256 Pi / The Wonky Angle

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Ganon Gets Famous

(Another oldie, requested by 256Pi)

The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded"

Continue to cancel Nitro and migrate elsewhere

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

Dreamdeathdream, by Renere 7 track album

NEw album renere.bandcamp.com/album/dreamd...

Youve gotta bother the shit out if your representatives about the issue of online ID laws, its not a discord only problem nor is it limited to nsfw content

Please get involved

Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship.

Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)

Goddam it I just woke up man.

I have less than a week to come up with over $5,300 or else I'm likely facing eviction, after being scammed by a fraudulent job for months that drained what little I had. I've been unemployed since Aug 2024 and am struggling to keep it together at all since then. Please help...

#mutualaid

Sweguno - No Right Or Wrong Way Forward (Album Review) [Patreon Request] youtu.be/-djrHjYRIu0

‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

It is Bandcamp Friday.

The Knife - Silent Shout (Album Review) [Patreon Request] youtu.be/LtOh6iPiqBY

Did I do it right

bsky.app/profile/256p...

Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future.

www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...

(the page looks how it normally should on my 256PiAlternate account so this is something they're just a/b testing right now and not nailed down, but christ, subscribing to a channel means I specifically want to know when they upload videos, not to be randomly suggested their stuff on occasion)

istg, youtube better not be sunsetting the page showing videos from subscribed channels in upload order. first they hid the button to go to that page in a less intuitive place, now they covered up nearly the whole page with a new "Most Relevant" section to make it look identical to the home page

I'm thinking Link should say "gee it sure is boring around here" and the King should say "mah boi this peace is what all true warriors strive four"

as a former flash animator it feels necessary to underline how much this is Utter Disgusting Cruel Bullshit that will seriously impact tens of thousands of already struggling artists

just spent 3 straight days writing, recording and editing a 53-minute video before realizing it had absolutely no business being that long and I was unhappy enough with the result to feel the need to at least start over from near-scratch if not just scrap the whole thing, whoops

well I was close, I guess Twigs' lack of pop success felt less music industry-coded to me but she has been around longer and did a throwback-y thing so that makes sense. anyway, meh to these categories bsky.app/profile/256p...

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 1, Episode 9

got fucked over w/ a job that turned out to be a huge scam after over a year unemployed, & now I'm 3 months behind on everything and facing certain ruin.

probable eviction on the 1st, power cut on the 29th, out of meds... I need a break.

www.paypal.com/paypalme/smi...
account.venmo.com/u/scjreal

Don't be a fan of politicians. Don't. Do. Not.

Be ready to turn on them if they even think of stepping out of line. You know how corporations aren't our friend? Well, voters aren't THEIR friends.

We are angry, feral, and tired.

Oh you "wrote" a book that's cute where's my fucking health care

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,

It's 10 years today since my first collab, which contains some of my favourite ever YTPs, but has been lost for years. Now, I've finally uploaded an improved version with a new silly little intro and a couple of other extras.

Premiering it bcos why not at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymyu...

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:

1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account

Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (Album Review) youtu.be/5zVkaO6wjIw

this was a great moment in modern American history, it instantly stopped this man from becoming a more consequential figure