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[magpie-trove]

If you’re ever wondering what I’m thinking about it’s that part in Rogue One where Chirrut is praying for the door to open and Cassian just like suddenly remembers he has a lock pick that he can use to open the door when the time is right and pulls it out and gets ready then is like “the force and I have different priorities” because he thinks the force isn’t helping them and like Sir. Sir have you considered. You are the answer to Chirrut’s prayer. You guys are The Plan for defeating the evil you think the force is ignoring. You are The Plan. Sir. You opened the door. The door is open. The force is with you buddy. Go get em.

[gorskivijenac]

“Down with the dark forces of colonialism!”, Belgrade, Serbia, 1961. Photographed by Tomislav Peternek

After the murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, demonstrations were held in Serbia as a sign of protest, which turned into riots. As many as 150,000 demonstrators gathered on the streets of Belgrade and 25,000 in Subotica.

Demonstrators carried pictures of Lumumba and signs saying “Death to colonialism” and “Freedom for subjugated nations”. A group of protesters broke away and attacked the Belgian embassy, ​​which they demolished and hung Lumumba’s picture on with the inscription: “Glory to the fighter for the freedom and peace of African people”, and set fire to all the embassy’s vehicles.

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[catsofyore]

Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

[copperbadge]

Maybe now is a good time for a summer psa about adderall increasing your sensitivity to heat!

....which I forgot about completely before blithely going out in it yesterday to walk to a doctor's appointment and then had to like, sit down with my head between my knees when I got there. I was fully hydrated, had a water bottle with me, wore a hat, walked in the shade, and still by four blocks I was feeling Unwell. It's been ungodly hot out, admittedly, but I have felt more sensitive to it this summer than previous summers and now PERHAPS I KNOW WHY. (My dose was raised over the winter.)

Remember kids: check your meds to see if they make you sensitive to heat, cold, or sun -- and heat and sun are different sensitivities, though of course they can be relational when, say, your Adderall reduces your thirst impulses and you go out in the sun already dehydrated. Know the symptoms of heatstroke -- flushed skin, rapid breathing or heart rate, lack of sweating, disorientation, nausea. Get somewhere cool, get help, and get wet!

[gothhabiba]

“Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples. The ports of Holland, the docks of Bordeaux and Liverpool were specialized in the Negro slave trade, and owe their renown to millions of deported slaves. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of the poor underdeveloped peoples, we do not tremble with gratitude.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via precarious-life)

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Feels like a bad idea maybe

[runraerun]

This but make it domestic Spirk:

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

[hachinana87]

Hmmm

[actuallysara]

Hudson Williams (via by.aikaflores)

[cakepopsandcoffee]

[shanepervert]

[arthurfoxy]

Prev how dare you leave this in the tags

[partiallypearl]

Heated Rivalry Season 1 Episode 2 - "Olympians"

[alex51324]

Since it's considered by many to be wrong to speak ill of the dead, I'll take this opportunity to say that Mitch McConnell is a craven, lick-spittling sack of shit, and with his mind-bogglingly corrupt refusal to hold confirmation hearings for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee in 2016, single-handedly provided one of the necessary conditions for our country's current turn toward fascism.

[inawordcold]

i like this video (and this youtube channel) a lot because of how tight the focus is on how to think about the game as a player. it really gives great insight if you're trying to put yourself in the head of imagined hockey players ilya rozanov and shane hollander. (it also links up a lot with how offensive playing works in many other sports, which is just neat.) this is how one can imagine ilya and shane's on-ice chemistry working both when they're opponents and when they're teammates. also, what an intimate relationship he's describing between offensive player and defensive player. metaphysical true love.

some parts that are fun to think of in a hollanov context:

"he's not married to one outcome here"

"the most advantageous ice is the ice with the least defenders, not the ice you decided to go to beforehand"

"it's an active communication"

"cascading set of an advantages"

"scouts are not looking for players who win one-on-ones in the same way every time"

"create a reactive response you can use"

"players can create an advantage not just recognize one"

"rebellious players...ignoring coach's negative restrictive advice"

the actual skills are not that hard, it's deciding how to use them

"visualize scenarios over and over"

"rewires your instinct so one-on-ones stop feeling chaotic"

"body queue recognition ability"

"speed at its core is a simple mind mechanic"

"react to their [the defender's] reaction" "let the defender tell you what to do"

[snowsmoked]

I know a lot of Canadian hockey boys and if there is one (1) thing I know about Canadian hockey boys is that they have an indoor basement rink. Realistically, it was probably at his parents' main house (which I believe they sold?), but let's consider it's at their cottage.

Yuna and David are doing something (cooking dinner, out to the store, etc.) and Shane is giving Ilya the tour. An actual tour this time because they are at his parent's house.

Once Ilya sees the little practice rink, he lights up. The walls are splashed with Shane's youth trophies - snowplow sam badges in a case, tiny little baby skates, power-skating ribbons, pictures from his first tournaments, team jerseys from U8-16, his first hockey stick hanging on the wall, his first game winning puck on a shelf, his first tiny jersey. Ilya takes his time to comment on everything.

Then Ilya grabs a stick from the wall (one of the practice ones) and a puck from the bucket that hasn't been touched in a decade. Shane, never one to back down from a challenge, especially on home turf, grabs his own practice stick. There are no skates that fit either of them, so they just step on the synthetic ice with socks on.

And that's how Yuna and David find them, checking each other into the flimsy boards that are not meant for fully grown hockey players, firing shots into the little nets with enough force to knock them over, cursing at each other like there's a ref around to do something about it, etc.

Yuna can't believe she ever thought Shane would let Ilya win anything.

[jeffgoldblumsmulletinthe90s]

I know that I’m well known in every fandom I’ve ever been in for being an argumentative and unpleasant person BUT

If you’re using LLMs to write or edit your fanfic or, honestly, to do any hobby, I’m here to genuinely tell you that it can and will be more fun to do it yourself.

Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it’s slow. Yes, you want it to be perfect. And it’s so scary to share things because there are so many people more argumentative and unpleasant than me in this world. Bro, I know!!!

But your words will move someone. They’ll mean something to someone, even if it’s YOU!! And if you don’t do the hard scary thing of writing and editing the words yourself then you’ll never know if it was really you who did that. Your ideas deserve your voice and will always be better, more beautiful and meaningful and weird, from you.