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inthefallofasparrow

ginevra17

Actor over 40: action hero, love interest to 20-something female protagonist, superhero, dramatic lead, half of a buddy comedy duo, head of important organization, complex villain

Actress over 40: somebody’s mother

2peachy

loveridden1999

inkskinned

my most ungrounded and unresearched fear is that so many companies are pushing AI in part because it builds them a pathway towards a subscription model for a huge number of things that should not be subscription, but theoretically could be:

do you want to talk to verizon's help desk because there's an error on your bill? to access a real agent, you have to pay for Verizon Access+, only 5.99 a month.

want to filter out all the fake job postings from the real ones? subscribe to Indeed: Advanced Tactics and only verified postings will appear on your dash.

sick of the infinite ai slop? buy Google Premium; it'll automatically detect ai within a site and gives it a credibility score. with premium plus, you can shuffle high-credibility results to the top.

do you want a "luxury" experience? well, you'd have to pay for that luxury, and since the company sure doesn't want to pay its employees; the cost would fall to the consumer.

when automation has made every experience unpleasant; the experience of genuine humanity will be commodified.

marzipanandminutiae

This is already happening – one of the softwares used by a museum I work at only lets you talk to a human help agent if you have their premium subscription. It's such bullshit

inkskinned

the fact you are not the only one in these notes saying "no this is already happening; i have to pay money to speak to a representative" is just... really awesome! you said a software used by museums is doing this shit? okay! great! wonderful!! anybody know where i can scream

mammalianmammals

Side-striped Jackal (Lupulella adusta), family Canidae, Limpopo, South Africa

photographs by Thinus Van Staden

soulren

Arriving for my connecting flight to nebraska in full plate armor. Announcing in a booming tone that I will choose the middle seat

eategg24

sits next to you opens my carry on luggage. its full of novelty fridge magnets and i start sticking them onto you

fleysh

bluesardine

Some great additions from the comments.

aphractal2

mourning my emotional support tree

#me about the crab apple tree in my childhood backyard that was torn out and fell down during Hurricane Sandy #we ate those apples all the time and climbed up it and would watch the insects and animals #in the summer dine on the fermented apples and get drunk and stumble around in circles #when we played Lions (where we'd crawl on all fours and defend territories by play wrestling in the yard)#under that tree was PRIME den spot #it became king of the hill pretty often #I miss that tree.#and the big oak in the front yard that came down cause it died and hollowed out #i could see it even from the backyard pool it was so tall and branches so wide #never again will I see it's arms stretch up toward the big dipper #or that one browl owl in the neighborhood perch on the branch above my driveway

probablyasocialecologist

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

gay-jesus-probably

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

anachronic-cobra

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

emmaklee

list of professions from a Chinese-to-English textbook

#tag yourselves #I'm whore

thekimonogallery

An Assortment of Horses of Various Colors

Artist unidentified, Japanese Edo period 1847–52

hanssloane

Dogs in art: Attic red-figure cup with a dog scratching its ear inside the tondo

5th century BC

by the Euergides Painter.

pmamtraveller

Joe L’Estrange - Old Cat Walking

gobe

“Last night I photographed a Barn Owl hovering above prey at a local farm where I have been baiting them for some time, I did attempt this last winter but failed due to the lens misting, still a work in progress” ~ Roy Rimmer