The Elusive Jessi B. 🧶🎲🍄📔

we are in hell

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies.

Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

Everything else wrong with this aside, if some part of this makes sense to you:

When you show your papers, and the ICE agent (who is accountable to nobody) says of your real government issued ID "that's a fake" and seizes it, what do you do?

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

Cancelled my Nitro and i suggest you all should submit the the form to customer support.

Folks, look, it’s easy to make fun of Kid Rock but it’s important to remember that it’s also hilarious.

"We know there was a huge data breach recently but we super duper pinky promise it's fine now" doesn't exactly inspire confidence, Discord...

Macbeth: SHIT

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

thank you bad bunny for allowing all the thirty eight year olds on bluesky to do the leo pointing meme at the television

i am not rooting for the seahawks so much as i am wishing ill upon the patriots

That Dunkin’ commercial was Al of us collectively having a stroke, right?

The entire AI debate in a nutshell..

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

The audience.

wait wait wait ...

TUMBLR.

THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.

Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

...c'mon, I am just waiting on my damn tires to get mounted, I didn't come here to get Perceived and Called Out like this

that explains the hollering from the living room

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

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There's something utterly heartbreaking about hearing Shakespeare (et al) write words pleading for us to recognize that the stranger among us is human, and that we should imagine ourselves suffering as they do...

... and to realize that, for at least 400 years, we've not gotten this right.

No, tax software service I'm forced to use, I don't want to get ready for tax season. I shouldn't need to get ready for tax season. I especially do not want to give money to the federal government this year of all years, and very much don't want to have an existential crisis in exchange for schools.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.