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It's so close!

BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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Guys I've COOKED

This was supposed to be the same redraw of the sprite as the previous one, but my hand had other plans) This is the sprite

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mbu tibles

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Xe Iaso's Anubis is exploding in popularity and quickly become the go-to default for blocking AI scrapers. Their monetization model is kind of brilliant: it's free to use, but the stock instance has an anime doggirl all over it; if you have snooty clients who dislike that sort of thing, you can pay to remove it:

Anubis is provided to the public for free in order to help advance the common good. In return, we ask (but not demand, these are words on the internet, not word of law) that you not remove the Anubis character from your deployment. If you want to run an unbranded or white-label version of Anubis, please contact Xe to arrange a contract. This is not meant to be "contact us" pricing, I am still evaluating the market for this solution and figuring out what makes sense.

Make the fun haters pay more, I dig it.

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

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Everytime I see this screenshot, the first thing I think about is Car Sex.

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Can I use some of that for a future project? You're putting into words what I've been meaning to explain to my family for a while now.

God I hate how normalized not being in control of your own devices has become. My phone updates in the middle of the night without asking me shit or getting my consent for anything and its like "Oh hi I'm your new AI, please enjoy this forced overlay that you can't exit out of until you go through my tutorial"

"Great fuck you, I would like to uninstall you" "Oh I'm sorry you can't uninstall me! I'm a core system application and if you uninstall me your phone won't function correctly despite the fact that I did not exist yesterday and your phone worked fine" "....." "You can disable parts of my functionality but I will always be here and I will pop up notifications asking you to re-enable me unless you figure out how to disable those too! Then I will still show up in a different color at the top of your settings application telling you that you need to 'fix" a 'problem' with your phone, that problem being that I am disabled. Does that help?"

Like, you know what I can do on my desktop? "sudo pacman -Rdd linux" , this will just fucking remove the entire linux kernel. Fundamentally breaking my computer until I boot up a live disk and chroot in and reinstall it or whatever, and the computer will go "Are you sure (y/n)" or whatever and i'm like "y" and it will just go "Ok you got it boss"

But its mine, I get to do what I want with it. I control the computer, the computer does not control me. I refuse to cede control to my phone or anything else. The thing is a lot of people will joke that like "Oh I love just letting the machine tell me what to do, I don't know what I'm doing, it knows best" or whatever but the thing you have to realize is that when you say that you are abstracting away that "the phone" or whatever is not some value neutral logic driven robot like from sci-fi, it is a collection of the the capitalistic and fascistic desires of the tech oligarch fuckwits that are burning the world to the ground right now. You aren't submitting to the phone, you are submitting to Musk, Bezos, Nadella, Pichai, Cook and all those other evil bastards.

Fuck them, fuck their little AI toys, and fuck this.

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alternatively:

i hate when you google a word and some fucking company comes up instead. Do you think you are more important than the english dictionary you piece of shit corporation

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it was not on wheat...

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OMFG I thought it was an article from The Onion...

Are we fucking North Korea?! He’d have shat himself twelve times over if Biden had done this.

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Hajichi -- banned tattoo practice originating in Okinawa, Japan

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Would this wish be solved by specifying "mortal human"? Kinda interested to know what the Evil Genie side of tumblr can find to fuck up this wish.

I know there's already technically a loophole because any human under this condition is technically mortal since they can die after the last mortal human dies, but this is a paradox in itself: if the loophole works, they won't die, so they are not mortal and the loophole doesn't work anymore.

I'm thinking way too much about this.

"I wish for immortality until the last human dies. And I want to stay young and healthy," you tell the genie, proud of your clever wording. Seventeen quintillion years later, drifting through the dead, silent void, you spot your old co-worker Kyle. He's still alive. And he’s still talking.

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Look Back

I just watched Look Back.

I don't know wether it broke or fixed something in me but it sure did something.

Watch Look Back.

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Love you