C.B.Thompson

Illustration depicting a small bunny sitting alone on an oak branch, their head turned to the side and smiling. The leaves on the branch are turning orange/brown with the season and softly fluttering in the wind.

Dreaming of Fall 🍂

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"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

Welp

Booting up for a new week; good morning, y'all. 💜

The best software I've ever used:

* OBS (last updated: 2021)
* Audacity (last updated: 2020)
* Winamp (last updated: before you were born)

Hmmmmm what's goin on there. :P

photo of text from ALGOSPEAK. text reads: or a "tradgoth" or whatever the latest trend is, each with its own unique set of constraints. Despite having more options than ever, we may see true individuality flattened in favor of what a select group of OTHERS like, because that's what algorithms do. They don't recommend content for YOU; they recommend content based on others SIMILAR to you. Nor do you make your own decisions. Your decisions are now curated for you under the guise of personalization, while in reality they're engineered to make platforms as much money as possible. Your aesthetic preferences, your language, your very

Another good (and sobering) bit from Adam Aleksic's ALGOSPEAK.

"Your decisions are now curated for you under the guise of personalization, while in reality they're engineered to make platforms as much money as possible."

Lots of talk in the book about companies manipulating tags to make money.

He's saying that the algorithms of TikTok and Instagram reward posts that are full of CERTAINTY, not CORRECTNESS.

He doesn't use the words, but that means DISINFO and BULLSHIT do GREAT on those platforms.

By design.

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.

get ready for lots more b roll of national guard looking bored and embarrassed

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

I personally want to see a movie about Gollum as a hilariously incompetent owner of a tuber-themed restaurant in South Los Angeles ("Watts Taters")

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

Animation by Basil Malek* | Wolfwalkers (2020)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia

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*Do not stop talking about this*

60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago!

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#LetSurvivorsTestify

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Eyvind Earle - California Hills (1968)

🇺🇦 "If Russia does not want to stop the war, then it is necessary to stop its economy," — Zelensky reacted to the airstrike in Zaporizhzhia.

🗣️"No deadlines, no expectations from them work - they do not want to stop the killings. The only thing they are looking for is a way to kill Ukraine."

This is President Zelenskyy's address to denounce the upcoming Putin/Taco peace talks, saying there will be no transfer of land to Russia, and there will be no peace without Ukrainian involvement.

Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

Listen partner, this towns not big enough for two idiot pieces of shit who only talk about how successful their dad was while having no discernible skills of their own

CLICKHOLE LIFESTYLE Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It's A Nice Thought And It's Not Like They're Hurting Anyone OCTOBER 16, 2017

this is where i'm at mentally these days

🇷🇺The newest Russian tugboat of Project 23470, Captain Ushakov, has sunk right at the pier of the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg, russia

a drawing of a snail with a spiked shell and eyes on his antennae, terrorizing villagers

snel

I thought she thought it was funny because it owned the libs or some untrue crap?

I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.

California's population is already severely underrepresented, they could go way further than just nullifying a few extra seats and still be in the right

Morning!

that anyone would support a candidate who doesnt want a background check, still mind blowing

yeah the lie gets bigger every time they say it

theyre also happy to create generative AI off the backs of real talent to try and replace any of these "mozarts"