non-Newtonian gender fluid

Sneaking in a TTRPG can be incredibly satisfying if your DM is good enough. The mechanics are unimportant, it's all about the description.

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

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To dodge federal rule, immigrants moved from Florida jails — and sometimes moved right back Four Guatemalan siblings, detained as undocumented immigrants after a traffic stop, spent several days last week at the Orange County Jail before being picked up in a van and driven around for hour…

“Prisoners suspected of being in this country illegally have been picked up at the Orange County Jail, driven around for hours — then returned to the jail with a new inmate number and a re-set on the time they can be held in local custody.”

"Last night I was informed that tomorrow will be my last day in the FBI. I understand that you may have a lot of questions regarding why, for which I currently have no answers," the FBI's former acting director, Brian Driscoll, wrote in a farewell message to colleagues.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

specific fallacies that lead to even greater perceptions of intelligence, competence, or understanding.

Something I realized a while back about how many people relate to LLMs: the Turing test isn't a test of AI, it's a test of human perception. Something that talks like a person will be perceived to be intelligent like a person. This is an extension of that: (cont.)

And they figured out that it was far easier to get the support of those voters by taking a policy line of "if liberals like it it's bad" than to come up with something coherent and then have to convince them.

Oh right, these kids are probably younger than the computer I keep around just to use its CD drive.

I think there are probably external ones available for pretty cheap, but yeah it's still an additional thing vs. just a discman.

Streaming is terrible but I don't understand why they're not ripping the CDs and putting the music on their phone. Maybe it's a retro fashion thing?

With ongoing pressure campaigns, not everyone can push 100% all the time

If you and maybe a friend or two can jump in "late"? You give people a chance to recharge their batteries, so they can take over again once you need to recharge yours

Its a marathon, not a race

I don't think there's any chance it will happen, but this one would theoretically be possible for a competently run space agency that hadn't been gutted of staff and funding. Instead it's just going to be another grift, and the veneer of plausibility will help them pull it off.

an photo of police throwing a person to the ground, against a red background with the words "Cambridge police arrest 3, pepper spray more to protect Capital One." there is also an emoji of a spray bottle and the BDS Boston logo

Photos of the police assaulting a group of protesters, and police standing around earlier in the protest. Red background with black and white text boxes that say: On August 3rd at around 1:30 pm, Cambridge Police (CPD) carried out an unprovoked attack against protesters demanding that Capital One end its loan to zionist weapons corporation Elbit Systems. CPD arrested 3 protesters and injured many others with their indiscriminate violence, including the use of pepper spray and metal batons. This comes during the same weekend that Cambridge police attacked a man having a mental health crisis and deployed chemical weapons in a residential apartment building without informing residents causing many of those residents to become ill.

More photos of cops holding metal batons and grabbing people in a crowd. Text says: CPD had vans and pepper spray ready when the protest began and appeared eager to begin assaulting demonstrators. CPD resorting to these increasingly desperate forms of repression means that Capital One is struggling to handle the pressure we are putting on them. The unprovoked violence and arrests aim to scare us into submission. But we are not afraid and we will not back down.

A photo of a hand holding a sign that says, "Capital One Bank enables genocide by funding Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems." in the background is a Palestinian flag and a Capital One cafe. There is a red background with black and white text that says: Say it loud and say it clear: war profiteers aren't welcome here."

🚨🚨Cambridge/Boston folks, please spread the word about this unprovoked police attack on people taking direct action against the genocide in Palestine in Harvard Square yesterday, and stay tuned for more updates!🚨🚨

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this is a must-read. and it's not great that zero democratic politicians/candidates have been willing to speak up about this level of corruption over the last decade. no wonder consultants are so terrified zohran

It definitely still has its flaws but my current vacuum is a Sebo and I am genuinely delighted by how quiet it is. It makes it so much more pleasant to use than any other vacuum I have owned. (Also several times more expensive, admittedly.)

Valve breaking silence on this is huge, they really dont do this. Companies, at this scale, dont -do this-.

Visa, mastercard, stripe and paypal are feeling the pressure. They are making mistakes under pressure.

Keep it up

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a…

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One ICE official who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.

Collaboration won't hold off the deaths, either. Trump is _infamous_ for not honoring deals; why would anyone expect him or any other Republican to honor them now?

What collaboration will do is make it easier for them to kill the people they are targeting. That will hasten deaths, not delay them.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Both the Trump administration and Florida have been lying through their teeth about who is being detained at the Everglades detention camp.

At the very least I think there is indirect causality, because every time you or anyone helps someone else it contributes to the culture of helping, and people see that and reflect it.

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I'm pretty sure I've seen some stuff saying that they already are. Maybe not widespread yet.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

It's much harder to intercept individual plastic bottles than it is to intercept ships, at least.

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants released from immigration custody to instead detain them in state-run prison camps.

They are calling this — no joke — "shelter in a detention environment." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...