It Is With The Deepest Frustrations That I Must Report Microsoft Has Pushed Out Copilot Onto Microsoft

Here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna take 4 russet potatoes. You're gonna peel them and dice them. You're gonna set them in a bowl of cold water so they don't oxidize. Then you're gonna cook a half pound of bacon until crispy and set it aside. You're gonna melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a dutch oven. No more, no less. Add some diced onion and garlic to that. Saute it for a couple minutes. Then you're gonna add 4 tablespoons of flour and make a roux. You're gonna add 3 cups of milk to the roux. Slowly. Don't get in a hurry. Then add 3 cups of chicken stock. Add plenty of salt and pepper. Bring it to a boil. Add your potatoes in. Let that simmer for 20 minutes. Then you're gonna add some sour cream, the chopped up bacon from earlier, and some grated cheddar. You're gonna stir that together for 5 minutes. And then garnish it with a little green onion and shredded cheddar. You got it?

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

There's been a lot of lists floating around twitter of 100 books of a particular genre, or of a particular level of 'literary' merit.

Well, this is my list. 

If you don't like it, make your own.

In no particular order:

1 Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z Brite

2 Lost Souls, Poppy Z Brite

3 Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman

4 Leash, Jane DeLynn

5 The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

6 Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric Larocca

7 The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault

8 I, Claudius, Robert Graves

9 Sarah, JT LeRoy

10 Dogs of War, Adrian Tchaikovsky

11 Moby Dick, Herman Melville

12 Dead Silence, SA Barnes

13 Ghost Ride, Hope Zane

14 Dark Rise, CS Pacat

15 All Systems Red, Martha Wells

16 Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time, KM Szpara

17 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

18 Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K Jarboe

19 The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

20 To Be Taught If Fortunate, Becky Chambers

21 Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

22 Deerskin, Robin McKinley

23 A Dowry of Blood, ST Gibson

24 The Putrescent Vein, Dorian Bridges

25 The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Joe Koch

26 The Faerie Hounds of York, Arden Powell

27 The Monster of Elendhaven, Jennifer Giesbrecht

28 The Apple Tree Throne, Premee Mohumad

29 An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

30 The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

31 Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles

32 The First Man In Rome, Colleen McCullough

33 A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

34 Mexican Gothic, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

35 Psycho, Robert Bloch

36 Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeanette Ng

37 The Crows, CM Rosens

38 Ritual, David Pinner

39 Dear Laura, Gemma Amor

40 Here, the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward

41 The Orange Eats Creeps, Grace Krilanovich

42 Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

43 Philip and Alexander, Adrian Goldsworthy

44 The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

45 Babel, RF Kuang

46 As Simple as Hunger, D Des Anges

47 Heavy, D Des Anges

48 The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, Storm Constantine

49 God's War, Kameron Hurley

50 Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

51 Perdido Street Station, China Miéville

52 Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer

53 Damascus, Christos Tsiolkas

54 Penhallow, Georgette Heyer

55 Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss

56 Valiant, Holly Black

57 Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice

58 The Secret History, Donna Tartt

59 Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews

60 Generals Die in Bed, Charles Yale Harrison

61 Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay

62 Dune, Frank Herbert

63 Red Dragon, Thomas Harris

64 The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin

65 A Kiss Before Dying, Ira Levin

66 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

67 Orlando, Virginia Woolf

68 The Tommyknockers, Stephen King

69 Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higgenbothem

70 Strain, Amelia C Gormley

71 Sons of Devils, Alex Beecroft

72 Carnivore, Jonathan Lyon

73 Passchendaele, Paul Ham

74 Let the Dead Bury their Dead, Randall Keenan

75 Angel Mage, Garth Nix

76 The Long Walk, Stephen King

77 The Black Jewels Trilogy, Anne Bishop

78 Huge Rat Comforts Himself With Lies, Mikko Harvey

79 The Two-Headed Calf, Laura Gilpin

80 Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather

81 Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, Hailey Piper

82 Vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde

83 The Boy in the Dress, Jonathan Butler

84 Salome, Oscar Wilde

85 Macbeth, Shakespeare

86 Killing for Company, Brian Masters

87 The Stranger Beside Me, Anne Rule

88 The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber & David Wengrow

89 Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

90 The Trauma Cleaner, Sara Krasnostein

91 Iron Widow, Ciran Jay Zhao

92 Kursk, Robert Moore

93 The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

94 Spectred Isle, KJ Charles

95 The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

96 Catch-22, Joseph Heller

97 Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas

98 All I See is Mud, Andrew Dunkley

99 To Hell and Back, Sydney Loch

100 The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale

How's that for a list of 100 books that fuck!

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Since we’re coming to the last month of the year, here are the Top 10 Tumblr Controversies This Year

1. Popular blogger who was paid $120 by their followers to eat all the little fish out of their aquarium

2. Misha Collins tries to do an AMA but staff forgot to promote it on the top of the site like usual so he didn’t get any questions

3. Staff accidentally brings back post editing for a total of 5 minutes and John Green is immediately harassed and he is forced to delete all his posts.

4. Popular user starts rumor that baby was born and in dashcon ballpit but it comes out that there actually was a baby born in one of the dashcon bathrooms.

5. Disney claims copyright on 17 different users who had references to baby yoda in their URL and staff deletes all 17 of their blogs.

6. Voice actor of Dobby, Patrick Stewart, is sent massive amounts of anonymous harassment after declairing Dobby “deserved what he got in the end.”

7. Communismkills reveals that she eats her pizza without any sauce or toppings and also later reveals that she has scurvy

8. Sixpencee tries to bring back sixpenceeheals and copy pasted the old post about it but then deleted it 10 mins after posting

9. Popular rat blog dedicated to “letting her rats type the posts” “accidentally” posts a homophobic slur in all caps

10. Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary tried to sue the person behind the “I just want to get dicked down again =/“ post but they lose and the blog remains up

things i wish i had known when i escaped my family household and couldn't ask my parents for help

invest in a good mattress early on. there are many other ends you can save on - sleep is not one of them. this is key to how much energy you'll have throughout the day

you don't need a bedframe but you do need a slatted bed base (even if it's just pallets)

opening a bank account is easy

there's youtube tutorials for everything. how to install your washing machine, how to use tools, fixing stuff around the place. channels like dad, how do i? are a godsend

change energy provider as soon as your old deal runs out. you'll get better offers elsewhere and avoid price gouging

assemble a basic first aid kid at home: painkillers, probiotics, alcohol wipes, bandages, tweezers, antihistamine tablets - anything you might need in a pinch

and an emergency toolkit: flashlight, extra batteries, a utility knife, an adjustable wrench, multi-tool, duct tape

set your fridge to the lowest temperature it can go. the energy consumption is minimal in difference and it'll give you +4/7 days on most foods

off-brand products are almost always the same in quality and taste, if not better, for half the price

coupons will save you a lot of money in the long run

there's no reason to be shy around employees at the bank/laundromat/store; most people will be happy to help

vegetarian diets are generally cheap if you make food from scratch

breakfast is as important as they say

keep track of your budget in a notebook or excel file - e.g. rent, phone and internet bills, food, leisure so you'll have an overlook on your spending over the months

don't gamble

piracy is okay

stealing from big stores and chains is also ethically okay

keep medical bills and pharmacy receipts for tax returns

also, file your tax returns early

take up a hobby that isn't in front of a screen. pottery, music, going for a run every now and then, stuff that'll keep you busy and sane

and most importantly... you're allowed to get the stuff you want. treat yourself to the occasional mundane thing. a good scented candle. a bath bomb. that body lotion that makes you feel like royalty. the good coffee beans.

you're free and you deserve to be happy.

because i often see people looking for movies and shows and not knowing where to find them here's some sites:

sflix

myflixer

123movies

fmovies

lookmovie

hurawatch

tubitv

plutotv

putlocker

gowatchseries

archive.org

for torrenting

yify movies

piratebay

limetorrents

It is with the deepest frustrations that I must report Microsoft has pushed out Copilot onto Microsoft Word no matter what your previous settings were. If you have Office because you paid for it/are on a family plan/have a work/school account, you can disable it by going to Options -> click on Copilot -> uncheck 'Enable Copilot'.

(Note, you may not see this option if you haven't updated lately, but Copilot will still pop up. Updating should give you this option. I will kill Microsoft with my bare hands.)

In addition, Google has forced a roll-out of it's Gemini AI on all American accounts of users over 18 (these settings are turned off by default for EU, Japan, Switzerland, and UK, but it doesn't hurt to check).

To remove this garbage, you must go to Manage Workspace smart feature settings for all your Gmail/Drive/Chat and turn them off. Go to Settings -> See all settings -> find under "Genera" the "Google Workspace smart features" -> turn smart feature setting off for both Google Workspace and all other Google products and hit save. (If you turned off the smart settings in your Gmail, it never hurts to open Drive and double-check that they're set to off there too.)

Quick Edit: I found the easiest way to get to the Smart Feature settings following the instructions above was to do it through Drive. Try that route first.

Now is the time to consider switching to Libre Office if you haven't already.

Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."

And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.

This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?

"It's red on the inside?"

Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.

"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."

And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.

If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.