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It's in account >settings>scroll to the very right until you reach gen interests>uncheck all of them, and refresh

So I knooow pinterest is a lost cause, but I just learned that it's now possible to uncheck the generated slop in your settings there. And you might even start getting some good old real things after doing so. It doesn't clean it all completely though.

this is so gorgeous that i just had to order a copy immediately 😩🤌🏼
also i love peter pan inspired works so looking forward to reading it!!

A full version 🩷

7 am international team meetings are going to be my doom cause now i cannot function until noon (alternatively, if i force myself to function now, i will shut down completely after noon)

although i could always leave this net for the side of the balcony that cat is not that interested in and work on that other side more meticulously

i kinda wanna make this as handcrafted as possible & only opt for buying readymade things when there's no other option (to prove to myself that i can)

made this net tonight after work and only afterwards had a thought that i could've bought more smaller bamboo sticks, tied them together to form a lattice and THEN make a net in-between for a cleaner look and put fake vines/flowers through it for aesthetics bc this is not catproof enough (yet)

ideas ranging from diying the shit out of bamboo base & waterproof tarp (doubt its durability to withstand the local winds) to literally building a wooden frame from scratch with zero experience & unstoppable adhd confidence that i can do it just because i want to

got very obsessive ideas about designing my balcony and now at 2 am im planning an outing to canadian tire or sth to decide how i'm going to BUILD MYSELF A BALCONY ROOF AND CATPROOF THE SIDES OF THE BALCONY SO HE DOESNT JUMP ON THE ADJACENT ROOF ALFJWKDJQKSJIAA

or maybe that's audhd idk anymore

adhd memory is when you'll switch the order of numbers in a date/price amount you've just seen a moment ago but will memorise the most random letter number symbol combination in a wifi name/password you used one day years ago for absolutely no reason

I AINT LOST MY TOUCH WITH GAY FLIRTING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. that's all the updates you're getting.

my friend was allergic but still took my cat in for a few months lol
the trick is managing the fur, unless you go for hairless cats, because people are actually allergic to cat's saliva, not fur itself

i know it's a very obvious fact for any artist but the pure fucking unfiltered joy i felt today when my brain finally comprehended the CONCEPT OF FANART after years of simply copying references & real still life. literal epiphany.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

oh, no, the footnotes THERE made 100% sense to me too, both contextually and structurally. it was written as an academic's journal and the notes gave a deeper understanding of the world lore, they felt organic in that text. that is exactly what they're intended for.

I guess I'm just used to authors using footnotes in an entirely different manner so I'm very thrown off by them in babel

i'll be making some video check-in/comments on insta when i make it my primary current read cause i only read ~4 chapters so far

also Kuang's use of footnotes (that are usually for explaining references, concepts or terminology) to add more lore and background than could've been incorporated into the text if it was important that instead looks like an afterthought and JKR's FYI facts in twitter years later

inconsistency in character portrayal that is constantly switching JUST to fit a particular agenda (e.g., Robin's eye shape is said to be EXACTLY the same as Lowell's but then there was a scene where a woman makes a racist comment on his eye shape as if it's different)
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currently slowly reading it and while it has some nice qualities, it's also just as disappointing as i expected based on the (overly praising, positive) feedback i've seen from some friends

I am saddened to hear of the passing of the amazing actress, Joan Plowright, who brought poor, troubled Aunt Lucinda to life in the 2008 film adaptation of "The Spiderwick Chronicles". May the fairies lead you to your next adventure, Joan. Godspeed.✨

problème d'aujourd'hui c'est que je lis un cherik fanfic sur ao3 en français et POURQUOI ils n'ont pas créé DEUX mots différents??? mais non, embrasser c'est les deux (kiss/hug), ptn de 💩 comment devrais-je comprendre duquel on parle???

et les anglos ont le même mot (embrace) mais il est plus rare

screenshot of Google admin console Gemini settings

For anyone who uses Google Suite/Gmail and wants to turn off their fuckin annoying Gemini AI program that harvests your data and reads your emails ("to better assist you!") just go into your admin console and switch it off.

plus we've been having power outages all evening and now the lights are on but bufet is sleeping on my leg so i am willing and prepared to sleep with all fucking lights on 🥹😭☠️

at least he won't get cold like i feared if they didn't fix it until 4 am

Learn internet manners. When you ask someone a question, say thank you or acknowledge them, don't ghost them. It's so aggravating lol

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SLEEP KNOWING MY CAT IS CURRENTLY IN PAIN AND HAS SHOWN ME THE PROBLEM (HIS PAW) BUT I CANNOT FIX IT FOR HIM AND HAVE TO BRING HIM TO THE VET WHICH ONLY OPENS IN 9HRS 😭😭😭😭

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm hby and here's some of my pixel art!

digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a hand with a lace web pattern glove. The hand has sharp fingernails dripping a tiny amount of blood. A black butterfly is perched on the hand.

"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu

starting the week with a weather induced migraine was not on my bingo card