They want air-conditioning in the vans so they don't die from heat stroke.

I haven't found anything saying the drivers want people to boycott Amazon, btw.

Pattern test for Sew Fresh Quilts. My Darling Catholes (my name for it). I had a lot of fun making this one. Background is origami cats!

The striped one is my favorite 💕

hello we live in a world where someone out there is making patterns for cat butthole quilts and my mother is testing the pattern by actually making the cat butthole quilt. and posting it on tumblr. which I suppose is where this quilt belongs, really.

Penguins walking at 5x speed.

Deep in the article, there’s this nugget:

When people say “fuck u/spez,” this is Spez. I do not have the sort of imagination that can readily convert the way Reddit communities currently work to “businesses.”

This sounds like making Tumblr the new PDF

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theyre going to put a fucking band on me

the ladies love my colourful and bright leg band

i have fathered a disproportionate amount of the local egg population as a result of my colourful and bright leg band

girl help your colorful and bright leg band is disrupting the ornithologists' data

someone’s mad he doesn’t have a colourful and bright leg band

youre fucking up my statistics

know what else is being fucked?

Concept: Cold Topic. The opposite of Hot Topic. You walk in and you don’t immediately feel a thousand goth eyes piercing into you. The music is peaceful and subdued and not destroying your eardrums. Lots of color and pastel shades. You find a ton of cute stuff and the lack of the ow the edge attitude is kinda pleasant. The salesperson offers you complimentary cupcakes. You find yourself in a welcoming atmosphere, but it’s a little too welcoming. Another salesperson appears except they look identical to the first one. You start to feel uncomfortable so you buy your things and head for the door. Then 5 more freakishly identical salespeople appear to obstruct your escape route. They don’t let you leave

Claire’s

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as someone who used to work at Claire’s, I can confirm

A lot of folks are responding to the whole Reddit situation by calling for the return of decentralised forums, and I think it's important to remember that, contrary to certain popular narratives, the reason early 2000s forum culture has fallen by the wayside is not because people are Just Lazy. Certainly, ease of use is part of it, but a much larger part of it is how vulnerable self-hosted forums are.

Basically, the problem is that even the largest and most carefully managed self-hosted forums can be rendered unusable more or less indefinitely by a single sufficiently determined hostile actor. This can take the form of both attacks on the forum's social infrastructure (i.e., via sock-puppet accounts, botting, organised "raids", etc.) and attacks on its technical infrastructure (i.e., via hacking, DDoS, etc.). In either case, a self-hosted forum has no real defence, and the majority of decentralised forum communities survive only by virtue of their relative obscurity; once a self-hosted forum manages to attract the attention of That One Guy who's willing to devote his life to shitting the place up over some microscopic slight, it's effectively game over.

Right now, there are essentially only two mitigation strategies:

To be clear, these are not intractable problems; other solutions may well exist. However, any proposed plan for bringing decentralised public forums back needs to address them. If you're going in operating under the assumption that forums have become marginalised simply because corporations are evil and people are lazy, you're setting yourself up to learn the hard way why self-hosted forums no longer seem to be capable of growing beyond a certain point.

#also the person shitting the place up is sometimes the lead/owner

#which I guess is true of reddit here

#but the number of times I saw a small forum get destroyed over drama involving the owner is not a small number

-@spyderqueen noting another fact because YUP

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why do only children's and fantasy books have illustrations. what crime did other readers commit that the industry decided we weren't worthy of lil drawings

pros of illustrating adult/literary fiction:

- more employment for illustrators

- cool abstract art that conveys vibes

- i like picture

cons:

- ????

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Headcanon that when many bards of the era immediately after the Calamity refer to a seemingly ambiguous beautiful woman, they’re usually describing Laerryn Coramar-Seelie.

Quay’s broadcast caught fire in the minds of the surviving bards, the passionate plea and beautiful memorial serving as a near endless source of motivation and inspiration.

And many of them already wrote love songs, poems and stories, so when their own life yielded no one beloved or striking enough to call a muse, they wrote odes to “the most beautiful woman in the world.”

Most simply allowed the lyrics to transfer onto whoever in their life was worth dedicating love songs to.

But the bards knew it for what it was: An answer to a call to remember.

Sure, I can cry more. I’ve got time.

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Red Bed

Redemption

handcrafted jewelry with luxurious gems by Sylviajewelry on Etsy

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keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

Sounds like those screenshots actually refer to a sister app from the same shady parent company, however Temu does seem to fall into the "steals designs from artists them has them produced in a country with cheap labor to exploit to rip the actual owner of the design off and make money from people" category. I'd also simply not trust any app that offers things for the price they do (never any way to ethically produce things at those prices) and is from a company with an app that's being described in the above screenshots so. Yeah steer clear.

she can stand on the counter & lick the spoons

I found photos of those Pallas Cat kittens born this year and bye I'm deceased