your unmodified blue whale vs my post-market upgraded and tuned shiny violet whale

i am a strong independent woman who don’t need no claude

Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...

Holy smokes. Multan temperatures in Europe. Those cities are absolutely not prepared for this level of heat.

Having used Apple devices and software for years until recently and now using the Microsoft Office suite at work again, I don't want to hear any complaints about open-source and Linux jank ever again. This commercial stuff is just as janky and often worse. You're just used to it so you don't notice

#OtD 10 Jun 1907 the first edition of Chinese anarchist feminist magazine Tianyi (Natural Justice) was published in exile in Tokyo. It had been founded by He Zhen, a leading member of the Women's Rights Recovery Association stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8210...

#OtD 7 Jun 1972 police opened fire into a crowd of strikers demanding backpay in Karachi, Pakistan, killing three and injuring dozens. The funeral procession was also attacked by police. Workers responded with a mass strike across the city stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...

OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!

Shoshanna Zuboff warned us 7 years ago. In Chapter 10 ("Make Them Dance") of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

Early this morning, we received an email from @namecheap.com that the domain neocities.org was being suspended because of a court order from New Delhi, India (a jurisdiction we don't operate in), which was for an unrelated court order about a sports streaming site on a different domain.

Persepolis is available to read for free on internet archive. archive.org/details/pers... archive.org/details/pers...

Today I learned the keyboardist from Scary Pockets is the CEO of Patreon. wild.

desktops

land acknowledgement: this browser was built on the sacred territory of khtml

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A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Why are you nonbinary? Wrong answers only: I'm half girl on my mother's side.

I've made a self-hosting guide. I wanted it to be easy to use, but setup is always technical, but I tried very hard and will edit if I get feedback! ᓚᘏᗢ More info in thread guide → ophanimkei.com/you/selfhost... askbox → ophanimkei.com/personal/ask...

girlie's who were unsure that hrt was right for you/that you were trans. how quickly from the first dose of estrogen did you feel that clarity and know that it was what you were missing all along?

crochet filet🐰

crying over a lack of aquatic micro-fauna? krill issue

i maintain that one of the biggest losses with the death of daily papers is kids losing the daily comic

some of you

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

“Guys were getting a growing body of evidence that a lot of life is actually sentient” “Shitshitshitshitshit time to change the definition of sentient “

“The history of the Luddites—the real ones, not the pejorative figment of the entrepreneurial imagination—gives us a framework to evaluate the utility of technologies and their social impacts. Erasing that history collapses our thinking about how tech and automation affect our working lives”

I got an email from the IWW denouncing the EHRC draft guidance as an attack on trans workers within hours of the news dropping. Just FYI if you're looking for a union that isn't tied to the Labour Movement™ establishment.

they should invent a body that doesn't keep the score

I looked up the podcast where he talks about this, and jfc it's scary. youtube.com/watch?v=gGMi... I've had many many sleep paralysis episodes during the time when I was living next to a cemetery (wall of the graveyard was literally next to my bedroom window). This is much scarier than that.

every day this year

Prairie Whales 16" x 20" Acrylic on canvas This is the first painting I have made of my own backyard. #art #painting #sciart #acrylic

This is the money paragraph for me.

material girl living in a liquid glass world

gm today i'm going through a very traumatic racist process (visa application).