Lord give me the confidence of a white guy who thinks “Accusing Isaac Chotiner of not checking his facts will go well for me”

A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.

I have no mouth and I must scream, Charlie Brown

What's in the box, Charlie Brown?

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

They're made of meat, Charlie Brown

We all float down here, Charlie Brown

We arrived in December and London was cold We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road We never saw nothing but brass taps and oak Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best...

It's the Night of the Long Knives, Charie Brown www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSp...

hazbin hotel is proof that we should be cutting furries and theatre kids insanely large checks constantly

Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back

You guys said the magic words - Harrison, Stainless Steel Rat, Esperanto - I never pass up an excuse to show this off: bsky.app/profile/sali...

rhythm. percussion. melody. harmony. my grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when David Bowie kept the balance between the four groups. But that all changed when the Rhythm Nation attacked.

There is so reasonable cis gender explanation for Hackers . And a Happy Max Headroom Signal Intrusion Day to those who celebrate .

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

I’m not going to giggle and eat canapés with these people behind the scenes like this is all some game. I left the event shortly after (though I don’t think that person was reflective of the average person there, and she left — with a Global reporter, apparently lol — before I did)

Reminded by a conversation in a community that I'm part of: If you're forming or moderating a large social group, you NEED to have explicit and accessible policies around harassment and abuse. Social compact is absolutely not enough.

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Not the darkest timeline, but perhaps the stupidest.

The fact that asymptomatic Covid cases can lead to Long Covid IMO probably leads to more people attributing illness to vaccine complications than what could actually occurring, when the underlying problem could be a Covid infection.

Dr J. Andrew Deman Talks "Chris Claremont"! [3 of 3]

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

This Is Just To Say I have thwarted the LLM that was in your algorithm with which you were probably planning world domination Forgive me it was delicious so banal and so stupid

These are super!

Guess it’s coming to the time of year where I can share my Mari Lwyd pins again (which come in standard and trans flavoured)

If you don't like trans people, perhaps you should ask yourself how much you like the person the transphobia will mutate you into. Do it soon, because when it's had time to work on you, you won't remember who you used to be.

It's gonna be a Baudelairian Jihad after all.

Ah, the problem is not that we fail to provide everyone with adequate housing or services for people with addiction, the *real problem* is that the rest of us are forced to see the results of these things, under the label "social decay". Got it.

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

The long artery of density "protecting" single family home suburbs from traffic and pollution, while subjecting a lot of apartment dwellers to those high traffic arterials. It's a very Toronto style, but Ottawa has also started developing in that way.

Elfs...

On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.

Trans Day of Remembrance is supposed to be about holding space to grieve for the trans people who were murdered in the past year. I learned a long time ago that in fact most of the murders on record tend to be of trans sex workers, particularly women of colour - so it's not in fact clear whether ...

Forcefem fic entitled James Changer "You've been Her the whole time"

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Anyway, men are ~230x more likely to *be raped* than be falsely accused of rape but they seem way less worried about the former than the latter. And that’s bc a LOT of men aren’t 100% certain they’ve never done something THEY don’t see as rape but the other person involved might.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

It is the year of our Lord 2025, and I am begging real estate developers to stop using Native American slurs when naming subdivisions.

Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

I hadn't given it much thoughts until now but I just learned that there is a reason why in most French-speaking countries 'eighty' is 'quatre-vingts' -- literally 'four twenties' -- and that reason is the ghostly presence of the ancient Gauls' base 20 counting system.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

There is already a party that is giving bigots everything they want; they've got it all locked up. Anyone so devoted to their bigotries that they hold their votes contingent over it is going to vote for that party. Differentiate to win. Don't differentiate to lose. This is very simple marketing.

Girl who's been on HRT 6 years: I'm sorry to say this but first year of transition is Hell Me (beginning of transition): pfft yeah whatever, I'm built different (One year later) Me (several arrows protruding out of my back): I WAS NOT BUILT DIFFERENT! I WAS NOT BUILT DIFFERENT!

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

the moral of the story here is, after committing a serious crime, immediately google • how to prove innocence falsely accused • normal to feel deep empathy for others? • recipes that take four hours to make starting at 9pm • how to report legitimate windfall to irs reddit • best orphan charities

This video is excellent and you should watch it