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9 panel comic P1: Dayyime. We open on an exterior shot of a large modern looking conference centre. In the foreground, on a wall, the sign for the centre: "Tri-Corp Conference Centre" In front of that, a rectangular plinth with a sign showing that a talk titled "HOW TO BE A MAN by Chad Grendel" is on P2: a high shot of the interior of the building, in which we look down on a large conference hall, packed with people sitting in chairs. They are all sat before a stage, on which there is a lone dais, and a huge screen that displays ""HOW TO BE A MAN" in red letters against a yellow background P3: we close in on the stage, on which a spotlight has started shining down on its centre P4: same shot, only now someone off-panel slides a baby into the spotlight. P5: the baby comes to a stop in the middle of the spotlight... P6: ...and suddenly starts crying with a loud "BAWWW" P7: A closeup look of a selection of the audience. Imagine all the stereotypes of rightwing white males, and you're probably not far off. They stare with implacable faces as the baby continues "BAWing" P8: a closeup of the baby's face, contorted into an ugly scrunch as we reveal he has a mic attached to his right ear P9: back to the audience, as they begin to clap politely. The crying continues as loud as ever.

how to be a man

Look, Ben "Kylo Ren" Solo is not a model of mental health, but he was onto something with that whole thing about "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to"

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

A fucking Holocaust survivor is saying that him witnessing the Western world cheering on a genocide is the darkest thing he's ever seen in his whole life.

Think about that for a second.

Nikolite dust from the old Minecraft mod RedPower 2. It looks like redstone dust but blue.

Blue redstone...

Girl whose hips hurt so much

I don't think Jay and her band of God's lost bets understand the degree to which everyone not currently on Bluesky has already decided it's the Faggy App for Trans Commies. They aren't going to come here just because you run us off! We're all that's keeping you from being Spoutible.

Do it man. Let's go. It's where we're headed.

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’ Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’

okay so we've been given a chronic medical condition by corporate polluters, and now it's incumbent on us to stop breathing. you love to see it.

The same as "half a million cars" annually

So with 1.6 billion cars globally, it's a fraction of a fraction and far greater reduction can be had by reducing car use

Reducing car use would also reduce air pollution, in turn reducing asthma, and thus reducing inhaler use. But it would do so by actually making people less sick, and we can’t have that.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

give greta thunberg a gundam

The predominant toxicity on Bluesky is coming from its management: dismissing legitimate user concerns, quashing user-led decentralised moderation, and banning users for innocuous or fair use. But I get the feeling your question is intended to incite users to perceive the problem as other users

I often see toxicity coming from the administrators of this site directed at black and trans people. Please fix.

the longer the bad vibes persist here, the more this decision to tell users that bluesky was going to "fix" their toxic culture stands out as the underlying issue

America is now one big bet on AI It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

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This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

They want them to bleed to death in the emergency rooms as they are denied care because of their immigration status. They want them to die.

You think undocumented immigrants get healthcare??

Bitch Americans don’t even get that

Sorry, we had to cut off social security checks because of the shutdown. Our hands are tied. We're still continuing construction on the president's Pervert Palace though. Some national priorities are too important

"What can we do to increase usership. Add more functionality? Group chats? Spaces?"

"Nah I think we need to actively court the most culturally noxious and unpleasant people to form our userbase"

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

Thinking about how there's still no explanation for how Singal got Bill Kezos' deets other than Bluesky corporate violating multiple laws to give them to him

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

I guess if we are doing Dumb Fascism, we might as well go whole hog and do Dumb Stalingrad.

he got banned for alt text saying "a negative consequence follows" REALLY????