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  • Almost a year without a manic episode

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  • Congratulations!!! My vote is brownies!

  • “None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

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  • You want to enact a poll tax???? Just kidding just kidding, I'm suffering from all the times I made this argument and a right wing individual came back with that.

  • Kodak cautions there's 'substantial doubt' about its ability to stay in business

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  • And a lot of the chemicals used for development are manufactured by Kodak too haha.

  • Kodak cautions there's 'substantial doubt' about its ability to stay in business

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  • I'm not trying to start a flame war about film underneath your comment here but I've been bothered for hours so I decided to come back.

    Kodak is one of the handful of companies left in the world that can still produce film stock. It's almost a lost art at this point. They are the only ones that still produce color positive film - Ektachrome (E100) - and they also have the highest quality color negative film still on the market right now - their Portra line.

    I wish it was as simple as not making mass market junk like disposable point and shoots and Kodak would be saved, but unfortunately it's not that simple. They already own the film stock market - even hipster stocks like Cinestill are using Kodak movie film that is modified to shoot in 35mm and medium format cameras. Ilford is trying to make color negative films again after years of only producing b&w and it's getting better and closer to Kodak's cheaper stocks (gold/colorplus) but nothing touches the latitude of their Portra line. And obviously there's nothing like slide film, color positive E100 is truly one of the coolest things you can shoot these days.

    For me personally, shooting on film is going back to the physicalness, the manualness of taking a photo. It's the act of using something physical to capture a memory instead of just taking a million photos on my phone that I'll never look at again. Getting my rolls back and looking through them is the highlight of my month haha. Organizing my negatives and getting prints and making memories is so much joy that is just lost when I use digital cameras.

    Losing Kodak to financial attrition would be a tragedy to a small but passionate (and growing!) community.

    It does appear that they have ideas on working through this debt and buying time though so we'll see.

    Thanks for reading!

  • Paddle Boarding, Oregon [Nikon F3 | Nikkor 135mm | Porta 400]

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  • When Portra hits (it always does) it sure does hit.

  • Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon

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  • Does Orwell’s 1984 belong to the left or the right?

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  • Damn, please be respectful of other users while on literature.cafe.

  • The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.

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  • Damn Daniel

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  • lol I was just wondering because my cats are so fucking skittish at everything so I wasn't sure if there was a slower process of getting them acclimated to different social settings that are more manageable and predictable. Then easing into the bar because I find bar environments sometimes overwhelming and I'm a human!

  • Damn Daniel

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  • How did they bar train the maine coon?

  • Why has exercise not improved my mental health? Am I doing something wrong?

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  • You're not doing anything wrong in my opinion. Some of us just don't get an endorphin boost from exercise.

    I'm a marathon runner and I have never experienced a runner's high or whatever these other people get from normal training.

    There's this chart about "types of fun" that finally made it click for me. Some people find the mundane training as "Type I" fun. Some of us have activities that are this and others that aren't fun in the moment. For me, skiing is type I. Running is not.

    I run as a discipline, it feels good looking back on my calendar of training and seeing the work I've put in. So I get Type II fun from it. I like to say "I run for the medals" and that's mostly this concept. I don't run for the fun, I train for the PR or the "win" or a medal. It's seeing my work pay off, my discipline for months on end being paid out.

    So it's not the running, it's achieving the hard goal I set. Anyway, I hope this makes you feel seen. It's really frustrating to see all the hype about endorphins or whatever being a mood booster, but that's not the reality for a lot of people.

    Also good job on the consistency for a year! That's impressive! Especially without the mood boost other people get!!

  • Libraries @literature.cafe
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    ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services

    www.ala.org /news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services

  • Consolidation with lemmy.world writing prompts community

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  • Hey! :)

    I'll go ahead and add you as a mod here as well now!

    Welcome!

  • Thoughts on the TV Series

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  • I agree with this, I thought it was fun to watch but man the quality drop off after the first few episodes was rough!

  • Removed

    What are some communities you miss on reddit?

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  • Yeah I'm totally fine with that if MaelGuerra is up for the transition!

  • Musify: An Open Source Music Streaming App for Android With Offline Support

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  • Youtube apparently.

  • literature.cafe meta @literature.cafe
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    Featured

    We Have Updated to v0.19.7

  • SSFA instance (Science-Fiction Fantasy Alliance) seems down

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  • We're around with no plans to shut down!

  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges

    www.themarysue.com /utah-book-banners-now-want-to-make-little-free-libraries-susceptible-to-criminal-charges/
  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges

    www.themarysue.com /utah-book-banners-now-want-to-make-little-free-libraries-susceptible-to-criminal-charges/
  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
    Arthur @literature.cafe

    Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges

    www.themarysue.com /utah-book-banners-now-want-to-make-little-free-libraries-susceptible-to-criminal-charges/
  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges

    www.themarysue.com /utah-book-banners-now-want-to-make-little-free-libraries-susceptible-to-criminal-charges/

  • My local video mpv frontend

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  • Raised by Wolves... 🥲

  • Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week

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  • Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren't a division of Nothing and they don't work on just earbuds.

  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

    www.theguardian.com /books/article/2024/aug/07/utah-outlaws-books-by-judy-blume-and-sarah-j-maas-in-first-statewide-ban
  • Film Photography @lemmy.world
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    Pentax KM | 55mm f/1.8 | Portra 400

    Misty Sunrise

  • Scotland qualification scenarios

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  • Well now I want to see the spreadsheet too!

  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library

    www.404media.co /police-bodycam-shows-sheriff-kootenai-idaho-hunting-for-obscene-books-at-library/
  • literature.cafe meta @literature.cafe
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    Upgraded to v0.19.1 - Bugfixes

    join-lemmy.org /news/2023-12-20_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.1_-_Outgoing_Federation_fix
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    Welcome to 0.19.0 - Release Notes

    join-lemmy.org /news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue
  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Update from Scholastic

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    A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs

    mediaroom.scholastic.com /press-release/message-scholastic-book-fairs
  • literature.cafe chat @literature.cafe
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    Literature Focused Microbloggers

  • Banned Book Club @literature.cafe
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    Library bomb threats prompt closings citywide, special police attention (Chicago)

    chicago.suntimes.com /2023/9/14/23873996/libraries-closed-chicago-emergency
  • Camp Half Blood @literature.cafe
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    Percy Jackson Timeline

  • PrintSF @literature.cafe
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    The City We Became

    openlibrary.org /works/OL20656799W/The_City_We_Became
  • PrintSF @literature.cafe
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    The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction

    arstechnica.com /culture/2023/08/the-strange-secretive-world-of-north-korean-science-fiction/