For the record, these are not bad sales, they are beyond horrendous. A debut science fiction author with a social media following of 3 people would be expected to do way better than this. This is the literary equivalent of a quarterback getting the ball and immediately scoring against his own team

These trees look like Jimmy Hendrix & Claude Monet did a collab, but this is just what the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) looks like every day: fabulous. The only 'rainforest' eucalyptus, it's native to the Philippines & Indonesia, but introduced in Hawaii, Florida & California.

I specifically had to frame it in terms of breaking customers’ trust. If a customer sees a corp’s AI photo/video, and clocks it as fake, they can’t trust that the company’s services actually provide real results either. They feel lied to, and won’t buy (Which *should* seem obvious from jump, but 🤷)

Benedikt Pleyer/Nomadic Nostoc filmed these tiny ostracods collected from the beach of a Japanese island. Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators. The same chemicals produce firefly glow. 海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"

Holy crap....this is a Pumpkin toadlet and it is the best

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So I can’t read this for Reasons, but the first picture shows someone with matcha and guuuuys matcha is just chock full of caffeine. It’s more caffeinated than coffee.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

When I tell you this Red-shouldered Hawk yesterday was at EYE LEVEL... 😂 #birds

THE MERCHANT

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Last night when I was getting into bed she asked me if I was “wearing Santa ears”

watched someone's 1st time reaction/summary to the entire LOTR trilogy and man. so glad they got to experience their 1st time watching it. i would've missed out if my 7th grade english teacher hadn't "bullied" me into reading the book. threatened to turn my A into an F if i didn't lol

Oh, God. Best of luck to her, but every non-black person who cheered on Mamdani and AOC is about to have a litany of reasons why Jasmine is a bad choice that somehow has nothing to do with race. They just have a "feeling" she's not right.

This matters for no other reason than someone with the guts to force all the precedents Trump is establishing could easily Make This A Thing and if it goes through cite Kushner's involvement as reason to actually undo the merger. If a candidate had any backbone at all, that is.

Fellow Asians & POC: Proximity to White Supremacy is NOT protection. Vance, married to a daughter of Indian immigrants, a path opened by Civil Rights Acts won by Black leaders who taught none of us are free until all of us are. If even the VP's wife is not exempt from racist hate, why think you are?

In case you didn’t know: When you cook mushrooms, slice them up and cook them in a dry pan. No oil. Leave them on medium heat and let them sweat out all their water. You’re not ready to add oil or other ingredients until the mushrooms are no longer leaching water, and browning at the edges.

Taurus: You will finally be able to trace all of your problems down to that one single moment when the universe was created.

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Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

These anti-vaxxers will kill babies. It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.

Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight

crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think

from a state party director

Everyone’s favorite company that absolutely would never use AI in any way because that would be bad is doing a big old collab with Duolingo this coming week and you’ll likely hear no protesting about that from the usual anti-AI crew who love this game

been rotating the HMart Tik Tok drama in my head for days now. I only know it from YT discussing it bc I'll never download that app but I'm Not Surprised the Korean Americans my age and older are being the biggest fucking clowns and bootlickers about it. fucking embarrassing. shame on you all.

A few months ago I read that many datasets used to train these AI models are full of porn to ensure “women aren’t underrepresented in the dataset.” Once you know, you see it everywhere.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

lol wtf

Pantone really said MORE WHITE in trumps America

endless fascinated how inconvenient those giant wide fuckoff pickups are to everyone. waitng at an off-ramp to turn left and the truck behind me was so wide it blocked the right turn lane when the right turn signal was green. rip that whole lane.

Relatable Corvid

if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way

In a district gerrymandered to fuck to be sure that a double digit shift would never happen. Lotta folks out there don't grasp what TN07 did today and how shook up the GOP is gonna be about it. They did the unthinkable there, my heart is so full.

WHO'S HUNGRY NOW, BITCH?

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

when you forgot someone existed until they suddenly appeared in a skeet thread and nope, ban your ass from my life. i haven't forgiven you for airing out my PRIVATE* complaints about your article to your vastly larger twitter audience years back. *they were under a cut tag

Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.

writers artists 🤝 getting our best work 🤝 done at 2am 🤝 🤝 criminals santa claus

Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.

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It is incredibly strange that these schools seem to factor in zero reputational, enrollment, or recruitment damage to their “settling with Trump” equation, when clearly there’s a major hit to all three.