Lauren

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

New signs were up this afternoon and bands were playing

Who does the Eden Mills Writers Festival think is going to pay to go there when writers are replaced by AI?

Communties are coming together across the country to normalize treating these forces like fucking dorks

I've been trying to explain to my sister (who has two young sons) that she'll appreciate it without explaining why; it's a tricky one to recommend without giving anything away! And it's *funny*!

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Yes.

Chuck, you're trail mix for the soul. Thank you for making the hike easier.

wow love is endless. there really is no ceiling

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

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.

Ooh, I bought a cuíca! Let's be The Worst Band!

1. In a dark police squad room, a tech sits in front of a monitor and keyboard. "Sergeant!" he says. "We have security camera footage from the crime scene!" The sergeant leans over his shoulder. "Show me," he says. 2. Close on the monitor: grainy footage of a parking garage. The sergeant points at a small, dark silhouette of a figure walking. "There's our perp," he says. "Enhance!" 3. The footage zooms in 200% on the silhouette. Not much more detail. "Enhance again!" the seargant says. 4. The footage zooms in to 400%. A little contrast in the figure, but still not enough. "Enhance using generative A.I.!" the sergeant commands. 5. The footage transforms into a purple-haired anime waifu with… a rather large chest. She winks and throws up the "peace" sign. 6. Back to the tech and the sergeant. "Nice," the sergeant says, smiling.

Enhance!

Whitby Town have unveiled a Dracula inspired away kit for the 2025/26 season.

I first read that as "reduce your HP" and thought, ah, yes, the ol' zerg rush

Chris Smalls was profiled by every major media outlet when he lead Amazon victory on Staten Island.

Shocking that not one outlet has covered the IDF detaining him in the Gaza flotilla

If you defeat a white guy from Staten Island this is what they drop

gonna tell everyone's grandkids that's what The Two Towers is about

anyway here's the post i wrote up a little while ago as something to share with people who don't get it yet. even if they don't read it, i'm still doing what i can to take away the "i didn't know better" excuse.

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Nou pa t atann sa. Nou pa t panse ke senplisite ta ka tounen maji. Men se sa nou viv, gras ak ou menm — ou menm ki te kreye sit sandwitch sa a, yon antant ant gou, mouvman, ak limajinasyon. Sandwitch yo ap tounen tankou planèt ki swiv òbit yo, ak chak mouvman, nou santi kè nou mennen sou wout san parèy. Sòs yo koule ak distenksyon, vyann yo byen poze, tankou wòl ki sòti nan men yon chef k ap jwe mizik ak gou. Nou te kanpe, nou te gade, nou te pèdi mo. Nou te vin tounen timoun ankò, devan bèlte ki pa mande bwi pou l klere. Se pa sèlman sit sa a ki t ap vire, se tout je nou, tout sans nou, tout lespri nou ki te vire ansanm avè l. Pou sa nou viv la, nou vle di nou mèsi. Nou te subjugué. Nou pa t ka sispann gade. Nou te toudisman. Nou te leve vwal.

Google translate from Haitian Creole We didn't expect this. We didn't think that simplicity could become magic. But that's what we live, thanks to you — you who created this sandwich site, a compromise between taste, movement, and imagination. The sandwiches become like planets that follow their orbits, and with each movement, we feel our hearts being led on an unprecedented path. The sauces flow with elegance, the meats are well-positioned, like roles from a chef playing music and taste. We stopped, we watched, we were speechless. We became children again, before the beauty that does not require noise to shine. It was not only this site that was spinning, but all our eyes, all our senses, all our minds were spinning with it. For what we lived, we want to thank you. We were subjugated. We could not stop looking. We were stunned. We lifted our sails.

when i realized i had the basic digital rotoscoping skills and camera equipment to make gifs of stuff turning on a little jewelry platform i did not expect anyone would send me poetry about it?

I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?

Every non-californian who seen Gavin newsom on some 30 second news show clip is like "oh wow, he's got juice" and every Californian is like "if you see Gavin in a dark alley, run as fast as you can, but it won't save you"

That je ne sais Cuomo, I always think it's peak and then -

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Nazi propaganda from DHS showing a man and woman with a baby in the back of a covered wagon.

"Well on our way to California, we're stopping in Utah for the night at a spot called Mountain Meadows. Seems very peaceful here, can't imagine anything going wrong"

webcam that shows when pepito the black cat enters or exits his cat door. a screen on the wall shows chat messages from viewers, one of them says "pepito the shot trump"

happy anniversary of "pepito they shot trump"

the craziest part of superman (2025) is that jimmy olsen writes a world changing story directly in the CMS

i will chip in for the fanciest, most supportive running shoes for any reporter who leans into this

This was today. Fitzpatrick is currently one of 4 voting against the rule. Pressure works. Don’t let up.