books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide.

Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model.

We are in the wrong timeline.

I've been hearing about how horrible MaNT was since before Global launched - that it was a "filter," that half the userbase quit when it was released, and idk... I think I am going to struggle a lot going back to "normal gameplay" when Grand Live comes out. :S

Realized if I'm just rolling the dice until I get a Long 2* or 3* spark to use as a Completionist title parent, I should probably be doing it it Unity Cup instead of MaNT for speed and... wtf we used to play the game like that?! NO clocks on non-goal races? No items?! How did we survive!?

wuk lamat high as balls. ¿quieres?

#メジロブライト生誕祭2026
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#umamusume

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

A drawing of the artist walking around with a silly smile, while a carabiner holding keys, connected to her pants, is making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sound. Above her is a thought bubble with a robot bearing the caption "Lesbotron 3000", also making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sounds.

happy lesbian week

This is not bitchy subskeeting, by the by. This is me looking at a fresh wave of “lockdown was so hard” posts and just…

There is very little cognition that some people never left, because everyone else stampeded to get out.

air shakur x fine motion yeah we gay keep scrolling

Actually, stop scrolling. Look at my yuri. 💻 🍀

#umamusume

hellish-undeath if your partner doesn't want you to take hormones or get surgery, you should break up with them or divorce them. your body is yours alone. hellish-undeath [screenshot of a reblog tag "#also if ur partner doesnt want you to get mobility aids or other things to help ur disabilities"] absolutely that too. as a mobility aid using trans person myself; do not let a partner hold you back from doing what you require to be able to be stable and healthy within your body and how you interact with the outside world. i promise you they are not worth it.

A Chicago coyote kicks back (while another one saunters past)

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.

Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.

1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Research on COVID is being hampered by a lack of interest by publishers and funding, imo. Considering we are only about 7 years into a brand-new disease, we lost interest pretty quickly.

hishiama! #umamusume

I cannot tell you how many comms I've gotten for putting "Remember: 1 is NOT a prime number" in chat before that fight.

Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo from my collection, writing on the back says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

Screenshot of a tweet responding to another tweet. @SketchesbyBoze writes "In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think.Then came the book-burnings." Quote tweeting a tweet by @AntonJaegermm "Very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposively designed to breed illiteracy" Attached to that tweet is a document or image we can't see. instead we see a pop up that reads "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.”

“This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.” HELL NO.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

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A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.

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One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

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In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.