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I've grown to dislike my school laptops to the point of insulting them.
Me looks at the schools chrome book: your charging station is a cow and your designer smelled of cheeto dust.
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The Dirty Secret of Chromebook Churn: How Schools Are Losing Out
The Dirty Secret of Chromebook Churn: How Schools Are Losing Out #education #edtech #sustainability #chromebooks
According to a new report by the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, the “Chromebook Churn” phenomenon is causing schools across the United States to overpay for educational technology while losing out on the potential of every student. The report highlights the short lifespan of Chromebooks, revealing that these laptops are designed to last a maximum of a few years. Schools are…
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~ The Executive Coloring Book, 1961
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An extension for library and book lovers
Library Extension allows you to see if your library has a book you're interested in and put a hold on it without having to go to the library site to do it.
They have extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
The extension works for several dozen countries, so it's worth checking if your country is included.
You then select which country subdivision you live in and which library systems you want to add the extension to.
Once the library is added in, when you go to shopping sites like Amazon, you should see on the side whether the library has any copies of the book!
#librarylife#libraryland#libraries#public libraries#chrome extensions#firefox extensions#useful stuff#useful information#good to know#a+ resources#canada#book lover#library love#library#just fyi#netehrlands#oman#new zealand#portugal#spain#ireland#channel islands#malaysia#india#israel#south korea#denmark#australia#france#estonia
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Something something becoming a city
#really should continue reading that nk jemisin book so i could make a better pun. i got like 2 chapters in before getting distracted by uni#reading. two years ago. oops. after i finish burning chrome? only got two short stories left in that i think#sketchbook#drawing#colour pencil#coffee#illustration#artists on tumblr#my art#uh. i had a point when i started drawing this. i think it might have been please commission me because being a care worker is exhausting an#i consider quitting ever shift i get that's not a night one#or buy originals#sold a lot of those earlier. not so much since january. idk why.
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BILLFORD AS ONE OF THE GRAVITY FALLS TAGS TRENDING AUSHDJDBDJD
#chrome rambles#All the other times I’ve seen it it’s just been book of bill and book of bill spoilers#gravity falls#the book of bill#billford
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Chrome Hearts Postcard Book (1998)
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Burning Chrome (1986)
William Gibson
Ace Books
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Imagine this is Bill's room in the Theraprism
gift for @nervousyoungmen
#2001 a space odyssey#2001: a space odyssey#gravity falls#bill cipher#book of bill#the 2001/Gravity Falls AU is cooking slowly but surely#miller attempts art#chrome canvas
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You want a non-cliché male (shounen) protagonist? I got it!
Something that I literally can’t get out of my head recently is how I constantly see discourse about the staleness of male MCs - especially shounen manga protagonists - always so ready and accepting of being the Chosen One. Always so ready to discard their “mundane” life and embark on some dangerous mission. Outspoken, fiery and with unbeatable charisma.
And while we are beginning to see (minimal) change with recent books/manga, do you know who was literally the antithesis of this a lot of years ago?
Tsuna.
Tsuna who was literally the last choice for everything, whose nickname was Loser-Tsuna, constantly bullied and harassed and whom nobody thought he would ever amount to anything. 0 friends, 0 abilities, 0 accomplishments.
And when some guy to tell him “You can become the head of a mafia family. You’re gonna be respected, sought after.”, when Reborn serves him POWER on a silver platter... Tsuna says “oh hell no, fOck all that”, turns tail and RUNS.
He won’t manage to escape forever, but that’s beside the point. Tsuna is a coward, a plain nobody, so boringly normal that in any other anime he would be for sure one of the background filler characters. He isn’t cut to be a protagonist. He’s wimpy, weak and whiny, sometimes to the point of being annoying ever for me - and I love KHR.
But what fascinates me is this. A character so weak and bullied, usually would be elated to have that much power offered to him. I knew that he was the protagonist, so the first time I watched the series I was expecting him to accept the power and better himself, become a different person, a hero. (Or, if he was in another manga, a villain.)
Instead, not only Tsuna refuses - again and again, until the very end - to become who he was destined to be, who everyone around him wants him to be; but the only time he uses the power he was gifted with is strictly to protect himself, his friends and family. And then he quickly steps away immediately after, like when you move a scalding pot without mittens.
His guardians have become... his guardians, in order, because: 1) he saved his life, so he thinks he’s cool 2) mostly head empty, only vibes (also he saved his life) 3) a literal child bribed with candy 4) somebody else asked him and he just went with the flow 5) one crumb of kindness got them hooked (actually 2 psycopaths in one body and it’s not a metaphor) 6) doesn’t give a shit as long as you give him a good fight.
Sure, at some point they all recognize his strenght, but apart from Gokudera’s blind idolization, for everybody Tsuna is just A Guy. He might be their “boss”, and they might come to respect him, but he gets treated nothing like a cliché male MC.
It’s really a shame that Katekyo Hitman Reborn, as a series, was managed badly as it did. Even though it’s one of my favorite shows, it’s weakened by a lot of factors... but an uninteresting MC? It ain’t one!
I smell a reboot in the air. I really hope they will to the series justice.
#khr#katekyo hitman reborn#tsuna#sawada tsunayoshi#vongola tenth generation#mafia#book#literature#manga#shounen#protagonist#male mc#anime#hayato gokudera#yamamoto takeshi#lambo#sasagawa ryohei#hibari kyoya#mukuro rokudo#chrome dokuro
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Day in Fandom History: August 8…
Tulip, One-One, and Atticus come across a car where everything is chrome and can see their reflections on the surface with Tulip’s reflection switching places with her and gaining the attention of the police. “The Chrome Car” premiered on this day, 5 Years Ago.
#Day in Fandom History#5 Years Ago#Infinity Train#Book 1 The Perennial Child#Season 1#Episode 7#The Chrome Car#Cartoon#Animation
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Cable: Love and Chrome #4 (Marvel, April 2025) cover by Ian Churchill
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A long yap session about the Maelstrom in the Danger gal Dossier
Ok finals are finally over and I have a chance to sit down and write this all out, I’ll go over the first page of Maelstrom info that details: Base of operations, recent history, resources, goals, and a little intro prepared Linda “Overpass” Lucastra who is undercover at the Totentanz… oh to run around undercover at the Totentanz… don’t get caught!
In the nice little intro we get, “Maelstrom clawed their way through the 4th Corporate war and reconstruction much as night city did: scarred, battered, but fiercely alive.” The DgD takes place in cyberpunk red, which takes place in 2045. Most of the city is recovering from the Arasaka tower nuke. Funny enough, before the nuke Maelstrom was considered a middle grade booster gang, but here it states that this is when they start to get major power and become a big deal with their drug and cybernetic trade. Something that I find pretty interesting, is how they manage to bounce back considering what happens to their base. But before I cover that, one of the reasons that they pull forward so well is due to the fact that they are one of leading gangs that is salvaging valuable gear from the hot zone, “Maelstrom also leads the other gangs in salvaging valuable gear from the hot zone using hoards of scavvers willing to get cancer for a shot at a membership and some shiny metal.” I suppose you do what you must do to survive in night city, even if it means possibly getting radiation poisoning in order to join one of scarier gangs in night city.
Now, base of operations… in 2023 they lost their entire territory in the arasaka nuke… I’m not joking, its stated in the book and is one of the reasons I’m so shocked that maelstrom manages to become such a bigger threat in 2045-2077. “In 2023, Maelstrom lost their entire territory to the Araska Tower nuke. The neighborhood around the abandoned department store they called home survived the blast, but raging fire swept through the area and brought it all down. Totentanz…(which the maelstrommers called their second home) was also badly damaged.” Completely insane and awesome to me that these guys got their shit rocked and managed to bounce back. They stabilized the Totentanz and re-opened the bar, and moved their base of operations to the middle floors of the hotel. Makes me wonder if some of the maelstroms are allowed to crash at the Totentanz as a kind of home. Like if they don’t have apartments or homes they can stay there, or perhaps have to stay there? The coolest bit of lore here that I’m pretty sure didn’t make it into 2077 is that in the ballroom of the Totentanz there is burned out chrome from fallen maelstrom members that cover the wall INCLUDING A MUMMIFIED CORPSE OF THEIR FORMER LEADER HAMMER WHO WAS KILLED IN THE NUKE! Insane, I love it. The book also states that it’s considered a mark of honor among members to have old chrome that has visible nuke scars. Details that can be used when drawing/making maelstrom ocs me thinks!
Moving onto recent history (as of 2045 of course) the Dgd states that maelstrom started and continues to build itself on castoff and survivors of other gangs. I honestly think this might still be true in 2077, some of the gang members can be seen wearing belt buckles of other gangs. My brain is a bit foggy right now as I’m writing this but I believe they will snatch members of other gangs and convert them for fun too. In this section it also states that it was an old condo that shielded the maelstroms old headquarters from the worst of the nuke. However, most of the cybered up members (ones that were heavily chromed) died in a frenzy of extreme violence frenzy that happened after the explosion. Survivors claim that it was EMP induced. This frenzy happened between gangs and possibly within maelstrom itself? “ the survivors fought on, absorbing Remnants of other high chrome gangs during the recovery.” It was Warlock, the gangs current leader who started to gather maelstroms best members and shape it into a business.
Speaking of business, during this time Maelstrom controls a drug trafficking network and also move reclaimed weapons and tech. They take wannabe (and disposable) gangsters into the hot zone to scavage for valuable equipment of all kinds, but they really want cyberware. They have deals with rippers all across the city. I find this really interesting, because in 2077, I’d say the ones shipping cyberware parts to shady rippers are mostly scavengers, (the gang). However, I do think in 2077 Maelstrom still has a bunch of cyberware lying around that they might sell? But my bets is that they keep it to over chip people for fun, (see metal monk mission). The final part in resources mentions the Totentanz, and that the headquarters and garage are in the same building.
Finally we have their goals, dgd states “Maelstroms rank and file members work the gangs drug or cyberware trade to advance and earn drinking money or credit with allied ripperdocs.” Warlock however, the gangs current leader, has longer term goals to get a permanent home for the Totentanz and the gang. (My goofy ass ‘awwwwwing’ at this) between the drive of the gangs leader and the trade network, it makes since that they had the strength to pull through and stick around. Maelstrom, being a gang and all, also enjoys a, and I quote “‘Chrome, Smash, Dance, and Bash’” attitude. Oh our little party freaks :)
The final detail here is something I think might be missed or never brought up in 2077. The dgd mentions the Inquisitors and that if any Maelstrom members come across them, they will set aside all other business to curb stomp them. Inquisitors are very anti cyberware and consider it blasphemous. The inquisitors were more of a cult than a gang and it goes without saying that maelstroms hate them. There is about 20 years of bad blood between them.
And that’s all for the first page that holds the intro of the maelstrom gang in the Danger gal Dossier. I will yap about the maelstrom members in this book and interesting details about them, but for now I’ll leave it here cause it’s sooooo late and this was a lot to type out, see you next time chooms!
#maelstrom#maelstrom gang#danger gal dossier#cyberpunk#cyberpunk 2077#cyberpunk 2045#cyberpunk red#cyberpunk inquisitors#my little freaks I love them so much#one of my fav details the book gives us#is the fact that they have their old boss mummified on a wall#and like#it would be so cool to see that in game#I want to explore the whole totentanz building damn it#and old chrome being a honor to have?#so cool
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Cable: Love and Chrome #1 (Marvel, January 2025) variant cover by Mike Mignola
#cable#cable: love and chrome#mike mignola#comics#marvel#comic books#variant covers#comic covers#x-force#cover art#shatterstar#feral#domino
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