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Password sharing is not piracy any more than loaning your friend a DVD or watching a movie with your family is piracy. The service is already paid for. Execs just consider sharing to be eeeevil because they can’t exploit every individual person. 

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coming out of my cage and i’ve been doing just

not good

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I very much appreciate that Disney practically designed Baby Yoda for the sole purpose of getting people desperate to subscribe to Disney+, now Baby Yoda is becoming a mascot for internet piracy and the mouse is furious. Absolutely iconic.

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Couldn’t you just pause it

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I read this study by @universityofbristol that used ai to model vision in different types of animals. It makes big cats a lot more terrifying. Deer and antelope like to hang out with birds, and the birds give warning calls when they spot a predator. From the deers perspective, the birds must have some psychic ability. Since deer can’t experience these colors, they probably can’t imagine that predators are a completely obvious color to other animals. There’s probably a lot of things that we cannot see, don’t have the words for, and don’t have the capacity to imagine, but they exist. Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

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thinking about the statement that all maladaptive coping mechanisms were helpful and, well, adaptive, at some point, and that they become maladaptive when the circumstance changes or when their detriments outweigh their benefits, and how the framework of “this is no longer helpful to you” is probably better than “this is a bad habit/this is bad for you.” How much better “you don’t have to live like that anymore” feels than “that’s a bad habit you picked up when you were in a bad place.” “It’s ok, you can look now,” vs “you’ve been tainted/infected/sullied by a previous bad circumstance.”

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Oh look, I found a summary of the entire Harry Potter series:

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“In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.”

— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (via decadent-romanticism)

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your 20’s are all about finding THE wackiest, THE ugliest, short-sleeve button-up shirts that no one in their right mind would wear, and then wearing them as much as possible

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Customer Service Wolf in “Weird”

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“If capitalism were simply a way to meet material needs, it would make no sense that people work harder now that less labor is required for production. But capitalism isn’t just a way to meet material needs; it’s a social system based in alienated relationships. As long as the economy distributes access to resources according to wealth, advances in manufacturing technology will simply force workers to seek other livelihoods. The machine no longer needs us, but it still needs us to keep working.”

— work (via becoming-vverevvolf)

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Mr Ratburn from Arthur is gay! It was a straight bait and switch! Oh my god!

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