Sorry for working blue, btw. Ok. Bye

I'm so tired. On top of my ongoing major depressive disorder, I have now had chronic pain for a year. Exactly a year. It's taken too fucking long to get in and every day feels like forever. The world's gone to hell and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being here.

Reminder that really good experiences can still lead to "con drop" when the dopamine and endorphins wind down. In addition to set and setting, you'll ideally need gentle, enjoyable inputs for the next few days after, as well. Not like, Only, but definitely to a higher degree. Aftercare is important.

Winston Churchill quite literally asked the Americans to overthrow the very popular socialist Iranian government in 1953 because Churchill wanted the UK to keep extracting Iran’s oil wealth without paying for it. Please do be a bit more historically aware.

I hate science fiction. I hate science fiction even more when it pretends to be science.

If you want to combat species extinction, then make a change in construction, in the way we build. The loss of biodiversity IS linked to the extraction of raw materials from nature. Hanging up bird boxes, efficiency and using renewable energy is great, but it doesn't solve this problem. #RMI #TMR

Important thing for the Greens is, I suppose, the primary vote rose, but a blow to the minor party regardless. Obviously McNamara had to do what was best for her; I'm in no position to judge anyone for quitting because of health problems. But the party could have been better prepared.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

I absolutely NEED to know more about this story. This is *fascinating* and we still have no answers as to why someone literally tried to unwrite a game from existence

Women in Science: Alice Schlichtiger on Leadership & MS https://www.byteseu.com/1855662/ International Women’s Day is an opportunity not only to celebrate the achievements of women, but also to highlight the ongoing need to accelerate gender equality. Although the number of women working in …

I do, of course, loathe science fiction. Unquestioningly and without exception. This is an example of why. Worse, it pretends to be real science www.futura-sciences.com/en/if-humans...

Drop something GREEN 🦖🐍🖤🐉🐊

So many legs!! Moved this guy off the trail at the Park. Moved to a moist loose soil area. #invrrtes Milipede is as close as I can ID.

Turkey is going to stare at this and then laugh like this dude. This exact laugh.

my god... they're going after spongebob

FWIW the fictional governing body of the show lore, the House, was formed because rampant betting and interference/cheating by the rich accidentally caused WW I. hah haaah but that would never happen.

"... A curious assessment... Though I cannot imagine why it's a cat of all things."

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

It has been a year since I started having chronic pain. I've had to move from Armidale to Melbourne, a disastrously expensive proposition, to get reliable medical care. And now I'm finally, on Wednesday, seeing a specialist.

Mad funny to disable both quotes and replies here. Just delete it dude!

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

they keep thinking there's this wide, mainstream AAA audience for hardcore pvp extraction shooters and i simply do not believe it exists

The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405: the lucky accident of a wandering star lighting up a gas cloud as it passes through. Image credit: my tiny telescope #science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

The weirdest thing about this is that he's from a generation that knew how to wear hats with suits. It's not the worst thing, but it's the weirdest thing.

Goodwill prices are so insane. I just saw a basic flower pot for $13. Used. At Goodwill. I talked to a guy next to me about the prices and he said "well maybe they caught on!" GOODWILL IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A FOR-PROFIT BILLION DOLLAR PRICE GOUGING BUSINESS. THAT WAS NEVER THE POINT OF GOODWILL.

Who can forget that old favourite, Octavia Butler's Super Dimension Fortress Macross?

Birbs!

It doesn't count if you do it. You really should have stayed out of this one, Hezbollah. God willing, Lebanon comes through this mess okay. I recommend reading this. It's the least sensationalised article in my collection among a dozen saying the same thing. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

It isn’t generative AI. It’s trained on cinematography to help with editing, by pointing out when there are errors in things like lighting and lack of continuity, and to assist in producing dailies.

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Ah, yes. Those dangerous radicals, the Quakers. The question the Met needs to ask:

I couldn't even see the eclipse. I feel like that girl who sang about clouds. I give up.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Thank you for hosting! I make the webcomic How to be a Werewolf (howtobeawerewolf.com) and I seem to be a general monster artist at the moment.

Important!!!! cat covering eyes with her little hands while she sleeps!!!!

Does anyone know any non-medical painkillers?

Daily bunny no.3244 to the rescue

You have discovered a planet. It is in a distant nebula. The hard sunrise glows on its gifted bushes. It's an excellent world.

Run for office, Grace!

Opinion | "Anthony’s predictable response to my two-word statement has reinforced just how poisonous Murdoch’s grip still is on the Western world," writes Grace Tame. Read her article for Crikey here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/g...

Ugh. I have been seriously ill for over a year. It has reached the point where I am considering going back to the States just to get reliable medical care. I'm not sure what's going on here in Australia. But hey, I realised I haven't logged in in literally ages.

Honestly, I thought this whole move was supposed to make me less depressed. I guess I'm out of bed and facing the ruins of the world head on, so...

Best idea I've heard for ending this nonsense was giving Netanyahu immunity so he'll step down and go away. Who said that? Oh. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Anyone who's not convinced by ongoing video coverage isn't going to be convinced by Lees and his merry men. And as much as people like to dress it up, the protests didn't move the needle one bit. Actual people with power in the halls of power reached their own conclusions without reference.

The right to protest is upheld. The protest itself will, of course, be much sound and fury, signifying nothing. But if we banned things for being inconvenient and largely useless, we'd have to ban the New South Wales parliament. Godspeed, Palestinian Action Group. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I have been, at a minimum, sick for 60% of my time here, and most of the remainder has been me being injured. I'm not sure my luck will be better in Melbourne, but at least the infrastructure will be there.

Make Australia Denmark again! I mean, I'm not sure I see the problem with becoming a European welfare state. The Liberals should support it. We're already at European welfare state immigration rhetoric. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

98% finished on the novel! The knowledge this has probably been a terrible waste of time and money and my life is omnipresent, but I'm trying to take steps forward to finish anyway. Lose 100% of the swings you don't take and so on.