flâneury o'connor 😷🐻🏳️‍🌈

Asking to spare some cash in a society that deems you unworthy of life itself if you don't have one of those increasingly scarce & ableist living-wage jobs is not a scam. It's a solution to a scam.

They should be bullied? Guess what. They're being bullied. That's why they're asking for cash.

Our capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip

Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions

a Financial Times screenshot containing the headline "Use more Al and video hearings to fix English courts system, report says" and the subhead "UK government is grappling with unprecedented backlog of 80,000 criminal cases" and the hashtag "UK crime" at the top (next to an "Add to myFT" button)

screenshot of post from @awesomonster with the text "you know what, sure, peggle make phone calls who gives a shit anymore" followed by an embedded screenshot of some peggle game asking for permissions with an Android OS dialogue box that says "Allow Peggle Blast to make and manage phone calls? [DENY] [ALLOW]"*

sure what could go wrong

putting your phone away before joining daily standup

happy to see Station Eleven is getting the appreciation it deserves

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someone pointed out yesterday this is likely due to the emails getting printed and then scanned in again later (however much time that means)

I legit clicked the article expecting music and got disappointed

I'm glad that I'd already stopped reading his stuff long ago (grew out of it), but last year definitely buried my appreciation of his work and all inclination to engage with any adaptations.

one of the supreme ironies of the current moment is that people who would still, to this day, chide you for not “denouncing Hamas” when talking about Gaza are now illegal, hostile combatants against the regime, just like Hamas. no one ever said the imperial boomerang didn’t have a sense of humor

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

the "problem" of "illegal" immigration disappears the second you stop thinking like a racist freak

seeing what the yanks are planning to do in Gaza you can understand exactly how the american and british empires directly inspired hitler and his plans in the east
you exterminate the natives, drive them into smaller reservations to slowly die off then you build roads and condos for the master race

Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.

it probably has to do with the success of "short" video content on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and so on

as a very intentional way to reinvigorate music appreciation, I like this

are all of these first-time listens or are some of them visits to less frequently played albums?

my husbear gave me some of these for Christmas last year

"I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

i miss David Lynch

i think about this passage from his book Catching the Big Fish all the time, both because it's good and because it always makes me wonder if he'd just watched The Phantom Menace when he wrote it. funny if true.

Ah, the successor to "bone apple tea" has arrived

There was a tweet years ago that was something like "you'd have to be incredibly stupid to care which patch of dirt someone's parents fucked on" and that has always stuck with me

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Plate featuring three astronauts wielding pick axes toward a central spot on a frozen tundra, breaking though transparent ice that resembles the universe with several shining stars underneath. A small ship can be seen close to the right astronaut.

Plate featuring three astronauts wielding pick axes toward a central spot on a frozen tundra. Detail of astronauts.

Break the ice. We're not supposed to be here.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

The NY Post ran it's first profit in 40 years of Murdoch ownership this past year. The amount of money that he has spent subsidizing a right wing paper in the financial capital of the country/world is not charity.