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government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world

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I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

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I think in the back of my mind I always thought Phineas and Ferb used the term “evil scientist” instead of the more classic “mad scientist” out of not wanting to stigmatize the mentally ill or something, but in retrospect, clearly it’s because the main characters are themselves mad scientists and Doofenshmirtz and his ilk only differ from them by being evil.

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heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!

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THEYRE GONNA PUSH KOSA THROUGH SENATE APRIL 8TH

EVERYTHING IS IN THE HOUSE’S HANDS

BOTH BIDEN AND SENATE SUPPORT THIS BILL

Please call/email/fax your house reps and tell them to say no to this bill.

PLEASE CALL THEM TOMORROW CUZ MONDAY IS THE DAY WHEN THE SENATE IS WORKING

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How frustrating must it have been for young Heinz Doofenshmirtz to be so intelligent in such a… non-technological society that frowns on any sort of change? Like, I bet if he ever tried to invent anything, it’d just be trashed as soon as anyone else found out. I’m imagining him having to hide little contraptions to help with chores under his bed. My child needs hugs and a cookie.

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I think my favourite argument of Phinabella shippers who believe that Phineas has a crush on Isabella is that they don't speak the same love language.

Isabella's vision for romance stems from all the tropes you see in young adult fiction. The kissing in the rain. Sharing an umbrella. Cute little ice cream dates. Personal heartfelt gifts with value that stems not from grandeur, but sentimentality. Sure she fantasizes about them running away together into the sunset as Phineas turns into a centaur to marry and live happily ever after but they've been purposefully overdramaticised and she thinks they're unrealistic. She wants PHINEAS to tell her he likes her, because he's the boy.

GIRL. Phineas Flynn Only Speaks in Grandeur!!!! You need an umbrella to walk to your house in the rain? NO PROBLEM! He's built an underground tunnel fully equipped for housing between your houses in 10 minutes using a shovel. Never seen a rainbow? No problem! He'll build a contraption to shoot rainbows and disrupt global weather to make you happy. Oh shoot. You meant unicorns? No problem! He'll genetically engineer one from scratch for you right now! He's made full day plans and a singing event with chorus girls and 20 tier cake of your favourite flavour the size of your house for your birthday DONT LOOK THE REST IS A SURPRISE. IT GETS BETTER. What's your whim, Isabella? You want a face carved into the mountain? A national holiday where everyone fawns over your cuteness? A chair in the senate? What does he need to do to prove it? Walk over lava? Climb a mountain? Travel the world in 24 hours????? Girl, the ONLY thing he cant do for you is say what he means out loud! He's not good at feelings! That's Ferb's job! You were always the braver, put together one!!! For God's sake Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, don't make me slap you!! He's been trying to say the same thing this whole time!!!

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as fun as clicking the boop button is, remember to also do your daily clicks for Palestine 🇵🇸 !!!!!

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How to get the boop badges when you don't follow that many people and have social anxiety meaning you don't want to spam your mutuals with more than 1-2 boops: just boop yourself into oblivion

#Flor talks #other #well that was a waste of a half hour clicking the same two buttons repeatedly #was it worth it ? probably not; depends if the badges stay once april fools is over #but also for once that I like the design of the badges; might as well get them #I like how booping yourself is called a laundering scheme in the notes; tumblr might be onto something here actually #I'm happy it works to get the badges tho ! #but also if there are badges for super booping or doing it 2000 times or more; I'm not getting those; f that noise

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No, but. Phineas was so hurt when he found out about Perry being a secret agent because he thought it was a sign that Perry didn't trust them and they were family and best friends and how could he not trust them? But then it turns out his special name tag with the pictures of the boys in it was a key to his secret lab where he stored the blueprints for all the things Phineas and Ferb did and made all summer long because he does trust them and he knows they are more than capable of being his biggest allies, he just can't because OWCA has stupid plot-maintaining rules. I am just so emotional about this platypus and his relationship with those letter-shaped children.

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Final part of this glitch that made me keep the Theets when I wasn't supposed to, leading to twelve dancers at the end.

Ignore the fact I missed a sparkle despite having played this level like 10 times, I was distracted by trying to take vids of the Theets

#Princess Peach Showtime #Princess Peach Showtime spoilers #Super Mario #Flor talks #again; sorry for spamming the tag a bit; I can't add videos in reblogs apparently #I actually did the level a second time afterwards but couldn't get the glitch again #(btw the rest of the level is normal; after posing all Theets leave and only the 8 supposed to get kidnapped come back)

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Second part of this where I got a glitch that allowed me to keep the Theets for the second half of the figure skater minigame

#Princess Peach Showtime #Princess Peach Showtime spoilers #Flor talks #Super Mario #I wanted to put it as a reblog to the previous post but apparently you can't put videos in them :(

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Found a glitch while playing Princess Peach Showtime. The game registered that I did the spin but didn't play the animation, thus allowing me to keep the Theets for the second half of the performance minigame.

Btw it didn't reduce the number of Theets supposed to show up at the end (since you need to grab them for a sparkle), leading to twelve being there rather than eight.

Look at all those girlies

Will put in another post the video of the minigame's second half with the Theets following Peach; I didn't expect it to happen so pressed the capture button early to save the animation glitch.

EDIT: Here's the second half with the Theets and here's the finale with all twelve.

#Princess Peach #Princess Peach Showtime #Princess Peach Showtime spoilers #Super Mario #Flor talks #yeah I've re-played this game like 5 times already; granted in a completed file #I'm low-key speedrunning trying to get every gem and ribbon just for fun; tbh it's just an excuse to play more of it #as you can tell I'm completely normal about Peach having her own game <- lying #(tbh the fact they still pose at the end makes me wonder if it's fully a glitch #or if there's a way to fail the section when you first group them and spin #which leads to them staying with Peach like they did here) #(btw I say 'girlies' here but it's worth noting that Stella uses they/them for the Sparklas #so it's likely all theets are nb/agender)

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Y’know I’ve never really appreciated how trusting Doofenshmirtz is. Like really, it’s a character trait. 

Team him up with another villain; 2D Doof, Evil! Carl, Rodrigo, the Marvel villains, in the time he works with them he never seems to consider that they might turn on him.

Heck even with Perry, when he seemingly helps out with a scheme Doof just assumes he’s being sincere.

Like he’s just happy to have friends.

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Random Mario-related question for those who are fluent in Japanese:

In the 86 Anime, Bowser refers to Peach in a way that is translated as “Peach Sweetie” (I hear it as “Peach-chan” but then again I know like 8 words of Japanese, five of which are honorifics).

And the thing is, a while ago I stumbled across an english fan translation of a few of the Super Mario Kun manga and said translation used the “Peach Sweetie” nickname. On top of that, there’s that old Mario World interactive anime where Bowser says Peach’s name once and it sounds close to the 86 Anime (the english translation didn’t put the “Sweetie” this time around, though the subtitles say “my little Peach” which is also how it’s translated in one version of the french subtitles of the 86 anime).

So my question is, is this the way Bowser/Koopa refers to Peach in general in Japanese? Like does he call her the equivalent of “Peach Sweetie” in the original Adventures Comic? Or the Paper Mario games? Or Mario and Luigi? Or even more recent stuff like Mario Odyssey or the 2023 Movie? Does he even use it in Mario Party considering he doesn’t make any exceptions towards her in those games when you step on a Bowser space?

I’m just curious to know if this is something consistent they kept or if it was just used a few times before being left out.

#Super Mario #Bowser Koopa #King Bowser #Flor talks #in case it needs to be said I'm in no way asking anyone to go out of their way to check every single game series mentioned #if you vaguely remember him saying it in Odyssey or a Paper Mario game; that works for me #I'm mainly just curious to know if they kept that nickname or not #(granted I am very curious about whether or not he uses it in Mario Party)

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Source @ X

ID: tweets from @boulevarddouble:

okay SO. Just FYI i have an insider contact and i asked him about this new google drive nsfw scare.

backing up is never a bad idea.

99% of people will be unaffected, and this is NOT a crackdown on having nsfw content on gdrive

"What I think has happened is that drive has made several updates to its spam/abuse filtering and one of the focuses is trying to catch spammers who share explicit things in docs with random emails. Which is good in theory, but has the potential to hit false positives."

his recommendation is to keep NSFW words out of your doc titles and instead of sharing the "open link", share directly with you beta's email addresses.

It is also more likely to flag up explicit images, though that is less likely to be a fic problem.

/end ID

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Lawrence and Candace

I think Lawrence and Candace's relationship is severely underrated. While to a certain extent it's partially because we spend less time with just the two, but what we do see is incredibly sweet.

The first episode we really get of them together is Lawrence teaching her how to parallel park. And then driving together in a Lawrence. While he's initially nervous, he tried to not let it get it to Candace, and by the end he's having fun, and has completely confidence in her. He's really proud of her and it's clear they both mean a lot to each other. They really are father and daughter with a lot of the same expressions throughout the scene. He really is proud of her.

The second episode I can think of is with the father daughter race. They always lose, and Lawrence's laid back personality contrasts with Candace's competitive one. But while Lawrence spent most of the episode, not actually with Candace, it makes it clear just how important Candace and Lawrence's relationship to each other. Lawrence enjoys spending time with Candace. Sure Candace doesn't LIKE losing, but she's still committed to it despite her usual aversion to potentially humiliating events.

In My Sweet Ride, we have Lawrence fixing up an old car just for her. She doesn't even have her license yet. Sure, he falls asleep part of the way through. But he genuinely was like, I'm going to build a car for her. Not only that, the same one he had as a kid.

It's not like they have a perfect relationship. Candace is A LOT and Lawrence is very laid back and often doesn't really get what's going on with Candace exactly. And Candace is often annoyed and impatient with him. But it's clear they care a lot about each other and are more willing to be patient with the others eccentricities. Even when Candace is complaining about her dad's stories she's still usually, somewhat, respectful.

Now I'm going to get a little bit... fanficy but bear with me.

Now in regards to in show, the Flynn-Fletchers are meant to show a healthy blended family dynamic. While this can come in many forms in reality, in Phineas and Ferb it comes in the form of what is functionally a nuclear family. Mom, Dad and three kids. Anything outside of that isn't important and is in fact probably takes away from the message that they are just like any other family.

But that doesn't mean I don't think it's worth completely ignoring. I mean, this is where fandom comes in isn't it?

We know from a line in Skiddley Whiffers that the Flynn-Fletcher kids have known each other for at least 6 years (or since the boys were about 3 or 4, and that Ferb has lived in the US for over half his life (so since he was 4 at most). While it's not clear exactly when Ferb moved to the US, or when Lawrence and Linda got married they've been a family for a while. Ferb and Phineas have known each other most of, if not as far, back as they can remember. To them this is pretty much how it has always been. This isn't true for Candace, who is 5 years older than Phineas, who therefore probably has some memories of a time before Lawrence and Ferb. While Lawrence already had a toddler son, Candace would have been a grade school aged girl. Phineas, at the very least, is very personable and gets along well with almost anyone.

But Candace is a very anxious person, and seems to have been an anxious kid too. "When I was small the world was such a strange place", the first line of Ducky Momo is my friend tells us one of the VERY few things we know about little Candace was that part of the reason for her attachment to Ducky Momo was that Ducky Momo comforted her when she was an anxious little kid. Now, the details Flynn-Fletcher family's backstory are unimportant, but no matter how things went down its very likely that Candace did have some big "confusing" changes in her childhood based on the two things we DO know: She and Phineas are full siblings, and Lawrence and Ferb came into their lives when Phineas and Ferb were at most 4.

This is CANDACE we're talking about there is no way she wasn't anxious about something. Whether it be not trusting Lawrence, or not thinking Lawrence would like her, there is very little doubt in my mind that Candace would take a bit to be completely comfortable with Lawrence. If Phineas and Ferb wasn't, well Phineas and Ferb, it would make for some easy drama for there to be tension between Candace and Lawrence by the time of the show. Phineas and Ferb isn't that kind of show of course, but that doesn't make their relationship any less sweet.

There's no way of knowing exactly how things went down, and quite frankly I don't need the show to confirm anything to me. Whether Lawrence somehow miraculously got Little Miss Anxiety herself to immediately like him and trust that he liked her unconditionally, or if he had to earn her trust because Candace worried he would hurt her family, or that he would leave because he didn't like Candace, the result is the same. Candace could not have been an easy kid to start parenting as an elementary schooler. This is a girl who went to Mars because she thought everyone hated her, got 50 patches in one day and joined the fireside girls to see a band, read all of Sherlock Holmes in one night. She is, quite simply, A LOT. But Lawrence and Candace ended up close by the time of the series.

There is a disconnect between them. Lawrence doesn't really always understand what Candace wants (in part due to the same sort of emotional oblivious Phineas also has). But that same disconnect exists between every member of the family to a certain extent. But ultimately Lawrence and Candace ARE father and daughter. She expresses annoyance with him, but he patiently keeps trying anyway. He may not have realized she still liked her Mary MacGuffin, or that constantly losing upset her, but he still makes an effort. To Candace, Lawrence is just her somewhat embarrassing, often boring, dad. But Candace still enjoys spending time with him and the things he does for her. And he's proud of Candace and loves spending time with her too.

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