WHY WOULD I WANT AI STOCK PHOTOS? EVEN IF THEY WERE GOOD, I COULD DO THAT MYSELF GET OUTTA MY SEARCH FEED, I'M TRYING TO DO REAL WORK

There comes a point in every project where the motivation goes from "I want to work on this" to "I want to stop working on this"

“Running from Trump is how you lose. Running with Trump is how you win,” Van Epps said. This is how syncophants talk under dictatorships. This is a minor thing in the scale of everything else, but who still thinks this is normal?? #specialelection #tennessee7 #uspol

I love hockey because it's like "you've been bad? Go to the box 🫵😠"

Just watched a coworker on her way out, without looking, reach out to her side and grab a 3 liter bota box of cab. Didn't even slow down and kept walking straight to the front of the store.

keeping a loaded shotgun on my desk for the next time a youtube ad starts

How does every ice cream brand have 4 different flavors of vanilla. What do you even mean.

hi welcome to my christmas wish list it's 90% b&h links

Wow. I fuckin hate the modern internet and I fuckin love web browsers' reader view

WOOO excited for @thepwhl.com season starting today!!

It's weird, but sometimes when you let someone love you they actually do.

Sharkies 🦈🌊 #art #sharks

"You don't need to share all your thought's publicly on the internet" ok but what if all my thoughts are hilarious

I've had some thoughts lately. That's the good news and the bad news.

She sits on a throne of ~lies~ blankies

I feel I, too, am a sparrow lost in a Walmart

I know I'm over a week late, but I really do think it's sad that trick-or-treating is basically dead, at least in America. It feels like it was a good thing for communities, and I think the reason it died is growing mistrust in our neighbors/community. Just another casualty of isolation, I guess.

“I swore an oath to the Constitution, not a person," she says. "I just really, really implore my peers and everybody outside looking in, to just think about that. Really think about that, and think about what that means. And if there are questions, ask them. Keep talking."

I woke up, it's 45 out and cloudy, and I'm so happy. I love this weather.

What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution? Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.

There's something really cute about how humans will change their color palettes to match the seasons. I just saw a bunch of people downtown and all of them were wearing oranges, browns, reds. Just clothes that are clearly fall-themed, and I just smiled to myself like "hehe that's so cute"

Absolutely disgusting, I just got a YouTube ad that was one of those corny "this is what they don't want you to know" but it was an AI generated video of an astronaut talking at a conference. Destroying our forests for the guise of legitimacy to scam seniors online. This is AI's legacy.

uh oh im trying to do too many things again

Just posting this here for no particular reason www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

not to be That Guy, but does anybody remember when the internet was full of actual websites that were fun to discover and not just Online Shopping™ and Platforms™ brought to you by megacorps? You used to be able to do things on the internet other than get mad. It used to be fun.

i have a lot of thoughts, contrary to popular belief. unfortunately, they are all very slippery and i can only hold one for up to a minute before it is gone

Things that should not be "use it or lose it" rights: water rights, especially in the western US Things that should be "use it or lose it" rights: land used for parking lots

i don't think that's what that is

to all journalists who write about a paper and then don't link the damn paper: i hope your mac and cheese is always too cold

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

ADHD couples shirts of this. The other one says "If it happened, I don't remember it."

I love Newsies, a.k.a. "unions, regulations, and anticapitalism for kids"

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

The same people who think we've solved racism also think we solved fascism. And so "whatever we see today couldn't possibly be fascism."

Just a reminder that pathologizing "trump derangement syndrome" and labelling "antifa" vaguely as a terrorist organization is laying the groundwork to seem reasonable when they call for the mass incarceration (or worse) of people who dissent against the president

Disliking "AI" and or LLMs isn't ableist. That notion is horseshit and it's creepy to see people trying to weaponize my marginalization for their internet arguments. Making slop pictures with them isn't creating art. It isn't. Go learn a skill and make some actual art.

really vibing with dodie's new song called "darling, angel, baby" that's just about her cat

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏 Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202... #Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

Is it just me, or is it WILD that your employer can refuse a time off request? Especially if it's like a month in advance. Excuse me, but you don't own me? I don't HAVE to be there. I'm telling you that I won't be there so you can plan accordingly.

HEY SO THIS IS CONCERNING

Two-thirds of National Park Service employees have been furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown, worsening an already severe staffing shortage. With limited personnel remaining, essential maintenance, law enforcement, and visitor services are significantly reduced.

"Freedom" doesn't mean "no restrictions." It means empowerment and agency. Money is power. There are a few consequences of these two ideas interacting:

Everyone needs to be watching what's happening here in Chicago: * About 300 fed agents invaded a 5 story apartment complex across from an elementary school * Snipers rappelled down from Black Hawk helicopters * Nearly all residents were removed - some children were dragged naked from their homes

28 days until Halloween 🎃

ow. i do really need some new lav mics for @beanstem.org though. Just finished recording 543 for this week and turns out there's a TON of "the cable is broken" noise that... I *think* I can work around for this week? But I need some reliable mics for future work :L

Having a mystery wrap for lunch today I went to Tropical Smoothie last night and the guy was like "hey Ben! So I accidentally made this extra wrap, do you want it?" And of course I was like "yeah sure"

ARTIST, any artist, I'm looking for those potentially interested in working on a media making team in the future, so if you have a portfolio or art examples to show, please share in the comments/qrts and give a breif description of what u do, etc. etc. So I know to consider you! #artsky #artist #art

It's feeling like class consciousness is very slowly gaining some traction. There's so much going on, and I'm tired of fighting useless battles. I'm sure we all are. I'm not sure yet what it looks like, but we need to unify to demand better for the average American.

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.