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Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow beleaguered Americans!

As we live through (dare I say) such a historic time, it's vitally important to actively remind ourselves of the things that bring relief and brightness to our lives that make them worth living. I hope everyone reading this has a wonderful day!

A picture taken from a ship looking down into the water. A shape, appearing human at first glance, is thrashing like a drowning person, splashing around it to disguise its form.

A picture taken from a ship looking down into the water. Something jumps out of the disturbed foam. An alligator, with a marking on its throat resembling a screaming human face, is now visible among the splashing chaos.

Siren Alligators might be the most specialized human predators. These pack hunters have two distinct ways of mimicking our species.
Juveniles thrash in the water near ships, using their face-like throat markings to appear like a drowning person. The pack attacks when someone attempts a rescue.

"Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract — laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity. [...] AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification."

anyway good morning to mattie lubchansky only. at least you live rent-free in this guy's weird mind, which he would hate on account of the capitalism

is the capitalistic society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all here with us now

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html

🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

You will internalize all the mean stuff you say about yourself, even if you say it in jest. Good news: you can also pretend you're great and treat yourself with compassion and internalize that instead. Ask me how I know!

People respond well to it too, they wanna root for you!!

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too.

We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is not an ally and I don’t want to see the left/Dems trying to make her into such. She’s a Karen who’s getting her face eaten by the leopard she put into power. She’s getting exactly what she fought for. Fuck her now and forever.

Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression!

A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

komonews.com/news/local/s...

Just my own two cents on Democrat politics. I think we should've seen the cave coming when, after the landslide election victories for Democratic candidates, the only people NOT celebrating were congressional Democrats. If they intended to keep fighting, they would've shown it on election night.

🚨 With a 60-40 vote (the same breakdown as yesterday’s vote), the Senate has PASSED their negotiated federal budget deal.

The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**

Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

The ACLU petition still hasn't reached it's signature goal? WHAT? That needs to change now. 200k signatures is nothing, let's GET IT. AT LEAST!
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

🐛 MELISSA X MAKESHIP BUGLISSA PLUSHIE IS REAL 🐛

Each $2 Pledge will add 10 minutes to the Subathon Timer for the entire ten day campaign duration, doubling to 20 minutes if we reach 400+ pledges 🙏

We need 200 Pledges in 10 days to make it real 🎉

🔗 www.makeship.com/petitions/ti...

Perhaps this isn't an orb we should be gazing into.

Ask your MP to protect bat species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill - News - Bat Conservation Trust This is the last chance to protect species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

🦇 This is the last chance to protect species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

Ask your MP to keep Amendment 130: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...

these paypros are only gonna continue to clamp down unless we call them and make their lives hell!

call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

Stop “debunking”

Stop playing “spot a bit/ AI”

Look for the humans.

You can’t beat their ability to flood the zone . We’re tired , overwhelmed , and under resourced

We can shift the zone

Tell Mastercard and Visa about this. When you call tell them you're going to petition your bank to switch. Doesn't matter how much you think they would. It happened.

If you’re upset about this (as you should be), pick up the phone and call

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse

YouTube video by Memingless Public Shaming with Holly Conrad

For those of you who don't follow podcasts, video version of my conversation with @hollyconrad.bsky.social is available on YouTube.

youtu.be/fm5IT3KiaIY?...