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you cretins, you philistines, you troglodytes, you buffoons!! They are casting pearls before SWINE

Inspired by @tkingfisher.com, because of too many shitty writers, a cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, a story about what happens when fascists try to take joy from the world. Fuck them. #GNUTerryPratchett

Kumari Loves a Monster Reprinting a romantic picture book about South Indian women who are in love with gruesome monsters. Bilingual English & Tamil.

I just backed Kumari Loves a Monster on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Bbbbbb #AnthologyoftheKiller #aotk

I would have liked the see the murder clown but Gerard strangling a guy with his own intestines is pretty fun too.

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Pac-Man, famously, was a game that with sufficient practice you could play until a game-breaking integer overflow bug because the behavior of the enemy “ghosts” was predictable enough to reach a level that the designers considered self-evidently impossible to reach.

In 👏🏾 no 👏🏾 va 👏🏾 tion 👏🏾

North Carolinians, check to see if your vote for Riggs was thrown out. You have 2 weeks to correct it!

I was 35 years old the day I found out vaginal slick is blood plasma

YouTube video by Drew Gooden Technology isn't fun anymore

another absolute barn burner from Drew about how shit just doesn't feel fun and easy anymore and technology isn't exciting because of endless enshittification

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-TA...

You might think "what a silly thing to bother preserving" but stuff like this is a real window into how stuff was advertised and what culture looked like in the 90s! You should donate money to the Internet Archive if you can, this kind of work is important!

My post from Tumblr which reads: I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too. I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

You may have seen this post circling talking about how important it is to tell creators when you appreciate what they do.

The irony is it's MY post from Tumblr stolen by someone else. Please reskeet THIS post & NOT the stolen one bc we support creators making their own work on bluesky.

Now available for preorder! Queer dark YA fantasy, available in paperback and ebook. A story about the messy ways we cope with trauma and the myriad facets of love.

maryborsellino.com/witch/

Alex has been fighting this shithead in court for over 5 fucking years

the Pokemon company furiously taking down notes

god I love SOMA, please play SOMA if you haven't

FYI, you can remove your post from a troll quoting you. Here’s how.

Listen, did you ever had a bad boss, a terrible person, at a job that you can't, for whatever reason, quit? Did you learn to delay, obfuscate, frustrate, and otherwise fuck up that person just to the line where you could keep your job? Congratulations, you have the tools to resist authoritarianism!

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

Thread. Just a reminder that these so-called “fonts” that exist in plain text are not actual fonts. They are separate Unicode encodings because they are used in mathematics.

Your computer encodes a regular S as U+0073

Your computer encodes the double-struck 𝕊 as U+1D54A