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As a matter of disclosure, please remember that I and many if not most creative folks have business dealings with one or more corporate entities who are navigating, delicately or, uh, otherwise, the fact the US government has been taken over by fascists, no, it's not great and also we have bills

Not you too, Wendy's!

Hey Texas friends, getting my COVID vaccine at Walgreens was real simple - go do it! Didn't need to talk to my doctor or nothing.

It wasn’t the media it was my heart

i'm working on a piece about texas' movie incentive program - specifically how it applies to video games. would love to chat with a person who works in the industry who could help me understand what these kinds of incentives mean for game development !

After a stressful move, the cat finally gets a sunbeam all to herself.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.

I don't usually make newsletters public, but I'm making an exception in light of a dam breaking where many of us are admitting America is now ruled by a dictator. It's about the way grief was influencing my behavior, and trying to move toward acceptance. www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter/i...

anyway the rules of karaoke are 1) no songs over 5 min, ideally under 4 2) no showtunes 3) no signing people up w/out consent 4) NO AMERICAN PIE (see rule 1) 5) NO SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT (see rules 4, 1) 6) NO DOWNERS UNLESS YOU CAN KILL IT (and if you don't know, there's your answer)

*braces self* Banjo-Kazooie. I didn't like Clanker, he was too big and covered in boils, AND you had to dive into deep, dirty water to do anything cool in that level. So I just never unlocked the golden feathers in my first playthrough, haha.

My mom's always been scared of lightning, but last week when it was really hot she lost electricity, then there was a huge flash of lightning & her power came back on. Since then she's all, "I LOVE lightning!" & I'm like, "You don't love lightning, you love what you think lightning can do for you"

You literally don't, do you know HOW MANY games are in my backlog right now?

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

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One of the most delightful things about Big Brother is that by the fourth or fifth week of every season it becomes impossible to describe to anyone who isn't actively watching.

raichu bangin out the tunes (2024)

In case you missed the GAP/Katseye response to the American Eagle/Sydney Sweeney ad 🔥🔥🔥

For God's sake like the pictures of the dog (also some anecdotal Web 3.0 advice incoming)

PLEASE REPOST: Important PSA for...well, basically everybody. lifehacker.com/tech/remove-...

Are you guys the only alpha males who can save western civilization or are you afraid of Manhattan Just Can you pick please

The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics. (not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society. It’s on us. A few skeets here with resources: 1/x

She thinks I can't see her.

bold decision to let spongebob write the official city page about Chicago’s worst disaster

Lmfao

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this: I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

Hey folks - posting for a colleague, they're looking for Kenyan voice actors of any gender with access to a good remote recording setup. It's a paid role - if you're interested, please comment and I'll pass on your info (if you don't fit the brief, signal boosting is appreciated, thank you!)

If you think you'll lose opportunities because you openly and loudly speak out against injustices going on in the world, those places were not worth your time in the first place.

I genuinely thought this was satire from the Mamdani campaign

The secret to getting a Good Night's Sleep is to pack a bunch of boxes right before bed. #LifeTips

I love Big Brother so much, but I am BORED by alliances splitting down gender lines in the year of our Lord 2025.

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

trains pls

Catching up on my backlog of newsletters and really loved this Ask Polly column - life happens when you show up honestly as yourself in all your messiness.

Continued thoughts about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle by resisting the supremacist urge to center darkness. www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...

Sometimes you have a vacuuming session that makes you want to vacuum much more often.

“We have suggested to our bar manager switching acids, or developing a menu less citrus heavy — limes are $74 a case right now and steadily climbing" www.eater.com/restaurant-n...

The wrong people learned the wrong lesson from Ex Machina, huh?

Good news, recruits! Glitch Productions is currently searching for a Rigging Artist in #Sydney. Interested? Apply here: ​

My wife caught me cheating at a 4 Non Blondes concert and when I got home she had a very poignant question for me that she screamed from the top of her lungs

Direct File exists. We already paid for it. So we are now trashing software that we have already paid for, that people are using, that people *love*, in the name of "efficiency." Yes, blame the Trump administration for this, but Intuit has been desperate to murder Direct File for years.

My family and I often shout "BANJO!" because of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode where his pet sea monkey dies.

That's a wrap on Wind Breaker Season 2 ❤️ As the season draws to a close, we've got scary new villains, mysterious new allies, and trouble brewing - it was nice to pop in and make sure the boys got a break. I have it on good authority things are about to get wild, so stick with us for season 3!

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Hi, mainstream news outlets are reporting about X's AI saying anti-Semitic bullshit, if you haven't deleted your account the time is now.

I can’t believe people are still saying this. The reason LLMs use m-dashes is bc they were trained on human writing, and a particular style of writing makes heavy use of m-dashes. In journo school we used to meme about how much we all loved the m-dash. Guess what’s oversampled in AI training data?

Good day as any to delete Facebook, Instagram, and/or Threads if you have not already The fact that Meta will not rule out using private photos on your camera roll to train AI is abominable, full stop futurism.com/meta-sketchy...

(pops head up) I keep seeing strange takes on Hitler's art, including notions that he should have pursued it and it would have saved him. But Hitler's art was terrible, especially when there were no buildings or manmade structures, and his utter lack of interest in humans is... telling.

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?