This hit funded! There are a lot of stretch goals to hope it reaches though
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This hit funded! There are a lot of stretch goals to hope it reaches though
Have you ever wanted to see one of your characters be subjugated to a military press courtesy of a hippo wearing a camo-print speedo? Well now you can because to celebrate reaching 396 followers on Bluesky, I’m hosting a YCH raffle with art courtesy of @ahhmaceuticals.bsky.social 1/3
“You know one of the most charismatic people to ever live? Like even his health issues are weirdly interesting? Yeah we got the exact opposite of that”
“Sultans of Swing” rules but this reminds me that at every opportunity I need to remind people that “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most transcendent pop songs ever written.
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
I notice that LLMs do all this crazy work but often gets a number wrong by 1, which will never not be funny to me.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Me: Experiences physical pain drawing shoes and top down perspective of people Also Me: Draws a comic with both those things
When dominant Lightning ends up as the sub in a wrestling match against a man he just met~ 🥴💦 @hotowl777.bsky.social
I'll take "How to be banned from DragonCon forever" for $500, Alex.
The story: real artists complained. Art proved to be AI and he was asked to leave. He said “no” so the police were called to watch him while he packed his AI crap up. F him & F AI slop!
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This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
cousin: help! my plant keeps falling over in its pot and so many parts are dying > huge pot, way too big for baby plant > leaves falling off > soil is super damp > ask how often she waters it cousin: twice a week, why? > its a cactus
The point of the Medal of Honor was to recognize enlistedmen, who normally were ignored as all the glory went to senior officers. The Medal of Freedom is the opposite.
That's also why the Congressional Gold Medal (which does go back to the early days) isn't for wear, it's only for display. It's all tied up in the traditional symbolism of civic republican modesty in a way people were once conscious of but faded over time.
The backstory of the Medal of Freedom is JFK was annoyed Europeans had fancy (non-military) medals to hand out, which we didn't do in America, so he made up his own. Presidents have been tossing it at random senior politicians and pop culture figures and whoever else tickles their fancy ever since.
Historically, US was so averse to European-style medals we didn't even do military ones (Purple Heart was a "badge" under Washington and not revived until the 20th C.), and then for a long time only the Medal of Honor (Civil War). We got over that but the aversion to civilian ones persisted longer.
For things the Kennedys made up as new traditions, I'll give them the Air Force One livery, and the Rose Garden, and for that matter the Kennedy Center (noting a Trump trend here?) but the Medal of Freedom is tacky un-republican trash. The office is not our fount of honour and shouldn't play at it.
Also, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is *not* our "highest civilian honor." The much older Congressional Gold Medal is, because Congress as a body properly outranks the President. Thus why the military Medal of Honor is presented "in the name of the United States Congress" and not just POTUS.
Calling Chuck Schumer - this is your wakeup call.
1 more month 🎃
Remember when some outlet was like “could Colorado beat 2019 LSU” and then Oregon beat them to death with hammers
It's wild how many reactionaries on Twitter have politics that boil down "I wish I could have sex with boarding school boys"
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
Finally.
PSA. DO NOT EVER EVER ATTEMPT TO FIX A GARAGE DOOR SPRING BY YOURSELF. PAY THE MONEY AND HAVE AN EXPERT DO IT. DO. NOT. FUCK. WITH. THEM. Electrical and tension springs are best left to experts, not worth trying to "save a few bucks" - cause you could end up maimed or dead.
True story! We were renting a house and it had an ancient garage door. One night while we were watching a movie and we heard what we thought was a gunshot. Went out and found the spring from the garage door had exploded and shot through my windshield!
its refreshing to find a left leaning old white guy NOT in my network who isn't a crank
that exact phraseology is so 2006 coded its insane
Dang, hopefully one day I’ll be able to throw down $600 ish for a really cool animation.
⭐NEW⭐ commission tier available right now! $120 per slot for a cool waist-up portrait artwork. Purchase five of them and I'll send you the character screen animation.
OK but why?
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
The sole mention of RFK Jr's opposition to vaccines is a throwaway aside in the 12th graf of the story, amidst some credulous useful idiocy from Zeke Emanuel. Nothing about his destruction of medical research in America. It treats him like he and Obama are pursuing the same goal slightly differently
Yeah, I saw this. It's some of the most pathetic bothsidesing of the year, which is saying something.
But we have prevailed! We have gotten up all the gross old shit! We are ready to tape and caulk with THE CORRECT MATERIAL with the caulk IN THE RIGHT PLACE and APPLIED CORRECTLY
They used grout AND granite countertop sealant behind it AND someone at some point spot-patched a leaky spot with latex caulk that was not water rated AND I think that one spot was also pipe sealant.
"Oh," I said at lunchtime, "this will actually be easier than I thought, because the idiots just used grout to seal the shower panels to the tile foot of the shower pan and it's mostly eroded." Dear readers: they did not just use grout to seal the shower panels to the tile.
I have now joined in on @neolithicsheep.bsky.social and @sarahday.org's vendetta against the first owner of the house
I had to look it up to know better, but yeah I think that checks out. The video shows the curvature of the front of the building on the left side. I checked it out in google maps in 3D mode. Which means someone took that video from the top floors of Hotel Washington. imgur.com/a/YjOTQI9
It today’s age I refuse to believe anything seriously significant can happen without it leaking within an hour or 2. ESPECIALLY this administration, they have to many people who can’t keep secrets. My theory is something is wrong, but it hasn’t gone to “significant” yet.
This is what we call the Biden 2024 Pre-Debate Oopsie
ngl social media egging trump to do a "i am not dead" tour that ends up making him sick tired and miserable would be really funny
okay so its another nothingburger
I think you can either partner with an existing non-profit or have the feds directly administer them but ya no shady private equity or for-profit hospital companies in this plan bsky.app/profile/trum...
Americare (public option with employer buy-in) + AHS would be such a revolution
public owned and public operated under an American Health Service too
using a website owned by an overt white supremacist to tutscold a website full of trans activists and scientists
the whining about bluesky (whether Nate Silver or Mark Cuban) is about narrowing the contours of "acceptable" discourse with an eye on protecting center right ideology from criticism but they can't be honest about this so it gets dressed up as some deep, noble intellectualism
I'm gonna post this every day until it happens fyi
trump dead
I’d share my Crunchyroll store wishlist, which features what I want the most, but I can’t seem to figure it out, so hopefully, this is just as good! Thanks in advance for well wishes: that means just as much to me, too!
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Unpacked. Is he dead
This does a good job ad links to it. But basically, a pretty convincing case for all the weirdness adding up to stroke. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
To focus on a two week window is feeding into the Trump headline seeking like nothing else. Who gives a shit what happens over two weeks. What does Washington look like in a year? Is the National Guard still there after a full year away from their families? Are we willing to spend $400 million?
the same people who were psychologically incapable of skipping three weeks of going to Applebees apparently think urban dwellers will be happy living under constant supervision by armed soldiers from outside their community
"do you think its a good thing that american citizens are staying inside, instead of enjoying their city and their normal lives, because they're afraid of being harassed by soldiers for no reason?" is the retort to those questions
The media really has failed as an american institution.
honestly insane how reporters have kept going "well but crime down so isn't this a good thing" about the take over of DC, dawg the reason why crime has collapsed is the same reason why restaurants are in freefall, because no one is outside because of all the goddamn goons
DMCA abuse is one of the perpetual frustrations of content moderation! Sometimes it's so obvious that you can reject it, but the rest of the time you're staring at it going "I know this is bullshit but goddammit I gotta process it"
Sure sounds like Kunal Anand is admitting to filing bad-faith DMCA takedown notices here. www.404media.co/how-onlyfans...
those prosthetics are not purporting to think or taking anyone's job 0% clanker 100% awesome
okay maybe clanker has gone too far
Side-note but that we've reached this level of bionic replacement limbs is genuinely pretty amazing.
Do yourself a favor and go watch the entire series of Reservation Dogs.
I’ve had an ongoing conversation with @paulandstorm.bsky.social (among others) about how hard it is to write a song that has to be a hit “in-universe.” That is, it has to be so good the characters/listeners react in the way the story needs them to. K-pop Demon Hunters does it 8 times.
“Okay, we need a song at the end that’s so powerful and positive it saves the world.” “Give us a week on that one.”
I came on today hoping for christmas, but guess I’ll have to wait a while longer. At least there should be some more proof of life request memes soon.
it's cool that there was a Senator who was basically just (D-Insurance Lobbyists)
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
Congress is faced by a very simple but very difficult problem: 218 + 51 people who give a shit
This is actually not a new issue, just a different form a very long one. The battles by liberals in 40s and 50s that set up the great society and broke down the conservative coalition are the battles that we ourselves are facing
But regardless, this is all Congress's fault, and Congress works the way that it does because there isn't a majority of members in both chambers who want it to work differently
The crisis of Atlantic liberal democracy is imo partially mirrored: the Euros will happily pass laws but won't spend money, the Americans will happily spend money but won't pass laws
Unorthodox Lawmaking has become The Only Lawmaking
lot of this comes down to how utterly dysfunctional Congress is as a whole
You’d think that people who are involved in politics and policy would be able to appreciate these things, but nobody’s interested in learning anymore, everyone’s in pundit mode full-time.
(The other is that nobody understands the difficulties of messaging complex issues for 300 million people. A lot of complaints about COVID boil down to “why are you talking to me like I’m a special boy or girl?”)
One thing that the backlash to COVID has taught me is that nobody understands how risk works. The bars opened before the schools because going to a bar is an opt-in activity and going to school is required, not to mention schools being a place where germs are passed around all the time.
I think there's a very big dynamic here where bar owners wanted bars open to not go bankrupt and school "owners" are the government and their employees wanted to stay closed to not die. Quite literally doing popularism and... everyone hating the end result
Hawaii has been in a weird place since Tulsi apparently. Case is Case and Tulsi into Kai Kahele was a mess. But at least Tokuda has been sane as far as I can tell. But then the Tulsi curse apparently hopped from House to Senate and now Shatz got it. I’m desperately hoping Hirono stays sane.
I wonder why localities chose to close schools (which they control) and not bars (which they do not control) in response to a pandemic that was killing millions of people? A true stumper.
Schatz fled this place bc no one appreciated the galaxy brain genius of their March surrender and a few months later he's in the "COVID precautions were bad actually" camp. It's really something.
It's amazing that sitting Senators cannot comprehend that doing the correct right thing can have negative consequences but remains the right thing to do.
its impressive how Labour watched the Biden immigration strategy fail and decided it "what if we get even more restrictionist"
they do realize this is *literally* the talking point JD Vance uses and is quasi-eugenic in its treatment of people who need constant access to healthcare, right
School closures only seem to matter when Dems can be blamed for them.
I've said a number of times that when studying adversaries, it has to be people who want to learn more about them to hate them more effectively because you're otherwise vulnerable to carrying water for them
this kludge shit drives me insane, please give me sectoral bargaining and some kind of geographic minimum wage pegged to like 50-60% of median wage
so cool how we're doubling down on an insanely stupid feature of the contemporary economy
Income is tied to literacy level, so the more broke people get, the less time and focus they’ll have on learning to read well. This is just one more reason for universal income and other support programs. www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/u...
oh no we’re doing the joke fan theory “no one in Star Wars can read because all information is presented via holograms” in real life
I think we’re starting to see it now. I’m in a High School/Adult School Hybrid class and I’ve learned that the State of California has outright banned kids having phones in schools. Not the school or the district but the state itself.
While aural learning is nice. Anti TV as it relates to lowered literacy isn’t helped by audiobooks. You need the visual letters to get associated with sound and also get the brain to figure out how individual letters mix together to make different sounds. That requires text to go off of.
