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ugh FINE I'll go to bed

Ciabatta bread was invented in the 80s, while Fast Food was the standard in Rome 2000 years ago, and Egypt had Fishnet Bodycon dresses 2000 years before that.

Albert Dorne (1906-1965)

The discourse about how mod 20th century science fiction is/isn't "required reading" for the genre reminds me of dust-up in the world of Filk --ten ish years ago?

"They're only banning the BAD stuff" When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. Gay handholding is as perverted and disgusting to them as "the bad stuff". You cannot give these people an inch

There are vanishingly few places for adults to sell works of art to adults online thanks to the christofascist policies of payment processors deciding what is allowed. Artists are watching their entire income and livelihoods disappear overnight. Please help us and sign.

guys my space bestie Raygun has written a sapphic scifi Cinderella with a femme cyborg protagonist, a butch alien prince, a snarky sentient gaseous cloud being (aka Fairy Gasmother), and a hilarious little bit of body horror about cutting off a stepsister’s whole foot. please read, it’s delightful

I've found the perfect Instagram account. Seattle's Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie recommends books and shows her cats. That's it.

IG twicesoldtales

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

Forever

This guy is cool in the most important and perhaps the only way a guy like him can be cool- by not giving a single shit whether other people think he's cool

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!

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Korean gangster movie: nobody has gun

American gangster movie: even the plants have guns

Indian gangster movie: hero is shot with gun and spits the bullets back at the shooters and kills them and then walks off

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

me: haha how could anyone be so gullible that they'd buy magic beans

tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model.

me: ah.

"pattern doesnt match???? ooooooohhhhhhh you fucker we'll see about that. Gonna MAKE it match!!!!! 😡" <- this is what I imagine was going through their head

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I think more of the “it’s a distraction” people need to actually get out and protest.

Because, there you are, a crowd of people, and NOBODY has the same sign, and there’s NINETEEN separate chants and which one is the “real issue” and who “messages” and…

AND YOU’RE ALL THERE TOGETHER.

A panel from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006). It depicts a writer and artist duo regarding each other, the writer in overalls and sneakers, and the artist in boots with low-cut jeans and a cool belt. In between is the avatar of Scott McCloud explaining "In some cases, the collaboration of words and lectures involves the collaboration of a separate writer and artist."

happy Pride month specifically to the artist and writer duo from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006)

Asking for a ten year ban on AI regulation is an admission from these companies (through their powerful lobby) that they are knowingly committing crimes that they should and would otherwise be facing hefty legal challenges and penalties for.

another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from

“why is new york always electing crappy and insane mayors.” the mayoral sash, regardless of city, is an object that causes madness in its wearer. it’s like you’re asking why someone grasping the palantir with both hands is talking to sauron

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

try not to be annoying about this because it is a super special interest but one of the things i have learned from my decades of "look at animals>know stuff about animals>make animal art" loop is that a lot of people, broadly, have no idea what animals look like

Woah cool! Learned something new today, thanks dude! 👍🏳️‍🌈

Woah what's that second one? thats a cool flag!

I adore Mensah in #Murderbot . Noma Dumezweni is doing SUCH a fantastic job with her. One thing I particularly love is how she 1. has badass instincts 2. is not trained or prepared to be a badass at all 3. is scared as hell 4. works through panic 5. is a badass anyway.

We don't need cops at Pride to keep us safe. The lesbians are already strapped.

some milk I used to make Forbidden Percentages. I didn't mention 2% in my post though. I gotta keep some secrets

by carefully mixing 10% cream with 1% skim milk, you can unlock forbidden milk percentages the government doesn't want you to know about, like 7.725%