If you work as a janitor or other maintenance tech in ICE administrative buildings, do us all a favor and turn that into protest action. Wet floors everywhere. Bathrooms locked down for cleaning. Cafeteria grease emptied into office trash cans. Etc.
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If you work as a janitor or other maintenance tech in ICE administrative buildings, do us all a favor and turn that into protest action. Wet floors everywhere. Bathrooms locked down for cleaning. Cafeteria grease emptied into office trash cans. Etc.
Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote
I'm lucky. I've been anti-Mouse and anti-Potter for decades. I learned to give up Star Wars. I've come to terms with avoiding Marvel. I've found alternatives, lost them, found new ones again, and started writing my own. It took time to learn it all, but it's been very, very worth it.
Disney can last a couple decades of they know the market still exists. Corporate giants only fall when we fully divest from them and create alternatives they can't quickly duplicate, buy out, or legally crush. You have to build that opposition up, and that doesn't happen via used DVDs and piracy.
For all the folks talking about the "high seas" and making Disney pay without having to fully divest from the mouse, I get it. It's hard. These are franchises you love. But as with Rowling, if you still talk about it and your kids still want it, they know, and they'll hold out.
I've never been a "4channer," but had to moderate a fair few and ended up on the hellsite enough times to understand the gist of this. I can't say I can answer all questions, but I'm happy to try with as many as I'm qualified for.
You can't make this up. Because the wiktionary article contains a picture that helps define the term used and is pulled automatically from a public website discussing the topic in entirely educational terms, the post is "sexually suggestive." The post on censorship, my cat, and how context matters.
Encouraging self-harm should absolutely be censored, without question. The act of discussing the topic, however, should not. We cannot help those in need if they're afraid to speak and cannot find those who've survived and can give answers as to how.
I've made one post that has been caught by the censor...talking about how easily censorship can be abused. But I do talk a lot about my experience with self-harm, suicidal ideation, and clinical trauma. That's meant to be educational, and it would be misconstrued as endorsement.
Here's the message I sent in You ABSOLUTELY are welcome to copy/paste or use it as a jumping off point Let them know we don't need this kind of "help"! 3/🧵
This administration and these political witch-hunts will never stop once we allow them to start. There's a reason the Scarlet Letter is one of the first books we properly analyze in grade school. Similarly, why "witch hunt" is the phrase that it is. It is an excuse the powerful use to terrorize.
My cat who is 100% a goofball and who plaintively whines for shrimp. Speaking of other phrases, "plaintively whines" is another one that can get you in trouble out of context. There's no reason for @moderation.bsky.app to be censoring that, but in bowing to fear, it'll do so.
Without context, the statement could readily be seen as pornography by fascist censors. Cis-straight men taken to trial and sent for execution. "He was warm there, body stretched out, impossibly happy in repose. I wished I could lay next to him in equal calm, a fierce lion no more." It's my cat.
Reminder: Pornography is defined and includes language we use everyday. Language that you assume is innocuous in public spaces. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pornogr... Censorship at this level would stop something as simple as, "I confided how distracted I felt on seeing him in the sun."
He wants a Nobel Prize in tons of TNT used and the pieces that result.
Be on the lookout for info in identifying Agent Codename: John Wayne's Famous Anus.
Please send us a text if you believe you have further evidence of this specific agent assaulting folks (not just yesterday, but any time over last few weeks) 📱
These doctors are doing literally anything they can to prevent Israel completing their genocide of Gaza, and Trump is gleefully sharing drinks with Netanyahu. History will remember both Israel and the United States as hellish perpetrators of unimaginable evils. Our names synonymous with demons.
Voted yet? Both of these are so very, very weird in the best ways. For the strategic voters, the winner will face off against #perovskite next round.
My violence against the state is so extreme that I go to zoning board meetings and remind them about road access and fire safety. My terror even extends to holding the door for the elderly, fellow parents and children. Obviously my non-Cis crimes of empathy cannot go unpunished.
I'm so extremist I suffer through hand pulling thorny plants instead of spreading toxic chemicals into the Baltimore water supply. I'm so extremist I stop for random strangers stuck on the side of the road and ask them if they need help. I'm so extremist I buy daycare teachers lunch.
Klein’s entire political project has been problematizing minor transgressions of the left while insisting we excuse or valorize the cruelty of the right. Every few months he facilitates the ceding of more ground, assuring us it will protect whatever thing he will then insist we cede 3 months later.
But you can do something about it. Cancel all your subscriptions to those who bend the knee. Stop buying into the products that support Trump or similar dictators (wannabe or actual). Buy local and small. Reduce, repair, reuse, recycle, ***share*** and respect.
If you're confused and wondering why America's business class is willing to let Trump destroy them, you're still thinking this is a democracy. That was a decade ago, in an oligarchy far, far away. Think Putin. Putin decides who the oligarchs are. Project 2025 decides can be in business now.
And there's the final goal, as always. The billionaire class cannibalizing even the rich, until only the ultra rich remain. The United States turned into many little kingdoms and powered by slave labor. They want you to die in a muddy field with bleeding hands while they idly eat 100 miles away.
Most jobs in the US don't pay $100,000, even arduous, expert labor. There is no reason to put this number up unless the goal is to have a nation of citizens who are enslaved to millionaires. Millionaires who already buy their way into the system anyway. Millionaires enslaved to billionaires.
"You aren't one! How do you know?!" I'm married to a neuroscientist, my family is filled to the brim with them, and half of my friends are in it. The funny YouTube channels are entertainment for a reason. Actual discovery is painful for not only you, but your family and friends too.
It's also a whole hell of a lot of manual labor and carefully working through safety protocols instead of randomly mixing multiple concoctions together. There's a reason we need immigrants in science, and it's because it's hard as hell on the body too.
Science is about living with failure as you slowly tease out threads of truth that you may never see the whole picture of. It's about knowing when you're not smart or specialized enough in an area and working with others who are. It's about decades of investment for the cause of truth, not fame.
"Well I could do that work!" No, no you can't. If you could, you'd be doing it already. This is stuff that not only requires intense training and serious intellectual chops, but the willingness to do it regardless of what they're paid. Science is about drive and living with frustration.
Groundbreaking science that requires skill and training will leave the US. Science that could save you from future disease and put food on your table. It will never return, because of the way we treat these immigrants already, much less further abuse they have vocally planned on.
Because doctors were already dropping out of the healthcare system after COVID and we've only made the system worse since then. Because most skilled work doesn't even pay $100,000. I know a brilliant couple, both H1-B, doing groundbreaking micro injection work. They don't make 100k.
$100,000 is an impossible ask. It's meant to take in only millionaires who do no real work themselves, and rely heavily on others for theirs. It's meant to stop immigration and it's going to kill you and your family. "Why can't I get my medicine?" Because there are no pharmacists.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count
The hyper normalization of extrajudicial murder is accelerating within the infrastructure of the military that is quite quite bad news for when the full weight of the military is turned inward over the coming weeks and months.
There will come a time when those in power find themselves weakened by their own inequities. This is normal and human. The error is in doubling down on the inequities, believing that they will prevent a complete downfall. In the Hague, they will realize they created their own fait accompli.
Who’s with me? George Floyd and Charlie Kirk both have a birthday on October 14th. MAGA are going to honor Charlie Kirk online all day for his birthday, and I think we should FLOOD THE INTERNET honoring GEORGE FLOYD instead.
On his birthday, we will formally acknowledge that he went out in much the same way as his idol and spiritual muse, championing a cause he believed he was immune to the consequences of. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...
Despite the ever present septic deluge of unAmerican malfeasance coming from the Trump administration, I'll gladly reiterate what we all know about Kirk and his wife. They read the Bible to lead the flock astray. They championed a false golden idol so they could gain power. Charlie is in Hell.
But if you want more proof of how terrible David Smith is, he took what should be an unremarkable sign of contrition for engaging in a normal act with a sex worker and turned it into abuse of his ***entire*** news room. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
As a someone with huge love for my city of Baltimore, where Sinclair is headquartered, I (and most of the city) would love it if Americans made Sinclair and the Smith's bankrupt. Ditto anything else they and their corrupt extended family have their hands on.
The MENA delegation also endorses the sentiment of the Black delegation, but cannot be nearby due to "[please choose excuse: misfired, mistaken identity, drunk on the job, AI analysis error, they were just brown and had it coming] drone strikes" will cause casualties in the other delegations.
I tend to be very picky on following/following back, and there's enough comments now that I can't do vetting fast enough to manage all that just yet. So, kindly, I'm going to stick to my guns here and do due diligence ahead of individual contractor discussions.
I'll wait on responding to everyone until I have my full spreadsheet/review. I've got a lot of other artwork I plan on commissioning separately, so if there are multiple amazing artists, I don't want to reject any given one out of hand.
Social media art solicitation comes with spreadsheets and scheduled time for surveying answers.
Once you enter that bunker, you will have imprisoned yourself. It will be a hell of your own making. It will never end unless and until you decide to end your own life. If you want to escape that fate, you have to prevent that doomsday. The doomsday you're actively creating right now.
You will quickly discover that whatever media GenAI produces will have no plot twists, no new themes, it will all be a rehash. Even if it's your staff or children making it, their inspirations will all come from their experiences in the bunker. You will hate the boredom more than anything else.
And inside that bunker, as things break down, as your medicines expire faster than you anticipated, and as food becomes more and more bland and boring...the biggest enemy of all will be your own mind. GenAI prompts come from you. You cannot survive the boredom.
For every single thing you think can mitigate the above problems, you'll learn a whole new field of study and associated profession exists to tell you why you can't. No matter how smart you are, no matter the answers AI gives, you cannot restart it all from your bunker.
You would need a whole country with extraordinary education, health, and opportunity to restart civilization if you ever want to leave your bunker. No, you can't use your children for that, the Hapsburgs are proof. "I'll edit their genes!" We already discussed lack of facilities and infrastructure.
"I have laser drones to keep weeds away!" Do you have a Lithium Ion battery factory in your bunker? Let's pretend you thought that far ahead. Do you have a recycling facility for them? What chemicals go into Li-ion recycling? Do you have a stockpile of those? Proper storage handling experience?
There will be no restarting silicone tubing factories. No agrichemical businesses to restore. In fact, getting to those original facilities will be next to impossible (road infrastructure degrades very quickly when unmaintained), and the facilities themselves will be toxic waste dumps.
"I have a growhouse inside my bunker." You do, yes. Let's even pretend your bunker can last five years without resupply. Let's pretend your suppliers gave you perfectly graded materials for all medical supplies, all growing supplies, everything. But you remember that all that degrades over time.
"I live on an island, far from all that." Climate Change is now unstoppable, and all those AI data centers will only make it worse and speed up those consequences. AI cannot outthink us from this. Climate change means fish don't migrate or die off. Your island cannot sustain itself.
Crops you thought would survive will die without human intervention. What survives will be hearty, but you won't know how to process it for safe eating. There won't be a labor force to maintain new plantations or fields, nor prevent wild pigs with prions from infecting them.
There will be no coming back out of your bunker, once you enter. H5N1 will circulate and change. Screwworm will proliferate. Rats with Hanta will nest everywhere. Bats with new forms of Corona and Lyssa viruses will be free to roost in every single abandoned building.
Dear billionaires. Your bunker, no matter where, no matter how well stocked, cannot help you survive whatever doomsday you think exists. Drugs expire much faster than you think, especially the niche ones. Invasive species are stopped by people, not miracles. And nature never stops evolving.
To all the folks who've responded, I'm working through the list, so apologies if I don't get back to you immediately.
Wife is in invertebrate neuroscience and we were very making very juvenile, to downright horror comedy jokes about behavior and anatomy. If you ever need art inspiration, I highly recommend befriending (or partnering with) someone professionally in biology. It's truly ridiculous.
I absolutely love your enthusiasm, but I think I'm looking for someone with both more experience and a bit more realistic style. But, keep on practicing and I'm sure you'll find your market and stride!
Just a reminder, that Peter Thiel is so divorced from reality that he both believes he's a good Christian and took (a devout Catholic) Tolkien's ode to the Biblical creation story, and decided that the Devil (Morgoth) was right and the antichrist (Sauron) is the hero.
Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.
Absolutely, as long as I know it's your work (e.g. no AI and any co-illustrators are listed/appropriately compensated) and can see examples that fit the bill, I'll be happy to work with you.
I am. As noted in the post, if you/someone you know has experience with both biological illustration (as-in very realistic portrayals of anatomy, as if from a textbook) and cartoons (think Sunday morning paper like Farside or Calvin and Hobbes), that's the skill set I'm looking for.
Just because a scientific, clinical, or bureaucratic system has a decent grasp on materials to the point they can be partly translated into a gamified state (they did the math after all), doesn't mean that they are one to one. Ceqara is intended to inspire, not duplicate or advise.
As a separate addendum to my FAERS post, yes I absolutely use my past professional experience in my TTRPG design and inspiration. If you see terms there like Adverse Event, it's not a coincidence. That said, games are not professional advice, and I'm explicit about that in the text.
The fact that individuals are abusing thesw systems means they intend to harm you in order to gain power or wealth. In the case of RFK Jr., it's because his law firm made money off those cases. www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
As someone who has done mandatory reporting to the FDA for Serious Adverse Events, it's not a small or idle process and can halt trials or end them entirely. It's also traumatic for the person writing it (because we have to fully document the injury). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse...
The malicious abuse of these reports is intended to make it harder for you to get the drugs you need safely. Junk reports are made by grifters to push their own pseudoscience cures, not to help you or make the science better.
retractionwatch.com/2025/09/16/e... More news surrounding abuse of adverse event reporting databases. As with VAERS (vaccine specific), FAERS is intended for voluntary reporting to help with things missed during clinical trials or that we couldn't anticipate. www.fda.gov/safety/repor...
@bencollins.bsky.social Okay, please tell me you're starting to write satirical stories for a skygod. "Maumee" Mommy, "Suspended solids" Chunky soup, "Oil and grease" Hearty flavor, All sodium stayed in the soup, Napoleon plant using the water loo technique. www.wane.com/top-stories/...
It's weird to say, but I'm royally pissed if my local vulture (and other scavenger) population is about to plummet because of H5N1. They've been vital for "cleanup" in our area. And yup, never touch dead birds.
For reasons I can only describe as the debauched minds of my wife and I, I'm looking to commission a cartoonist with biological illustration experience. Two separate cartoons, one involving spiders, and one involving mosquito cranial anatomy. Apologies to Mr. Larson ahead of time. #Art
"Porkol use in schools seen as incredible hazard, but Trump states there's nothing that can be done." "Famous influencer dead after misfire at college cafeteria. Witnesses say bratwurst was overcooked that day." "Trump demands vengeance against lunch ladies. Porkol inventor given Medal of Valor."
"Trump hails it as genius. Sec. McMahon says she'll demand it in schools for safety." "ICE adopts porkol patrol named after their favorite breakfast utensil at their favorite restaurant." "ICE also raids Cracker Barrel, but releases all kitchen staff after they can't have breakfast."
"Man invents new pistol fork combination to eat steak. Says it reduces cutting time." "New porkol in demand at Cracker Barrel. Patrons already too tone deaf to care about noise." "Paper plate use mandated at Cracker Barrel after mass shrapnel events. Patrons fire porkols in celebration outside."
A whole lot of people are coming for @angryblacklady.bsky.social today for saying "do not put your name on a list of people attending a protest, what the fuck" with responses like "you're just discouraging people!" and "but they already know who you are!" and "DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN" etc
So every single time you see a homeless encampment being bulldozed, don't say, "by the grace of God I avoided that." Say, "that is my brother or sister being abused. That is my mother or father being destroyed. That is my child being crushed. I need to fight for them."
The septically putrid ultrarich class, like Thiel, Musk, and Vought see you as no different from temporarily housed peasants. You are "not yet homeless" to them. You are "homeless garbage" that will be bulldozed into a landfill as soon as you ask for a raise to pay your rent or mortgage.
They don't take care of their own dishes, mow their own lawns, or even deal with their own kid's tantrums. They have servants that do that. Servants whose lives they utterly control, and who, if they displease them, will become homeless. Servants who are paid in "room and board."
If you look at a homeless person and think, "I'm glad I'm safe," and then drive yourself to your kid's soccer game, then you aren't safe. Only the 0.1% of ultra rich Americans are safe. They get by on infinite debt and credit because they own the businesses that are "too big to fail."
Remember, just because you aren't homeless today, doesn't mean you can't be. It only takes one trip to an ER (without your choice) where your insurance doesn't work. One car crash that makes it impossible for you to get to work. One scammer stealing your financial info.
The transition away from Google and Microsoft, and to hypersecure environments, has been an inordinate pain in the ass. It's also worth it so that I can tell my friend something as simple as "yeah, I cheated on my diet with a Basque cheesecake" and not worry about losing health insurance.
@legaleagle.tv So I'm assuming survivors have the possibility of a case, right? apnews.com/article/kilm... abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...
Are we in Night of the Long Knives territory yet? Walsh and Fuentes (extreme misogyny) vs Bondi and Patel (women and minority) feels like it's at least close.
Okay, but what about stampeding cattle through Bluesky?
A sublime list of subliminal snares.
I hope lower court federal judges start not only dismissing the constant bogus charges with prejudice, but also setting financial penalties and jail time for excessive false arrest. Make ICE and those who collaborate with them pay a debt of service to the communities they terrorize.
The FULL text message exchange. Confirms the memes were just memes. Says he would have a stroke if he hears them say "notices bulge uwu" on camera.
words that should have been workshopped a bit harder: enervate restive bemused nonplussed
The data they are using is from VAERS, where literally anyone can submit a report w/o any fact-checking. We covered it last week at work with @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social, but this is the data that for a long time had a guy saying he turned into the Incredible Hulk after a flu shot.
He forgot to call Baron in to negotiate between the Fuentesimo Mafia and the Kirkyguardian Cartel.
A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.
As a designer, I've cooked up a variant of live "play by post," but without a finished system to play off of it, I can't claim any good data to hand off to others.
As a GM, I read the book, do a few dry runs with players, and the feedback builds how we play the game so that they have time to learn the little rules and take notes for what they forget. Setting players in as impromptu scene GMs also helps encourage them to see the dual vision of data and RP.
A system should have the potential for it, but should assume that not everyone will get there, and that the practice is part of the fun. It's very much a group exercise. Neurodivergent folks can also have trouble with understanding emotes (especially common in ASD), dyscalculia, ADHD, etc.
If I can miracle up a budget for it, I'm thinking of engaging local bio/ag students in need of extra work and letting them turn the lawn into their own experimental habitat.
Been through multiple groups. They're very understaffed (and we're certainly not the only lawn with the issue in our area). Also, apparently non-herbicidal options like goats don't work (turns out stilt grass is so nutrient poor they ignore it). But I'm still looking at eco friendly choices.
Working at Aylo, sure, they have that expectation. As-in the article, it's the smaller forums where I'm sure we're going to see massive repercussions. Fan forums with younger demos, especially teens who don't understand content doesn't change status based on poster age.
I can't speak for larger communities and their managers, but for smaller ones with volunteer systems, I don't think I could've brought on, taught coping mechanisms to, and got informed consent (to handle said stress) from enough to maintain the pace at which they'd drop out.