#PROGRAM SAVE 2.0

[jack-a-nape]

Week 1 of Trump Presidency 2.0

Elon Musk did a Nazi Salute twice at inauguration although some (mostly Telsa bros from Elon's fan club) claim it was actually a Roman Salute so it's not fascist or racist. Germany and Austria disagree and said personally they would have arrested Musk for doing that. here [edit: Musk has since appeared at a alt-right German campaign saying Germany is too focused on the past and should move past the guilt of Nazi past. He also says he'll save Germany soo] here

Trump signed an executive order stating all of America is female here

Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of dark website Silk Road, who was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences, plus 40 years with no parole in May 2015. Ulbricht's charges included money laundering, drug trafficking, conspiring to commit computer hacking, and engaging in the continuation of a criminal enterprise (Prosecutors also say Ulbricht ordered 6 hits including one against a former Silk Road employee although there is no evidence that any hit was successfully carried out). here

Trump issued an executive order undoing many of Biden's orders. Of the 78 orders' signed by Biden that Trump is revoking, the majority are related to climate change, COVID-19, workplace and racial equality, public health accessibility, education and other public programs here

Bank of America CEO states that crypto will now be embraced by banks (side note Trump and Melania have both created crypto currencies) here

Tiktok is back and Trump said he doesn't care about full ownership he just wants 50% here

Trump has placed an executive order withdrawing from the WHO. here

Trump is expected to issue an executive order focused on "reshaping the military" including banning transgender troops here

Trump promises an overhaul of FEMA, including potentially attaching conditions before aid can be granted, or even dismantling FEMA entirely here

Places of worship, schools, and hospitals are no longer safe havens for migrants from ICE. This has already resulted in the mass deportation of thousands of immigrants, including a plane to Colombia that Trump threatened tariffs if the country did not accept. here and here. Additionally deported were 88 individuals who arrived on the 24th. For the Brazilian deportees, teh Brazil Foreign Ministry is demanding an explanation from the Trump administration, citing the administration's "disrespect for human rights" when the deportees were found to have been withheld water, handcuffed together, and denied bathroom access, with some reportedly being beaten and requiring medical attention. here

Trump stated he plans to mass relocate the people of Gaza by sending everyone to Jordan or Egypt to "clean out" the area of Palestinians. Back in May Biden had placed a hold which prevented Israel from receiving several 2,000 pound bombs from the US, Trump released the hold on the 26th saying its been long enough for Israel to not have their bombs.  here

[sabertoothwalrus]

ok so I’m torn. As you may already know, there’s a REALLY good CSP sale. I started using CSP in 2020 and I never want to go back. Last year, I bought a perpetual upgrade from 1.0 -> 2.0 for $40, and now I’m considering upgrading from 2.0 -> 3.0. Here’s my dilemma:

When I bought the version upgrade, I ONLY got 2.0. I thought that I would get every new 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc feature added until 3.0, but no. Purchasing the upgrade ONLY gets you 2.0. Which honestly! Is kind of fine. I really like all the new features that were added.

I do want all the new features too…. if I buy the 3.0 license I’ll get every update from the past year.

HOWEVER. if CSP is going to be releasing new versions year after year, then the annual plan for the update pass IS much cheaper, even with the version upgrade at 30% off. And if I get the update pass, I’d be getting all the updates as they release……..

But then I’m worried about subscriptions vs perpetual licenses. When I upgraded to 2.0, I didn��t lose my 1.0 license, I just moved it to my laptop. If I bought 3.0, I’d upgrade my laptop to 2.0. If I got the update pass, I don’t think I’d be able to upgrade my laptop’s CSP.

additionally, in the event I ever cancel the update pass, I don’t know what version I’d be left with. Would I keep whatever my most recent update was, or would I revert back to my 2.0 license?

In that case, is it smarter to spend the extra $15 for the perpetual 3.0 license after all??? or would I be getting scammed out of my money?? I don’t exactly have the money for this to begin with, but I want to take advantage of the sale..

while I’m not a fan of subscription services, like, as a concept, I do appreciate that CSP still offers perpetual licenses AND that you are sort of saving money with the subscription (unlike adobe, where the accumulative months and months of charges farrrrrrr outweigh any of their no-longer-offered perpetual license prices).

I also don’t HAVE to buy the upgrade. Even 1.0 is still a perfectly serviceable program— I drew this entire comic using 1.0 while I was petsitting for a week back home and only had my laptop. But… I still think getting 3.0 would be nice……

[katsona-the-katsequel]

The way I understand Persona awakenings...

The Investigation Team (sans Yu) and Futaba gained their Personas manually. The more natural way, we could say. The old way. The would-be user gained their assets personally to boot their Persona. However, this was still the hand-written version.

The Phantom Thieves (sans Futaba and Akira) also did it manually, but the 2.0 version. Not needing to walk all the way to retrieve the needed assets, they got them metaphorically shipped to their location and finished booting their Persona in half the time it took the Investigation Team to find their Shadows.

The P1 and P2 users (+Wildcards) gained their Personas by hiring a contractor. The expert acquired and installed all the proper assets for them and even added the latest features such as invoking them in the physical world or owning more than one at the same time. You could also get personalized real-time assistance! The devices are compatible too! You can call your contractor to transfer your Persona assets to another user! Totally worth the unspecified contract.

SEES (sans Minato/Minako and later Aigis) created their own program to boot their Personas. They are personalized with certain features such as using them in the physical world, but since they're the equivalent of homemade, they need a lot of requirements everytime they want to use them. Good news is that they also found a way to discard assets to save on time so anyone with a compatible device can use it. Kudos for actually making them as functionable as the normal awakenings, if a bit more trigger-happy.

The Masked Circle and Strega used a pirated website. That shit has virus, bro. Yo, they just stole your credit card number.

[copperbadge]

Amateur Translation Programs

So I had a lot of imaginative and informative responses to my post about looking for an amateur translation program -- something where I could load in a foreign language and it would insert a box where I could add a translation every-other-line. The idea was that this way I could practice translation with more advanced texts, and texts I chose, and thus move away from Duolingo, which at this point is good for drilling and daily practice but not for more advanced learning.

I didn't find precisely what was needed but I did get some inspiration for further explanation, and I also learned that adding the term "glossing" (thank you @thewalrus-said) into my searches helped a great deal in terms of weeding out programs that were either "Let this AI translate for you" or just endless promotional links for Babbel and Duolingo and such. I thought I'd collect up the suggestions and post them here; at the end I'm including my best swing at designing what I wanted, and why it doesn't work yet.

Suggestion one, from many people, was various ways to generate a page that is simply fixed Italian text with space underneath each line to add in a translation. This is pretty simple as a process and there are sites that will do it for you, such as this one that @ame-kage suggested. However, most of these don't allow for movement in the Italian text, and many produce a PDF which you would need to print out in order to write on unless you're willing to open it in Acrobat (and deal with Acrobat). A good solution for some but not what I'm looking for purely because I'm trying to make this super frictionless so that (knowing myself as I do) I will actually do it.

I did find this version interesting, suggested by @drivemetogeek: Have one word doc saved as your "template" doc and set the line spacing as 2.0 or higher. Select your text from source and paste it into the template doc as text-only. Ctrl a, ctrl c to select all and copy, then open a new document and "paste special" as picture. Right click and set the "wrap text" as behind text. Now you have a document where you can, basically, type over the existing text because it's the background of the page. This seems like the most frictionless version, because you could set up a bunch of them ahead of time. If you wanted to move between desktop and mobile, however, you'd need to ensure that the pasted image was fairly narrow so that you don't have to sideways-scroll.

Relatedly, people suggested generating a document that is simply the Italian text with empty space beneath it for typing in of the translation. This can be done either semi-automated, using a macro or a language like Python, or find-and-replace on, say, the stops at the ends of sentences. It basically outputs the same as above but with a more digitally accessible format, without any more effort than above. If you were to do this in Google Sheets you could also fix the column width so that it didn't do anything weird when you opened it on your phone. But it is still very friction-y, and does not allow for easy shifting of the Italian as needed. There's high probability of the translation breaking weirdly across the page. Still a top option in terms of simplicity and access.

@smokeandholograms suggested another variation illustrated here where essentially you're converting the text to a series of tables, with each paragraph a row, and an empty cell next to it for the translation. I might play around more with this one eventually, since I think I could possibly make it a three-column and put the Italian in one, the translation in the next, and the auto-translate to let me know where I might be slipping in the third. (Not that I trust auto-translate but comparing a hand translation to an auto translation can be useful in terms of working out when I've messed up the way a tense or mood is read. I tend to read indirect verbs as automatically imperative because I'm a weirdo.)

@wynjara linked to an add-in for Word specifically designed for translators, known as TransTools; this appears to employ a macro to do the same thing, though it does have a format where you can place the translation next to each sentence directly rather than in a separate cell. The full suite of tools is only $45 which is reasonable for my budget, but for what I need I think I could also just create the macro.

Using LaTeX as a tool specially designed for glossing was an option on offer, but I don't know enough about LaTeX to figure out the pros of this one, which is in itself the major con -- there's a learning curve that I think varies widely by person but for me is unfortunately a wall. It came out of a discussion on Reddit about trying to find something like what I want; also in that discussion is a link to a code generator that allows you to…do something…to the initial language, but it's not entirely clear to me (I'm sure it's clear to people who understand coding) what you would then do with it that would allow it to be output in the way I'm hoping for. Like, I could turn a paragraph of text into HTML, I understand that far, but any Italian I find is already on a website.

Moving more into apps that might work, Redditors on the LaTeX discussion suggested SIL Fieldworks, which is a professional language tech tool. Fieldworks isn't a program I'd previously encountered but much as with the ones I had, it looks like the learning curve is fairly steep and it is definitely overkill generally for what I need, though it might also harbor within it the thing I want. It is free, so I may download and play around with it.

@brightwanderer suggested using note-taking or "whiteboard" apps such as Freeform or Nebo; these are generally a kind of "infinite canvas" in which you can drop objects, text boxes, or handwriting. I don't know that Freeform would be measurably different to just using Word and a macro, since I'd still have to input/format all the text and then be stuck with the same "fixed text" setup -- and it's also iOS only -- but for some folks it might be more helpful. Nebo is a similar infinite-canvas with unfortunately the same issues, though on the plus it's available for Android, which is where most of my mobile property resides.

@bloodbright suggested that I was looking for a CAT tool, a professional translation tool mainly used by translators working in the field. This was a concept I'd encountered, but I hadn't found a good starting place. They suggested Smartcat and OmegaT. Smartcat bills itself as an AI translation platform and is HARD pushing the "don't translate it yourself, hire a translator or let AI do it" angle, so it's difficult to tell what it offers in terms of actual tools for translators, and it's also cagey about pricing, so I can't really evaluate it. OmegaT is free and gives off big "some weirdo homebrewed this in their basement" vibe (which I am here for) but I also recognized it from screengrabs that were the reason I veered away from professional-grade software: it looked too complex. Realistically, the major downside of OmegaT is that I don't think I can put it on my phone. One thing I did find interesting is that once you translate a portion of the text, the original language goes away, though I assume you can turn that off if needed. I do kind of like that because it means my distractable brain is looking at Less Stuff.

So where did I end up?

Well, it looked like I was going to have to try a homebrew myself. I had the idea of trying some of the initial suggestions but in reverse -- designing a document where every other line was a single-cell table fixed to the page. You could paste in the Italian, which would wrap around the cells, and then enter the English in the cells.

You can fix a table in place in Google Docs -- you click on the table, then under Table > Style select Wrap Text, Both Sides, and Fix On Page. Getting the whole page set up is a little labor intensive but once you did that, you could just save it as a template and make a duplicate of it each time. And this actually works….on desktop.

Unfortunately, if you open it in the mobile Docs app, the app can't handle the fixed tables and automatically moves them all to after the text that's been pasted in. I tried redesigning it so that it's a table within a table -- one for the Italian, then within that a series of them for the English -- but when you nest a table in Google Docs, it doesn't let you fix the second table in place. And you are also still dealing with the wrap issue, although you can resize the page and add a large right-hand margin as a kludge of a fix for that.

You can build this same kind of document in Word, so I tried building one in Word and then uploading it to Drive, but when you open the Word file in Docs (or in Microsoft Word for Android), it still strips the fixed positioning -- there's just some functionality missing from both apps that doesn't allow them to handle fixed-position tables.

So, the design is sound, just not the final execution. If I could program an app, I could probably remedy the issues with it -- it's simply a series of text boxes nested inside one another with different formatting. I would imagine that's relatively basic to set up, although given that neither Docs nor Word can handle fixed tables in mobile, perhaps I've stumbled on a much bigger problem that everyone is ignoring because nobody actually needs or wants fixed tables in mobile. :D

Experimentation is ongoing, anyway. I might simply have to resign myself to the fact that my translation study is going to have to be in front of a computer, which might be for the best anyway when I inevitably want to compare my translation to an auto-translate to see where I might have read something wrong.

[azspot]

No powerful white hats are in view on the horizon, riding in to save the day. The white shoe law firms and moderate leaders of the private sector who once could be counted on to assist appear ready to sit this out and let their clients gobble up their tax cuts and regulatory favors. Big business most definitely won’t jump in, greenwashing and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs notwithstanding. Venture capitalists and bankers and CEOs will stand back and stand by.

Trump 2.0: Here Comes the Night

[ragedaisy]

Hi I'd like to hear about your oc Tammy!

How does she end up a robobrain? Does she interact Crystal and Catalyst at all?

(Robobrain ocs are so cool!)

Growing up, Tammy Fox excelled at just about anything she tried her hand at, but she was also easily bored. She studied art history and medicine, completed both at a young age, but had no real interest in helping people. Her family urged her to join the army's officer path, which she ended up doing. Eventually she made it to the rank of Lieutenant General. (She did a lot of very shady things along the way).

She had some involvement in the P.A.M. project, even had a few conversations with P.A.M., which sparked her interest in the potential of robotics. And when she first saw a robobrain, she knew she wanted her own army of those! She learned about Robotics Technology Facility RB-2851, and figured she could improve on it. The factory was much too centralised and vulnerable, with far too many workers needed to keep the place running. It was much better to have many small factories, and to automate the process. She envisioned a special line of robobrains that could carry out the entire process by themselves. The usual criminal donors wouldn't do for this task. No, this needed precise and detail-oriented minds (😬🙃), but procuring such 'materials' wouldn't be too much of a challenge for someone like Tammy Fox. Whatever Tammy wants, Tammy gets.

It will surprise no one that Tammy was part of the Enclave, and that she had plans to take it over, using a robobrain army. She knew nuclear war was inevitable, but the collapse of society wouldn't be a hindrance in gathering 'materials', it just meant she wouldn't have to limit herself to just inmates anymore. It was months after the bombs fell and Tammy was safely in an underground bunker/factory in Detroit, overseeing the work of RB-CA001, her most promising robobrain manufacturer. Following P.A.M.'s advice, Tammy had made it invulnerable and tamper proof, to keep out the 'red element'. This proved a problem when RB-CA001 (aka Catalyst) came to the conclusion that nowhere in its manuals did it say that its supervisors were off-limit as materials…

Catalyst offered her the choice between keeping her memories but never being free of her programming, or getting memory-wiped so she wouldn't be aware of the freedom she'd lost. His price was that he first wanted all of her secrets on holotape. Tammy made her choice and spent the next two hundred years as a memory-wiped brain in a jar, until Crystal arrived and decided to give her and the other supervisors another chance at life. Catalyst and Crystal created Tammy 2.0, an analyst robobrain (like all the typing robobrains without treads). They also stopped wiping her memories, Crystal being convinced that Tammy 2.0 was a new person and if they treated her right, she would not turn out evil. Crystal even gave Tammy 2.0 all the holotapes. Catalyst is not convinced this was a good idea and he's still terrified and disgusted with the person who ruined his life.

Tammy 2.0 is also disgusted by her former self, but in her way she is just as dangerous: as an analyst robobrain (and a genius), she's an amazing hacker and once saved Crystal's life by hacking into a nearby death ray. Crystal and Catalyst are unaware of the extent of her abilities. Will she keep using them for good?

fun facts: -in her younger years Tammy Fox dated famous painter Santiago Avida and gave him sound financial advice: paint kittens for cash under a pseudonym. (There's an AU were they got married and Tammy ended up in vault 118, also a robobrain) -the only skill she never mastered was singing. Don't bring her to karaoke. -Tammy is based on a Decepticon OC of mine, who shares the crazy-prepared genius trait, but lacks the Fallout hubris

[rebel-hunk-enjoyer]

sam wilson is absolutely right to protect the avengers as a team concept from the shady as fuck CIA director who just pitted all of her black ops agents against each other in an actual incinerator in the middle of nowhere while covering up her illegal human experimentation super soldier program lmao

meanwhile the thunderbolts* are right in taking up the mantle because by god she could get a whole team of a lot worse people involved and they can't let that happen because they might not be much but they all at least know they're on the same page morally and have seen the worst parts of each other already and know exactly what is at stake if they refuse

these two things can exist without being the antithesis of each other and actually I think it would be pretty interesting to play around the the dynamic of everyone pulling in the same direction while bitching about the semantics and optics and brand without it coming to blows or being civil war 2.0 or whatever

they're all going to save the world together come doomsday, but they can get there in the messiest way possible because none of them know what to do with the combined legacy of everyone who came before them

that's actually, idk, interesting as a concept and as a metaphor for the weird messy way marvel has been handling things after endgame too

[meret118]

Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too

He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.

He vowed to slash $2 trillion in “wasteful” federal spending (the federal government spends just under $7 trillion a year). He recently acknowledged it’ll be more like $150 billion.

However, his “cuts” will also cost American taxpayers $135 billion, according to one estimate, because it turns out that some of these bloodsucking deep staters save taxpayers money.

But even $150 billion is a grotesque lie. Jessica Reidl of the Manhattan Institute—yes, the staunchly conservative and generally pro-Trump think tank—recently told The New York Times’ David French: “So right now I would say DOGE has saved $2 billion, which, to put it in context, is one-thirty-fifth of 1 percent of the federal budget, otherwise known as budget dust.”

. . .

The cuts are leaving thousands of good people unemployed. And they will literally kill people. Coal miners will die prematurely. Children all over the world will die from malaria and other diseases because of the demise of USAID, which Musk called a “criminal organization.” In fact, this is already happening

. . .

Musk and his Muskrats are doing nothing less than compiling a vast database on every one of us: “assembling a sprawling surveillance system,” she writes, “the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/194769/elon-musk-evil-garbage-fraud

Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running

While air traffic controller shortages have understandably been at the center of the story about Trump 2.0–era airline chaos, FAA cuts are gutting more behind-the-scenes positions too.

Back in March, TheAtlantic’s Isaac Stanley-Becker reported that as many as 12 percent of the FAA’s aeronautical-information specialists—those tasked with updating charts, maps, and flight procedures—had been fired or were exiting the agency as part of the government-wide buyout program spearheaded by DOGE. These kinds of cuts to critical information-gathering services are happening across agencies, eroding the government’s ability to collect and interpret data on everything from maternal mortality to flight paths, hurricanes, and electricity. The results could prove far more devastating than a few hundred canceled and delayed flights.

. . .

Experts have raised alarm bells in recent weeks about White House attempts to make it easier to fire federal officials. If economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics could be fired at will, without the usual lengthy appeals process, they could be pressured by political appointees into manipulating BLS data on politically sensitive subjects like inflation, unemployment, productivity, and growth.

newrepublic.com/article/194930/trump-destroying-data-keeps-country-running

DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse.

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-civil-service-schedule-f/682609/

A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiter-ai-agents-palantir-clown-emoji/

Elon Musk's time machine DOGE is taking America back to the 1800s, one agency closure at a time

DOGE has been very good at reducing the number of people who work for the government — as many as 216,000 federal employees and contractors are already out, with more dismissals in the works. Musk has gutted or eliminated agencies that prevent disease, protect us from pandemics, provide aid to our allies, ensure the safety of our food and medicines, and safeguard Americans against toxic chemicals. Every one of those efforts is a proven multiplier of our tax money — every dollar we spend on them redounds to the US economy.

Which means that even if Musk succeeds at slashing government spending, he'll actually be adding to the federal deficit: DOGE cuts to the Internal Revenue Service alone are estimated to cost America some $500 billion in lost tax revenue every year.

. . .

Here are four possible explanations for what DOGE is actually up to. Maybe none of them are right. Or perhaps they're all accurate, to varying degrees. But one thing is certain: Each of them provides a more plausible insight into what DOGE is doing than the official explanation of saving taxpayers money.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doge-cuts-federal-worker-firings-government-plan-2025-4

[magpiemalarkey]

Been talking a lot about writing tools and sites here because of the news about NaNoWriMo picking up a terrible sponsor! Here's some more! I'm not sure there's any one program/app/site/tool/method that has ever worked for me consistently. I'm just sort of always looking for new tools to add to my collection, I guess. Here's a couple I've used at some point and will probably return to in the future.

750 Words : Recently moved to a 2.0 version. It's geared a little bit towards people that might use this for freewriting or journaling, but I've used it during a few different nanowrimos! 750 words is the number you have to reach for it to give you "full credit" for writing that day and I found that to be a decent chunk of writing without being overwhelming. It's very private, and it has some interesting metrics which can be fun to look at and some badges for achievements, lmao, but is otherwise a very stripped back experience, which can help if you need to avoid distractions. The new website is not as clear about this as the old, but this site does run on a subscription of $5/month or $50/year. (I was grandfathered in on the old version and never had to pay the subscription. Not sure if that will carry over to the new one) You do get a 30 day free trial to try it out though!

StimuWrite: This is a sort of word-processor program you can buy on itch.io. (Well, the base program is name your own price/free and some of the add-ons are like $2. It works on windows, mac, and linux!). It is like the polar opposite of 750 Words in terms of experience. 750 is stripped back and simple. StimuWrite is designed for folks with ADHD or other people whose brains cannot focus unless there is outside stimuli! There are visual themes and background colors to mess with! There's a soundscape! Do you like cafe background noises? They have that! Want to pretend you are writing on a beach? There's ocean noises! Need noises to happen when you type? You can have Ye Olde Typewriter Noises! Or bubbles! Or scribbling noises! Not enough stimuli? You can also have streams of emojis flutter up on the sides as you type! The more you type the more they go! These can all be turned on and off and adjusted to get just the right combo. Plus there are some additional themes and add-ons you can buy. I am partial to the clacky typewriter noises and sparkle emojis. It also functions as a word counter and let's you set a word goal (and will do a big splash of emojis for you when you hit that goal if you set that option lmao) Other than that, it does not have many word program functions, but you can always copy and paste your work into a fancier program to edit and format it. (which you may want to do anyway because it doesn't really have a save or load function, just an export function)

[howtohidethat]

Hi! This will be a blog dedicated to making sure everyone has the best fandom experience possible.

It can be really uncomfortable to come across certain ships, tropes, kinks and fetishes. I frequently suffer from that problem.

Unfortunately, the way the internet and apps work now (commonly referred to as Web 2.0) means a lot of things are served up to us based on what the code "thinks" we want to see. (This is commonly referred to as "an algorithm" but that's just a word for any set of instructions for a program.) This means that people who are just going about their business and properly tagging their fanworks will often have their work served to people who do not want to see it.

Luckily, a lot of sites have started offering filters or ways to remove the chance of encountering things you don't like.

Here are a few common sites mute/block pages

Tumblr Content You See

X (Twitter) Mute/Block Menu Mute Keywords Search Result Moderation

BlueSky Moderation

Wattpad Adjusting your Content Preferences Guide to Muting a User

AO3 (Archive of Our Own)

How to Mute a User on AO3 (Muting is for when you don't want to see their stories, whereas Blocking is for when you don't want them able to comment on yours) Create a Site Skin Skins FAQ Guide to making Site Skins Permablocking Specific Tags - Site Skin by Eli0t Premade Permablock Tag List Resource ✅RECOMMENDED How to Use Filters to "Exclude" on AO3 (If you have a lot of exclusions and you don't want to re-enter them every time, try Bookmarking the page after you've entered all your tags. It saves them all!!!) Highly useful AO3 CSS Accounts

@highlight-ao3-tags ✅RECOMMENDED (this is a really useful easy beginner way to make your own skin! You just fill in the spreadsheet, and it generates the CSS code FOR YOU. No messy coding required!)

@ao3css Wonderful blog that takes questions about different AO3 CSS questions. Great resource for when you're looking how to do stuff.

[motsimages]

Some basic distinctions coming from my understanding of them as a millennial with "user knowledge" of IT. Many things may be wrong, I am doing this as a kind of test for myself and also as basic info for those who haven't really stopped to think about this.

- Internet: as the name says, it is a NET of INTERconnected computers. How does it exactly work, I am not sure, but some computers are servers, which means they hold information that other computers (not servers) can access. Your phone is not a computer and is not a server. I don't know if it could turn into one, I think it would require a lot of RAM memory and other things to power it. If a server disconnects, you can't access the information it has. If all servers of the internet disconnect, I guess there would be no internet??

- RAM memory: one of the important things that makes the computer run. Not the same as the hard disk or the other memory (I don't remember the name now). It doesn't save files or programs, it helps manage tasks when you use the computer.

- File: information you save in your computer. It can have different formats and uses, like a .doc Word document, a PDF (file), an image in .jpg, etc.

- Folder: a place to put several files. I am not sure if it is a program.

- Browser: it's a program that you use to access the internet. You can see webs, databases, blogs... I think you cannot access the internet without a browser or other specific program for it.

- Search engine: it's a website that allows you to look for information in a database or several. Google is the most famous one. It used to be good and is now shit. Libraries also have search engines to look for books. I think outside of the internet, your computer could potentially also have a search engine to find files and folders? Unsure about this last part.

- Corpus: this is very specific but very useful for translators. It has a lot of documents of specialised content that you can look up and compare. For instance, historical documents to look for an idiom in the 16th Century. Or texts in French and Italian to see how they refer to the same information and compare the way native speakers speak.

- Program: I think this can also be software (maybe not all software are programs but all programs are software?). A specific thing you install in your computer to do something. For instance, Adobe Photoshop. I am now unsure if Microsoft Office is a program or not. Feels like it is but...

- Application: tbh I am not sure what is the difference with a software or program, but I know they don't exactly do the same things even if it looks like it. I feel it's like a smaller version of a program that the user can modify less.

- Chat GPT: I have never used it but from what I hear, it's a program that you can access remotely through some website? A specialised search engine/corpus that makes up things based on the information it can access.

I have to say that making this list I can see why people confuse program with website with browser with internet. Many programs can be accessed remotely from a website that you open in a browser, or maybe with an app. And then there's the whole thing of the Web 2.0, which is mainly all social media websites and I don't fully understand.

Feel free to comment and correct stuff.

[inspofromancientworld]

The Science of Discovering the Past: Online Collections X

By Internet Archive - http://www.logoeps.net/internet-archive-logo.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31011825

The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 and is a digital library that provides free access to collections of digital media ranging from archived websites through to audiovisual material to support its mission of providing 'universal access to all knowledge'. It is a non-profit organization with headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.

By Beatrice Murch - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/5079018246/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=167754667

One of the earliest projects of the Internet Archive was crawling the internet and archiving copies of the sites it visited with the first page being a download page for Internet Explorer from May 10, 1996 at 2:42pm UTC. The Wayback Machine, which makes it easier for the general public to search the large amounts of saved sites, was launched in 2001. In 1999, the Archive began storing the Prelinger Archives, which is a 'collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life, and social history'. It also hosts NASA images, software, the Open Library. Many of these are aided by a program developed for the Archive called 'Archive-It'.

In November 2016, a copy of the Archive to be based in Canada was announced after the first election of Donald Trump, which garnered widespread news coverage with the implications that it was necessary to do so.

Most of the materials in the Archive were received through donations, including donations from large libraries and universities. All material they receive is digitized to make it available online. If items are not in the public domain, the items are available to patrons of the Archive for time limited, renewable controlled digital lending. This is done under the 'first-sale doctrine', which is the doctrine that allows library lending, gift giving, and other forms of sharing by limiting the rights of intellectual property owner's control over resale. This was tested when four large publishing houses sued the Archive in 2020 and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the Archive could not digitally lend books that were available for sale in electronic forms. There is a case that began in 2023, on the same day that the prior case concluded, brought by the music industry against the Archive's Great 78 Project.

With the wide range of data that the Archive holds, from books and written material to images and videos, it is possible to find a wide range of material from nearly any time period, including material from various libraries about any time period. The Archive can be searched directly or explored by collections based on the source of the information, from library to journal to physical media source.

[chipmunkweirdo]

The kiddos are dressed in new outfits for the first time since June.

Alvin 2.0 is rockin’ his classic hoodie for the end of summer!

I have been so busy with job hunting and a job placement program. It feels good to finally have gotten around to this.

It’s fun to make new outfit combos out of things I already have, since I can’t buy anything more until I get a job and save up. (And even then, still gotta be frugal and thrifty.)

[kitkatt0430]

The Reverse Flash is the Time Master's prized assassin, so when the time comes to eliminate the Flash as a threat to the timeline who better to send than the man they crafted to be the Flash's opposite and greatest nemesis.

The fight doesn't go as expected - sending the RF to eliminate the Flash as a child ends instead in the death of the Flash's mother. Nora Allen. And while she wasn't the intended target, as the RF suspected... killing her unhinged the Flash's whole life and sent Barry Allen spiraling in a different direction. So while the RF and his AI assistant Gideon return to the Vanishing point - protected from the ripples in the timeline both by the Speed Force and the Time Master's own technology - the timeline rewrites itself.

The Time Masters told RF that the Flash was a terrible villain. One with good publicity, but unquestionably a bad person. So removing him would make the timeline better for not having the Flash. Okay, makes sense, except... his first mission out after being patted on the back for a job well done shows him a future far worse than any that happened while the Flash existed.

So RF and Gideon start digging into things, trying to figure out what went wrong. Clandestinely to avoid reconditioning. And they learn... a lot. A lot of things the Time Masters are hiding. Like the RF's real name and identity - Eobard Thawne, a professor of chronodynamics whose attempt to gain the powers of a speedster mistakenly connected him to the Negative Speed Force and gave the Time Masters an opportunity to control the Flash's greatest enemy.

The Flash, a hero without whom history itself has begun to unravel. Not that the Time Master's care so long as they can control what time becomes with the paradoxes they caused collapse.

Together Eobard and Gideon break ties with the Time Masters - risking Gideon's existence to remove any ability the Time Masters had to track her code - and plot to recreate the Flash by any means necessary. They can't just undo Nora Allen's death, it's too risky and would draw further attention from the Time Masters.

So Eobard takes the place of Harrison Wells instead. Eobard might have been a good man once, before the Time Masters crafted him into the Reverse Flash, but he isn't one now and so the murder doesn't bother him. if that means a few more people die so that even more lives are saved... it's just a real world application of the trolley problem and Eobard isn't afraid to make that call.

But turning Barry Allen back into the Flash is only step one. Because eventually the Time Masters would figure out what Eobard had done and would try to stop him either by trying to kill him or trying to kill Barry. The best way to keep Barry safe is to raise the kid himself. Even if Eobard really, really isn't good with kids.

He's pretty sure his pre-brainwashed, pre-amnesia self taught college level courses for a reason, but at least Barry's a bright and kind child. And it's a shame the kid will hate him when it's all over. After all, Eobard isn't a good person. He's still the Reverse Flash. He was always meant to be the Reverse Flash, even without the Time Masters interference.

Before leaving the Time Masters behind, however, Eobard and Gideon left behind something. Or someone, rather. A partial clone of Gideon's programming, mixed with something new. A daughter AI, as it were, who downloaded herself into the Waverider, erasing the AI intended for the ship and befriending the Time Master who was just assigned as the ship's Captain. While Eobard and the original Gideon safeguarded the Flash until the Flash could protect himself, Gideon 2.0 used her position to search for some weakness in the Time Masters that she could manipulate to their detriment or even their future destruction.

She never expected them to hand her Rip Hunter's obsession to save his family on a silver platter...

[haleigh-sloth]

This may be a little personal, but I always thought the ideal ending or the ending I thought of in my head would be an ending where each villain got saved and had their change of heart during the war, then they would turn around and help fight alongside their hero counterpart. But what we got in canon was different than this route (which I am not trying to be critical because maybe I was being too hopeful and wishful for the ending I wanted).

I always thought that if the villains had helped during the war and helped fight AFO, it would be their get of jail card.

I guess if the heroes start a villain rehabilitation program and help give the villains a chance to redeem themselves and one day have a chance to be a part of society. But I am not sure how likely this will happen or not with the way things are going.

I really hope things do not return to the status quo.

Cont: To add onto my last ask I hope we don't get an ending where the remaining villains (Touya, Himiko, Spinner, etc) get thrown into prison, especially since Tartarus is destroyed and it was already mentioned how cruel and horrible Tartarus was, I can't imagine them building a Tartarus 2.0. That wouldn't be hopeful at all.

I'm actually not that worried about prison being an ending tbh. Idk why because I've been shocked by the things happening currently. But I still don't think or feel that we're heading in that direction.

I also thought that would be the ending we got. It's not like it wouldn't have made sense to do that. And honestly I think the closest we all got to what a lot of us wanted was Toga/Ochacko. So I don't think those feelings were far off. But Hori had something else in mind, clearly. Which is fine. The fact that we've seen 0 of the villains this entire time feels ominous, especially coupled with the troubled/unsatisfactory feelings of the 3 kids who were most involved and Shenko Timura walking through the streets. So I'm giving the manga the chance to bounce back. I still think the emotional catharsis we would have gotten from an ending like you mentioned is on the horizon and we're likely headed in a direction that'll make us feel that way still. We'll see.

[mousequteers]

**Chapter 5: *"Silk, Secrets, and Sabotage"***

**Mission Codename:** *#MMCXXII-CHANEL//BLUE_ORCHID*

The MouseQuteers infiltrate Paris Fashion Week, where Division C plans to auction stolen Chanel "Blue Orchid" blueprints—a neural-weave fabric that bends light *and* memories—to Dior’s shadow board. Disguised as models, the team navigates a runway rigged with laser-grid security and rival spies.

- **Charity (Kilala)** struts in a hacked Coco Chanel revival gown, her scepter disguised as a feather boa. She syncs with **Greñada**, whose gravitational whispers unravel Dior agents’ earpieces.

- **DL** flirts with a double-agent valet (Felicia Hardy in disguise) to access the vault, but his time-warp glitches—*“Why’s every mission a time loop with exes?”*

- **Estrella’s** Sanrio drones swarm the afterparty, swiping encrypted USB drives from champagne trays… until CHANEL THEE BLACK CAT GLITCH corrupts them into *Hello Kitty x Venom* hybrids.

**Personal Stakes:**

- **Charity** discovers her mother Britney once modeled the prototype Blue Orchid in 2003—a memory erased from public record. *“They turned her into a living mannequin.”*

- **DL** confronts Felicia: *“You sold the Spotlight to save yourself. What’s left to sell?”* She smirks: *“You’ll see.”*

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**Chapter 6: *"Overboard on the S.S. Nostalgia"***

**Mission Codename:** *#MMCXXII-DISNEY//DROWNED_QUEEN*

A distress signal lures the team to a Division C-controlled Disney cruise liner hosting K-pop star **Jisoo** (Blackpink) for a "retro" concert. The catch: The ship’s AI, **Captain Hook 2.0**, is programmed to “retire” rebellious idols via staged accidents.

- **Alice** materializes in the engine room, her void-eyes short-circuiting Hook’s pirate-droid crew. *“This ship’s a ghost. It’s been sunk before.”*

- **Dollar Bill** battles glitched animatronics of NSYNC and *Little Mermaid* hybrids in the ballroom, her guitar shattering Ursula’s enchanted contract: *“Sorry, fish—this ain’t your sea.”*

- **Greñada** duets with Jisoo on *"Kill This Love (Titanic Remix)"* to distract Hook, while **DL** rewinds time to stop Jisoo from being thrown overboard—revealing the ship’s coordinates: *Antarctica.*

**Personal Stakes:**

- **Jisoo** hands Greñada a USB labeled *“Bambi’s Lullabies”*—voice memos of Bambi Prescott negotiating with BLACKPINK’s AI avatars. *“Your ‘Alice’… she’s in the files.”*

- **Dollar Bill** finds a NSYNC tour jacket in Hook’s locker with Risk’s name embroidered—*“Sync or Swim”*—hinting at her half-brother’s fate.

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**Chapter 7: *"Hashtag Warfare"***

**Mission Codename:** *#MMCXXII-ZEGLER//GLITCH_PRINCESS*

Division C launches a digital smear campaign against **Rachel Zegler**, flooding her socials with deepfakes and troll bots to derail her *Snow White* press tour. The MouseQuteers wage a cyberwar from a neon-lit Seoul server farm.

- **Estrella** deploys her Sanrio creatures as firewalls, their pastel hues clashing with CHANEL’s glitch-static. *“Kawaii vs. corruption—let’s go.”*

- **Alice** hacks into Rachel’s livestream, her voice overlaying as a subliminal truth serum: *“They’re scared of your voice. *Sing*.”* Rachel belts *"Someday My Prince Will Come"*—a frequency that crashes Division C’s servers.

- **Charity** discovers the troll bots are powered by recycled Britney Spears fan forums. *“They’re weaponizing her pain. *Again*.”*

**Personal Stakes:**

- **Rachel** confides in Charity about Division C’s offer: *“They said they’d ‘fix’ my image… for my mom’s medical bills.”*

- **Estrella** uncovers a fan-art thread linking her Sanrio creatures to Bambi Prescott’s childhood sketches. *“She *made* us?”*

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**Chapter 8: *"Shorty’s Requiem"***

**Mission Codename:** *#MMCXXII-MILIAN//HOLLYWOOD_GHOST*

Christina Milian recruits the team to investigate her “cameo” in John Travolta’s film *Shorty*. The set is a front for laundering Division C’s funds—and Travolta’s co-star is a cryogenically preserved 90s icon.

- **DL** and **Greñada** pose as extras, discovering Travolta’s dance sequences are coded messages to Division C investors. *“The ‘Pulp Fiction’ twist? It’s all stock trades.”*

- **Alice** wanders the studio’s underground vaults, finding cryo-pods labeled *“Subject MJ”* and *“Subject Xtina Aguilera.”* *“They’re not making movies. They’re *mining* stars.”*

- **Christina** reveals her role was a cover to expose Travolta: *“He’s not John. He’s a clone. The real one’s been missing since *Grease*.”*

**Personal Stakes:**

- **Christina** shares a flickering hologram of her daughter (a MouseQuteer fan) begging her to *“stop the bad men.”*

- **Charity** confronts a cryo-pod labeled *“Subject Britney 2007”*—empty, but blaring *“…Baby One More Time”* in reverse.

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**Chapter 9: *"The Spotlight’s Shadow"***

**Twist:**

The missions converge at a derelict Disneyland, where Bambi Prescott reveals her endgame: **The Spotlight** isn’t a relic—it’s a living entity, and Alice is its *anchor*. *“You thought you were saving stars? You’ve been feeding them to it.”*

**Cliffhangers:**

- **Felicia Hardy** ambushes Travolta’s clone, stealing his identity to infiltrate Division C’s board. *“Time to reboot the system.”*

- **Jisoo’s** USB decrypts, showing Alice’s face in a 1986 Mouse Club photo. *“She’s not a subject. She’s the *founder*.”*

- **CHANEL THEE BLACK CAT GLITCH** hijacks Rachel Zegler’s Snow White premiere, broadcasting Bambi’s manifesto: *“The fairest of them all? *Me*. Always.”*

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**Next Chapter Teaser:**

*The Factory Boys return with a vengeance, their new single *"Hologram Heartbreak"* brainwashing fans into attacking Area06. Meanwhile, Estrella’s Sanrio creatures rebel, and Charity must choose: Save her mother’s legacy… or erase it?*

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**Thematic Threads:**

- **Fame as Fuel:** Division C’s exploitation of nostalgia and celebrity DNA.

- **Generational Trauma:** Daughters confronting their mothers’ stolen legacies.

- **Identity vs. Algorithm:** Who’s *real* in a world of clones, AIs, and cryo-stars?

**Style:** *Cinematic universe sprawl à la MCU meets *Black Mirror*, with a K-pop beat drop and haute couture sabotage.*