God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you’re back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun’s cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me.
i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate’s computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.
so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching “advanced system settings”, go to performance settings, and uncheck “show shadows under windows” and anything else you don’t want. hope that helps someone else.
hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn’t the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you’re trying to optimize.
Hey friendly reminder from your local librarian to please vet your school board candidates (if any) this election season. This is where you get to make a wonderful and immediate impact to protect the right of school-aged kids’ freedom to read, keep your schools’ libraries funded and open, and minimize harm done to marginalized students and teachers.
Voting in election years that aren’t presidential is vital.
Local & county organizers often have resource pages where they endorse candidates. In my state, the school board is non-partisan, but candidates can still accept endorsements, which makes it easier to find people whose values align with mine.
Part of getting older is realizing how absolutely insane it is that basically every form of media is constantly trying to convince us that the most interesting moments of the lived human experience are happening in HIGH SCHOOL…… girl who gives a flying fuck what 16 year olds are doing.
Was there some kind of golden era of movie/tv scores in the late 90s and early 00s? When I think of my all-time favorite soundtracks, the ones I’ve listened to over and over irrespective of the property they’re attached to, they’re like:
Ravenous (1999), Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn The Village (2004), James Newton Howard Battlestar Galactica S3 (aired 2006-7), Bear McCreary
One could argue these just came out during a formative period of my life, except that I first watched BSG in 2010 and Ravenous in like 2015.
The prompt list for Kinktober 2023 is here! As always, we will be creating an ao3 collection, closer to the event. Prompts are just suggestions; feel free to mix or match any days, shuffle the order, or even do your own ideas. The main point is that you get out there and create something in the month of October.
