yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me

I was super jealous. You? Over what? All of you. The 118. How it's become like a family over there.

Happy 118th Episode to the 118!
9-1-1

so few people understand the art of the pseudo nap

naps aren’t always about sleeping sometimes they’re about setting a timer for 30 minutes and lying down closing your eyes while listening to music and/or thinking about a tv show or a cool thing that happened recently with a little bit of checking your phone interspersed

I'm here. What can I do?
What you always do. Just talk to him.

You know, dad up.
"Dad up"? That's your advice?

7x10 // 8x13

911 (2018–) 8.11: HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

i find it rather ironic how people are reducing the adolescence mini series to "was jamie a sociopath" and "did katie bully jamie", when the whole point of the show is how the manosphere and the alt-right pipeline is so violent and omnipresent on social medias that a 13 year-old boy who loved to draw and learn about the industrial revolution ends up thinking that women are worthless pieces of meat and that he's "one of the good ones" because he didn't rape katie, he just stabbed her to death.

edit: this post is NOT terf friendly!!!! im a transsexual dyke boygirl get out get out get out

What was interesting to me as a parent was watching how in episode 4 we see the father mirroring Jamie's behaviour in episode 3. It's in so many subtle and more obvious ways.

The way that hour of t.v. in episode 4 is slow so that we can steadily watch the father and watch how closely his wife monitors his emotions so that she can step in to regulate them for him. She pushes her emotions aside to monitor his because his potential to blow up and get violent verbally or physically is potentially dangerous for her and her daughter.

Jamie switches from screaming to apologising in episode 3. Then we see the father apologise in episode 4 for spilling the water from the bucket after blowing up at his wife. He apologises for the wrong things. His son does the same.

His father hasn't shared with his wife what he saw Jamie do on the video and she says he shuts down and doesn't want to talk about it. In the same way Jamie hasn't spoken to any of his family about how he and his friends have been bullied at school - spat on and ridiculed in real life and online.

Episode 4 is so fascinating to me. Watching each person's individual roles in relation to each other in that regular family. Lisa especially monitoring the emotional state of her parents, so that she can intervene to soothe them or distract them to calm them down. She does the same with Jamie on the phone and still claiming Jamie as theirs. The parents think they've raised their kids the same. But they themselves have gendered roles in the family. The kids have mirrored their mother and father respectively.

netflix’s “adolescence” does a damn good job at showing how dangerous men like andrew tate can be at influencing young boys/men and mistreating or even killing girls/women! it also shows how a family can be so deeply affected when someone they love has committed such a terrible crime. the show is brilliantly written and acted and the fact that each episode, which are at least 50 mins long, is filmed in ONE whole shot, no cuts, is mind blowing 🤯👏

Just in time for Valentine’s Day... 💔 

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- The Ellipsus Team xo

Fun fact, on top of being staunchly against genAI, ellipsus literally has an Export To AO3 button. I do the majority of my writing in LibreOffice, but I've been moving all my GDocs over to ellipsus for a bit and I really love the interface. If you're looking for an alternative to GDocs, this is The One.

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.”

The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals.

“A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

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This is a great post to promote that you can donate to Wikipedia at any time, with almost any amount of money! You can even set up a reoccurring donation, like I did.

as someone with a phd in buckology I feel i must stress that this is exactly where buck wants to be: useful with an edge of misery. purposeful and yet despondent. lonely while somehow still dispensing invaluable advice and being a loving and supportive partner. his essential buckness is predicated on the fact of his being justtttttt pathetic enough that – although you could write him off as a dumbass firefighter who has too much fun playing with tools that weigh 50 lbs and go ZZZHHHHHVVVVVVVVCCCCCGGGGGGHHHH✨⚡️✨ – you understand on a fundamental level that he is someone with a heart that won't quit and an inhuman capacity for love <3