may i share with you the best video on the internet
Hardware store saturday
1999-2003 Renault Scénic
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he took a bath 3 times
his name is Organic Spinach
the cleanest frog in Michigan
if i had some kind of deal as a kid where a frog was at the bottom of bags of spinach i would have easily eaten five times as much spinach
the barbie movie is an anomaly and i look forward to seeing all the other mattel movies being giant flops 😂
PLEASE tell me we are gonna Morbius the fuck out of these. JFC.
PLEASE tell me we are
gonna Morbius the fuck out
of these. JFC.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board
ARIEL NEEDS LEGS
I was gonna make Emmy draw this but she said no so I drew it myself.
I’ve never drawn a comic before!
guys this post is turning a decade in 8 days
anniversary
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They're so confident about the imaginary content-restricting version of libraries that exist in their heads.
When I was eleven, I checked out weird ass fantasy romance erotica on my library card.
I went to the library. I asked the librarian where the books were. They led me to the section. I picked out the fantasy romance of my choice. They asked if I needed help checking it out. I said no. I checked it out. I read it.
No one can stop you from reading anything at the library. No librarian will tell you not to read a certain book. They might suggest a book to you, but they won't tell you not to read anything.
I read fucking Game of Thrones when I was like. Twelve. I read weird gay genderqueer shapeshifter romance when I was about fifteen. There was never any kind of "age gate" or censorship from librarians. I don't know if it's different in America, or if things have changed for the worse in the last twenty years, but I've never encountered any kind of system which prevents kids from reading whatever books they please in libraries.
I never tried checking them out, but I used to go grab erotica books and read them in the library, there's not like... a wall. they're on the shelves.
Okay person whonactually works at a public library here. We are specifically instructed NOT to comment on or even mention what people are checking out unless the person brings it up to us first. And I have had times where parents or kids will ask me if I think a book is appropriate which I will then give my opinion on, but I would check out whatever a kid brought up to me if that happened. Also, we let kids go wherever the fun they want, but they mostly stay in the kids are cuz there are toys there. But we are not policing every single kid to make sure they're staying in the "right" place.
Also, the conversation about restricting kids access to "inappropriate" material really bothers me first because what really counts as inappropriate and how do we apply the same standard to every person ethically (answer: we cant), but second because I think it's pretty patronizing to actual kids. Kids are smart, and I know a lot of adults don't get that, but kids are really intelligent and most of them will be able to identify things that are uncomfortable for them. So the experience of exploring and finding limits and interests is a healthy thing that all kids should have the option to experience in a safe environment like (hopefully) a library
Anyway. Just some thoughts from the perspective of a library employee
Another public librarian here.
My old library system (30 libraries) had gotten a number of complaints from older women that the DVDs were not clearly marked as adult. For reference, we have the "adult" (meaning not children's but ranging from pg-13 to R) on its own shelf and all of the "childrens" movies are on the other side.
So the technical processing team decided to start sticking R-18 labels on anything that was rated (R or NC17). And like we were a month or two into it before our collection manager threw up her hands and said, What the fuck?
Essentially, the problem was that we had a bunch of older women (moms and bitties included) saying that they didn't want to watch adult movies (or they wanted to make sure their kids weren't checking them out)
But NO WHERE was a policy saying we were to restrict checkouts. If a 6 year old handed me IT or Django, they got it. Even post stickering.
So our collection manager was pissed because she finally realized what was bothering her. Not only was the rating ALREADY ON THE FUCKING BOX, (on the back, where it ALWAYS is), but now people were using this as an excuse against library purchasing because you could see how many "evil adult" movies were on the shelf.
So we promptly took all the stickers off, circ went back up, and we then calmly explained to the bitties where to find the rating on the back of the box.
This is all to say that my CM took the Right to Read (watch/etc) super seriously and made sure that we all knew that anyone could check out whatever they wanted and if they wanted to file a complaint they could.
Long story short you don't say SHIT to anyone regardless of what they check out. AND that includes giant tatted dudes checking out the entirety of our Barbie collection. No one is too old, too young or too anything to check out what they want at the library.
You can tell the person replying in the original image definitely isn't a librarian, because they don't know jack shit about our professional ethics or the stances of our governing bodies (by which library degrees are accredited). For example, this is what the ALA has to say on the matter:
The American Library Association supports equal and equitable access to all library resources and services by users of all ages. Library policies and procedures that effectively deny minors equal and equitable access to all library resources and services available to other users is in violation of the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights. The American Library Association opposes all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users. [...]Libraries and their governing bodies cannot assume the role of parents or the functions of parental authority in the private relationship between parent and child. Libraries and their governing bodies shall ensure that only parents and guardians have the right and the responsibility to determine their children’s—and only their children’s—access to library resources. Parents and guardians who do not want their children to have access to specific library services, materials, or facilities should so advise their own children. Libraries and library governing bodies should not use rating systems to inhibit a minor’s access to materials."
Like, please actually learn about library professional ethics before you just make shit up about how we operate ffs (and as others mentioned, you don't have to check anything out to read it while you're still at the library, so their whole point is moot anyway).
The lights are low. The candles are lit. She leads you to the bed, and unbuttons your blouse. She is beautiful, and the look in her eyes says everything about how badly she aches for you in the ways spoken of long ago by Sappho.
"Just a second," she says. "Something to make the mood perfect."
She pushes play on the expensive sound system in the corner and returns to the bed. As she undoes the clasp of your bra, and you feel her lips caress your collarbone, the speakers come to life.
the thing about doesthedogdie is that its genuinely a great resource to check for triggering subjectmatter in media, and because people can comment you can also see the nuance in how its handled and such. i love it. but its also kind of funny when certain questions are asked about mostly benign shows. like no there werent any 9/11 depictions in k-on but can you fucking image
you guys love artists until they ask to be paid what they’re worth
actually
keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
me and the trauma demon <3
It has begun
HUHHHH????
HUH? Boss you were just gonna hide this in the tags too???
I also worry about getting more people into yttd though >_>
i've been in this fandom for 4 years i can assure you i'm not a bandwagoner
ai covers make me so uncomfortable dude. like i know hearing characters or creators sing songs is cool cause its like wow youve never heard them do that that sound cool but like man if that was my voice and people did that id be fucking ill. that would make me so anxious that people were using my voice to make whatever they wanted to hear even if it was nothing malicious. ‘wow that sounded so good, x has so much potential if they did this!’ well they didnt. because they didnt want to. and it wouldnt sound like that anyway cause its fucking ai. but you made them do it anyway i guess
I’m a voice actor. This is my worst fear.
Having your voice stolen by AI is not just terrifying to me because my voice is my job, it’s also terrifying because THAT IS MY VOICE. That is my literal voice. How I communicate day to day. My biological instrument that I play. It’s not yours to take! It’s not a toy for you to play with! You can use that to pretend to be me and I have no way of definitely getting it removed from the AI database now WHY would you do that to someone what is wrong with you???
A colleague of mine, who voiced an UNDERAGE character, had her voice stolen for a song with adult content. She reported the song multiple times, but trolls kept reposting it. the caption read (paraphrasing) ‘haha, we can do whatever we like, we don’t care if voice actors lose their jobs, it’s funny so we’ll keep doing it.’ that is the mentality of these people. They genuinely don’t care about the impact it has on the victim. My colleague could be impersonated for fraud, her voice could be used for ANYTHING, those clips she never recorded could lose her work in the future or be used to smear her and she has no recourse at all. The FUCK is wrong with these people.
Not to mention that AI voices were trained on voice clips stolen from the internet without the owners’ knowledge or consent, or that they’re already being used to replace human actors and their years of training with a worse, amoral alternative. It’s just another tool for the rich to get even richer.
All you need to clone someone’s voice with AI is eight seconds of clear audio. If you have any videos on social media, on YouTube, on TV, your voice can be stolen. This software should already be banned but the fuckwits in charge couldn’t legislate their way out of a paper bag so here we are.
STOP USING AI VOICES.
Y'all if you MUST make stuff like this... You know that there's tons of high quality vocal synth software out there that you could use that the voice providers have actually consented to, right? And ones that offer AI assistance in production?
...Though the people doing this probably don't care, I assume it's the same sort of pool of people who like art until an artist asks them to pay for it.
me and the trauma demon <3
It has begun
HUHHHH????
HUH? Boss you were just gonna hide this in the tags too???
I also worry about getting more people into yttd though >_>
fuck esports, the only correct way to play smash is the way my 7 y/o niece plays it: connecting 2 controllers, setting one as peach, setting the other as marth, pretending marth is peach’s boyfriend and then playing virtual barbie and ken with them
smash esports livestream but it’s just thousands of people tuning in to watch my niece make bayonetta marry solid snake on the zelda temple stage
esports commentator: now watch what she does here. shes crouching with snake to indicate hes proposing. blink and youll miss it: she uses down+b to place a bomb- this is the wedding ring. going back to bayonetta, shes going to ever so slightly tilt the left stick forward, now this serves two purposes: 1.) to make sure she doesnt set off that bomb when she goes to accept snakes proposal, which would obviously ruin the whole scene, but 2.) and this is a more subtle touch, to show bayonettas hesitation. that's something we know about bayonettas character, shes very independent, so thats the true work of a master to incorporate that into their gameplay
