Miri Baker (should be writing)

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Boy, I Sure Do Wish The Horrors Would Stop Persisting Art by DinoMike

let's bask in the light of mama

I generally do not Discourse but for some reason I cannot help myself. SMUT does not need to be justified. It doesn’t need to have protein, or fiber, or your daily RDA of vitamins. Pleasure does not have to be earned. You can simply enjoy something because it is pleasurable.

~fin~

such help, so familiar

wow

HORRENDOUS I love him

so far shrek has helped raise nearly $5,000! let’s keep ICE out of the swamp!

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Fun fact: The eruption of Mount Tambora also led to weather conditions across Europe that forced a group of young artists who were hanging out together to stay indoors one summer and into starting a writing contest and anyway, that's how Mary Shelley ended up writing Frankenstein

Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/18/2026 · 59m

Here’s the latest episode of Better Offline. I’m joined by @junlper.beer, @birdrespecter.bsky.social and @arif.bsky.social to talk about prediction markets, silicon valley’s billionaire whiners, and how Anthropic defines “profitable.”

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Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Screenshot of Substack announcing their new partnership with Polymarket.

Thanks Substack, I hate it.

In addition to her writing, Piper does do some limited narration. Don’t miss out on her narration of Screen Haunt by Orrin Grey for PsuedoPod.

pseudopod.org/2021/10/29/p...

chef: who wants dirt soup

everyone: what? no thank you, just regular soup

chef: bad news we had to get rid of the soup to provide the dirt

everyone: but we hate dirt

chef: (mouthful of dirt) who wants dirt

our biannual reminder that the Olympics are not about human achievement in sport, they are about human ingenuity in cheating

and I am HERE FOR IT

DIAL UP THE SPOOKY VIBES FOR FRIDAY 13

No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

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I’m sorry, he’s quitting to study poetry? You can’t make this shit up

talking about epstein with my uber driver and she was like "you know what i would do if i had all that money? id invite all the pedophiles and child abusers to my island and then do Saw on them"

I’m the CEO of Colocation Corporation (CoCorp), and we’re building a 118MW data center. For the sake of this example (and simplicity), it costs around $1.4 billion to do so, of which I’ve financed $840 million at an interest rate of 6%, with a term of 6 years. Construction takes a year, which means that I’ve been paying $4.2 million a month - or $50.4 million a year - of interest payments to stop the loan from ballooning. Once payments start again - a year later - I’m suddenly paying $16.239 million a month in interest and principal payments (or $194.87 million annually), with principal payments ballooning thanks to the loan now having an effective 5 year term. I’m about to find out exactly how rickety the world of data center leasing really is. Finally, my big, beautiful data center - which features 100MW of critical IT load on a 118MW building - is finally ready, and my new client, GPUCorp, moves into the building and starts paying a colocation fee of $130 per kilowatt a month, or $156 million a year. Pretty good, right? Using a simplified version of depreciation - where we depreciate over 15 years - CoCorp would have about $93 million a year in depreciation costs, which leaves us with big, sexy, honking profits of $63 million a year. That’s 59.6% gross margins! We’re printing money! I’m going to be rich! Wait, fuck! Shit! Ass! I just did the minus of $156 million and $194.87 million! That’s…that’s $38.87 million a year! And that’s when I’m getting paid! I have negative 24.9% operating margins! This sucks ass! Though everybody I know says my gross margins ROCK, gross margins are only on paper! Reality sucks! What am I going to do? As I pace around my office with my hands in my pockets, I get an email from the CEO of GPUCorp (His name is “Glent Fudge”) with a subject heading that says “uh oh.” Turns out that GPUCorp can’t afford to pay its own loans, which means it can’t afford to pay me for my big, beautiful data center. I email back a simple request: “PAY ME …

I go to Guns Dot Com and I purchase a rifle. It’s time to kill Glent Fudge. I get a phone call. It’s the bank. “Hey Ed, how are you?” my banker (Shelton Crelton) says. “I just read on CNBC that Glent Fudge ran out of money, and your contract explicitly states that we loaned you this money based on you having a tenant for that 118MW data center.” I begin to sweat. “Do you have another to replace them? If not, you’re in default of your loans.” I do not have another tenant. I try to buy another gun, but guns dot com declines my credit card. I am in default on my loans to the bank, and Shelton Crelton can seize my data center.

Found a nuanced way to explain the rickety finances of data center development

Reminder that we can submit support tickets. support.discord.com

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.

still looking!

Every day another unfollow. How do people still not get it. How are peole not CREEPED OUT at a barw minimum

hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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I would ride into battle for him

I humbly raise Northern Virginia for consideration

ATL, we in this, but SC gonna give us stiff competition