I hate that I’ve gotten sick again. Bad enough that it’s happened twice in as many months; it’s all the worse as a winemaker because I can’t do anything with my brews until I and everyone else in the house is better. This second infection is far milder, but my meads still need a sterile environment.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

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I'm sorry, my brain wouldn't leave me alone until I fulfilled its dark urges

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

oh boy since the new model's done i can post my sonic fancast again #sonic #sth #sonicthehedgehog

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

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Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

This is the "Viva la Muerte" (Long Live Death) mindset. It is the joy of destruction found in the Spanish fascist hero General Millán Astray, who shouted down the philosopher Unamuno in 1936 at Salamanca. When you cannot win the argument with intelligence, you destroy the intelligentsia.

History tells us where this "co-opt or destroy" scheme leads. In 1945, when it became clear he could not own the future of Germany, Hitler issued the "Nero Decree." He ordered the destruction of his own country's infrastructure. If the nation wouldn't serve him, it didn't deserve to survive him.

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.

Same with TikTok. We were told it was a "national security" threat. But the forced divestiture wasn't about data privacy. It was about transfer of ownership. Handing the algorithm to politically safe tech oligarchs ensures that the last algorithmic feed not under their thumb is brought to heel.

Likewise, the "Compact for Academic Excellence" and the attacks on the Ivy League aren't about reform. Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.

Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out. Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

And never give me its paying respect to his position. Decorum! They never did that, or had that, when alive and had the job. Don't go. Dont. Or do, but make international news pissing on the casket.

Going to the Cheney funeral was a bad look for anyone supposed to be against his past acts. When the BIG one happens, note who goes to that gilded clown party. It's not a status symbol. A social event. Attending funerals means you are paying respect. You don't have to for some. EVER. We see you.

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

This already works less effectively as an anticommunist fable than the original because here the animals are literally all on their way to the slaughterhouse. They have absolutely nothing to lose by overthrowing the farmer. Unless their message is "die and be grateful, pleb!"

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

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“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House as it was, and pay for it by seizing the assets of the Trump family.”

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If you’re intimidated about drawing/learning to draw because you feel like you have no idea what you’re doing: Most of those who draw regularly also have no idea what were doing. We’re all bullshitting our way through and hoping for the best. That’s how all your favourite art is born, I promise

He's just gonna fuckin' fondle his junk like that, hm? RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, HHHMM!!!???

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

FUCK. Today has been a rough one... Rest in peace, Jim Ward.

Your sexbot is a Mechanical Turk.

You know what day it is #sonicthehedgehog #shadowthehedgehog

the last days of autumn We already had our first snow a few weeks ago. It’s a beautiful contrast to the colorful landscape and a reminder that winter is rapidly approaching. Autumn never lasts long enough for my liking This was the patreon print for november.

This is both international piracy and a war crime

I don’t care if your book has a Paint cover. I don’t care if you have typos. I don’t care if you took the cover photo with your phone. But I do not want to read a book YOU DID NOT WRITE. Writing requires you to write. To feel. To think. To impart that. That is step one to Being a Writer.

It vexes me greatly that of all the wine bottle styles out there to make gift bottles of my mead, I can't seem to find a single case of frosted 375mL Bellissima or Elegantissima wine bottles anywhere. And the sites that claim to have them have no way to order them online.

You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."

Wild doesn't even begin. Like, if Luigi ain't the guy? The likelihood they'll *ever* find the real killer has dropped significantly.

I very seriously want people to be rude, mean and strict about AI. See a YouTuber using AI? Tell them you hate it and unsubscribe. See an artist using AI? Tell them to fuck off and block. See a friend posting AI memes/vids? Call them out. Ruffle feathers. Debate it. Hate it. Bury it.

Please Read this by John Pavlovitz, “Please, Do Feed the Artists: open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

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The lady is resting! [ #furry #art #furryart ]

her 💙✨ (referenced that one official art of her from assault in the cockpit seat) #starfox #krystal

Patreon sketch for @thorsvision.bsky.social of their character Týra. She's always so much fun!

Where’s the love for foxgirls?

She’s your Dumpster Dinner Date~

Is he cold and winter fresh? Yes. But he is vanilla. Do NOT call him "soft serve" because he is soft, fluffy and vanilla!