This session cost us almost $100 and obviously, it was completely worth it, but both of us going to acupuncture is over $160 a week before the cab fee to get there. We could really use your help affording this. Paypal.me/thelionmachine

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! I'm in a lot of debt from my extended illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Labor leaking some austerity budget messaging now they've cleaned up the Coalition's mess and spent a windfall or two on election-focused policies with very little impact on anything other than social media metrics among people who were voting for them already. Oh well!

ah yes, the rise of the populist right marks the perfect time to make services worse, and families poorer archive.is/M1LCu

For anyone who would like more context, here is a thread on how Jesse Singal is a fascist hack.

Brutalism is when the architect hits you with a concrete block

the spotlight website is so absolutely dogshit

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

also if this were real - it is not! - we'd have to tackle the ethical concerns about our army of SENTIENT ROBOT SLAVES

man goes to see doctor, says life seems cruel & pointless "okay well that's not my problem is it?" says the doctor "but i thought—" "oh you 'thought'? i'm the fucking doctor here. fuck off to clown college, pagliacci-ass" "but doctor, i am pagliacci!" "oh my god that's so embarrassing for you"

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

Congratulations everyone

the computer is great because it contains both friends and enemies

i feel a bit silly complaining so much atm but i'm also just struggling with it all a bit haha

i truly wish i had more leave because i'm feeling so sore and tired still and i have to go to work tomorrow 😭

Happy birthday Nina SImone, The Legend Of Zelda, and the Communist Manifesto

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

the good aircon is upstairs but i'm scared to go up to bed in case i manage to hurt myself more lmao

A network of artists, trans people, sex workers, and broke stoners have done more to help the people of Gaza than the entire democratic party.

i would like to stop having a bad time, please. that would be great

i think games should be weird and frustrating sometimes for the same reason i think billionaires should not exist-- a lack of friction in your experiences will drive you crazy if you let it

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

i love paying more for less every year. i love feeling like I'll never get ahead no matter how hard i work or frugal i am. i love further concentrating wealth in the hands of our overloads. this is what i was born to do

i would like to wake up tomorrow with reduced swelling and less pain so i don't have to see another doctor about my top surgery healing pls 🙏🤞

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti.bsky.social "People are willing to try anything to not get sick except the only thing that reliably works because that one thing can’t be done secretly and spoils the illusion that everything is alright." Source: x.com/kananaskinye...

keep calling him prince andrew imo, i don't think the institution which shielded and funded him should get to cut ties so easily

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

We're not actually required to embrace a technology just because it's being pushed by a bunch of venture capitalists.

I have left a bad employer due to frequent injury and poor treatment. I need raise $600 by March 4th to cover part of my rent. I'm looking for work that I can physically do. I'm a trans guy and a wannabe artist looking to restart my patreon and seeking job recs in pdx. Thank you for help ❤️

i thought i had experienced the post-surgery depression, but it turns out that was just me sad because i was stuck inside and lonely. now i am experiencing the weird post-surgery depression. i've nearly cried like 4 times so far in the last hour

The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

i'm back home!! and also oo ouch, ow ow owie ouch

none of the reasonable and nuanced arguments ever seem to dissuade people who think AI is good so it's time to start being unreasonable and mean! the thing they think is good looks like shit! tell them they suck! tell them they've diminished themselves in your eyes. hurt their feelings about it!

Capitalism is when adults have to beg other adults for food

Just an FYI, I have 'require alt text' set in accessibility as a default but it seems to have switched itself off. Might be worth checking yours if you are forgetful.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

glasses with little cameras in them are not wearable tech they're pervert glasses

fellas please don't touch this it's still a little saw

This may be the European Marxist in me - but I think political candidates should outline their positions before you're asked to vote for them & if those positions are awful you shouldn't vote for them.

Being disabled is not a moral failing. It’s not something you can try harder your way out of. Healthy lifestyle and “wellness” won’t stop it from happening. It’s a minority group you can join at any time. We aren’t less than. We aren’t expendable. We aren’t to blame.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.