES! EAT EM!!!
dm me for my recipes if you are interested!!
You may have heard that Grant Imahara died earlier today. He was famously a part of Mythbusters, but also a pillar of the nerd community in LA. A brilliant electrical engineer, he loved using his massive amount of skill to bring joy to people, especially children—one of his pet projects was recreating working BB-8 and Baby Yoda animatronics and taking them to children’s hospitals to make kids smile.
Erika Ishii has suggested, if you’re able, to honor his memory with a donation to Magic Wheelchair, a nonprofit org that creates epic costumes and fx for kids in wheelchairs at no cost to their family.
