Careful It Bites

All Pronouns, No Filter

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[alistairsprayerwarrior]

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

[toastyoffering]

Omfg I just got it Zoro is lost all the time because he’s an orphan descendant of diaspora from an isolated ‘closed’ country.

He’s literally ‘displaced’.

[anneemay]

🔥 whatever you feel like talking about

If you're not American and you live in the global south where libraries are not well funded, it's morally okay to sign up for American public libraries digital memberships using fake addresses to access their Libby/Overdrive.

The US owes us a lot, not the other way around. So go ahead, babes. Find fake addresses and access their digital libraries for free.

[anneemay]

Yes, yes, pirating is easier but the Libby app is convenient

[racist-sundown-site-deactivated]

@hongkongtaxi you're a real one thank you

[anneemay]

Bad news: NYPL would terminate your account after three weeks because they required in person address verification while Brooklyn Public Library no longer issues e-card.

Queens Library should be the easiest to sign up.

[anneemay]

Look for American libraries that have Kanopy and Mango Languages because you can also access those services.

[surfeit-of-stoats]

Adding my best friend, the library in Northern California that has a grant funding it to give out ecards worldwide to anyone anywhere (as far as I know).

[rebecca-levin-art]

Brooklyn Public Library has a program called Books Unbanned where anyone in the US under 21 can get a free online card (this was to combat library censorship and book banning) and I remember it being pretty easy to get signed up for that. I don’t think I really had to give much personal information, so it’d probably be pretty easy to get no matter where you are. Also, if the library you sign up for has a Hoopla subscription, you can get access to a lot of free music, TV, and comics.

[amanonthecorner]

I love when fanfic authors are freakishly unhinged. "Yes, hello, I am here to write a heart wrenching story about relationships and mortality. My medium is Ducktales (2017)"

[lamaery]

I made some Jayvik art for a friend's birthday :) It was really fun to get into the stylization of the series. We saw Northern Lights and visited hot springs in Alaska together last year. Those are also featured in the fanfic the line is covered in jellyfish by @yunuen , which therefore was the perfect inspiration for this. ID by @priscellie

[smorpher]

He's just so happy and excited

[lavender-rroses]

this is the vibe i think

[weiyjling]

it’s always “bonney should join the straw hats” this and “loki should join the straw hats” that but never “pudding should join the heart pirates”

[nariarts]

I've never been more devastated that I'm going to miss an event in my life. What a fucking icon.

Via bsky

[nariarts]

never mind, I can make it!!

[nariarts]

Update;

She expected maybe 5-10 people to show up. There were about 100.

I gave out scotch eggs to commemorate the occasion.

She gave a beautiful speech, was blindfolded, then kicked REAL good. Crumpled. Gave us a thumbs up.

Applause. Then the flute. Then a moment's silence.

Absolutely beautiful. I fucking love trans people and Glasgow and trans Glaswegians.

[moniquill]

[monstersovka]

interlacing ✷

[wondersmith-and-sons]

i keep seeing this xkcd comic reposted and i'm sorry but i need to pedantic about this.

[nick-nonya]

[ellenchain]

[coolthingoftheday]

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.

albino plants are basically vampires.

[heywetotheotherworld]

For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.

Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.

They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!

[carnivalseb]

this is super cool! I had no idea

[monticellomarshmallow]

This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

[weaselle]

we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…

so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt

[baybelletrist]

The world is so much more beautiful, fascinating, and complex than we know.

[ajaxneedssleep]

[toastyoffering]

STOP THEY ARE GOING TO BELIEVE YOU

[unearthlydust]

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER THUNDERBOLTS*

[toastyoffering]

Proof that for seventy years this bitch didn’t feed himself

[autisticmysticsarah]