Romanticize It Some.

F/20 Here is where things can dream and fantasize their days away under the cool shade of high canopies and the warm light of a yellow smiling sun while laying in beds of rain refreshed green. Welcome to a little hide away. May you enjoy your time and imagine the grandest things. Romanticize a bit. The natural has beauty that is pining to be seen.

[history-of-fashion]

1895 Afternoon jacket by House of Worth (attr. to Charles Frederick Worth and Jean-Philippe Worth)

silk, beads

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[ainokiseki]

She just reached in, put a string of lights around my heart.

DESERT HEARTS (1985) dir. Donna Deitch

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[ralfmaximus]

As of June 29, 2026 the law discussed here is a recently passed California state law (AB 1043) that requires age validation before using a computer connected to the internet. This is expected to happen at the operating system level, when you login to Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc.

Ageless Linux intends to force the issue before the California state supreme court, then ultimately (probably) the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It's a stupid, dangerous law, voted into place by legislators who either don't understand the core issue OR knowingly voted for it because they're assholes.

California is an influential state in the US. Many laws & regulations passed there eventually trickle out to most states. That's why it's worrisome to see this kind of thing rammed through, and why it's important to fight it.

Also, it doesn't matter if you use Linux or not. Or whether you live in California or not. Visit their site, read the text, learn what's going on with access to computing in this hellscape timeline.

[internet-sentences]

this shit owns it's just a number go up idle game except the idle mechanic comes from you writing JavaScript to automate tasks it seems like the end goal of the game is to perfectly optimize against this little arbitrary system they've created. There's not any plot to speak of so far but even though nothing is happening people send you messages through the computer telling you to trust no one as they all have ulterior motives. Very relatable.

Bitburner is an idle game about hacking that teaches real JavaScript

You don't have to know JavaScript to get started.

[exeggcute]

guys be careful. this game may look fun but it's actually a ploy to get you to learn javascript

[perfectquote]

“There’s really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don’t anymore.”

— Unknown

[perriaeyjeve]

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[expressions-of-nature]

Sagres, Portugal by Luca Severin

[polysucks]

you can jailbreak new kindles and kobos and boox now! turn off ads on ad-enabled devices! block ota updates so amazon can’t take it back from you!

I love these sites for getting any book you want! manage your library so you can access it anywhere from any device! borrow from your local and national libraries on your personal devices! even audiobooks! use this program to download audiobooks from browser sites or youtube in a variety of formats! Audacity has been free and user-friendly for 20+ years for audio exporting and editing!

keep reading! fascists hate it when you educate yourself!

[puffsaddy]

[gaki-jakku-kuri]

when someone showed me something they designed and I know they're the least creative person with no art skills so I asked, "did ..u use ai to make this?"

"no! not ai! I did it myself!"

"oh wow man that's rly good ..I mean it still kinda .....I mean it looks like u used a.i. I didn't know u could draw?"

"oh I didn't draw I just put in a prompt to chat gpt but I did it!"

🙄

[inks-books]

I got trained on a new route recently at work, and the guy training me played YouTube videos through the vehicle's Bluetooth system the entire route and it was on learning how to use AI better.

So I, despite wanting to make his phone eat gravel, decided to ask what he was wanting to use AI for. We got to talking and he actually wanted to use it as an assisting tool to streamline work stuff, not gen AI, and actually knew about the negative impacts it had on the environment. He was more concerned about understanding it and staying ahead of the tech curve than actually using it, so I gave him a link to the 1700 free online college courses I had where he could look up this stuff without relying on AI and he got EXCITED.

These kinds of people give me hope. Sometimes they want to learn about the devil so they can fight their own demons. But those who think using AI to create stuff rather than creating it themselves or working with other humans to create it and calling it their own? Nah y'all can eat concrete.

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity

[asksanguinius40k]

A reminder that we still dont support Age Verification bullshit.

[flower-crowns-and-combat-boots]

Paywall removed here

[butchfaith]

how it feels to become an active participant in your own life

[umuima]

Everyone Else (2009)

[umuima]

A film that so elegantly shows the silent identity struggles in the context of a relationship. I’ve never seen a work so honest & precise. Transparent filmmaking & the performances are perfect.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Windstone Editions #803-Jet Mother Unicorn – Jet Black