Hey so tonight, or more properly tomorrow at ass:thirty AM when you can't sleep because terrible things are happening, you may as well look at the lunar eclipse if you're in the areas of visibility. www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

my head is spinning at how quick the degeneration of our culture happened via gambling. i just thought it would take longer for it to stick its claws in every industry, and i was naive enough to think a news outlet wouldn't get into it

YES I AM SAYING THIS EXACTLYYYYYYYYY

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored. People's work is not the government's to give away. If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP! /end

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

how is it "punching down"? also it wasn't an in-joke: it was a straight up joke, it was right there, there was no "insider knowledge" needed to decode it, you just missed it. "missed the joke" is not an oppressed class.

*pounds the table* POR-TENT! POR-TENT!

'The conditions rhyme with gaming.' is a beautiful turn of phrase. People want to own their culture, not rent it from a sociopath who jacks the prices every year because they think that'll appease the rabid ghost of Ayn Rand. kotaku.com/dvds-zoomers...

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Lots of panel shows in the UK make sure to have a female comedian, which is great, but it's often literally just one per episode. Katherine Ryan points out how this made her feel...

*possesses the ingredients to make a dozens different meals* There is nothing to eat. Lunch will be a sleeve of crackers.

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”

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Wait is heated rivalry just grease on ice

fantastic thread on Gothic themes and where they come from, particularly in the UK 🧵

We never wanted to be this visible to y’all in the first place but that’s the way the current internet crumbles. Hopefully when internet 2 comes around y’all stay on internet 1 and let us do our thing in peace

They be like “okay so your weird fetish shit shouldn’t be censored legally but you should be outcast from society and sent into the deepest pits of hell for having it :)” Sweetie, they forced us outta the internet pits of hell and back into the normie zone. We don’t wanna be here either

I've been laid off since February 2025, and money is starting to get really tight. I made a ko-fi account and added a link in my bio, if anyone is feeling generous. The account is brand new, but I will start trying to add some of my art and writing as I can.

Writing mood:

I don’t care what they say this is a good website

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Partaking in my favorite form of self-harm: Opening Zillow to look at homes I'll never be able to afford.

AI could never

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

If the slop machine is so fucking good, why the need to lie about it?

PSST. I swear you will read it to your kid and both laugh together. It is not a normal kids' book, and if you just click thru to read the first chapter I guarantee a minimum of 3 giggles.

Flagging this thread for romance history girlies (gender neutral) in case anyone is interested. My great aunt had an extensive collection of paperback romance novels on subscription. An uncomfortable number of those books featured barbarous “sheik” and Native American captors and white heroines.

They're remote control robot (not autonomous) that scans everyone's face and they sell the data for recurring income or hand it to police when necessary. You also have your face scanned when they arrive at drop off. Door Dash recently offered an opt out for these things. Make sure you check it off

I think Tubi is my favorite streaming service not just because it's free but it has the closest digital approximation to going to an indie VHS movie rental place. There's real movies and so much random crap that you can really get lost in discovering all sorts of things

dydd hapus dewi sant! cymro ydw i a dw i'n wedi bod ysgrifennu o ran galwedigaeth am bum mlenydd, a dyma fy straeon byrion ffefrynau gan fi ynghylch cymeriadau cymraes <3 mae'r straeon hyn i gyd rhydd i'r darllen! johannestevans.co.uk/2020/09/29/b... Fluff and sweetness. Short T4T romance.

Im sorry I am not in the mood to read about how bad the Iranian supreme leader was as a justification for our actions. My country is ran by fascist pedophiles but I dont think my child's whole elementary school is worthwhile collateral damage to deal with them.

The way people set up camp in my mentions when I said there was no way Platner was the only option...I agree with Munk, but also we are in fact in trouble because some of you would rather vote for a Nazi fanboy with a poorly done spin than look for literally anyone else.

“Big gay people are scary”

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

We should in fact maintain strict vigilance about "is it that you're against the bad stuff Israel is doing, or is it that you're a fucking antisemite???" The Platner candidacy, at this point, seems pretty expressly premised on "no we shouldn't"

I have said it before & I will say it again: sometimes nothing sells a book like a 1 star review. I am certain this 1 star review will sell this book to at least one of you.

At the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Minneapolis, they’re throwing out ICE whistles shaped like dicks.

Have you ever been sitting down and thought to yourself, this would be so much more enjoyable if my cat was directly underneath me and protected from the weight of my body crushing them by a few very cheap brackets? Good news!

A gross cold is making the rounds in L.A. - my fun tip is that allergy med Allegra D is often better than cold medicine. 💫

very unfair to call this guy a Nazi merely because he had a Nazi tattoo, retweets Nazis, and praises Nazi shows. after all, he could just be really astonishingly fucking dumb. seems like a great candidate!

Getting to the last one like

Important potato technology.

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This is a good thread, which will not be taken any notice of by the people who most need to read it

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

This was one of my absolute favourite episodes to make. What a woman. What an artist. What stories. Glorious. (Plus - the added bonus of Nancy Kerr popping in for a bit of a jam ...) #bagpuss #happybirthdaybagpuss #oldfatfurrysagpuss

Posting again, because some people aren’t aware and get concerned, but wolves look vastly different in the winter vs the summer! In the winter they can gain up to around 6 inches of fluff to keep them warm!

Aw, man. With that name, I was really hoping this was some kind of parody...