Hasn't the weather been strange lately

It’s weird to assume that certain people *need* exposure to people who disagree with them, as if I could go a day in my life w/o encountering that shit and that my actual survival doesn’t depend on knowing what assholes think.

Here are all your questions answered on why you should leave substack, and how to go about it. No more excuses. Just go.

no I think you have this one, "bewitchment" was just closer to the surface from earlier in the day, "ensorcellment" is the stronger choice

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence

I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

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David Tuller is crowdfunding for his salary & expenses. He outlines the many ways in the past year he has challenged the promotion of psycho-behavioral interventions & inappropriate FND diagnoses, exposed research & reporting errors, and promoted positive research. Ends 7 Nov.
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time to move Khoshekh onto kitten food. She's having more and more trouble chewing, still wants all the chicken though.

When we first got the diagnosis we thought she wouldn't make it three whole weeks, two months later she's still here. Demanding more chicken.

when you're mean to Dr Ryan this is who you're being mean to

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

There panel cartoon of a weird looking guy with giant eye. In the first panel he’s wearing a witches hat. In the second he’s holding a Black cat. In the third a jack-o’-lantern and a bat. Text reads ma hat ma cat ma pumpkin and ma bat

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

The thing about paypros is this: These companies shouldn’t have the power to decide what you do with your money

They need to be reminded that, summer or fall, winter or spring, you care about this issue & will not stand for a major corpo censoring adults creating adult content for other adults

fake hillbilly ain't from the holler

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

A longhair black cat with odd-coloured eyes curled up in the bucket of a scratching tree, looking back towards the camera with her eyes half closed, probably squinting at the flash but the effect is somewhat sinister.

Ok

The entire conversation around the minimum wage is framed as a question of entitlements or “handouts” when the issue is really this: of the value produced by a worker per hour, how much should employers be prevented from stealing?

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Asimov's really focused on the wrong thing.

"This could take a while"

me with that cross stitch kit tbh

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

sometimes it's not about "but what will the dumbest people alive think?" sometimes it's about "this thought simply can not be collapsed to fit this forum"

Realllll.

Alt text: tweet from @adhdjesse.com : Life with ADHD: “Sorry, this link has expired.” “Sorry, that food has expired.” “Sorry, your license has expired.”

TL;DR Violent J for Senate

a man in a suit and tie is surrounded by butterflies and flowers with the words buenos dias pookie above him Alt: This is a mid-2010's fever dream. Hannibal Lecter, played by Mads Mikkelsen in NBC Hannibal, wearing a suit and tie covered by a clear plastic overall, apparently floating in a woodland setting that tries for idyllic but fails. The background is lightly animated, maybe it was supposed to look like it's sparkling but it's just sort of seething and unhealthy. Hannibal is not animated, he's completely rigid and suspended in a neutral default character pose. He is surrounded by twinkling animated butterflies and hearts, with the words "buenos dias pookie" also twinkling. The logo for PicMix is in the lower corner, which I looked up and found is a mildly sketchy-looking site apparently filling the niche left by the closure of Blingee. I can't explain it but this is an extremely blessed image, in the way that will burn your eyes out if you gaze directly upon it.

I was looking for a suitable Hannibal gif but never mind that, I found possibly the best Hannibal gif of all time for every purpose, enjoy.

a man in a suit and tie is surrounded by butterflies and flowers with the words buenos dias pookie above him Alt: This is a mid-2010's fever dream. Hannibal Lecter, played by Mads Mikkelsen in NBC Hannibal, wearing a suit and tie covered by a clear plastic overall, apparently floating in a woodland setting that tries for idyllic but fails. The background is lightly animated, maybe it was supposed to look like it's sparkling but it's just sort of seething and unhealthy. Hannibal is not animated, he's completely rigid and suspended in a neutral default character pose. He is surrounded by twinkling animated butterflies and hearts, with the words "buenos dias pookie" also twinkling. The logo for PicMix is in the lower corner, which I looked up and found is a mildly sketchy-looking site apparently filling the niche left by the closure of Blingee. I can't explain it but this is an extremely blessed image, in the way that will burn your eyes out if you gaze directly upon it.

I was looking for a suitable Hannibal gif but never mind that, I found possibly the best Hannibal gif of all time for every purpose, enjoy.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

somebody once told me
the plums were gonna roil me
I ate the ones you had
in the icebox
they were looking like some plums
that would make you say yum
you were probably saving them
for your breakfast
well they were cold and delicious
and sweet not malicious
etc etc etc

footnote: millennials eat mostly laurels and asters, landlords and bosses eat mostly the blood of the working class