RydiaAsuka
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Maud Lewis lived in poverty, selling her paintings for just a few dollars each. Now rich people are buying up her work.
Pay artists well while they're still alive.
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Pay artists well while they're still alive.
live.jonesauctions.ca/lots/view/5-...
Maud Lewis (Canadian, 1903-1970)
Artwork title: Three Black Cats Sight dimensions: 11 × 12 in. (27.9 × 30.5 cm) Likely early to mid 1960s
A strong example of one of Lewis' most iconic subjects. The three black cats face the viewer, i...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Maud Lewis lived in poverty, selling her paintings for just a few dollars each. Now rich people are buying up her work.
Pay artists well while they're still alive.
live.jonesauctions.ca/lots/view/5-...
Pay artists well while they're still alive.
live.jonesauctions.ca/lots/view/5-...
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you bitches like fire emblem right. well so do i
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
you bitches like fire emblem right. well so do i
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AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
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Shareholders 🗑️🗑️🗑️
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Shareholders 🗑️🗑️🗑️
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One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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stealing this from tumblr.. it's about community!!!
April 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
stealing this from tumblr.. it's about community!!!
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
While I wouldn’t change the privacy of my quiet office for anything at this job…some days I just want to be out with everyone else. 🥺
(Today is one of those days)
(I’m lonely)
(Today is one of those days)
(I’m lonely)
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
While I wouldn’t change the privacy of my quiet office for anything at this job…some days I just want to be out with everyone else. 🥺
(Today is one of those days)
(I’m lonely)
(Today is one of those days)
(I’m lonely)
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View from the top of Sulphur Mountain hiking trail. One can see Banff, Bow river, Cascade and Tunnel Mountains, and Lake Minnewanka in the distance. December 2022.
#photography #landscape #snowscape #mountains #Rockies #trees #Banff #Alberta #Canada
#photography #landscape #snowscape #mountains #Rockies #trees #Banff #Alberta #Canada
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
View from the top of Sulphur Mountain hiking trail. One can see Banff, Bow river, Cascade and Tunnel Mountains, and Lake Minnewanka in the distance. December 2022.
#photography #landscape #snowscape #mountains #Rockies #trees #Banff #Alberta #Canada
#photography #landscape #snowscape #mountains #Rockies #trees #Banff #Alberta #Canada
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take this with a big grain of salt because I could be misremembering but I remember reading a Pokémon translator saying he translated a line as "soft, loamy soil" to teach kids a new word and he was right. I did learn what loamy meant from Pokémon in fact
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
take this with a big grain of salt because I could be misremembering but I remember reading a Pokémon translator saying he translated a line as "soft, loamy soil" to teach kids a new word and he was right. I did learn what loamy meant from Pokémon in fact
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' ...
Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri · CBC News · Nov 25, 2025 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: November 25
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#LetsTalkLibraries
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' ...
Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri · CBC News · Nov 25, 2025 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: November 25
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#LetsTalkLibraries
N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts | CBC News
The head of a regional library service in western Nova Scotia says that without increased funding from the province and municipalities, branches will have to reduce operating hours and services, and even...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' ...
Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri · CBC News · Nov 25, 2025 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: November 25
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#LetsTalkLibraries
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' ...
Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri · CBC News · Nov 25, 2025 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: November 25
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#LetsTalkLibraries
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
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"Personal Skills"
From my 2020 comics based on my first playthrough of #fe3h
Full archive can be found on my tumblr and patreon, links in bio.
#fireemblem #fe #fethreehouses #feth
From my 2020 comics based on my first playthrough of #fe3h
Full archive can be found on my tumblr and patreon, links in bio.
#fireemblem #fe #fethreehouses #feth
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"Personal Skills"
From my 2020 comics based on my first playthrough of #fe3h
Full archive can be found on my tumblr and patreon, links in bio.
#fireemblem #fe #fethreehouses #feth
From my 2020 comics based on my first playthrough of #fe3h
Full archive can be found on my tumblr and patreon, links in bio.
#fireemblem #fe #fethreehouses #feth
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i'm tapping the sign because a lot of people just seem to forget that "nsfw" doesn't just mean porn. it means "not safe for work." would i get sent to HR for having this on my computer monitor? yes? then it's not safe for work. for the love of everything that is holy, stop erasing the meaning.
Look, I get it.
Fuck the system.
But please for the love of god label your shit if its nsfw.
If someone is naked, it's nsfw.
It means: Not Safe For Work.
This isn't a euphemism.
It's literal.
If I open blue at work for a cheeky scroll to see how moots r doing, I shouldn't have to watch my 6.
Thanks.
Fuck the system.
But please for the love of god label your shit if its nsfw.
If someone is naked, it's nsfw.
It means: Not Safe For Work.
This isn't a euphemism.
It's literal.
If I open blue at work for a cheeky scroll to see how moots r doing, I shouldn't have to watch my 6.
Thanks.
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
i'm tapping the sign because a lot of people just seem to forget that "nsfw" doesn't just mean porn. it means "not safe for work." would i get sent to HR for having this on my computer monitor? yes? then it's not safe for work. for the love of everything that is holy, stop erasing the meaning.
Living with the results of my own hubris. 😔 (Too much peppermint extract in my hot choccy)
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Living with the results of my own hubris. 😔 (Too much peppermint extract in my hot choccy)
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therapist: pick your battles
me: okay helm’s deep
me: okay helm’s deep
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
therapist: pick your battles
me: okay helm’s deep
me: okay helm’s deep
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
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reposting w/ alt text
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
reposting w/ alt text
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fuck yeah i love physical medias!!!!!!!! not only you can hold beloved medias in your hands, IT'S FULLY YOURS!!!! and you can choose to resell them in the future if you change your mind
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
fuck yeah i love physical medias!!!!!!!! not only you can hold beloved medias in your hands, IT'S FULLY YOURS!!!! and you can choose to resell them in the future if you change your mind
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...