Eli🤸🏻

tripping down the tightrope, but looking up at the stars. I'm french so I complain a lot ✌ they - iel.
old username was abbywldfr

[Gwart @GwartyGwart]

What really cracks me up is when extremely high earners break down their spending and they’ll start by saying something that we all agree is an unavoidable burden like “ya know, taxes take almost 50% of that 10 million right off the top” and you think for a second you’re going to be able to empathize in some capacity then they start giving examples of the most absurd, unrelatable, borderline hedonistic ways they spend money. “After that I’m left with just 6 million and my dog’s masseuse runs 12k a month and the guy who cleans my shark tank is another 15 and then of course the live-in sommelier isn’t cheap as you can imagine, not the good ones anyways. People don’t realize that 10 million just doesn’t get you what it used to”

[Jenni @hashjenni]

This is how you protest. Not with cutest signs, not with cringey chants. Not with stupid hats. You roll up your sleeves and fuck some shit up.

I never thought in 2026, that i’d be rooting for Albania and Iran. But here we are.

[Ol Phi @olphiko]

Voilà ce qui nous attend. Et pendant ce temps, on fait de la "politique" à grands coups de bêtises, de haine et de futilités 🌡️🔥🔥🔥🌡️ https://t.co/liBWoibrTm

[𝐲𝐚𝐭𝐳𝐢𝐫𝐢 ⟡ ݁ ˖ 𝜗𝜚 @dollymanifest]

use this as your reminder to repeat your damn affirmations. i don’t care if you feel like you’re lying to yourself, that’s not the point. the point here is that you STAY persisting so it has no choice but to reflect in your reality. JUST AFFIRM !!! the rest doesn’t matter ♡

[sapphic lit bot @sapphiclitbot]

I used to think that I could seek refuge in you.

Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

[jacob @thesoggyblanket]

Southern Gothic photos i’ve taken

[R. G. A. M. @a_mundine]

'What was thinkable in 1919 became unthinkable by 1999. The working class has not made this demand because it has been defeated in its capacity to imagine.'

[Eli🤸🏻 @saschroach]

Ils sont insupportables ces trous du cul, je subis des interactions de ce genre bien trop souvent

[Georgie Chapelle @jeviendemercure]

interaction random avec un inconnu en trotinette électrique :
“hey madame excusez moi vous savez où j’peux trouver un snack pour manger ?
-ah nan dsl je sais pas du tout ?
-vous êtes transzenre ?
-hein ?
-vous êtes transgenre ?
-euh non pas du tout jsuis un homme

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[shelby 🐇 hotd spoilers @_shelbyreese_]

“being queer saved my life. often we see queerness as deprivation. but when i look at my life, i saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. i had to make alternative routes; it made me curious, it made me ask, ‘is this enough for me?’
- ocean vuong

[Linda Chen @linderps]

one time i was feeling sad, so i went to a dog park to look at dogs. i did not own a dog.

i walked through the gate, sat on a rock next to a girl around my age, and asked her which dog was hers.

turns out she didn’t own a dog either.

we laughed. then for the next two hours, we talked about our lives, our childhoods, our ex boyfriends… all the things that felt so so heavy at the time.

for those two hours, she was my best friend. she made me feel seen, understood, and a little less alone. and i think i did that for her too.

then we hugged, never exchanged contact, and never saw each other again.

sometimes I think about her. and all the other serendipitous, short, but meaningful connections we can have with other human beings on this earth.

genuine human understanding is so so precious. and the willingness to be open to them, is worth protecting, and worth fighting for.

so if it takes just a small bit of courage, i think i’ll keep going to dog parks alone.

[Here's What I Reckon: @angryaboutbikes]

My wife spent an entire year taking on extra work and smashing all her targets so that she could ask for a pay rise, they actually gave her one and then literally 2 days later our landlord put up our rent by more than the raise because he decided it was time to be paid more money

[Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @OaklandAboSol]

"Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching."
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[Dani Debatte @DaniDebatte]

@hostis_black Whoever wants to abolish an open, public library is not your friend. Knowledge has always been free, since the invention of writing. They want to make you pay for it, or restrict your knowledge.

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

The largest open library in human history, Anna's Archive, has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three largest record labels on the world $322 million.

The defendant has not appeared in court and is not going to. The site is still up with two backup domains standing by and there's nothing the censors can do.

Anna's Archive currently holds 63 million books, 95 million academic papers, and 1.1 petabytes of mirrored torrents. It is free. It is searchable. It is run by a pseudonymous person nobody has identified after four long years of searching.

In the four months since the music industry filed the first of three coordinated lawsuits, the library has lost six domain names and added two million books to the catalogue. The cartel is suing it faster every month, and it is growing faster every month.

In December, Spotify and the major labels filed. In January, OCLC, the company that runs WorldCat, won a default judgment of its own. On March 6th, thirteen of the largest book publishers in the United States, including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Wiley, and McGraw Hill, filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court.

The publishers' complaint runs to seventy-four pages. They call Anna's Archive a "brazen pirate operation." They call it "an illegal supplier of stolen content to the AI industry."

The same publishers are simultaneously suing Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA for training their models on the same corpus the publishers want Anna to destroy. The cartel argues, in two parallel federal courts, that the corpus cannot be used by anyone. Not the pirate who built it. Not the AI company that downloaded from it. Not the graduate student who pulls a paywalled paper from it at two in the morning.

Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching.

The judgment is uncollectable. The permanent injunction binds Cloudflare, Public Interest Registry, Njalla, the Switch Foundation, Tucows, and nine other named intermediaries. The Greenland registry is not on the list. The Greenland registry has not complied.

The site currently lives at .gl, with .pk and .gd standing by. The corpus has always moved faster than the censor. The censor has always called the corpus piracy. The corpus has always survived the censor by becoming the readers themselves.

The publishers' lawsuit cannot reach the torrents. The torrents are already seeded across continents and IPFS nodes and personal NAS drives owned by people the publishers will never find. The default judgment is paper. The corpus is everywhere.

The cartel will win every lawsuit but they will lose the war. The publisher who walks into court next month with a fresh filing will be filing against a defendant who has, in the time since the last filing was sealed, mirrored another half million books to another seven hundred volunteers in another forty countries.

There is no defendant to find. There is only the next upload. It is already seeding.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

People are obsessed with the idea of being loved "unconditionally, flaws and all." Let's be real: unconditional love is for your parents and your children. Romantic love is highly conditional, and it should be. It is conditioned on respect, effort, provision, physical intimacy, and mutual support. The exact moment you stop meeting those conditions, the contract is breached, and the love will eventually expire. Expecting someone to stay blindly devoted to you while you actively stop trying is manipulation, not romance.

[https://shri.li TROPICALS DNI @shrili_]

In light of my post on depression... anything worth doing is worth doing poorly

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@WIRED We live in hell. This is hell.

Our history will be written by billionaires.

“Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where ‘nothing is true and all is spectacle.’” https://t.co/lIi548LaBO

[WIRED @WIRED]

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. https://t.co/XWEZr6Q0DF

[Cappu @_Acecap_ppu]

J'ai découvert sur les réseaux que mon expérience avec les médecins était universel: à savoir qu'on est obligé d' y aller avec des pincettes quand on sait ce qu'on a parce que ce sont des gros bébés cadum avec un ego en CRISTAL, et que si jamais ils ont l'impression de pas