I think it’s important to balance your angry posting with silly or horny (or silly-horny) posting because otherwise you just turn into a miserable human being who is incapable of engaging positively with other people

Sorry to be a genius but I just realized this is a double feature

Ehhh, yeah what’s going on on the federal level sucks, but solar is now well-established in California as is wind in Texas. The horse is out of the barn, or whatever that expression is, on this one. Money’s being made in renewables and it’s going to keep going.

I took the "confused and asking questions" route on the phone with Visa today and in my initial questions, I didn't mention video games at all and the person on the phone said "Visa doesn't block payments to video game sites" so I KNOW they're floundering under these calls.

I made it a week after training before I had a panic attack and walked out.

Tbf, the company was skeezy AF and I wouldn't be surprised if they've been shut down since, but... Ugh. Not for me at all.

Update on the call center situation: I'm starting to see people getting jubilant about getting a CSR to break down on them. Y'all. Come on. The CSRs are not your enemy. We NEED to be kind to service workers.

I feel we need to remind everyone that this all started just a few days ago, we haven't even been calling for a week and they're already at the "Hanging up because they can't take it anymore" stage.
Keep calling

Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Any help?

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”

Keep fucking calling.

Screenshot of text that reads: "DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out Al-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated Al-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin's Huge Al Blocklist, to detect and suppress Al-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to Al-generated material. Source: TechCrunch".

And hey, if you hadn't heard yet, duckduckgo allows you to turn off AI search results and now allows users to filter out AI image results:

WTF WTF wtf sudden inexplicable foot pain can't stand or flex my foot aughhhhh

i’d be better at saying “no” to myself if i wasn’t so fucking persuasive

The world has been a constant trash fire for the last several months, and as a consequence, I haven't really felt like it was the time to talk about the Hugo Awards. But time marches on and runs out, and it's now or never.

If InCryptid wins the Best Series Hugo, I will finally install Bluesky on my phone to facilitate posting cat pictures, and I will pose my Maine Coons with all my Hugo trophies. Including the glass one.

Brennan's American Girl Doll Shoes "I'm better at making shoes than you are at anything." – Brennan Lee Mulligan

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Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team?
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You've never seen anything as satisfying as watching Trapp and Sam pull long strips of dried glue off of Paul...

If you love hearing oddly satisfying cracks at the chiropractor, Grant O'Brien has something special for you...

Now everywhere Erika goes, a roast of Sam Reich follows... 🔥

Brennan's announcement

The problem wasn't the size of the task.

The problem is my brain doesn't run on "should."

It runs on "want to" and "looks creative" and "this is interesting" and "oh crap, deadline now!"

"Just break it down into smaller steps!"

Cool. Now I have 42 tiny tasks I'm avoiding instead of one big task.

Thanks?

Sometimes I seem harsh towards 3rd or alt party fans here, and I really need to stress that I am all for tossing the two party system but we have not done the structural work. We’re constrained by a system, which is not unchangeable but it’s constraints must be addressed and its inertia considered.

Stop travelling to America.

It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism

If you’re American, stop going to Florida

They built a concentration camp in 8 days

They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare

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I dunno, I'd try it. Depending on the cheese, it could be a damn tasty mistake...

Bad news, America.