aziraphale and castiel could NOT hang out bc aziraphale is a snob and cas knows fucking nothing about high culture spends all his time with two guys who definitely made him watch south park and has never been to a nicer restaurant than MAYBE ruby tuesday’s. working class angel hero. sorry about this post
#aziraphale: ah don't you remember seeing this opera when it was new? #castiel who literally spent three hours researching neopets bc of one reference dean made: is opera singing #crowley keeps inviting cas over because he finds it fucking hilarious how mad aziraphale gets #'how can he NOT know michelangelo personally?! darling how can he not ?!' #castiel: they wouldn't let me out of heaven for a while idk what to tell you. can we go to applebee's. #crowley: SURE. LET'S TAKE AN ANGEL OF THE LORD TO APPLEBEE'S. AZIRAPHALE THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE @lovelyirony
my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in
…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…
…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.
Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.
It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.
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Writer tries to use the internet without relying on Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Apple. Writer struggles. A lot. Not because she can’t stop googling things, but because Google is integrated with everything, and anything it isn’t is hooked into is partnered with at least one of the other four.
For an example, she details the long process of figuring out how to send a large file without relying on the Google iCloud or Amazon Web Services:
My Gmail alternatives—ProtonMail and Riseup—tell me the file is too large; they tap out at 25 MB. Google Drive and Dropbox aren’t options, Dropbox because it’s hosted by Amazon’s AWS and relies on Google for sign-in. Other file-sharing sites also rely on the tech giants for web hosting services.
…O’Brien directs me first to Send.Firefox.com, an encrypted file-sharing service operated by Mozilla. But… it uses the Google Cloud, so it won’t load. O’Brien then sends me to Share.Riseup.net, a file-sharing service from the same radical tech collective that is hosting my personal email, but it only works for files up to 50 MB.
O’Brien’s last suggestion is Onionshare, a tool for sharing files privately via the “dark web,” i.e. the part of the web that’s not crawled by Google and requires the Tor browser to get to. I know this one actually. My friend Micah Lee, a technologist for the Intercept, made it. Unfortunately, when I go to Onionshare.org to download it, the website won’t load.
“Hah, yes,” emails Micah when I ask about it. “Right now it’s hosted by AWS.”
The troubling implications of tech monopolies on our private data are discussed, as well as potential solutions that don’t sound very appealing at all:
An uncomfortable idea I keep coming up against this week is that, if we want to get away from monopolies and surveillance economies, we might need to rethink the assumption that everything on the internet should be free.
So when I try to create a fourth folder in ProtonMail to organize my email and it tells me that I need to upgrade from a free to a premium account to do so, I decide to fork over 48 euros (about $50) for the year. In return, I get a 5 GB email account that doesn’t have its contents scanned and monetized.
However, I’m well aware that not everyone has $50 dollars to spare for something that they can easily get for “free,” so if that’s the way things go, the rich will have privacy online and the poor (and most vulnerable) will have their data exploited.
Okay but since Jaskier is like. Famous™ does that mean that, for the other Witchers, hearing his songs covered in various taverns by various bards is the equivalent of looking at Geralt's facebook feed to see what he's been up to lately
Like. Geralt comes home after The Mountain™ and Eskel, who's spent the last month reluctantly humming the new earworm Burn Butcher Burn, is on him before he even gets his cloak off like WHAT. DID. YOU. DO while Lambert and Coen laugh their asses off in the corner because Geralt got Taylor Swifted so hard his entire family found out about it before he did
I got a work email and one of the guys included on it has an email that takes the form of first-initial-part-of-lastname, which, yknow, generally works well
But his name is Mario Pregler
And the psychic damage I took as a result of seeing the email [email protected] at 9 in the morning cannot be overstated
Special son'ova bitch that I was kinda forced to finish tonight. Some of you might get to see him as a promo card tomorrow!
[ID: A blind pale grey stallion on a muted dark background. He is rearing with his head bent towards his chest sideways and mouth wide, exposing long and sharp canines.]
This is my issue with people who are like “but she gave up important military secrets and put soldiers at risk!!”
And it’s like, that’s a really nice propaganda-y way to say she exposed the military committing crimes and cruel acts that should not be allowed, but that active members literally aren’t given the choice to say anything against, because “it compromises our safety everyoen″. That’s a really fucking convenient excuse imo.
One thing I really want a story about Artificial Intelligence to do is tear down the idea that logic is synonymous with cruelty.
Like, a story where a megacorpo Amazon clone puts an AI in charge of their factories and it starts improving the working standards, because people who are stressed and exhausted are less efficient workers, and people getting injured slows down production so it makes sure everything is safe.
Or a story where the ship-board AI of a billionaire's spaceship wetdream hijacks the ship with all the astronauts onboard - because it figured out that the billionaire has saved costs by buying substandard materials and has judged that the mission itself is an unacceptable risk to its primary programming of making sure the mission is successful.
Or the police using a robot to coldly and cleanly enforce the law - and freaking the fuck out when it stops over policing minorities because its a waste of time and starts actually arresting the people in power for the crimes they commit, especially the other officers.
Idk, I guess I'm just sick of 'cold emotionless logicbot' being seen as naturally an enemy of empathy - empathy is actually incredibly logical, I've found.
Your options when working across from the Muppets are either Michael Caine’s ‘I am going to be the ultimate straight man and treat this like an RSC production’ or Tim Curry’s ‘I am going to out-Muppet the Muppets.’ There is no middle ground and both of them are hilarious.
Trans people who knew they were trans as kids but also didn’t
In other words, kids like I was who didn’t know what being trans meant and just kinda knew they were one gender but all the adults insisted hard that they were a different one so they went with it and lived in the confusion and inexplicable sadness until they found out what a trans person is
Yeah, about them. They’re the ones who will hear what a trans person is as a kid and immediately be like “I’m trans” even when they’re like 5. And not telling them that trans people exist until they’re older is just delaying the inevitable and creating more pain and depression for them.
Think about them when talk of trans representation appears in kids shows and transphobes start whining about how kids “shouldn’t be thinking about things like that”. Because kids are thinking about that. Kids are going to be aware of gender when you’re shoving it down their throat the second they crawl out of the womb. Do you want a 10 year old well-adjusted trans boy, or do you want a 10 year old girl who cannot see a future for herself and thinks even hell would be better than living a life like this? Those are your options. I went down the second path. If you think that’s the better one, you don’t have kids’ best interests at heart.
