it's always interesting seeing someone liking a post who i've interacted with in multiple contexts over a couple decades but i can only assume they have no idea whose account this is and might not remember me if they did maybe one of these years i should figure out how to actually have any friends

Not letting your enemies decide where and how the fight takes place seems like pretty basic stuff...It's almost like the people telling us to fight on their terms don't want us to win.

Anyway if you are a movie theater and you’re not planning a Rob Reiner film festival now then you should probably get working on that

what caused the bell riots

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

If devs/publishers genuinely believed AI was 'the future of game design', they wouldn't cry so hard about having to disclose use of it on their steam pages.

that feelings when you start hearing tarzan calls outside

Technology was supposed to make our lives easier. In the 50s they started getting obsessed with leisure time, because the experts of the time looked at technical advancement and genuinely thought the work week was going to drop 10 hours a week every decade until we were working ten hours tops. WELL,

What happens when technology progresses to the point where there ARE literally no jobs possible to have, but our society still requires you to have one? And because wealth is morality, if you DON'T have one, it's YOUR fault, YOU are a failure. For not having a job. That doesn't exist. It's madness.

i love when a dog has important data

Home for the holidays

real gangsters know that a baddie will let you do borderline experimental things to them if you're not weird about it. she wants to be folded like a lawn chair, do NOT throw by treating her like some gross futa shit.

CSI: Cock Situation Investigation

More and more convinced the only thing white libs dislike about trump is that he does his evil shit loudly so they find it harder to ignore

i think it's concerning that so many politicians want kids to pretend to be adults on the internet

INT: A Burger King restaurant kitchen. A cook flips a burger. PAN OUT to reveal cameraman, director, grips, lighting engineers - all human beings. “Burger King ad, take one” the director says. Pan to the craft services table - all BK. A crew member eats & is happy. BURGER KING. NEVER ARTIFICIAL.

ASCII art is still so useful

lesbian who signs up for a tattoo and piercing course because every student is provided with their own puppygirl to take home and practice on

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Saying that in the current system housing is too expensive to house everyone is like saying that under the current US private healthcare model, healthcare would be too expensive to provide for everyone is silly. Public healthcare would be far less expensive, as would public housing.

novel gf afraid to ask out short story gf because of problematic page gap

And finally, as a general rule I absolutely recommend NOT asking a trans person what configuration their genitals are. Not befoee a date, not during, no. Let me explain why...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

"Shame, when it isn't because of something you've already done, comes from desire. Desire is your subconscious trying to express to your consciousness what it wants."

please every just learn to be normal about humans having bodies, together

a scifi story about a robot who just gets accepted as a sentient human being automatically because there's no way there's an actual robot running around, right? you're just some guy in a suit or you're being controlled by a dude somewhere a few feet away. yeah, sure, Gary, whatever you say dude.

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

maybe i don't want to become someone else, maybe i want to figure out who the fuck it is i am and then figure out how to make that into a better person instead

more to the point imo, purposefully isolating youth & cutting them off from the vital safety of support systems that can build is flatly abusive. it's all but openly about preventing kids from finding out what is being done to them by authority figures in their lives is wrong and violent

"Why are you doing it like this and what is it intended to achieve" is one of the most important unspoken questions in pretty much all creative work and the moment you're making choices on purpose the quality of the result improves enormously

online hobby communities locked in an eternal war between "please tell me specific rules I can follow so my projects don't end up as complete garbage" and "there is no Correct way to do things! :D"

It doesn’t matter if Calibre doesn’t have a built-in LLM itself. It doesn’t matter if we (for now) need to configure it before it can do something. It’s an endorsement of the products that stole our work. And in small tech even the less savvy doesn’t HAVE to take it. Of course there’s backlash.

like, you don't get mouldy bread and just cut off the visible mould and eat the rest. you chuck it cos it's got mould all through. AI in a software project is the same.

The absolute audacity of the MCU starting with this line.

both is also good (i hope)

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

There should be a movie about Hollywood’s Renowned Bee Guy and his cut rate son of a bitch competitor who constantly leaves people with horrible bee injuries due to the feral angry bees that he keeps in his car

They couldn't handle pronouns, so now we're gonna have to force communism on everyone

the animal girl ecosystem is undergoing a Cambrian Explosion in biodiversity as the precursor cat girls specialize into different ecological niches

please if you’re transgender and shooting film do me a favor and do your best to store your negatives in archival sleeves and label when, where, and what is on them!!! future historians will thank us

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

We’ve finally invented The Beast from the classic short story collection, The Bible

i guess it's another one of those days when every stray thought is about things i'll probably never get to do again because they either involve large groups of humans in the same space or enough sustained physical activity to get myself very far away from the same

move with love even if it's to the same place fear would take you. you will be a different thing when you get there

we as a people are participants in the act of creation through the nature of sculpting our flesh to our wills. it is an invitation to self-actualize beyond the typical confines of existence through this process of change, but you must grasp the flame. you are capable. you can hold it. light the way.

every day i wake up and i swear vengeance against the scourge of learned helplessness that plagues trans people. may one day we be fully cleansed of this disease, but that day will not arise until we the afflicted choose to eradicate it by firmly taking hold of the scouring flame into our own hands.

Groimes! Me telomeres are melting!

"a man calling himself 'beast' is bribing men and women to participate in unholy games" you would tell that to any arbitrary person in europe for centuries and they would not need any further convincing to say it was the doing of the Adversary