Lucy Palomia
@pillowbard.bsky.social
Personal account for @Pillowbard.me, or alt in case there's PDS issues elsewhere. Throwing my thoughts into the Void.
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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ngl, I almost just want to pin this post, because god do I feel like I need this a lot recently
Lucy Palomia@pillowbard.bsky.social · 4d agoMaybe throwing this on here is a mistake, but
No, self, I'm not worthless, even if it feels like it No, self, I'm not pointless, even if some of my thoughts aren't part of a consensus Self, these good feelings may be heightened from hormones, but they're still real in some way This is gonna be a long mental fight, I can already tell.
Looking at the thread I last reposted, most of the games in that list I was already passing on anyway (even the currently mistakenly added Ananta, though I guess we'll see on that one). I'm just so tired of all this.
Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.
Belated Espeon Day Sketch 2! The oracle sifts through futures as if he sought needles in haystacks. But the challenge with fickle premonitions is discerning them from your own anxieties.
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
The Pixel Arcadia Showcase Featured A Secret Game Announcement That Everybody Missed (Repost)
The Pixel Arcadia Showcase Featured A Secret Game Announcement That Everybody Missed
Blink-and-you'll-miss-it!
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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
A Florida cop 3D printed fake Flock cameras and his police department used it to catch would-be-vandals. They charged a man with three felonies. The mayor said she "had NO idea" this was happening and said the incident happened just after "a a majority of COUNCIL AGREED TO CONSIDER ENDING FLOCK."
Man Charged With 3 Felonies For Breaking 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera
Police are devising sting operations to catch Flock vandals, then charging them with felonies.
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Colored sketch are now available on my Kofi 🥰 ko-fi.com/orangesekai/... Thank you so much for your kind support~!
