kiyaar

This is absolutely an #NEISvoid issue

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

genuinely they do prefer that we just fucking die

Close to Mars’s North Pole you’ll find basaltic sand dunes.

They’re covered with a seasonal carbon dioxide frost.

#astronomy 🧪

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Of Arizona

i call this brine. Mixing my brine. Got in two liters of brine. when my pots is turbo bad i barely even perceive it as salty

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Would you look at that IT'S T DICK TIME

i love your art! i think you are genuinely doing such important work and you greatly enrich my life <3

Gouache.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

An old comic style of a woman looking out her window at a city skyline. The bubble says, “What a stupid time to be alive.”

If you don’t think you know anyone with long covid what you really mean is that people are uncomfortable sharing their health status with you or there are people who have dropped out of your life (due to illness) that you haven’t checked up on.

Disabled people & those who cannot afford to get Covid deserve to be able to see art in public and make art in public.

Year of the Fire Horse

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

A messy, scribbly oil painting from my brother’s photos of Prussia Cove in Cornwall. An uneven stone wall leads from centre foreground back to the curve of the cliff on the right, parallel to the trail; All sides from the ridge line drop down to the narrow, rocky cove. A couple of cottages are nestled in the ridge line, beneath a clouded, rainy sky.

The finished (I think!) piece: Prussia Cove, Cornwall: oil and pigment sticks on panel, 60 x 80cm

#oilpainting #seascape #prussiacove #cornwall

honestly. I think I will cultivate this rage every day until preventable illness kills me

I will never fucking forgive the fucking Biden administration for declaring "mission accomplished" and forcing people to go back to their workplaces without any guarantees of clean filtered air, or a guaranteed right to mask, or guaranteed paid sick leave, or guaranteed universal healthcare.

in this prolonged period of just being pissed. pissed I am still forever in pain, Pissed I have no energy, pissed at every one of you fucks who asks me if I’m sick when I wear a mask anywhere

kinksters who can't/won't acknowledge they're participating in kink are a huge social problem right now, imo. ai gooners, trad influencers and breeding-obsessed politicians are all (among other things) perverts who insist they hate perverts.

TO: newyork@relx.com ATTN: RELX CEO Erik Engstrom, Nick Luff (CFO), and Paul Ashton Walker (Chair) Re: Immediate Termination of contracts between RELX subsidiaries and ICE February 9th, 2026 Dear Erik Engstrom, Nick Luff, and Paul Ashton Walker, We are some of the authors that make events like BookCon—run by your subsidiary, ReedPop—possible. Another of your subsidiaries, LexisNexis, has a $22.1 million dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), supplying them with the data they need to surveil and terrorize our neighbors, friends, and families.[1] We condemn any collaboration with ICE and call for the immediate termination of all contracts between RELX and ICE. ICE has a twenty-two year history of discrimination and abuse against immigrant communities. Under the current administration, their efforts have escalated in both violence and visibility—enabled by their partners in big data, including LexisNexis.[2] RELX is a multinational corporation worth $40 billion, of which events like BookCon are only a small fraction. Our power is limited. But BookCon advertises itself as a place where "fantasy meets reality,"[3] and the reality is that RELX is profiting from mass terror against communities of color, including the murder of eight people this year alone. The fantasy is that a bunch of readers and authors could ignore it; we know a villain when we see one. We, as authors, intend to honor our immediate commitments to BookCon and to our readers. If RELX chooses to renew their current contract with ICE–which expires on February 28, 2026[4]–we will be forced to reevaluate our association with all future ReedPop events.

if you're an author attending BookCon this year (or, to be honest, any other ReedPop events, which include NYCC), and would like to add your name to the letter: forms.gle/V7m2YbcGguAY...

Go and light their feedback forms up over this, it is much more effective than emailing: dis.gd/contact

fwooh! *rolling up sleeves* now that i've gotten my "i am trying to understand where you're coming from and empathize with it" thread out of the way, here's how i really feel:

anyone who uses AI is a fucking class traitor, a scab, and a boring naive idiot who doesn't realize they've been had 🤝

save me, 00s USA originals

One easy way to protect your community and push back against fascism is to help normalize wearing an N95

butlerian jihad, i think

Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"

get ratioed

I read like 60 audiobooks a year and I’m uninstalling over this. Fuck you