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Headcannon that during the audition process for huntrix, Mira didn’t realize that Rumi was the adoptive daughter of Celine and thought she was just another auditioner and starts making jokes about Celine and the group in her blunt and dry way and Rumi is just so ??? Charmed by this person who doesn’t seem to care about what people think and is also inadvertently making fun of her??? Cause Mira doesn’t let up on talking about how the other huntr/x member is a nepobaby lol

When Celine notices that this is the first person who has made Rumi laugh and look relaxed she starts to come over

And Mira keeps going because a pretty girl keeps laughing at her and this girl seems sooooo repressed so Mira makes it her personal mission to keep making her laugh and poke fun at the whole thing

It isn’t until Celine comes over and introduces herself and Rumi as the first member of Huntri/x and Poor Mira is like “oh shit, I just made fun of the literal adoptive daughter of the last remaining sunlight sister and oh fuck I am going to be asked to leave”

However Celine could not care less other than the fact that she made Rumi feel at ease

Anyway just a fun headcannon where Mira makes an already anxious Rumi feel at ease without knowing who she is and that gets her into huntrix

I imagine Zoey is similar but more so that she’s just so chaotically charming and baffled Rumi in the best way and Celine notices her putting Rumi at ease

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occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

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We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

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Rules of DIY:

if it's a skill, there's rules you can learn

if it's an art, rules are not your concern

make it fucked up or you won't make it

if it's already broken, you can't break it

anything can be fixed with gorilla glue

except for pleather, and also you

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:

signed up for a ProtonVPN account

set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden

written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges

created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead

set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home

now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago

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found this nefarious cube in my home. going to incinerate it out of an abundance of caution.

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