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[reimenaashelyee]

Midcareer Artist/Author Tip: Save a copy of any interviews or reviews about your work because who knows if the outlet where that was published will completely collapse

I'm really grateful I'm sorta shameless enough to archive copies of interviews and especially nice reviews of my comics because if I hadn't, this particular interview with the British Library would just be gone forever. I've put up a copy in the Alexander Comic website, so at least this piece of my webcomic's personal history is intact and accessible.

Late last year the British Library experienced a huge data breach / cybersecurity attack that completely evaporated the digital archives. Blog posts, the manuscript/illumination archives, web pages, exhibition catalogues, ... they are still down months later. It's wild to me that such a thing can happen to a PUBLIC infrastructure - a NATIONAL library and archive!!! Decades of information gone like that. Its been months and months of barely anything coming back online.

As an artist from outside the UK, I literally CANNOT access any of the European manuscripts of the Alexander Romance in their collection - meaning the British Library as a resource is impossible for Book Two. Which is wild cos the Library was like almost 50% of the bibliography and art references for Book One. As someone whose dayjob is to build, manage and audit workflow / data infrastructure this stuns me in disbelief at how lax the library was about backing up their website and digital infrastructure. They don't even have offline, offsite copies?? I'm talking about basic things here, not even the high level security and data engineering stuff. (all this being said with the knowledge that the British Library itself keeps getting their budget cut)

Anyway idk, this whole thing is a big lesson on archiving things online (and always backing up your stuff). Cos the Internet isn't forever apparently.

[todaysbird]

what does this possibly mean

[ganondorf]

sometimes i see people on here talk about anarchism and it's very clear their understanding of it is on par with people whose understanding of communism is "under communism we all use the same toothbrush"

[selamat-linting]

the communist urge to write rpf of your favorite morally grey historical figure

[duhragonball]

Yeah, so apparently NaNoWriMo issued a statement about their stance on AI, and it really, really sucks.

I know there was some controversy last year, but that was about bad actors on their forums, which I never bothered with, so I was kind of hoping they at least made some effort to clean up that mess. This bothers me more, because it's the Nano organization itself using the same bullshit talking points as some dipshit cryptocurrency dork on Twitter.

My stance on AI is pretty simple: Fuck AI. If NaNoWriMo can't figure out how to string those six letters together in the right order, then maybe I need to rethink my use of their site. I'll keep you posted.

[quaranmine]

like ships passing in the night: the girl who sat next to me on the train going home this evening was reading on ao3. we didn't speak though, and i don't think she realized i was also reading fanfic. i hope she's doing well.

[spockvarietyhour]

I love you opensubtitles.org, I love you subscene.com, I love you srt time shift, I love you .srt to .ass

[pagesofkenna]

y'all please look at this official website for this borough in pennsylvania

we got

lumpy kiba

motto in the style of 2003 forum signature

population: the size of my high school campus

[jovine]

LEARN TO LISTEN AND THINK BEFORE I KILL YOU we are all going to fuck up at some point and we are all going to be insensitive on accident but I swear to god if we keep having the same fucking conversation on this site every 2 months I am going to strangle someone

[kanenites]

dont ask why im awake Anyway i finished the landing page for my nekoweb site. :)

[mynarco]

OMG I LOVE UR ART *Explodes and dies/j*

Anyways, any hcs about kiryu? I’d like to see em because in my eyes he’s the character ever

Ah, Kiryu! The ultimate Just Some Guy in Lapistoria! I don't have too much in the way of HCs for him but I can try to think of a few...

The former student council president. Once Hiumi came to Lapistoria, she pretty much captured the hearts of everyone (and her prior experience was very appreciated) so she got voted in. Kiryu does respect her, but is still prone to snapping at even her...

Childhood friends with Miyu. They're tea enthusiasts.

In general he enjoys fine arts and classical music- one might find him listening to some of the latter if he's particularly stressed.

Probably aroace.

[lapismaid]

the whole twitter thing is an absolute shitshow but i genuinely cannot think of another place i can go to be an unabashed Freak Weirdo

considering that, many places who claim to support Freak Weirdos, still have policies against some of the shit i'm into. what's even the fucking point then of Supporting Freaks if you're going to pick and choose who the Acceptable Degenerates are!

the message in many places and from many people, very transparently, is that there is a recognized ""correct way"" to be a Freak Weirdo Degenerate which is both completely missing the point and a quick way to ensure you're gonna get fucked over by fostering a "better-than-thou" attitude in the people who do fall into the "Acceptable Degenerate" category

degeneracy requires unity or we're all gonna end up fully fucked over by the sanitation of the internet! no, following the "Socially Correct Way" to be a degenerate won't spare you from this garbage, believe it or not, your hyperinflation anthro wolf giantess vore is not going to be magically protected because it's unrealistic. they WILL come for you all the same

[explainslowly]

Imagine popping in "it's really bumming us out that you keep talking about racism" into a disciplinary email to a volunteer

Additionally, while this is not a policy violation, a number of volunteers have informed us they feel that the way you have repeatedly brought up tense discussions in public rooms has made the work environment unpleasant. While we agree that the issues you’ve highlighted are important, many are things that can’t be addressed quickly, and will require a lot of time and effort from the org. We don’t want you to feel that conversations about change are unwelcome, but we would ask that you be more understanding of the fact that not everyone wants to participate in them. We also want you to understand that the changes you’re asking for require an immense amount of work from volunteers who already have an existing workload.

Read the whole email and the reaction, it's truly a lot.

[selamat-linting]

Gaza solidarity encampment in front of the US embassy building, Jakarta (10/05/24)

[ziggysgender]

all of queap is on archive.org btw, free of charge and free of ads

i have the full series on DVD too! and archive makes my phone buggy :’) but YES it most definitely is. archive dot org my best friend……….

[weeee]

Actually am using radiooooo.org from that post I just reblogged and its fr so cool. Wish the paid version wasn't leagues better than the free version, but it is what it is and honestly a website as cool unique as this should be making good money