firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

ALSO If I can book at least two more student it will help to my peace of mind for the upcoming months 🫶🏻 Hmu if you need guitar, bass, music or audio lessons! 🩵

⛰️古代中国の地理書『山海経』に登場する怪鳥たち30羽を、原典の文章を頼りに描きました！　次から次へと首や足の数が多い鳥が飛び出す。おもしろすぎる生態系。 🌊I’ve finished the 30 ancient Chinese weird mythical birds art challenge! It’s been so fun to design and draw so many kinds of multi-headed birds. Hope you enjoyed! #山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds

I'm predictable and basic and love a lot of tried-and-true mixing hacks I see on YouTube and by that I mean I finally get why chaining the 1176 -> LA-2A compressor plugins is so nice on lead vocals

i can finally talk about this! 20k more unredacted epstein emails available to journalists and researchers (there's lots of sensitive info in there and things like victims are not redacted)! this is the same trove bloomberg has been working with, which is different from the gmail dataset.

foraging finds 🔎🌿

still need to figure out how to scrobble to last .fm on Apple Music on my phone bc there's a lot of music I've listened to that hasn't been logged (obviously wouldn't be getting the backlog but would at least be getting stuff moving forward)

self-love, self-transformation 🧵

When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:

after letting it sit a bit longer I think my personal ranking of The 1975's albums is 1) I like it when you sleep... 2) Being Funny... 3) A Brief Inquiry... 4) The 1975 I haven't been through Notes on a Conditional Form thoroughly enough to have an opinion on it yet

oh hey, RADWIMPS tribute album

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

useless man

Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards. I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.

This ia so insanely grim i am SCREAMING

can't believe it took me this long to realize that well-placed parallel compression really helps you get that punchy, crisp pop vocal chorus stack without muddying up the mix

Unemployment for an entire generation isn’t ‘quiet time.’ It’s a failing labor market and a warning sign for the economy.

didn't see this in time to vote but my pick would have been "Wi$h Li$t", it's a definite skip when I listen through the album

my goodness this is fucking immaculate www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEk...

this was my first impression as well

Father Figure - Taylor Swift

ongoing thread of JP songs / albums that Apple Music US does not have that Spotify US did and I miss sorely (and will have to sync local files for)

Kanopy is a very good streaming service and may be available to you for free through your local library if you live in the US

Had to add another page to TCRF for one of my favorite oddities. In the CD-ROM game Spaceship Warlock, there's a bar where you can type in the name of a drink to order. The game has *172 drinks* available, including tons of brand names that were definitely not approved tcrf.net/Spaceship_Wa...

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

IT guy is here! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

help

please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals

Hear the Sounds of the Actual Instruments for Which Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and Handel Originally Composed Their Music

Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you want it to be easier to become an artist, here are some things to demand instead of generative AI: Flexible work hours Four day work weeks Universal basic income Living wages for artists Free arts education Those things will give you time, and with it, you can become an artist 7/7

when you see CNC do you think "computer numerical control" or "consensual non-consent"... 🤔

because they don't tell you in the head or sub-head: the brand is DermaRite. there are specific products & batch numbers in the article

I am obsessed with this 1820s desk that converts into a ladder for your library???

ARTISTS! if you have an old drawing tablet that doesn't have any drivers available anymore or is just unsupported now, i HIGHLY recommend checking out opentabletdriver.net my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).

binged Derry Girls while recovering from surgery and I'm devastated it isn't longer of a show gremlin frat bro shenanigans but with girls? and also poignant coming of age themes? man, it was written so well

Apple Music doesn't have a lot of my nostalgic favorite jpop songs (or it has an alternate version but not the one I want) BUT it does have my favorite KOKIA album "The VOICE" which Spotify doesn't, so a win there

I’ve wanted to draw a millefleurs tapestry for so long and finally had the chance to do it and turn it into a physical woven tapestry! On preorder until Aug 27, est. to ship in Oct. Can be used as a tapestry or blanket - fully machine-washable and only gets softer with use 🦉 acorviart.bigcartel.com

made the switch from Spotify to Apple Music bc indirectly supporting AI military drones is something that I really can't stand for AI on its own and military drones on their own are... ehhh, but together? yikes

Without getting into the AI angle, I think dead people should be allowed to remain dead. You don't need to commodify everything. You don't get to claim something that belonged to a real person simply because he's not around to assert his likeness rights. We have film. We have memories. It's enough.

🔦 #DF結成5周年

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

KOSA is back. This is the internet censorship bill! And it's not just coming for SWers, it'll be coming for all LGBTQ content, because the people in charge view LGBTQ people as inherently pornagraphic! We must push back even harder than we did last time we killed this bill 🔥

finally got around to reading the Percy Jackson books for the first time, and tore through the original pentalogy in ~2-3 days honestly wish I had gotten into this w/ the same intensity as I liked HP back in my childhood but they were still immensely enjoyable as an adult

I interviewed Amanda Dyer, the original model for Tsukihime's Arcueid Brunestud! She details her life in 90's Japan and provides never-before-seen images from the photoshoot that Takashi Takeuchi was inspired by! In collaboration with @anitrendz.com: anitrendz.net/news/2025/07...

There are things I like about this essay and things I don't like. I don't like the undercurrent of stereotyping nonbinary people as middle class liberal dilettantes undermining medical transitioners' right to change sex.