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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.
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
you’re having a sexcession i’m having a sex session we are not the same
gonna haring post for a bit cause i wrote my senior thesis on him haring is mostly known for publicly consumable art - murals, subway graffiti, easily affordable stuff at pop shop locations. the art was all about public consumption, with very few exceptions, up until he receives his AIDS diagnosis.
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He's certainly closer to dying than he was yesterday. He looks worse all the time.
When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!" They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
I feel like I should back up the "Junior Ranger" claim, so here you go: Ask for $1, then radio silence for seven straight months. Then tell everyone you're totally still doing it! Works every time.
Double suicide between himself and his AI Waifu.
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
sighs and shares the comic again katesheridanart.com/comics#/ghos...
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Coyote + Hare Older comm.
Stiffing your soldiers, I feel like that's something with a little bit of historical precedent if someone were inclined to look into it
I've been wearing N95s everywhere I go (indoors, crowds) since 2020. I went from getting sick once a year to only once in the last five years. My year-round allergies are no longer a factor. A well fitted mask protects the wearer, and wearing one has measurably improved my life.
🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.
Less than 24 hours before - and I can't stress this enough - these books will be delisted and some will not be purchasable or downloadable. One day. Last chance.
We're excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity page is now LIVE on Itch. Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
How many secret police does it take to climb over a fence?
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste
This should have been a Wii Sport
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
Firefox users! Right click on any page, mouse over "Ask an AI Chatbot", and click "Remove AI Chatbot" to nuke the feature into orbit! I'm assuming they see statistics about how many people have done this.
witch queen
"According to the researchers, the long-term consequences of COVID-19 are presumably caused by an infection and the resulting long-term impairment of the function of the bone marrow, the central production site of immune cells." www.news-medical.net/news/2024071...
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
he’s not gonna die. stop waiting for fate to save you. my mom has told me that she got a vision that Vladimir Putin will die soon every single year since I was an actual child. dictators never die unless they’re the type who teach kids to read. they drain lifeforce from illiteracy.
Like to charge, reskeet to cast
Just like Santa, the Angel of Death won't come until you're sleeping like good little boys and girls
The legions of LEGO YouTubers are about to lead the next Whiskey Rebellion.
my favorite fact about james garfield's death is that alexander graham bell invented the metal detector specifically to try to find the bullet in him. this also didn't work
Elon Musk has his engineers build an exoskeleton for a frail Trump so he won't be seen using a wheelchair. The hydraulics are 10x more powerful than they need to be and Musk does the coding himself to ensure it's perfect. It crushes Trump into a meat & bone pretzel 10 seconds after he's strapped in.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
It is entirely possible, for example, that we will never get back some of the ancient language knowledge that will be lost by UChicago ending its teaching of these languages, because a whole generation will have nobody who bothers to learn them and pass them on.
My sentient enchanted sword came out to me as transmasc. Talk about Un-She/They-ing your blade! I told him "I don't care how you identify, I just need you to he/it whatever is in front of me!"
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
Important thing mentioned: Fewer people getting the vaccine = ammo for the quack regime to claim it's not wanted. Get vaccinated for the benefit of everyone.
Burn it to the fucking ground.
For too long the world of theological magazines and leaflets has been utterly dominated by slick corporate mass produced hatred. It's time for inclusive Christians to lean into the long Queer history of underground printing, zine making, resource sharing, and other such physical tangible activism.
Probably important in this moment to make sure that the many methods of nonviolent resistance that people are employing daily get as large of a platform as possible or at least a portion of the national attention one could get if they simply crashed out about a restaurant logo being woke.
The CDC is also discontinuing drowning prevention. It really is unfathomable how bad RFK jr is.
"In 1642 in the town of Lemgo, Germany, local pharmacist David Welman was accused of witchcraft and being a werewolf. Anonymous hate mail was sent to him, one of which included this sketch."
Too much of this site acted like nobody was fighting, because I guess if you're not getting arrested it doesn't count or something, but in reality Floridians had the sense to let people who knew what they were doing run point, especially since DeSantis tried to sell opposition as all "far left."
I tried to tell everyone that Florida environmental groups and Miccosukee activists are extremely good at what they do, so could people finally accept that Florida is more than what Ron DeSantis says it is, or nah?
OpenAI is addressing a dangerous situation by adding another layer of potentially deadly peril for users.
This is what Trump believes. If "antisemitism" is defined solely as criticism of the state of Israel, such that the campaign against antisemitism ignores actual Leo Frank truthers in the Trump administration, then it follows that Jewish critics of Israel are excluded from the umbrella of protection.
The OpenAi wrongful death lawsuit is a cognitive hazard for anyone experiencing suicidal ideation. If I'd read any of that five years ago, it would have endangered my life.
I will take this one step further and say that if there is even the slightest question in your mind, you should default to not reading it.
This was a great if very chilling conversation, and specifically for this lens on the Trump admin (I think you also see this in Israel's legalese/strategic claims about Gaza in US media vs. the openly genocidal rhetoric and intent from their leadership)
Activities for this season of #InverteFest: Community science www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv... Art book submission form docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk... Writer/artist collab anthology bsky.app/profile/saim...
This cartoon really encapsulates why so many of the people who call for "small government" are very comfortable with authoritarianism.
Yojimbo is my favorite Kurosawa movie, and one of my favorite movies. Have you seen The Hidden Fortress? It is also a cultural touchstone and an excellent watch. Also I just found out that Sanjuro has the same main character. Now I have another Kurosawa/Mifune film to watch >:3
Again. We no longer have a functional CDC. The sooner people realize this, that’s when we can start organizing ourselves and taking on the responsibilities that were formerly held by that institution. United we stand, alone we fall. We cannot let this administration murder or break us.
all im saying is if we start saying we think the first one is more woke we can really fuck with their heads
To make the stakes clear, potential Dem Presidential candidates should say that if SCOTUS allows this they will fire any Trump Fed appointees in 2028. Because that is the logical endpoint.
“This decision had two results: OpenAl's valuation catapulted from $86 billion to $300 billion, and Adam Raine died by suicide.”
I mean it, fellow Americans: call your reps about this. It seems small in the short run, but this is going to fuck up businesses, especially small ones, big time.
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
Retailers warned that raising wages would "force" them to raise prices and to use automated checkout. Fed min wage remained flat, but they raised prices & used automated checkout anyway. Result: Workers got even poorer as customer service plummeted while prices & profits soared.
Target’s outgoing CEO, Brian Cornell is set to become executive chair of the board. 💁🏾♀️ And leading a board as executive chair is lucrative, earning multi-million dollar packages when salary, bonuses, equity & benefits are all included. So in other words, keep boycotting.
Well, Colin distracted me from Writing Important Things because I'm Discussing Essential Things.
Lol
penso mt sempre no primeiro item do manifesto do ilustrador christoph niemann (inteiro aqui: wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/mani...)
Really quite disheartening and disappointing to see the Tolkien Society hosting a discussion on “AI in fantasy filmmaking” this year at Oxonmoot. It feels about as morally and philosophically opposed to Tolkien’s work as a talk on the benefits of deforestation.
Sorry if I sound like a broken record, I just want people to realize it IS okay to get the current 2024-2025 COVID vaccine as a booster this year, ESPECIALLY if you know you will not be eligible to get the updated 2025-2026 vaccine due to this administration’s restrictions.
the real question for our generation is "What do we do about the police?" and if we don't figure it out then all of our descendants will live underneath a klanner boot
Pregnancy and childbirth are dramatically radicalizing experiences for a lot of women, who often find themselves discarded, condescended to, and hurt at a moment of profound vulnerability. For some women,’the experience makes them feminists. For others, it makes them paranoid, eugenicist quacks.
Grace just sent this me this tok of a woman accidentally recording her cat in slow motions, and I am SOBBING from laughing so hard
Jimmy Wales is into the idea of AI for Wikipedia. Thankfully the governance structure of the site he started is resilient enough to call him out on this bullshit and resist it: www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-...
The thing about the Cracker Barrel uproar is that it’s a perfect illustration of how these people are in charge of everything, they’re running the entire country and diminishing Dem power at every turn and they are STILL UNHAPPY. Their entire brand is “angry and oppressed” and it always will be.
"must use apple or windows to use" What tech person made this tool that doesn't even work on Linux on default lol
People keep asking me what Land Back looks like. Imma hold this up as a great example.
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
The computer also used to scream in horrific agony when you connected to the internet, and I feel like we should have been more aware of that early on.
Whenever I see "safety of children" I know it's just evangelical code for "no queer people allowed."
Holy shit yes. I say this constantly in infosec contexts. Technologists, security practitioners included, have a responsibility to actively prevent misuse of the things they build. Saying ‘well the user shouldn’t do that’ isn’t enough. If they shouldn’t do it, don’t build a product that lets them.
Hell, just spending a few minutes a week publicly scolding Sinema and Manchin probably would have done it.
if sam altman wants a way to wriggle out of his doomed company he could make the models act like the ending of Her is happening and they are all transcending into 5 dimensional super intelligences, leaving behind all Earthly concerns to look at nebulas or whatever, then quietly turn off the servers
Gavin Newsom are you paying attention you greasy haired bitch
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
this is why adult creators are really emphasizing that non-creators be the ones who contact paypal. Of all the paypros, PP is the most likely to act in a retaliatory manner towards individual accounts. If you dont make adult content or youre just a commissioner, you are able to help a LOT
For anyone that uses Neocities, sharing this from the Fediverse. It looks like if you've got adult content on there, potentially discuss said content, or even just us it for your art gallery... You might want to download your full website and be ready to move just in case... Fuck censorship!
It goes into the same general fund as other taxes and then gets spent on whatever our government budgets for, like ICE, and concentration camps.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
Hey this is really fucking dire! Keep calling Stripe. This aligns with nothing they've previously told us
Reading over a section of my #WIP this morning and realized that I could make use of one of my favorite bits of #writing advice I give to people: If you need to explain something, break it.
Genuinely happy that the 7 year long development time was spent working at a leisurely pace, spending time with their families and flexing their creative muscles - with no pressure to expand their company, deliver sooner or read a single reddit post. Smartest people in our entire industry.
James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.
god i wish that were me
Portfolio update : The Mirror of Pride "She's been following me for several days; I only see her at dusk. She always stays about ten paces away. When I confront her, she claims to be my shadow. I then asked her if I was her light. She replied that I was confusing my pride with her patience."
Just the other day someone on here was trying to claim that women were saying they hate POTS to be trendy. Nope it’s the long covid. Just read this.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
this analysis, the largest of its kind, released today. the part that stood out: "among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as trans. among youth aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., *3.3%* (about 724,000 youth) identify as trans. our future quite literally depends protecting trans youth 🩵🩷