It's crazy to me when the manufacturer is sold out and won't let you order something from their site but you can buy it at a dozen other stores. You would think your business model would want to incentivize people buying directly from you rather than having to pay a middleman a cut.

Toddlers are hilarious because they'll be so hard to understand and then suddenly the most brutal, fully articulated sentence will come out of their mouth. "Stop singing to me!"

Van Epps is absolutely a name that would go to a rich bad guy in an '80s movie that probably would have a cameo from Donald Trump as his like... Cousin or Uncle.

This might get me to start a decades challenge.

The comments are as incredible as you would expect from people who follow a dictionary.

I'm having one of the hardest parenting months of my life right now due to a big circumstance I can't go into here. Tonight has been especially hard.

Ima laugh my ass off if all these states gerrymandered themselves into a Democratic House majority, I tell you what.

Hi friends. As your hottie friend doing work on data centers, I am BEGGING you to stop using AI. It is not worth the increase in your electricity bills. the increase in water bills the emergency room visits the droughts the degradation of ecosystems the fatalities the racism

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff. GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him. (This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

I shared a total of 157 images this year on Bluesky and included accessibility alt text with 100% of them which is 99% above the average. Find out how consistently you include alt text here: anisota.net/harvest

If they think this is expensive, just wait until 2026 in North Carolina. I have a feeling they’re going to regret the extra gerrymandering stunt they pulled this year.

kind of shocked that people on here of all places, cannot understand that the gop worrying and throwing resources to an election that is designed to be a W is bad for them this is a coach sweating bullets about an nba player being able to make a layup at practice

When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.

NYT discovering what everyone with a grandparent on the wrong side of sundown has discovered- if you start trying to cover up for the loss of filter, that soon becomes the only job

Still can't get over all the Democracy Warriors on here publishing to Substack.

Important correction: If you're in the city of Atlanta (and some of these elections are there), the polls are open until 8pm ET. Go vote!

One might argue it's actually required for teaching hygiene and potty training.

Many extremely poor laborers back in Marx’s day owned their own tools. The Uber driver does not own the fundamental thing they need in order to own the means of production, which in this case is the digital marketplace that allows them to access customers.

I would MUCH rather a kids room kit where the swatches are all different in-world IP. Gimme pink and black freezer bunny, several Void Critter options, whatever that fairy thing is on the poster swatches, Coolala, etc. One set of furniture, different swatches. #thesims4

So far load times with the update are not encouraging.

Last year I had CLEAR Infant's cherry Tylenol but now it has red dye in it. So to whomever at Tylenol made the decision to ruin our clothes when the toddler is sick and fighting medicine, fuck you.

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

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"Please cite psychology texts rather than your own vague recollections of the Bible" is not an unreasonable demand to make of a student essay. Even if you set aside the obvious bad faith and intent to provoke the instructor, she didn't do her homework.

The other thing about the OU student who wrote the bad essay on God-given gender roles is that she herself is rejecting those religious ideals about femininity by going to college, playing a sport, and having a mother who is a media personality and lawyer for Jan 6ers. Trad for thee but not for me

I have a theory that you could drive around Alabama with a bill of sale missing the date in your car and as long as you have a pen and a friend willing to say they sold it to you yesterday when called, you could never register your car until pulled over.

'Tis the season once again! Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."

Benjamin Moore color of the year is dark gray. Fitting.

I used up my one quote post of the quarter on the person who told me that I was wrong to say I missed the seasonal holiday episodes in the 24 ep season era of TV, because what I actually missed was filler. I stand by it, that was a more unique "what the fuck" than the 83427th guy to mock romance.

Because Janelle Monae is in Glass Onion, "Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole. #AuralVisualConnection #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

This is SO much easier than say, stopping Amazon. A website that sells stuff cheap who ship everywhere is HELPFUL, something they've exploited to make themselves nearly indispensable as people struggle to afford bare essentials. ChatGPT? Just don't fucking go there. Your life will be BETTER for it.

ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.

So many people have dismissed me because it's a bubble and bubbles burst, but like, this one needs opposition. This bubble NEEDS to burst, and the entire apparatus of rich people is trying to reinforce it. We have to make AI not only a class traitor thing, but extremely dorky and uncool.

New organization "Broadway Voices for Palestine," announces that tomorrow, they will be performing a virtual reading of plays written by Palestinian children. Proceeds will go to The Hands Up Project charity. Allie Trimm, who plays Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, explains more:

I don't need more AI features on YouTube. I actually would love them to ban AI altogether. But Google is part of the AI stock market ouroboros right now so that's a pipe dream.

If you read about any of the wrongful death lawsuits toward ChatGPT, you wouldn't be surprised. Plenty of people got past the "safeguards" by telling it that they needed instructions on how to make a noose "for a story." It even explained to one of them that this was how to get around the wall.

And maybe too late bc some of the emails are queued up but this is your reminder to go through your email and unsubscribe to a bunch of stuff before Cyber Monday emails hit you tomorrow.

Regulating the heights is *part* of regulating the foundation.

Once again we are, how do you say, “individualizing solutions to systemic problems”.

For example, one thing that Sen Schiff has done to stand up to attacks on his people is voting to confirm several Trump judges and members of his administration, as recently as an AL district judge on 10/24/25. “But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning

Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules. But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.

I found that so strange. What? It's a 6 episode mini series. Based on a book series. A season of pining is an entirely different story. It's like being mad that a murder mystery show solves the murder at the end of the season.

It's cold this weekend and we're going to have historic blizzard across the Great Lakes region, so please remember that generators should not be placed right outside the window and definitely never inside.

If the purpose of GenAI isn't to lie, then why no watermark on half of these images?

And we've seen from @lastweektonight.com how 900 employees could be all of the Dollar Trees in the state. They love to staff one or two people full time and burn them out before hiring new people.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Power outage on a Saturday morning with a toddler sure is fun. No lights, no heater, no fridge. 🙃

Toddler was off with MIL today. When she came in, she noticed I'd put up a few Christmas decorations. She immediately started calling, "Saaaantaaaa!" Like she expected him to be on my couch.

i wish i could say i'm abstaining from black friday out of solidarity, but avoiding it and hiding out has always been my way on this day.

Friend in my discord working a Black Friday shift at Target says it's dead as shit.