derinthescarletpescatarian:

sometiktoksarevalid:

In his defence I also saw that necklace and fell in love immediately

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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

jv:

magess:

datashade:

billie-book:

fictionyoubelieve:

angryraptor13:

angryraptor13:

magess:

falloutnewvegastransedmygender:

mostlysignssomeportents:

My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me — because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.

That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a program targeting small publishers called “Project Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle”:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sadistic-amazon-treated-book-sellers-the-way-a-cheetah-would-pursue-a-sickly-gazelle-2013-10

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DRM ON FUCKING BOOKS???

The publishing industry 100% loves DRM on books. Like the publishers themselves will often insist upon it because they think it stops piracy.

FUCK DRM!

Also, fantastic to hear Cory Doctorow’s got another book out! 😁

FYI, the Kickstarter includes your choice of audiobook, ebook, and/or hardcover copy of the new book!

You can buy DRM-free ebooks from ebooks.com. I don’t know anything about their ethics or how big a cut they take (feel free to milkshake duck them for me), but I have bought books from them just to avoid supporting Amazon and ebook DRM.

And audiobooks purchased through Libro.fm are also DRM free and a portion of the sale supports indie bookstores.

You can get a monthly subscription on Libro.fm, paying $15/mo for ebook credits that never expire, and sometimes they have sales on top of that - I got all the Murderbot Diaries novellas for like $8 each.

Libro.fm takes their anti-DRM so seriously that they won’t sell books where the publisher requires it. They just put a notice on the page that the publisher’s policies conflict with their own.

They are 👍❤️

Thanks to this post, libro.fm is now my main waterhole for audiobooks. Thank you friends!

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cosettetape1:

only-tiktoks:

why does he both look and sound like weed

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im-totally-not-an-alien-2:

im-totally-not-an-alien-2:

Danny gets adopted by Bruce Wayne au but consider: Danny was brought up in a loving-if absolutely insane- household where pda and mushy gushy stuff wasn’t only said, but expected.

The bats almost never voice thier love for one another, instead showing it in a variety of different ways.

What I’m saying is that Danny keeps nearly killing them by saying “I love you.” I’m not even joking. Danny has nearly offed the bats more times in his week staying in wayne manor than any Gotham villian would dare try

Like it doesn’t even have to be an emotionally charged scene. It can literally be Danny heading out for school and telling Dick, “Love you! Bye!” And Dickie will get thrown off and take a tumble down the stairs. And this is all of them.

cakesandfail:

dwellerinthelibrary:

anima-beata:

sophiamcdougall:

rhube:

funkylittlegoblin:

morrak:

speciesofleastconcern:

My first biology professor had an ‘inadequacy drawer’ full of things to remind him he wasn’t, in fact, the dumbest and laziest person to ever exist. It was mostly Darwin, notably these two bits:

‘But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’

‘I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids and today I hate them worse than everything.’

“I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

-Charles Darwin on a letter to his cousin

Charles Darwin: unexpected depression hero.

I knew about “I am very poorly and very stupid and hate everybody and everything,” but not the others. 

“I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees” is A Mood.

My favorite Darwinism: “I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects”.  Hits me right at the center of my hyperfixated soul.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before

“The work has been turning out badly for me this morning and I am sick at heart and oh my God how I do hate species & varieties”

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mocknot:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

My current favourite character in Breath of the Wild is Pikango, the incredibly shit artist who turns up around Hyrule to badly paint landscapes and hint me towards my lost memories. If you just talk to him, he seems to be this amazing and talented painter, but like if you look at the canvas

ALT

I love him

Turns out someone on Reddit put together all of his paintings and the scenery they are supposed to be and it’s exactly as glorious as I’d hoped, but I just had to screenshot my favourite, which is this horse:

ALT

I love this horse I recreated it in an actual oil painting. It’s hanging in my kitchen

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zegalba:

Paintings by Micah Ofstedahl

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e-von-dahl:

morgue-xiiv:

lgbt-tiktoks:

this is peak trans culture because this would have been easier with very nearly any other guitar design but she just haaad to use one shaped like the letter e. Not afraid of a challenge. Respect.

I would like to add that their name is E, literally just the letter E, like they’re in a spy movie. As if that wasn’t cool enough already she went and got a guitar shaped like her name. Fucking icon.

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