girl but she's a samurai

I am looking for photos of Victorian dresses to use as refs. And Google will only show me stores selling Victorian style dresses. All it wants to show are things to buy. I just want historical photos and images from museum exhibits...

I think I am kinda satisfied with this panel.

Art vs Artist for 2025~ Given how hard this year was...I'm amazed I got as much done as I did.

u do not have 2 hand it to the 2000's sonic fandom

Yep, the level of vicious bigotry is extreme and we can cannot give an inch. There is a movement on the far right, supported by billionaires and powerful people in the White House, who want to ethnically cleanse Somalis from the U.S., and we must describe it as such and treat it as such.

By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.

A senile Republican president has turned America into a disease-ridden, economically stagnant police state. But my liberal neighbor is having a Hamilton-themed birthday party for his nine-year-old. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Okay, HERE it is. What I am feeling today...this is the energy that I needed yesterday.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Meanwhile the "Offline" podcast has a nice chat with a techno-optimist who is increasingly curious about race science. Even if you want the T.O. view, you could almost certainly find a less absurd person to present it than Noah Smith.

It can comes across as if people think that being a techno-optimist is something close to a moral obligation. That you MUST subscribe to techno-optimism in its most naive, uncritical form to be a good person.

The nature of the idea of "techno-optimism" in our discourse is genuinely interesting. Whenever I hear people invoke it, they often do so in a manner that has an almost moralistic energy. I have heard people say "I try to be a techno optimist..." In a similar tone of "I try to be a good Catholic."

I had not looked at clearsky for quite a while. I am glad to see that I am on some very normal and not-at-all unhinged lists. "Techno-pessimists" is easily the funniest.

You know me, I never shut up about how much I HATE digital watches

A lot of the coverage of Mamdani is predicated on the idea that socialism is necessarily an economic system of mass impoverishment, and this is by design: the very wealthy want people to imagine that any system where the rich end up less well off will lead everyone else to be poorer too.

Today is the first day of 2026! Yesterdays was just an interstitial space. You see, years have interstitial empty spaces between their usable days, and in those spaces are where we put the mechanical systems for the years. Also I was depressed yesterday, more than today, so yesterday doesn't count.

okay i think its time to eat, given how woozy i just got from simply walking to the bathroom

be a hater they said it'll improve ur brand they said

Look ladies as long as you have an elegant silhouette that makes you look like some kind of vampiric angel of death then you are 90% there

Mean girl but only about super pointless niche stuff

Man it is too fucking early for this shit

Mean and superfluous disaster bitch going to get food

Magic woke me up at 6am. I have not been able to get back to sleep. Now i am hungry as well. But i do not want to get up.

The energy I aspire to

Strange Tails #3! Written by me, art by @bailierosenlund.bsky.social, colors by Ian Herring, letters by Travis Lanham, edited by Farah Javed and @alannawrites.bsky.social! These cats are so cute I can’t handle it 😭😭 😻: www.marvel.com/comics/issue...

FF12 is the only good (mainline, non remake, not online ) one after the PS1 era

“So part of my approach is informed by my conviction that education is a realm of freedom that should be as non-carceral as possible. I don’t care if that sounds “high-minded”—it’s no higher than education is or deserves.”

also treating water consumption for an industry in aggregate as if it's the same as co2 production is fucking idiotic if you have more than one brain cell. the former is a hyperspecific and localized issue and the other is a purely global one. they couldn't be more different

“Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, and writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education. It is not more complicated than that.” open.substack.com/pub/mattdina...

Okay it is way too early for that 2017 level tumblr ass take i just saw The thread even referenced she-ra Come the fuck on

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

Final Fantasy 12 > Final Fantasy 10 and it's not even close.

Few things will make me drop a youtube video faster than a clearly auto-generated voice. I just cannot stand it. It grates on my ears.

Once again, if the most venerable corporate media establishment in the country will blatantly, willfully - despite being presented with mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary - repeating lies about a vulnerable innocent population FOR YEARS! What else are they lying to you about?

Zidane from FF9 is a theater kid and that seems like a sort of underrated fact about him.

What on earth is the upside to any of this? How does this improve the world for anybody?

The mouse is a versatile little beast

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

Elon Musk, the man whose mommy took to the internet to say stop pointing out what a tool her son is, is offering to put robotics in your brain.

Team The Luddites Were Right, Actually, and We Should Hammer More Things

giving a bunch of racist, misogynist, actual nazis a button to virtually strip any person is just a depravity it is hard to fucking fathom. also I've crossed a fucking rubicon on AI tonight. If the cost of it is creating revenge porn of children and murder/suicides, WHAT IS FUCKING WORTH THAT.

pundits love to say "you think we're all barely literate ignoramuses because you ignore our excellence in the valuable skillset of horse race coverage" and then be extremely bad at horse race coverage

Behaviores Report: 100% Goode!

Part 8 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg A rare dagger for esoteric rituals from France, mid 19th Century And you will have to wait for more tomorrow

Part 5 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg German hunting knife that's also a gun, that's also a calendar..

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

Part 15 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg An Egyptian amethyst cat amulet. Late period to ptolemaic period, 664-30 BC