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Dream Vision; A Nightmare (1525), by Albrecht Dürer, who died #onthisday in 1528. The watercolour and accompanying text describe an apocalyptic dream he had on the night of 7-8th June 1525.

More art depicting #dreams here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-dreams #OTD

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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THE HIIIIIILLS OOOOOF TANCHICOOOOOO

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me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly

me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It

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Kees Scherer - Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1965-1968

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Modern Screen, April 1932

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Star Wars / Ethel Cain - Hard Times

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Litter mates show affection for each other as they play near Glacier National Park, Montana.

Picture by Tom Mussehl

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If you don't stick around till the end, you will miss him ❤️

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I'm sure someone mentioned this here somewhere, but I can't find an existing post, so...

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There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for. EDIT: There are also some things people outside the EU can do, as well as additional things some people in specific EU countries like Germany and France can do that aim to solve this same issue as well. You can find that here. (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/)

(Note: There was a petition for UK people but the recent politics stuff there means it's on hold and has to be resubmitted and that may take some time.)

Additionally if you want to keep up with this you can check out Ross Scott (Accursed Farms on youtube or his website) who has been posting monthly about this and deserves a lot of credit for all this work.

(I hope that's all the stuff I missed)

EDIT 2: I changed the link to go directly to the form instead, this SHOULD work!

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Hey what is it like being a librarian? Is it awesome?

I'mma be honest with you, total stranger, this is how it feels to be a librarian in Ohio rn:

TLDR: the new state budget proposal unveiled this week completely removes the Public Library Fund (how all public Ohio libraries are able to provide books, programs etc), and instead merges us in with other public services. How bad is that? That's $100,000,000 gone bad. That is catastrophic bad.

We're on our hands and knees begging patrons to call their Ohio representatives for the past few days. There is a website now to inform the public of the situation and we've also heard reports that said reps are telling people this cut will actually increase library budgets, WHICH IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE??? I'm extra pissed about that.

I normally don't make political posts but I could quite feasibly lose my job and many others could too if this goes through, plus the huge impending loss of free information resources available.

If you live in Ohio, I am begging you to call/email your reps asap (look them up here)

And if you don't live in Ohio, check what your reps are up to because chances are it's something similar 🥲

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The sooner yall remember that Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the US military, the sooner yall will stop fangirling over a bunch of your White boy faves making war criminals look good becos that's strategic too.

Also, lmao at these tweets:

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.