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From California. That's not my real name. Surprise, I'm also not Obama wearing Eazy-E's Compton hat and Locs either.

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We will need Nuremberg-like trials

11.10.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6938    ๐Ÿ” 2321    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 165    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70

Tokens get spent.

10.10.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 439    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

but he's got secrets not like extremely damaging ones, probably more like "he can name a half dozen affairs and ruin some marriages" ones

because they are not trying to make him _successful_ relative to the rest of their lineup

they're feeding him slop to keep him employed but not much more

11.10.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

his movie career (weirdly ongoing despite no hits in years, almost solely Disney) and public image (definitely bad for over a decade) leads me to believe pretty strongly that someone high up at Disney owes him big, forever-style favors

11.10.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like when you understand greeks are just normal humans like us and that basically never changes, Greek history, nevermind mythology, may as well be told to the soundtrack of Yakety Sax.

11.10.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I remember when it clicked in theater that not all "ancient" writing was meant to be serious. It isn't obvious to everyone.

I saw how many people struggled with combining comedy timing with Shakespeare's writing โ€“who built a formula for timing into his writingโ€“ and that explains this article.

11.10.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends. 

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a  brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner. 

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary 
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends. Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner. Text has been altered from original. It reads Fiftieth Anniversary Frog and Toad Are Antifa by Arnold Lobel Commemorative Edition

hell yeah

11.10.2025 04:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2510    ๐Ÿ” 572    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

- ICE doesn't give one shit about trump, he just enabled them, and they'll still be here when It Happens, proving this point

- mocking trump isn't good optics: the ICE protests _aren't about trump_ and shouldn't be

- you very seriously underestimate the sexiness of the frog and how that plays

11.10.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

aye apologies I should've read this again this morning, my memory sucks without coffee

11.10.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fuck to the no with this idea.

11.10.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

okay I'm just needing more coffee, you are correct, apologies

11.10.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He's an amateur, yeah, we all were once.

This entire situation is amateur hour tho, yet no one's blaming the company here because of the way it was framed: the employee whining on reddit that he got screwed.

He honestly should be looking into suing _his employer_ for sticking him with that bill.

11.10.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Big disagree. His employer is fully to blame there. Software devs make big costly mistakes ALL THE TIME without AI. They should be caught in the SDLC, a human process. That's why it's a standard process. They don't even have that SOP, I bet.

11.10.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
a man holds up a piece of paper that says one days Alt: a man holds up a piece of paper that says "ONEDERS". He says "The One-ders, Lenny". Lenny responds "It looks like the O-need-ers". GIF Clip from That Thing You Do.

oh this woman is clearly full of herself, yeah

11.10.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They rely on it for ALL their content if you dig a bit into her "Onest" (honest) network.

I don't have the energy to read all the articles they've "published" but the ones I looked at are absolutely LLM made, no question.

11.10.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Honest John's Dealership - TV Tropes You're in a sticky situation; you need to get something and there doesn't seem to be a cheap or legal way of getting it. (It could be banned, rationed, expensive, from overseas or possibly just made i...

Imagine trusting a journalist _branding themselves_ Honest.

11.10.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Olga started a media network a few years back called "Onest Network", pronounced "honest".

She's a classic example of "build all the websites and social medias like you're a legitimate brand network and then be the sole content provider for it".

Nothing good ever comes from those people.

11.10.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

11.10.2025 04:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4948    ๐Ÿ” 2490    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 451    ๐Ÿ“Œ 591

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things Iโ€™ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, Iโ€™m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

10.10.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1830    ๐Ÿ” 1251    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 164    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

Idris Elba being apart of this for what reason now?

11.10.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's bluesky so, 38 is just a safe assumption I 'unno how old you are

but what you're saying then is that yes it _is_ the influence of the devil, the great satan what's keeping your back together and that's something I feel secure about looking into

11.10.2025 03:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

well look at the fancy 38 year-old meta-human without back problems, standing all high and mighty without an ibuprofen drip like the rest of us plebs

i bet you sit up straight and generally have good posture too, what a nerd

<slouches very chalantly into a hunch over my phone again>

11.10.2025 03:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shoes, tires, mattress:

Don't skimp on the things between you and the ground.

11.10.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A typewritten note that reads:


Link is, literally, the reason we sell our art.
He talked us into it and insisted on showing us financial support.

In 25 years of being active online, we've never encountered a better voice.

A typewritten note that reads: Link is, literally, the reason we sell our art. He talked us into it and insisted on showing us financial support. In 25 years of being active online, we've never encountered a better voice.

fix it.

06.10.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 789    ๐Ÿ” 254    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

@jay.bsky.team

Free Link.

11.10.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A farmers market in Portland. The photo shows a variety of green vegetables on display within stacked _wooden crates_ because those are the kitschy kind of bullshit Portlanders love, and exactly the kind of bullshit news media uses when referencing stock clips of farmers markets

A farmers market in Portland. The photo shows a variety of green vegetables on display within stacked _wooden crates_ because those are the kitschy kind of bullshit Portlanders love, and exactly the kind of bullshit news media uses when referencing stock clips of farmers markets

if you pay close attention to what he's describing, legit: he's describing the discrepancies between seeing the videos from his staff and seeing the videos from the internet. really.

he's describing farmers markets there. "stores don't rebuild they just put wood up".

those are farmers markets.

11.10.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you could cut breaking bad and better call saul into a dark humor 90s sitcom having nothing to do with drugs

just imagine how far a 90s laugh track, some scene brightening, and the leeway that "you don't really have to pay attention to background details" can get you, it'd be outstanding

11.10.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you could cut fresh prince into a solid season of gritty tween cw drama, no sweat

11.10.2025 01:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

there's low-key a legitimate untapped market in US shows recut into totally new shows like they did power rangers.

if robot chicken can be successful this idea should be a no brainer, it would be hilarious

Space Ghost, Sealab: there are precedents for it already

11.10.2025 01:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

in case you were wondering what the largest entertainment corporation was expecting for its flagship park as far as interstate and international travel next year

11.10.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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