Our mega rich are inflaming selves & their tools to make us hate each other. They depict anyone not in their chosen identity (“Christian” “White” rightwing) as a subversive, violent Other. That’s a path to bloodshed. How are we going to limit the hate? #auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/australias...

halloween name change time.

something spooky this way comes :>

its like this

I appreciate this list because it shows how much LLM writing sounds like marketing copy or somebody giving a TEDx talk. Which might explain why the most receptive audience to this slop seems to be tech founders trying to make money off it

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

it's weird that a clown car full of freaks like stephen miller and jd vance feeding the populace a strict diet of state violence, austerity, and cringe are not getting more popular. bread and circus but there's no bread and the circus is one sclerotic monkey vomiting on his balls

I don't give a shit so I _will_ name and shame here

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

Ursula K Leguin said it much better when she wrote about authors who would try slumming it in science fiction, how there is a sort of snootiness where they treat the genre as unimportant work. They put in all the tropes they know are there because it seems easy, but there is an air of condescension.

this is all so fucked because the news continues to frame it as "the AI boom" when the only boom is them building these death machines while demand wanes and revenue remains flat, it's all entirely artificial, but damn must be something cause look at all that infrastructure! surely it's worth it!

it's wild that we're somewhere between "the stock market is so far divorced from the real economic health of the country due to wealth and speculation that this bubble won't actually pop" and "Great Depression 2", and we simply do not know which one

Tradestar Dynamics' 'Chevalier' combat frame, much maligned upon release, became infamous in later years when secondhand frames were operated by irregular paramilitaries with devastating results across the frontier systems.

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

Here is your Saturday Spider. It's a twig spider (maybe Ariamnes sp.?) in Madagascar, at night in the forest; it has captured another spider, which is the soccer-ball thing near its fangs. About 1 inch long. (I've shared this elsewhere before, but I think not here. Sorry, if so.) #Arachtober 🐙🌿

In case folks don't know, you don't actually have to yeet windows 10 for shitty 11 this month. Pass it on! And comments off bc this is not an invitation to rec linux

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

Fullbody Commission for Spectrum ~

Basically how I've been internalizing it lol

First batch of Halloween Wiggles this year 🦇🍭🎃🍬✨

went to see what goldwave was up to after all this audacity hubbub, and lol they're a tech scam behind.

new audacity logo looking like

Someone needs to start collecting cassette copies of In Got We Trust, Inc and see what people taped over the B Side. I've said this for years but I've not got the means to do so

drawing of my new guy (designed by tropicalsteppe)

Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to. Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

Do not make work, your career, or a “grind” mentality your whole personality. If all you offer is labor & capital, you can’t be upset when people say you’re no fun or only include you when you’re chipping in.

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

bsky ceo's crashout shows they can not handle simple criticism, so keep doing it. bsky wants the marginalized people that built this site to shut up or leave, don't give them an easy way out

Draconic nun #digitalart #oc

Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this was made due to an inside joke at the studio, though the exact nature of the joke has been lost.

so this happened a long time ago in Animation and basically here's what happened: * 95% of the US animation industry was obliterated and all that was left was management positions or people doing 5 jobs at once * basically the entire skill/knowledge base went away within a single generation

every person i know who does interesting things in video games in this part of the country - the ones operating outside the usual ecosystems of student-to-labor pipeline or tech boosterism - have three things in common. they're devoted, they're exhausted, and they're laboring in relative solitude.

Tech CEOs are business majors with no real tech knowledge that want to be wealthy while having a plausible air of bein' smart to anyone who doesn't know they're a talentless hack. So they either buy a tech company and pretend they're smart, or buy actually smart people to make the company for them.

my depresssion/low energy meal as of late has been to take instant miso, boiling some udon noodles and chucking a bunch of shit easy to chop (spring onion) pickled radish and just eating that for breakfast

Inktober Murky Almudron

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Have you ever seen a baby gar eating? This little Spotted Gar is about a week old and has started feeding on zooplankton (in this case brine shrimp/Artemia/ aka "sea monkeys").

Disability isn’t a “dirty” word and Autism by definition is a disability. This is because Autism is a condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, and/or activities. Autism might be a *net* positive for an individual but that doesn’t mean that Autism isn’t a disability.

Space Dragon 🐉🪐✨

captain lanky

秋の彩

Lagiacrus #monsterhunter #mhart

Catching up on artober! “Witchy” “Berries” “Marshmallow” all done. Credits to artist who made the list. #artober #artober2025 #monsterhunterart

Jin Dahaad, Zero and Below #mhart #monhunart #monsterhunter #mhwilds #3dartist

Every Day There Are Horrors