Starbird 💫 🦢 💫

I wanna saaaaaay… Tom Bombadil.

Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine.

Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.

Oooooh Beacon Pines is giving me Night in the Woods flashbacks and I love it

Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement 🇯🇵

• Says characters from manga, anime, and video games are ‘irreplaceable treasures’

• Comes in response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos with copyrighted characters

similar to this, it's bad form in my book to pirate independently made works of art.

like, go ahead and pirate the latest hollywood blockbuster or triple-a video game. But there's a reason why I bought the Hundreds of Beavers blu-ray despite it being free with ads on youtube.

Update on Cope and Seethe/Beckett vs ILoveKimPossibleALot/KP. So Beckette was able to process a countet claim against 1 of 5 copyright strikes made against KP. KP has until the 30th to take Beckett to court or else the copyright strike will be removed.

I am not sure if that is because I am a Taurus, or because I am neurospicy because I feel called out

Angela Lansbury in THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984)

She was BOTD in 1925

as someone who was a teenage girl on the internet, i think making AI-generated revenge porn of a minor should get you the electric chair actually

Old birch tree in Borrowdale #capturewithconfidence #kingjoytripodsuk #kasefilters #summitcreativebags #photography #woodlandphotography #woodlandtrust #ntborrowdale

KP is a menace who does not pay the people who work for her and tries to silence anyway that speaks out against her and her abuse. CopeandSeethe is another victim of KP’s abuse of power. @TeamYoutube Get rid of the strikes against CopeAndSeethe

Including a 16 year old editor that she did not pay and she tried to get the now adult fired from SPINDLEHORSE, Chris from DA Games, and another editor who spoke to youtube channel Cope and Seethe about her horrible treatment. She tried to call that editor’s workplace to have the guy fired.

She has a history of claiming other male creators and individuals have harassed her—including a random con staff assigned to help her out since she was a guest. She also has a history of trying to harass and black list folks that cross her

Update update on ILoveKimPossibleALot. She is now trying to flag a content creator’s channel down with MULTIPLE STRIKES and falsely accusing him of sexually harassing her. He has not done any of the such, just pointed out KP’s lies and history of slander, harassment, and lies…

So disney+ sends me an email saying their BASIC
PACKAGE (no addons, commerciald) is now going up to $12/month.

Me: Good thing I’m cancelling then.

She has basically tried to ruin another former editor’s life over an admittedly bad and gross joke (but still a joke and not a real thing).

And she has butned every bridge in the youtube and animation community.

@teamyoutube KP false flags videos.

She tried to blackball a recent whistleblower who talked to one of the flagged youtubers by calling the whistleblower’s boss to have them fired.

Update: ILoveKPALot falsely flagged another content creator’s video on her, because it showed her history as a terribleboss, a vindicative brat, and a self obsessed womanchild. She pushed a false rape claim against Saber just because his channel did better and be did not date her.

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

“If the car’s gone,”

“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”

“because I love you.”

Happy Columbo’s Day

So after pushing a false rape allegation at Saberspark and trying to blacklist her former editors, ILoveKimPossible is now falsely copyright claiming any channel that is basically showing all her dirty laundry. Just letting folks know she seems to be a very vindictive and corrupt person.

Why look at that!

Wind turbines do not explode when they fail.

Neither do solar energy panels.

Industrial iron-air batteries, now being built in West Virginia, can store power for 4 days.

For when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.

this is the Jesse Singal exception.

it reads *extremely* like Jay's excuses last year not to ban the literal neo-Nazi who was making death threats

then it turned out Jay and half the devs were following the neo-Nazi

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

I definitely recommend getting a usb harddrive and backing things up into it as a just in case.

In fact, I may do that tonight with my own mac.

And I know FAbula Ultima can export materials into a file so you can swwitch from online to offline—so maybe make a folder and put them in the folder

If you have your old laptop, try to get it to a pc repair shop. I think so long as the harddrive it fine, they cane take it and get all the data

I’m quoted in today’s issue of Forbes.

Science Must Go On: How Courageous Scientists Are Meeting the Moment Scientists are stepping up to provide their expertise outside of federal structures that no longer support them.

This week, a group of experts will step up in a big way to ensure that science goes on, despite Trump administration cuts to Federal science advice. They join several other independent science efforts fighting back. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Two kingbirds with grey heads, greenish backs and yellow bellies perched on a barbed wire fence. The juvenile is slightly smaller and sits on top of the fence post while the larger parent is on the right perched on a wire.

This photo is from earlier in July - a juvenile western kingbird and its parent. I love how they and the landscape behind them have the same colour scheme. #birds 🌿

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans

Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.