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we're so fucked

Chiitan has a dream. I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past. I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination. Until then, let's all support each other🤍

great article by @idalupenis.bsky.social! I wasn't aware of the context of this album, and her writing made it so easy to follow

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

chef's kiss

I'm still worried about them as a cyber security attack vector and, since I just started thinking about it, I don't like the way that it enables dynamic pricing and price discrimination when used as pictured.

tons of games for a good cause, and minimum payment is $8

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

"Obesity" doesn't actually make you more likely to contract COVID or suffer from LC. That said, if "obesity" qualifies you to get the vaccine under the CDC's awful, dangerous new rules, *use that to your advantage.* Bringing back a blog entry I wrote on this issue in 2021:

Gavin Newsom. A 🧵

the perfect slapstick comedy for a bad day. this gag-a-minute gem pushed me from tears to a laughing headache. an absolute treasure. thank you @gooeygalloon.bsky.social kanopy.com/video/5346774 also available on youtube youtu.be/auPllfbjk-s?...

I wish i wasnt such a joyless fuck about popculture!! I *want* to enjoy things. I *WANT* to have fun. But so many things leave me cold or bored. I see the shape of the capitalism structure strangling the shit out of human expression and i get in a bad mood.

Romance writers? You are not going to be exempt from this. GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/s...

Support also means requesting your library carry the book! Go to their webpage, search for “suggest a title”, and fill out the form. Here’s Ft. Bend’s Link: www.fortbendlibraries.gov/suggest-title

the survey is pretty short, too! I finished in 5 minutes bc I deliberated on some answers

You won’t regret being kind. Even if no one notices. Even if it’s hard. You’ll still know you did the right thing.

PRESSURE PAYMENT PROCESSORS! Extensive call list, scripts and more info on what’s going on HERE: yellat.money and stop-paypros.neocities.org

All the fatuous bullshit aside: I used to work as a fact checker. I would have been fired immediately for writing or "verifying" this.

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I needed this good news today.

Please just ignore anything related to the new Harry Potter show. Do not give it your time or attention. If you see something about it, remember that part of every dollar it earns is used to hurt real trans people.

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Pay attention. Speak up. www.slj.com/story/The-Ug.... Cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social @hegemommy.bsky.social I had some stuff to say too. :):

*emptying an AR-15 into my neighbor's house* NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE

Time for another musical digital security PSA. This one is for the 90s kids who need to make their passwords stronger

Then it should die

Saying they’re striking over the dress code is an oversimplification. They’re striking because there was a change in working conditions that should have launched mandatory bargaining. But Starbucks refuses to acknowledge the union, and has made unilateral changes without union involvement.

I’m sorry it’s just so fucking funny that they built an entire AI just to give them the answer they wanted to this question and they couldn’t even do it

the fluoride misinformation campaign of the 90s and 2000s was entirely based in pseudoscience. fluoride must to be consumed in incredible amounts (like, take-a-chomp-off-a-crystal type amounts) to be poisonous.

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone

after the IRS *just* made it a permanent option. ffs. next up, i guess i can kiss the free file program goodbye

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

The quiet car is the only remaining sacred public space. They will ruin your life if you play music without headphones here.

the life i want to live

You'll pry ASL from my cold dead hands you absolute trash people.

I strongly suggest that if you dislike this feature, you write a quick ticket saying so. Annoy the fuck out of them. ⚔️ support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards