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#ShareGoodNews - even with current UK payment structures favouring and subsidising fuels, clean energy is now covering the rise in global demand.

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Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

I think this is Power Rangers fanfic

My new favorite relaxing anime: Mr. Villain’s Day Off

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

I don't know how many of you are familiar w/ the Too Good to Go app, which allows you to find restaurants & stores in your area that are selling surprise bags of surplus food at discounted prices, but they now also have discounted foods for delivery! (Like, shipped, not like Postmates.) It's great.

A young Black woman posing on her profile, sitting with her hands on her lap and her eyes lost in thought. She has a dark dress with an art nouveau style embroidery.

Florestine Perrault Collins (1895 – 1988) was a professional photographer from New Orleans, known for her sophisticated portraits of African American families.
Self-portrait, early 1920s.

An oval shape, very original self-portrait, with very realistic embroidery. The artist is a young white woman with brown curly hair looking at herself, next to a balcony or window. There are strokes of clear blue sky. She has a richly detailed white lace dress. She seems nostalgic.

Another incredibly realistic embroidery depiction of a tigress, resting on a natural wilderness setting. There is a lot of detail on the depiction of her muscles and her paws, and the only unrealistic feature are her eyes, that are a bit bigger and sad. Maybe her pups were taken away by British colonisers, very common in her days. The colours on the background are muted, giving her focus.

Mary Linwood (1755–1845) was an English textile artist who exhibited her embroidery in Leicester and London.
In 1790, she received a medal from the Society of Arts.
The Mary Linwood Comprehensive School was named in her honour.
Here, an embroidery (!) self-portrait, c. 1785.
And Tigress, c. 1798.

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I know we’re all broke out here, but if anyone wants to see pictures of the Derpy Tiger bucket hat I crocheted for my niece, I posted about it on my Patreon.

Any use of genAI in a project is a damning sign that the person responsible would rather turn the whole thing into a steaming hot pile of dogshit than take the time and effort to learn and care about what they are doing. It's only a matter of time.

boringkate on tumblr: "I'm watching this YouTube video for a raspberry pi calculator thing that comes unassembled. The guy is talking about how much he loves that it's sold as a kit. It's hard not to compare it to cake mix. Early versions of cake mix didn't require you to add anything, but that left housewives feeling like they'd cheated. Like they may as well have just gotten a store bought cake. So they changed it to require a fresh egg. Cracking and mixing in that fresh egg makes you feel like you're really baking a cake. It let's you take pride in it. There are cake mixes everywhere for those with the eyes to see. Like why don't gunpla come pre assembled? So that you feel like you've made something instead of having just bought something. Why aren't boys raised as girls right from the start? Because cracking the egg gives you a sense of ownership."

"These Valais sheep accidentally dyed their head wool pink after rubbing their heads on red painted feeders, Barnsley, UK"

Pink hair and pronouns: she/ep.

critfailmemes on threads (!) "Okay so to keep the poor from rioting you give them bread and circuses" "Got it. However some of them were sneaking into the circus on their friend's login so we stopped that" "No you... you gotta give them the circuses" "We're ending the free bread program, too much of it was going to the poor"

Fire Emblem: "I do not love my country. I love the people in it and I want their needs met."

catboybiologist on tumblr: "The masculine connotation of a bow tie and the feminine connotation of a bow on the top of the head implies a nonbinary bow style placed directly over the nose"

cat #BWithTheT (@cafernblue) on twitter: "i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said "people change their minds when you show them facts" and I said "actually studies show that's not true" and linked TWO sources and he said "yeah well I still think it works""

"Leaving the function cos its overstimulating" as the caption on a trailcam image of a mountain lion walking away from the bright lights if a city in a village, she does look overstimulated.

lcamtuf (@lcamtuf) on twitter: Me: "I want to have more friends" Tech companies: [screenshot from Excel: "Chat with this spreadsheet"]

he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

OK - pie discourse - best pie story:

In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*

The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.

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Three babies in Kentucky have died of whooping cough.

They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers.

This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance.

They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.

This thread is a GIFT.

Glorious

I just don’t understand how she tracks so much litter into our bed. 😣

I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.

So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.

A cooked turkey holding a lit matchstick. The text reads: Is your turkey a saboteur? Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires. On average, there are 3 times more home fires on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year. Always stand by your pan!

Stay alert.