why do you need a divider with armored glass in your van 😭

a Shantih of the borderlands, uttering a partial invocation

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

Beautiful! On Mars, dust grains are ~ the same size as visible light wavelengths, so they scatter red light away (Mie scattering) and let blue through near the Sun. On Earth, air molecules are far smaller, scatter blue away (Rayleigh) and leave red. Same physics, inverted colors! 🔭 🧪 #science

I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there. They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did. medium.com/the-monthly/...

KOSA is never about protecting kids. It’s anti-queer and about making sure kids don’t have access to information they need to survive - from health basics to knowing they are not alone and not broken. And it will destroy the internet as we know it.

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Half plate, get it.

Researchers have used Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer to build a virtual mouse cortex. The model lets scientists run “virtual experiments” on diseases such as epilepsy or Alzheimer’s, tracing how disruptions spread, and testing interventions. buff.ly/JqiLr9q #ShareGoodNewsToo

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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

I'm gonna post a lot of things I have for sale and in stock today, so bear with me, I don't do it often! My most recent art book, A DREAM OF SWORDS, is the result of my visiting sword collections to sketch them in Paris, Leeds, Vienna, NYC, Graz, Cleveland, etc. crogan.bigcartel.com/product/dream

Het hele idee van vrijheid is dus dat ze dat zelf bepaalt, en dat mannen (of wie dan ook) daar niet over gaan...

Voor wie het echte verhaal wil zien, tot begin februari is bij Beautiful Distress in Amsterdam Noord (NDSM) een expositie over 15 jaar Nederland Word Beter (En dus KOZP). Dikke aanrader. Toegang op donatiebasis

Just a friendly reminder that AI slop has not taken over games fully yet and there are still humans making the games you enjoy. Please for the love of god dont abandon us.

Dé oplossing voor problemen: Oprekken. Post? Mag binnen een langere periode bezorgd worden. Treinen? Mogen -% te laat of niet rijden Water? Mag -% vervuild zijn PFAS? Mag -% voorkomen. Burgers? Moeten 100% meedraaien, 100% eerlijk zijn en 100% hun bek houden. Werkt wel. Tot het niet meer werkt.

Komt hier om te irriteren en provoceren. Dus raadzaam om eventjes te blokkeren: @criticusbarend.bsky.social 🚮👋

Though keep in mind that the Marty McFly piece was created by an actual artist. That's one of the other issues with the use of genAI: actual hard working artists get caught in the crossfire.

I am researching for a feature: what do your children play that's NOT Roblox? (And if you've banned it, what did they gravitate towards afterwards?)

Een scootmobiel is voor veel ouderen het verschil tussen wel en niet kunnen deelnemen aan de maatschappij. Onacceptabel dat daar een wachtlijst voor komt. www.gelderlander.nl/nijmegen/nij...

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

In Nederland echt niet beter, helaas. Vrouwenhaat jaagt vrouwen weg uit de publieke ruimte! ‘Increasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves’ #Vrouwen #Zweden #Haat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

beautiful sight. bitcoin lost 25% of it’s value in just one month. good omens ahead

Trumps loopjongen "De ‘bekentenis’ dat Trump gelijk heeft en dat de Amerikanen met 70 tot 80% ‘het overgrote deel van de Navo-rekening’ betalen is stuitend onjuist. Ook dit hardnekkige frame wordt door de Navo zelf naar het rijk der fabelen verwezen. Europa betaalt 72%, dus bijna driekwart."

In Brussels these days, the word I most often hear about #NATO Sec Gen Mark Rutte is "cringe". His grovelling to and excuse-making for his boss in Washington has made him lose an enormous amount of credibility in Europe just months after taking office. Matinale Européenne's take:

I know this point has been made before, but it's *wild* that the sort of thing that 15 years ago would have been restricted to nazi internet forums and dodgy leaflets chucked around town centres is now just being printed in national newspapers. No idea how to fix this, but it definitely needs fixing

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!

If you are using the "NVidia App", I suggest promptly going in to the settings, looking under "Notifications" and turning off "Available Rewards". If you do not do this, it apparently now uses the Windows notification system to show you fucking ads (for random video games)

This is lore-accurate. Clerics are only proficient with bludgeoning weapons.

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono

Back in the day IIRC there was a DMCA prosecution where the defendant had DRM-cracking code printed on a t-shirt and wore it into court.

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AI saving you time on nuclear plant decisions so you can have more time to argue about the bike shed roof

Puffins have returned to Northern Ireland’s Isle of Muck (seriously, that’s its name) for the first time in at least 25 years. Tales of puffins on the island “felt more like folklore,” said nature reserves manager Andy Crory, but now they’re coming back. buff.ly/oBQlH6r #ShareGoodNewsToo

Yes, thank you. Nobody wants to talk about the fact that Europe is bowing to Trump in all aspects, not just tech policies

Long before the screams of the cosmonaut Pavel Mikoyan troubled the children of the county, Hookland already had its own space phantom. The 'Dan Dare ghost' has been haunting the now abandoned British space programme at RAF Nook since at least 1962. (Depiction based witness testimony).

#gaza #genocide #palestine

Dit soort werkweigering door banken is me een doorn in het oog. Coffeeshops (en bijv. ook sekswerk) zijn legale diensten, met niet eens zoveel meer risico op witwassen dan sommige andere, en moeten dus ook gewoon als klant geaccepteerd worden. Anti-witwasbeleid heeft nu uitsluiting tot gevolg.

“AI is the future it’s legit and ethical and everybody wants it and that’s why we need to disguise it please let us disguise it”

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

it's generic late november discounts time! kitsune tails is 33% off, its biggest discount yet, but if you buy the bundle you get all our games for the price of one full price copy of kitsune tails: itch.io/s/169922/kit... please help us survive winter 🙏

UZDoom 4.14.3 is no more RC, officially released now. Y'all better stick around because the best update ever is still cookin'...

Fundraiser to pay for an emergency kidney procedure, anything helps we have less than $14.1k left to raise in less than 2 weeks to avoid medical debt truly anything helps. Shares and especially generosity would help a lot at this time, we are getting so close to our goal gofund.me/16ef32cb1