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You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

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Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.

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Hey maybe you guys should stop writing for the Addams family cause you don't get them at all.

Imagine my girl Morticia saying that shit in any other portrayal? NO? Because she wouldn't.

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

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oh yeah some resources if you wanna download yt videos for no reason in particular (<- lying)

loader. to: site lets you download in mp3 and mp4 formats. just use an adblocker or you'll be taken to shady sites. is a bit slow.

yt1s: exactly the same as loader.to. same thing with the adblock. faster than loader.to but less efficient (can't put multiple vids to download at once)

jdownloader2: program that looks sketchy but is really good at downloading playlists. requires java. (my personal fave. pretty fast and convenient.)

amp4: mp4 downloader (mid at best. can be slow and can't download videos over 2 hours in length.)

these are the sites i've tried and like. feel free to contribute more in comments or reblog. whether it's in our favor or not, this too shall pass. ❤️

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The website i use had mickey 17 labelled a comedy by the way

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KPop Demon Hunters is a pretty good movie with a pretty bad title lol. it's like naming your romance novel "Enemies To Lovers" or- (assistant runs onstage) what? (assistant starts whispering frantically in my ear) oh... oh.......

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I never wanna hear people say "AI Should be diagnosing cancer ever again".

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study. AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced, according to findings published Wednesday. Health-care systems around the world are embracing AI with a view to boosting patient outcomes and productivity. Just this year, the UK government announced £11 million ($14.8 million) in funding for a new trial to test how AI can help catch breast cancer earlier. The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, “leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,” the scientists said in the paper.

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I dislike saying that "there's no platonic explanation" for something, i really do. But like, what the fuck else could possibly be wrong with them. Are these three feeding each other's mental illnesses as a hobby

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The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

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You fucking wish the author was dead. The author is on twitter

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The queen and her guards

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Keyleth fundamentally misunderstands Vax's service to the Raven Queen, which is not to say I blame her at all! The Matron has not bound Vax to pay a debt, there is no "payment". Vax chose to serve the Matron. The circumstances of his death were unexpected and terrible, yes, but the Matron did not steal him. Keyleth (and Vex) still thinks he is paying her back for saving Vex. Vax spent years coming to terms with what serving the Matron would mean and *he chose it* in the blood pool in Vasselheim.

But how can Keyleth come to her own terms with his choice if he keeps sending her ravens? How is she supposed to know what that means?

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fucking. what?

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