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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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Zhenyi Tan

Catsup is a reusable grocery list. The whole point of the app is that you don’t want bought items to disappear. You want to slide a knob, go buy bread, then slide the knob back.

All the toggles, buttons, and even the separators are crappily hand-drawn. The font is my handwriting.

andadinosaur.com/launch-catsup

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Jer 🚲

@catsalad
"I've got a bead on the end table vase."
Take the shot.
"Won't we get in trouble?"
Take the shot!
"What's that sound?"
TAKE THE SHOT!
"It's the can opener!"
Stand down, abort, abort!

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

*mew mew mew*

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I'm so glad it's possible to google an image and find its source instantly.

(I found the source at pixiv.net/en/artworks/88986272 **without** Google.)

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dj chicken trouble

dj hat feedback

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Internet piracy 

Internet piracy is frankly unlike other forms of piracy. Before corporations convinced governments to call it a form of Internet-borne larceny by giving it that name, it was simply called copying & sharing.

Copying: the thing computer file systems are designed to do well.

Sharing: the thing computer network systems are designed to do well.

But working as designed without content policing crippling it is somehow a threat to civilization just because it's a threat to capitalism.

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I don't remember where I heard it or who from, but I've heard it said:

If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing.

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Ginny :inhaler:

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO PIRATE EVERYTHING. BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING. I GIVE MONEY, YOU GIVE BOOK. NOT "ACCESS" TO BOOK. BOOK!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

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Ginny :inhaler:

OH MY GOD WHY IS IT FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY A FUCKING EBOOK. NO I DON'T WANT TO READ IT ON YOUR WEBSITE. NO I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD YOUR APP. I WANT TO FUCKING READ MY FUCKING BOOK THAT I PAID FOR IN A FILE THAT I CAN USE. YOU FUCKING CAPITALIST PERVERTS.

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beeps :ash_tail:

S'up HTML fans. The experimental `geolocation`, `camera`, `microphone` and `usermedia` elements are now in my list of every HTML element ever.

beeps.website/every-element/

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Haley's Head Mechanic

Teal realized it doesn't matter how impractical her shoes are if she's using her wheelchair!

Honestly Teal is becoming one of my favorite OCs. She started as just "I wanna include a wheelchair user U crowd scenes" but over the years she accrued more and more traits and now she's a whole character with a history and hobbies and relationships.

Hrmmm I think I might have called her Cyan before. Ah well, lots of trans girls go through a couple names before settling on one.

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David Revoy

The Degraded Search Engine

Bonus speedpaint: peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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The current state of Internet-connected refrigerators 

Ars Technica, 2026-09-23, "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges":
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Meanwhile, dumb fridges keep refrigerating and freezing food consistently and predictably for as long as electric power lasts and the machinery stays in good working order.

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Rules I live by: 

Be nice when you can. Be mean when you must. Be kind always. Never be cruel.

Never mistake niceness for kindness, nor meanness for cruelty. Cruel people depend on you making this mistake, tricking you into backing cruelty because it's nice to you and standing against kindness for being mean to them.

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ :neofox_floof:

Friendly reminder that 'nice' and 'kind' are not the same thing.

Niceness is withholding information or opinions when they may be vital, to avoid 'rocking the boat'.

Kindness is telling your bestie when their friend is saying fucked up shit about them behind their back.

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dmiException 💽

hot take, foss 

FOSS maintainers don’t owe you anything, even thanklessly maintaining the software forever.

Furthermore: It’s okay for software to not be updated with new features, as long as it doesn’t have known security holes.

It’s not a bad thing to have something that doesn’t change, even if modern software developers would like you to think that you NEED a constant stream of “feature updates” and “redesigns”.

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spam 

Hey, ${COMPANY},

Who should I be speaking with about senior living investment allocations on your end?

Thanks,

Lauren

---==[/]==---

Hi, Lauren:

Get in touch with Dr. No, our head of cold leads. His email is no@no.no, and his direct line is 1-800-NO.

Thanks!

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6502

pov you clicked on me

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Foxes in Love

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/
Copyright: foxesinlove.net

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