My Esme Weatherwax Doll: Walloyamorring Outfit, Wig, Faceup: Me

I am once again asking for your money. This time it is in hopes of briefly turning Persephone radioactive (aka curing her thyroid issues and tumors).

Purdue Veterinary Hospital gave me an estimate of $2,000-$2,500. This will include her treatment as well as her hospitalization. This treatment is very safe and very effective.

As always, there’s no pressure at all for you guys to donate. And I recognize that I am privileged to be in a position that people are willing to help fund these sorts of treatments.

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Donate to Persephone’s Thyroid Tumor Treatment, organized by Marissa Bird

Hello, those of you who follow me on tumblr (l3irdl3rain.tumblr.com) or know me in r… Marissa Bird needs your support for Persephone’s Thyro

About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"

This makes people very angry and panicky.

My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.

It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure

saying cats don't contribute to the household is slander: they do have a job and it's going into mystery crevices and collecting all the cobwebs on their stupid little head

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MS Word is Using You to Train AI

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

I feel like I should sell like half of my pullip collection.

My Chloe was like this.

Yep

Mystic kids Gene (modded ears)

Happy new year everyone! May your 2025 be filled with love, success, and good friends!

1 Jan 2025 - 19:23