the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

PSA because I'm tired of this 🧵

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

I’m firmly in favor of each and every one of these guys coming face to face with the public and realizing in real time that they’re unlikable, antisocial goons

Kinda here for it

Every time I open Bluesky,

Trying to make myself remember to say “AI images” instead of “AI art” so I always keep in mind that LLMs cannot make art.

At karaoke, and I have questions.

idk how to tell you this but people in their 30s and beyond do not have to subject themselves to the aesthetic judgements of teenagers. you can have a distinct culture. you dont have to breathlessly ask if the thing you like is chopped! we havent been young or cool in a while!!

This is very similar to that one post about how for the right wing, the unborn fetus is the perfect individual to advocate for. They aren't complicated, real people who might have done less than savory things, they aren't asking for welfare funding. So that's why "pro-life" is so animating

the beauty of this website is that every morning you can wake up to a new bloody civil war with absolutely no indication whether it was incited by someone saying “silk boxers are mid” or “I believe you should be allowed to eat any dog under ten pounds”

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That ADHD thing where you get your attention drawn by something and you take along whatever you were holding at the time and end up putting it down somewhere really weird is the worst.

I got that dog in me And by that dog I mean "back to the hotel and cozy at 8pm after the convention"

I remember when Rogers Roam Like Home was a desirable feature and not just a scammy excuse to charge me $16 if I answer a text message.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

MySpace-page-ass dog food

Every now and then I remember the 1700s Japanese illustration of hammerhead sharks and it cures my depression.

Flat color digital image complete for @KazukioArts (on twitter) Seems the poor pent up fellow just couldn't hold it in any longer!

There is money to be made in: * creating the problem * worsening the problem * prolonging the problem * denying the problem * selling non-solutions to the problem And when that's all dried up, finally * addressing the problem while creating a new one

Oil companies be like, “Climate change isn’t happening. And if it is, it’s not humanity’s fault. And if it is, individual action can address it. And if it can’t, it’ll cost too many jobs. And if it won’t, it’s too late to do anything. And if it’s not, well, we just don’t want to.”

“Why do we have level 2 watering restrictions so early? We never had that while I was growing up.” Huh, I wonder what’s changed between then and now. 🤔

I like it when Diablo 4 mashes together a really ordinary first name and a really fantasyesque last name. "Gabriela Shockblade... of the Ilchester Shockblades? I do believe I went to prep school with your father, miss."

- wolverine - #furryart #anthro

*radio show plays a clip from 1976* Me: Wow, this show has been going for thirty years! Wait, no, forty years! Wait, no…

Skyline Chili threesome! No, wait, that’s not what they call it…

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

you can't "fix the image of the fandom" they decided you were a freak because you're a furry, and they haven't even looked past that to see any of the other stuff you're not fixing that when the core concept of being a furry makes you a freak, regardless of any other behavior

Go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you literally laugh out loud

Heartbreaking: your favorite sports commentator revealed to be a liquid

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

Now I have two purple urushi pens. This one is a Nahvalur 365 Anniversary Nautilus Roiro in Lilac.

Brb, about to meet god

You LOVE to see it, good work everyone, keep up the relentless dunks on AI, all these bros deserve a wedgie/swirlie combo and they are not allowed to sit at our table ever again.

Huh, Skyline chili is subtler than I expected. But pretty good.

@anykitschway.bsky.social Hey, found some of your stuff at Cross and Crows so I figured I’d follow here too!

Folks -regularly- underestimate how much more physical riding a motorcycle is than driving a car. You use your whole ass for it! It is -not- like driving, and there is SO much wind.

Took the car up the Fraser Canyon and ended up doing the whole ~600 km Duffey Lake loop.

I’m not sure what’s worse: if I don’t like Skyline Chili or if I do, considering it’s kind of a pain to get here.

Lil sketch from @apeslion.bsky.social!

a handmade embroidery artwork titled "Manually embroidered cats" created by artist @ladyserebrennikova.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

the right wing criticism of modernity always operates the same: it identifies the alienation of modern life, but its solution is to respond to this state of affairs with the so-called "freedom" of "natural hierarchies": man over woman, white over racialized, family over foreigner, nation over other

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

Hey everyone! It's that time of year again! I'm riding my motorcycle in the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, a worldwide event that takes place May 17th! Leading up to it, I'll be fundraising via my profile on their website, all proceeds going to men's mental and physical health! Details below ⬇️

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

Kinda tired of this now 🫩

The "turns out" for all of these outages always ends up being incredible. At this point me trying to have a 'wait and see' attitude is less being nice and more "nah lemme wait until they show their whole ass'