Clicked the link, tried this, and was genuinely astounded at both how easy and good this was. I am a convert. Also, I saw a mention of the "fast knot" and saw this gif, and had an actual out-loud "oh wait THIS guy made this???", as I've been using the fast knot for the last decade.

not using ian's secure shoelace knot is a sign of a weak moral character, poor constitution, and an unserious attitude towards quality workmanship

Commission for @/JJconix Thank you so much💙 #commission #art

Commission for @/YandeRisika Thank you so much💜 #commission #art

i feel terrible for the artists who have made it to the end of a long and successful career just to get pulled into being the unwitting soundtrack for a video of the president dumping liquid poop on people from a fighter jet

Drop Site buried the lede here quite badly. TLP, the organizers of this protest, are an extreme-right religious fundamentalist group that are using the suffering of Palestinians as an advertising opportunity. This is violence between violent authoritarians with Palestine being used as an excuse.

Being a busy hardworking artist is so hard 🥲 🐈‍⬛ I’m gonna have a bunch of original sketch cards like this one at my booth (no. 630) at Lightbox Expo this weekend!! ✍️

"The Legend of Hei 2" : new illustration for the japanese pamphlet book.

Been playing hades recently, they’re so cool and should definitely kiss and stuff 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

This image is so French I just retroactively took the entire month of August off

Mr. Dapper is either in on it or the thieves don’t have a chance escaping his superior investigation skills, there is no in-between.

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

WHO ARE YOU !!!!!!!

i found a third option

worlds saddest 8 word story

Imagine saying “God bless!” to someone snarkily defending gutter racists.

Well, at least you know where they stand.

What the actual fuck? Veteran here, and I am speechless that we would be conducting live fire over civilians. That shrapnel could have been lethal. And for What????

Did a new one

would love to know what kind of fight against fascism includes not pushing back in defense of the people fascism comes for

this is what deneen, vermeule, etc, all those expensive-looking people, this is what theyre in it for. this is the summum bonum to them

decades of sophisticated political philosophy dedicated to the criticism of rights discourse, theories of alienation from “organic community,” and advocacy for post-liberal forms of “counter-politics” have all led to Donald Trump posting an AI video of himself as a king shitting out of a plane

If Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia thought he could hide from his constituents by hosting a virtual town hall, he was mistaken. “You’re a fake. You only answer questions you have pre screened. You are not looking out for all the people who depend on you to stand up for them." trib.al/HM01qwE

the AWS outage cut you off from your friends because you're friends with AI chatbots. the AWS outage cut me off from my friends because all my homies use signal. we are not the same

Each outage reveals how much infrastructure has been captured by one weird freak, one single freakish country under the rule of literally the worst fucking guy. And then the next outage even more stuff has been put in that basket.

The internet was supposed to be able to survive a nuclear war, now it wouldn't even survive a security guard tripping over the wrong extension cord.

Can we keep AWS down?

Sadly, this is what most white Americans have appetite for. A controlled, safe walk in the park once every month or so wont cut it. Most people who ONLY attend these large no kings protests have no skin in the game and it shows. Real solidarity requires sustained action, not performative gestures.

We used to point this out a lot in our neighborhood FB group. People would put up a post about, say, the trash and the dumping. The act of posting made the neighbor feel like they did something about the trash but in fact they did nothing actionable.

AWS is down, post Scottish Wildcats

AWS is down, post hog

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Snapchat, Duolingo and several banks among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

if AI guys have their way the keyboard and mouse will be replaced with a slot machine lever which you pull over and over until the computer outputs what you want

2/ Today's Amazon outage is the convergence of a few trends. While Amazon has multiple regions, US-EAST1 is *the* region for a ton of services. Second, more and more of the internet is moving to hosting by a handful hyperscalers. So, when things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere.

Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome. This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things. Including Amazon's own stuff. Massive outages. Here's what's going on & what we know 1/

Man, I miss Mery's art. Even though I never watched the anime these characters are from, I always liked her art, especially her more rough sketches. Such a shame she stopped posting due to repeated harassment.

Shallow water

my other baby 🥺 #ocsky

My mental health was so much better when I had my silly little guys occupying my brain at all times

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing. find your people and build something real.

Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage Perplexity, Amazon .com, Signal all down (just 3 services I tried to use) When aws-us-east-1 sneezes, the whole world feels it indeed

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

Cms are open! And this time, with no time limit! Forever <3 nise-loftsteinn.carrd.co

Broncos? Thanks for that win 🧡

"[W]e must break with both parties of capital." "[C]onfronting Trump's authoritarian maneuvers requires confronting the entire bipartisan state that is seeking to find a way forward for capitalism on the backs of working people." #USA #Healthcare #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

it’s no wonder we get offerings of police-approved parades and donate $5 and just vote. we can’t even make space to hash out what substantive mass resistance could look like and what it would take to get there. it’s like people are afraid taking that step makes the possibility of acting on it real.

something very strange about how eagerly americans will consume content talking about how bad fascism is as it encroaches but any discussion on how to actually organize against it sends people into fits of rage.