god my neighbor just called me and she’s like… is this your chicken in our driveway… like who else has a chicken in this neighborhood yes it’s my chicken… so i get over there and kylo hen is chilling in their driveway eating some specs and stuff and there’s this actual crowd of people around her and i’m like… hi sorry mb let me get her… and oh my god… they’re like do you need us to call someone?? should we get help?? how should we do this?? do you need a net? like bitch it’s a chicken not a fucking komodo dragon. so i just… i was kind of joking around so i crouched down and patted my thighs and all the chickens are trained to come to me on sight because me = food… so i got down there and went “here girl!! come here!!” and the chicken comes running over and this group of actual adult ass individuals were staring at me like i was the fucking pied piper… and i didn’t know what to say…. so i just kind of walked back to my yard with the chicken following me and none of them moved or said a damn word and i think i literally just convinced them this chicken is trained like a dog…
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wake up babe, new reason to ditch FANDOM/Wikia just dropped
![Zelda Wiki twitter: Fandom refused to take this wiki down after we returned to independence and now it looks like they are using generative A.I. for "quick answers" which are spreading misinformation. Please stop using Fandom. We do not approve of our past work being used like this. [Screenshot of FANDOM Zelda Wiki with Quick Answers feature]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/55df791ecf5b885002a8ef164826ff07/cca355bad3b8715c-54/s1280x1920/948ce234abb745ea67c95d7bc58aade423eb7712.jpg)
ALT![Zelda Wiki twitter: IN one case, it provides "answers" for a completely unrelated franchise. [Screenshot of FANDOM Zelda Wiki with Quick Answers feature]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/dba0adad0a30f2d590ae05c4f7c0a839/cca355bad3b8715c-7d/s1280x1920/e7de260bae3d90e01cad8ae1a3e6032e202e3c79.jpg)
ALTPreviosuly
- corporate monster infested with ads which devoured Gamepedia and other companies (feat me on their shit policies, SEO and migration process)
- turning entire articles into ads if paid enough
- limited functionality preventing admins to even fight vandalism
- merging and removing of LGBT+ wikis (and forced domain change for educational [think serious] wikis to "fandom")
- official wiki status has no meaning in controlling shit
- very much censorship (same good ol' allergy to adult stuff)
- gets paid by US Navy to advertise their events (one, two)
Alternative free wiki hostings (aka wiki farms)
- Miraheze - started in 2015, non-commercial - no ads and runs on donations, wide array of MediaWiki features, wide array of allowed types of wikis and content, much autonomy for projects, custom domain and private wiki options
- wiki.gg - started in 2022 by former Gamepedia staff, limited to video games, accent on involvement of game devs and thus hosting official wikis, has ads for anons (but only of games having wikis here)
- Telepedia - started in 2022, limited to entertainment (although might allow other themes upon review), has ads for anons, replicates Miraheze structure
- WikiTide - started in 2023, no ads and runs on donations (but also tied w/ premium version called WikiForge), largely replicates Miraheze but has stricter content policies, custom domain option
Other free options I'm aware of are either too limited in allowed content or are very outdated/unstable in technical department to recommend here (or in case of Neoseeker - I'm completely unfamiliar with it, and can't say anything about it), but you still can check them out, alongside paid hostings, on this MediaWiki page.
If you (or your community) are brave and dedicated enough you can go with self-hosted MediaWiki instance (aka independent hosting), like JoJo Wiki (who started on Wikia and succeed at overtaking the SEO) or NIWA wikis. This option, of course, requires funding and technical knowledge, but it's still very much possible.
How to find existing alternative/independent wikis
- try to use "-fandom" filter for search query in Google, or use other search engines like Bing or DuckDuckGo
- Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension - it modifies search engine results and performs redirects based on its centralized list of independent wikis; a new indie wiki has to be requested/submitted to get added [ Firefox / Chrome ]
- Redirect to wiki.gg browser extension - same as IWB but for wikis moved to wiki.gg (as I understand, works automatically without dedicated listing) [ Firefox / Chrome ]
- (simple) Redirector browser extension - in case the wiki is neither on IWB or wiki.gg, and it doesn't filter out search results - only performs redirect on whatever you get; a redirect has to be set manually - see this tutorial [ Firefox / Chrome ]
Fuck FANDOM, support real people, support indie wikis
Have you ever seen such audacity?
Friendly reminder that the “personal carbon footprint” was invented by oil companies to shift the blame of climate change to you, an average citizen, and away from the ones actually responsible. Remember that the ocean was literally on fire.
genuine wordsmith. we will never have anyone else quite like this
have you watched HELL yet? ;)
Here is what corporate welfare looks like:
Under Republican Dwight D Eisenhower, the tax rate for the rich was 90%.
90%!
And what we got out of it was the biggest expansion of personal wealth of Normal People in world history.
You could afford a house, 2 cars, college, etc etc etc. On ONE income!
It's so ironic to me the GOP are obsessed with turning the world back to the 1950s BUT ONLY in bigotry and male dominance. Not in tax rates or spreading wealth to everyone or building infrastructure.
Rebageling from myself bc yesterday I was getting a pedicure and it still weirds me out so I info-dump, and the technician asks good questions, so I don't stop, and I was explaining why House of the Dragon actors aren't striking, and I wrapped up with "because of Margaret Thatcher, worst person ever. No wait, second worst.", and my SMALL TOWN NAIL SALON TECH WHO IS ALSO CANADIAN, nodded, and said "Reagan" like she wanted to light him on fire.
i'm sorry.. what?
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Municipal Court is resuming evictions as early as Monday, saying landlord tenant officers have now received training on use of force and de-escalation tactics.
landlord.. tenant.. officers?
"Though the sheriff has the power to serve evictions, the task is usually handled by a private force hired by a court-appointed attorney known as the landlord-tenant officer.
These private security contractors — who are often armed — have long been a part of the local eviction system."
so landlords have their own private military? this is class warfare
This follows the court suspending all evictions in July after multiple tenants were shot during evictions over the past several months. In one incident in March, a plainclothes landlord tenant officer shot a woman in the head. In another incident in July, police said a woman was shot in the leg.
A spokesperson for the court's Landlord and Tenant Office said evictions will now be conducted in teams of two officers who have all received Pennsylvania Constable training.
this is LITERALLY class warfare
The LTO is funded by service fees from landlords and not taxpayer money. Fees to landlords will increase from $145 to $350 to cover the additional staff, training and insurance costs.
and who the fuck do you think is going to end up ultimately paying those fees in the end? where do you think the landlords are going to get the money? you're just giving them an excuse to raise the rent. oh my god this country is a complete and total failed state.
[cbs]
The scripts were finished before the strike!
Tony Gilroy was going to work on the show just as a showrunner, something he could legally do since the writing was done, but later decided to shut the production down in solidarity with the WGA. This has been corroborated by the WGA leadership.
ALTOncologist time.
Hello friends,
Our appointment with the oncologist this morning gave us a better idea of what we're dealing with. Mila has 'intermediate-to-large-cell lymphoma.'
Today we made some decisions: We're going with a middle-of-the-road treatment plan which should have her receiving chemo once a month as long as it works for her. I really like this oncologist -- he's a real straight shooter, and promised that he won't let us carry on with treatment for her that doesn't make sense for her and is only keeping her around for us.
Today's treatment and diagnostics included blood work, a chest x-ray (they're concerned about something going on with one of her eyes which normally happens when there's a mass pressing on one of the nerves, which is probably a lymph node but they want to check it out), and a medication which should clear out the overload of white blood cells in her system. She'll probably feel like garbage for a day or two, and then feel much better. It'll act as a sort of reset.
And then in a week or two, we'll start chemo. The chemo is going to run us about $800/mo for as long as it goes on, and with where we are currently, we have about enough for her first month of chemo. With what we have invested in the shop -- we've spent about $15K on inventory in the past 3 months, starting new amazing things -- what we fundraise is what we can spend, basically.
My hope is that we can get her to her birthday in early November. If she sees 2024, that'll be incredible.
Thank you so much for getting us this far. We appreciate it more than we can say. Time to go pick her up from the vet, bring her home, and give her some big old snuggles.
If you want to opt out of Mila updates -- and that's okay! -- please block the tag 'lyudmila pupperchenko.' All updates will be tagged with that.