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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Declare GBVF a National Disaster in South Africa

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Thinking about the two most recent novels in a thriller series I enjoy where "the world's first trillionaire" is the explicit bad guy.

Contains this gem:

A Telegraph article with the headline We should all celebrate the world's first trillionaire

An "Independent" article with the headline Elon Musk is worth every cent of his trillion dollars

I can hear myself turning into one of those old hippies that keep going "the media, man", but the media, man

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

So we're doing phrenology again, I see. The adage that every AI "innovation" is a grift continues to be true.

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

is it not possible for potato chip makers to provide actual potato chips and not potato crumbs that i practically need a spoon to eat?

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

"what did people do before--" death. mostly pretty bad painful tragic unnecessary death

In South Africa we kept the name but make no mistake, the Apartheid state with the orange white and blue flag, founded on white supremacy, was *disolved and replaced* with a new democratic state founded on equal rights. The apartheid state had no “right to exist” and was eliminated.

like abortion, divorce is beautiful

like abortion, every divorce is an exercise in autonomy that triumphs over obsolete constraints on human freedom and dignity

all human relations should be consensual and a necessary condition for that is actionable exit and unilateral dissolution

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

The Nuclear Block is The Thing that makes Bluesky shine. Use it.

their government is a frat house

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

try to make the most ridiculous “largest X in the world”, for example largest bookshelf in the world with books that are fully functional but impossible to read without a crane

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

“They all say that.” - my response to a kindly older bloke whose off leash dog was showing very clear signs of aggression, after he said the usual: “don’t worry. He won’t attack you.”

They too often follow with “oh my god, he’s never done that before.”

this needs to happen more regularly.

famous, and rich, ppl need to be told they can't buy their way out of things.

Friday 10 October at 3pm Demand the Closure of the Israeli Embassy. 428 King's Highway Lynnwood

Demand the closure of the Israeli embassy, protest at 428 King's Highway, Lynnwood, Pretoria at 3pm Friday

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI meme by @FLScience

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

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Talk is cheep, if you're a small bird.

Claude AI logo

Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

Pratchett's books are some of the most intelligent, insightful and well-written literature of our time. The idea that it's not appropriate for adults is such an unbelievably shallow take it actually manages to outdo the Kemi Badenoch thing.