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I just watched Kubo and the Two Strings again. It's still good. And the shamisen cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the end always gets me.
I keep seeing films I want to post something about here but keep failing to do so. There was something in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which I rewatched again recently, that I wanted to mention, but I forgot before I could. Even skimming the script doesn't remind me what it was.
The dragon was curled up on its hoard.
A knight approached, unarmed and unhelmed.
"Greetings! I have a question about your hoard."
"If you try to steal it I will kill you."
"May I move it? With you still on it?"
The tiny dragon firmly gripped the golden tiara it laid on. "Carry it with pride."
Please take the time to watch this video and remember what was possible when people not only trusted science, but ALSO worked together planet-wide to methodically apply that science for the good of humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ7vluYhQ
The Plea is a data-driven documentary about the first vaccine and the eradication of smallpox—one of humanity’s greatest public health triumphs.Blending data...YouTube
You know, one of the biggest pieces of fantasy in fantasy games to me is when you open a chest and there's clothes in it that just fit!
Imagine! You just find like a pair of pants, and they just fit you!
For anyone that doesn't wear totally average in every way sizes, that's higher fantasy than dragons.
That is the best part!
My character was a gnome 
and my DM gave him a 'glamour armor' that would look like whatever we wanted magically and we established magic items resized to the user. It's fun (story wise) time whenever he loses it and has to wear burlap sacks or whatever.
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History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
Always be yourself. Even if that means being a big nerdy fluffdragon weirdo. ESPECIALLY if that means being a big nerdy fluffdragon weirdo.
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I am so happy to hear that! That's something I've been feeling and exploring and discovering more about myself too over the past few years, and it's such an amazing journey. I wish you the very best on yours!
No UK government has had the long term thinking to fund this yet. It’s vital
Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from #climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that works with nature and includes public education, infrastructure standards, and local funding.
This right here is short, bittersweet, and 100% on the mark. Every hobby is now a side hustle, everything we do is in the relentless pursuit of money or recognition. Between the relentless grind economy and social media, we're ruining all the things we love for the sake of cash and clicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAqhP8EeYQ
How we grindified our downtime and why your hobbies don't owe you anything.YouTube
When I was at school, I learned to play recorder for a few years. At some point in middle school I started learning flute. I'm not sure if I ever actually *really* enjoyed either, but it was something I could do and it was satisfying to get better at it. I didn't really do it outside of lessons, and practicing for lessons and exams. But then in high school my flute teacher really pushed me in a way I didn't like. He wanted to get me angry with him because it meant I'd play loudly, and that would be needed when (not if, in his opinion) I'd play to an audience. I hated him and I started to hate playing flute. I was pushed into the school orchestra and at the first rehearsal I went to I was awkward and shy and embarrassed and couldn't get a note out because of it, and threw my flute on the floor in frustration (denting it) and stormed out and never played again. And all because an activity that would have been nice to continue with if I'd been allowed to just do it for myself and no one else, was forced to be a performance, a product, a thing for other people's enjoyment, not for mine.
My uncle died last year and my aunt has been making noises about having to clear out his study, and I have my eye on his digital piano - rather a nice one, I understand - because, being digital, I could plug headphones into it and not worry about anyone else hearing me play on it. And I don't mean "play" as in "perform music", but "play" as in "amuse myself". And ironically I might actually get good at it and even enjoy playing music if only there wasn't the *requirement* to get good at it.
The robot picked through the boxes of old cables and converters at the market stall.
"Looking for anything in particular?"
"A... special charger adapter."
A bag from under the counter. The robot looked inside. Kettle lead to robot charge port. Untracked charging.
"A gift. Enjoy your freedom."
@crazyeddie you know what the craziest part is: this is already happening right now.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-right-to-repair
When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported, it generated both attention and outrage.Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)
Regular reminder that:
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Go to https://buyraycon.com/rowanj for 20% off your first pair of earbuds.A breakdown of William Shatner's excellent performance as Captain James T Kirk from...YouTube
British judges have been incredibly harsh against climate and anti-genocide protestors…to the extent that the UN have questioned the sentencing.
But who has enabled them?
Successive #Tory and #Labour governments.
Did #Banksy plan some ‘redecoration’ for the Home Office, but then Yvette Cooper changed jobs last week? Was this their Plan B?
Artist’s latest work at Royal Courts of Justice in London is thought to refer to pro-Palestine demonstrationsKaamil Ahmed (The Guardian)
Hello, yes. Thanks for dropping by. Please sit down. Do you want a coffee? Tea. OK, no, no I agree, let's get straight to it.
The thing is that you have been here for a long time, about four million years according to our records, and you have achieved some great things in that time. There are one or two slip ups, a couple of ... well it says world wars here, but I don't think that they covered the entire planet. But that's the thing, you had learnt from those two blips, or so it seems, so we're concerned that it looks like another one could bubble up.
The situation on the planet? Yes that's our concern too and we appreciate that it is quite pressured here, and there are lots of reasons to feel uncertain about life right now, but turning on those around you is not the right answer, so we want to work through with you some options and see where we can help. We don't want to lose you but, if this behaviour isn't checked, you are likely to be asked to find another solar system, and we don't want that. Nobody does.
Well, what we would like to do is help you with weekly mentoring, and a review at the end of each week to see how you have got on. This can still be rescued and easily we think, but we need to be sure. The mentoring is there to give you someone you can discuss things with, frankly and honestly because that's what it is going to take. And if we can do something to help, the mentor is there to make sure that you get it.
Well, here's the action plan we'd like to discuss and it does include a temporary, I want to stress that, temporary reduction in the load on you. We're going to do things like transfer responsibility for nuclear armaments to a group with less on its plate right now. We're also going to get you some help with redistribution of wealth and tackling poverty, which seems to be particularly difficult for you right now. That will help you concentrate on you and getting better, which has to be your priority right now.
I'm sorry, I know this is painful and probably came as a shock. We're doing this for your benefit, ultimately. It's clear something is not right for you now humanity and, going forward, we can't live with that.
You can stay here as long as you need or leave, you can take the rest of the day if you need it, I've cleared that already. Is there anyone you'd like me to call for you right now?
Don't worry, we can get through this. We're all here for you.
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Home safe from a short but epic Furvana weekend. Got in a few rounds of suiting, a few rounds of DJing, and one round dodging lightening 🌩️🌩️🌩️!
Time for laundry, repack and back on the road to BFC next!
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“When we are told that living standards are up because the averages look rosy, we should remember what Danny Dorling pointed out: an average can hide a multitude of sins.
If Jeff Bezos walked into a Norwich pub, the average wealth in the room would shoot through the roof, but not a single person’s pint would get cheaper – and I doubt he would get to the bar ahead of anyone else, either.”
Clive Lewis
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Furpile from @Treycat 's 2005 birthday. He's in there somewhere, and I'll leave identifying everybody to y'all.
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Went to megaplex last weekend and bumped into reverbthehusky while suiting!
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Utterly wild to think that Mid Gen-X to Mid Millennial is probably the peak of genuine tech literacy of the masses of the human race.
Boomers were born too early to easily learn.
Z were born too late to have a need to.
Now the mothership is in control. You will do as you are told.
@colinstu Exactly. I don’t understand the details about FAT32, NTFS, etc, but I understand the basics about drives, partitioning, folder structures, etc.
In particularly dislike Microsoft’s “We handle all of this for you/put it all on the cloud” crap. It dumbs down the system way too much.
" Exactly. I don’t understand the details about FAT32, NTFS, etc, but I understand the basics about drives, partitioning, folder structures, etc."
Nor do you...or should you need to. There is such a thing as a middle-ground here.
Understanding how a computer works down to the bit level is not empowering. But understanding how to file away files and categorise folders DOES. It is this empowerment that big tech wants to take away through gradual dumbing down. And it has worked. You can always count on human laziness.
"Holy mother of..." The astronaut stared out the viewport. "Hey! Come and look at this!"
"What's up?" The space station commander drifted over. "Oh. Yeah. Keep quiet about this."
"Really?"
"It's not harming anyone."
In the Pacific Ocean down below, the Kaiju's mating dance sank below the waves.
I would love a tiara with a friend dragon curled on it ❣️❣️❣️Honestly I would rather have a dragon on my head than the tiara 😹.. but if that’s the way to get a friend to ride on top of your head then that’s fine ❣️😹