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A big fat nil points to the "AI-boosting account" that dropped into my replies to tell me - in an incoherently vague AI-written style - that the best way of avoiding AI spam was to use an AI filter. I wish them a very happy being yeeted into the sun.

"I then came across the most helpful piece of the puzzle from a veteran cameraman, in a forum post I can no longer find" is the kind of sentence that hooks my attention. the lost, forgotten lore of a bygone age.

This is some serial killer shit.

(Yes, yes, he should have been there sooner, yes America’s always been like that, etc etc. I know. But people show up when and how they show up, and fresh bodies are worth a little grace.)

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Conversation that I really hope happened: PARENT: Yes, Principal, we have told him never to resort to physical violence. Of course we’re disappointed. He’ll be grounded for a month. *five minutes later, in the car* PARENT: Ice cream before or after we go get you that new PS5?

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As always, watching the half pipe at the olympics makes me miss SSX

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday Kindness makes a difference. It isn’t always simple, and some days you may not have the strength to give it. That’s ok But whenever you can, add a little love to the world, because all of us need more of it than we realise

Ask Hank Anything with Angela Giarratana! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOA...

Some of you don't draw fat women enough..!!!

I keep going back to this analogy, but if you're appalled by how credulous journalists, technocrats, billionaires, governments etc. are over this obvious parlour trick, please consider the veracity of everything else they do and say.

Fucking hell. This is, somehow, uniquely monstrous.

Yep, if it’s not worth her time to write it, it’s not worth mine to read it. Let the AIs read it.

I will say that the section about the plus sized romance author having to go through and rewrite sections of the book with passages like "The chair groaned under her weight" is objectively hilarious. Take the hint, lady. AI is not your friend and will simply repeat the horrible biases it was taught.

This article is incredible. It says everything us actual authors have been saying for years, but with a smile on its face. “If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine,” she said. Uh huh? Tell me more. Like how you published 19 novels to sell 20,000 copies. An average of 1000 copies a title.

Pretty sure it’s still me, actually, since nobody is gonna come up to you at a signing and tell you how much your slop meant to them.

everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up

Shocked they don't mention Goncharov once.

Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) shot on September 28th of last year. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Wildflowers

So, this literally just happened. Like, I'm bummed because Lenore passed away a few weeks ago, I probably told you, it sucks, I didn't even want to watch Star Trek. This morning, I open the window and a bird flies in and won't stop saying the same word over and over. What an asshole that bird is!

But talent, if not married to the ability to work like a dog, gets you maybe to college, and then you’re flailing behind people who were maybe less talented but a lot more dogged.

You guys, check out these lovely Sandhill cranes!

While I applaud the drive to improve representation in winter sports, I don't think they need to keep telling us which athletes are bi.

The British Press here with its usual instinct for backing a winner immediately before it careens over a fence and breaks all four legs. The jockey turns out to be a paedo.

NEW MEXICO DID THE THING!! www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...

Over a thousand people turned out in the snow in Hanover county to protest and the public comment line was SRO. Apparently the company backed down under pressure from all sides and won’t sell now. They’ll fold if we fight. www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

Hey NM gang, last day for this—share a story, and maybe keep book bans away from our libraries.

ghoul girl and gobbo

Just seen an example of really shitty alt-text reposted into my timeline (twice)! Like, literally not describing anything about the actual image. Why even bother?

In addition to that, smartphone batteries are lasting so much longer. I am using a 5-year-old phone as a business line and it still works fine. Batteries have gotten amazing and cheap! Yet somehow, despite all the evidence everywhere, a good lot of people somehow aren't convinced.

Something that really gets me about the state of battery development is that consumers have so many amazing battery powered devices now. Cordless stick vacuums have become very mainstream. Almost everyone is using cordless power tools, in fact lots of auto shops hardy use air tools anymore!

Oh thank god.

They were kidnapped several hundred years ago or so

Slave ships.

A slave ship, since you ask. One way ticket, no returns.

“…All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.”

I lived in North Carolina for sixteen years. Not blaming people who cannot wait in line for ten hours at their district’s single polling place, who had their ballots challenged and didn’t find out in time, etc, is not defeatism, it is acknowledging that some people do get screwed over.

When you say “most states” you might note those are largely not swing states. The GOP has worked very hard to make voting hard in swing states, because when people are able to vote, they lose.

They also banned same-day registration during early voting, and perhaps most critically, restricted Sunday voting. Sundays were the biggest early voting days for many minorities, through programs like “Souls to the Polls” that offered rides to the polling places, which is why they shut it down.

Early voting got gutted in North Carolina, and polling places have been removed from colleges. There are multiple ongoing lawsuits about it. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2...

They weren't sitting on their asses. They were working, which their bosses don't allow them to take off from to stand in line for ten hours in their majority POC neighborhood w/ 1 polling place that closes at 7 pm. Nor does their kids' daycare & schools, their 2nd job, etc. We make it hard to vote.

Hey gang, a little bird tells me that Kobo put THE TWISTED ONES and NETTLE & BONE on sale until the 15th! (I know it’s in the UK, not sure about US)