Ciel

Get angry because someone like you was murdered by the state.

Stay angry because the state murders people who aren't like you every day.

every so often there's a parent who decides their kid doesn't need insulin and when the kid dies we put the parents in jail

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies Singin' in the Rain (Full Song/Dance - '52) - Gene Kelly - Musical Romantic Comedies - 1950s Movies

#AICouldNever

If you need a four minute breather, here it is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=swlo...

Ohhhhhh that makeup looks phenom

Pic from Halloween it's been meaning to post it for a bit wasn't too happy with the cracks but just this pic hit some real fun energy.

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

I'd never heard this -- super interesting.

eevee @eevee psych: ah, i see you have ADD. i can tell, because literally my entire job is to understand such things me: wow! amazing. thank you psych: please fill out paperwork, and do an errand, and call us on the phone, and arrive 15 minutes early, and do not miss appointments me: ah

Welp.

"Tommy need drinky" ass website admin

Real power lies in feelings. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.

i think we need to jail company executives that say/do things like this

-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful

groucho marx: i've been busy all day, i haven't even had time to think. chico: why? groucho: my shadow beast - or doppelganger - escaped from its prison. on a rampage. chico: wait, which one is it? shadow beast or doppelganger? groucho: i'll tell you, when i've had time to think. chico: so you're not thinking right now? groucho: i'm talking to you, aren't i? [ELSEWHERE] high class lady looking over a pile of bodies torn apart by a shadow beast, or doppelganger: oh, this just won't do at ALL.

Artwork for - Elena, Turk Recruit - MTGxFinalFantasy
<3
#MTG #FF7 #MTGxFinalFantasy

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

Biggest hit: Dragonstorm, a thing targeted at my scalie face.
Biggest miss: ...I dunno, I just love Magic.

So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.

So around 0.6% of the population.

0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.

They do not have enough goons.

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

Cybersmith is rolling around in the mud, as is his way.

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Nurgle's Conscription {4}{B} Instant Put target creature card from an opponent’s graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control, then exile that player’s graveyard. “In the embrace of the great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once most feared: Death.” —Kulvain Hestarius of the Death Guard Illustrated by Ørjan Ruttenborg Svendsen

1/9 #scryfallrandom is yet another Frosty.
Nurgle's Conscription
Has a cost of four and black
It grabs their best card
And exiles their yard
And then brings that monster back

the Right is about to be working overtime to try everything in their power (and also outside their power) to keep this from happening, because there is nothing more dangerous to them than people realizing the scary socialist policies actually work to improve their lives

Well, James, we had to choose between between male rapists being locked up with women and the eradication of women's single-sex spaces, even down to homeless shelters and rape crisis centres, and knowing we share a single opinion with Donald Trump. I'm comfortable with my choice.

The real reason JK Rowling is comfortable with her choice is that she shares far more than a "single opinion" with Donald Trump. A persistent myth that needs to be pushed back against is that Rowling was ever the character she pretended to be on Twitter. She's a conservative activist. Always was.

This is my read and has been for a while

It also helps make sense of things when one remembers that many if not all of them really are so pickled in their own brine that they truly believe there’s a broad constituency for what they’re doing

"Five Nights at Freddy's" creator defends donations to top Republicans A Twitter user posted screenshots of his donations to Republicans including Trump and McConnell.

If you're saying "Fuck JK Rowling" and "stop keeping Harry Potter culturally relevant through fandom or funding" then you should drop FNAF too. Scott Cawthon is a Christian Conservative who uses his wealth to donate to republicans, including Trump and Mitch McConnell.

www.axios.com/2021/06/15/f...

to all trans bitches: survive