I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

hey i’m being real fucking serious right now call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections. im too mad for words.

halmarut telling the wol and co about the ecological fallout of killing both zodiark and hydaelyn

Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this. kindlemodding.org

I love the term so much that I still have that screenshot saved in my favorites folders.

「Day 7: Blade」 #oc:kalliope | #gpose | #AuraApril | #AuraApril2026

this might be the funniest moment in Dalamud plugin developer history so far

I feel like I'm going insane aftermath.site/one-piece-zoro...

(Inverse) Electrope Overlook

Maybe the bluesky dev should try dipping the website in the pool to cool it off

Resting Tank Face (prime)

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

Resting Tank Face (prime)

I'm a fuckin' Arasaka corpo paladin now

Cursed Dune discussion about Paul's abilities: "He's basically a human LLM supercomputer, he can predict the future because he has access to all of human history as memories, and he was trained to have Matrix powers."

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

there are altogether too many quotable paragraphs in this must-read article but i think i can restrain myself to just this one

Every single person I know and met has an element of their past they're not proud of, or learned or grew from. Everyone I know has thought and/or done something they today regret, or abhor. Anyone who believes otherwise of themselves is dangerously delusional at best, a dangerous liar at worst.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

hypocrisy. characters feel at their most alive when they give advice they'd never follow, think one thing and do another, or display two contradictory beliefs without noticing. too many characters out there are *consistent* in a way humans aren't

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you design a system and 50% of its users are using it wrong, that is not user error. You cannot blame users for that, you built a terrible system.

There’s an old saying “the purpose of a system is what it does.”

Keep fighting it, everyone.

Public services should be available to everyone, without any Means Testing, and this even means the rich. You want rich people to be using these services too, because then they have a reason to push for those services to be good and well-funded.

THIS. The vast majority of the insights I depend on as a writer (and digital artist) have arrived as a byproduct, usually serendipitously, of the “grunt work.” There is NO Quick Easy Trick into the mastery of craft. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying, and likely also trying to sell you something.

partiu feriado

Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Sakura Season in Japan 🇯🇵

#DRK #ffxiv Everyone be sure to get your daily dose of dark knight quests in!!

I don’t care how you feel about Hasan specifically the broader point here is undeniably true.

Write them out anyway, because bad writing can usually be fixed through revision and practice. Most of writing well happens through practice. It's a skill as much as if not more than a talent. Most people could write decently well, given time and effort.

Anyways, I was *finally* able to get this pair rendered out! FFXIV statue design commission(s), shares appreciated :3

Has anyone done "All My Fellas" with Thordan and the Knights of the Round yet?

For TDOV I’m going to do what I do best, which is to tell you a little about human history. Almost all of humanity’s ancient civilizations document recognition of “third genders.” “Third gender” in an ethnographical context refers to any manner of gender expression that is not binary “male/female.”

Our goal is to use The Chainsaw That Explodes In Your Hands to give people greater ability to cut down rainforests, not create explosions. Besides, the shrapnel only hits you, not the trees, so when you deforest you know the logs will be safe even if you don't know how to make it into lumber.

Profile of a rogue

i think the xiv community in particular needs to reflect on their use of the word drama, because if you think issues on bigotry, particularly racism (which is rampant in this space), is “just drama” that can be ignored, then you are directly contributing to the issues you claim to be against.

Massive props to the wow Reddit for refusing to allow homophobes to shut down celebration

“next gen consoles will cost $1000+” I will be making up stories with my friends in the woods

Profile of a rogue

Fucking Harry Potter fans are throwing out shit about "well what about this dead asshole's art you're still engaging with it" Motherfucker this ain't about the derivative-ass neoliberal status-quo fondling story where wizards shit in hallways, it's about the fucking money she uses to do harm.

Nobody's Inquisition

- crystalline object of quasi-religious significance - passed along the narrative by the death of its original owner - seemingly does not work when it's supposed to, leading to a moment of despair for the protagonists - is later revealed to be functioning as designed - lights our darkest hour

also nobody in the history of cinema has ever gone as hard as John Leguizamo did as Tybalt

this is such a funny fucking thing to say im gonna cry dude

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

This remains evergreen.