Went to the Texas Renaissance Festival this weekend and a woman working there handed this to me and said, "you've just been boned in public." 😂

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My baby is sassy 😂

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild. Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

There's gotta be a third option between "300 years old" and "SS tattoos."

California to make and sell its own low cost insulin…a 5 pack will cost around $55 No one should have to ration meds No one should fear financial ruin because they need meds When Frederick Banting sold the patent for insulin, he made it $1 A Canadian, he said life saving meds were for everyone

What do you MEAN a website I visit regularly changed its UI in a way that does nothing to improve user experience????? IT WORKED JUST FINE BEFORE, WHY ARE YOU FIDDLING????

WHAT 😳🤬

Suspending Jimmy Kimmel over alleged Charlie Kirk comments, only for that suspension to immediately become the free speech crisis conservatives tried to spin Kirk’s death into, is maybe the most succinct demonstration of poetic irony that I have seen in a long while.

My sort of crank, not thought through theory is that as MBA brain has proliferated, management of businesses has gotten more and more divorced from the particulars of the businesses they’re managing, and CEOs’ jobs are “business” in the same way Ken’s job is “beach.”

If you mourn your own oppressor’s death, there is a lot of work you need to do to free yourself. Not mourning is not the same as celebrating although celebrating wouldn’t be inappropriate.

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Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*

GOOD RIDDANCE TO SMELLY GARBAGE

Thank you to the anonymous user on the Microsoft forums from a year ago who opened their post with "hello bro" and broke down the solution to my exact problem in 5 easy steps. May both sides of your pillow be cool 🫡

A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

The appendix is gone and I am free 🥳 couldn't convince my surgeon to take a pic holding it up like a fish though 😅

PSA to my fellow girlies with tummy issues: get a CAT scan because you just might find out you have appendicitis and need surgery 🙃

Flower time 😀

The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force. Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!

All of you gloating about the Texas floods because they happened in Trump country want to believe that it can’t happen to you. But it can, and likely will, and when it does, other people will fall all over themselves to figure out reasons why *you* had it coming and they don’t

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

I may have ✨too much✨ anxiety but some of y'all don't have enough and it shows

Our usually cool spring stunted my suspicious hibiscus (Lone Star hibiscus) this year. Usually by now it's several inches taller than me and has bloomed at least once but this year it's only like 2 ft tall and hasn't bloomed at all. It does have one bud now so hopefully flowers soon!

In case you're wondering how humid it is in Houston right now....

Folks! The ban against states regulating AI is DEAD! It’s was voted 99-1! This victory belongs to us all! Unfettered GenAi is an issue for us all, and groups from all walks of life came together to demand we regulate! Your calls and action made the difference! So thank you everyone! We did this!

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

Ever think about the fact that all the strife in the world is caused by a handful of assholes playing with everyone's lives. And people who don't want any of it outnumber them by the billions, yet the people on the same side are divided by stupid shit so we do nothing about it? I do.

Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

An amazing video from a Black man who gets it. Here, he explains how the word "illegal" is based on a lie. A lie that the United States of America (and much of every other western country) tells. A lie built on capitalism, white supremacy, genocide, imperialism, slavery, and land theft. Watch it.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. " - Dwight D Eisenhower

Seeing tanks on trains makes me feel physically ill

I don't want to 'utilize' AI. I don't want to become 'more efficient'. I don't want to outsource the process of actual thought to a machine. I want to struggle with my words and chip away at my own soul until something shining and glorious and mundane and fucking human emerges. That's being alive.

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

American hegemony is so dead our local news radio is reporting temperatures in Celsius and formatting dates in day/month style

This is bleak reading

absolutely shrieking at the thought of the Catholic US Supreme Court justices having to decide what the fuck to do with a Catholic plaintiff who says it’s religious discrimination to be forced by their employer to use AI

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“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

Just typed the words "The End" on the first draft of a new book 🎉 feels good!

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

I’m not gonna jump on this guns a-blazin’, but I think the urge to cater to this type of reader is misguided, in regards to both creative integrity and long-term success.

The houseplants aren't toys until the leaves fall off 😻

Co-working space 😂

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.