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RIP to Anthony Stewart Head and Marjane Satrapi
What a sad day
I watched Seeking Persephone. It was fine. I liked the slow, slow burn. My favorites bits were the father wandering off during the wedding and Adam and Linus yes-and-ing each other.
I enjoyed the banter between Harry and Adam. I wanted the addition of Persephone to change up their social dynamic enough so that the boys would finally kiss each other. (Harry keeps hanging around you because he wants to kiss you, Adam.) And then they’d each kiss Persephone.
Okay, maybe I was a lot bored watching it. I kept imagining different ways the OT3 could come together. Would Adam/Harry invite Persephone as their third? Or have Adam/Persephone invite Harry? Perhaps Adam asked Harry to woo his wife, since he was self-conscious about his scars and hearing loss. Maybe Persephone would fall in love with each of them separately. She would not need to decide between them, they’d all sleep together and live happily ever after at Falstone.
I strongly doubted that would happen.
So I looked forward to reading some smutty Andy/Persephone/Harry on ao3. But it doesn’t exist! There were only 11 works, and they were all Adam/Persephone. So disappointing. But I don’t care enough about this show and will not read the book series to write fic for it.
Damn, I’ll have to console myself with some Fanny/Mary/Edward fic instead.
i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession
Went to a museum exhibit once that had this little guy
10/10, give me tiny replicas of animal statues that I am encouraged to pat as part every exhibit ever please
@copperbadge
I really should just start actually telling museums that I want them to put out replicas of their famous chairs (there's always a wall of famous chairs in the design wing) so that I can find out what they feel like to sit on. I probably should not use the phrase "art I want to touch with my butt" as is my wont. I bet if I mentioned they could sell the replicas or even just tiny models of the replicas in the gift shop, they'd consider it. Imagine finding the most uncomfortable chair in the Wall Of Chairs and then buying a miniature one to keep on your desk at work.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has the “Please Be Seated” furniture collection. They distribute the chairs in the galleries and encourage people to sit on them.
Here is one of my favorites: Settee by Wendell Castle.
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/41037/settee
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I saw this post at 4:08
that must mean something, right? it’s a sign of how chaotic today has been, yes?
Okay this is getting absurd.
Earlier this week, I was listening to the radio instead of podcasts in the car. I fall immediate in love with “SHIN-OIRAN” by MEITEI. It reminded me a little of an old song by Passion Pit. Later that day I went to a fast food place. What song was playing? Yep, “Sleepyhead.”
Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here
his friend "Motion Blur Mage That Motion Blurs You"
Their long suffering associate, the "Sharpen Cleric that Sharpens you (badly)"
Nooo!!! What have you all unleashed upon us!?!
dont forget the chromatic abberation warlock that chromatically abberates you
may I add Mystic Mosiac who turns your quality waaaaaaay down
What did he do to deserve this
punished by the council
Ah, Gaussian blur, how I have not missed you
Master Detective Oct 1941
Griffith Foxley
I saw this post at 4:08
that must mean something, right? it’s a sign of how chaotic today has been, yes?
It exists and it's called Portland, Oregon
The first mass-produced book to deviate from a rectilinear format, at least in the United States, is thought to be this beautiful 1863 edition of Red Riding Hood, published by Boston-based publisher Louis Prang. Leaf through its person-shaped pages here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-first-shape-book-little-red-riding-hood-1863
So cool.
Can't believe this didn't happen on Tumblr. We're slipping, people. Thread under the cut. Source attached to post.
think about the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater. not necessarily the first one you saw in a theater, but your oldest memory of seeing one in a theater. what genre of movie was it?
comedy/dark comedy/satire
action
sci-fi
fantasy
horror/thriller
romance/romantasy
historical/period drama/biopic/documentary/historical fiction/political
drama/tragedy
adventure/epic/superhero
mystery/crime
i have a memory of a film but am not sure what film it is (describe?)
i have never seen a film in the theater/cinema in person
for the purpose of this poll, things like "animation" and "musical" are not options here because those are mediums and can be any genre! i also sort of felt like inclusion of either of these would result in them dominating this particular poll. so instead, think of which of these selections MOST sums up the movie you're thinking of. it's okay if multiple of these apply, but just pick the one that would sum it up best.
also, you obviously don't have to, but please consider leaving the movie and the year it was released in the tags! i am probably going to make a letterboxd list of everyone's responses, especially if this spreads around enough. check back for the link!
Standard Ebooks is my fave.
Gender Queer: A Memoir was only the third most challenged book in the United States in 2025 per the American Library Association's tracking, down from second in 2024 and first from 2021-2023. This book will be seven years old in May 2026, and it's now spent five of those years in the top three most challenged book in this country.
Here is an excerpt from the ALA report:
"The 2025 data reported to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) shows that the majority of book censorship attempts continue to originate from organized movements. In 2025, 92% of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials, and decision makers, up from 72% in 2024. Less than 3% of challenges originated from individual parents. The most common justifications for censorship provided by complainants were false claims of illegal obscenity for minors; inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters or themes; and covering topics of race, racism, equity, and social justice."
Another example of how book banning is now originating from government officials is HR 7661, a federal level book banning bill hastily penned by Republicans after Trump's last State of the Union speech. If passed, this bill would pull federal school funding from any public school in the US which offered programing or literature with “sexually oriented material,” including depicting “gender dysphoria or transgenderism” or “lewd or lascivious dancing” (aka drag.) If this bill passed it would essentially ban every trans book from every public school in the US, unless a school was willing to risk loosing its federal funding. This bill has 20 co-sponsors as of April 22 2026- if one of them is your representative please call them and tell them you don't support this bill! It has unfortunately already passed it's first committee- Kelly Jensen, writing for Book Riot, has a vote breakdown in her excellent article on the bill here.
We need to kill HR 7661 if we want to protect trans books in public schools. Please call, email, or write your House Rep to say NO on HR 7661! EveryLibrary has a letter you can sign and a call script (copied below the cut).
How did you get hacked?
I tried to pirate a game and did so wrong.
The thing about hackers, scammers, fraudsters-- is that they cast a very wide net knowing they'll get a few suckers caught in it. Let's say 10,000 people get an email saying "YOÜVE W0N!🤩 CLiCK N⁰W!?!" 9,997 of them delete it. For the three people who get sucked in, it's life ruining.
They rely on the fact that, at some point, they are going to get you while you're not thinking clearly. Maybe you're sick. Or tired. Or work is stressful. Or you just had a fight with someone and you're mad. Your kid is going through something, your dog is at the vet, your car broke down, you got fired. Or you're in the middle of planning a big event, or you're so super excited for a convention-- and something comes across your desk. Maybe it's an email, or a phone call, a link, a text, a file. But for whatever reason you're not thinking 100% clearly and you don't question it, you trust for a minute and that's all that they need. You are now one of those three caught in the net.
And now you're actually on their list of suckers! They will return to you over and over and over and over again for more, because hey! You fell for it once. They're counting on that your grandma who answered a scam call and provided her credit card number once WILL be scammable again. Maybe not right away, maybe not the same way, but they'll get her. (And more often than not, they're right.)
I think most people are inclined to want to trust one another. Or sometimes we're curious. Or we think, "Wow, I didn't know it would be this easy!" not stopping to ask WHY it's so easy to get something good for free.
I work at a financial institution and I help people all the time who have been hacked and lost hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. They are always terrified- will I get my money back? Am I safe?- but they are also consistently ashamed and embarrassed. They feel guilty for having trusted and for not having stopped to think for a second longer. They verbally berate themselves. "I'm so stupid. How could I have fallen for it?"
Currently I'm only out about $300, which I'm being told I'll get back. That number could go up-- I'm still working on securing everything. Do you know how many passwords I had stored in my browser? 192. I have no idea how many of those had a valid card attached, but so far one account was plenty to steal a couple hundred bucks from me. And I do feel stupid, and embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated. Scared. The hacker messaged everyone I had recently messaged on discord as well as every channel in every server to @/everyone with instructions to download their Spyware. Every single person I talk to knows I fell for something dumb.
It's embarrassing, it's upsetting, and I dont even know the full scope of what more is going to happen. I had tax documents on my computer-- how much of my identity is now in their hands? I've locked my credit and placed fraud alerts everywhere, but how safe am I? Who else is at risk now because of me? What other files do they have from me?
In this case, I happen to know that a number of people did what I did. I've seen a number of threads from others who ALSO tried to download tomodachi life from github. (For the record, this was not the floralith link.) I was excited, I was in a hurry. I thought, "this is so quick and easy and now I can play!" I didnt question why in the hell it would EVER be so easy. I haven't had a virus on my computer since I was a young teen, and then I went and installed a bunch of Trojans whilst going "la la la." Incredibly stupid stuff.
But that's the thing, these people are constantly TRYING to catch someone, anyone, YOU, and they count on that eventually, EVENTUALLY, someday they'll dangle just the right bait for you to latch on to. And in my case it was a fishy video game download.
it is INCREDIBLY easy to get scammed. no matter how safe or smart you think you are. you are more likely to get scammed than not.
i almost did this exact same thing in january of this year. i'd just applied for SSA disability and a day or two after i got an legitimate looking email saying they needed additional documents. i check my email first thing in the morning so i was physically tired and stressed in every way possible and in pain from still being post-surgical and i was scared of screwing up this process.
i downloaded the attached file. the only thing that saved me was my computer asking if i was sure i wanted to run this program.
what program? i thought this was a pdf?
no. turns out the icon was a pdf but the file type was something i wasn't familiar with.
i went back to the email and sure enough the sender was some stupid gibberish.
i dodged a bullet by an unspeakably slim margin. it terrifies me how legit the email had looked, it was properly formatted with correct spelling and grammar and had all the right logos and headers and it went to my focused inbox. this was not designed to filter people out. it terrifies me how they even knew i'd just applied and to try this.
i've had friends who've lost thousands to scams that got them at the wrong time.
it doesn't matter who you are, how protected you feel, how many defenses you've got in place, how locked down your shit seems, they will get you. it may not ruin your life, but in some way to some degree you will get got.
Everyone can get scammed, even Cory Doctorow got scammed: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/
Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
I know that NYT Games Connections loves a good fakeout. What do you mean that these four options are not a valid group for the 18 April 2026 puzzle:
Fantagraphics
Dark Horse
Marvel
DC
Playing with comics readers like that?
Joint report from Documented.org and The Guardian:
Bans on medical transition comprise just one part of the larger, unprecedented assault on transgender rights mounted by a coordinated campaign of mostly conservative activists and policymakers in the US in recent years. So far, these restrictions have primarily affected minors. But leaders in the emboldened movement have begun to more openly admit their desire to attempt to end gender-affirming care for adults, too.
Who could have known this was their endgame? </sarcasm>
Most legislation done to “protect the children” is the first step to ending rights and privileges for adults. Why are people still falling for this canard?
In the past 100 years, here are a few of the many other things that have been considered morally dangerous to children:
Crosswords
Comic books
D&D
Heavy metal music
Video games
Rap music
In the waiting room for the SDCC hotel sale. It’s been a few since I’ve been in it and I can’t remember if I want to bars to increase or decrease. I think i have been sorted towards the very end of the line, but the bars haven’t updated in over 5 minutes.
Perhaps the new rules are slowing people down a lot?
That feeling when the WordleBot says that there are only 6 remaining words that fit, and you find a 7th.