We're trying to have a civilization here.

yeah that looks normal… yeah these are all— um. hold on. hang on.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Brother: What does the order mean?

Person filming: They/she?

Brother (increasingly frantic): Yeah but I’m, I don’t wanna fuck it up. Is it— what does that mean you said she/they and then you said “oh wait no use they/she,” which one do I use?

Person filming: They- they more than she.

Brother: Oh god

[laughter from the person filming]

Brother: Okay, like, how- how much more though? Is it like if- do I- am I being an asshole if I say, like, they maybe like 4 times and she 2 times?

[more laughter]

AETHER TORRENT, 94,000 words of YA fantasy adventure, is available in eBook and paperback at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and major e-book retailers!

Even in a world of magic, the economics of exploitation still rule.

Tori, a disenchanted atheist stealing treasures and suffering through retail, wants to turn her black-market boss's ill-gotten treasures into a life-affirming museum.

Avani, a devoutly religious fugitive blamed for her temple's violence, wants to evangelize safely distant from the influence of her temple's zealots.

Cirrus, a flying, shape-shifting tiger woman coerced into mercenary violence by her military, wants help for a private mission of her own.

The three women help each other fight their way out of their respective bad situations and into a new goal: reaching Tori's mother in a distant city where, Tori hopes, all of their wishes can come true.

Read AETHER TORRENT and enjoy LGBTQ-friendly adventure!

And if that wasn't enough...

None other than Trick Weekes -- Narrative Designer at Bioware, lead writer for the Dragon Age series, and author of Dragon Age: The Masked Empire, Feeder, and the Rogues of the Republic series -- was among the book's first readers, and had this to say:

This story is cinematic as all get-out. It gives us a likeable cast and keeps moving as Tori, Avani, and Cirrus move from one train wreck to the next, leaving chaos in their wake. It's a ton of fun, and you also have a unique world filled with magic and crime and shark people and giant crabs. It's got a ton of different moving parts, and everything is bursting with life.

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's AI assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.

Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")

Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned; profit from business goes to the owner of said business, who then decides upon wages paid to workers, which may be well out of proportion to the profit generated.

Radical feminism holds that society is run by gender relations which either overtly or ultimately favor men while systematically oppressing women, which is a bad and harmful thing and needs to be immediately abolished. Doesn't say shit about hating trans people; that's a detail added and held only by the transphobic.

You can run an AI model by feeding ("training") data to a machine which then sorts it ("learns") in such a way that it can produce ("predict") what is logically the most likely thing to follow a given input. Supervised learning is training on clear, labeled data. Unsupervised learning is training on patterns of data points that the machine itself observes. Reinforcement learning is either of those, with a human weeding out bad results for better production. All of these are bad and producing astronomically more harm than good for the economy, planet, and human cognitive processing.