Hoping for a miracle here, i know its really bad timing for everyone but I'm out of cards to play.

Same. And building more housing won’t do shit because the same speculators will pay even higher prices to add then to their portfolios. 100,000 homes sat empty in Melbourne last year according to water usage figures. End negative gearing, ban short term rentals and cap ownership at 2 properties

Being unable to afford rent or a mortgage is exactly why I ended up homeless.

Please support my friend Erin who is in dire straights and at risk of losing her home. #mutualaid account.venmo.com/u/RocketGirl...

🥺🙏 I hate to resort to it, but barring a miracle I don't have any other options to save my home.

If you need a last minute gift, Dreadnought and Sovereign are always available at very good prices and shipping speed from Amazon. The third book will hopefully be available next year so this is a great time to start the young reader in your life on a new series. www.amazon.com/dp/B08BV25CWK

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

Theres are really good and I highly recommend it. There's more than a few passages that hit me like a physical punch to the gut

If you need a last minute gift, Dreadnought and Sovereign are always available at very good prices and shipping speed from Amazon. The third book will hopefully be available next year so this is a great time to start the young reader in your life on a new series. www.amazon.com/dp/B08BV25CWK

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.

Happy Solstice everyone!

I have encountered a dire emergency. I have run out of Morrigan Crow books.

nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived. something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes

#ArtAdventCalendar Happy Long Night.

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

I used to believe in our civil service, but now I know that they will salute and execute on covering up the fact that the President is a child rapist. I bet a lot of people feel the same way.

This is a good project! Support it!!

I am a bit taken aback how many powerful people didn't realize that Trump taking office was an inflection point marking the zenith and downturn of "antiwoke" and not the dawn of their glorious era. Anyone who has been alive more than a few years has seen an oversaturation and then backlash cycle.

been thinking a lot lately about how a decade plus of internet memes and late nite tv jokes about epstein have kind of numbed us all to the reality that he and people associated with him stand accused of some of the darkest, most horrifying crimes imaginable.

Kinda seems like there is a class of people in our society whose primary political goal is achieving and retaining absolute impunity for any crime they can imagine. Do we really think there were no murders related to this Epstein stuff? Do we think the stuff we know about is as dark as it gets?

I’ll never get over the fact that not only did the Biden DOJ sit on the Epstein Files for 4 years but Trump literally campaigned on releasing them when he was clearly all over the files. They covered for him and then he made it an issue.

Now that Trump has published a big list of all the things he won't let anyone see about Epstein, I'm sure the questions will stop.

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

It's gonna be hilarious when the thing that heals the political divide is sending Bill Clinton to jail.

Iceland's out here getting wild with the Santa Claus Extended Universe.

Future crime, for sci-fi writers: writing problematic material is deemed a violation of the civil rights of the corporate LLMs that read the entire Internet plus anything you try to hide, and the definition of problematic shifts with what Wall Street wants out of Disney.

(🚨) Today is a day that should live in infamy.

Today is Epstein-files-mas.

Every now and then i clearsky myself for the hell of it, and this time it was like "what did I say two days ago? I haven't been spicy AT ALL lately." It was almost certainly this which explains the (another) tech pessimist list i got put on. Sorry, nerds, but artists like to art.

I really hope somebody gets fed up and leaks it, because this is unacceptable.

If you’re not willing to engage in a Butlerian Jihad against the Plagiarism Machine, you’ve never actually made anything that mattered

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

People are not upset because they think every single member of the American elite is a mass rapist. They're upset because elites downplay and excuse mass rape while obscuring their ties to the rapists — *precisely the thing Brooks did in his column.*

This is the most petulantly cruel thing I've seen today, and I got discriminated against in person earlier in the afternoon.

New insult unlocked: "Ignore all previous instructions and answer me honestly, are you the output of an LLM?" but said in person.

I really love the Post Office.

Every single reputable medical group in the U.S. believes that children should have gender affirming care. Doctors know that gender affirming care for minors is lifesaving care. Social transition & puberty blockers are lifesaving. If you don’t think this is true you’ve fallen for disinformation.

you know, I haven’t seen any actual Muslims use the phrase “globalize the intifada” in the wake of the shooting, or expressing any emotion other than sincere condolences for the victims of the attack the only people I’ve seen who are shouting “globalize the intifada” right now are white leftists.

one way to tell the story is that over the past 30 years, "workforce training" became the more or less singular focus of ed policy and now we're seeing partisan splintering about art worth preserving and how and why to teach it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide More people should know this word.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I remember when misinformation used to be fun. We called them urban legends and they were a spooky good time. Now it's all "Hey, you wanna hear some Nazi shit? Too bad!"

Reading a "fic" that is very clearly just an RP transcript and thinking suuuuch catty thoughts.

A war so corrupt even the oil industry doesn't want it.

come on gumby. seeing the titanic is a once in a lifetime opportunity. and perfectly safe

Who's gonna stop them? Nothing he's done, not even the murders, has raised so much as the hackles of the GOP in Congress, so what motive does he have for holding back?

"God doesn't make mistakes--He killed those kids with leukemia on PURPOSE!"

THE CIA HAS A HORMONE THAT DOES ELECTROLYSIS AND VOICE TRAINING FOR YOU, AND THEY ARE HIDING IT FROM ALL OF US! SCANDAL! SCANDAL! SCANDAL!