...so you're after the road to Samarkand

Poetaster, misanthrope, born-again atheist. LJ // DW // AO3 // Twitter Masterlist of Jupiter Ascending meta

[sillystigmata]

Which could mean nothing.

[beelze0-0]

More than yesterday and less than tomorrow

Prints available here

(ID: sequential art image 1: Ilya Rozanov partially submerged in water with only his eyes above the water from Shane’s point of view image 2: Shane Hollander underwater looking up from Ilya’s point of view end ID)

[saprotrophix]

incredibly important video

(posted by @/hattiesburgzoo on instagram)

[yrsonpurpose]

I’m getting the vibe that maybe I’m not…doing it for you.

[vashito]

badlands wolfpack

patreon . bsky

[beelze0-0]

“You are mine, beautiful boy”

Prints available here

CW: smoking, blood

(ID: image 1: Armand and young Daniel curled up together in bed in an apartment in Paris, sunlight coming in through a window image 2: Armand lighting his cigarette from Daniel’s on Night Island in Miami image 3: Armand crouching over Daniel’s body after transforming him into a vampire on the floor in Dubai with the destroyed pages of the script scattered end ID)

[kummatty]

His love for Gaza shone through in his photographs, seen in his steadfast portrayals of joy and beauty. Whimsical compositions by the sea depict young boys jumping and playing. In a series of works focused on his grandmother, a survivor of the 1948 Nakba who was displaced from her native village of Isdud, Arandas portrays her as a symbol of strength and perseverance in Gaza, zooming in on her weathered hands harvesting olives against deep fertile earth. Traces of personal and cultural histories can be seen in the crisp light of ripe olives and the details of intricate embroidery adorning her hanging dress.

“Where can I begin talking about Gaza and Palestine, and how can I begin when I know that I am the living dead? Everyone who writes about Palestine has prepared himself to be among the dead, but despite our prior knowledge of our fate when we write and write about this land, we do not stop or for a moment hesitate to inhale her love,” he reflected.

Remembering Gaza Photographer Majd Arandas, Killed by Israeli Airstrikes

[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.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[chicalepidoptera]

I lay back observing with some measure of relief Madeleine’s love for Claudia, her blind covetous passion.  

VCtober Day 9

[noodles-and-tea-deactivated2023]

See well now I can’t stop thinking about it

[katestewartt]

"I can give you the exact play-by-play that was happening in my mind when everyone else was projecting something entirely different."

[dlsintegration]

You know,

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[beanarie]

ok this is the best thing i've ever ever ever seen everyone watch immediately

[simoneashley]

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac New look at Interview With the Vampire Season 3

[reid-sam]

HANNIBAL (2013-2015)

3.06 - Dolce

[i-am-what-ate-you]

NO BUT THE WAY WILL SLIGHTLY SHAKES HIS HEAD LIKE *goddam I love this stupid cannibal*

[niccoguedes]

“I Love TikTok!” — Molloy, probably.

[homano222]

Gay, southern, violently depressed, catholic, divorced twice, potentially schizophrenic, has complex feelings about his identity, terrible taste in men… I fear no protagonist has done it quite like him.