Captain's log, supplemental: hell yeah.
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Captain's log, supplemental: hell yeah.
I'd believe the moon landing was fake before I'd believe this was real
Haibane Renmei was the perfect one season show
Far right influencers, the US government and national media all colluded with malice to cook a story that would target all trans people with violence before any facts were available that could contradict. You can’t call this tin foil hat thinking either b/c we all watched it happen in real time.
It doesn’t look like anything to me
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
“performative male” this is not 2014. They’re not trend tweaking. Hipsters are gone. Obama’s gone. This is literally just the new wave fascists telling men w any troublesome care or conscience left to stop being a pussy and get behind the dictator
I do it so consistently when I'm stressed that sometimes the fact that I'm doing it is the tell to myself that I'm stressed
"Maybe I will, maybe I won't" should be the last gasp of any political aspirations he ever has
Deep respect
Good
This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away. So don't let it go away. Keep it going. In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.
How far north do I have to move for it to still be cold when I die
Is it LSG’s Into Deep ep
Thank you for reminding me why I don’t generally try to be helpful on the internet. Leave this energy on twitter bud. Insufferable.
Ok bud
It’s not my fault you don’t understand how syntax works in questions. I wish you the best in sorting it out elsewhere.
I think you want to be mad at something and I promise I ain’t it. Good luck tho!
Anyway fuck internal passport systems is the big thing
Your original question, if answered simply yes or no, would be a disingenuous answer, because it implies “that has internal passport systems” is important when in fact it cannot be truthfully answered yes or no since there are no comparable size countries, with or without internal passport systems.
I think the point the other person and I were making is that the difference between 347 million (USA), 143 million (Russia), 1.416 billion (China), and 40 million (Canada) is not, contextually, “broadly comparable.”
Because “Is there any country the size of the US that has internal passport systems?” is a different question than “Is there any country the size of the US” and the former as an answerable question is predicated on the first half being affirmative, which it is not. Thus, syntax convos like this one.
Correct, but that is a separate issue to the fact that your question cannot be answered clearly because there are no comparable countries population-wise, period. It’s more “Is there any country the size of the US” - no, there isn’t. There are many significantly smaller, and two staggeringly larger
I could be wrong but I think they just mean to point out that the US doesn’t really have a “comparable” population right now, because the next 4th most populous nation is Indonesia at almost 40% smaller, and #2 is China, which is like over four Americas, so answering in good faith requires liberties
And also both of those countries have over one billion more people than the US, which is just so far beyond what most people can imagine
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Introducing a new lossless data format, FLOCC
Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.
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If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done. We got more than 1000 people.
Why am I Anxiety Burrito
On the upside, she’s probably dead by now
Me if you replace curry with several martinis
The inability to invert the Y axis is why I’ve never played past the tutorial area in Windwaker. If a company makes the choice to disregard accessibility options like that, I choose to disregard their game
This is extortion and your unwillingness to call it such shows your complicity in it; shame on you for calling this journalism
Americans think food comes from the store
Hey #synthsky boost for ya
In fact, it's arguably where the asbestos comparison breaks down, because asbestos is, if undisturbed, "safe enough". GenAI on the web is more like microplastics: a low-grade, persistent health hazard that will remain harmful as long as it's allowed to persist.
next up: can you primary the times ed board
You know what, I should be asleep instead of scrolling in bed, that’s on me really
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
You’re such an embarrassment; retire
I am proud of you
yeah whatever you know what *STARTS BLASTING ENYA'S "ORINOCO FLOW" SO LOUD IT KILLS YOU*
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
hands down
In related news, delete telegram
Can't wait for the Democratic Party to shove Gavin Newsom down our throats in a general election and then blame leftists when he inevitably loses because he sucks shit
Thank youuuuuuu
Whole lotta cowards don’t wanna say Happiness In Slavery
friendly reminder Bluesky is public and probably monitored real time by every law enforcement agency and it's extremely unproductive or even dangerous to violently threaten anyone, especially public figures. think before you post! it's good to be angry, but don't risk your safety over nothing
If they truly want people to be healthier, it isn’t that hard. Start with universal healthcare and basic income. Childcare. Paid time off. Clean air and water. Masks in healthcare. Free education. Vaccines. An end to food deserts and more affordable fresh food. /10
Have You Tried Just Not Doing That is the name of my upcoming ep about you
If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
It is, but it’s usually bundled together as a single book
Watership Down
Days later and your old Terms of Use page is still up, in direct contradiction to this hastily released presser. Seems like you care more about optics than doing what's right.
I agree and I’ll even go so far as to say that once you get to mid- to late-game it’s less rng and more skill, and past a certain point if you disagree I think you’re not taking enough risks to learn the mechanics you’re missing
I lost a handful of followers after the Fuck Nazis post so lets see if we can get a little more Fuck Nazis Fuck Trump Fuck Right Wingers Fuck Bigots Fuck anyone that voted for Trump What are you doing following a trans, nonbinary smut peddler in the first place? Fix your hearts or die, idc which
Again, do *not* underestimate his determination to purge the US of all vaccines. Do not believe him when he says he doesn't want to take away anyone's vaccines. He now has the power to succeed in his two decades-long quest to eliminate vaccines.
How in the world is it over a day later and the official Terms of Use page still isn’t updated? Is this press release a lie or is your company just that incompetent?
The fact that this press release posted WITHOUT the official ToU page being updated FIRST is amateurish, and demonstrates how much the company is scrambling to get ahead of a narrative they should have anticipated. That does not instill confidence in your company's plan or vision.
Five days of no response on a support ticket and no easy way to directly contact support does not feel like good faith efforts to me; it feels like the actions of a company doing everything they can to make it as difficult as possible for me to quickly leave their ecosystem.
I did see that press release, and I am glad to see hasty damage control being done to clarify intent in Terms of Use, though the official Terms of Use page has not yet been updated, and my account has still been frozen for five days since I tried to delete it, with no response or assistance.
Nevermind the convenient "bug" that is happening to people when they try to delete their accounts entirely and it keeps the accounts and their content live, but deletes the user login making it impossible to manually remove, which could be construed as fraud.
If you're really artist first, then you need to amend your Terms of Use to be explicitly clear about it, and you needed to do it a long time ago. But anytime would be great, and I expect you to hemorrhage subs and accounts until you do.
Then explain why this is still in your Terms of Use? The argument below is unclear in the agreement, and you (yes you, person running this bsky account) either don't understand that (which is embarrassing) or are lying to us about it (which is shameful).
then how about you don't fucking use it
Did an ai write this headline
So what's this then? literally just took this screenshot from your Terms of Use page: soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
deeply embarrassing take; absolute clown shoes
Moreover, when I tried to delete my account, it didn't delete any of the content, but now I can't log in. So that's, yknow, not great.
So what's this then? literally just took this screenshot from your Terms of Use page: soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
Flat-out deleted my Soundcloud. If AI training is adopted across the board, I will sell my music exclusively from my own website. FUCK all these companies devaluing artists. Fuck. I hate this dystopia so much.
This original thought brought to you by the news that Clair Obscur’s composer was found on sound cloud, leading creatives to redouble their efforts to put their work out there…swiftly followed by soundcloud announcing they’d be scraping everyone’s audio for AI.
Speaking of Spring Cleanup, absolutely nobody wants their content being gleefully fed into ai training, so I guess it's time to delete yet another service that I've been happily paying for for over a decade
If you’re on @soundcloud.dev and you care about your music not being fed into ai slop, make sure to go cancel that subscription, delete that page, and tell them why
My humble submission
Mandy is a remarkable achievement - my second favorite Cage film and one of my favorite films of the past two decades
The best performance of his lifetime and it ain’t close
As video game journalism outlets steadily disappear, we don’t just miss out on coverage of indie games that need exposure to succeed. We also lose important industry watchdogs. Fewer reporters means less scrutiny of labor conditions and industry practices, shifting even more power to AAA publishers.
It’s gotta be Vietnow
Depends on your definition. There’s the thing that triggers the credits cutscene - the first major goal we’re given - but here I am, dozens of hours later, still uncovering new mysteries
Being part of this is why they signed up to be ice agents
We had a blast last week talking with @awildjessichu.bsky.social about the brutality of nature, Blue Prince, and Magic: The Gathering.
I’ve definitely ended up on some bad faith poison the well lists but that’s just how bsky works I guess
Bandcamp link below if you wanna jazz your ears into oblivion with the sweet sounds of Kaso-Machi 🛻✨ kaizengameworks.bandcamp.com/album/promis...
The cruelty is the point, always
Legendary theater that was beloved by David Lynch; help them out if you can!
Since then, I've seen multiple friends go from barely holding on, pre-realization, to absolutely blossoming into this vibrant, euphoric version of themselves. It wasn't just life-saving, it was life-starting. I couldn't fathom denying someone that kind of happiness.
I’m so glad I deleted all my meta accounts months ago
Counterpoint - fuck off
do any mutuals have like, serious projects youre working on that i might not know about? i know a couple of you have music/game/indie industry podcasts that i havent gotten a chance to dig into but if you work hard on like a regular publication, or show or video series i'd like to know about it
Would
you don't owe this shithole world success by its twisted fucking standards
This is fascinating
Wtf