Nicole

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Two illustrated figures. The left wears flaring layers of mushroom shaped armor and a ragged cape. The right wears a fitted, torn dress with slashed red and cream sleeves.

Costume designs inspired by the Inky Cap, Clathrus Ruber and Devil's Tooth mushrooms 🍄

Ophelia, a one year old akbash rescue dog, glaring defiantly at the camera with her chin up in a dining room with wood floors.

I said “show me your sassy face!” Ophelia did this. Then she slapped me.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Blonde coyote paw. (Taxidermy photo.)

Did You Know? #Coyotes are stabby.

They stab with their forepaws. Long, slender paws. Long, slender claws.

They stab prey. They stab other coyotes. 🐾🔪🩸

Please share a mildly disturbing and/or gory wildlife fact. Any species. (For the purposes of this question, housecats don’t count.)

Hey, you know you don’t have to STAY pregnant just cuz you got pregnant, right? That lil stick changing colors or showing a plus sign does not obligate you to give birth.

Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already.

Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?

Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

This is glaringly obvious with the most cursory of thought so WHY is the government so intent on forcing this stuff on us, including in schools?

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Pump this directly into my veins:

A top GOP official in Texas says, "It looks like we f***ed ourselves with our gerrymandering. We watered down all the red districts to steal as many blue ones as possible and now the electorate hates us and our turnout is collapsing."

May this not be just a fluke.

I've been using Cosmos for a while just because there's a browser extension and it links to the sites I save images from. I haven't used it much for compiling reference material, but so far it's a really good pinterest alternative

GIVE HIM HIS HAT AND BACKPACK BACK YOU GHOULS

I love to hear CEOs whining that people don't want AI in their products, and to please stop being negative about their slop and to stop calling it slop, please keep it up.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

#AICouldNever

The great Woody Guthrie singing "All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose" on the radio, as one does

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

Keep it up. Delete ur tiktok accounts. Uninstall the tiktok app. For your own safety

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

a lazy artist told me students keeps eating his AI art so I asked how many pieces he has left and he said he just generates a new piece afterwards so I said it sounds like you're just feeding real artists and then his review committee started crying

When people on my side of the political fence get mad at the suggestion of parenthood, it's not the babies we're objecting to. It's the enforcement. Human beings are not livestock, and cannot be bred like same.

Massachusetts Could Be the Next State to Give Abuse Survivors a Pathway Out of Prison - Bolts The Massachusetts Survivors Act emulates recent resentencing reforms across the country that allow for reduced sentences for people with convictions related to their abuse.

NEW: There's a bill in Massachusetts that'd do something really important — give a pathway out of prison to people, often women, who are in prison due to a crime they committed against their abuser.

Several states adopted a version of this very recently: OK, NY, GA. Can Massachuetts be next?

If there's a solidarity rally in your city, that's a good place to start. There's also a fund for union workers impacted by ICE, and another Linktree for mutual aid more generally (linked below)

In 10 states, people convicted of felonies lose their right to vote, permanently.

In 15 states, they lose it while incarcerated and for some time after.

In 23 states, they lose it while incarcerated.

All of those people are people too.

It's also essential to remember that the GOP has an extremely well-funded voter suppression operation. A significant chunk of folks who don't vote/didn't vote in 2024 would have voted if the GOP hadn't prevented them from doing so.

‘Sinners’ Scores 16 Nominations And Breaks Oscar Record 'Sinners' has scored 16 Oscar nominations, breaking the all-time record.

Well this is good news to start the day.

The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners' The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.

Anyway what’s amazing is that it’s a vampire movie but the real monster is the inescapable labyrinth of the Jim Crow economy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

“Brandon Sproat” I’m not falling for that

No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.

There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.

Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.

24 hours. Go.

www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

I didn’t know that bus driver was also a pilot