Another Silly Blog From Another Silly Blonde

I like that we’ve kind of cycled back to the early 90s TV’s fearful attitudes about technologies

Like yeah, X-Files, I wouldn’t get into an elevator run by AI either, good call in 1993, you nailed it

Oh my god, now looking at screens is driving people to commit irrational violent acts by hijacking their fear response.

X-Files, how does it feel to be this right?

“[Fear] is the oldest tool of power. If you’re distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.”

Bro.

been getting really into jin guangyao lately ...........

I MISS DRAWING <- is literally doing everything besides drawing

neil knowing that his distrust of wymack and his physical reactions to him are from the experiences he's had with his father but his inability to recognize the discomfort he feels around renee and betsy as something that could be connected to his mother...ive gotta put this boy in a lab for real...

Well fucks? Get to it!

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happy biblically accurate friday again garfie baby to those who celebrate

i feel like nobody has NOTPs anymore. like if you hate a ship now it has to be for some deep moral reason and you have to justify it to everyone what happened to just not liking stuff that isnt inherently bad but just because you personally think it sucks

Literally nobody I know knows Gayle Waters-Waters despite how much she has contributed to society and meme culture. Get rid of the couches. We can’t let people know we sit. Was anyone gonna tell me x or was I supposed to read it in x myself. That gif of her in the kitchen breaking a board with her head. Her mad dash from the house that ends with her jump kicking her mailbox off

It's Friday. Can you guess what I'm in?

I don't care if Monday's RED Tuesday's FUCKED and Wednesday's DEAD Thursday I CUT OFF YOUR HEAD It's Friday I'm in HATE

2ha memes

(Spoilers for the whole series)

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The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

…OH.

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

Sorry babes but as someone who lived lug around 500 cds they can die. To me lps are at least pretty and pretentious like a fine wine. Cds have no point

the point is cds are sexy as hell. sorry you dont know what sex is.

visual diagram btw ^

@danepopfrippery

The real point is that you OWN a CD. You do NOT own anything digital you purchase.

Google Play stole hundreds of dollars worth of music I paid them for from me by forcing me to upload it to YouTube Music (or lose it entirely) which is behind a subscription paywall, requiring me now to pay more money every month if I want to listen to MY music I PAID for without constant advertising.

You do not own anything digitally purchased. It can be taken back from you at any time and it is fully legal for big corporations to do so for some reason.

CDs can't be taken from you unless they come into your house or car in person to physically pry them out of your cold dead hands.

That's why the resurgence. As funny as that person's reply to you was, it's not in fact because they look sexy. It's because you actually own them.

Look- CDs are your friend. CD-ROMs and CD drives with the capacity to burn? Are your friends with benefits.

Can anyone teach me how to burn Digital only songs into CDs?

i can ask my dad!! i think you need a certain piece of hardware, but i dont think its difficult!

not rn tho hes asleep

I would love that thank you!!

here you go!!

My contribution to the discussion

My burner in my old desktop works like this:

Empty cd in the slot

Open cd on desktop

Drag music files in

Done

I spent so many hours burning CDs in high school. AND I STILL HAVE THEM. IN A CD FOLDER IN MY CAR. Because sometimes I drive through the mountains and lose cell reception and can no longer stream Spotify over bluetooth.

CDs are useful, my lambs.

Also this whole thread has made me feel Very Over 30.

And for reference, since they took the disc drives out of computers for the same reason they fucked with headphone jacks, you can get a CD burner drive with a USB connection for like $30.

This is ABSOLUTELY about ownership!

Also, you’ve unlocked a bonus story.

I work in a public service. My local school districts are cracking down on cell phones. A teen came into my work to try to burn their first cd.

Their first cd.

They were having some trouble and I was secretly like (this is my moment, holy Shit, burning CDs almost continuously from middle school until a couple years ago is About To Be Relevant, what the fuck, fucking hooray)

And I go over, and I listen to the teen (they bought a cheap stack of 100 READ/WRITE CDS. 100!!! And a single-disc cd walkman!!), and we fuss with it, and I troubleshoot the issue they were encountering.

It was So Easy. To fix this issue. I had to do almost nothing. Media player was grumpy bc the files were not in the folder it wanted them in. I moved them. It started working.

“Oh my god, you’re a MIRACLE WORKER!!”

I will be thriving off that moment for Years.

And before I had to go, I told them, “hey, if you can find a compatible player for cheap, you can fit way more songs per disc on an mp3 cd. We just burned an audio cd.”

They got So Excited.

In a fully digital world locked behind paywalls and subscriptions and opaque tablet OSs, knowledge of desktop systems and the resurgence of physical media are everything.

Last week, my boss was going through our closets at work to clean them out. We had a tower stack of blank read/write CDs. We are (supposedly) a digital-only workplace and we have nothing to use them with because we have no CD/DVD drives. They're now mine because they otherwise would have gone into the garbage. My boss was astounded to discover I still burn CDs. "But what about digital music?" "Everything I buy I burn." That music is mine.

@our-trans-punk-experience

ALSO YOU CAN MAKE MIX CDS!!

some of the punkest moments in my life have involved CDs: i have an old CD player i've learnt to repair, my friends between them have a vast CD collection, as a kid i used to hide in my room with CDs playing through headphones, I play cds while i patch my jacket, i've had mix cds made for me, I know people who are incredibly skilled at CD burning. its all diy and community and this post is so helpful

was so well-behaved the dentist let me put my fingers in his mouth too