It’s the end of an era, folks. Just shy of 20 years, it seems that The Anime Web Turnpike has finally closed it’s doors, meaning the site (and the mirror of the “classic” site they kept up purely for nostalgia’s sake) is now offline.
For those of you who might be too young to remember, Anipike was THE website for anime fans back in the day. Before Google & Wikipedia, Jay Fubler Harvey started Anipike as a simple link directory for all the anime & manga related websites he could find—and it quickly grew to the place anime fans would go to to find fansites, image galleries, and news. You can read about Anipike’s timeline up until 2006, when the site tried to undergo a makeover under new ownership, here.
Goodbye, Anipike. Thanks for the memories!I used this website extensively as a kid in the late 90s to print images off slow-loading Geocities and Tripod websites to tape into my special anime notebook. I actually thought it had died out a long time ago, but it’s still sad to see it go!
This is like hearing a high school acquaintance you haven’t thought of in 10 years just died.
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Workers at a Los Angeles Walmart began the first sit-down strike in the company’s history at around 2 p.m. on Thursday. The strike is to protest their low wages and a culture of retaliation at the company. The protestors have been chanting “Stand Up, Live Better! Sit Down, Live Better!” and covering their mouths with tape to symbolize efforts to silence protestors, according to a press release from OurWalmart. Community members are also planning to join the protest later in the evening.
Walmart workers stage first-ever sit-in strike | Follow ThinkProgress
You go, guys.
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That cat is chattering! The chattering, chirping vocalisations are used when cats see something they want that they can’t get to - usually prey through a window.
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I may have cried a little at the concert too. I have too many feelings for one woman to contain.
I’m sitting at intermission right now. They also played x files and the jetsons. With a fucking choir singing ‘Jane! His wife!’
Like full body shaking using sleeves as tissue like a classy adult at the symphony crying. Oh ds9, you will always stab me in the feels.
