Ok, I couldn't resist and looked it up. The USS Daffodil was a real ship in 1862. (I couldn't find a photo) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Daf...

If I were queen of the universe, all US Naval vessels would be named after flowers. The USS Daffodil has a great ring to it, for example.

OpenAI is admitting here that they're going to violate copyright by creating derivative works. Derivative works are not fair use. If they actually try this "opt-out every copyrighted character you own" shit, I expect Disney and DreamWorks will sue their pants off.

I'm gonna email every studio and say I'm making and commercially releasing a Marvel/Batman/Mario Bros/James Bond/etc. movie unless they explicitly ask me not to by tomorrow, cause this is literally the same thing.

Billionaires absolutely think they own the rest of us, which is why there should be an absolute tax on individual wealth exceeding 1B by so much as a penny. We need to tax billionaires out of existence.

And there are never any consequences for the people who threw out these garbage takes. They’re still out there, still pitching obvious bullshit.

Funny how just two short years ago, SCOTUS had no trouble deciding a president had overstepped his authority—because the president was a Democrat and student loan forgiveness didn't fit with their Christian nationalist agenda.

Got my Covid and RSV vaccines today and so far, my arm doesn't even hurt.

You know who's getting shot? People in ICE custody.

That stache is a CHOICE.

He's like a horse in a hospital...🤣 youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...

Recent events have suggested to me that many people think "call me" = "text me." This is not true. "Call me" means it's something I have to respond to right now. "Text me" means it's something that can wait until it's convenient for me to respond. These are not the same.

Work me rn:

I love this for them.

But, but WE MUST REMEMBER HISTORY!!!

I'm going to go broke because I want all the semi-colons.

The rapture jokes are funny, AND please be aware that rapture predictions are sanitized extermination fantasies. It’s not a coincidence we have rapture predictions at the same time we have ICE vanishing people, trans people under attack, disability communities abandoned in an ongoing pandemic, etc.

The way Sunstein just walks right into this is 👨‍🍳😘 and the suggestion that Chotiner maybe not print it is the icing on the murder cake.

I forget until she comes up in my play list just what an astonishing voice and talent Rickie Lee Jones has. Just...wow, every time.

Craig Mammalton.

The rapture came early in San Diego bc the #Padres clincher a wild card berth!

The lyrics to Steely Dan's Hey Nineteen make me laugh so much more now than they did when I was 19.

All I see when I see her name is 3 Ks.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll never need to eat again.

Ooh, Karen Bass is here.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

If you're in or near LA, you should know that the Central Ave Jazz Festival is happening today. It's on Central Ave between Vernon Ave and MLK. Parking at Harmony Elementary. Admission is free! We're here, it's awesome. #LA #Jazz #SouthCentral

He's giving away the whole game. Every time.

The rise of fascism in the 1930s followed a handful of years after the Spanish Flu

I'm in a car behind a Cybertruck and it's making me hungry because everything about the rear end of a Cybertruck makes me think "toaster oven."

It should be a Maize Maze.

Hi, it me!

complaint struck out for being in violation of Domine haec est Wendy's

I dunno. Seems like democracy is doing a pretty good job of executing itself at the moment.

If there's one thing history tells us, it's that really shitty Roman emperors didn't last very long...

I know we are in a fascist crisis, but every post by That Fucking Guy ending in "Thank you for your attention to this matter" like he's sending a propitiatory email to customer service instead of threatening his detractors with terrible fates will never not send me.

I want just one of them to explain their Schrödinger’s Dem/Liberal/Leftist: somehow always simultaneously beta, snowflake cucks AND super dangerous, violent terrorists to be feared.

John Yoo, Karl Rove, Tucker Carlson, who’s next Benjamin Netanyahu??????

But is it in a coal mine, because if not it means we need to build more coal power plants...

It's now all state media, all the time.

If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust. If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.

I can’t say it enough times - Everything hinges on trans rights. If you need self-interest: Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner? Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn? Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.

I'm just...really sorry that the world has turned like this. My 23yo son asked me if, when I was his age, it seemed like "now" would never come. He meant in the sense that the future seems so FAR off when you're young. But I also read it another way. I didn't "expect" now to come when I was 23.

This is the dumbest thing I have ever read. If these rules "don't apply" to people with DSDs, how the EVERLOVING fuck can it be enforced? How would anyone KNOW whether my pronouns or titles correspond with my GENETIC or BIOCHEMICAL sex? I've never even been tested. How would *I* Know?

TIMELINE CLEANSE TIME. The Emmy's were last night, #Romancelandia, which means #RomanceCoversAs Emmy's outfits are today. We start with A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social as Jenna Ortega because HOLY WOW, sometimes life goes straight to giving you lemonade. 1/12

"Hell hath no fury, like a white person mildly inconvenienced.'

It's gonna be the last one. :/