WHAT???? This is...WORKS OF AUTHORSHIP belong to landlord. You know what...these ppl are so jealous of artists. It's killing them inside. There is absolutely a war on artists going on. I'm muting this thread and logging off but holy fuck.

I say this with my entire chest. FUCK the Alamo Drafthouse. TL:DR because it's FB, disabled girl was enjoying a screening of Hamilton, the audience was loving HER loving the musical, and the drafthouse manager had security REMOVE HER AND HER MOTHER. www.facebook.com/jodie.howard...

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

Some people criticize AO3 because they don't understand it, some people criticize AO3 because they understand it far too well

Some numbers I just dropped in one of the threads about "Itch should have already set up a high risk payment processor and been using it": these numbers are from 2010, but to the best of my knowledge have not substantially changed.

Now that #ActualAutistics are studying autism through a lens of traits like monotropism, I think we'll be having a very different conversation in 10 years or so. This article highlights that: over 100 different genes can be involved in the traits of autism, & it's a very fluid label.

Lottie Fitzgerald, 38, who was in her late 20s when bits started metaphorically falling off her, has been stuck in a perpetual game of medical whack-a-mole ever since. Help fund our many, many, many medications by supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/138862...

This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally

[update] In Progress: #AO3 is about halfway through the first part of maintenance. We expect this part to last about 5 more hours. The second, final part of maintenance should be quicker.

Bets on whether collections have/are about to hit maxint?

imagine telling taylor goddamn swift, with a straight face, that she should perform for free because the exposure is valuable

Some might need the reminder: Kathleen Stock has never been able to tell a truthful story about how she came to leave the University of Sussex. She’s just not capable of it. Screenshots of a past thread below.

I told you guys

not motivated enough to do this, but it occurred to me that you can prob use AI to create an "alpha male influencer." make videos of him working out, driving fancy cars, living in a mansion. then "write" a self-help book about how to get rich. when you make your first million, sell that story, too.

isn’t British control of a mandate in Palestine WHAT LANDED US IN THIS MESS IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE

Historians believe one of the priestly classes of late America, the "pundit," would ritually invoke the favor and blessing of the "median voter." Different words, phrases and actions were believed to appease this deity, and long works were penned detailing their supposed likes and dislikes

There's a certain type of pundit who seems to think that basically everything you ever express or do, particularly if you're in a minority group, should be done as if you are being observed by a swing voter in Montgomery County, PA.

if the democrats want to build lasting power they gotta put out a big thing of spaghetti while they do speeches and anyone can have. Later, in the booth, voters are like "oh yea...the spaghetti guys..."

“I mean, you try saying ‘I’m so happy for you’ without sounding like Alan Rickman delivering a withering putdown.”

There is a reason a lot of us who have been around since the start get very angry at people criticizing AO3 from the outside without knowing anything about it based on fanfic being a "silly hobby". We have nurtured these grudges from the inside of fandom for ALMOST TWO DECADES, get in line.

I am incredibly amazed at what AO3 has accomplished in two senses: one, that they've become such a cultural juggernaut, and two, that they've managed to do so without knowing how to find their ass with both hands and a map.

It helps to think of the OKCupid Era as a brief flash in the pan rather than a stable equilibrium. For most of human history (incl most of modernity) most people have met their partners in person through friends, families, and shared interests. you can't meet girls unless you meet girls

Boosting because I think I know a few T&S dev specialists who are looking!

I feel this poor person's pain in my SOUL

More science good news!! A temperature-stable, single injection rabies vaccine is in animal trials and they hope to move to human trials soon. This would be a fucking game changer for vaccination programs!

lollllllll

God I love the Onion

incumbency disadvantage is, of course, much more advantageous to the overall right wing project because tearing things down is much easier than building them, which requires long-term stability that no longer exists

yes, I've had this theory for a while the information environment we live in may be right wing and toxic but it is above all a font of negativity, because the way you get attention online is telling people things suck to be in charge in that environment makes you unpopular no matter who you are

He literally called Letitia James a racist comment so old timey and arcane that people had no clue what it even meant. It is wild shit, man. He's got a rolodex of racist terms and we just let it go

If you feed enough kids into the nihilistic hate machine, eventually some of them are going to hate life enough to commit mass murder and then kill themselves. It's pretty much always young white men. None of them are fighting for Gaza or UBI or hate social injustice. They just hate life.

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

This is what I'm talking about. I'm so sick of the platform being given to 'autism parents' or siblings or literally everyone else instead of actually autistic people. We know how to write and speak and some of us are even professionals at it. Shocking, I know.

If what you do is pick up the phone and immediately mute it so their automated dialer doesn't hear anything and transfer to a human agent, after about five seconds it will beep and hang up on you. After two or three of those, you will get marked as a misconfigured PBX and removed from the list!

Uhhhhh what? Utter bullshit. Answer the call gets your number marked as "active/valid" which increases the volume of spam. If you actually TALK they're likely recording your voice to generate AI voice samples now to use for further fraud/ID Theft.

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

Holy SHIT: Phase I/II study for a gene therapy for Huntington's (a truly evil disease) just got to first readout with a 60% slowing of disease progression as measured in total functional capacity at 36 months: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This is a time worn tactic in the conservative-adjacent motivational speaker/business mindset/MLM speaking circuits. You mix in your ideological or scammy advice with some sensible (if obvious) advice to get people to more readily accept the thing you care about.

Sorry to lib out, but seeing a major network TV personality look straight into the camera and say "this is authoritarian bullshit and you should be disgusted and be part of making it stop" has me feelin a certain way.

ah ha ha, that's funny. Grijalva won in an absolute bloodbath; but even the R opponent said he'd sign to release the Epstein files. as it is, they now have the magic 218, assuming the R votes hold. roll tape.

My rabbi growing up described it as: Christians will tell you that the Bible contains all of the answers - but Judaism would say the Torah contains all of the questions.

lol. not 100,000 SIM cards!!! (This is tiny compared to some of the networks out there. It almost certainly was fraud factory infrastructure for rent. They are overhyping this discovery like whoa. Whoever racked it has excellent cable wrangling skills, though.)

brb putting "more popular than Hakeem Jeffries" on my CV

A good friend of mine refers to this tendency among evangelicals as the belief that the Rapture is a magic spell you can cast to summon Jesus to punish your enemies. Phrased like that, even the most ardent believers recoil.

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

this is amazing

This is the result of allowing states to individually rebrand Medicaid. Nobody gets their health insurance through "Medicaid." If you're in California, it's Medi-Cal. TennCare in Tennessee. MassHealth. SoonerCare. DenaliCare. Bayou Health. Etc etc. There are 50 different names.