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I'm BACK with another Sherlock Holmes filk! This one goes out to @contact-guy whose latest Watson's Sketchbook installment inspired me to finish this one that's been sitting in my drafts. I JUST GOT A LOT OF FEELINS ABOUT THE BOYS.
Lyrics under cut!
#hardest gifs I ever made. felt like I was interrupting smth the whole time
hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.
Suspected in the comments but confirmed by journalist Casey Newton. The story and various supporting evidence provided to him was AI generated.
For most of my career up until this point, the document shared with me by the whistleblower would have seemed highly credible in large part because it would have taken so long to put together. Who would take the time to put together a detailed, 18-page technical document about market dynamics just to troll a reporter? Who would go to the trouble of creating a fake badge? Today, though, the report can be generated within minutes, and the badge within seconds. And while no good reporter would ever have published a story based on a single document and an unknown source, plenty would take the time to investigate the document’s contents and see whether human sources would back it up.
Stay skeptical out there, especially for stuff that seems like 100% confirmation of "these people are evil" kinda stances that you already believe.
Seeing a post about LJ possibly shutting down, and I was thinking about all the fics and recs and meta that haven’t been posted elsewhere. A lot of people who got into fandoms later don’t know how much good stuff was never put on Ao3. Would just be sad to lose all that.
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Yup.
I assume the post you saw was linking to Denise's thread. Your options are to import to DW (if it's your own LJ account or a community you own) or to buy ViddersAdmin's program, which sounds like it can grab coms, including all of a kinkmeme's comment threads. It doesn't sound like it can grab locked posts, but I'm not sure.
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I hope this lights a fire under people's asses to save things. Personally, I got very tired after nobody gave two shits about yahoo groups.
People for whom LJ was peak fandom can work on saving LJ content.
The ArchiveTeam (team behind most of the large website archives on archive.org) is working on setting up a LiveJournal archive process.
Send lists of URLs to their upload page, they have instructions for doing so on the wiki page I linked.
Heyo it’s back to school time and here’s a research tip from your friendly neighborhood academic librarian.When searching for any topic on the internet just type in the word ‘libguide’ after your topic and tada like magic there will be several beautifully curated lists of books, journals, articles, or other resources dealing with your subject. Librarians create these guides to help with folks’ informational needs, so please go find one and make a librarian happy today!!
this is the BEST advice, and there are so many options, both if you’re doing academic research, or just curious and looking for information!
It’s so interesting what you can find!
Dime novels, mystery & detective fiction, adulting (not academic, but still), D&D guide, citation libguides, comics, graphic novels, and manga, German language & literature, differentiating fake news, firefighting, body autonomy for kids and young adults, interfaith women advocates for social justice, cooking (nonacademic)/food culture and cuisine/food & cooking.
Thank you for excellent additions and very much agre ewith you that cooking libguides are the best!! Have you seen all the ones from the Culinary Institute of America??
Oh! Building on your notes I figured I should mention to everyone that most academic institutions with a library are going to have a page with the research guides the librarians have made for their patrons. This will include basic topic guides on things like how to use the library or how to create citations. There will also be subject guides for areas of study like philosophy or biology. As well as specific course guides to assist classes that are being taught like FM 114: Introduction to the Fashion Industry or BME6938: Nanoparticle Nanomedicines.
If any of y’all have started university totally check out the ones your librarians have put up! There’s a ton up to help you along your research journey. And if you aren’t at university check them out too!! Some of the resources won’t be accessible but there’s loads of information you’ll still be able to use and get to.
Hello, fellow academic librarian specializing in instruction! Many libraries also include guides orientations on how to properly utilize non-subject specific databases. Watch those before diving into your first research project so you understand the tools and features available to you to make your life easier. Many universities subscribe to ProQuest or EBSCO and there are MANY tutorials that will teach you how to use them in less than 5 mins.
Believe me, you will save yourself A LOT of headache with both LibGuides and orientations. Good luck and happy hunting!
for those wanting to help venezuelans affected by the bombings through donations, these are currently the best ways to go. will add more links as more is set up
AFSC has launched a call to action! Stop illegal attacks to prevent another endless war
also adding Save The Children. whilst they haven't specifically put out a donation page, they do have a donation page for Venezuela in general!
Kermit the Frog would be an ideal assassin because if caught he would need to be tried by a jury of his peers (Muppets) and you would not be able to find a Muppet who does not have a pre-existing opinion on Kermit the fucking Frog. case thrown out. kermie can kill again. it's easy being green
I don't know, I think his chances are still good on getting out but if the court put in the work they could fill the box.
not letting these tags get away
On August 4, 1993, the documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives was released in the United States. Originally produced in Canada in 1992, the film features interviews with lesbians who lived during the repressive pre-Stonewall days and discussions about the phenomenon of lesbian pulp fiction novels that became a staple of lesbian culture in the 1950s.
Advertised as “the movie that dares to tell the complete truth,” the original posters for Forbidden Love were drawn to mimic the art styles of the lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s (x).
The women interviewed in the film are Carol, Keely, Reva, Nairobi, Ruth, Amanda, Stephanie, Jeanne, and Lois. All nine women discuss their own personal “coming out” experience and how they navigated the butch/femme dichotomy of the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the dismal state of the lesbian bars in cities like Ontario and Vancouver. Dubbed by Ruth to be “dive bars,” most of the lesbian establishments in Canada were shut down within a year or were constantly changing management every couple of months. This made patrons wary of the safety of the establishments and unsure if they would be ending the night in a jail cell or not; Nairobi – the only black lesbian in the documentary – also discusses her experience of being involved in a police raid of one such bar and how the Montreal police force treated her more harshly than her fellow white patrons. Along with Nairobi, the documentary also includes discussions with Amanda about her experiences as a Haida woman and how she found a makeshift home in the black LGBT community. Anne Bannon, the author of the famous Beebo Brinker Chronicles and other lesbian pulp novels, is also interviewed and discusses how she found the inspiration to write lesbian love stories in a world where women who love women are invisible in most mainstream art. Derided as “campy” by The Montreal Gazette, the movie even included dramatizations of Anne’s novel Odd Girl Out.
Having won both a Genie Award in 1993 and a GLAAD Award in 1994, Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is considered a classic of LGBT documentary work. It allows its interviewees to give the audience an unflinching look at the reality of their lives and does not attempt to soften or break-down the struggles, joys, and in-jokes of lesbian identity for some non-existing straight audience. You can watch the entire film here on the National Film Board of Canada’s website!
-LC
Everyone, please tell me something good that happened for you in 2025 - doesn't matter how big or small!
Since Thursday our politicians have been trying to rush the 'Kids Online Safety Act' (KOSA) and SCREEN acts alongside 15 other bills through committee in order to censor the internet while lying about it being for child safety. It was such laws that allowed the UK, Australia, and Europe to become the hellholes they are where youre arrested for mean posts.
Sadly, our same leaders are also trying to repeal Section 230 alongside these bills. What Section 230 does, in simple terms, is categorize stuff you make online as part of your freedom of speech.
If they aren't stopped they will strip that from you. Be wary.
Sorry for the non lancer post but if KOSA or the Screen ACT passes, if section 230 is repealed, it will be apocalyptic for tumblr and any site like it.
this site provides good resources to help you fight this if you're an american
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... 1989 | dir. Rob Reiner
I've been planning for half of the last year to start the process of getting bartender training and finally get out of my seven year coffee slinging job at buckstar, which is scary and shit, I'm not used to big life and routine changes that I undertake voluntarily instead of being forced into, but.
Today I got an Indeed email recruiting for a ghost tour guide. And now I have an interview next Tuesday for that. And holy shit. I REALLY want it. I could easily work it around bartender training, slightly more trickily around transitioning out of coffee jockey, but hot damn hot much more fun of an answer to "what do you do" would "bartender and ghost tour guide" be than "barista, unfortunately"?
So cross your fingers for me. Changing shit. Making moves. Trying not to be paralyzed by fear. Sis boom bah and all that.
ALAN RICKMAN | Meet the Filmmaker | NYC | 19.06.2015
