this may be radically terrible idea, but maybe write a law which if you loose over a dozen appeals due to meritless claims, you are limited to 1 appeal per case for the rest of your life.

me: this modern economy is rough. gotta do something productive so I could maybe one day be successful like people in the past. historically successful person's journal: This Tuesday finds me languishing in solitude, having consumed nothing but the biscuits on my nightstand...

The more you explore the history of anime, manga, Japanese games history, the more you are confronted with the fact that MANY of the forms’ most potent innovations sprang out of and could not have existed without pornography. It’s integral to and inextricable from these histories

For the last few years I've been saying that there's a time for builders and a time for breakers and I know that it feels like we need to keep breaking while awful people are in charge, but we should also be looking at positioning ourselves to build once all that unwinding is done.

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

the kitten will miss her friend recalled lettuce

they followed up with an entire movie about an aura farmer getting outmogged by a guy who is terminally offline and just really loves his family

Writing is thinking. In “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell wrote that we must choose each word to convey meaning. We must choose images that are fresh, that kick the reader’s brain awake. If you click together stock phrases, they do your thinking for you. And he never heard of AI.

“Money, power, respect… the last one is better.” -Kendrick Lamar money - ❌ (I make just above minimum wage as a docent in a natural history museum) power - ❌ (see above) respect - ✅ this meant a lot to me to see!! an artist I have loved for 20 years took the time to piece together the dig site

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.

Involving everyone in everything isn’t inclusion. It’s exhaustion. Good multi-actor engagement is clear about who needs to be involved in which decisions, when and with what influence, while helping others stay informed and join in when it matters. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/good-en...

Also remember to switch out your furnace/air filters after the smoke is gone, you don't want that stuff cycling in your hvac system!

in a much better timeline, someone used a fraction of the trillions of tech capital to create a non-llm chat bot that can accurately advise people what officials are capable of changing policies they want and the proper channels to advocate change in addition to casting ballots.

The Owl House Witch Hat Atelier Discworld's Tiffany Aching books Little Witch Academia + several other books found easily at the library just waiting to be explored!

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

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"The ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one’s nation, ideology, morality, values. It was Graham who played golf w/Trump, made excuses for him, supported the president even as he slowly destroyed the American alliances that Graham had defended all his life."

dang I should sleep early more often it seems good things happen when I do.

there's something about touching a thousand spiders that puts being terminally online into perspective.

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

if we had universal basic income we would have so many game studios making cool things with plenty of founders telling megacorp publishers to fuck off when they offer to buy.

The game industry is so fucking back

"We need to make personal control over your media cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have a Plex server, don't fuck them" —John Waters, probably

it's the manifestation of the phrase "my opinion is just as important as your knowledge."

today is yet another reminder of the dire need to impeach scotus justices and pass drastic court reform in our next reconstruction legislation. the only thing that barely survived was mail-in ballot counting.

Big things are happening in the r/Spyro Discord server.

Amazing data, but this is only a partial list of climate solutions Take the top one - solar. Solar's only really a climate solution if it displaces fossil fuels, but actions that counter the fossil fuel industry don't feature in the list Campaigning of all kinds is a vital climate solution too!

yesterday I went to a small mining town of ~5000 population and THAT place had more visitors and lively 4th of July decor in a single street than this outdoor dead mall.

regressives and capitalists are freaking the fuck out because their 'boogyman' for the past century finally showed up and he's actually awesome and people love that he's making lives better.

Not only has a woman showrunner just gone through the unspeakable burdens of being the public face of a viral media phenomenon, maybe sometimes a story can just say what it wants to say, then end

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

remembering hearing about this project early on, awesome that this update shows they've scanned 45 scrolls so far out of the ~400.

Everyone involved in the ai bubble must be held accountable once it bursts, and nobody is more responsible than Microsoft. They were the catalyst for this entire era, and the reason it kept going too. Satya Nadella may do more damage to the tech industry than Sundar Pichai in the end

it has been months and my salad wrap game is good enough that I've convinced my family that "yes, you can make a salad wrap that's so much better than the cold ham-filled wrap of sadness."

when I talk to any of my friends and relatives who want to live outside the dry southwest, I tell them to make sure they learn how high the web bulb temp gets in a heat wave and to get a place with AC, for at least humidity control.

Seven Dollars feat Kasane Teto. A song for chronic freelancers.

hearing that zuck trying to make his own prediction platform is equal parts hilarious & terrible because we have a 30% chance he sets another 10-50 billion on fire on another thing nobody uses and a 30% chance most fb boomers bet the family remaining wealth after watching too many ai slop videos.

not enough games where you can pet the dragons

At the request of our dear friend Marty

real dumb things exist in ways you'd never believe, especially from people with money.

RT myself to save a life. This one was heinous. Remember for whom the bell tolls — all phishing attempts are stupid and obvious until the one that catches you when you’re exhausted, high, disregulated, or old.

more games need to use everyday food combinations instead of rpg magical junk. ditch the typical ranks & stars too, go crazy with it. I want players to tell others they beat the last boss powering their heroes with universally-from-scratch sourdough with melted 11th-dimensional butter.