Reminded that GIS has become utterly useless for practical reference purposes thanks to genAI, so re-linking one of my favorite period decor/furniture sources: IKEA's catalog archive. Over 70 years of very specifically dated furniture. ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/i...
Time travelling with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum
Browse IKEA catalogues through the ages, reflecting different eras and lifestyles - a goldmine for the nostalgic, design enthusiasts and history buffs.
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The “opt out” scam should never have been allowed as a business practice. Companies are given a license to steal, abuse, and violate so long as there’s a secret hidden form allowing us to object after they’ve already done it. The immense amount of legal privilege involved is fucking disgusting.
It’s fucked up that you have to opt *out* of platforms feeding your data to their Alleged Intelligences and it’s equally as fucked up that we’re expected to accept mass identity theft as a usual, acceptable occurrence when even the companies doing it know we’d never agree to such violation upfront.
Heart-stopping environmental destruction by Google in Finland 850 forest acres Google felled 250,000 trees like they scrape data, ravenously and illegally stripping the entire area–including top soil. “We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest.”
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push
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My top surgeon was apparently supposed to read a script about regret rates but just said "we are only truly free if we are free to make choices we regret", which goes hard af and is also what I say whenever I order a sushi boat for 2 to eat in one sitting.
i dont want shooters, gachas, or mobile games!! i want RPGS written by amazing people with stories that i cant get lost in!! characters that i can fall in love with!!! romances and friendships in games where the chemistry between them feels realistic!! stories that stick with me for YEARS later!!
Capitalism is about forcefully nurturing our dependence on something and then withholding it so that we’ll give up more and more to have a fraction of it back. Capitalism will tell you that you want it and need it this way. If you’ve been in an abusive relationship, you know the exact playbook.
ok, yes. i used a little blood magic to make this potion. but in my defense, it's hard NOT to use blood magic these days. all the tomes and orbs are powered by it. blood magic is really a systemic issue. in a way i'm a hero for admitting i use it
Happy None Pizza, Left Beef Day to all who celebrate. The infamous order came on this day in 2007.
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w agoStill trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today
my father: yeah i'm coming over to ur city this weekend, like 99% probability it will be saturday bc of xyz me: ok me: hey mom im free on sunday for thing ~12 hours later~ my father: hey im trying to come over on sunday are you free me: 😑
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
Cholula@cholulaconamor.bsky.social · 4w agoWithout the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person. Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.
Environmental storytelling at the elementary school
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
Here's the link to the EU Kids Act (translated into all EU languages): eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... And the news page on it from the @ec.europa.eu : digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-k... And remember to sign and spread #StopKillingInternet!: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/
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All hands on deck! Ross explains how the EU Kids Act could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market! youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g "The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you"
This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.
YouTube video by Stop Killing Games
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OK guys this is my perfect lazy weeknight dinner and it’s SO quick and SO easy and you probably have ALL the ingredients in your cabinets RIGHT now. So first we start with Madagascar vanilla paste and salmon foam
Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4w agoThe feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art
