I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer

Yes, every time I say this to a Linux user they act like I don’t know or care about computers and that’s not true, I just don’t have time to follow even more instructions

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Any essential service that is required for safe and functional modern living should be mandated to be public only. Profit motive is incompatible with essential services, because "everyone has it" and "increase profit yearly" don't mix. Water, power, heat, safety - and I'm looking at you, Internet.

They weren’t accused because old heads were still calling high schoolers and college freshmen millennials even as real millennials were turning 30. We millennials have been given unearned or sole credit for a few kills. Some of our proudest kills were a cross generational team effort.

thinking about this anthony bourdain quote

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We keep both library books and cards on this shelf in our living room, and i fucking love that its -happy elephant 🐘 -boy and puppy 🐶 -SANTA SKELETON -little lion 🦁 -cute bear 🐻 -cardinal Christmas decoration 🐦

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

what goes through my head every time: - someone needs it more - it's not /that/ bad - i'll survive either way - it doesn't matter - i'm using resources others need - what makes /me/ worthy, and others not the self sabotage we inflict upon ourselves when needing aid of any sort is so very real

Most people do all they can to support themselves. People don't want to be mooches. It's just a fact most of us need support from others, but people are socialized not to support each other.

Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists. We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful! Get one at SquidFacts.Net

I think about this tweet every day

What a marvelous world we live in. Being embarrassed after an ill-conceived attempt to impress a lady with a dance is a capacity that was evolved convergently.

When I volunteered at the Austin Nature & Science Center 300 years ago, this was phrased to me as "their heads are full of optic nerves & murder. There's no room for anything else."

It's day 13 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have a teeny tiny little monarch caterpillar 😘

When you said now is the time of monsters, I was hoping they'd at least be hot.

"why do you criticize democrats more than republicans" listen if I said what I think of republicans I would go to jail

I'm old enough to remember when they started playing commercials before trailers in theaters. People older than me were offended by it, I didn't think it was a big deal, but I should have listened. We should have held the line. I should have listened.

Maybe it "doesn't feel like Christmas anymore" because for the past 25 years culture warrior crybabies have been sucking all the fun out of it. Getting mad at Sbux cups and people for saying "happy holidays". And celebrating the holiday as statement rather than having good will towards man.

It only took ten years for a dedicated bunch of well-connected weirdoes to get the entire UK elite to unite against a tiny minority of the population that they previously barely noticed. The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

It's also antithetical to the purpose of a "placeholder" It's entire point is to be something noticeable so you remember to replace it later. It SHOULD be a garish magenta texture that literally says "placeholder" if that's what you need to remind you to finish it before release.

I am once again begging people to learn about the legislative process before running to call their reps about things. Unless your rep is on a bill's committee or sponsoring a bill, they can't do anything about it until it's out of committee.

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

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god forgive us for allowing this to happen

Me, living life: "Ugh, Catholic bullshit." Me, watching a movie: "YAY! CATHOLIC BULLSHIT!"

I want to believe that Vance can be excommunicated

This idea that property should only appreciate is part of the reason we have a housing affordability crisis.

The target for this is a breed of white person I don't hope to encounter.

Replying to @hypervisible.blacksky.app: A man pours his heart into the void, thinking it a machine. But the ear that hears is human, and bleeds. The true artifice is making him believe no one is there to suffer with him.

The problem with being trans is that even allies know nothing about us. Because nobody wants to hear us talk, or read our literature, or let us report on ourselves. Our books are banned, our interviews shelved. Cis people write the entire narrative on us - allies and opponents.

i'm not going to try to make this about race, but what i do ask is that when you see Black mutual aids, please go ahead and take off your rose-tinted glasses and realise that fundraising is inherently more difficult for us, and that we don't reach our MA goals most of the time.

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I hate the online reaction cycle that praises a piece of art a lot and uses it as an example of what’s good about the medium but then the moment it gets awards or enough acclaim or fandom, suddenly we have to talk about how it’s actually not really that good and it’s overrated and always sucked

Oh, thing that DID happen and brought me a sliver of joy for 2 days now, tho: I spent about 10 minutes on the highway following a subaru with the license plate "SUBUWU" and i hope they're having a good day.

I'm now imagining some Disney executive watching the new Defunctland video, going "YOU THINK WE'LL ALWAYS NEED PEOPLE? FUCK YOU!" And then racing off to make a deal with openai. I'm sure it didn't happen, but it's funny to think about.

Really illuminating how much 100% of capitalists will throw every claimed principle out the window as soon as there's even a chance they could reduce the money they have to pay people to create things to zero.

The sweep is real

Obviously we all knew expedition 33 was gonna sweep, but i feel bad for Blue Prince, which is imo everything an indie game should be: it knows what it wants to do, it executes it well, and you can exchange a modest sum for 15-30 hrs of solid experience.

i stand by this statement every year

Yeah that's kind of why you can't let woo go in your personal circles. It's really insidious because people react like you're discriminating against their religious beliefs when you don't think they should start selling a MLM product full time after reading the secret.

listen... he's not wrong

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I think it’s a primary feature. Think a lot about politics and aesthetics, the embodiment and spectacle of authoritarian power

This is a very divided vote. It means we've been encouraging dissent. It now goes to the full committee. Please keep calling and urging your reps to reject it

The Disney AI deal pretty much confirms the direction that I thought big studios would go: make themselves purveyors of IP for the machines. In their minds, it’s a way to generate money without pesky actors or directors or critics.

"We're ignoring most of the research and then asserting that there isn't enough research, so these can't be used until more research has been done" "Also, we're going to stop you from doing more research"