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Socks that seem to suggest that macaroni and cheese will make you orgasm. There’s a noodle with literal cum dripping off of it.

Wait. What does Mac and cheese make you do?

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

I’ve been there!

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

While promoting Charlie's Angels in 1999, Lucy Liu revealed to US Weekly that she had a sexual encounter with a ghost. "Some sort of spirit came down from God knows where and made love to me," said Liu. "It was sheer bliss. I felt everything. I climaxed. And then he floated away. It was almost like what might have happened to Mary. That's how it felt. Something came down and touched me, and now it watches over me."

thinking about that time lucy liu banged a ghost

Netflix category, featuring Superstore and Solar Opposites, is called “full-on jestermaxxing”

Netflix please I can’t do this today

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

This is horrific. As the covid pandemic rages on and damages people’s immune systems en masse, we desperately need more vaccines and therapeutics for disease not less. Gutting.

I am probably most outraged by the debates over how measured the response to the American Gestapo should be.

ICE is lawless—and history shows that when police forces go rogue like this on behalf of an authoritarian regime, time to act is limited.

If you’re arguing for reform, you’ve already lost.

Facebook post from the Minnesota orchestra reading Girls don't want want flowers for Valentine's Day they want to go to the orchestra and get a little glass of wine in a sippy cup Meta AI suggestion: • Why are girls making this request?

why are girls making this request

Of the many examples of liberals absorbing the right-wing framing on cultural stuff, masking as eye roll–worthy virtue signaling rather than eminently sensible illness prevention and community care is one of the more absurd. “They’re requiring masks for NO REASON.” Could the reason be: science? 🤔

It is frustrating how long we've known this and how long it has taken for people to accept* the information.

*Have it forced down their throats by experience because they ignored the evidence the first go round.

No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

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fucking the ethical considerations machine for ethical considerations

for. fucking. real.

newsletter from beehiiv: "Your imagination is the limit. Just describe what you want, and generate new creative on demand with AI. We’re always testing the latest models to deliver the best possible output for your content. "

i gotta say as a working visual artist that uses @beehiiv.com for my monthly newsletter, seeing them ad "AI image" generation to their media library settings feels really, really, really bad!!!

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

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every aerialist who buys hardware from amazon

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

I wish Eowyn didn't have to get a boyfriend, I wish Ripley didn't have to get boyfriends in ALIENS and ALIEN 3, I wish Starbuck didn't have boyfriends, I wish Brienne of Tarth didn't end the series crying over a dude, not because I oppose love, but because they're all being so obviously De-Lesbianed

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

I had one too. after I broke up with him it took me a long time to figure out what it was that bothered me about that relationship but THAT WAS IT.

You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

You Know, You Can Just Say "Patriarchy" These analyses of the Epstein case are... missing something.

Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:

U.S. Olympic men’s cross-country ski team member Ben Ogden, second from left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 5 at the competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left, Ogden’s teammates are Zak Ketterson, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Masked members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team pose for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 after a news conference at their competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left , Jessie Diggins, Hailey Swirbul, Sammy Smith, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe and Rosie Brennan. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.