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[retquits]

eiland hairstyle wips 🍓

[aokente]

days of bloom ('26) 🌻

i love this game :D though, did anyone else find it difficult to get the event tickets on the belltowers? i struggled so bad xD

[alouki]

Week 3 of the 69 minutes challenge~

Ryis and Alouki would be besties, they both love birds, Alouki even has a snow owl, so they would get along pretty quickly

For his birthday, I made them eat cookies because they love them both.

And since Alouki loves baking well that was perfect :)

Anyway there is not enough Ryis art ! I want to see more this guy is so sweet !

[aokente]

'to me, my dragonsworn' 🔮

[aokente]

descend my slopes ❄️

[heartclef]

since spotify wrapped is coming today i just want to bring awareness to the fact that around 86% of the songs on spotify are currently demonetized since spotify decided that tracks with under 1,000 cannot be monetized. not only that the ceo of spotify cashed out $35.8 million dollars in spotify shares in the third quarter of the year and it has been reported that he earns more than the top artists on the platform.

for a platform that claims to support artists, this is outrageous and i hope people realize that an artist who is starting out, cannot make a living out of spotify streams simply because daniel ek and his friends made it worse for the artists trying to start a career. if you wanna support musicians and the possibility for them to get a living wage please follow United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) which are trying to make The Living Wage for Musicians Act a reality so musicians can be paid fairly through streaming platforms and get the cut they deserve.

[heartclef]

since this post was made, daniel ek has invested in ai weapons, and ICE ads have been played on the platform. various people are starting to boycott the platform this year (2025) so, again, keep that in mind before posting your spotify wrapped!

[leebrontide]

They’ve been guilty of a lot of shit but yeah these are a few highlights.

[aokente]

no better inspiration than mashing your interests together :D

still working on them and got more characters planned (even from base hk). am i cooking 😏?

[lazy-omnom]

Extremely self-indulgent art of MASHITA! If u see cat ears no u dont >;3

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[ailurinae]

Let me correct some misinformation. browser.ml.chat.enable is to enable or disable the sidebar connection to LLM chatbots. That feature just gives you a chat interface to an LLM of your choosing on the side without opening it in a web page. It has nothing to do with local inference or with naming tab groups. And only requires as much energy as any other page, as LLM chatbot pages don't do local infernence. Anyway this would only be active if you have that part of the sidebar open, and have clicked to agree, and selected an LLM from the list. But if you turn off browser.ml.chat.enable then you won't see it all.

Firefox also has a couple ML local features that don't involve connecting remote ML system, which means that when they are used you are doing local inference, which could be a power draw. On the other hand it means all data processed or produced is private and no third parties see it. These include:

Generating missing alt text for images, for now limited to PDFs being displayed in browser

A built in web page translation option, currently only a few languages

Enhanced tab groups, which can auto name a tab group, and can offer to put more related open tabs into the the group

Enhanced link previews, summarizing pages on the other end of links when you hover over them (I think this is only turned on in developer/nightly builds still for now?)

The first two are not terrible ideas IMO. The second two are pretty silly I think.

These local ML options can be fully turned off with browser.ml.enable (that might also turn off the chat option above, but not positive) Or they can be turned off with individual options:

pdfjs.enableGuessAltText

browser.translations.enable

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

It is worth noting that I believe all of these except maybe the alt text (not sure about it) ask if you want to use them. Of course if something weird pops up a lot of users just try to get rid of it and might end up agreeing. You can see this opt-in requirement with the existence of preferences like browser.ml.linkPreview.optin which record if the user has opted in. You can change that if you like, but note that setting the "enabled" version of that pref to "false" will disable the feature even if "optin" is set to true.

[gummialien]

BOOM BABY! MR GODDAMN TERIFFIC!

[huzni]

as-Salēm 3aleīcum once more, my friends. Most of you mutuals most definitely may already know about Ibrahim @aburakhiaibrahim, a Gazauī Palestinian man we Tumblr bloggers have befriended (him and many other Gazauīs as well) in order to help him and his relatives procure the help they so pressingly have needed and continue needing because of the zionist genocidal campaign underway.

Well, I'm appealing to your means and solidarity once more in order to get more donations for them. His body is now covered in a painful rash from contaminated water and malnutrition, and his family hasn’t received all needed aid due to the dangerous "red zone" airdrops; so it's become more difficult for him to actually pick up helping supplies for his relatives by himself.

They’re out of time. Every contribution buys flour, bread, water, lentils, bandages, antibiotics, or a moment of safety. If you’ve ever shared a post about Gaza all along, I'm sure you know fully well this is how you turn solidarity into survival.

If you can either help spread the word around or donate something yourself, please feel free to reblog this and/or reaching out to him; and thank you so much sincerely, ٱللَّٰهُمَّ بَارِكْ.

Donate to Seeking Safety: Support My Family's Journey to a safe place, organized by Samah Aburakhia‬‏

Dear Compassionate Community, My name is Samah, and I com… Samah Aburakhia‬‏ needs your support for Seeking Safety: Support My Family's

[neptunerings]

Currently at $18,973 CAD! The last donation was made a day ago. Please donate and share. As mentioned above, Ibrahim and his 28 family members are starving! They need to purchase food and other essentials! Let's reach the 19.5K mark ASAP! There is $527 to go! You can match me. I have given $10 CAD ($7 USD), but you're more than welcome to contribute any amount! [Remember to keep in mind with currency exchange. $10 USD = $13 CAD!]

You can even give as little as $1 if you contribute to his PayPal!

Verification: Vetted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds, #336 in the vetted fundraisers' spreadsheet by @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi, and #802 in the vetted fundraisers' spreadsheet by the Butterfly Effect Project!

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@mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora @wetthandss @patriciavetinari

@mystristages @diatesticlematerialjism @cosmicscales

@tadpoledyke @melon-colli @lesbocrocker @summer-skye-64 

@bulletbilltime @liphia @zingay @binglam @somedudeoutthere

@rooksongbird @frogbrainedfool @sister-lucifer @croutonnet

@xiaofiaan @writerqueenofjewels @meltymoths @wolstinien

@italofobia @b0nkcreat @relelvance @bioh4zards

@rooh-afza @shesnake @akajustmerry @rhubarbspring

@fromjannah @ankle-beez @fitzfunnymoments @fliptop

@error-core-animations @postanagramgenerator

[guilhernunes]

Golden Poison Frog

prints to north america: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/guilhernunes/golden-poison-frog/

t-shirts, prints and much more to north america, europe and oceania: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159887592

[aokente]

on the prairie 🌿

one of my fave outfits now :D its so cute when the manatee swarm you~

and the inspiration. prairie peaks is theeee best place for pictures its too pretty <3

[aokente]

artfight 2025 summary :D

honestly thought i would only do 2 this year but hey, managed to double my expectations~ it was a close fight tho, thats for sure lol

go crystals!

Alexia for @.yazuto

Peyton for @.emerald4-ce

The LilyPad for SpiderCatto (AF)

Mistral for Princerazzie (AF/Bsky)

[lazy-omnom]

drowsy vivia and yuma CUZ THEY MAKE ME HAPPY😭💕 //kicks feet and rolls around

[tinyuglyworld]

Since people on this website continue to argue about whether the Palestinians on here asking for donations and shares are "scammers" or not, I'd like to share another way you can find fundraisers from Gaza to support (though, I believe 95% of the Gaza campaigns shared around social media are real, given how fucking crazy and urgent and real the entire situation is)

Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign

Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here

"Gaza Funds is a project that connects people to crowdfunding campaigns for individuals and families from Gaza. Each time the page is reloaded, a different campaign appears. While the rotation is randomized, campaigns for the sick/injured and campaigns close to meeting their goals are prioritized. We never want any of these campaigns to go stagnant, so we make sure to also prioritize fundraisers that haven't had a donation in a while. As existing fundraisers meet their goals, they will be replaced with other fundraisers that need your help. We are a global team of (mostly) Arab and Palestinian engineers, students, writers, and academics working to help get exposure and traction to fundraisers created for people in Gaza, Palestine. We are not an organization or a charity. We do not create fundraisers and we do not collect money on behalf of them. Our work on this project is completely voluntary. We created this site as a way to give others quick access to these fundraisers for informational purposes only. This website is for informational purposes only. We are not affiliated with the fundraisers, their beneficiaries or the campaign websites. We assume no liability or responsibility for any activity related to the fundraisers listed on this website or to the policies and procedures of the fundraiser websites that host them." x

It's as simple as going to the website, donating to the spotlight campaign, or choosing on of the 700+ families to support via their verified fundraisers. This is a really good initiative, please spread the word.

[aokente]

what could have been 💕

arti flourishing with her pups :D maybe i'll draw campaign arti too, to explore how much she changed </3