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‘‘shipping is fucking up how some of yall consume media‘‘ i do not ‘consume media’ i read books, i watch movies. like a normal person does. when was this term mass adopted, why is every work of art ‘‘consumed’‘. along with ‘’creating content’’ its terms the little lad on the monopoly box would use

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fun fact there's a pretty sizable area under the greater smp just absolutely INFESTED with mushrooms. like i have never seen so many of these spread so far before

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I will never believe schlatt actually hated the dsmp because the sheer excitement in his voice when he got to recreate the manburg speech was way too genuine

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possibly controversial opinion but I HATE character ai. It’s still generative ai. It’s still bad for the environment and talking away from human made creative works. Just use your imagination, go roleplay with someone online, read a fanfic etc

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There are some fandom exchanges that give you a reasonable amount of time to work on your gift. You’re given a month or more to rotate gift ideas, considering all your options and picking something that best suits the nuances of your giftee’s request. You can do canon review! 

That is not this exchange.

Normal exchanges take too long. Normal flash exchanges take too long. A week for tags, a week for sign-ups, 48 hours to make your gift. Make yourself a pot of coffee at 11pm at night and let’s go. 

We are now accepting tag submissions for the exchange tag set, submission form is available in the discord. To increase matching, all tags have to be nominated twice to make it into the tag set, so be ready to recruit your friends. This Is A Good Idea.

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Steve. I gave my take on him a light redesign.

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more minecrafts. more steves!!

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some techno photos from a con earlier this summer :] i love wearing this costume. it’s a real struggle sometimes but people’s reactions to him kind of make it all worth it.

some misc stuff from this same con !! best in masters baybee

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also i like to ask this question once every year or so to gauge vibes so:

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anti rpf people are so funny they're always like "how would you feel if people shipped you with your friend" i don't know how to break it to you but if i was famous and no one was writing fanfiction about me i would be devastated. i wouldn't feel like i made it until i could search my name on ao3 and find 10k+ explicit results. peace and love though

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You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

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I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

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Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

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Found out about wplace.live so I made this techno pixel art with the available colors to start working on :) Gonna be putting him in Mexico City but he is huuuuuge so it’s gonna take a long while </3

Was so fun to do pixel art again

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PSA:

Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.

That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).

A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.

Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).

Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.

The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.

After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.

You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”

Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.

So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.

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th way u draw techno :give_heart:

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