Melissa ≅

Medical student • She/her • ≅ • Occasionally can be found screaming at men in a boat and doing some musicals

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

Of course the lollapalooza 5sos live stream isn’t available in the Netherlands, fuck this

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

@umstable I’m almost in my last year of med school🤭🤭

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

@xuvisions You should be their new event manager, this is PEAK

[jayb0g @jayb0g1]

@SwampCommunist I checked, and support for ethnic cleansing is not in the DSM-V description of ASD.

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

Maia thinking you can’t be autistic and evil, as if the erasmus shooter isn’t also autistic and evil

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

@thepeacepoet99 @JohnFGresham “Relocated to a safer country”, newsflash babe, just because y’all pulled the nakba on them doesn’t mean they didn’t live there first. Behave and settle down.

[📕 @SwampCommunist]

This isn't autism, it's supporting a genocide. You have an ugly heart and an ugly soul.

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

Weird ass jump between M and S

[my fat cat of 🏚twt (Orphean) @empty96mind]

Clothes should be sized like this and i stand by that

[beatriz @cosgroveados]

eu não to entendendo pq do nada esse fandom começou a tirar 5sos para bosta como se eles não tivessem quase 15 anos de carreira com inúmeras turnês e festivais no currículo e como se eles não fossem uma das melhores bandas com um som ao vivo do caralho na atualidade

[ren ✶ @cliffordhrts]

so there’s this song

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

@AllisonEthereal @rarespurpose A kidney transplant is placed via and in the lower abdomen, not the back.

[5SOS Updates 卌 @CALMDAlLY]

5SOS PLAYED THE EVOLVE REMIX LIVE TONIGHT?????

Via @/tearsfallinhard

#GrandRapidsIsAStar #EASWorldTour #EASGrandRapids

[binx ☆ @umstable]

when the tour is over do i still get to be a star or does my star status go away

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

Er zijn zo veel open plekken in de trein en alsnog moet een man bij me gaan zitten, echt hoor

[Melissa ≅ @shinyblastoises]

@mukevolved The age in bio is very telling

[Lulu Solomon @lulu_solomo]

Yeah a lot of people aren't realizing that her kid probably talked shit about public schooling at camp & these kids are clowning her by going "hey I am just a dumb public schooler how do I spell easy?" "How do we spell guys?" & her kid is completely oblivious she's being mocked.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[christoph @Halalcoholism]

I not like zat London full of foreigner zat cannot spik ze English good

[Cara Lisette @CaraLisette]

Excluding babies from society also includes excluding women from society but nobody is ready for that conversation