Ev

Ev

@evdil.bsky.social

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Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

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James has been on the ground in LA for a very strange, violent night. Check out his coverage on Bluesky and listen to it later this week on It Could Happen Here.

James Stout@jamesstout.bsky.social

Lapd are unloading less lethals from the front of their building. They had a small group pinned but the group made a dash for it

Google keeps "fixing" things that weren't broken and I'm so frustrated about it. Like the auto-translated search results. Please. Stop. Let me opt out somehow. If I search in Swedish, it's because I want Swedish results! From Sweden! That's why I'm SEARCHING IN SWEDISH 😡😤

Like, if I search "köpa från Retroid Pocket" in Swedish, and I'm in Sweden, it's KIND OF IMPLIED that I'm looking for people IN SWEDEN talking about their experience "buying from Retroid Pocket" TO SWEDEN. I do not need a bunch of translated Reddit posts from all over the world. 😤😤

(In other news, I'm very excited about the Retroid dual screen add-on - if I pass all three of my August exams, I'm buying an RP5 + add-on and finally playing all the dual screen Zelda games!)

My downstairs neighbors are driving me insane with how often they vacuum at inappropriately late times. It's 01:20. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. PLEASE. I'm going to have to do something drastic soon, like leave a note in their mail or something. This cannot continue.

I've started the process of downloading and properly sorting my AO3 bookmarks, and I am TERRIFIED. Over 2300 bookmarks, many of which are series, not individual fics. The downloading process itself is fine. Updating my AO3 tags to mark them as downloaded will be a pain... But then...

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And then!! I'll have to clean up all the trash tags where authors have used the AO3 tags as if they're tumblr tags!!! All those one-off tags bloat the tag lists horrifically, they've really got to go, but there's no bulk editing for that 😭😭😭

This is going to be such a long-term project, and ofc I'll still keep reading fic in the meantime and adding to the workload 😭

I've started the process of downloading and properly sorting my AO3 bookmarks, and I am TERRIFIED. Over 2300 bookmarks, many of which are series, not individual fics. The downloading process itself is fine. Updating my AO3 tags to mark them as downloaded will be a pain... But then...

Then comes cleaning up the metadata. The tags. It's all just "tags" now. I want to separate them into categories: fandoms, main relationships, genres (maybe a separe for tropes, haven't decided yet), adult content & kinks... I'm so thankful for bulk editing 😭

I should probably do main characters, too, shouldn't I? That's genuinely useful for filtering sometimes... Lowest on the priority list, though, for sure.

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look if you have a vocal minority in the country who threatens to murder anyone who disagrees with them you have a couple options for moving forward and surviving but none of those options start with give it in just because they're making threats

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most coups are at or about this level of lameness, it's just that we quickly forget the lame parts of the ones that work

Dan’s Discount Dick Surgery@fascistsoftwitter.bsky.social

Can @iwriteok.bsky.social let us know if there’s ever been a lamer coup in world history? They aren’t smart, they aren’t strong, they aren’t stylish, they aren’t charismatic… they’re just rich and racist. Has another power in history lost control to such a lame group of abject losers?

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someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6

Attempting to read historical fiction where people use first names all willy-nilly is... look, I can suspend my disbelief. I will overlook a lot. But unrelated people randomly being on first name basis? Messing up titles (e.g. a Mrs. Last Name who should be a Lady First Name)? There are limits!

This isn't just distasteful in the extreme, it's also extremely dangerous. What the hell were anyone involved thinking??

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Opened Instagram for the first time in a while & apparently there's a setting for how much "political content" you want to see now? What does that even mean? Who decides which topics are "political"? What are the criteria? This is so weird.

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this is is fascinating. an AI freak buys an AI enabled child toy but his kid keeps turning off the AI and using their imagination, which disturbs and disappoints him

Pixelated Reality@pixelatedreality.bsky.social

Here's a guy crying about how his daughter keeps turning the AI off on the AI doll he bought her and playing with it like a regular doll and her imagination.

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In the early 1970s the U.S. was averaging almost five bombings a day. I think a lot of us who didn’t live through that era take for granted the relatively low levels of political violence in the 2020s.

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I've seen a lot of posts about how shitty the bomb was and folks, if someone makes a bomb that blows up when they want it to blow up they are automatically in the top like, 1% of bomb-guys

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who detonated a homemade bomb packed into a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t.

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We should do this, but only on bluesky. I'll start: Maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has fallen by over 60% since 2017 thanks to investments from the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health and their partners.

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The Madison, Wisconsin school shooter was a radfem Columbine-worshipper who followed "radfem Hitler". Garrison Davis dug into her online presence and wrote this to explain what the hell all that means and why the right wants us to think she was transgender. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madiso...

shatterzone.substack.comThe Madison, Wisconsin School Shooter Was A "Femcel" Columbine Copycat: Here's What That MeansAlso: why the far-right wants you to believe she was transgender

I do not understand the fuss about her shaving her head. It makes perfect sense to me for a bounty hunter not to want to bother with long hair, or have anything for an opponent to be able to grab.

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part 2 of the manosphere series is out, bringing us from gamergate to dana white shouting out joe rogan at a trump acceptance speech. interviews with FD Signifier and Robert Evans drop thursday <3

Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social

New Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): a woman's history of the manosphere, 2014-2024 @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

You know what I need? A Darklima Jane the Virgin based AU. It just popped into my head last night and now I can't get it out.

I wonder if the Catriona will still be a problem in W4? I really hope not. Mostly because I haaaate all the sick coughing background noises. Man, they're the WORST...

Update: I'm actually really liking the Witcher sub. Lots of good discussion and speculation, very little brainrot and culture war bull.

Ev@evdil.bsky.social

Gods, gamer incels are EXHAUSTING, and they're all over everything after the Witcher 4 trailer. Any tips for gamer spaces without all the "uglification of women," "games shouldn't push an AGENDA" whining bullshit?

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Replying to @ianboudreau.com

It's wall-to-wall garbage all the time, and if it's not wails about a lady being the main character, it's tedious technical complaints about how many reflections of Spider-Man you can see in the puddles. Anything interesting that anyone might have to say about any game has been shoved to the margins

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There's no "controversy" over The Witcher 4, it's just gotten picked up in what is now a cottage industry of YouTube-based outrage content farming by people who have zero actual investment in or understanding of the things they cover multiple times a day, every day

Genuinely cannot wait, it's going to be amazing ❤️❤️

Jenn❗️@nighttpool.bsky.social

Just saw the Witcher 4 trailer and OMG CIRI I LOVE YOUUU ❤️❤️❤️❤️