Rae Loverde

. . . . . . there is a mode that isn't survival mode???

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

surprise! the real challenge was always getting us to recognize the humanity of other humans! we can anthropomorphize the fuck out of wall-e but genocide is "really complicated"

all those movies about society refusing to recognize the humanity of robots but it turns out if you glue googly eyes to a roomba about half the country is ready to propose

Merriam-Webster just added 5,000 words to their collegiate dictionary, including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”

the most precious resource on earth is the ability for human beings to give enough of a shit to give it everything we've got. and we keep just. throwing that away. over and over again. God damn, man

This is just the Schutzstaffel but they’re calling it “law enforcement”.

Okay so we've had trans rights but what about TRANS WRONGS???

Murder! Blood magic! Kissing! Monsters!

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

What the fuck did I just read? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

oh good gods do the horrors never cease

These companies selling A! Images masquerading as human-made art are so common now. Note the carefully worded statement (chatgpt generated of course) and generated photo designed to be misleading. It's awful that this sort of false marketing is legal.

(for those of you who have been around since the tw!tter days, yes, we still have Kell's mom Inej -- she's just too dignified to get in on the action with anything she didn't catch herself)

and there's 3 more where that came from💀

all the ocean ones didn't go deep enough 💀

LOOK AT THESE UNREPENTANT TWERPS

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

oh this is delightful 👌

‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland The announcement comes in response to Trump's "militarization of our city."

Oh Portland, I love you never change #protest #portland

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

a man is walking into a pond with a lawn mower in the background . ALT: a man is walking into a pond with a lawn mower in the background .

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it's all fun and games having cats until they bring a live bird inside and start SPRINTING TOWARD YOUR BEDROOM

(bird was rescued and released fyi but not before Kell Maresh Chang DROPPED IT RIGHT ON MY GAARA COSPLAY

and to be fair it was his derpy little floof nephew who caught it first BUT STILL)

for the maybe five of you who care, the pup has been given a clean bill of health post-surgery and is free from the cone of shame (meaning that one of the cats has immediately claimed it as a new cat bed) 🙏

This is literally a trad publisher’s JOB, one of the reasons authors license their works to publishers in the first place. But tradpubs have been offloading marketing costs onto authors in order to pad profits & C-suite salaries.

seconding this PLS

I'll have to bully you into it 😂

I wish my friends at EA a very “new job immediately” and I wish the new EA games a very “sink beneath the waves expeditiously”

truly 😱

(wallets are slightly less likely to bounce back, but obvs it's worth it to keep a fur bb alive/healthy)

only downside is that he has been VERY spoiled by having at least one human with him 24/7 (sleeping on the couch, working from home etc) and is not pleased that this treatment is petering off

trigger warning if you're squeamish!!!

I have no idea how this 13 1/2YO dog has recovered from a full-on laparotomy (like massive cut down the midsection + stomach incision + intestines incision) in two weeks

like he is HYPER and BOUNCY and SO ready to explore to the ends of the earth????

for the maybe five of you who care, the pup has been given a clean bill of health post-surgery and is free from the cone of shame (meaning that one of the cats has immediately claimed it as a new cat bed) 🙏