When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the neck. You can do anything.

Installing spyware and wire taps in my home was never appealing to me.

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What a tender moment for these two people! They’re so full of glee. I guess they’re laughing about a “wonderful secret”? Just so wholesome how close these two men are. 🥰

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Cookie me - you can’t get milked again.” George W. Bush

Do it the James Bond way:

“I tender my resignation with immediate effect.”

2 Quiet 2 Place: Tokyo Shhh!

Jesus Christ, Batman! You could have used the Bat Bottle in the Batmobile!

LOL thanks bro. I was browsing the internet at AltaVista and downloaded a pi holo logo image that said transparent PNG in the name. When I added the image in Krita I had a good laugh and decided I’d leave it as is here

Thank you! Noted for next time! Saves me the trouble of having to use lasso to clean up the edges and feather any aliasing problems

I got bamboozled when I was surfing the web at AltaVista and tried to download this transparent pi hole png logo. It was saved as PNG and had transparent in the name. Brought it into Krita and I chuckled, so figured I’d troll a few persons online and added the “pretend this is transparent” to the meme.

How has SmartTube been for you? Is it an Android only or does it work on other platforms?

I’ve been a FreeTube user for years, but YouTube’s aggressive countermeasures has mostly rendered this program unusable (I use on Linux). Devs put out fixes but they work for a handful of days before YouTube breaks it again.

It’s because it got saved as JPEG in the title. Idk some kind of weird Lemmy bug or something , this totally was legitimate PNG I swear on me mum

Thank you! I’m so touched by your recognition! I really appreciate your pretendering muchly for my meme! 🥰

Anon wants to be plugged back into the Matrix.

JD Vance: “It’s not there. I was poking around and didn’t find it.”

I see many of my favorites, so I’ll throw down the first book I really remember loving as a kid because it is so touching:

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, check out the author’s other series “The Underland Chronicles”. It’s a slightly younger audience than The Hunger Games, but it also tackles heavy themes. I love both.

For anyone passing through, this is book one in Percy Jackson and the Olympians young adult books. Basically the Greek gods are real and still exist in the modern world, and the demigods have to go on quests to save the world.

There are multiple spin offs and they are fantastic. These ones are basically direct sequels to the Percy Jackson books:

• Heroes of Olympus
• Trials of Apollo
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (6&7). More books are coming out for these ones that continue the story, but now where Percy is in college. Books 1-5 written in the early 2000s are him as a kid/high schooler.

I’ve only read these spin offs so far, and they are also great:

• The Kane Chronicles (Egyptian gods)
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (Norse gods)

There are other series he writes too, along with an imprint called Rick Riordan Presents where other starting authors can get imprinted and exposure - books that span many inclusive themes which is fantastic for diversity and inclusion.

Show:

• Grover betrays Percy
• Annabeth argues with them
• Percy picks Annabeth because she’d be willing to sacrifice him if the going gets tough (???)
• Percy runs from danger and is often saved. Barely fights. Dances and pees in the woods for comic relief.
• Gabe is loving and comic relief. Then suddenly he villainized Percy for stealing his car, which is completely out of left field for the character the show sets him up to be. He still gets turned to stone, which seems cruel.
• No tough choice or suspense when the offer for godship is made. We don’t see Annabeth nervously scared that she will lose her best friend.

Book:

• Grover is loyal, steadfast, and ardent friend.
• Same for Annabeth
• Percy picks Grover and Annabeth for his quest because he has faith in them.
• Percy tackles issues with courage. Despite being scared, he faces those challenges head on.
• Gabe is an asshole and abuser. He beats Percy’s mom. Gets turned to stone with the Medusa head.
• Percy turns down godship because he loves being a mortal and loves his friends. He’s also wise to the fact that the gods are so detached from humans, their creation, that he doesn’t want to become like them.

Those are just some of the major problems. Love the books, hate how they squandered the show. All they had to do was keep it consistent with the books. Such a shame.

Not just unexciting, but completely wrong. Despite Rick Riordan, the author, being fully involved in the show, he made so many changes that took away from the books. The series sucked for sure to the point that the first Percy Jackson Lightning Thief movie was actually more accurate to the book.