Apologies for this post, but I've more or less hit rock bottom. I am emotionally exhausted and burnt out. I've not drawn for weeks and by now it does not feel like an easy fix. If you have any desire to support me, it'd mean more than ever as I physically can't work atm. www.patreon.com/only_jaws

apropos of everything i've been yapping off about tonight: ICYMI, this is an incredibly good article h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social, who also writes for this blog

Aaron and I are moots so hopefully he'll hear me out on this. If "every decision must be explainable, repeatable, and based on evidence [your] tools can reliably evaluate," then you need to reevaluate your TOS because you're running into the same issue that I pointed out to @pfrazee.com re: porn.

I would much rather meet a black bear, I think. The joke is that a black bear sees a hiker with a pack full of granola and trail mix and thinks “How do I get my food off that human?” and a cougar thinks “How do I get that pack off my food?” I’d submit that a hog thinks “Food! WITH TOPPINGS!”

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows. @ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Well well well if it isnt the leopards

Watching the dominos arrange for subtle, seemingly innocuous shifts in history and perception. Eyes looking in different directions, a slightly different carpet color, etc. What troubles me is when it becomes indiscernible and later used for reference in other media. AI Mandela Effect inbound.

some of you may not know that i'm also on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@tubetime

Trans people need to exist. I realize that doesn’t interest you, but it’s important to a lot of us.

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Needs $630 today or they take the car please 💸 💕

👀👀👀

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Window Screen xkcd.com/3151/

Ok so using Hive to evaluate images for moderation doesn’t train the Hive AI - those are two different systems. How do we know Hive isn’t saving the images to evaluate afterwards? Is this a take their word for it situation? (not fighting. I’m fact checking cause I don’t know how this stuff works)

World Aviation Festival kicks off in Lisbon in a couple weeks. The opening keynote is titled "Non-Bullshit Innovation Insight: What super-intelligent AI means for the passenger experience." @linneaharts.bsky.social accurately notes that 20 minutes is a lot of silence to sit through.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Surimi crab sticks as snacks

so my understanding is that there is like a lost chapter of space Marines, is the big thing going to be like, oh, thats where they all were

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

This is hazardous - being hogtied like this makes it difficult to breathe, because all your weight and pressure is on your chest, and it’s hard to expand your lungs. I’ve seen people pass out from being hogtied, and without QUICK intervention, bad things happen. Positional asphyxia is real.

I feel like every day for the past month I have said to a new person that I hate living in a world where this man is genuinely dangerous and has way too much power, because he’s the goofiest loser alive and we deserve to be able to sincerely enjoy the comedy he’s providing

Your spamming the word general strike on social media for likes. I'm calling all my federal employee friends and explaining to what "work to rule" means. We are not the same. abc7.com/post/hollywo...

Oh shit do we need Brett Banditelli labor court photographer on the beat?

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal. bsky.app/profile/aman...

This is insane. Mark Sanchez picked a fight with a spent fry oil truck driver for no reason. Just drunkenly walked up to the driver and said you can't park this here and 'I talked to the manager of the hotel and he said you can't do it' and started a fist fight. I mean this is crazy shit.

As per usual with much mainstream coverage of US politics, it appears that Republicans never have agency. It's not that the OR GOP has rendered itself electorally unviable by nominating Qanon loving Christian Nationalist 9/11 truthers for Senate, it's that Portlanders are irrational GOP haters.

You want an argument? Fine, I'll give you one. First, we need to start with Charles Mills' observation that political philosophy and political theory has ignored the fact that white supremacy has functioned as an organizing political force for the past 500 years.

no like the spiritual warfare that evangelical christians talk about constantly. demonic energies unleashed by their enemies and so on

🚶

My take on the "Why haven't Bsky banned Jesse Singal yet" thing: Months ago, when he joined the site, I wrote little explainers of what's called "Behaviour on Platform". The operators of any UCHISP do not have (and, pointedly, cannot have) the ability and opportunity to parse the things that (1/?)

And then "Waffles" was the tipping point of a Trust Thermocline Inversion that had begun to slide when they mistakenly banned users previously but had no comms / user engagement strategy to Mea Culpa, the "Everyone makes mistakes and we are trying to be better every day". (8/?)

i hope you like this article

BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deploying any National Guard troops in Oregon.

Breaking: we’ve secured a court order BLOCKING Trump’s unlawful deployment of the California National Guard in Portland. This fight isn’t over, but today’s rebuke of the President’s illegal actions is a step in the right direction. The National Guard is not President Trump’s personal police force.

So Link’s account is still “live” on Blacksky in the sense that it still exists, but until Blacksky gets its own AppView running, it depends on Bluesky’s AppView - which is where moderation happens (in most cases). So Blacksky users still can’t see his posts.

one thing the liberal political class never learn is that basic-bitch voters don't perceive your sophisticated triangulation as giving the people what they want, they perceive it as you admitting the other guys were right all along — not just policy-wise but emotionally

I’m sorry WHAT?? LINK HAS BEEN BANNED? WTAF @jay.bsky.team

YOOOO MY MAN WHAT IS THIS GUY

Thank you @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for having me at your live show right here in Chicago! Tune in Monday to hear us talk ICE in Chicago, fighting authoritarianism, and more.

it's so fucking funny that pro-AI guys insist AI is alive because they don't understand what humans are

it's a well known and observable phenomenon that if you play act or ironically perform bigotry, eventually you just start doing the bigoted shit so it's generally not good to do that, even if it's parody

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Gotta find inflatable costumes that can fit a full face respirator and helmet given the whole "dump a can of mace into the costume vent" ICE used on that protester.

but I do think that’s part of why we can’t give an inch here. they’ll put air conditioning in Amazon warehouses if the robots need it but not for the safety and comfort of human workers. that’s the kind of shit we normalize if we get sucked into the inevitability arguments

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

LMFAOOOOO STOP

So this is a quick and dirty low down on drug addiction and nursing. At one point, it was really easy for both doctors and nurses to steal drugs from hospitals. Which resulted in A METRIC FUCKTON OF CHANGES to prevent the candystore from being abused. Meds have to be checked out and are attached