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daggers-drawn on tumblr: "All it means when people say "you're speaking from a place of privilege" is that you're likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It's not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is."

romansleftshoulderpad on tumblr: "Family isn't genes and DNA, Family is your discord server full of gay nerds that send each other memes"

painting of a giant anteater running in a floral forest

giant anteater

Hey.

Time on social media will not meaningfully increase your capacity to help combat the horrors.

If all it's doing for you is making you feel the horrors more deeply and constantly, please know that you are under no obligation to do that to yourself.

A SKELETAN DERAMEN OF SPACE AND GOOD COMPUTER'S , "I WANT TO GO BACK TO WHEN COMPUTERS WHERE FUN " MODEM SOUND, FLASH GAMES SECRET WORLD, MP3, FREE WEB SITES, DISKS, NO COPS NO BOSSES, MOTHER FUCKER!!!! SYNTAX ERROR,, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! --- WHO EVERS MAKIN ALL THE MONEY OFF THIS SHIT NOW CAN KISS MY TINY ASS BECUASE WE USE TO HAVE SOMETHING FUN IN THE WORLD AND NOW ITS A BURDEN TO DO EVERY THING, EVEN PLAYING A GAME AINT FUN BECUASE YOU KNOW ITS GONNA BE FULL OF KIDS SAYING "TWITTER WORDS" IN A HIGH VOICE, AND IT TAKES 999 YEARS TO DOWNLOAD, AND IT TAKES 999 MORE YEAR'S TO DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE, CANT HAVE A CHILL GAME WHERE YOU JUMP ON STUFF AND EXPLORE DIFFERENT PLACES, YOU HAVE TO GAMBLE WITH LOOT BOX AND PAY MORE FOR DOWNLOAD'S , AND WHEN YOU GET IN THERE THE COMPANYS ARE JUST LOADEN IT UP WITH AI SHIT ANY WAY, BUT GUESS WHAT IM STILL KICKEN A$$, ANY ONE CAN KICK A$$ IN FAVORABLE CONDITIONS, BUT IT TAKES A REAL PEACE OF SHIT LIKE YOU AND ME TO GO OUT THERE AND KICK A$$ IN ADVERSE CONDITIONS LIKE THE YEAR 2025, SO FUCK IT, WE WILL MAKE A GOOD COMPUTER AGAIN SOME DAY, AND UNTIL THEN, SEE YA ON BLUE SKY AND PATREON "AT LEAST IT AINT MUSK OR ZUCK" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

RIP - dashare.zone ADMIN

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Republicans know what they want: An Antebellum South slave gulag but for the entire world, with technology to punish and constrain. It's horrific and evil but they definitely want it and in rare instances that they retreat or compromise on that it's tactical to that end.
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Centrist extremists, man. They don't care where they move, they care only that they remain moveable. They say they wish to persuade, but their only tactic is to be persuaded.

What negotiation wins by starting with concessions?

What battle wins by starting with retreat?

What war wins by starting with surrender?

Opinion The New York Times Editorial Board: The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

Is Jorpy dead yet?

Thanks, I thought there was something going on that I didn't know about.

I know that, but how are neo nazis using them today?

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

Us: For the love of god, STOP remaking everything, make something ORIGINAL for fuck’s sake!! Remake privileges REVOKED

Guillermo del Toro: *walking out of universal with 40 monsters stuffed under his trenchcoat*

Us: Okay everyone EXCEPT Mr. del Toro

What context is the upside down triangle used? I know queer people use it.

PUBLIC WARNING Most nazis don't wear swastikas. Familiarize yourself with these symbols and keep your eyes open: *Various nazi symbols* KNOW YOUR ENEMY!

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It is increasingly important to view 100% of corporate media as completely hostile to you, and your way of life. I am neither joking, nor, honestly, really, even overstating the case here. If there’s a rich guy at the top of the management chain, it’s gotta get binned.

A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

That's because only rich kids who went to private schools and had more opportunity go to college now.

No, schools started teaching reading wrong. If the problem was smartphones, we would be seeing a global literacy decline.

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on...

There was a huge movement for a couple decades where they taught reading as essentially “I don’t know guess what it says” and so a ton of students were actively taught not to read. This has, as you may imagine, consequences. This annoying podcast explains. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

My kid has a Chromebook for school and because her Chicago public schools acct is under their device control we can't disable the ai settings in search 🫠

I’m pretty live and let live but I believe that if you allow a child to use an LLM you should face a firing squad

Yeah. American schools stopped teaching phonics and tried some new fucked up reading method and now we have a literacy crisis.

UPDATE: in the first 24 hours, thousands of Jews from around the world have added their names to our open letter.

Read the full text of the letter below ⬇️

And then share it with others so we can keep up the momentum: jewsdemandaction.org

5th strike since Oct 14. More than 30 dead since september. Zero evidence presented to congress to justify it