Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

Just a reminder that we are now at Mariah Carey Warning status, and the doors of Whamhallah are fully open.

OMG

Nederlanders zullen begrijpen waarom de eerste 7 woorden mij deden fronsen.

The number of cop + Black person interactions tends to go up, because the number of police officers tends to go up. If you are a Black man that lives in a town with 400 cops, and one year the city hires an additional 400 cops for an 800 cop workforce? Your chances of being pulled over just doubled

I often feel so bad for Americans.

I’m inside the bedroom and I can hear men chanting from a pub across the river… where an England flag is hanging outside. And I honestly don’t know if it’s a footie crowd or an EDL gathering.

Of all the ways German incorporates English words badly, I hate the most how the term photo shoot has become ein Shooting in German. "Mein Shooting ist morgen." And they then send that back to English: "My shooting yesterday went great! Thanks to the photographer!" It just looks SO wrong.

Except we do not know how to make a metric or any other kind of repeatable analysis for "quality" or "better" in any way, so getting there becomes another form of vibe, in product management.

happy International Male day to all who celebrate

Is het al ergens gemeld dat kiezers in het buitenland nauwelijks behoefte hadden aan de PVV en FL/PvdA bijna 29% van de stemmen kreeg, maaer dan de 16% van D66?

Our love of hoodies with pouches just shows the innate human desire to become a marsupial

After watching a genocide and a descent into global fascism for 2 years I have so disconnected from news media I found out about Cheney's death from watching a reel on my kinkstagram account that had this announcement superimposed over a guy in an orange jock lying back showing his hole off.

I'll be first in line for this serious, sensual, and informative piece of cinema. Especially these days, the Oxford comma is all that separates us from the beasts.

this La Más Draga S7 promo is what I needed Bayonetta 3 to be

You know how many LGBTs and Black people are making contingency plans to flee? Half my rolodex is asking em how hard it is to get to Berlin.

Harry Potter. No books, no movies. I was warned by my then house guest that the rules of that broom sport alone would enrage me.

Disney just made that impossible. They've synergied themselves into a corner. People who are heading to Batuu may or may not want to deal with Stark Enterprises, but they really don't want to deal with the owner of both supporting censorship and fascism with the large amount money they're spending.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Eisner vs Iger babbling about "Leadership" is the most hysterical pot, ketlle, cauldron, chimney, unlit an-echoic chamber, black hole, empty vanta-lined pocket-dimension bullshit ever for long-time entertainment industry watchers.

I seem to have fallen into silence too. msjen.substack.com/p/escaped-co... Except on my adult accounts. In bodies and sex I trust. Nothing else.

I checked the quoters of this post, and only a few make the point that it was what is blindingly obvious to me, racism, or rather for my ears, the upholding of white supremacy. I find it weird when serious people cannot see that.

It's been 17 years since I worked for a studio in (North) Hollywood and still when I saw the news about Paramount bidding on WB I just couldn't fathom the crossovers of all the IP together.

For as badly as they want naturalism in every genre of entertainment, no matter how wildly inappropriate it is for the piece, they can't grasp that sentient computers, planetary colonies, and FTL travel are plot devices, not aspirational technological advances.

Wat ik zo interresant vind (en geen vertaling recht aan doet): hij gebruikt consequent U, zij tutoyeert vanaf het begin. En dat is vreemd, maar ik ben te lang uit Nederland om te weten van wie het nou vreemder wordt gevonden dat ze niet omsloegen naar de omgangsvorm van de ander.

in Britain, 'Americanism' is a slur applied to wordings that irritate you to discourage people from using them; whether they actually originate from or are more frequent in the US is immaterial (see eg Lynne Murphy's Prodigal Tongue)

Tell me what this method of coffee making is called, because between the 50s and 00s this is basically how all of NL and DE drank coffee at home.

“Let’s make the cost of core source materials and components fluctuate wildly based on the executive’s mood, while trying to disappear the core of the manufacturing workforce: this to me is an America First pro-manufacturing policy!”

It feels like in the UK, France, and The Netherlands, a rubicon has been crossed. Gaza starving is now a problem. Germany? Large media still says it's all Hamas' fault. Nothing else getting traction.

The very near-future sanction I want to see is countries closing their borders to anyone even suspected of being a member of the IDF after 2024. Yes, I know it is a conscription military.

Niet vergeten: Canal Pride in Amsterdam is een vondst van de lokale horeca om de maandelijkse omzet tijdens de vakantieperiode te verhogen en heeft nul revolutionaire achtergronden, ethiek, of doelen.

My sbacking life is about increasingly complex whey protein foamy instant decaf coffee lattes.

Yes, I would take the PrEP shot and I will probably only have to pay 10€ for it, in 2029 when it is approved in Germany, because pills are cheaper and just get some discipline already, Bürger.

We don't ridicule Meta enough for changing their name for a product that will never appear.

This has entered my life now.

Being a queer person in 2025 is being constantly told you can only live in the shadows, while also having a spotlight shining through a magnifying glass over you.

I just hit a paywall in Facebook where the choices are either to continue to get ads or pay 8€ a month per account. And I keep wondering if those 8€ include not getting garbage posts pushed in my feed? I know the answer is no.

Zelfde gevoel voor mij als wanneer Wilders het opeens over LHBTI+ heeft.

The people here will keep saying "I didn't think he would that, it was just extreme talk" drive me crazy. We kept saying he would donall he said and more. There are no adults in the room to stop him

When we heard about the Trump win, my friends here in Berlin asked if things would be bad. And I answered, not just bad, but weird, weirder than we could ever imagine. And every month it just escalates.

Why is Ms Banks ALWAYS in the middle of everything but a hit record?

A hill I will sit mildly irritated on is that the look on the left is not some deep final 'allowed' decision, but the result of late casting. In scenes shot later, you can see that Jackman did bulk up during shooting, which is a clear sign the production team even then wanted a buffed-up character.

Hurricane, one of my current fosters, growing up, as put together by Android Photo look back.

Funny story: I am whiter than mayonnaise, my parents are Dutch for like, 4 generations (with one tiny Scottish exception), but being born in Buenos Aires and still able to speak some Spanish, in 2007 this bunch of Latino gays in LA claimed me as Latino. Am I? Am I not? It raises so much.

There's something hilarious—200 years from now hilarious—about the most individualistic, freedom- loving, don't tread on me society enabling the most repressive universal controlling surveillance ever.

If ICE suddenly gets funded to get 10x bigger, that funding will not go to rigorous lengthy training of those 10x new recruits. It's gonna go to every bounty hunter & private security firms with warm bodies and guns And if they don't have the personnel, they will hire them. Ask yourself who.

Affogato turned out to be a gateway drug. After 55 years of not, I am now a coffee-drinker, albeit it only as ice-coffee with a ton of sweetness, or protein ice coffee that I make myself.

Holy shit this is good. Go read it before you see any spoilers, and enjoy!

Immigrants in the US have been scrteaming FOR DECADES that the INS / USCIS / ICE were deeply capricious, rude, and mean. Nobody cared because we "weren't Americans" (we had no vote to sell), surely "it was only exceptions," and "but 9/11". The voters allowed them to grow. Now they act surprised.