More than one in 10 Japanese manga artists, illustrators and other creators say their income fell over the past year due to generative AI, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/

Total cave-in. Billions more to terrorize Americans and ethnically cleanse the US.

i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded

Do it. No one here is gonna save us. Or you. Cut us off entirely

cool. next ban the rest of it, everywhere

Everyone on this site wants to reinvent European social democracy from first principles for some reason.

hockey might be really cool actually

man I haven't done a picrew in so long (they didn't have the right goatee so only moustache is here)

no please the city can't take any more wealthy white men using church work for tax breaks and property ownership

Lmao send us a photo of everyone at your house so you don't need to expend energy counting while ordering pizza from Papa John's is the funniest fed post I've ever seen

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

I wish more of my friends were on here :( I refuse to go back to twitter it's so bad for my brain

the U.S. govt being effectively removed from NATO because of GREENLAND is unfortunately so fucking funny

"We will use mines only in emergency conditions" what is the emergency condition in which a landmine, which has the primary purpose of sitting there for a long period unobserved and activating indiscriminately, would be the most efficient option

new OCD therapy thing everyone in my group's doing is doing two truths and a lie but then you aren't allowed to say what the lie is and I've decided everyone should do this regularly. this should just be what two truths and a lie is now. you don't get to know. everyone guesses and then you don't say

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

recreating lib cringe from first principles. this movement is finished

Our statement concerning the decision to not grant interim pay relief to the member's fired by Rockstar. We remain confident in the strength of our case against Rockstar Games and we reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law when it summarily dismissed 31 union members.

oh... that's peak.... that's peak of my comfort game... youtu.be/XHBv7u9sLeg?...

funnier than anything in dilbert

As an atheist it's very frustrating to have my non-belief in the antichrist tested in this way

disco elysium is the only media that has ever made a funny joke about communism

Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made

pranxis is real and should be executed liberally because it's the LEAST you can do. but don't forget actual direct action alongside it

TAKE YOUR TIME… NANCY’S THE BOSS AROUND HERE

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

I need to finish my outpatient therapy for OCD so that I have my evenings free again and can spend them WRITING cause I've been ITCHING to write

do any mythology nerds know an example of a benevolent trickster gods/spirits? obviously Celtic folklore has some good fae but theyre also creepy and evil. wukong is closer to what I'm looking for but he's a little too self centered

they returned with ideas of the impossible and new methods for calculating infinity

what more proof is there that this world is worth saving than this

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

I saw other people filling this out so I did too (I'm counting "stayed here" as spent more than a night overnight and was there with the intention of doing stuff there)

I think the contradiction at the core of liberalism is pretty well illustrated by saying that it’s time to defend democracy like our life depends on it—but to do it in a way that is perfectly orderly and respectful of the law enforcement officers assaulting it

pears are evil because the little soft ones are like the best fruit in the world and I could eat them forever but the big hard ones are vile and flavorless disgusting beasts that I want nothing to do with

sorry for dumping everything I just remembered that this app exists as more than a place for me to complain and I should probably not use Instagram as much

we had to complete the slowpoke pile... feat. @ecctoplasm.bsky.social as the biggest and cutest slowpoke in the bunch #pokemon

also @ecctoplasm.bsky.social and I went to Zion Natl. Park over the holiday and got a plush named Bimpy (Baby Plumpy Bee, obviously) that were now obsessed with

after like 6 months of being too stressed to finish any gunpla I finally finished* my G:TO MG RX-78-02. This is only my SECOND master grade so he doesn't have as much polish as I want, but I'm happy with him for now *I still have to do weapons, and I might give him a clearcoat? will post again!

I keep trying to post some dumb jokes and promote my dang games but this keyboard just keeps typing, “Fuuuuuuuuck ICE,” over and over.

will say if you're not a complete shit for brains and have basically any meaningful firearm training that isn't range toy shit it was obvious the ICE shooter wasn't the least bit afraid and has been masturbating about that exact fantasy for months

I love that the 15-day weather forecast in EARLY JANUARY is ONE DAY OF SNOW and then 14 days of 40+ highs. I love that the city I live in also does not take living in a desert seriously so we will have an agonizing drought next summer due to lack of snow pack

I used to think of having ADHD and OCD as "there are two wolves inside of me and they are fighting" but after being in OCD treatment I have come to realize the wolves are making out and scheming with each other like a megalomaniacal king and his jester-lover

hmmmmmm

nipples itch after transporter

up next, an AI tool that can fuck your wife

The Trump admin cut many soft power initiatives last year, moving away from USAID, USAGM etc. The new soft power push is via unregulated and unmoderated generative AI, social media, podcasts & digital platforms owned by US oligarchs. It's driven by algorithms and engagement based incentives.