The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

My intro to Photoshop 😍

I heard someone on a podcast say that music is boring now and, look, I am saying this as kindly as I can…skill issue.

Toronto

New display pic? Labubusona? 🤔 Base by @kelzuix.bsky.social

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

I was there, Gandalf. #AnimeWebTurnpike

🌐 From the first web page created in 1991… to 1 trillion web pages archived today. Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved. Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Oh, the adventures we'll have together. #wranduin

Geocities from 1997, back when we surfed the web.

Canada Post is not a goddamn business and it's infuriating that the government keeps talking like it is. We never hear about how much money the army loses, or how deep in the red Environment Canada is. But the Canada Post, it never stops. And it's bullshit.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Need a laugh? (if you know, you know.)

Who the fuck invented allergies

The Simpsons: Hit and Run (2003)

Opening this app Eurovision news:

The last point isn't the flex you guys all think it is. It's not about Israel. It's about attracting higher-profile Portuguese artists to FdC who don't want to be associated with #Eurovision, but could use both the boost in exposure FdC gives and the support RTP gives in their future endeavors.

I'M SPECIAL!

I make no apology for getting excited for player housing now. It gives me so much happiness searching for inspiration, and the creativity that's possible excites me. The outside world is difficult to face some days, so this is where I go, into the magical spaces that make me smile.🏡 #WoW #Warcraft

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To put it bluntly, this is a fucking disaster. For consumers, for small businesses and artists, for everybody. The US is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world and for what?? Even if this gets sorted out or walked back, it’s going to cause a major disruption.

The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all

If this is the ai bubble beginning to pop, it doesn’t fix the rotten relationship we have trained people to have with art. We can’t just be consumers and content creators. We need to respect ourselves more.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Some thoughts on the Eurovision branding from the @escinsight.com team. Thanks for a fast turnaround and a huge group effort from all those involved. Anyway, would you like to talk about brand protection, social identity, and community fallout through the medium of donuts?

The “United by Music” logo is better than the main logo. 😭

Who the hell is 🦎? #eurovision #lizard

His name is Coyote_Whiteclaw and his fursona is a protogen (for now till he finds his next vrchat avatar) Please, use this for anything you need.

dimmy's just a 'lil guy, he's not hurting anybody

Serving 🦎 #eurovision #eurovision2025

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I saw you!!

Day 2 Lets goooooo! #canfurence #canfurence2025

Good morning, CanFURence! #canfurence #canfurence2025

Oh, you'll eat octopus but not horse? You're ok eating a peer but not a car made of meat?

If I see a single kind word about this absolute piece of garbage He was a racist who spent his entire career screwing over other wrestlers, torpedoing union efforts and being a renowned nightmare to work with.

Creative work in general pays far less than people think it does, especially relative to the notability one can have. The correlation between "fame" and "income" is rather shaky, especially the further down you go on the fame power curve. Lots of "world famous" creators are broke as hell.

I made this purely to amuse myself and maybe dozens of other Canadians

On this day 11 years ago, Dashcon took place.

There -literally- would not be em-dashes in AI output if they weren't extremely common in the human output vacuumed up by large leeching machines.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

Can we get this on everything?