Why sleep so late?
Photobucket moment.
Oh, not the total owed, but the actual usage graphs. Yeah I only get an annual email containing a recap pretty much at years end for a few services. Otherwise it's off to the shitty website.
The list of who not to avoid I think is much shorter.
My workplace tried to make me attend a steak dinner after work with my "coworker" who I don't like and some random new shift supervisor in the highest turn over position on site. Predictably he was gone 4 months later. I refused to go. While the food would be compensated, my time wouldn't be and that's the #1 thing of value to me. I don't work for free.
Google doesn't do global roll outs with their updates. The anti adblock stuff especially. They target only some % of randomly selected users to spread confusion online, and I would guess their hope is to frustrate people into disabling ad blockers on Youtube after reading a bunch of misinformation and placebo bad advice when looking for tech support.
One of my BlueSky accounts I use for what you're missing. Follow artist starterpacks to get started faster, the AI and Politics mass block lists too, and avoid Catch Up like the American doomer plague it is. "Show less of this" everything political/not the account's focus in your Discover feed. Block them first when you have the patience to do this tedious task. After awhile all you'll see is artists/indie. Disable risque/adult content default-on blocks as desired.
Takes a bit of work, but this has been nice.
Another good resource is https://www.newgrounds.com/art
Is Newgrounds a diminished community? Yes. Is it still active? Also yes. Had a bit of a artist population boost around when the exodus to BlueSky from Xhitter was going on too.
For some recency bias specifics:
I'm rather into Montreal Canadian u m a m i. Their shop is here: https://umamimerch.com/ I have a few of their prints on my walls haha. See their youtube channel for context. Short films and he also makes music. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqrrxZeeFSNCjGmD-33SKMw/videos
https://umamimerch.com/product-category/home-living/wall-art/
I love Peter Draws youtube channel. Elaborate doodles. Here's their shop: https://www.peterdraws.com/ and channel: https://www.youtube.com/@peter_draws/videos
modern landscape paintings https://bsky.app/profile/jimmusilpainter.bsky.social
3d artist with a low-fi gimmick, nerdy pop culture related usually https://bsky.app/profile/nupsu.me
OC creator for dumb bombastic gamer shitposts https://bsky.app/profile/kinofabino.bsky.social
Illustrator https://bsky.app/profile/willquinnart.bsky.social
Digital Illustrator https://bsky.app/profile/mana4anam.bsky.social
Illustrator https://bsky.app/profile/nicodelort.bsky.social and https://shop.nicolasdelort.com/
I may be more willing to be skeptical. I'm not sure if the reduction in bad faith is really worth the downsides of vote ranking myself.
If SomethingAwful can survive to this day without it and an intact strong community identity, I think it comes down to the usual things that tip the scales heaviest of all things considered: Site ownership, moderators. A sense of humour doesn't hurt either.
A great deal, I'd imagine. I can conceptualize.
I have Total Aphantasia, and zero sense memory at all. I do have an "inner monologue" of sorts. I can't "hear" it in my head, but I understand all the same. I don't know how to explain with words and I don't know how I work either, really. My outer and inner voice are the same thing to me and I have full control over it., often transitioning back and forth when I'm alone. As in, no racing thoughts. One of the ideas behind meditation where you try to silence your mind? I don't have to try. It's not something that takes effort for me. I bring this up because this is how I'm reading books, with that silent inner voice. One of my friends is like me with Total Aphantasia, but he has no inner monologue either. Which is bonkers to me. I don't get it, neither does he! Haha. Many different kinds of human minds out there, it's not so simple.
Hard to miss what I've never experienced, I still enjoy thinking about these fictional worlds even if I can't conjure up a representation of what is written in my mind.
I read every genre. It's actually specific writing styles I lean towards. If the author is really detailed with describing environment constantly, I appreciate that. I can't really "fill in the blanks" so to speak. I also really like it heavy on the internal monologue side of things with main characters. I think that's why I liked Ender's Game so much when I was a kid.
I do prefer any visual media. I save all my book and research reading for when I'm at work these days, which is a lot of time actually. One of them hurry up and wait jobs. Books are far better when it comes to potentially constant interruptions.
Even if the hardware does....drivers matter. I'm reminded of the Moore Threads MTT S80.
True, but specifically USA targeted black people to fill their prisons with slave labor. Crack to this day is still treated much worse than cocaine despite the insane multiplier having been lowered.
The cousin of thought terminating labels. Usually applied to other humans.
FUCK
If black people like the sun too much, probably.
To see the mold growing in the side loader machine's silicon gasket that never dries out of course!
Also because that's what the house came with and it didn't break yet.
I kill it with vinegar filled wash cycles now and then but it's annoying and recurrent. Top loader with dumb knobs and a metal lid next if they die before me.
Damn, guys, King Charles existing didn't work. Now what?
Where I live it's frankly too dry for uniform grass lawns and dandelions will completely take over if left alone. I'd be fine with it if I didn't find the green jagged leafed plant and milky red stems so fugly, never mind the nice yellow flower.
I've been overseeding with white clover and native wildflowers since moving in both of which thrive in the spring choking out dandelions naturally. Puts nitrogen back into the soil too unlike grass.
All I do is aerate now.
Better for the bees in two ways. One, I'm not spraying chemicals and two, dandelions are actually pretty shit tier from a bee perspective.
If I wake up in 1875 right where I am and a birch tree hasn't appeared through my chest, then I'm a half hour hike away from Fort Saskatchewan. A North West Mounted Police outpost+jail and they'll speak English I can understand in 1875.
In 1879 they'll hang a whiskey addicted Cree man who killed and ate his six children, his wife, mother, and brother. Swift Runner or Ka-Ki-Si-Kutchin. Got kicked out of the fort (I think he worked there? So he might be around already), and then his own tribe kicked his dysfunctional ass out too before he did this.
From Canada Day I wandered through a few times the new replica Fort the city built and read the history placards. So I'd also know a few of policeman names, some trivia about them, and how some of them would die. Mostly by fighting natives. Most of them were cunts frankly. Yes yes very surprising to nobody.
Age of Empires 2 /w The Conquers expansion pack.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1. (2 was weaker without OpenRCT2, the real masterpiece, but idk if unfinished projects should count or not)
Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament 1999 GOTY, Worms Armageddon, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, Forza Horizon 2 / Motorsport 3, Need for Speed Underground 1, Clonk! Rage, Metal Gear Solid 1/2/3, Ace Combat 4, Okami, Tokyo Jungle, Zelda BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Sven Co-Op, Killing Floor 1, Final Fantasy 7, LISA: The Painful, Everhood 1, Deus Ex 1, Left 4 Dead 1/2, Portal 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2... Champions of Norrath and Return to Arms, Diablo 1, Baldur's Gate 3 makes the list...NIER both games. Planet MiniGolf.
I could go on and on.
I think we've known this about Ring cameras for awhile now at least. Lowkey I kinda seethe about any neighbors buying that spyware shit. It's not like the fucking cops give a singular shit about home robberies anyways.
I prefer the night, I'm one of those night owl freaks by nature.