dustmop, entered the void

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

the Dekalb L stop with an add for friend AI slop and a flyer next to it

the flyer is for something called SHITPHONE (seething hatred of information technology and the passionate hemorrhaging of our neo-liberal experience) that happened 2 days ago

got a good chuckle on the morning commute

David Bowie, wearing dark glasses, sitting down with his fingers laced. He looks vaguely like Gendo Ikari from Evangelion.

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

this airbnb has the most crime-scene aura I've ever seen

it is 2035. 90% of all video game companies are owned by Saudi Arabia and Tencent. you must upload your passport and social security number to access the Steam forums. the FBI has custom roles to oversee all Discord servers. GTA 6 and Bloodborne PC have yet to be released

I'M GOING TO THROW UYP

BUTTY

the brother and sister from Len on a motor scooter, not missing a mile of fun, with "Sunshine Stolen" overlaid in the Dark Souls "Humanity Restored" font

😔

checks out

when they say "so-and-so doesn't have a mean bone in their body" I picture a sort of revolving rack of emotion bones, like discs in a jukebox, that move the right bone into place to engage the emotion in question

Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"

me telling you about retro games I like

seems good

Pic of Jay Leno speaking in defense of Jimmy Kimmel and he's got the Le Guin shaggy bowl cut

He's turning into Ursula Le Guin

ASCII walkthroughs were a golden age and delivering all walkthroughs through goddamn videos is an absolute monstrosity

(Elvish Presley voice (but more nasally)): "I'm all stuffed up"

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

a post from r/whatcoloraremyeyes is titled "i've been told brown my whole life and all my legal documents, are they?" attached is an image with two messily cropped gold-brown irises on a black background with no face or even the rest of the eyes. the first reply reads "why did you post them like this lol"

electric cars sound like they're trying to sing an angelic sound, but forget how it goes right after the beginning

switching browser user agents each day and searching random terms while clicking arbitrary links to confuse ad tracking systems — like walking without rhythm to avoid shai hulud

What does Alan Kay think about programming and teaching programming with copilots and LLMs of today? Answer: A little context and bias before I attempt to give an answer: I started programming as a job ca 1961 in the USAF. The programming style was “data munged by imperatives with loops” (sound famil...

Did you know that if you ask “What does Alan Kay think of $SUBJECT” on quora, it summons Alan Kay? Anyway, here’s Alan Kay on the current uses of LLMs

www.quora.com/What-does-Al...

wow I beat this guy a totally different way, didnt realize it was even possible to parry attacks

hate when my protoblood has a failure

...tempting

Silksong makes me wish I were a bug exploring deep underground