flyingcakes
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Ex Intern @ Tower Research Capital | EndeavourOS Team, KDE Contributor | Programmer Dvorak
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Joined September 2021
My mom has a little notebook where she writes down every movie she watches and a few of her thoughts about it. I told her about Letterboxd & she said "does everyone need an audience for their hobbies now?"
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Have to use Windows 11 at my new job. I simply cannot believe how bad it is. It's just next-level jank. Everything takes a noticable time to load - Start menu, right clicks, etc. Typing in browser windows lags like hell, too. On a 13th gen i7 with 64GB RAM... What the fuck.
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If The Brothers Karamazov were published today, half the internet would be calling it the greatest novel ever written, the other half would be calling it an indulgent mess, and neither half would have actually read it
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🇯🇵 In 2021, two high school girls had their picture taken in Shizuoka in front of Mt. Fuji. Two years later, during Coming of Age Day, they came to the same location and had their picture taken again. I love this so much. (credit: @SinPictures)
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please stop making everything digital i want to keep saving the movie ticket, the concert ticket, a handwritten note, a photo, the invitation of about 15 & all those little things in a shoebox to open when im 80
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"Reading is boring." So is your vocabulary and imagination.
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Ray Bradbury didn't write Fahrenheit 451 in an office. He wrote it in the basement of a library—on a coin-operated typewriter that cost 10 cents every 30 minutes. He was 33. Broke. Newly married. And desperate for quiet. So he fed in coins and typed fast. In 9 days, he finished
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it’s actually terrifying how much my brain has changed since i stopped being a bookworm. it’s not just about the attention span, though that’s definitely gone i can’t even sit still for ten minutes without reaching for a distraction. but the bigger shift is how it feels like my
it’s actually wild how i used to be such a bookworm in school. now i can barely get through 10 pages without getting distracted. the downfall is so real.
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🦔 The 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy used AI-generated animation for their primetime opening ceremony spot. The country that produced Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael showed the world something a computer made in a few hours. My Take This isn't about budget. The Olympics has
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I am the only person in my family that can torrent. My parents couldn't and my children don't have to. All this knowledge will die with me. Like tears in rain.
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Reading is so necessary. To understand other people's perspective and be invested in their stories makes your empathy grow. I think we all need empathy right now more than anything .
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