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witchy Soren

Walmart is Now Shipping Items With Donkey Kong Bananza Advertising on the Inside Flap of the Box.

“Me: ranting about how everything is terrible and the world is falling apart
Lilo: ‘Yes, yes… go on. Tell me everything. I’m taking notes in my s’mol heart and my purrs are free.’” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #NoVA #adoptme #photography

Don’t bother me in the morning

Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism. Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have. Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare. People are trapped, so we must fight for them.

So the surveillance state now works in the west bank on palestinians to their satisfaction. And now the tech sector has enough power and influence to spread it to north america and europe

According to scientists like Ilan Pappe, one of the reasons the right tolerates a jewish state is that it functions as a laboratory experiment for right-wing extremist political strategies: how to survey a population, how to segregate it, how to make apartheid function, how to commit a genocide

Surveillance state in practice, for anyone interested in what the new owner of TikTok has in mind

for those keeping track of my comic lore, this guy joined ICE

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

many people often speak of Chancleta's strength and power. indeed, it is estimated that 90% of governments are consumed with this issue right now. but few speak of his mercy, his maturity. how he ignores the provocations of his sister each day, because she is small and young. praise him. a hero.

If you want another example start reading: Synexn.city

Hobbes: paw extended dramatically “Take my hand, mama! I’ll pull you from the abyss!” Me: “...I just dropped my phone under the couch.”
Hobbes: “A perilous fate indeed. Fear not, I shall guide you back to the light!” 😹🧡 #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #NoVA #adoptme #caturday

Happy #NationalRabbitDay 🐇🥰 nationaltoday.com/internationa...

History shows that when democracies face crises, strengthening and reinvigorating democratic participation is essential to prevent democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism. This is not that.

If people don’t communicate their needs, issues, or triggers and hide things from you only to unleash them like a deluge that’s toxic as hell. You deserve people around you that will have those hard conversations, communicate clearly, and foster actual community. True friends grow together.

And just to be clear: if you're using LLMs to help prepare something in a language you're not fluent in, IMO you're using the technology in one of its genuinely valuable ways. I absolutely don't knock that.

None of this is to deny that the technology has some uses in these capacities (though not ones I've felt any need for myself). But I worry that we are starting to see intellectual labour as just a means to an end, and as something that can be shortcut.

...I mean that even with careful prompts I would not be confident LLMs could perform the function I'd want. How do I know that any bland AI summary of a paper is going to extract what might be of value to *me* in it? I don't even know that myself before I read it...

I'm often surprised at how much researchers are using LLMs for intellectual work. It's not that I disapprove, or at least not on principle. It's more that I'm surprised at the trust being placed in the process. And by that I don't just mean LLMs can give wrong information...

And as for writing, don't get me started. Most often, the process of writing is not a laborious business of transcription, but a process of thinking itself. I'm not about to outsource my thinking to a machine.

If I have been away for a time again... it's only because I've been doing some more low-poly stuff, though this time in a smaller, more manageable style! This is a test proto-chibi Ramen, in a style reminiscent of FF IX! More is coming! :D #blender #3d #3dmodeling 🖥️🔵

I dont like the fact that I have to keep scrolling on these birthdate identification 😒 it used to be just a quick swipe

How can you look at happiness and say “no, we should deny access to this.”

All you have to do is *listen* to trans people and see the joy and freedom transitioning has brought to them, even in the face of society’s evil hate, to know that we should support and fight for their right to transition with every fiber of our being.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

kickstarter isn't really an option for me, partly because i'm disorganized as all hell and it sounds like a logistical NIGHTMARE on which i would instantly burn out, but partly because i live in a microstudio--i don't have the ability to carry thousands of books and ship them from my apartment haha

i can't just take 3.5 years off from making an income in order to finish a graphic novel, unfortunately. i will always be making comics, but without a publisher, i will not be making 384-page graphic novels. i need to eat. them's just the breaks!

i so appreciate the reassurance i don't need a pub to make good work, but the reality is, sadly, that i can't make a book the size or scope of hello sunshine without an advance. and even if i could, it wouldn't see distribution, which is hard to stomach as a YA author (i need it in kids' hands)!

emphasis on LABEL, feel free to post it but please be considerate of other people who may suffer from needle- or blood-related trauma / medical conditions thank you

(cw graphic) hey guys? maybe don't post a very clear picture of needles sticking out of your arm with a transparent tube full of blood draining out of said arm without any kind of label ?? oh my god

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

ICE’s fascist camps are black holes of cruelty over 1,800 people vanished without a trace. This is not a mistake, it’s a crime. What horrors are they hiding from us? We cannot be silent. We must expose their brutality, demand answers, and refuse to let the disappeared be erased from history.

#hsrspoilers oh mr yingxing the man that you are

It's #Savior & his "get out the vote!" alert & a look back to when he 1st arrived (straight from the vet who didn't want to euthanize & called us instead -bless him!!). This big boy was special (& mellow) from day 1. 💖Pls help us win $ for #cats like him: theanimalrescuesite.com/pages/shelte...

Obsidian is such a mama's boy 🖤🤎

Commission for dear pal @thestarfishface.bsky.social !! A companion to the art trade piece of her character Lapis from a bit ago. This one is Laz, Lapis' mysterious counterpart/foil/???, with Adonis annua, which has a variety of common names including, pertinently, "blooddrops".

GO! My Labubu missile!! KIWW!!

I’m gonna get ya 😹🐾 #cats #CatsofBluesky #cute #gato

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

There is something uniquely beautiful about winning the trust of a rescue dog with a hairy past. This morning my foster dog saw me being affectionate with Charlie and used his paw to ask me to touch him him too, and then closed his eyes as I pet his chest and gently stroked his forehead. A good day.

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Yes. In "Hitler's American Model," James Q. Whitman wrote about Nazis seeing USA as a blueprint for implementing a legal system of Nordic supremacy. It is quite telling that the Nazi officials also dismissed NYC as "not Real America."

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

can’t stop saying this to liz whenever I act weird