No. It happened. It hasn't changed. A politician's record is important to know. The context of my thread, which is abundantly clear, is a list of things Newsom has done in california, for the benefit of people who are just now learning of him.
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No. It happened. It hasn't changed. A politician's record is important to know. The context of my thread, which is abundantly clear, is a list of things Newsom has done in california, for the benefit of people who are just now learning of him.
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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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
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
So no, I'm not surprised. BUT IF I WERE, implying I'm stupid for taking this long to join the rest of the class wouldn't actually help, you know? A lot of people will be surprised at some point, if they haven't caught up yet, and we're just gonna need to hand them our notes when they get to class.
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
Leaning into nature imagery, because it's so soothing. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this; most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue! well, we do. so fuck off.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Just noting, if you have little containers — you like TicTacs or mints or something — and you do any kind of crafting or DIY? Save your containers, and when you take something apart (say, for disposal) save the screws/fittings/buttons because there aren’t enough US makers of screws and fittings.
"If you're not ready and eager to literally sacrifice trans people, then you're not on Team Democracy" is a line you're going to see more and more as fascism marches onward.
And then people wonder why “the left should be concerned with getting men laid” is an argument that flops like a deep sea fish brought to the surface.
This is awesome of them to do, but also what an indictment of the way things are that it's a valid marketing tactic
Hey Firefox users.
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
I’m up late into the night, with my brain spinning in circles. So I drew a bird. Or…I started drawing, and it became a bird.
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i am once again begging actual play & podcast platforms to please list your cast & staff members somewhere — in your bio, an "about us" page, a pinned post, anything — i promise you it will help you get more clicks, partners, & sponsors in the long run. it adds accessibility & safety to your brand!
Fantastic sci-fi adventure game by the talented crew of @amanita-design.net - don't miss it! Every frame is a painting.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Thank you!
I was not scolding, I was asking, but rereading my post now I see how that did not come through properly - sorry about that- Not sure what "advanced freedom" means?
D'you think next time you want to communicate something as important as this, you could take the time to copy the text and paste it into the image's alt field? Or at the very least link the source of what you're posting to others can copy/paste it to easily make it accessible to disabled ppl?
This is one of the ways that white supremacy weaponizes civility: by implying that certain people get to be served, and other kinds of people (you know what kinds) need to be grateful, without interrogating it.
I've talked about this before, but enough of these reports can result in Amazon delisting the book, and authors from outside the US – particularly those trying to speak in more authentic voices – get hit by them at a significantly higher rate
listen as somebody who has a lot of really good ideas ideas are fundamentally worthless. sorry. we give WAY too much credence to people who have them. yeah, even good ones, dude. the only thing I respect is execution. whether it's in myself or somebody else. an idea executed is worth something
Municipality handling trash pickup is the norm here (Switzerland) & I still struggle to believe it isn't in some places. I know the US is capitalism taken to extremes but. What do you mean ppl have to pay a private company to pick up their trash. It's trash. Picking it up is a public good. the fuck.
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
God forbid people have hobbies. (No but seriously the tariff situation is wrecking small businesses both inside the US and out; I'm sure I'm not the only one getting apologetic emails about canceling orders because a business doesn't know wtf is going on.)
Wearing a sling, a brace, etc, can help sell it if you get a jackass, if you are not white, if you are gender nonconforming, etc, but the TSA policy is that if you're physically unable to hold the screening position, it's metal detector + hand swabs, NOT a pat-down.
Your regular reminder, if you are a person for whom the TSA body scanners do not work well -- because of gender, sex, size, disability, any reason at all -- there IS a way to avoid getting patted down at the gate, but you MUST say the correct words. Do not use the words "opt out" for any reason.
[tilts head] Yeah sure I can see that. The height difference alone seems tasty.
The worst part of writing this thread is discovering that I was very wrong in stating that US publishers probably filed copyright for you, because whew I have seen some big names get called out as not filing copyright.
Arguing against science being political after how ppl reacted to the covid pandemic is WILD. Not to mention climate change.
In comparison to Christianity, Judaism puts much more weight on actions and community than on belief. Christianity (and esp. Protestantism) is pretty weird globally in its obsession with internal belief. 1
You get money from a book you published on a date you can't predict. it will be a sum you can't predict. you will never know if the ranch is saved or not. Everyone makes interest off your royalties before you do, and you're probably not making *any* interest at all And you don't have dental.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Android phones have changed a lot over the years, and with those changes come new privacy and security features that are easy to miss. Here’s a rundown on the most important settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Many people are saying
Suidide CW I am begging parents, teachers, anyone in a position to teach children anything; please explain to them what LLMs are (predictive text machines) and aren't (friends or therapists). Please point the child to resources they can reach out to when they're going through a hard time.
This complaint is horrific and how awful for Adam's family to be going through this on top of his death. (CN for discussion of suicide, including methods.)
No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive
This is why the big sites secretly *love* these laws: they have the resources to do whatever it takes to comply or just ignore them and pay the fines, while the threat is existential for any small competitor who might someday challenge their market dominance.
Hot take probably but parasocial tendencies can be good and you shouldn't feel bad about caring about people even if they're not close to you. The key is to be aware if your relationship isn't a close one (or doesn't exist) but you can still wish that someone is doing all right.
> Claims to be concerned about disabled people > Does not add alt text to their images Also in what way does age verification do anything for disabled adults? None of your arguments hold water.
The whole "kids don't have rights until they're adults" thing is both common and evil.
Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast
Image description: Question by Variety: So how will you retaliate? Are you already forming plans? Sam's answer: There were things that I decided not to do this season because I felt like they were too unconscionable, which now I floated right to the top of my list for season 8. #gamechanger
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In the space of 3 months, Lausanne cops have: - Had a Nigerian immigrant die in their custody - Had two teenagers (14yo & 17yo) die after a car/bike chase - Been caught exchanging bigoted messages in whatsapp groups Europeans who think we're immune from this shit; reevaluate #ACAB #PoliceBrutality
So hey: I am working on a novel where the main character is involved in indie filmmaking in MN. I have been thinking about all the stuff I don't know, and that I don't know I don't know. I would really like to find someone who is doing an indie film in MN who would let me hang out & watch/work.
When can we stop using zoom and go back to phone interviews I am exhausted with appearing on camera.
Often I -want- to believe that someone is being sarcastic/satirical/etc, but I Know just how many people on this here interwebs are absolute dickheads. So I don't feel comfortable blanket assuming the best intentions.
I'm good at making guesses of various potential intentions, but I am NOT good at determining which potential intention most likely matches the person whose words I'm reading, especially if they're a stranger - as most ppl on the internet are.
The video is a very interesting explanation on reading levels! That said I want to address the tone indicators thing. I'm autistic and it can be really hard for me to infer tone.
‘How am I supposed to explain this to my children?’ is one of the laziest copouts that bigots have been allowed to weaponize against social progress. “I don’t know.“ is perfectly acceptable in any situation and “Let’s find out together.” is one of the most precious ways to engage with your child.
Murderers.
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Deux ados (14 & 17 ans) morts suite à une course-poursuite de la police, en moins de deux mois, dans la même ville de #Lausanne. C'est inacceptable. Les courses-poursuites sont connues pour être souvent mortelles. Il faut changer d'approche. www.rts.ch/info/regions... www.rts.ch/info/regions...
"Person killed" this was a 17yo. Say "teenager killed," you cowards.
Stop using AI to do useless fucking shit.
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LMAO if you're scared to answer your kid's questions about topics that make you uncomfortable, such as *checks notes* normal human behaviour - don't have kids.
"Speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them." Erznoznik v. Jacksonville
it unconstitutionally restricts minors' access to speech that is not obscene as to minors, it burdens the speech of adults, it normalizes the uploading of sensitive personal information to any site that a minor wants to sign up for -- a thing that has *already been used*--
I could fill a hundred-post thread with the kind of useful, beneficial content this law requires sites to block teenagers from accessing, to say nothing of the burden on adults. The law is harmful. It is harmful to adults and it is harmful to children.
Data point: over here in the UK the actual allegedly centre-left government are bullying and demeaning disabled people and trying to roll back human rights legislation as it applies to trans people, and it's not moving the dial at all. They're way behind the actual far right populists in the polls.
The CEO of a streaming site where a person just died after being tortured for days on end for donations was also the top donor for the torture... Black Mirror doesn't have shit on the real world
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1. NSFW of all kinds stopped being tagged out of fear of getting your account nuked. This made using the site in public near unusable, as tag filters no longer worked. More people saw NSFW content as a result, including kids.
you can still go on there and see 19th century academic paintings getting flagged as porno. on-the-ground censorship regime literally exceeding victorian era standards
His actual goal is obviously to appeal to people who would vote republican but not for trump. Except he can't actually get those votes. Nobody can. If he gets the dem nomination, then it's functionally as if there is NOT a dem candidate at all Get it? Stop giving him free press.
Oh for fuck's sake. Sure. Gavin Newsom, gleefully destroying homeless peoples' belongings, and withholding funds from California cities who don't agree to do the same. ktla.com/news/local-n...
I'm not very familiar with mantises - bugs mostly creep me out - but he looks like an insectoid pegasus. Stunning.
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.
"Can we do better than a transphobe who gleefully dismantles homeless encampents?" Dude.
This is why everything is "software as a service" now: you can lock you customers in on long term contracts billed per seat, rather than having to make a good product that people like to use
The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.
You gotta keep talking about the issue! Paypros havent reversed their policies on Itch or Steam yet! Keep talking about it, and keep contacting influencers, news outlets, and legislators about the issue! Keep it in the public consciousness!
Everyone saying "just use a VPN idk what the big deal is" doesn't get it. We're fighting this so a VPN isn't our one hope for a free internet and then risk them coming for that too like come on
Everyone, everytime, who says "it's about fairness in sports" is a damn liar.
BEGGING democrats in the US not to let this guy be the 2028 candidate. yall can do better.
Finally, let me say that black people are not "punishing" Target for no longer giving us preferential treatment. Because we never received preferential treatment. We were treated as equals and then Target let us know that they would be ending that practice. So, we stopped going.
Mais quel foutage de gueule. Je sais qu'on a des prix tarés en Suisse mais 120 balles pour une minuscule table en bois recomposé? Je vais devenir le joker en fait
BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Anyway, my point is that this is such an own goal. Pick something like Looking Forward! or Enchanted Worlds or Dogs Are Good, Actually that lets you commission fun art for the conbook and move on to important stuff like “do we have enough ramps?”
Actually somebody please do this.
"If you, as an adult, verify your age, a random child is made magically more safe." Lmfao okay. That's not how anything works, but okay.
Me: I don't need anymore squishies. I'm good. *hugs weird mushroom* Squishable: squishable.com/products/min...
That's more people than live in all of Switzerland! 🎉
