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i saved this before Everything Happened and god has it come true

fireworks :)

Playing Tekkit Reloaded to relive my best memories from 2013 like playing Tekkit Classic, watching Drunk History, and feeling like life was on a low simmer instead of being forgotten in an oven set to self-cleaning mode

It Wouldn't Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places https://theonion.com/it-wouldnt-surprise-you-if-this-headline-was-about-318-1819574532/

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Why Panic! At the Disco when you can be Full! Of Fox Cum

We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology

MFF was incredible. I wish I could even begin to tag each of you who made it spectacular from start to finish. I can only hope I'll one day get to experience a weekend like this again, with all of you who made it so outstanding 💜

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/

I think I despise how much I *live* at cons/when travelling to see people I care about

MFF was incredible. I wish I could even begin to tag each of you who made it spectacular from start to finish. I can only hope I'll one day get to experience a weekend like this again, with all of you who made it so outstanding 💜

I love this con, I love this community, I love this fandom

I miss driving to cons

Only acceptable way to walk around #mff with a speaker 🔊⬆️

Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. (via @kuow.org)

“Glass Room” by Alsares @alsares.bsky.social

Keeping this one saved for later lol

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

I literally just wanna pay off my debts and get good at art and spend the rest of my days taking care of animals.

Good morning and: People are allowed to not like you People are allowed to not be sexually attracted to you People are allowed to have private lives People are allowed to tell you to fuck off if you overstep People are allowed to exist without interruption People are allowed to ignore you

People are allowed to not invite you to things People are allowed to stick to social circles theyre comfortable with People do not owe you their time Parasocial relationships are toxic and not real Community does not mean you can do to a stranger what you do with friends Enjoy your day

For each kink you hate, I guarantee you have at least one friend who is secretly into it -Each time you are aggressive about that kink, that friend is scared you will subject them to violent emotional abuse and abandonment -you can forever improve that friendship by being a bit nicer about kink art✨

The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening in the across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes,” professor Nick Cull says.

Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer https://theonion.com/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-share-plan-for-making-rich-richer/

K-Pop Demon Hunters wasn't on my bingo card for dentist office waiting music

The whole room pausing to check the World Series score before going back to sucking dick at the Halloween party was definitely one of the funnier moment this weekend 🤣

I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson. I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.

The lost opportunities by not taking transit anymore 😔

Shin Sekai Yori is an anime where this principle is employed to reduce conflict in a society of dangerously over-powered psychics, and I think we can all learn from the Bonobo approach to conflict resolution

Breaking: The Darkness Returns

I’ve been talking with friends and companions and I’ve concluded that we really need to push back against Christmas Creep and not let that happen until December. therefore I’m gonna keep focusing on autumnal and horror themes for the rest of the month

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year. I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.

I will happily watch three seasons of a popular sitcom about the two Chicago popes.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Watching SNAP expire during a government shutdown while they up the cost of the royal ballroom has me asking

I feel many of the "AI" enthusiasts I know fall quite firmly into the camp of people who do this with their lives, and it seems like the very concept of anything but the most efficient, optimizied course at all times is anathema to them

I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives. I think it's just not good for the spirit.

National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives

Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal

You'll say this to someone who's hyped about AI and they'll get mad at you for complaining that LLM's can be wrong about things you ask them