Andrew Carl

Red Shiba puppy sleeping in her crate cuddling with a grey toy

Red Shiba puppy poking her head out of the top door of her crate

Pupdate: Her name is Hanabi. She is eight weeks old & is very bold.

(low-key think this is also what the 2022 layoffs and the gigantic fight over WFH mandates were about to: it's putting employees back in their place, even at loss of value, because a lot of people were alarmed at the sense of losing control over staff that their money "entitled" them to)

Fantastic 4: "Galactus is coming! Everyone needs to use less power if we're going to survive."
"Let's do it, F4!"

Real life: "Climate crisis is coming! Everyone needs to use slightly less power."
Techbros: "Here's a supercomputer that only tells lies and uses more power than Argentina."

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

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What if I'm escorting a group of abused women attempting to escape Immortan Joe? You really expect me to get them to the green place before his warboys catch up if I drive the speed limit?

Depends on which one you're playing, but it's pretty difficult to put together an unviable team for just playing through the game. Just choose the ones you like, with the caveat that you probably want type advantage when battling gym leaders/elite four/rivals.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

So does that mean it’ll develop crippling depression and a bunch of debt

It's not a feel-good movie but something about it just makes me feel less pessimistic about the future.

Every once in a while I remember Goncharov & things seem a little less bleak

AI is a wonder technology that is going to change every industry, which is why
- people have to be forced to use it
- people have to be tricked into paying for it
- people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked

This is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound but having been Through It and now having been a Lead, here are a few things I do to help:

- Always make sure non-standup meetings have agendas and appropriate titles. Yes, even if it's bad news - make sure that agenda involves a Plan.

okay, look, I’m going to keep saying it even though you all know it: this isn’t how history works. this isn’t how scholarship works. and I refuse to cede the narrative to people who are too incurious to understand what value this kind of scholarship offers.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

YOU 🫵

HIRE ME TO MAKE YOUR CHARACTERS

DOESN'T MATTER WHAT STYLE IT'S IN

I guess I got lucky. Out of the blue one day my mom called me up & said "I don't get why I would want any of this AI stuff. What am I missing?" I guess she was googling stuff that she needed a refresher on & was really annoyed at the AI feeding her bad info.

Honestly I'm not sure how big of a contingent of normal people that actually is. AI routinely polls very negative, a lot of very offline people seem to have noticed it getting slipped into everything & don't seem to like it. Anecdotally, my tech-illiterate parents figured it out on their own.

Episode 15: The Bully (Part One) — ALAB Series In what is worst in the human soul can be found the most powerful tools of a lawyer's toolkit. Thus do Andy, Tarik, and Tim begin their studies at the feet of the Greatest Lawyer of All Time: Harvard ...

ALAB did a really good two-parter on how this guy has always been a piece of shit. TL;DR being a giant bully is helpful for lawyers like him & legal academia is almost wholly composed of smug assholes whose only qualification is excelling in law school without ever actually practicing law.

Hot take but this was the best button layout design and regressing back to the SNES layout post-gamecube sucks actually

Burnout and Weightlifting The last step in recovery.

The long-awaited follow-up to my article "How The Games Industry Hurts People".

A tale of trauma, healing, and finding your way back.

If you've ever been burned out, crunched, mistreated, mismanaged, or generally ground to a crisp, this one is for you.

this is it, guys, the hundred millionth revolution of the “what’s wrong with young men” discourse is the time we are gonna solve it, here on the nation’s sixth or seventh most popular social media site, our median 38 year old user is gonna get it right this time

the “the left needs to stop shaming masculinity!!!” talking point is always so funny to me bc it isnt the left who is telling men theyre inherently violent lust-driven creatures enslaved to their own biology who need to cruelly dominate everyone and everything or else theyre worthless

it’s good that all the economic numbers put out under trump are fake and that we’re definitely in a recession but no one wants to admit it

Image of Gekkomon from the upcoming Digimon Beatbreak anime

Gekkomon's pristine brain has never been violated by a single thought. His neurons have never experienced the jolt of electricity that activates them. His inner monologue is a dial tone. Gekkomon is my perfect no-thoughts son & his older brother Fuecoco can't wait to hang out & chew stuff with him.

*meditating hard enough to enter the Akashic Records and check my True Name* “GenericCivilian5_wip_dontuse”? Huh?

US Activist Chris Smalls Released From Israeli Prison After Beating by Officers Smalls, the only Black person on a crew hoping to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, was beaten by Israeli officers.

American labor activist Chris Smalls was released from Israeli imprisonment on Thursday after being assaulted by soldiers who abducted him and the rest of the Freedom Flotilla crew.

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this looks like one of those tacky dogshit venues that your worst uncle books to pretend that he spent a lot on his daughter's wedding