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Change one letter, ruin a candy:

Gummi Beers

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

🚗 Jim's on the road and the last and final stop for XO Ruby is Austin!

Are you along our route? If you're in or near any of the following cities along the way, reach out to us to meet up.
📍 Tucson, AZ (10/20–10/21)
📍 El Paso, TX (10/22)

oh sure I find out about this *now* when I can't go anywhere tonight and I'll be working all day tomorrow.

Ah well, I better follow in case you make your way to Tucson again!

Applied for a job online. This one shared an AI Resume Summary of the CV I uploaded and—just complete gibberish. More in common with a William S Burroughs novel than anything I wrote.

If that’s what HR is relying on then no wonder none of us are getting hired.

Why do I understand this, everything is the worst

As technologists, it has never been more important to hold this feeling and focus our efforts on recapturing what’s been lost.

Acknowledge that this is a labor issue. AI is capital’s organized effort to wrest all remaining power from our hands. Educate yourself, get organized, and go build.

"I'm enjoying this!"

"Do you recommend it?"

"Honestly, I'm terrified to recommend it. You can tell when it was written, and I feel like I need to give several 'yes, various parts are bullcarp and/or shockingly offensive' warnings."

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

I have no idea what they're trying to say in the PR email as the background makes the text unreadable

Free PR tip: your fancy email backgrounds may look cool, but they can often end up like this.

Stick to plain colours. Save the flashy stuff for including in the main body of the email, not the background.

This is the greatest

Unsplash photo of a dark green underwater scene strewn with bubbles.

It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying:

"Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss.

[Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..."

1/

lot of people been posting this one but here’s my post of it with my name correct. okie doke

Initially, and for the last few years, I just assume the worst with dhh and I'm eventually right.

Those middle years were kinda nice though.

I think it is glitching autocorrecting to ‘glorching’

Girl, I am losing my mind

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.

Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

Brush theory, but it’s the same brush, same size.

Alice Fraser riding a dragon in the Realms unknown icon

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week is Competence. Sometimes known as competence porn, it’s just work that has people doing a good job of whatever they’re doing.

Suggestions for competence in Science Fiction or Fantasy? Give them to me!

Immediately think of Granny Weatherwax, Vimes, and Vetinari from Discworld.

I learned about the pink triangle watching To Be Or Not To Be in the theater.

ALSO on South Park and Charlie Kirk.

There's a danger in 'mocking' evil, in that you can promote it.

Mel Brooks is a master extraordinare of mocking evil in a way that doesn't make it cool to embrace.

Charlie Kirk embraced being on South Park, and launched the tour he died on.

Ok valid but I am ready for Sifl & Olly TNG

Trying to ask Julia Roberts and bypass Ayo Edibiri on a question about the “ending” of the Me Too & BLM movements is wild for many reasons.

But they must not know THE MLK Jr and Coretta Scott paid Julia Roberts’s parents hospital bills for her birth. You playing with the wrong white lady

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a digital illustration of Zagreus and Chaos from Hades (Game). Zagreus is floating above Chaos' outstretched hand in the middle of ruins. He's reaching one hand up towards a boon symbol of Chaos. Chaos' face looms big in the background. The entire picture is accentuated with purple details

Tarot card illustration of Zethino, a dryad from Baldur's Gate 3, representing the Ace of Cups card. Zethino is standing in a lake, holding a cup with 5 streams of water falling out of it, she's facing forward, eyes closed, reminiscing, she's surrounded by water lillies, a tree behind to the left and a waterfall behind her. A stylized white dove is directly above the chalice. The atmosphere is calm, serene, introspective. Zethino has red hair nicely parted in the middle, a big headpiece with leaves and antlers, pale green skin with glowing vines and her outfit is a dress made out of leaves and vines.

A study of J. C. Leyendecker's "Man and Woman Dancing" featuring Chiara and Lucanis. Chiara has her back turned to us, her expression is sultry, a small smirk escaping her lips. She's wearing a light blue silky dress with sheer sleeves falling over her shoulders, pearl necklace and silver bracelets and (engagement??) ring. Her hair is blue, held in an updo. Lucanis is wearing a traditional black tuxedo that is fully blended with the black background, one hand on the small of her back, the other in front. They are dancing.

Portrait of Nyx from Hades (Supergiant Games) Portrait of a regal looking pale woman, her waist-length hair is elaborately fashioned with a braid on either side and a high bun held up in part by a golden crown. Her hair also flares to either side in the shape of a pair of bird-like wings, and the stars of the night sky can be seen on the undersides of these "wings." She is wearing robes with crescent moon shaped pauldrons. Her chest, forehead and earrings are decorated with tear shaped gemstones. There's 3 skill shapes on her chest, the middle one is holding the mentioned tear shaped gem. Her eyes are closed, her expression calm. The illustration is in black and white with purple and gold accents.

It's my birthday! 🍰
May I ask for art shares on this fine day 💜✨

As a bonus, I've been wondering, is there any particular character or theme you'd like to see me draw in the future? If so, let me know!

#art | #hades | #baldursgate3 | #dragonage

in 2010 my ex husband worked at the odeon in manchester and it wasn’t a word I think I had heard before then (midwest, middle class, middling education) and just yesterday realized that nickelodeon is a compound word

“And beyond” indeed!

The Rapture but only crappy people vanish

The user testimonials posted on the website for this streaming music app are phenomenal

nuclearplayer.com