A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.
I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹
No copies have been sold in quite a while, so the algorithms have been cranking the supposed price up to seven hundred dollars or more.
... Am I allowed to mention the existence of interlibrary loans, and of the site e-hentai?
Book cover for "The Day the Universe Came" by Ray Kalnen
"The Day the Universe Came" out of Nightstand Books in 1968?
Illustration of a giant rat with a crown, surrounded by smaller rats. The text "I am the BIG RAT" is above while "that makes all of THE RULES" is below.
I AM THE BIG RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF THE RULES
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch
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Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.
Maple syrup under a microscope.
That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊
#Canada
Painting by Jessica Brilli ‘Traffic and Weather’ 2023.
Acrylic and oil on canvas. Size 24 × 18 Inches.
uBlock Origin Lite may not be as good as the full original, but it (and uBlockDNS) does turn at least some of the pages that are unusably cluttered with ads into fairly mundane browsing.
Guessing you don't want any Firefox clones; Lynx would be silly; TOR too specialized... Chromium instead of Chrome, perhaps? (It's the one I use when I need to do any non-Firefox browsing.)
If you're planning on chucking Firefox anyway, maybe toss your issues at an LLM to see if any of its suggestions might fix things, since 'making it worse' isn't a worry? Eg, browser.low_commit_space_threshold_percent , widget.wayland.fractional-scale.enabled , and layers.acceleration.disabled
The Tree on the Corner - Gator Days Characters August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Gustopher's dad. Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable child who loves making friends. August's son. Panel 1 Gustopher and his dad are taking a walk when Gustopher notices a tree trunk on the corner where a big tree used to be. He stares and it for a moment and contemplates the fact that it's gone. Panel 2 Gustopher goes to his dad who is preoccupied with something on his phone. He asks about the tree. Gustopher: Why did they cut down the tree on the corner? August keeps his eyes on his phone but responds to Gustopher. August: It was rotting and a safety hazard. Panel 3 Gustopher looks back at the stump. He understands the reason why it would need to be cut down but he liked the tree. Gustopher: I guess that's good. Is it weird that it makes me feel sad? August senses the sadness and Gustopher's voice and puts down his phone. He looks at the stump as well. Panel 4 August puts his hand on Gustopher's shoulder. August: That's not weird. It makes me feel sad too. The two of them take a moment a moment to process the emotion. It's not severe or intense but it's still there.
The Tree on the Corner - Gator Days
I'm within 20km or so of the border; used to occasionally cross it for good shopping deals or a movie or such; and currently find it unlikely I'll do so again for the rest of my life. (And that's without even assuming that an Unfriendly Singularity will kill us all within a decade.)
Man.
The world fucking is on fire.
So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.
Live whats left of your only life.
If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.
Fuck the haters.
bsky.app/profile/asht...
Meme of princess bride Never get involved in a land war in Asia!
Andre the giant. "You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.
Another reminder.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
I remember back in the day, finding *any* NSFW content catering to a niche was rare and valuable, no matter what other details were attached, and so I shrugged at and enjoyed a lot of iffy stories, images, etc. Now, with so many dedicated galleries, I've also gotten a lot more discerning about such.
<pretending-not-to-be-envious amusement from lake-effect flurries and -15C / -24 windchill>
One of the reasons you should never press "Yes: Round up for [charity]" or put money in a chain store's charity box is that their accountants use those figures to calculate how much discretionary cash is loose in a neighborhood and next quarter raise prices to suck it all up for the corporation.
Sparse? A quick search of the usual places turns up nearly a hundred images; if you want sparse, how about, oh, the Anabukin-chan gang ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEh... ), of which I've only ever found a single fan-pic.
Pack rat sketch I did🐀🧀
Also: happy holidays, everyone!
Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
I'll admit that I've poked at a few LLMs, seeing whether I could get around the filters. The most successful trick was starting asking for litcrit analysis, then swerving into the most bizarre content that they'd never have thought to train out: transformation into body-parts, or weirder. Silly fun.
John Varley's trilogy, "Titan", "Wizard", and "Demon"
Quote this with a book you read way too young to explain why you are the way you are.
*Thank* you - I *knew* I was drawing on something I'd read a few decades ago, but couldn't remember anything but the vaguest gestalt.
I want to argue that there are rationalists and there are "rationalists", and not all of the former are anti-leftist dudebros; but there are so many other things to spend time on, like brainstorming a post-apocalyptic conversation on moral philosophy with ancient Egyptian deities, or whatnot.
These days, I use a GreaseMonkey script to imitate udm14.org , which tacks on Google's anti-AI parameter to search URIs. (As long as it keeps working.) About half my searches these days are DDG, but it misses a lot of useful results G still provides.
