I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again
To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.
They are literally cutting off library access to minors.
If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:
BOOOOOST
This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.
This is oaywalled but it made me weep with relief to see an honest recounting for once, so I’ve saved some good bits:
spotify watching me listen to megan thee stallion, doja cat, marina, and lorde all in the span of an hour:
Actually Spotify looks like this while it watches you listen to four very popular musicians on the top 100 charts.
This is not going to be the most pressing gofundme yall are going to see on here but if anyone's willing to help me help a transgirl cut the last remaining ties with a controlling obsessive crazy ex who's been harassing her from 1000 miles away for the past year
T'would be appreciated and loved 💞
I started reading this manga because I like to hit the random button on Mangadex sometimes. I read the description, and about mid-way through got hit with a series of words I could not possibly have predicted. Then I read it. Then I recognized the art style and checked the author and went
"Oh I see."
When I think about beastman designs, I always consider how to retain the original animal's body structure, especially the functionality of the mouth as much as possible.
i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it's common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i'm starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that's what it's built for. but nowadays we don't think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don't keep address books anymore because it's all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it's all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you're still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.
This but with so, so, so many things
the biggest problem with writing fantasy in english is that there's really no alternate universe phrasing that carries the exact tone and context to the reader as "jesus fucking christ"
I feel like enough time has passed since Steven Universe ending to say this: inventing your own alter ego and then launching a war against yourself is an iconic move actually. It's like if Batman and Bruce Wayne had public beef except if entire armies were involved. She really Did That. She said "go big or go home" and then went so big that no-one could ever go home, and then changed the fate of the entire galaxy by faking her own death. She slutted it up bisexually and broke countless hearts along the way. Iconic move after iconic move. Non-stop slaying. A queen an icon a legend. No-one does it like her.
Imagine living in the universe where you have to admit that your entire shit got rocked and you got played like a goddamn fiddle by this living powder puff:
What a ledge.
album art is so important because it tells you what color the songs are