Reblog The Writers’ Fortune Cookie For Luck!

@Everyone who’s making fun of my son’s haircut, you leave him ALONE!!!! HE’S JUST COPYING HIS SISTER!!!!

AND HE ALSO PROBABLY SAW CALEB’S STATUE AND HAD AN IDENTITY CRISIS, BUT THAT’S BESIDES THE POINT–

WBD is literally erasing Infinity Train from existence.

Not only are they removing it off of HBO Max, but now all the tweets mentioning Infinity Train on Cartoon Network’s twitter account have been taken down, and so have all of the Infinity Train videos on CN’s YouTube channel. INCLUDING THE PILOT.

I can’t use strong enough words for how horrible this is.

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

First 1/2 of my brain: Oh my gosh! I’m so excited for this! The actors seem like they understand the characters so much! They got Rick Riordan to help make it like the books, and there’s going to be 8 whole episodes!

Second 1/2 of my brain: Hold on.

First 1/2: Huh? What?

Second 1/2: Remember what happened last time Disney was in charge of adapting a book series that we discovered in school?

First 1/2: But we never saw the BFG, and The Witches was tragically taken down, but that’s the fault of HBO MAX.

Second 1/2: Not those.

First 1/2: We haven’t watched the CGI Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Second 1/2: Not that either.

First 1/2: Well then what are you talking abou- oh.

Second 1/2: Yup.

First 1/2: I thought we repressed that.

Second 1/2: We did, but skepticism demands we look at all available evidence.

First 1/2: It-it won’t be like that, that had major editing problems and was confined to a 2-hour time frame. Something that bad can’t happen again… right?

Second 1/2: Well, they did light up the Empire State Building blue, that at least shows that they’re willing to put a lot of funding towards it. But given the mouse’s track record for canceling things that don’t work with their “Standards and Practices” I don’t know. I guess we should just be willing to forgive but don’t forget anything that they’ve done before.

First 1/2: Okay… I’m still excited though.

Second 1/2: Oh, me too!

黒哥@greatervasaparrot

fuck google docs so fucking much

i've just lost hundreds of docs and pdfs and i'm beyond pissed right now

they're all permanently gone

Source: Ennui Go

A really funny and nsfw comic series

Blondes

*Young Jaune, Sun, Yang, and Dew playing kickball in the park*

Jaune (10): You know what sounds really sad? Growing up

Sun (10): Tell me about it, me and my cousin used to watch X-Ray and Vav, but now they are in Middle school and suddenly it's gay

Dew (10): *Throws ball* Laugh while you can chumps! Because soon you'll wake up and all you wanna see is a "Titty!"

Jaune (10): *Kicks ball in anger* Oh yeah!? Well, you know what I heard!? That you're gonna be rocketing blood out of your own torso every month!

Yang (10): Take it to the bank guys, we're all screwed sideways, *catches ball* It's only a matter of time before we start awkwardly grabbing each other in the back of our parents vans.

Glynda: *Babysitting the four while coming off a hangover* These fucking kids are gonna be the death of me in the future...

you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

i noticed my burnout comic was making rounds but the full comic is no longer available after the collegehumor website went offline…. so here it is!!!

i wrote/drew this back in 2018 when i was struggling w hella burnout and depression. i hope everyone is taking care of themselves :3

Fine. Doesn’t mean I like it.