oriana schwindt

for christ's sake, i started doing the thing of just having my core question be the *subject line of the email* and people can't even read that

i know this isn't true, the real root of our problems is the hydra of capitalism, racism, and misogyny. but holy fuck even trying to get people *on my side* to read a single full sentence is like asking them to go to the moon

i can't help but believe that most of our problems are because nobody fucking reads anything

nobody reads the full email, nobody reads the instructions, nobody even reads the second part of a one-sentence fucking text message

oh so this is why they killed Ahmadinejad. the "AI" generated a list that included a dude who left office in 2013

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

we were in fact about to try a dirty dancing before realizing at the last second i was NOT strong enough

5 years ago i married @sssparkers.bsky.social and it remains the best decision i’ve made and i’ll keep making it until i die

we need like 10 more LICs' worth of housing in western queens i know but i'm making less than i did in 2010 when a 1-bed was $1200, help a girl out

i want them to build all of the housing but can they please also stop my landlord from trying to match the subsequently inflated "market rate" rent

literally what happened to oxtail (minus the vitamin A part)

a beautiful painting of shin Godzilla with his spines lit up blue and doing his atomic breath and “maybe it will happen today” in blue on his back

you really can just say anything on the internet!

but judy their partner agreed with them

remember the other day when someone was like "i don't like this show, which i've never personally watched, because it clearly treats the patients like parasites"

melkor actually won fëanor's silmarils fair and square in a bet on a tulkas-oromë fight

yeah it's frustrating not to be able to manifest the exact thing in your head into the real world. that's the whole history of art and arguably the point of it. what happens when what's in your head smacks into reality?

“In the traditional media industry, it would take a lot of climbing up for me to become a director and make an impact with my works,” Candy Lin, who was in charge of post-production for Sign, told me. “Now we get to tell people about what we are thinking about, our stories, and our interesting thoughts.” Lin and two other Chinese media professionals, all around 30 years old and based in London, created Sign in their spare time. They used video generators including Runway, Google’s Veo, and Kuaishou’s Kling. The score was made with AI music generator Suno. The director, Jiaze Li, had run thousands of prompts before landing on the right clips — a compute-intensive and unpredictable process that AI users compare to buying lottery tickets. The production cost less than 5,000 pounds ($6,750), mostly used to pay for the AI tools. It took Li more than a month to work out how the road-sign apocalypse would unfold, while Lin’s editing required constant creative judgment. The filmmakers say originality and copyright have always been the most important priorities for the team.

you could have easily made a short film with people for this amount of time and money

(from today's Rest of World newsletter, always worth reading restofworld.org/newsletters/...)

I have literally no patience for anyone saying that trans Kansans "just" have to go to the DMV and get a new license. There was no time given for that. There was no process in place for that. There were letters sent out to some people whose licenses were invalidated, but not all.

how many new yorkers have died because of free street parking and carbrain?

every single day in this city i see an ambulance that can't make its way down streets with no bike lanes because there is parking on both side of the street and some fuckhead is double-parked for 10+ minutes

Gotta call bullshit. Note how this concern is never brought up for one-way, one-lane streets with no bike lane with parking on both sides leaving no room for drivers to pull over to make way for emergency vehicles. Same thing with big arterials such as Flatbush or Atlantic that are often jammed.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

what do you mean a snowball fight during which a couple cops got hit by very soft snow has become a "political flashpoint." who outside of the press is talking about this. is the political flashpoint in the room with us now, should we invite bella hadid

i bought one of these shirts and the quality is fantastic! can't wait until it's warm enough to wear visibly

watching this non-story mutate in the press has turned me into the joker

It's time to fire Jessica Tisch.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.