they're taking persephone out of the public domain because every possible version of that story has already been told. you have to do a modern queer feminist retelling of the scorpion and the frog now.
What if I was the scorpion and I stung you while you were carrying me across the river, dooming us both, and we were both girls?
neil has made himself such a nice little saw trap! if the kiss is a bait-n-switch he has Got to be sweating bc clearly it was meant as a fun lil 'treat' for the gays (no one expected a real kiss so fake kiss = no real disappointment + gifs of the coconuts), but now fans have months to build up excitement for real canon relationship and if it turns out to Not be that. well.
meanwhile on the off chance it Is cannon gay the man has spent years swearing up and down that his beautiful gay vision of two men being bros on screen is better than kissing and also it would be soooo disrespectful to Pratchet to make them gay (which they are, deeply and profoundly in gay people's heads, where it's most beautiful). so well if they kiss now either. he believed those things but you flash a dollar and he gets all gung-ho about disrespecting dead friends. or he never believed those things and has been manipulating gay people online for fun and profit and homophobia
such a pity much of the film fandom doesn't know how to bully an author, it'll be such a waste :( shoutout to the handful of GO fans fighting the tides to reclaim the natural order (if the author's not dead we'll murder him)
This is so succinct. Yeah. You’ve penned my huge jello blob of thoughts into something that makes sense. Like any way you slice it he has done something that deeply undermines dozens of emphatic posts he’s made about Integrity. Gay people joke? Hypocrite. Gay people real? Hypocrite. This is because he is a hypocrite who likes having his ego stroked before he is an ally or even. A friend to his dead friend. Sad!
this is crazy this is the only time i've seen an online boycott actually work. and the entire fucking reddit website is broken rn
here is where you can see the status of the boycott btw
it might be broken bc reddit is broken rn
it's also the fact that so many different communities with wildly differing userbases have come together for this that's wild to me. like you have r/gaming fighting side by side with r/legaladvice and r/furry 😭
you know the 30s jazz is fire when the song is called something like "Everybody Eats my Pork and Beans on Tuesdays"
Our beautiful home
after a long day of doing laundry for the entire neighborhood, i walk into my kitchen and cook an amazing gourmet feast, which i then eat entirely while crouched in the corner set aside for dining. afterwards, i tuck my son into solitary confinement before making the long trek down the master bedroom hallway to bed, where i settle in with my wife who just finished bathing in our second bathroom's indoor swimming pool
the way i cackled at this
i’m starting a movement to stop calling this shit “artificial intelligence” cause it’s fucking not. it’s not intelligent, and the things it produces are not informed by logical choices. it doesn’t know how to research sources for you. it doesn’t compose art thoughtfully or meaningfully.
call it machine-generated, text generator, chat bot, but it’s not intelligent.
i’m starting a movement to stop calling this shit “artificial intelligence” cause it’s fucking not. it’s not intelligent, and the things it produces are not informed by logical choices. it doesn’t know how to research sources for you. it doesn’t compose art thoughtfully or meaningfully.
call it machine-generated, text generator, chat bot, but it’s not intelligent.
What does Solid Snake see in Otacon? I mean I understand the former because same.
aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.
disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.
one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.
two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.
three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.
four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.
five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)
anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!
Reblogging again to say that you do not need Kindle, the app or the device, to read ebooks on Libby!! You can read any book you borrow WITHIN the Libby app, and you can change the font and dark/light mode for accessibility too.
please be aware the libby app does NOT let you read or listen offline so the app itself is unusable for me for actual reading unfortunately! you guys who have access to the internet steadily can use it but be aware. you can't use it on a plane, for example, but if you download to kindle you can.
You should actually be able to use libby app offline (for those allergic to kindle like I am lmao). You just have to change your download permissions in settings. The web browser version of libby is online only though.
Go to Settings > Change Download Rules > toggle to “Everything” (and recommended to “Download only on Wi-fi” if you are worried about your data)
Then Settings > Read Books With… > Libby, so that it downloads to the correct app. You should be able to change your preferences on the main page by clicking the cloud icon to see where you’ve downloaded it too.
this is one of those pictures that keeps telling a story the more you look at it
"But I stay silly :3" has done irreparable damage/good to my brain . i say it to get thru the day everyday . Work is hell but i stay silly . Lifes falling apart but i stay silly . :3
Courier Six: I got shot in the head
Nexus Mods 4K REDUX Arcade Gannon:
i like how most usernames on discord are already taken so you end up having to put numbers at the end of your name anyway. if only there was already a system in place that allowed people to have the same name but there was something to differentiate them like number discriminators
Discord really went from 32 unicode characters + 9999 discriminators (32,000 printable unicode so 32^32,000x9999 = actually incalcuable on most calculators, essentially infinite) to presumeably 32 latin characters, periods and underscores
And at the same time alienated anyone and everyone who doesn't speak a language using a latin alphabet (most languages) and made stalking easier, removed individuality, and destroyed their actually revolutionary username behavior
...to look like twitter.
Joel is practicing his intimidation skills. Tess is not impressed.
They've been running around non-stop for 90 minutes now
man this is like the worst year for tech and websites
discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley
Here are some ways to help out some of the Canadians who's lives have been forever changed by the wildfires. (From @mugsy, someone who's there, in the country, and feeling pretty damn scared.) United Way Halifax (https://www.unitedwayhalifax.ca/give/united-way-halifax-wildfire-recovery-appeal/)
Alberta.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.alberta.ca/disaster-assistance-and-recovery-support.aspx)
RedCross.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.redcross.ca/how-we-help/current-emergency-responses/atlantic-canada-wildfire-responses)
And a GoFundMe for their coworker (https://gofund.me/f30934aa)
I would also highly recommend donating to victims from East Prairie Métis Settlement and Little Red River Cree Nation in Alberta, which were hit extremely hard by the fires.
You can find a collection of links for EPMS here (https://linktr.ee/epmsfire)
Little Red River has an official GoFundMe here as well (https://www.gofundme.com/f/fox-lake-fire-evacuees)
Indigenous communities have been some of the hardest hit and least assisted. If you have the means to donate, please please give directly to impacted communities. It goes a long way
The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:
![‘Anthropomorphic language such as “learn”, “understand”, “know” and “I” […] create an illusion. This pushes all of us [even experts] towards seeing sparks of sentience in AI tools, where there are none.
Epic interview of Ted Chiang by @madhumita29 https://t.co/LysS2HuAN2
— Ariel Guersenzvaig (@interacciones) June 3, 2023](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1e34266ea788e5549cb86f8723363f12/3ea162c736170ad5-21/s1280x1920/aa9129ff14d80decf0a8fc09ecdcc018e4ae3c64.jpg)
