every picture of bari weiss looks like an irritating precocious child up past bedtime pestering the guests

As of today I’ve removed Twitter from my phone and locked my account. Elon going all in on Generative AI, including enabling Grok to generate deepfakes OF MINORS is unconscionable. This year we ALL need to be louder than ever about this: GenAI is largely unethical and needs to be regulated.

Have a work selfie. Actually did the tiniest bit of makeup and work my new Spellcaster tailcoat and gloves from @darkcottagefashion.bsky.social~! Showing that life past 40 cast still be witchy and hot! #transisbeautiful

I loved this article from CNN. I feel sorry for the American families it's effecting, but hey, this is war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSz...

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THIS!

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

You do not owe anybody your attention. The right to speak is not the right to be heard, it's only the right to try.

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It's all about feeding America and taking care of people until the folks who had the struggle to scrape change to eat and get by are now being mocked by uppercrust white communities for losing their SNAPS. Unbelievably ghoulish I despise the timeline I'm in human compassion is dying out fast.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

The party of I got mine, go f*ck yourself

Basically, normalizing themselves

If you remember only one thing today, remember to breathe. Breathing is super important. If you remember two things, remember that empires never last. The Sumerian empire fell. So did the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire and the British Empire. Whatever the tyrant does, it won't last. And breathe.

The Curse of Caw! (Repost to spread it.)

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

It's like human fingers were made to give scritchies. For vicious, vindictive predators, we're remarkably good at affection.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

(first time astroturfing) damnnnn who else think chester the otter is sooo hot👀

Happy Halloween / Stay Villainous

I'll speak a prophesy ere I go. ICE is busy in America, gathering up all the brown folks and shipping them to death camps overseas. Result? Businesses that need that brown labor are tanking the US economy.

What happened to Charlie Kirk was a crime. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Anyway...

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

...wow...

Let no one define who you are but you. Nobody else has standing. Your deeds and your glories may be seen by all, but only you can know the well inside you from which that water was drawn.

They what?

Pet owners have become increasingly reluctant to give their dogs their required shots, with some even believing the vaccines can cause autism in their dogs. (This is TOTALLY wrong, by the way). Canine autism- that is not a recognized diagnosis in dogs.

Was stalled out so long on the cards i feel like i'm starting from scratch - doubly so as i readjust my life in the wake of the seizure - so decided I'd do that literally, and remaster the first few cards I ever did. #Ballpoint, brushpen, metallic pens, watercolour pencils & conté

I confess, the first thing I thought was, "Trump travels with his own swimming water?" (*cough cough may he drown in it ker-choo*)

Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.

At re-posting, clicking on "sign the petition" in the Canadian version sends to a blank screen. Try anyway, this might be fixed by now.

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there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive to them I say two things: 1. are you fucking serious 2. go fuck yourselves

Make history, Charlie!

Y'know, Trump decided to call every kind of Authority he could find just to harass homeless people, that was pretty sudden. I wonder if maybe there was going to be a massive protest against him and all this was his way to prevent it. Do you think he'd do that?

It's all right!

(for Americans who follow me, of course)

Pretty!

*facepalm*

If your service isn’t community owned, community orientated, and community funded. It is vulnerable! Only funding, volunteering, advocating, annoying (politicians/payment processors), and just not shutting up about XYZ is the only way to keep them safe. You have a voice, you have power!