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@CA_Hawthorne Thank you for embracing a positive aspect of being alone on the holidays. No one seems to do that.
@killyourfm You're welcome. I wasn't alone this year, but I have been plenty of years, and while struggling with my mental health. It's easy to focus on doing what (seemingly) everyone else is doing, when what's important is for people to reinvent the day for themselves and find all the positive aspects in that.
@reiver In 2017 the US FTC fined Vizio $2.2million for doing real time capture of what people were watching.
That was 2017.
"VIZIO to Pay $2.2 Million to FTC, State of New Jersey to Settle Charges It Collected Viewing Histories on 11 Million Smart Televisions without Users’ Consent"
These little hands hold on tightly — to a fruit, to warmth, to life itself. 🍎
In a world full of cold and loss, we try to give them a piece of childhood… but it’s not always enough.
*Even the smallest support can bring comfort — a meal, a blanket, a kind gesture.
Don’t forget them. Every child deserves care and warmth. 💜
https://chuffed.org/project/131514-help-asar-and-her-family-survive-the-genocide
#RefugeeChildren #Donate #Hope
@aral
@raphaellakay
@kathimmel
@Geri @Divadarlings
Learning about this unfiction side project makes me wish I watched Smiling Friends so I could properly appreciate it cus it is really neat.
It's basically like, this meditation on the way fans relate to their shows, how they try to insert themselves into that universe, but fail to get the emotional fulfillment they need from that alone cus the story isn't really built with a space for you in it, told through the medium of two youtube channels posing as clip uploaders.
One of them represents the more curatorial side of fandom, simply posting clip from the show and putting his own intrusive watermark on it, the other represents the more transformational side of fandom and she's the archetypical example of a Mary Sue, inserting her own tonally clashing character in the show to offer color commentary.
In both cases, the channels starts off simple enough to be mistaken for a fan project, then their characters start to interact with the show more and more and it's pretty clear that it must be an official side project.
I find Dolly Dimples especially interesting as, like, a case study in how the Mary Sue archetype has evolved in the current era. Most of the elements of her character you can trace all the way back to the original Mary Sue from A Trekkie's Tale all the way back in the 70s, but she's also showing a pretty large analog horror influence, as she leans on those tropes as a way to try and get attention.
I don't really remember Horror Sues being a huge thing in fandom in the 00s, (the edgy analog horror sues would have been the edgy goth sues at the time) that seems like a distinctly post-Jeff the Killer development to me.
The analog horror elements in this project is presented in such a funny way cus like, for once this is not actually a horror-themed unfiction project, it is really more an extention of the dark comedy of the show, but Dollys videos briefly turn into a flawless parody of bad analog horror for a while anyway, basically because she as a character figured that's what she was supposed to do, cus her only frame of reference is the internet.
No #BoxingDay walk (or indeed roll as it would be now) for me because of this rotten cold sadly. I love a Boxing Day Walk.
Instead I'm wrapped up in bed doing uni work and eating cheese. And also watching some @HighRollersDnD !
B3 (B3SA3) anuncia 1,9 bilhão em proventos; veja quem tem direito
https://www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/b3-b3sa3-anuncia-19-bilhao-em-proventos-veja-quem-tem-direito/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Quanto você teria hoje se tivesse investido na Vale (VALE3) há um ano?
https://www.infomoney.com.br/onde-investir/quanto-voce-teria-hoje-se-tivesse-investido-na-vale-vale3-ha-um-ano/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bolão de R$300 mil reúne 2 mil pessoas e mira prêmio de R$1 bilhão da Mega da Virada
https://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/bolao-de-r300-mil-reune-2-mil-pessoas-e-mira-premio-de-r1-bilhao-da-mega-da-virada/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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'Gargalhadas duas vezes por semana': estudo brasileiro mostra benefício para coração
https://www.infomoney.com.br/saude/gargalhadas-duas-vezes-por-semana-estudo-brasileiro-mostra-beneficio-para-coracao/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Adeus, FOFs? Multiestratégia avançam em novos reposicionamentos das gestoras
https://www.infomoney.com.br/onde-investir/adeus-fofs-multiestrategia-avancam-em-novas-estrategias-das-gestoras/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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These little hands hold on tightly — to a fruit, to warmth, to life itself. 🍎
In a world full of cold and loss, we try to give them a piece of childhood… but it’s not always enough.
*Even the smallest support can bring comfort — a meal, a blanket, a kind gesture.
Don’t forget them. Every child deserves care and warmth. 💜
https://chuffed.org/project/131514-help-asar-and-her-family-survive-the-genocide
#RefugeeChildren #Donate #Hope
@aral
@raphaellakay
@kathimmel
@Geri @Divadarlings
TIL: John Boyd Dunlop the inventor of the first practical pneumatic tire, first created a tire for his son's tricycle ride; the resulting air-filled tire revolutionized transport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_Dunlop#Pneumatic_tyres
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pw4ett/til_john_boyd_dunlop_the_inventor_of_the_first/
TIL: VESA Standard does not necessarily mean that VESA components actually fit.
Ah well, I was going to handle this one like a raw egg at all times anyway.
Had to mcGyver the shit out of this backplate to make it somewhat fit to the new monitor back. Found some decently sized spacers. Screws were a little bit too long so I had to saw ~5mm off but now the monitor arm plate sits snug and flush to the display.
Let's see how long this holds up. Hope there is no bad pressure point somewhere.
"Going to get some live bait then I'll catch that big catfish down in the river"
"Dad, that fish will pull you out of the boat. Sometimes catfish try to eat people. Saw it on youTube."
"That's not real."
"I've seen that fish once, and it wants to eat people. I'm certain. Nothing is better when you add 'cat' to the name."
"That's right! Like 'bird'"
"catbird"
"fish?"
"catfish"
"tires?"
"cattires!"
"call"
"catcall?"
"berries!"
"catberries!"
"merand..."
"now you are being simple"
"log?"
"..."
@futurebird Rumor has it that there are catfish the size of a sedan deep in Lake Lanier ( North Georgia, USA ). I've dived Lake Lanier, visibility is usually 1 meter or less. Haven't been deep there tho.
"There is no decency in removing hardworking members of our communities from their families and neighbors and imprisoning them and then deporting them to other countries, some of which are brutal dictatorships.
When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II."
#Christmas #migrants #Trump #ICE #fascism #cruelty #MaskedThugs #deportations
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I've never particularly liked his music, but there's no doubt he was righteous.
RIP George.
I've never particularly liked his music, but there's no doubt he was righteous.
RIP George.
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