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"the radical left is pushing people to the right" i started off just wanting healthcare as a teenager and after seeing the system fail over and over i now believe it should be entirely torn down but sure it's the pronouns that are making people into psychopathic racists

It's Ramadan in Malaysia! There's a food content creator guy here called Khairul Aming whose annual 30 Days 30 Recipes thing is now in its 9th year (it's actually more than 30 recipes because he often makes a couple of different ones each day as most Malaysian home meals are rice + multiple dishes)

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

And, again, I think of the opportunity cost of not doing this. The stories, visions, insights, that we miss because only the wealthy can comfortably create.

I'm not a creative. But I can see how this would benefit me by making the world more colourful.

Willing_Piccolo1174 1d 5.2 is dangerous [Analysis] ChatGPT 5.2 > Different models can sound different — some a little more concise, some a little more chatty, some more structured. But none of them have personality in the human sense. The warmth you feel is mostly about wording style, pacing, and how closely the phrasing matches your nervous system in that moment. Right now what's happening isn't really about 5.2 versus 40. You're dysregulated.

people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist

1) As I keep saying, bigotries always come in variety packs

they are never, ever, EVER after only one group

even if you’re someone who, for some reason, is okay with letting a marginalized group be used as cannon fodder

BIGOTS HAVE NEVER IN HISTORY STOPPED WITH ONE GROUP

because when people from there talk to them and tell them it's not their socialist utopia, they say we are "westernised liberals", traitors, or whatever

A pencil sketch of tyrannosaurs rex with the remnants of its last meal dripping from its jaws.

Slurrrrrrrrrrpppppppppppp!

"A consumer is a person whose preëxisting tastes you strive to satisfy over and over; a reader is someone you hope to change, convince, and surprise."

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

A sketchbook is pictured being held open. On the page there is a white fluffy dog with a green background. The dog has his lil tongue sticking out and around there are blue stars.

Bow wow 🐶

funny how you can meet someone randomly online and they become such an important part of your life

Preteen witch standing over a cauldron with jambalaya ingredients pouring in. Her pet dragon is heating up the cauldron from below. Drawn by gdbee art in Jan 2026

In celebration of Mardi Grad and New Orleans in general, here’s a lil witch casting Jambalaya with her allidragon 🥰

Lunar New Year artwork of happy little horses and the symbol for good luck.

🧧🌸🐎Happy Lunar New Year!🐎🌸🧧

Some happy little horses~ The bigger artwork I'll have to save for another day😊

❤️Love you guys, drink some good tea today~ ☕❤️

These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

“Looking to hire an artist of color” okay but are you gonna pay them well? Are they gonna be the only one on the team? Are you gonna listen and advocate for them when they express concerns? Like, what are you offering a person of color when you want to hire one?

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

Nonbinary flag with the words "BACK PAIN RELIEF"

I wish all of my nonbinary friends relief from back pain

A magical moment with baby donkey George doing a forward roll

Do not become them.

I did a play once based on the writer's experiences working on megayachts. Wild people.

adairsofair commented on instagram: In elementary school we weren't allowed to wear hats and in 3rd grade this boy, Joey, came in with a hat on and we were all like "Joey ur gonna get in trouble!" And the teacher told him to take it off but he said he got a really bad hair cut so the teacher and him went out in the hall and then they came back in and she said "Joey is allowed to wear a hat today"

laughing so hard I might cry at this random instagram comment

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Ash Wednesday, Lunar New Year day 2, and the eve of Ramadan. Multiculturalism is fun, idk why anyone would want to not live in a place that embraces it.