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American physics abroad in Finland, working on citizenship He/him "In a hundred years we'll all be dead, but here and now we are alive"-Small Gods, by T. Pratchett Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer

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Incorrect.

13.10.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's this from?

13.10.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apple Review #13: Ashmead’s Kernel This apple sounds like some Clive Barker shit. Like it’s a forbidden relic β€” an infernal device you use to enter the Labyrinth of Hell. (It continues its horror pedigree by tasting just…

New apple review is up: one of my favorite apples, and favorite-NAMED apples -- the ASHMEAD'S KERNEL.

13.10.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

How old is he?
Sticker charts with rewards when enough were accrued was something that worked really well with me.

13.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

13.10.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2246    πŸ” 504    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 12
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Donate to Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot, organized by Carrie Sykes There's a colony of lovely cats living in a rural neighborhood in Goldston, NC. Fr… Carrie Sykes needs your support for Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

12.10.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Also, if you are NC local and would like to help out or maybe even adopt a soon to be tripod, I know she’s trying to find homes for those who can conceivably become pets, and would love to hear from you!

12.10.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Crime of Human Virtue Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

13.10.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 603    πŸ” 228    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9
Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

you have a right to be angry

28.06.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1931    πŸ” 655    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 16
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just another one of those memories that haunts me daily

[ #art / #sillyhours ]

10.10.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 985    πŸ” 292    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders.
But the soul has so much more individualityπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each otherβ™‘

18.09.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 20460    πŸ” 6309    πŸ’¬ 287    πŸ“Œ 194

I--
... motherfuck, I haven't even read the simarilion and even I know THAT's LITERALLY NOT HOW THE THEOLOGY OF EA WORKS.

ALSO MANKIND'S MORTALITY

CALLED

THE GIFT OF ILLUVATAR.

I.
Just.

Motherfuck this isn't even subtext, it is text text.

12.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

art lit criticism is my passion ass guy

12.10.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

It didn't. They shorted Bitcoin (effectively: Placing a bet that Bitcoin will go down. This is a slight oversimplification, mind.)

12.10.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Cringe is dead, and I'm still breathing."
--Speaker D

12.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

11.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2203    πŸ” 480    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 28
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Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

12.10.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 776    πŸ” 249    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 147

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

11.10.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 20971    πŸ” 6310    πŸ’¬ 448    πŸ“Œ 359
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

12.10.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2347    πŸ” 576    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 50

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

26.07.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4642    πŸ” 1172    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. β€œI felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. β€œI tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, β€˜Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. β€œI thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been β€œChatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. β€œI’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. β€œI felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. β€œI tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, β€˜Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.” Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. β€œI thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been β€œChatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. β€œI’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

12.10.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

12.10.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 953    πŸ” 430    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

22.02.2024 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6523    πŸ” 3851    πŸ’¬ 844    πŸ“Œ 426

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

11.10.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2273    πŸ” 532    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 34
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building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

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12.10.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 24

Like. That aren't the protestors, but also aren't the people *in power* or supporting this administration?

It's the same reason wearing the blow up costumes is good: It makes their attempts to claim to undecided people as a whole that these are dangerous look silly.

12.10.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... No. The point isn't shaming *them*. They're far beyond that.

You realize that there are a lot of americans that just... aren't paying *attention*, right?

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YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

11.10.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: β€œNo one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

11.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16168    πŸ” 4956    πŸ’¬ 286    πŸ“Œ 723

... Yeah, but the point isn't to convince *YOU*, the point is to make it clear to *everyone else*, and to put them into the position of saying, out loud, "Anti-facism is bad.".

12.10.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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