Lazuchi

TW: Abu Dhabi GP '25 I'm gonna focus on writing fics, thank you very much. No, I don't need an intervention because of /that/.

[loveridden1999]

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

[loveridden1999]

everyone say thank you toni morrison

[curioscurio]

ads these days are so sensitive to being tapped like darling my fingers barely brushed you and youre already opening yourself for me... well close those damn legs. dont make me get the taser

[afterredlights]

So.. the first round completely escaped me, but I caught the Mario Kart bit..

On top of expanded electrical stuff, were there stars on the road now? Bananas?

[afterredlights]

Sleepover sometimes means watching Winter Olympics then crying over Miura and Kihara's clean skate. Were there any mistakes? I have no idea, but it was so smooth and grounding... Sawayaka (爽やか), is the word I'll use to describe it.

Their last score is 231. A great 23-point difference to 2nd place.

I have no words.

[sycamorality]

forever thinking about this reblog on the post abt discords survey on whether or not ppl wanted ai. motherfucker you are messages.

[iwouldbelostwithoutyou]

Hannibal | s3 ep2 - Primavera

[ellipsus-writes]

A little Google history lesson 🍵

It's 2004. Google has just announced an exciting new venture: Google Print. With the blessing of five major libraries, Google sets out to digitalize the world's print material. Its search function, which will allow people to read and review print books digitally, is set to revolutionize information forever.

There was only one, teeny tiny problem... they didn't ask permission.

None.

At all.

Authors were gobsmacked. Nothing like this had ever happened before. What right had Google to scan, copy, and save copyrighted books to its databases... and at this scale? Lawsuits mounted. Google backpedaled, then talked of settling. Eventually, Ursula Le Guin spilled the tea. It was a whole thing.

Back then, the point many authors (including Le Guin) were making wasn't directed against the digitization of print books as such (widening access to the world's knowledge? Who doesn't want that?)...

No, authors were concerned with how Google went about it, and the threat it posed for intellectual property. Google's actions tossed aside the custom, long enshrined in law, that writers and publishers should have control over how their material is used and distributed—a tradition that many believe... exists for good reason.

(We'll get to it.)

What Le Guin and others realized is that Google's message of "democratizing the internet" (a platitude often used by techno-libertarians and broligarchs who, it turns out, aren't so keen on the whole "democracy" thing...) masked a sinister intention: to wrangle the world's commons under its own private control.

From where we're standing now (🥲), the scandal and ensuing lawsuit have a little too much familiarity: Google learned what they could get away with and how.

Then they kept doing that.

Move fast; break copyright; settle later (if ever).

The point is: the Print drama wasn't your average copyright scandal—it was the world's first ever mass data-harvesting event.

The training of Google Gemini began 22 years ago, on the day Google started claiming the world's knowledge for itself.

To understand our present predicaments, we have to know our history. Google Print was virgin soil. What followed—the scale of the data theft, the absolute skeeviness/grift of it all—felt unprecedented at the time.

But apparently, you had to be a writer to see it. 🤷‍♂️

[afterredlights]

God, it's me - Your humble, pessimistic (I prefer realistic, but let's be real here... I sound pessimistic most of the time) and aggravatingly lazy servant.

Applying to job postings is tiring, as is finding out that the one company calling for an interview doesn't even have a fucking set wage (HOW THE FUCK IS IT REAL? HUH?).

God, I know You always hear me. But, is there a way for me to know when I'll be employed? Not that I'm planning for anything, I just want enough money to snack with.

On that note, I wanna do good too... Like, finally buying a vacuum cleaner ('cause someone with a delicate respiratory system like me should've possessed one YEARS AGO). That, and some other stuff. For example, new beddings and actual towels.

God, please.

[grogumaximus]

JDM watching the start of the 2025 Abu Dhabi GP

[imreallytryinghelp]

Everybody should hear the Arab commentators absolutely cooking in AD25 🔥🔥🔥

We have Max Verstappen who's leading now. This is Max, a driver who never learned what it means to give up! From the very first lap of this season, and from the very first moment he stepped onto the tracks, he fought, he faced it all, and stood his ground!!

In this sport, there are days when a driver isn't judged by how many times he wins, but by how many times he rises after falling!

And today, Max reaches that heavy, defining moment. He fought til the very last thread of hope, gave everything he had, and withstood blows that would've crushed anyone else!

Today, the dream of a 5th came to an end for Max. Yes, but this isn't the end of a weak man! It's the close of a chapter for a fighter, worn out from the attack and drained from the struggle yet never once sated in his desire to rise again. And who knows Max, knows that his story with the title ended this year but the spark of the title will ignite again, not only when he wins, but even when he loses too, regarding this title fight.

Thank you Max for this season, and thank you for this comeback. A comeback that didn't give your fans a title, but you gave them the spirit of a champion, unyielding and never giving up! You gave them a story to tell their children one day, about a driver who fell more than a hundred points behind, yet came back and fought until the very last round.

Edit from @formula1bliz and translation from @/maybezax on twitter

[sleepysallynx]

I'm taking this as a lestappen updates btw

Both expected some sort of miracle or SOMETHING from the other but yea. They were more teammates to each other than their ACTUALY teammates

(No shade to Lewis nor Yuki AT ALL cause both of them had it rough bruh)

[she-epi-onmy-demi-tilli-ology]

Sorry for getting really into the narratives of a sport. It will happen again.

[neutyz]

Don't let this championship battle distract you from the fact that charles has done everything, every miracle he can make, every laps he can pull out of his ass. It is a fact: Ferrari is nothing this year if it weren't for charles leclerc. Charles, thank you so much for what you've done for this year, for this regulation. You made us dream at the start of this regulation, made us believe that it is finally our year. Grazie, charles. May next year be ours. Forza Charles Leclerc.

[sevynchaos]

Gaëtan to Carlos “Thank you for this year. It was a pleasure to drive with you. It was really a pleasure. You're a gentleman. A super pilot. You're a gentleman and a beautiful driver. And I'm looking forward to next year.”

[sirenja-and-stag]

Will Graham + 100% done

[rookieluck]

i’m very thankful that enjoying sports has given me the opportunity to not only regress as a person but also be angry about something , consistently, all year round

[souvenir116]

Verstappen: "Don't be too disappointed, I'm certainly not. We can be proud of our comeback. Thanks evervone. Also Honda for the past years. We ended it in style."