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look there are way bigger fish to fry. but i think it's worth saying that it is bizarre and weird to see something like the wizard of oz put up at the sphere, but not really, not the real wizard of oz, but a version of it that sort of selectively takes out clips of it and swamps them in modern animations, and yet is marketed as the real wizard of oz, as an expansion on an existing film and not a wholesale replacement of most of it. it's weird to me to see how modern film so often treats historical antecedents as not works in their own right but as solo elements to be cannibalized out of the source, away from all context, but framed as explicitly the same as the original source material. i am thinking specifically here of how peter cushing's voice and face—and later carrie fisher's voice and face—were stolen and used by the star wars movies, to very little outcry except some casual mentions of how much the tech has advanced. why are we comfortable watching a movie that uses an actor's face without knowing what choices he would have made in his performance? how can anyone frame this as the same movie when they've smoothed out judy garland's face, replaced every framing choice made by the original directors, redone the choices of the production designer cedric gibbons, and entirely removed the amazing special effects created by buddy gillespie? a movie is the sum of its parts. a performance is the sum of an actor. when did we get comfortable saying a movie or a character could be half those things or a third of those things as long as the rest has something digital covering the cracks we ourselves made

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forgive me father for i have opened a notification and read the message within to make the red dot go away and then forgot to reply for a month . it will happen again

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🚫 ca-dmv-bot Follow

Customer: FOREVER NOW AND KEEP YOURSELF SAFE

DMV: FUCK NASTY AND KILL YOURSELF

VERDICT: ACCEPTED

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crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

[ reddit thread | bsky post ]

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scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

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there’s a place downtown where the freaks all come around

it’s a hole in the wall it’s a dirty free for all

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A helpful guide for all my fellow antlerheads

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The cursed amulet keeps promising me wealth but it continually fails to have a concrete plan for this. I tried to get rid of it for its lack of financial literacy but every time I tried to throw it away it just ended up in my pocket again.

So yeah it doesn’t go with this shirt very well but this outfit has no pockets so I figured why not.

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I still love this website so much because it feels like the last connection we have to an internet that doesn’t exist anymore like I can come on here and scroll through posts that are literally just funny or beautiful or interesting with no intention to sell me something or influence me we are all just here for a laugh. Nothing is just for laughs anymore EXCEPT tumblr dot com

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oh hey awakening got added to nintendo music lets take a look—

i see.

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friendships end. relationships end. fictional man whos doing even worse than you is forever

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PSA

EVERYONE BE CAREFUL. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN PHISHING SITE (first link)

(the link is purple bc i clicked on it to get the link w/o special characters to report to various phising page report places).

the page leads to what appears to be the normal archive page, w/ the popup about the privacy policy & everything, with the url https://xn--iao3-lw4b.ws/media DO NOT LOG IN. THEY ARE HERE TO STEAL YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS. LOOK AT URLS BEFORE ENTERING ANY PERSONAL INFO.

STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET GUYS!!

please reblog to spread this warning!!

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We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

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*eg avatar is a picture of Blorbo Bleebus, url is blorbo-bleebus-fan or autistic-blorbo-bleebus or blorbos-left-earlobe