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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

important message to all bluesky users

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

Breakdown of where the money you pay for a game on Steam goes:

- 30% goes to Valve, right off the top.
- The remaining 70% goes to the publisher, and is split with the developer based on their contract. Usually the publisher will want to recoup their investment before paying the devs.
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guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

"Our reality is being destroyed all around us"

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I'm looking for participants for my master's study about transmasc/trans men fans of manga and anime! Please fill out my 10-minute survey:
form.jotform.com/253308772919...

#transmasc #t4t #ftm #nonbinary #transresearch #transsurvey #nonbinarysurvey #transresearchbytransrsearchers

The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

The Getty Museum in LA added over 80,000 pieces of art to the public domain with a CC0 license. That means you can download it with no legal restrictions. You just need to click that open-content filter.

Could be useful for projects or photo-bashing.

www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

so hey, with the entirety of the FBI in a fevered state to find any shred of evidence that THE TRANSES and THE FURRIES caused a political assassination, keep in mind that discord isn't private

its backend is available to people that hate you, your servers aren't private, your DMs aren't private

Christie’s Reportedly Closes Digital Art Department Christie's is closing its digital art department, and has let go of Vice President of Digital Nicole Sales Giles, according to reports.

Remember when they said NFT’s were inevitable

www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

これは貸しです。

Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture.

Learn. Share. Change.

kashi-info.carrd.co

Heads up for YouTube folks;

You can block certain websites and categories of ads appearing on your channel by going to Settings > Ad Categories

There is no ethical way to consume Harry Potter, part the millionth.

perfectly captures the tech bro mindset

Currently on the phone with Visa

Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use

The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch

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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Website-building resources Tutorials new The Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide to Making a Website (2022) new Mala's Self-Hosting Guide new A Mini Guide to RSS Feeds (video presentation with the same info) new Music on Neocities: A cheap bastard's guide W3Schools - learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript Resources Bear Blog - small blogging platform Zonelets - small blogging engine (I use this one!) GifCities - Geocities GIF archive Lightbox2 - lightbox script Neocities - web hosting service (what I'm using right now, recommended!) Rarebit - open-source webcomic template Whimsical! - graphics website (cursor credit) new Virtual Observer's comment widget Articles & Arguments Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal Plain old webpages still matter by Felix Plesoianu My Website is a Personal Museum by biko Cyber Mauseoleums (Or the Argument Against Deletion) by neonaut new Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters by Daniel/Melon

People are sharing a lot of resources on how to make your own website so I've updated the website-building section of my site with a link to some of the best I've found. PLEASE make your own website, it is fun (sometimes)! Fast (sometimes)!! Free (sometimes)!!!

💻 evegwood.com/links#resour...

this is correct, but some questions that might be asked in response to this state of play: what is the value of "reach"? can something be good and useful if it reaches a smaller audience, or do we believe that scale is always and everywhere the goal? Has scaling to the highest reach served us well?

This is a good model on what to ask your own city councils for - no contracts with ICE, no assistance or compliance with immigration enforcement because it is literally not your job. 🤷🏻

Parents, you are standing at a fork in the road right now.

If you buy your kids the Harry Potter video game, they'll grow up to be big maladjusted losers who only read bad YA fiction as adults, if you buy your kids Yakuza 0 they will grow up to own a cool jacket.

Peak xiaohongshu:
"Can I burn paper cat memes for my great-grandma at Qingming Festival?

I found some cute cat meme blueprints online. For Qingming Festival I want to offer something to my ancestors to make them happy. Is it better to place them in front of the grave or burn them directly?"

Illustration of a frog floating in water. Caption reads “I don’t have a driving license”

I’m scared of driving..
#art

空齋獨坐，正思夜來床頭鼠耗可惱，不知其戛戛者是損我何器，嗤嗤者是裂我何書。中心回惑，其理莫措，忽見一狻貓，注目搖尾，似有所覩。斂聲屏息，少復待之，則疾趨如風，唧然一聲，而此物竟去矣 —— 不亦快哉！ I'm sitting alone in my study with a mouse on my mind. I’m wondering which of my things that nibbling sound is coming from, which book's destruction is the source of that chewing noise, and quite at a loss for what to do — when out of nowhere I spot a vicious-looking cat, eyes blazing, tail lashing, gaze fixed on something I can’t see, and I hold my breath and watch as it darts forward, quick as the wind, and with a piteous squeak that little critter is gone for good — — ahhhh, you love to see it.

飯後無事，翻倒敞篋。則見新舊逋欠文契不下數十百通，其人或存或亡，總之無有還理。揹人取火拉雜燒淨，仰看高天，蕭然無雲 —— 不亦快哉！ Rummaging through some old chests after dinner for lack of anything better to do, I discover dozens of unpaid promissory notes, more than a hundred maybe, from borrowers variously living and dead, and uniformly unlikely to repay, and so when nobody's looking I pile them together higgledy-piggledy, set them on fire, burn them clean away, and then look up at the sky, where they leave not even a cloud behind — — if that's not a good feeling, I don't know what is.

冬夜飲酒，轉復寒甚，推窗試看，雪大如手，已積三四寸矣 —— 不亦快哉！ Drinking on a winter's night, I feel a sudden sharp chill and push open the window to see snow falling in flakes the size of my hand, three or four inches deep already — — if that isn't nice, I don't know what is. 夏日於硃紅盤中，自拔快刀，切綠沉西瓜 —— 不亦快哉！ On a summer’s day, take a sharp knife, slice up a bright green watermelon, and set it out on a deep vermilion plate — — Well!

春眠初覺，似聞家人嘆息之聲，言某人夜來已死。急呼而訊之，正是-城中第一絕有心計人 —— 不亦快哉！ I'm just waking up one spring morning when I seem to hear someone in my household sighing and saying something about somebody dying the night before. Startled awake, I ask who. It turns out to be the schemingest bastard in town — — if that doesn’t cheer you up, nothing will.

In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則.
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

Time to make a regional map in a completely different style for diagetic purposes <3

the world map for my d&d campaign is finally done aughh

"Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities" (# 剑伤世路），engraved by Shen Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)

who up strokin the sword while lamenting the social realities