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Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

TX's new fascist platform is effectively death cult lit but a part that stood out was their focus on age 26 being the new cutoff for gender affirmative care. Note how they refer to 'puberty' for 18-26yo — this is absolutely a ref to that inaccurately cited study about brain dev until 25yo. We told >

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

little Zidane doodle

whenever anyone I know admits to using ChatGPT this appears above my head

Happy pride month all, fuck Palantir

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

"Teach me, eh?" | Commission Based on 'amor et virtus' by Nerdybirdnerd on AO3 (link in the next post) |01062026 #KCD2 #KCD #Hansry

adhd is crazy cause you can rot for an entire week and finally on day 7 your third eye opens and all the tasks you were procrastinating on get done in 3 hours

Boycott Uline.

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"this piece of media has gross stuff in it" man damn that sucks, did you talk to your mom about how the parental controls aren't working

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

If I were the opposition party I'd be saying anyone involved in creating this corrupt scheme will be prosecuted but also anyone accepting payments from it will at minimum be required to pay back the full sum with interest

the white house is a full of terrorists

The Swan Nebula - Optical/Infrared Comparison - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/fsFLfD

Gotta love the guys who did the Marvel movie about using algorithms to impose a fascist regime being wholly on board with technology that aims to do the same.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

A favorite bird genre of mine has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur' Groove-Billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/3...

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

as a non Christian I am wildly impressed by how well they predicted Trump in the Know Your Antichrist section of the Bible

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Everyone is celebrating this because it's good. But it’s important to remember it's also funny.

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I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

This is highly important for Americans. The Fed is highly independent and has teeth. This isn't just about art, either, but speech in general. Please comment if you can, and leave your information on your comment if you're willing. They are likely to listen if enough public support shows itself.

Invasive parasite that spreads its seed into other things that it then grotesquely puppets with the goal of sucking the planet dry and then repeating the cycle? Which is then spread willingly by irresponsible rich folk who believe it to be the next frontier of human evolution? Yup, checks out.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

this trope belongs to Barret Wallace

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

TLDR: Someone stuck a camera up a horse's nose and found out that horses vocalize and whistle *at the same time* to produce the distinctive sounds of a "neigh." Nature is amazing.

The European commissioner for human rights urges countries planning to exercise authoritarian restrictions on children's access to online connection to instead focus on creating safer online platforms that protect children's rights.

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

im sorry, kinda

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.